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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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If Levy pulls off Mbape, I'm pulling off Levy!
Even if we bring in two really good CB's, offensive, high line push up football will still be exposed by bumblers like Son, Richarlison and Kulusevski coughing up the ball as soon as anyone breaths on them.
Caicedo would be a dream but huge price-tag on him. I've seen a very limited amount from Cherki but seems to have a bit of magic that our forwards lack.
Can’t understand why more people can’t see that last season we had a manager who didn’t want to be here having players play a style of football they didn’t want to play or that fit their strengths.
Looking back it actually seemed like Conte was trying to get fired with some of his decline.
Had to be one of the most dysfunctional locker rooms we’ve had since Kaboul/ Ade vs Poch.
Players definitely aren’t blameless. They gave up and thats shameful.
This team has way more talent on it then our fans give it credit for. Yes we need a new starting LCB no doubt. But the squad playing cohesive football will be just as impactful as a new CB.
if he pulls it off im joining shadydan's side
Conte's a prick but the blame on him is too much. We were awful before Conte arrived and worse when he left the club. Losing Bentancur, Son being shocking (on him, not Conte .. he missed sitters all season), Bissouma getting injured, Romero being a bull in a china shop, Lloris forgetting he had hands & a statue being his back-up ... there were loads of personnel related reasons we were crap last season. There's no waving a magic wand over this. Points wise Conte had us within touching distance of top 4, the football was just dismal.
The 'player x was only poor due to Conte' theories are something I expect to be exposed mighty quickly next season,
When one player is in poor form it's the player's fault, when the entire team bar 1 world class player are out of form, it's the manager's fault.
Agree on Caicedo, why I listed the Kone option, and there are others. Cherki is technically excellent with both feet, and can cause real problems for defenders but he is also still green and also a bit lax out of possession, but we've already a bunch of fuckers who are lax out of possession, we might as well have one who can control the football - and is young enough to maybe be coached into improving without the ball.
A couple of others like Emerson or Bentancur played pretty well given their respective ability levels. Hojbjerg was also pretty good for most of the season given his level.
A lot of the players who played badly are overrated on here. The only one who was really disappointing given talent level to me was Son, and I'm hoping it was a one off poor season rather than a real decline.
I don't disagree. There's a lot to be said for possession and I don't doubt Spurs will end most games with a shot and time of possession advantage, but the quality of scoring opportunity is important as well as the volume of shots. How well Spurs do against the counter attack is going to go a long way in determining wins and losses. Postecoglou will have to have defenders who can recover quickly and a goalie who can erase mistakes. My guess is Spurs will do a better job of beating the teams they should beat than they did under Conte and not as good a job against the top of the table. The big clubs, at least at first, will probably absorb Spurs pressure and punish mistakes. But, the up side is, Spurs volume of shots will probably swamp some of the lesser squads.
Hojbjerg was good before the WC, so was Perisic, post-WC nearly every player was out of form, Son, Kulu, Bissouma, Hojbjerg, Perisic, Lloris, all of our CBs including Romero. You're right Emerson and Bentancur were still good.
Gallagher is a weird player who only looks good in the box. I'd much rather get Veiga.
The defending looked terrible as well, and Brighton are down to 10 men.
To dare to try is to do.
I almost want us to play 10 games with the same defence the other coaches have had to make do with. One of two things will happen. We'll get beaten, a lot, lot more than with Mourinho/Nono/Conte, or, more likely, you'll see similar football, with 3/4 of the the team having to help out the defence at the expense of eye catching football.