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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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I'm hoping they will buy.If, having just banked around £100m for our World class striker we're done strengthening our starting Xl then it's an absolute fucking disgrace. We'd basically be just waiting for the wheels to fall off the good start to the season we've had.
And you're OK with it!!
Jesus. .Our fans
I think the left footed centre back will be Hincapie or Lengelet
Not sure about who the midfielder will be.
The attacker will be Orban, David or Johnson.
If they get no one... You're right... It would be criminal not to build on the start we've had.
3-on-3 counter attack and he chooses to shoot from outside the box...
Self Belief. I rate it.
Oh, definitely, but in terms of the overall game, I don't think Deki fits Ange ball.
Tommy trying to withhold the urge of telling us how shite Kulu is
Tottenham and Newcastle exploring move for 'very explosive' winger
Scouting mission ahead of deadline daywww.hitc.com
Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United are joining the race to sign PSV Eindhoven winger Johan Bakayoko ahead of the transfer deadline.
PSV Eindhoven winger Johan Bakayoko continues to attract major interest with Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur now keen.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LCH8qZHx7I
Johan Bakayoko is the most football manager regen name ever.
Bet he has 15 on determination, Dribbling, Finishing, Pace and 5or6 on everything else.
I see what you mean, but Udogie did more overlaps than Porro. Also, Udogie stayed more on his side while Porro several times were in the middle or even on the left side of the pitch to support the midfield, meaning no overlap for Deki. Udogie didn't do that to the same degree.
Often, when the ball was shifted from left to right, the ball went through Madders, Bissouma or Porro in midfield to Sarr who had pushed up on the mid-right, who then passed the ball to Deki who couldn't really beat his man 1-on-1 because of his lack of acceleration.
Things going too well for you to take a dig at the club, so resorting to personal attacks, I see. Not that I expected different from the slimiest poster on TFC.LOLAirfixx with his mouth full of Levy's balls
The hole in the arguments about 'not bringing youth through' is that PL clubs need to have 4 Club trained players (players who have spent 3 years at the club before aged 21) under UEFA rules in order to have a complete 25 man squad - without those 4 club trained players the maximum squad size is 21.
You are totally correct that Poch did not give much if any time to academy products - he sold all he inherited, maybe 6 or 8 (Townsend, Carroll, Veljkovic- who faced Kane last week as Werder Bremen's CB - e al) for a combined £100m+ to invest in experienced players such as Sissoko, with only Winks coming through in 6 years under Poch.. Mourhino, to his credit, tried to bring through Tanganga and sent Skipp on loan : Conte completely abused the youngsters.
So right now Spurs have as 'Club Trained players' Skipp and Austin (3rd GK) ....... as Tanganga and White likely to be sold.
And in the other category of HG 'Other Association trained' we have Maddison, Davies (contract expires 2025 and he's already 30, so will likely not be at Spurs in 2024/25), Forster (already likely to retire at end of this season) ....... with Spence and Sessegnon unlikely to be retained. So next season we might have just 1 out of the 4 players required - unless we buy others (expensive) or have an excess of club trained players - so we might buy one or two (links with Tosin and Johnson).
However as of today we face having a maximum of 20 in our playing squad (17 overseas, 2 Club trained and 1 'other association' trained) next season 2024/25.
So with the total disregard of squad planning in respect of HG players since 2020, IMO the club has no choice other than to ask the coach to try to bring through a few Academy Players to fill existing gaps in 'Club Trained' quota and 'Other Association' trained
The first chance for Ange to do this is with Dane Scarlett and Alfie Devine, both of whom I think will have prominent parts next pre-season to see if they can be part of Spurs squad in 2024/25. The current u21's have adopted Angeball this season and changed from last season where they finished 2nd from bottom to being top of the league after 3 wins (v ManCity, Newcastle and Derby, aggregate score 11-1) with 4 forwards (Donley, Soonsup-Bell, Santiago, Lankshear) who look better than pretty much any forward we have had since Kane came through a decade ago, Dorrington an outstanding CB (plus Phillips bought this window) and Keeley (GK) .... with the outstanding 16 year old Mikey Moore also likely to catch Ange eye. So I'm expecting to see several of these feature next pre-season with the possibility that one or two might even make the bench before that.
So in short, by a happy coincidence (or better recruitment) there are a bunch of very good youngsters at the same time that the club needs more youngsters coming through, and Ange is probably the manager most likely to try to bring through a few since Poch started at Spurs.
Stop posting pictures of yourself.
I think 3 games means very little.
Imagine what kind of individual
Honest John
must be if she's happy to couple up with a massive fraud-cunt like her other half..........I suspect the answer is Udogie was either playing a system close to Angeball in Italy last season and/or has adapted more quickly to Angeball than Porro who is still trying to forget Conteball requirements of a wingback which had no requirement for the RWB to move into midfield.
So I guess Porro will get better at Angeball the more he plays - although atm, I think Udogie is just the far superior player who at aged 20 looks a potential superstar, and that might be a factor that differentiates Porro and Udogie, but after 3 games its too soon to make that call.
Imagine what kind of individual
Think it's more like that situation ^
Ha ha
Talk about slime...... Are you now going to call him out for all of the personal insults he throws at me and numerous other posters on an almost daily basis?
Or are you gonna cement your position as the forum hypocrite
Didn't he tear his hammy?
If, having just banked around £100m for our World class striker we're done strengthening our starting Xl then it's an absolute fucking disgrace. We'd basically be just waiting for the wheels to fall off the good start to the season we've had.
And you're OK with it!!
Jesus. .Our fans
Lads! This is always going to be a transition year. We’re not going to solve the problem in one window.
Won’t buy anyone? Didn’t realize we haven’t purchased a single player. We’ve spent nearly €200M (194M) this window which is the most this club has ever spent in a single window and we’re third in the spend category for all EPL clubs this summer. Also, we didn’t get £100M for Kane, we got €100M which is closer to £85M. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of money but West Ham and Brighton got bigger transfer for some of their players. The Kane money essentially paid for Maddison and Van De Ven.
I think at this point, we’d be looking at a back up midfielder and centre back because our starting midfield and CB pairing looks to be set plus, we can’t seem to offload our existing CBs. Midfield is debatable as I think we’re looking relatively healthy there. As for striker, I completely agree but who is available right now? Orban seems to be the only striker we’ve been consistently been linked with all summer. Why is no one else in for him, will he be a good fit for the EPL? That’s a risky buy IMO but I don’t disagree we need a striker