Cirkin would give us the LB cover we need and is club trained. I really liked the little I've seen of him. Good shout.
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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Though Utd would be an obvious choice for the Summer.
You can't compare, though. NFL teams don't play in international competitions outside the US, where the rules may be different. If the PL institutes a salary cap, teams will be complaining that it will make them uncompetitive in Europe. There has to be a European salary cap, in order for this to work, but don't see that happening.
Would it even make sense for us now?
We might need 4 Cbs for next season but for balance a left footer might be the most sensible next one?
Weirdly, I agree with sudoku here.
The whole point of having a good recruitment set up, is that you can churn the meh players and have immediate upgrades lined up.
Emerson and Davies are loveable pros, but not ultimately good enough. Take the money and trust the recruitment machine to replace for cheap. Well that’s how it should work anyway.
Well like you mentioned earlier, chaos and this club right? You can never have too many good CBs. It would be up to Ange and the players to figure it out.
We have a very specific CB profile.
Still don't think it happens, but don't all of our CBs have history playing 3 at the back?
Don't forget Spurs lost a number of its top youth players because of its failing to develop players
The best known of those players probably Noni Madueke
And other youth players started to avoid signing for Spurs and went elsewhere.
So in a nut shell, getting a reputation for poor youth player development means you increasingly have poorer players joining and the job becomes harder.
As a youth watcher I'd say pre-Poch probably half of each intake of a dozen players looked to have good potential (but knowing one or two actually would make it), but towards the end of Poch's reign, maybe only 2 or 3 players of the annual intakes looked to be interesting. So the odds are against getting youth players through
Taking a results only view, possibly, if you consider Winks & KWP only, a failure but when you consider the outside factors mentioned such as the talent produced from the academy at the time/the personnel leading the academy and the clubs priorities being almost solely focussed on the stadium build, not so much
Any point in it. We have 3 centrebacks, Davies as good cover on the left and Philips seems almost ready to join those next year, he seems to have settled into Championship level very well, hopefully step up next year.
Shitwood did first…. Poch gave Kaboul, Ade a chance then quickly binned them
Are Davies and Phillips near his level? Maybe both are sold and we bring him in. We need four - whether that is Davies or Phillips as back up, or four fighting for places is TBC
The thing is that for young players, in terms of development, nothing can replace getting game time in the mens game. It is much more valuable for them to play 20-25 games in a lower division than to come off the bench for 5-10 mins in a handful of games (in most cases games that have already been won or lost and are not at true game pace). There are the odd exceptions, but unless you are planning on giving a youngster 500-1,000 minutes of playing time per season, you are better off loaning them out.
You feel confident saying this after 2 matches ?
Youth coaching just needs some coaches good/experienced at coaching you plus a supply of youngsters coming through (which Spurs used to have}
Its not a high cost business I'd guess youth budgets for coaches and players wages say £15m pa at Spurs.
so stadium build shouldn't really impact on youth, providing the coaches focus on the youth
It's a balancing act to have a functioning squad and also plan for the future.
Phillips sounds like he's max 1 more season away. Dorrington after him. If we sign another under 25 CB the pathway to the first team dries up.
If Davies decided he wanted to move and play every week in the summer then we need another CB but you'd still think that would be a left footed player if possible. Best case scenario is Davies is around next season as well and covers LCB of Dragusin or VDV can't play. Then the year after Phillips and Dorrington are ready to step in.
I think so, there's enough evidence to start to trust our club's recruitment and vision now personally.
It might be a bit premature to say that
But Phillips has played a dozen or so games at Blackburn in Championship and well regarded at E u19 level so a decent track record,
What's been good is the fan and local reporter reaction generally saying Phillips has looked very good at that level, looked far more comfortable than many more established players etc.
So lots of good very signs.
It needs the people at the top driving the end goal though, as has been stated by someone else when Paratichi came in he was reportedly shocked/surprised by the state of our academy - i bet if he had come in when Inglethorpe was here and prior to the stadium build he'd have had a different view.
Madueke is an ok player but I wouldn't be that impressed if we signed him. I don't see many players we failed badly who should have been far better.
Chelsea is a case in point, they had far bigger talents on the whole than us but just went off selling them, if we did that I would be pissed off to lose out on Rice, Tomori, Ake, Abraham, Chalobah, Guehi, Loftus-Cheek. They also still have Colwell, James, Gallagher. That is miles and miles clear of us talent wise.
I mean if Poch or Jose had those and didn't use them I could understand the criticism but I don't think Winks or Onamah being used better would have made much of a difference.
I don't disagree with that in principle either. It's also about priorities and how difficult it is to get transfers done.
Replacing Emerson and Davies isn't high on the priority list and if we look at the end of this window and the summer, we do have more pressing business.