Look at the 4th word in my previous post. I think that is a clear indication that I know the difference between demanding and paying. Good grief!!!
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If implies there is a chance. Your hypothesis is implying they pay 100m/
The wont, and they are not.
Not because of Solanke - and they finished the 6th highest.
They scored more the season before and had £65m more in the bank.
We play shit football when Johnson and Solanke are in the team.
Despite having a injury ravaged midfield in the final - we still should have done better than no shots on target - and we or any other team would have - with a better front three.
The most baffling thing about Solanke - is how fans want to watch a striker who's main attribute is chasing the other teams defenders.
Surely everyone can at least agree - he is an incredibly boring uncreative footballer - the most you are going to get out of him is a decent amount of tap ins.
The excuses made for him is we didn't create enough chances for him. Implicit in that iscwe signed a front three player who is completely incapable of doing anything unexpected - and scoring a goal with anything other than a very good chance - that's been put on a plate for him.
It's the very definition of limited - and he is not even a brilliant finisher - he misses a fair amount of good chances.
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They wont pay 25m for a world class keeper with 1 year left on his deal. They aint paying 100m for Ekitike.
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It will blow up in their face eventually. He’s an ok striker at best but nobody will pay that for him. Delap is much better and more suited to the premier league.
I'm glad the fans had something to cheer about this summer, finally. Otherwise this club is a shitshow.
This is something I’ve always agreed with, however this is Tottenham and this is levy. We’re not spending 50 odd mil on someone to potentially play 20 games.
No it's not... my hypothesis is saying IF they pay 100m... I'm not leaning one way or the other... but you on the other hand are categorially saying that a team that paid 121m euros for Enzo Fernández and 116m euros for Moses Caicedo won't pay 100m euros for Ekitike. Interesting logic.
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I think you're being incredibly harsh on both players. I get it you don't rate them, but they've both contributed massively to a European Cup winning season. Johnson isn't a winger who is going to take on his man every time, but I bet he has a higher goal output than most wingers in the league.
Solanke should score more, but he works his arse off in terms of pressing. He's scored some vital goals for us as well.
Whoever was coming in to replace Kane was always fronting up an almost impossible task. Would you swap having Kane back now for not winning the Europa?
I said they are a significant reason we play shit attacking football.
Your quote that he should score more but works his arse of pressing. Proves my point.
He and Johnson are a very hard watch.
After Jose and Conte we were supposed to play entertaining football. Instead we have been mostly dross going forward. And it' was inevitable with those two as part of your front three.
I'd say the reason this season we have is because of the unavailability of a consistent line up. We had big wins against Villa, West Ham, City, United, Alkmaar. We scored plenty even when losing (6-3 to Liverpool, 4-3 to Chelsea) - It might not have been as open and attacking as you desire, but the attacking football was there.
The issue is that fans then said we were too attacking and needed to set up with a more defensive approach. It's always a change needed.
We had the worst of both worlds.
Our defenders pushed forward leaving us open at the back. Our attackers were not creative and in the case of Solanke expanded a lot of energy pressing.
Ange's philosophy is back to front and weird. He hasn't realised to play entertaining effective attacking football - you need creative players. And
Having defenders who are good footballers is welcome but not enough. And relying on them for your attacking play - leaves you too open
I don't think any STRs would have flourished with us this season. How many Balls passed actually left Solanke on a scoring position. I don't say he is brilliant but Ange Ball doesn't work for the team we have.
The fact Chelsea are top tells you all you need to know about PSR
Surely we should sign this bloke for 25 and flog Vic to Inter for the same?