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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window
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Tanganga has probably started less than 15 games in his preferred position, he needs a chance to show what he can do.
Rose and Walker came back infinitely better from their loan spells. If I’d have told you Rose was going to be pivotal to a team that challenged for the league and CL before he went to Sunderland you’d have laughed at me.
Look at the Chelsea academy players in their starting XI - both Mount and James came back better players from their loan spell at Derby.
Look at Skipp too and how last season improved him too. There are so many examples.
The problem for Tango is that he’s not good enough to command a starting place yet, but our lack of quality at the back has meant he’s too important to send on loan.
A season in the Bundesliga would be fantastic for him and unlike you, I do see a pathway for him to be a starting CB for a top 4 side, particularly in a back 3.
Progress isn’t always linear, Tango has enough tools to believe he can be a top CB, he needs a chance to play football on loan before we write him off.
James? James Ward P is that you?
No thanks, you absolute clogger. Lovely dead balls, erratic on the ball and another uncomfortable non footballer
Tanga not suited to this set up imo. Love him but he’s a defender not a footballer. Like Sanchez, not comfortable enough on the ball
So what we have already, but with lovely dead balls.
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Mate Tarkowski and Tanganga do you zero credit. They're proper weird shouts.
LOL they should be so stupid to accept that, but let's see
Spurs's stance on Lamptey as Paratici tries to close Traore transfer
TOTTENHAM are expected to be busy in the January transfer window.www.express.co.uk
"Wing-backs, centre-backs and forwards have been widely linked with Spurs, with Brighton’s Lamptey one of the names Express Sport understands to be of interest.
We understand £50million-rated Lamptey is of interest to both Spurs and north London rivals Woolwich.
But Spurs consider the 21-year-old to be too pricey, according to journalist Dean Jones. Managing director of football Fabio Paratici will instead crack on with his pursuit of Wolves ace Traore. "
As per your comments below:
Honest question.... Do you genuinely think it's feasible that our defense is made up solely of 50m components?
Romero is at that mark... Peeps are wanting/expecting another top CB signed in now or in the summer (who'll likely cost similar).... Plus Lamptey..... That would be City level spending (without the City-level expendable wealth).
We already spent near 30m each on Emerson, Sess & Reg in recent seasons..... + like it or not 40m on Dav.
That's hardly a bargain bucket.
Lets be honest Lamptey would probably be more like 30m too if he wasn't HG.
Also another bit of perspective; some peeps were chill with spending as much as 40m for Aarons for the last 2 summers..... Now look; he's no longer flavour of the month despite the fact that he's still young (22), still HG, we're still sniffing about for RBs and to my reckoning would be cheaper now as his deal has run down even more. Why does no-one want the last un-missable cab off the rank that would allegedly see us set for a decade (as per the well worn cliche's).
I won't deny Lamptey is fun to watch, but spending big on him makes me nervous given his apparent injury struggles..... We already have Sess, Gio & Berg (aka just shy of 100m) taking up all the beds most weeks.
Re: the highlighted last line of the article:
This seems to be what a lot of peeps here are hankering for and shouldn't having Conte on board with the idea be a clincher if the "what Conte wants" narrative amongst the fans is heartfelt?
The article doesn't actually discuss how keen on Lamptey Conte is so it'd be premature to conclude that Conte would merely be 'making do' with a Traore.
Traore fans may also point you to this: Chelsea boss Antonio Conte resumes interest in £20m Boro wing-back Adama Traore
Personally (for what little difference that makes); I'd be hoping there's a 3rd option out there that's an actual WB out there that already knows the fundamentals of the position and can promise a degree of end product (Hello Traore!) and is seemingly a little more robust (Hey Lamptey!***).
Maybe then we can talk about 40-50m+ fees.....
(Note: Lamptey's injuries are a concern even amongst those that despise Levy, so lets avoid the sillyness if this is gonna roll into a discussion.)
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Just barely okay because davies and tanganga have been worse. Makes far too many mistakes. If sanchez and lloris didnt save his ass, he is the reason we'd have dropped at least 6 points by now.
Davies hasn’t been worse.
But whatever, we all see the same differently. When the ball is anywhere near Sanchez I clench my teeth. He’s good in the air and can judge tackles well, but he just can’t distribute the ball. I think he’ll be off in the Summer.
Then again a Spaniard & former Barca player might relish a return to the more glamourous of the two options; a club he spent 11 years with before coming to the UK.
It's even more fundamental not to let the ball get crossed... However to go with our current inability to hit the byline and cross, at the other end we don't seem to be able to stop them either... What are out WBs doing?
Still high wide and long otherwise.
It's not a matter of the league; it's a matter of how little they have shown in a Spurs shirt.
"Hey Italy's biggest team........ Here's the players you need to help you get you back to the top of the pile"
Enter sick note Gio & lazy, grossly overpaid Ndombele.
Tough sell, right.
Also lazy/speculative Juve/Spurs chatter will be the norm now cos Paraticci.
I think in the end we are both more or less coming to the same conclusion
Kulusevski isn't really very good and I would rather we keep Tanganga.
Fuck that..... Don't wanna help those cunts survive (as no other right minded English club should either)..... Whatever premium you can squeeze out of them won't be worth it in the long run.
Dier made a mess vs Watford, Southampton, twice vs Westham, fell asleep vs Brentford, terrible vs Vitesse, fat slug vs Newcastle, really really shit vs Woolwich, league game vs chavs, almost gave away 2 goals in 2 minutes vs wolves,. probably more that i cant think of. Whenever theres a cross thats near dier, its very likely he wont reach it because of being so slow , its a scary moment and when he thinks he is messi and tries taking players on while being the deepest player. Thankfully sanchez has the speed to run back and get in the way when dier fucks up.
Having said that, 3 at the back does help our shite centrebacks a bit. Ideally they all need to be replaced, hopefully in the summer.