My guess is we end up with Clarke, Ndomble, and Lo Celso or Ceballos. We sell Vinny, Eriksen, and Trips. Leaves us a little thin at RB though.
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Time flys.... He's shown signs of a little bit of a bounceback the second half of last season, but taking into account his injury ravage last 18 months at Everton and 1 1/2 years of meh at Chelsea he'd have been a waste of a squad spot and wages for the last 3 years!
Who is going to tackle and win the ball back
Oh I heard we was fatigued
They gonna get relegated. Benitez is a very good coach
Their biggest asset... Not saying it will, but they won't be able to attract a similar caliber manager to make chicken salad out of chicken shit, so as a potential buyer (see rumoured takeover) I'd be re-considering....
Unless his leaving is due to the rumoured takeover?
If you dominate possession you need to win the ball back less, also to be a good number 6 you don’t have to be a great tackler. Winks has shown tremendous positional improvement, Carrick became a great number 6 without being an out and out tackler, Modric was a top notch defensive player without always tackling but reading the game and being in the correct position to screen the centre backs.
Aside from that Ndombele is a very powerful ball winner, he is just so much more than a ball winner.
The takeover would probably have made him stay to be honest.
Rondon or Mitrovic? I think Rondon would be pretty sweet as backup/ rotation for Kane. Rumours that he has a £16.5m buyout clause this summer as well mate:
Salomon Rondon Price Tag Could Skyrocket if West Brom Secure Promotion This Season
Newcastle loanee Salomon Rondon will be available this summer for his buyout clause of £16.5m transfer fee, unless West Bromwich Albion succeed in their bid...
www.90min.com
So is the takeover presumed off now then?
Fucking loved that from Winksy! Vividly remember shouting as if we'd scored a goal when he did that.
Rondon or Mitrovic? I think Rondon would be pretty sweet as backup/ rotation for Kane. Rumours that he has a £16.5m buyout clause this summer as well mate:
Salomon Rondon Price Tag Could Skyrocket if West Brom Secure Promotion This Season
Newcastle loanee Salomon Rondon will be available this summer for his buyout clause of £16.5m transfer fee, unless West Bromwich Albion succeed in their bid...
Fucked-up post on my part... Since deleted... Sorry dude.
Yup. Doesn't look like the Sheik has the money he claims is what I am reading.
Rafa leaving makes a LOT more sense now.... Otherwise, I'd have defo signed a year extension if I was him.
You mean the forum where there's nothing to say as we actually have no football to talk about.
Hard to talk about how Rose or KWP or Sissoko are doing when they're not playing matches for THFC atm.
Hard to discuss Poch's team selections or tactics if he's not coaching right now.
As we stand here today we have two viable topics, transfers (of which we've made none) and the new kit (of which we've not yet had revealed). There's no current empirical evidence on any other spurs related topic to discuss.
But as an olive branch, I'll indulge you.
Maybe I've been a little harsh on Samuel. He probably has his heart in the right place deep down, as you probably do as well. I apologise.
Let's look at his bugbear of not dropping Kane, Eriksen and Dele, and not having guys to allow that to happen.
Are they really the problem? Or merely a bad symptom of the overall root cause of our weaknesses?
Kane in 18/19 had his lowest shots per game tally since breaking through, is that him in poor form or not getting enough supply? I'd lean towards the latter.
Eriksen, for instance actually had a season better than I expect many think he did.
Only two assists off Lionel Messi, and as many as Hazard who just became a galactico.
So how about Dele, sure his goals and assists weren't as good as other seasons, and sure he had an injury or two, but again is he the problem or merely a symptom?
If we look at peak Dele of 2016-18 where he'd make marauding runs into the box late and score goals. Get assists and headers etc. What did we have??? We had a dynamic playmaker who opened teams defences (Eriksen), we had a powerful base in midfield through Dembele, and his partner Dier. We had dynamic fullbacks who bombed forward but also had the pace to get back. Lots of those aspects are gone now.
In that period Rose and Walker created width in the final third, and often overloaded the opposition fullback which stretches, contorts and disorganises their defensive shape. This benefited not onle Dele being able to ghost in unmarked, but also Kane finding pockets of space to exploit and get a shot off, often hitting the back of the net. Also had Dembele who could pick the ball up from deep, and with his ball control skills draw two opponents to the ball (leaving someone unmarked elsewhere) whilst having the power to seamlessly glide past opposition midfielders to beat their press or first bank of 4. Simultaneously having a partner in crime Dier, who would drop deeper to form a back 3 to keep defensively solid so that Rose and Walker could stretch the opposition outwide as Dembele and Eriksen pull the strings in the middle of the pitch.
This is largely gone now, so is it surprising that Dele's output is down, and Kane had a career low season for shots taken?
Isn't this the reason why the masses are stating we need to sign central midfielders and fullbacks?
Not guys that bench 2 AM's and our CF when they're off 'form'. Chances are imo if we don't solve CM and can't get some dynamism in the wide areas that whoever comes into the team for said benched Kane and Alli may just not fare any better.
On Trippier, given we're talking about what we've lost. Sure he has that forward momentum we crave, he loves to get into advanced positions. Just doesn't have the electric pace of Walker, or the game awareness and positioning to bail himself out when it goes tits up. As a result he was solely or partly responsible for too many goals last campaign.
He would stay if they are going to get money right?