I don't know. But the word potential doesn't equal significant injury history, does it?
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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Well he’s done both his hammies.
Have we bought Chiesa yet?
I’ve seen enough natural ability in Gray and Bergvall already to see they’ll improve us. Don’t care about their age. It means nothing. They look brave to get on the ball and play forward. We need more risk takers. Those two kids will be regulars in our team by Xmas at the latest. We are strong in midfield. Its front players need.
Chris Cowlin was on Talksport earlier.
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Interesting listen I felt, if you have a spare 10 mins.
interesting and that mug don't go together.
Devine also. All three are brave and play forward
Get that shithouse Royal out too and maybe Gray can cover RB and play 25 games there
Aren’t we all?
I think the opposite - we are fine defensively, just lose momentum by not scoring when on top and putting games to bed, then come under pressure as the games ebbs and flows
Yeah,Devine looks very good and Moore a ridiculous talent. I’d rather watch these guys than Royal,Werner,Skipp and Hojbjerg. Guys that are brave on the ball and play a riskier game but can back it up. Whether these guys are ready to step in and do that only time will tell. Surround them with good players and get them playing more and more and we’ll be better to watch. We also have that surprise element with younger untried players.
The likes of Vicario,Romero,Biss,Bentancur,Madders and Sonny are massive to these guys development.
I wouldn’t say we are fine defensively we definitely need a slight tactical rethink. Lose the ball in the opposition penalty box and 2/3 passes later they are through on goal is not right and happened far too often last season
Another boring bastard
Bournemouth??.. Their chairman was talking about the club have 2 or 3 options if Solanke leaves.
He's trying to reassure their fans when there hasn't been any significant bids that media know about..
A quick look back at some classic TFC quotes...
"Just sign Bastoni you bald count!"
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"Just sign Tobido you bald count!"
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"Just pay the cash for Raya Levy, tight fisted count!"
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"Levy cheap skate signing!"
"We never sign youth, look at Brighton! No plan Levy!"
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"Levy never backs the manager! Count!"
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One more?
"He's shit!"
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"Just sign Bastoni you bald count!"
Cristian Romero: Tottenham complete deal for Atalanta defender for £42.5m
Tottenham sign Argentina central defender Cristian Romero from Atalanta for £42.5m.
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"Just sign Tobido you bald count!"
Micky van de Ven: Tottenham signing a 'Cruyffian' talent & a 'fighter'
Micky van de Ven has been called a "winner, fighter and Cruyffian talent", and is Tottenham's latest defensive addition.
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"Just pay the cash for Raya Levy, tight fisted count!"
Guglielmo Vicario: Tottenham sign Italian goalkeeper from Empoli on five-year deal
Tottenham sign Italian goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario from Serie A side Empoli on a five-year contract.
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"Levy cheap skate signing!"
"We never sign youth, look at Brighton! No plan Levy!"
Lucas Bergvall: Tottenham set to sign 17-year-old Swedish midfielder
Tottenham are set to sign midfielder Lucas Bergvall from Swedish side Djurgarden for a fee approaching £8.5m.
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"Levy never backs the manager! Count!"
Brennan Johnson: Tottenham agree £45m-plus deadline day deal with Nottingham Forest
Tottenham agree a fee in excess of £45m for Brennan Johnson to make him their ninth signing of the summer.
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One more?
"He's shit!"
Harry Kane: Tottenham striker overtakes Jimmy Greaves as Spurs' all-time top scorer
Harry Kane moves ahead of Jimmy Greaves to become Tottenham's all-time top goalscorer with his 267th goal for the club.
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What I like is that his daily updates are like he’s reading the news, similar to a radio broadcast. I appreciate the hard work he puts in.
Raphinia - Barca?
I agree with a lot of this - our playing style became easy to adapt to, so we'd get low blocked and end up in a quagmire because we could not find the speed or invention to unlock the oppo defence and then we'd inevitably give a chance away and find ourselves in trouble, often on the break caught high up - a great example was Forest at home, we battered them the whole half, they got one break and scored, we did win that one evenually but we made hard work of it.
Bergwijn - Jose clearly wanted a centre forward.
I never said that though mate.
You're saying always and all .... it's just not true....
Of course there is some investment strategy going on. Every single club does it.
But there are examples of players we have bought that stayed with us well past their prime resale value....
Eriksen, Jan, Lloris are some examples.
We have also bought players which were not likely to have resale value... Richarlison. Sissoko (though not the greatest buy for other reasons), Maddison, Moura, Hojbjerg, Toby, Bissouma, Perisic
And others for the here and now like Van De Ven, Vicario, Kulusevski, Bentancur, Porro, Johnson.
And again, this isn't a discussion on whether they were good, bad or stupid signings. Its about the intent of the purchases in terms of resale value and whether they were for the squad here an now.
You have chosen to make the broad sweeping statement, not me. I'm.merely pointing out the hyperbole you have used is incorrect, and that it would be fucking stupid for any single club to not buy promising youth players with the hope they will turn out to be amazing players that also have a resale value.
That's sort of his point.
Our defensive worries are weakened by having technically superior offensive players who don't lose the ball and give opponents a chance to make the 2/3 passes.
We play a high line. If you're not capable of keeping the ball in the final third, you're always going to be under threat due to the high risk/high reward nature of the high line.
It's the exact same for Liverpool and City. Except they're much better offensively than we are and either create more due to players being suited or just have much better offensive players than us on a technical level. Ultimately, most of the goals those top clubs concede are on counters or due to defensive errors.
Look at some of the goals we conceded. Kulusevski loses the ball easily due to passing to no one. Luton go up the other end and score. Son loses the ball due to not being able to hold the ball up, Newcastle knock it long, score (I think this actually happened twice) . Just to name two quick ones off the top of my head.
Some further insight from fans of Yang Min-Hyuk….
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View: https://youtu.be/8p1ei9KgXok?si=gLQrhvE4MsMgFPws