People who follow the academy really like him, but he's 21 with no real experience with men's football, so it wasn't really in the cards for him at Spurs.
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I mean he didn't, what he actually said is that he wanted signings in 'as early as possible'...Spurs fans read that as he wanted signings in before pre season exclusively - When early isn't possible then there's nothing you can do about that.
The most important thing here is to look at the manager, read his comments and his current demeanour, is he frustrated by the lack of activity? probably yes but it seems to me that this isn't down to the club, his comments over the past few weeks have backed that up and he even said he's comfortable with the current situation and basically said we need to be patient...if the manager is putting out those kind of noises then there's no reason for the fans to moan or panic.
If you actually read between the lines it looks to me like we've settled on our long term targets and that tells me we have a strategy in place so equating this situation to when we used to buy punts and hope for the best is pointless, I suppose we can buy some players in now just to appease the fanbase but I'm not sure the manager would approve.
TLDR - Manager is chilled so fans ought to be chilled as well.
He was pretty average up until last season where he quite clearly went up a level or two.
But then again, everyone did. System was an excellent fit for the youth team.
Issue is, like you say, he's 21 years old, hasn't played men's football and other youth around the squad are worth much more time investing in.
I am happy for him but he is probably not too different a level to one knee Solomon.
A major domino has now fallenYago Santiago is moving to Elche on a permanent. I wish him the best, he obviously wasn't in Ange's plans but by all reports he's a talented player. Also, it's another deal no-one saw coming, Lange is running a tight ship.
Elche move for Santiago | Tottenham Hotspur
We have reached agreement with Spanish Segunda Division side Elche for the permanent transfer of Yago Santiago.www.tottenhamhotspur.com
Watch everything fall into place , 4 new signings by the end of the week
Maybe. Maybe not.
He's 21 and couldn't get a lick of first team football. Solomon at least had not only Premier League experience but Champions League experience.
At the very least, Solomon was a free transfer and we'll make profit on him.
Exactly so what
Could the ongoing hold up also be related to the Olympic football - I know Alvarez is there, another big name players?
I don’t understand the hate some have for Solomon, he was doing well then got injured. He was an absolute menace away at Burnley last season
Doue and Locko in the French squad have been linked.
Alex Baena in the Spanish squad was someone who's name has popped up, just not clear on the sources.
That's about it
When do you "become a man" in our club is 21 years too late?
I loved the 'VDV will never ever EVER be able to integrate into the team without a full pre-season wahhhh wahhhh wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh'
You should ideally either be getting loans by 19 or integrated to the first team to some degree by then.
Where to, the new kit thread? Do one need to bring the popcorn??Ahh. OK.
Good point.
Let's go, guys
How can you have recency bias on a player who has basically never played for us?
Missed 17 games the year before we signed him with a knee injury and played more than 75 minutes 6 times.
Missed 33 Games through a knee injury last year.
How can you have any bias apart from in the last two years he has missed more than a seasons worth of football and even when fit is unlikely to complete 90 minutes.
Personally I think anyone who thinks we should keep him needs to be checked that injury record tells me to dispose as quickly as possible.
I'll concede that I misremembered. His comments in Melbourne said nothing about before pre-season. He referenced about wanting them in early.
However, the core point is the same. My main point was that he was referencing the importance of having time to work with new players. Time that he's not going to have.
Now, having the attitude of "hey, the managers calm, so I should be calm", would be a pretty admirable position to take, if we hadn't seen this before. You cannot ignore the context of history. We had a manager not too long ago that was pretty chill when he kept getting let down. He was even pretty calm when we signed nobody in the summer of 2018. He even said a lot of the things Postecoglou said this summer about "not just signing anybody" etc. Most managers aren't Conte, De Zerbi, Mourinho level lunatics, that will cause trouble out in the open. For the most part, just because a managers seems relaxed doesn't necessarily mean that there's no cause for frustration.
That also then doesn't mean that the logical conclusion is to melt down and write off the season and say we're not signing anybody. But I also don't think we can pretend that everythings going to be fine and there's no cause for worry.
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I wouldn't read too much into that, just as likely a case that nobody cared, rather than Lange working day and night to keep this deal super top secret...Yago Santiago is moving to Elche on a permanent. I wish him the best, he obviously wasn't in Ange's plans but by all reports he's a talented player. Also, it's another deal no-one saw coming, Lange is running a tight ship.Elche move for Santiago | Tottenham Hotspur
We have reached agreement with Spanish Segunda Division side Elche for the permanent transfer of Yago Santiago.
