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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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Said it a few days ago, Willian Jose was a distraction to get Milan wanting us to come back in for Piatek. I’m confident he (Piatek) will be a Spurs playing by the end of the window.

As for Bergwijn, he’d be a great signing. Not sure Levy will agree a deal but I’m hoping he does. Surprised we haven’t got in for Ziyech.

It's pointless to go after Ziyech in this transfer period.
 
And you keep implying that the first conversation Pochettino and Levy had about Sissoko was on the last day of the transfer window. which is clearly bogus.
I'm not implying that at all. That is your self-serving inference. The FACT remains his transfer occurred on the last day of a player that the manage "wanted" according to you. The player was a backup option to Wijnaldum. Only one person is pushing a narrative.

And to your Mitchell narrative, he was already out the door during this time so it would be hard to square with your "Poch wanted big signings not punts anymore" because punts came in after that.

but him becoming more expensive because Everton came in for him didn’t suddenly make him more wanted it just proved how much Poch wanted him, because despite his fee going up, he still signed off on it.
I've become accustomed to better reasoning out of you BC. Goes to show that when you start with a conclusion things can go haywire working backwards through the evidence. Confirmation bias folks, avoid it at all costs.

who had publicly declared his control of transfers by now
Sigggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

BC, like the monkeys on the piano knocking out Mozart, if we give you enough time soon you will have Poch on the hook for climate change, the Illuminati, and Tupac's murder FFS. Give it a rest. There's no profit in this lark.

edit: Mitchell had tendered and was in limbo at this time
 
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Stats say 193 games, 47 goals, 48 assists. Dutch league and all of that but for a 22 year that's pretty good I'd say.
Vincent Janssen 123 games 63 goals ... that didn't work out to well ... for the right money Bergwijn is worth a punt but the Eredivisie is a huge step down from the EPL no way should we expect too much from a 22 year old who's only ever played for the best two clubs in Holland.

A signing for the future ...
 
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Doesn't make a thing clear because I don't speak fucking Dutch...
They say he is already sold to us.

That it's no surprise because he looked really unhappy after their cup defeat last week, and that's when the coach said what they quote in the tweet. The journalists already thought the coach was talking about Bergwijn then.

Edit: on the website of Fox Sports they also headline: "PSV sells Bergwijn to Spurs"
They got the information from several sources (they say)

Edit 2: All the comments on the website/ Twitter say the same thing: not done yet
 
No there is not Tom. I’ve read the passage from his book in the last few days, just to be sure.

Poch talks about how it’s clearer (the recruitment process) now him and Levy working on them instead of Levy, a sporting director, and his advisors. He (Poch) justifies the fee paid for Sissoko, says he had a great Euros, has good experience and finishes by saying Levy thinks he (Poch) will make him an even better player.

There is absolutely not one word of Poch saying he did not want Sissoko.

There is no way Levy spends what was a record signing fee and 90k per week - also top end wage for us then - without Poch being on board with the signing.

If that’s your interpretation of his comments mate, then fair enough. At no point does he make it appear Sissoko was a player that he had been chasing all Summer and finally got over the line. He explains it as it was, a signing that was made because we failed to get our top targets during the window.
 
Can on the cheap would be fine.

Hes certainly better than Eric Dier and plays in DM - just we would need to upgrade him in the summer, which feels like a waste.

Though he can play DM and CB so that would mean he simply replaces Dier in the squad and we can sell Dier once and for all.
 
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