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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread
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This is fair...... I'm just sick of reading from people that we'll be worse than last year.
Rom, Gil & Goll can all be considered upgrades on those they replaced and further moves seem on the cards.
- VVD & Henderson could well struggle.
- Wijnaldum (under-appreciated) gone.
- Thiago v.slow to adapt.
- Keita not up to snuff.
- Ox-Ch gone.
They could struggle in MF if the chips don't fall their way.
There's no particular reason why they won't struggle further...... Especially Mane.... He's a big mofo; once that freakish athleticism goes he'll fast be a shadow of the player.
Both him & Salah will be off to ACON too.
Perhaps.... The same could be said about us and our dead-wood.
(I thought Shaqiri had already gone btw?)
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I actually really disagree with nearly all of that …. Saying pool didn’t have a back up for vvd is more akin to our situation with Harry Kane …comparable back up to these players is not the point…. There will always be significant difference in quality to world class players
I don’t believe dele is cut any slack…. He’s been panned for his drop off in quality and I’m not sure people have blamed various managers …. He’s only had 2 right ? About to be a third …. So I don’t follow that train of thought
So what if poch and winks were close. Football is a transient profession and most are aware of that …. If poch leaving has destroyed him as a player then I certainly don’t want that mentality in the middle of my park
I actually disagree with winks always giving his all … I’ve seen him go through the motions plenty of times and that’s without him being good enough in the first place
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True. Poch is also culpable there
The new owner can afford to pay that off.
We'll have to agree to disagree in that case FWIW, I was speaking in general terms as I've read the following on here:
"Dele has been screwed by Jose", if that's true then it's fair to say this might be true of others.
I appreciate football is a transient sport but players are humans and it's been documented how some have suffered with a change of leadership and all it brings.
I got the sense from your post that Winks wasn't fit for a squad player however few teams have depth and quality on the bench and suffer when a key player is out.
I can't confess to have watched all of Winks games but i've seen the majority and for me i've always felt he's been one of the more committed players.
So you would take a player City are desperate to sell because they do not see him as part of their plans. Seen very little from Silva that him and 85m can even come close to replacing Kane. I think we would have just sold our best player for absolutely nothing in this market to get a good player but nothing special. Like Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher say Kane is the best player in the league we need to get best player in the league money for him. People who compare him to the Coutinho deal are deluded they got £140m for a sub bench player and used that to buy a top quality CB
I’m after a job, how much will you pay? What are the benefits?Airfixx Making sense of all sorting the madness from the right require a full time PA
Is he? Only 5k followers and from Lisbon.
Weird that the reports have been from Argentina, Portugal, and England.
Is it? Only has 5k followers and never heard of him
None of these City players (Bernardo, Laporte, etc.) are going to want to play for us. As if they would go from Champions League football to the Slavic League.
What's worrying about that?
We need both.
....I'm sure the club won't have briefed The Athletic as to our intentions so pinch of salt in terms of the "only" part.
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We're so lucky to have him, aren't we.
Other fans must be so jealous
This is definitely at the nexus of our problems, your wilfully naughty misrepresentation of my views on youff. I wasn't even bullish about Monsieur Kane, I'm rarely confident any will make top grade based on what we see at academy levels, but there have been a handful that I would have liked to see used more rather than spunk stupid money and wages on purchasing and/or continually playing mediocre wank - and not just on a football level, but because they can also bring some vim and hunger that said mediocre wank can lack - important if your manager's ethos requires vim and energy.
But I've always been well aware of the pitfalls and difficulty of translating youthful potential to successful career. There have actually been very few Spurs academy players I've actually thought even worth persevering with let alone "future WC player".
And I have always believed playing football is better for their development - once they've hit physical and developmental maturity - than being mothballed in the lemon closet, swatting up on Argentinian etiquette and handshake routines.
But lets try to draw a line under this.
Amen
Hmmm...ok...feeling a little better.
So often players need at least a season to adapt to new shit.....coach/style, team-mates, league, country, language, lifestyle etc. Sometimes they just don't fit, doesn't always make them bad. And sometimes they are fucking bad but, irritatingly, fit in really fucking well and become dressing room fucking influencers, the fucking cunts.
Pau Torres any good?
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This is the crux.
2021 PL money
3. Chelsea
Actual League Position: 4th
No. Of Paid TV Games: 27
Estimated Prize Money: £158.2m
Estimated Rebate: £7.3m
Total: £150.9m
7. Tottenham
Actual League Position: 7th
No. Of Paid TV Games: 25
Estimated Prize Money: £145.7m
Estimated Rebate: £6.3m
Total: £139.4m
Just from finishing 4 places above us they made £11m more than us.
Those 4 places put them in the CL with at least 6 champions league games and the silly money per game.
They also won the last champions league last season. £23m for one game plus all the games leading up to it. Probably £120m+ for that run.
We played in the Ropey league which is embarrassing compared to the CL. Pocket money Vs serious income.
This year we're not even getting that.
Chelsea comprehensively out earn us legitimately. And the longer we're not in the CL the worse it gets.
2021 PL money
3. Chelsea
Actual League Position: 4th
No. Of Paid TV Games: 27
Estimated Prize Money: £158.2m
Estimated Rebate: £7.3m
Total: £150.9m
7. Tottenham
Actual League Position: 7th
No. Of Paid TV Games: 25
Estimated Prize Money: £145.7m
Estimated Rebate: £6.3m
Total: £139.4m
Just from finishing 4 places above us they made £11m more than us.
Those 4 places put them in the CL with at least 6 champions league games and the silly money per game.
They also won the last champions league last season. £23m for one game plus all the games leading up to it. Probably £120m+ for that run.
We played in the Ropey league which is embarrassing compared to the CL. Pocket money Vs serious income.
This year we're not even getting that.
Chelsea comprehensively out earn us legitimately. And the longer we're not in the CL the worse it gets.
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