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60 m no more no less haha
You can just see can't you. He won't be Ndombele that gives zero fucks. The poor bastard will try desperately miss sitters lose all confidence and will play out his days in cameos off the bench as we chase games against Woolwich and City. It's cast iron nailed on....De Ketelaere?
He’s got all the hallmarks of a classic Spurs acquisition. Comfortably half the price of everyone else. Few good games. ‘Utility’ attacker. Nice hair.
Ade did with the elephant song.All he needs to do is hold his hands up and say he must have heard it wrong, say sorry, thank the various investigators for checking and move on.
True. SadlyThis was true, sadly their last window actually featured a few hits.
True. Sadly
Remember those benéfica fans popped up on here laughing so hard Woolwich bought their left back.
8m. Got subbed off after 34mins
Another shocker
I actually think they’ve been saved by some seriously talented youngsters. Take martinelli, smithrowe and saka out and they struggle
Skipp aside our academy has been toss
Well now I miss Janssen.You can just see can't you. He won't be Ndombele that gives zero fucks. The poor bastard will try desperately miss sitters lose all confidence and will play out his days in cameos off the bench as we chase games against Woolwich and City. It's cast iron nailed on....
True. Sadly
Remember those benéfica fans popped up on here laughing so hard Woolwich bought their left back.
8m. Got subbed off after 34mins
Another shocker
I actually think they’ve been saved by some seriously talented youngsters. Take martinelli, smithrowe and saka out and they struggle
Skipp aside our academy has been toss
Is that 8 years back now ? Hardly prolific are we
Yeah tee hee hee. But then I watch Saka and get an uncomfortable feeling I'm seeing a footballer on a Bale like trajectory.For sure their academy has helped a lot, if you wanted to buy Saka in this market you're looking at 80 million ffs.
And then on top of that Ramsale, White and Tomiyasu have shored up the defence. They've improved their spine whilst Saka's gone up a level and Smith Rowe has emerged. But hey, still can't get past Nottingham Forest!
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Yeah tee hee hee. But then I watch Saka and get an uncomfortable feeling I'm seeing a footballer on a Bale like trajectory.![]()
How are other teams academies? Prolific or do they have the odd breakout here and there?
from the outside to me it looks like the scouting systems head is at fault
we buy cheap players and most can't get up to level needed
we buy expensive and they can't reproduce their form in EPL
we blame Levy for buying cheap (ok i accept that one, yet when he spends big Ndombele & GLC £100M + wages) then its still his fault
for me its head of scouting, if scouts are hopeless then get rid, if you don't get rid of scouts then its the head of scouting at fault
Yeh, fucking gift wrapped!