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Report: Mourinho has told Levy to secure deal for this £10m player as soon as possible - The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News
According to a report from Estadio Deportivo, Jose Mourinho has asked Daniel Levy to wrap up the signing of Maxime Lopez as soon as possible...
Low ball offer of around £3million being readied as we speakReport: Mourinho has told Levy to secure deal for this £10m player as soon as possible - The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News
According to a report from Estadio Deportivo, Jose Mourinho has asked Daniel Levy to wrap up the signing of Maxime Lopez as soon as possible...www.spurs-web.com
Report: Mourinho has told Levy to secure deal for this £10m player as soon as possible - The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News
According to a report from Estadio Deportivo, Jose Mourinho has asked Daniel Levy to wrap up the signing of Maxime Lopez as soon as possible...
He is not a defensive midfielder as the article states
Also he is about 3ft tall
No thanks
Makelele he wasn't bad either
Yep. Today we also have Kimmich at Bayern.
Don’t get ahead of yourselfLow ball offer of around £3million being readied as we speak
We are preparing a bid
Really, really like what Benham is about, I've posted bits and bobs previously about Brentford/Benham and also more in depth stuff over on SC previously. I think it's one of the more fascinating, innovative football stories of the last decade or so.
As soon as the PL introduced their EPPP, Benham quickly realised that ditching the academy made sense for them - smartly IMO - as it weighted things heavily in favour of the Cat 1 academies - which I think meant lesser academies could spend years coaching kids only to lose them to Cat 1 Academies for peanuts. Instead choosing to concentrate on intelligent recruitment.
This article, where he says he doesn't like the term Moneyball, predates that (from 2015) but it's a good little read about Benham - I really like how he comes across.
Brentford owner Matthew Benham says he hates the term Moneyball
The Brentford owner Matthew Benham has said that he hates the term Moneyball being applied to his team because it is so often misused
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Report: Mourinho has told Levy to secure deal for this £10m player as soon as possible - The Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News
According to a report from Estadio Deportivo, Jose Mourinho has asked Daniel Levy to wrap up the signing of Maxime Lopez as soon as possible...
Really like this kid, he's not superstar shiny, but he's a tenacious little grafter who can play a bit of football. I had him as one of my "value" purchases in my DOF team (thread). Not exactly a pure DM, not the big, robust Wanyama type, but more the compact "busy cunt" type and of that type he's well worth 10m, would be a humungous upgrade in midfield on people like Dier, Winks, Sissoko for that double pivot remit, can also play in a CM3.
He's not a big robust pure DM. But he is a little terrier though, and a good footballer to boot. If we bought him, I'd still like us to buy a more dedicate athletic, robust DM, but I'd have Lopez here for 10m no problem. You could sell Dier, Sissoko and Winks and he'd cover all their remits in one little 10m footballer.
Yep him and the guy who owns Brighton - love it. Tifo football and Michael Cox covered it at some point and I loved itReally, really like what Benham is about, I've posted bits and bobs previously about Brentford/Benham and also more in depth stuff over on SC previously. I think it's one of the more fascinating, innovative football stories of the last decade or so.
As soon as the PL introduced their EPPP, Benham quickly realised that ditching the academy made sense for them - smartly IMO - as it weighted things heavily in favour of the Cat 1 academies - which I think meant lesser academies could spend years coaching kids only to lose them to Cat 1 Academies for peanuts. Instead choosing to concentrate on intelligent recruitment.
This article, where he says he doesn't like the term Moneyball, predates that (from 2015) but it's a good little read about Benham - I really like how he comes across.
Brentford owner Matthew Benham says he hates the term Moneyball
The Brentford owner Matthew Benham has said that he hates the term Moneyball being applied to his team because it is so often misused
If we’re talking any sort of deep lying playmaker surely it has to be Tonali
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Bardi
is that you
Not sure who that is so... No.
Lopez is not a deep lying playmaker, he's more a busy little fucker who can play football. I guess you could say Skipp might hopefully cover this remit in the future, but Lopez for 10m and low wages, is 150 games into that process and still only 22. Like a better version of Winks already, despite being younger.
Not seen much of Tonali at all, seen peoples they rate him on here. Don't think it's what we really need though, or would suit Mourinho.
Interestingly Benham used to work for Tony Bloom's sports quant and then struck out on his own.
