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For all we know he could be working as hard as possible. But with players like Eriksen, Alli, Son, Lucas and Lamela to go through it seems a gargantuan task. I think he signed a new deal earlier this year so hopefully he can get a loan next season to get some first team football.With all due respects to the lad, one expects he will be working harder under Poch to crack first team football!
What's happened to this chap? Looked promising when i last saw him, but others seem to have leap-frogged him.
Will it be like a new signing?Yes he's still officially a Spurs player on loan. Wonder if Maureen will be recalling him. ochlol:
Anyone heard anything about this lad? His loan to Ipswich ends in "January 2020". Can't see him getting anything further from us. His current contract expires next year.
I thought he did well as a LB in pre-season, but only getting involved in 10 games for Ipswich would indicate he's not good enough. Being over 21 means we have to register him in order to make him available, and we don't really have any empty slots. Of course he's been with us long enough to count as a club trained (home grown) player, and we might just have one empty slot left. I don't know, I think he's toast.
I thought he did well as a LB in pre-season, but only getting involved in 10 games for Ipswich would indicate he's not good enough. Being over 21 means we have to register him in order to make him available, and we don't really have any empty slots. Of course he's been with us long enough to count as a club trained (home grown) player, and we might just have one empty slot left. I don't know, I think he's toast.
I think Nkoudou was a better footballer but only due to his experience and age. Plus he is Spurs, the invisible 5% performance that gives the player.He's a decent traditional left winger, but we don't play with traditional wingers, and not a good enough defender to be a LB, otherwise he might have been useful to is there.
Really don't know why Nkoudou was bought as Georgiou was probably no worse.
I think Nkoudou was a better footballer but only due to his experience and age. Plus he is Spurs, the invisible 5% performance that gives the player.
Would have been far better to have stuck with Georgiou develop him and sell him for more than we paid for and lost on Nkoudo (net -£9m).
I really, really like Foyth. I think he was a great buy and given the fee we paid for him it was a true no brainer IMO. I also love Tanganga and Eyoma, ironically I had seen very little of Tanganga. The deal that I don't get is why give Toby a new deal? He's the player that hasn't been performing as high as Sanchez this year, I see him as the block not Foyth.Forget what we paid for Nkoudou but think it was £10m - £15m and think we paid not only for experience and age but for potential, of which we saw very little and realistically was Championship level at best in UK (after he struggled at Burnley on loan to get into their starting X1)
Georgiou at £zero had reasonable potential (as we saw when playing him against a Cypriot side) , but probably not Spurs level, but certainly League 1 or even Championship level had we loaned him out at the right age.
Same story really with Foyth, why buy him in at £10m when Poch could see Tanganga and Eyoma in development squad Tanganga after 3 games (plus Colchester) already looks more dependable than Foyth.
Just think its down to Poch not having a particularly good eye for players - many coaches are poor at buying players for that reason so no shame in that. But he should have understood he needs a DoF to do the things he is bad at
I would be more than happy to have our CB's as Sanchez, Foyth, Eyoma and Tanganga. This is proper competition, a change for each to push each other and forge the right partnerships for years to come. Time to get this bedded in is this season.