Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

His Instagram post alone shows his attitude is all wrong. What he should do is keep his head down and work hard to prove to Conte he’s good enough to get back in the team (imo he’s not)

 

Doesn't help that the moment he's on the tarmac, he starts posting about how happy he is to be heading off for international duty.

 

Everyone’s saying the Traore deal is almost done.

FML.

 

Certainly would've preferred Kulusevski, but Chiesa getting crocked scuppered any hope of that

 

beggers can’t be choosers

get him in

 

Look on the bright side.

Johnson's Baby Oil might agree to become the stadium sponsors.

 

Also gives us something to lube up the door to get Ndombele out of it...

 

Things are getting serious: people on r/coys are breaking out diagrams that nobody can ****ing understand

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Has he gone yet?

Edit: Sorry, have THEY gone yet?

 

Traore and those 3 aren’t really upgrades imo.

Luckily I can’t see too much business being done anyway

 

Personally I think throwing Ndumpling, Lol Celso and Dilly Dally in the skip and replacing them with Adama Traore is a massive upgrade.

zero relevant contributions from the aforementioned wastemen in the last 3 years.

which equates to the same amount of contribution as Adama Traore for us in that same timeframe.

think about it

 

It's very clear what Gio-Lo's priorities are, just by looking at his Twitter profile. Spurs are just BUPA that pay him premiums, as far as he's concerned.

 

I may be on my own here but I am excited by the thought of Traore at Spurs. Yes he’s by far from the finished article but hopefully under Conte he can be moulded into a really effective player for Spurs. As spurlock says getting rid of any of Ndombele Lo Celso or Alli and replacing with Traore is a massive upgrade as they have done **** all this season.

 

Vlahovic to Juve seems a matter of time. Not surprised and tbh relieved he isn't going to one of our rivals.

Bit disappointed the Conte-Paratici pull wasn't enough but tbh I don't think we could have afforded him this window. The squad is horrendously bloated and at this stage outgoings are more important than incomings.

 

I don't rate Traore but just look what Conte did to Victor Moses.
Maybe.................

 

I'm all for it. For far less than Ndombele or Lo Celso, we'll get someone who the opposition will actually have to worry about. The attacking effectiveness of most full backs/wing backs is significantly overrated. Walker and Rose, at their and our best, supplied surprisingly few assists or goals. However, they dominated their opponent for pace, drove them back and created panic. We don't have any midfielders who raise even a bit of concern.

He's costing less than we've invested/chucked away on Sessegnon or Emerson Royal. Frankly, what the **** have we got to lose?

 

I so want to be positive and believe that we will do business before now and Monday, and I always get sucked in during the window checking here and various others places just hoping something positive, FFS I even tune in to those awful transfer programmes on SSN, but with less than a week ago and our negotiating team taking longer to make progress than Ndombele takes to leave the pitch if we get Traore over the line it will be a result as for shipping out 2,3,4 we have much chance of that as I have of making progress with Victoria Coren-Mitchell.

 

Hmm. A rival.

 

Another £20m+ on an average player who’ll likely be on around £100k a week…

Just about all of us have bemoaned how poorly we’ve bought over the last 4-5 years and I don’t see Traore being someone who’ll break that mould.

I think it’s a real bad move by the club personally. If he’s definitely going to be converted to a RWB then he’s going to have to learn how to defend, which currently he can’t whilst his strengths of attacking still leave a lot to be desired from an product point of view. There’s also the factor that he’s rarely been an effective 90 minute player, which isn’t a surprise considering the amount of muscle he has. Rose and Walker, especially the latter were phenomenal athletes, I don’t believe Traore is in that mould so I’m not sold on any comparisons with them. This is also a player that can’t regularly get in the Wolves XI too and we now expect him to do so with us.

This feels like another Plan B type player because our Plan A player is deemed too expensive. Traore is the backup to Lamptey and in recent years, backup options have proven to more or less be just that.

 

Lilywhite Rose are claiming we’ve won the race for Ollie Tanner. They don’t seem overly happy about it due to what I mentioned above with regards to Tanner’s tweets mocking Kane’s speech impediment in the past, along with the fact Tanner is a huge Arsenal fan who tweeted pro-Arsenal stuff just last month. They also don’t have massively high hopes for him long term as he’s never been part of a CAT A academy before, albeit this part shouldn’t be a deal breaker in my opinion. Though they make the valid point of why sign him when we could’ve just given Markanday chances, who by all means, is miles ahead in his development? Baffling one.