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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26
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Club needs 3 players IMO
LB: Spence is a RB
CM: elite passer
LW:
They need to be top draw though, no point bringing in fillers, might as well let Odobert or Tel fight for the LW if it’s an average signings.
We really need £150m on 3 elite players not £150m on 7-8 players. The striker situation is more difficult as we don’t know if Mauni is the one or Solanke comes back plus it’s really hard to buy a top striker.
LB: Spence is a RB
CM: elite passer
LW:
They need to be top draw though, no point bringing in fillers, might as well let Odobert or Tel fight for the LW if it’s an average signings.
We really need £150m on 3 elite players not £150m on 7-8 players. The striker situation is more difficult as we don’t know if Mauni is the one or Solanke comes back plus it’s really hard to buy a top striker.
Yeah, usually when you look at a forwards goals output that on paper looks good, and then see that a big chunk come in the cup competitions where standard of opposition can vary wildly, it's the cup goals that you see as a red flag.
Criticising a player for only being effective in the league over cup comps is a pretty uncommon take.
100% agree - striker needs to be left til summer when we know the Solanke and Muani situation.
Those other three positions need sorted with starting quality players now.
LW is far more important in Jan.
Without it our attack (in fact our entire left side!) will remain fatally unbalanced.
Would totally leave CM till the summer if it meant getting the right guy.
We’ll never know about Muani until Frank plays him over Richy regularly.
Krandal Rolo Muani, new signing
We definitely need a top Left Winger, I don’t know who that is though, particularly in January.
I’m not sure it’s Semenyo though. I just think he’d be another Solanke/Kudus/Johnson streaky type player that does some things well, but still has massive holes in his game, and wouldn’t take us up a level.
I think someone like Yildiz has a much higher ceiling than Semenyo.
We're going to play the Eze game again with the same results...aren't we?
But by your own rhetoric: it ought to be easier than CM; which would be "a lot harder to do".
I don't think it is.
The Tottenham Transfer Policy
- Identify Target
- Piss about and haggle over a couple of million
- Lose target
- Panic
- Spend more than the original players fee on a sub-par equivalent
- Repeat
Hasn't scored for Bournemouth since 3 October
I think a Wharton, who would be perfect for us, would be extremely hard to do in January. But there are guys out there like Stiller and Locatelli who we could get for probably no more than £50m
In fairness, I think the pissing about over a couple million and trying to “win the deal” was one of Levy’s kinks.
I’m skeptical about Lewis’ kids coming in and suddenly splashing the cash, but I think we might see an end to the haggling over pennies and annoying the life out of other clubs when doing deals now that Levy’s gone.
True but his selling point is his all round game. The reason City and Liverpool are probably linked is due to his general game, his pressing, defending, ball carrying, ball retention and dribbling are top draw. His goal scoring is the weaker part of his game comparatively.
You literally just described Locatelli as "harder to do".
Ultimately better to get the right guy in June.......
If you think he's the guy and can be got in Jan then fine, but i still think LW is priority #1.