Yeah, he had one season at Hoffenheim where he played in a narrow three up top with Belfodil and Kramaric.
Issue was, he was never a £40m striker which Newcastle splashed on him and used him as.
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Transfers January 2023 Transfer Thread. The Big One
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Yeah, he had one season at Hoffenheim where he played in a narrow three up top with Belfodil and Kramaric.
Issue was, he was never a £40m striker which Newcastle splashed on him and used him as.
Superb post
And yet so many people invest so much of their time passionately supporting/defending /apolosing for their beloved chairman and his investment company trolling/milking our club and it's fans.....
It's absolutely bizarre. I said in another thread, every Spurs fan I personally know wants them out. Every gooner and chav I know wants Levy to stay!
I'm convinced this could be used as some case study for budding psychologists in the future.
We still need someone who can open a defence with a pass and chip in with goals ... like prime Eriksen.
Kane can do that, he's just not allowed to this season, for some reason.
Good lord no. Bentancur has promise but Dembele was a legendary beast who could take on elite opposing midfields on his own. Bentancur has done well for us but he has never had a game like Dembele had at Old Trafford under AVB, away at Juventus with Poch etc.
Bentancur's best game was a 4-3 home win against Leeds. He has a long way to go. Opponents are not afraid of him the way they were with Dembele.
He can't make the pass and be on the end of the pass though, someone like Maddison would be logical.
He's not at prime Dembele level yet, but you could argue that he's better than Dembele was at the same age. I think Dembele was still trying to make a fist of it as a striker in his early 20's, and was doing pretty poorly, so Bentancur is ahead of the curve there.
The question is whether Bentancur will hit the lofty heights that Dembele did when he moved back into midfield. I have my doubts he, or any other midfielder for that matter, will ever be as good where ball retention is concerned, but that's not the only metric for effectiveness in the role.
Exactly.
Saying that, he's a year younger than Caciedo and maybe better off in the long term by not playing a full season of prem this year.
Would be amazing if we signed Maddison. I would say we need a CB as a priority but honestly Maddison would be such an incredible signing. Now Newcastle are signing Gordon it gives abit of hope....
Nobody will ever come close to Dembele for being impossible to tackle and dominate with brute strength.
Bentancur already does this Dembele never did though. He's a much better passer, better finisher, better at pressing and even if not on Dembele levels, he's cold when it comes to dribbling out of tight spaces.
But it takes Levy ages to sign anyone, and there's only 3 days left....
I'm copying Conte starting the sentence with ''but''.
My feeling, if we can get a cash injection via selling 20-25% AND naming rights, so this summer we can have this intense overhaul, whoever the manager, ENIC can survive with a £200M injection = £150m in first team, £50m on a significant youth injection (£40m on 3-6 elite talent players 16-18 who will be homegrown by 21, £5-10m on new staff and project building the youth strategy).
Just can’t see ENIC pulling it off.
But, had a lovely bowel movement this AM, so feeling optimistic whatever!
I thought you had to sign a clause to post on TFC but found out there is no such thing as a sanity clause.
Sarr looks to have the in between, maybe not moving the ball as well from dribbling, but some of the Scott Parker characteristics of shielding and passing, maybe above Dembele’s, potentially.
Wouldn’t mind fate pushing Sarr and Bissouma into getting a few games together, as think Sarr sitting and Bissouma destroying/pressing may be a lovely blend.
You like "busy" player, whatever that means.
I like skilful and entertaining players.
Staying up would be something to celebrate
They know where their weaknesses are and are trying hard to strengthen, that's the difference between ambition and contentment.
They tend to play really well for 20-30 minutes and win the game in that spell. They then sit off and relax.
Superb post
And yet so many people invest so much of their time passionately supporting/defending /apolosing for their beloved chairman and his investment company trolling/milking our club and it's fans.....
It's absolutely bizarre. I said in another thread, every Spurs fan I personally know wants them out. Every gooner and chav I know wants Levy to stay!
I'm convinced this could be used as some case study for budding psychologists in the future.
Like I said before, some people would rather live in Josef Fritzels basement than leave, just in case the outside is worse.
People aren't fans of ENIC, they're scared of what might come next.
Maybe they need to read our club motto a few (thousand) times.
Ndombele?
150M is the bare minimum and won’t see much change
We need more than £150m to sort this out. £50m on a youth injection might get you 2 or 3 these days. Besides, we could have £300m to spend, if Levy is still making the decisions then most of them will still be bad, it will still be endless haggling, unsuitable managers appointed etc. The bloke is too set in his ways to ever change.
Presuming Danjuma (sp) is a moderate hit, we might well get a straight swap on Lo Celso.
Presuming NDombele does have a trigger for CL qualification, as rumoured, with Napoli, we might get £20m for him.
Presuming Reguilon stays fit not and gets game time at Atleti we might get £15-20m for him.
Lots of presumptions, but not outlandish, £150m on top of £40-50m (Rodon maybe/hopefully £10m). Should see £200m become a possibility (naming rights should allow this level, spread across 5-6year contracts on 3x £50m level first team ready signings and 2x £25m level.
Make it happen ENIC, or, I’ll chip in to a crowd fund for someone to swim out to Jo’s yacht, and, puncture the fucker… or graffiti it with ENIC out.