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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

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tommyboyspurs said:
Don't want a player like that. He will use us like a stepping stone
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Those are excactly the kind of players we should want. Reality is that we are not the biggest, fattest, richest club in the world. Players that come here and are happy and think they have already made i in their career can get comfortable and lazy. We need players that wants to push on, to improve, to impress, to go further. It would be beneficial in terms of performances and development of player and squad, and if we play our cards correctly, also financially.
 
MVP said:
Supporters would never accept it Bale and Modric got massive stick when they wanted to leave.
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Fans wouldn’t accept it?
They don’t have a choice.

What is this....slag off the club for not signing quality, then say don’t sign quality because they might leave.

Did you want Poch sacked in 2016 at our peak when he said:


"I have always said that one day it would be a pleasure to manage a big club like Paris, a dream.

"I try to watch all of their games, especially in the Champions League and sometimes I speak with [Paris Saint-Germain assistant coach] Jean-Louis Gasset."
 
MVP said:
The point I'm making he's not a good signing for us if he's going to use us as a stepping stone.
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Every club in the world is a stepping stone, with the exception of RM and Barca. Perhaps Bayern. I actually think we should be targeting those players. Get three or four excellent years out of them, maintain our standards and then sell for a profit. Look at Borussia Dortmund. They know exactly what will happen with Halaand. But they have an excellent recruitment team and the confidence to reinvest and reinvent their team.

And Ndombele is just that sort of signing. Only problem is, he’s turned into Rik Waller.

That said, I do take your point that there are certain players who you do need to stay and form the spine of a team.
 
Igula said:
Sounds about right. He isn't great on the ball but isn't useless or afraid to play it out.

What I like about him is that I don't see the big errors that are present in Dier, and even Sanchez's, game. He is good at reading plays, doesn't get bullied by forwards, is smart enough to put himself in good positions to deal with faster players.

I think if we bring him in we have a CB that we can write down on the line-up for the next 5 years and be comfortable every game that he is going to be solid for us, much like I felt when we had Toby/Jan in their primes. He can work well with Toby and play with Sanchez as well.
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If that’s true then I think he’s a necessity. Whilst we have a few centrebacks we have none as good as that.
 
Hoping we do something along the lines of

Sell
Ndombele - 50 mill
Rose - 10 mill
Aurier - 15 mill
Gazzaniga - 8 mill

Buy
Wilson - 15 mill
van de Beek - 45 mill


Squad
Lloris
Doherty
Alderweield
Dier
Hoijberg
van de Beek
Lo Celso
Alli
Son
Kane

2nd 11
Hart
Foyth
Sanchez
Tanganga
Sessegnon
Sissoko
Winks
Lamela
Moura
Bergweijn
Wilson

Squad players
Whiteman
Carter-Vickers
Fernandez

Youth around squad
White
Cerkin

To be loaned
Clarke
Roles
Austin

Would be happy with a cheaper alternative to Wilson as well like Deeney or Grabban
 
MVP said:
Supporters would never accept it Bale and Modric got massive stick when they wanted to leave.
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It doesn't really matter what a portion of supporters will or won't accept, the club will do as it feels best and people grumbling online have no say in that. Besides, it's completely unrealistic to expect every player we sign to be here for life, unless of course we don't feel they're good enough, in which case they can fuck right off...

It's not as though we'd sign someone for a huge fee but only a 2 year contract so that they were free to follow their dreams afterwards. If they did well enough to earn that dream move then we'd a) have had 2 damn good years of performances out of them and b) made a decent profit to reinvest in the squad.
 
bus-conductor said:
Conte is a cantankerous fucker for sure so who knows?

Alderweireld was never exactly zippy, I'm getting that kind of vibe about Skriniar from bits I have watched, would that sound about right to you? Good reader, strong, level head, technically ok, can ping the odd diagonal, but not going dribble his way through midfield too often?
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I think the pace thing is a red herring with regard to who plays CB for Inter.
Conte has clearly fallen out with Skriniar, and continues to select Godin as the RCB ahead of him. Godin is 34 and has never been rapid.
Also Conte wants a left-footed LCB, so the 30 million Euro purchase Bassoni plays there. And I believe de Vrij was voted defender of the year or something.
So 4 into 3 doesn't go, and Skriniar was the odd man out.
We had an Inter fan in another thread (other matches?) and he said Skriniar wasn't playing as well this year in a three CB system as he had when playing as one of two CBs.
But in Mourinho's tactical set up, Skriniar could be a monster if he recovers his early form.
We'd surely have to flog one of our other CBs though, and I don't see why we'd pursue the Korean CB if we sign Skriniar.
I also don't think CB should be our priority. But Skriniar is absolutely a Mourinho-type player.
 
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