Because he’s cancer and it doesn’t matter who the manager or players are whilst he’s involved.. With him, we are slumped in a bed dying from a painful illness
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Transfers January 2023 Transfer Thread. The Big One
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He's not looked good there. He's clumsy. His best performances of late have come at CF for Brazil, at LW he's an underwhelming option.
Son is done. Finished. Scrap heap time.
RW isn't but RWB not a priority? Doherty & Emerson are clowns. We have a good handful of priorities but among them are replacing Son, Lloris, Emerson and Lenglet as the priorities.
The Zaniolo thing seems to have created more noise than the Trossard links did; who's to say he isn't the prefered target?
I honestly don't know but by all means predict away.
You didn’t have to illustrate my point so well. But thank you
It makes no sense. Zaniolo plays off the right where we have a solid option in Kulu & a not too bad deputy in Gil.
And ergh, if Zaniolo is a top target … this club.
Big talent with an eye for making points. Not sure he's good enough. But as a Swede I'm willing to give him a chance. He's a smart player, we lack smart players. And I'm pretty sure he's better then Son in current form.
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I think we know fairly established premier League players don't cost £12m, though. It just reeks of timewasting.
I've said elsewhere I think Levy is perfectly right to haggle for Porro to begin with, and then when it's clear that we're wasting time either just pay the release clause or look elsewhere. I don't mind the haggling within reason but it just seems in this case we weren't even doing that. If we don't want him enough to get past the initial lowball I just don't see what the point was.
The reason we are fixated on the cunt is because he’s the root cause. Do you think it matters if Pep is our manager when Conte walks, or Tim Sherwood? Both will fail. Beyond doubtThank you for illustrating my point so well
Only bit of joy with all this misery at Spurs is that at least fans like you have to watch it as well.
I think that’s harsh. Hes a lot better at LW than RW.
Not necessarily. Do you follow tennis? Look up Nadal’s 2015 season.
Nadal reveals he felt anxiety on court in 2015
Spanish tennis star Rafael Nadal has said 2015 was "the only year" in his life when he felt anxious while playing, an unpleasant feeling that prevented him from thinking straight while he was on court.
Agree but realistically we can’t buy 4 players this Jan. And Dier is bigger priority than Lenglet as Davies is okay at LCB.
Rich off the left will offer more than Son at this point.
So far he has only played in his 3rd best position (RW) so moving him to his second best will be an improvement.
Realistically, with no GK or CB links I think this is the best we can hope for to see out the season:
Forster
Romero -- Dier -- Davies
Porro -------------------- Perisic
Hojbjerg -- Bentancur
Kulu ----- Kane ----- Rich
Not sure if we are eyeing up a change of shape with Zainolo but I don't see him getting in that front 3.Romero -- Dier -- Davies
Porro -------------------- Perisic
Hojbjerg -- Bentancur
Kulu ----- Kane ----- Rich
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Zaniolo? How long have we been after him, certainly since Poch was manager. So is this a coincidence or do we just go after someone and then just keep going back regardless of manager or scout.
We go after whoever Hitchens recommends.
Sure; if that's your opinion on the player and or the positional aspect of things; but we've veered off onto a different complaint at this point.
FWIW; I'd have prefer Trossard to Zaniolo; least of all because of it being less of a transition for the player, but having said that I expect he'll find the transition to Arteta easier than to Conte-ball and as others have said; it's a bit like S"oton 5-10 years ago.... There's a long list of players that disappointed after they left that comfort zone.
« if they want a player »
You make so many big assumptions. He might have been 3rd on the list. Might not even have been on a list but being kept warm in case targets 1, 2 and 3 don’t work out. Paratici is supposed to negotiate for lots of players and pulls the trigger on the one that works best.
Trossard is a classic case of people using it to bash the club no matter what happens. Sign him and we’ve wasted 30m on an average player who is 28 and doesn’t get into our first team. Don’t sign him and it’s symptomatic of our dysfunction.
Paratici & Conte both suggested to like the player....... I doubt either give (gave?) a shit about Hitchens..... Fab ripped up and revamped what SH left behind anyway.
That is an unbelievably toxic post.
No, wasting time making insulting bids to clubs while signing nobody at all is symptomatic of our dysfunction. If we rate Trossard highly, go and do what Woolwich did. If we don't then do not bother at all.
All we do is look for deals & bargains, as we're doing with Zaniolo now. Constantly on the look-out for players on the cheap or option to buy. Trossard was the same, just opportunism because his contract was running low.