The difference in minutes is due to injury. McKennie generally started ahead of Bentancur (which is part of the reason they let Bentancur come to us in January, instead of McKennie)
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His last season there was one of his better ones in with 9 goals and 9 assists. Chelsea offered him a new two year deal but he chose the 3 year deal on offer at Woolwich.
My point is that clubs have to be very careful about signing older players on big contracts even if they are free transfers. I can't think of many examples where these types of signings work out.
That's a starting left wing back sorted. I wonder if Conte wants Doherty for the right, with Spence as backup. Then it's Reg or Sess as backup for the left side, we sell whichever one Conte doesn't want.
Good morning and talking Italian…1+1=2 always
Is this your thoughts on Persic + Bastoni Val ?
I want him around just for his. Mentality. Him and a young wing he can teach his craft to.
Agree, although we have to be careful with non-HG quota.
Ideally I would like us to sign SMS as the '3-5-2' switch option CM; peak of his career under Conte could be scarily good.
I'd still prefer a Dembele type.... If that's Bissouma then let it be done.
The difference here is that Perisic has been performing brilliantly in this role set for him by our current manager. And even if his level dropped off a little, he's still way better than Sess or reg. Gets us through next season and if whoever we keep out of reg/Sess doesn't improve, we can sell them, make Perisic the backup and buy a younger, quality player as first choice next summer.
For now though, this is a great move from us.
It’s ok, once he’s here he will fall in love with-a the Tottenham.
The best thing about the perisic deal is that we're doing decisive, early business according to the manager's list of targets.
Doherty as the starting RWB? no thank you. Doherty as a sub I would accept providing Spence is not the one being brought in to be the starter.
in an ideal world I would replace both Doherty and Royal with Spence being the back up rwb.
Conte is the best thing that happened to this club in a looooooong time
More than happy with Sess/Perisic as our LWB options.
Less excited about Doherty/Spence on the right - would like a premium upgrade there but there hasn't been any solid links.
If we assume:
Forster - Free
Perisic - Free
Eriksen - Free
That leaves a lot of cash to play with. Lets also assume
Bastoni - 50m
From the 150m (ignoring any other income we can put towards transfers) that leaves us with 100m to strengthen the following areas:
-RWB: Spence (15m)
- CM: Bissouma (30m) or SMS (70M)
We will probably also want to bring a forward in. Maybe the type we target will depend on the CM we bring in.
I.e. pay 70m for SMS bring in a cheaper forward (Jesus) for 40m
Or, pay 30m for Bissouma bring in an expensive forward (Martinez) for 60-70m
Less excited about Doherty/Spence on the right - would like a premium upgrade there but there hasn't been any solid links.
If we assume:
Forster - Free
Perisic - Free
Eriksen - Free
That leaves a lot of cash to play with. Lets also assume
Bastoni - 50m
From the 150m (ignoring any other income we can put towards transfers) that leaves us with 100m to strengthen the following areas:
-RWB: Spence (15m)
- CM: Bissouma (30m) or SMS (70M)
We will probably also want to bring a forward in. Maybe the type we target will depend on the CM we bring in.
I.e. pay 70m for SMS bring in a cheaper forward (Jesus) for 40m
Or, pay 30m for Bissouma bring in an expensive forward (Martinez) for 60-70m
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If Doherty has finally "clicked", like in those 5/6 games where he had the g+a of a top striker, he'd be a decent starter.
the RWB market is pretty thin right now.
no don't trust him as a starter, no way.
Very happy with Perisic even though he’s getting on
Some of the positions we got Sessegnon into towards the end of the season were great but he was too meek to do anything with them, perisic is the complete opposite of that. Direct, creative, two great feet. I can see him getting over 10 goals this season
I’m presuming he’ll play on the left and we’ll go for a right wing back also
Hopefully we sell Reguilon, Sessegnon has potential so I’d be inclined to keep him and let him learn from perisic for a couple of years
Some of the positions we got Sessegnon into towards the end of the season were great but he was too meek to do anything with them, perisic is the complete opposite of that. Direct, creative, two great feet. I can see him getting over 10 goals this season
I’m presuming he’ll play on the left and we’ll go for a right wing back also
Hopefully we sell Reguilon, Sessegnon has potential so I’d be inclined to keep him and let him learn from perisic for a couple of years
Agree, Bissouma should be the Winks replacement.
But SMS/Eriksen should be the new CM option to enable us to switch formation. Hopefully getting a free transfer at LWB enables us to get 2 new midfielders.
Get YB fir £30M if no legal issues rather than someone from
Overseas. It’s a no brainier really as he is use to tje PL and physical demands especially in CM. Loll what happened when we spent £100M on 2 midfielders from abroad. Use the cash to buy some quality forwards depending on how many we release. Plus if conte persists with 2 in Cm then get ericksen and he can have either one of skipp. PEH or YB as partner in games where we will have majority of the ball. If we have 3 solid CDs then we don’t necessary meds a midfield enforcer.
Overseas. It’s a no brainier really as he is use to tje PL and physical demands especially in CM. Loll what happened when we spent £100M on 2 midfielders from abroad. Use the cash to buy some quality forwards depending on how many we release. Plus if conte persists with 2 in Cm then get ericksen and he can have either one of skipp. PEH or YB as partner in games where we will have majority of the ball. If we have 3 solid CDs then we don’t necessary meds a midfield enforcer.
