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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread
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Robertson is a cracking player. Have to say, I think TAA’s bubble will burst next year because his positioning is going the way of Trippier.
Then we keep on going until we organically go from being the 6th most valuable to the fourth, and then the third hopefully and see if we can nick something along the way. He's done fantastically well and we of course have to strive to continue our growth but we do have debts, we do need a rational balance of expectation and how we conduct our business.
Our stock is high but we cannot be reckless with every signing and every move we make. It needs to be a balance of shrewd and costly. For every £50m signing there needs to be a clever one that goes under the radar. Scout well, take a few risks but equally invest in the long term
Its not positioning, it’s a FB being asked to push up, it will always expose them. It did Walker. It will any FB.
It would boost my productivity to be fair.
And if it happens I want a special ITK badge.
£65m I think is the sweet spot for a player of Eriksens quality. Get that and I think all parties can be pretty happy with that. Anything lower than £60m and it starts looking like a poor deal for Spurs but the £60m-£65m Mark seems fair if Hazard is going for £88m.
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Looks to me that Real have more change left in their pocket than they expected.
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Sounds like my other half when we're going out - "I'm just getting ready to get ready"
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I get your point and it really is about spending correctly. But in terms of world beaters : 6 of their regular 11 certainly are (salah, mane, firmino, van dijk, alison, alexander arnold) along with robertson and keita being quite good.
If we spend well this summer there is no reason we can't match liverpool and city in a year or two. Lo Celso, Ndombele, and Wan Bissaka are all 23 or younger and would walk into our first team with room to get even better.
I disagree - most players who would be considered game changers play in a more advanced role. Preferably the number 10 role. The central midfielders are there to build a platform for these players. E.g. Busquets and Rakitic at Barca, who allow Messi to go and shine.
That's what I'm alluding too. The players you've mentioned for Liverpool weren't world beaters when they joined Liverpool - Alison perhaps being the exception. But they work well in this team. Firmino is the perfect example - he's a decent player and will score goals whereever he goes, but he works best in this constalation with Salah and Mane in a front 3.
Got it, we are on the same page then
The squad are doing an autograph session for junior members?
For me Wan-Bissaka toes the risky line too much. 1.5 years playing at a team expected to lose more than they win and they are rumoured to want over £50m for him, possibly more?
For me he has good quality, I really like him but I don't think our club can fork out for him if we are going for the likes of Ndombele & Lo Celso. Those 3 and you're looking at c£200m it's too much to expect from our board and stature at present IMO
Levy announcing the cheese room for next season!
Lo Celso looks a very tidy player, very well balanced, carries the ball forward well without doing stupid roll overs and drag backs. Solid technique and strikes a ball well.
2 things stand out though in all the videos I've watched of him. Serious overuse of his left foot and very little with his right. And very little evidence of the ability to play long, accurate passes. He always seems to want to go short even when there's an option to go longer.
Can't see him as an Eriksen replacement, more a Dembele one who'd compete with Winks, and would bring more goals from that position.
2 things stand out though in all the videos I've watched of him. Serious overuse of his left foot and very little with his right. And very little evidence of the ability to play long, accurate passes. He always seems to want to go short even when there's an option to go longer.
Can't see him as an Eriksen replacement, more a Dembele one who'd compete with Winks, and would bring more goals from that position.
Odd, I'm pretty sure Modric wasn't a game changer either. He helped control the ball and made himself available to receive and redistribute to the game changers.
A look through the online match ratings for the big games where he has played (e.g. Madrid, Barcelona, Dortmund) tells you that Winks is regularly in the top half of our performers.
You just know there's no way Levy will see it that way.
He will categorically demand the same, if not more money, for Eriksen.