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Management Preparing for the Championship - What will our squad look like?

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We will be shit in the Champo.

I honestly believe we'll finish the season with circa 15 losses and not even make the playoffs.
 
TonySoprano said:
Well, you won’t be attracting PL quality players to replace them.

Tel, Odobert, Gallagher, Rich and many others will be fine for Championship level football so I expect they’ll stay. No PL club wants half this squad anyway.
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Yeah wonder how we'd go about targeting signings if we go down.

Smart approach would probably be to target some of the best upcoming talents at current Champ clubs that would soon be making the leap to the Prem anyway: the Olise, Eze, Wharton, Bowen equivalents. We've often lamented missing out on these players and now we can offer them guaranteed minutes and get them a season earlier in their development.

An obvious example would be Hayden Hackney at Boro if no PL clubs come in for him. And even if they do, being a guaranteed starter at a big club like Spurs aiming for promotion might appeal more to him if the only offers are Coventry and Ipswich who would likely come straight back down. He might be unobtainable, but I think he's the type we should be looking at.

Beyond that, talented up-and-comers from 2nd tier European leagues like Portugal, Belgium, Holland, etc. And a few decent loanees to bulk out the squad.
 
Id expect a couple of the "better" players that must be kept to possibly be allowed to go on loan abroad or stay there in vuskovic case for another year ..
Theres also players like deki and maddison, oderbert that will need game time after injury
Id keep ben Davies maybe even as player coach
Plenty I couldn't give a fuck about ...on second thoughts about 70% of the squad I couldn't give a fuck about
Plenty of moody away games and teams that will raise their game simply because there playing spurs...its more or less 2 games a week for 8 months with a more physical game so we dont need a load of fucking poofs crying off injured every other game.
Im.one of those whos seen us in the 2nd tier and tbh it was the best season ive ever had following spurs all over the country in near 60 years as everyone wants a peice of you?
The one very good thing is a lots of the tourists and fairweather moaney cunts that infect the stadium will be gone and I will be one of the lost generation of 50+ yids who fucked off from the new stadium returning and buying a season ticket.
 
I keep wondering how much a season ticket will cost if we go down. It's going to bite the owners on the arse the financial hit alone circa £250,000,000, could there be any light at the end of the tunnel. Some of our loanees will slot in who have already got experience in the Championship
 
Timberwolf said:
Yeah wonder how we'd go about targeting signings if we go down.

Smart approach would probably be to target some of the best upcoming talents at current Champ clubs that would soon be making the leap to the Prem anyway: the Olise, Eze, Wharton, Bowen equivalents. We've often lamented missing out on these players and now we can offer them guaranteed minutes and get them a season earlier in their development.

An obvious example would be Hayden Hackney at Boro if no PL clubs come in for him. And even if they do, being a guaranteed starter at a big club like Spurs aiming for promotion might appeal more to him if the only offers are Coventry and Ipswich who would likely come straight back down. He might be unobtainable, but I think he's the type we should be looking at.

Beyond that, talented up-and-comers from 2nd tier European leagues like Portugal, Belgium, Holland, etc. And a few decent loanees to bulk out the squad.
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Troy Parrott? 🤔
 
Kirk st moritz said:
Id expect a couple of the "better" players that must be kept to possibly be allowed to go on loan abroad or stay there in vuskovic case for another year ..
Theres also players like deki and maddison, oderbert that will need game time after injury
Id keep ben Davies maybe even as player coach
Plenty I couldn't give a fuck about ...on second thoughts about 70% of the squad I couldn't give a fuck about
Plenty of moody away games and teams that will raise their game simply because there playing spurs...its more or less 2 games a week for 8 months with a more physical game so we dont need a load of fucking poofs crying off injured every other game.
Im.one of those whos seen us in the 2nd tier and tbh it was the best season ive ever had following spurs all over the country in near 60 years as everyone wants a peice of you?
The one very good thing is a lots of the tourists and fairweather moaney cunts that infect the stadium will be gone and I will be one of the lost generation of 50+ yids who fucked off from the new stadium returning and buying a season ticket.
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Yes- CAM pretty much fills itself after relegation- we'll hopefully have a fit Maddison and Kulu to man the 10. I'm guessing Simons will make a transfer request this summer and be gone.

Odobert in the Champo is a good fit, more his level right now. Hopefully we'd buy a top LW for him to deputize behind after re-promotion.

Kudus won't be leaving this summer as he will still be injured, so that's 1st choice RW covered (so long as he can be fit for the start of the season- fingers crossed). We do need a second choice RW though. Still do, especially now. We're probably best off simply buying the best RW possible to avoid this happening again, and especially to hedge against Kudus long-term injury recovery. Probably should do the same for LW to hedge Odobert too.

Richarlison is way too erratic for me. I'd be happy to have Solanke and Lankshear man ST for us.

Anyways, that's what I expect to happen to our attack. We're shopping for RW and LW this summer. While dropping into the Champo. It's gonna be ugly. 😐
 
Timberwolf said:
Yeah wonder how we'd go about targeting signings if we go down.

Smart approach would probably be to target some of the best upcoming talents at current Champ clubs that would soon be making the leap to the Prem anyway: the Olise, Eze, Wharton, Bowen equivalents. We've often lamented missing out on these players and now we can offer them guaranteed minutes and get them a season earlier in their development.

An obvious example would be Hayden Hackney at Boro if no PL clubs come in for him. And even if they do, being a guaranteed starter at a big club like Spurs aiming for promotion might appeal more to him if the only offers are Coventry and Ipswich who would likely come straight back down. He might be unobtainable, but I think he's the type we should be looking at.

Beyond that, talented up-and-comers from 2nd tier European leagues like Portugal, Belgium, Holland, etc. And a few decent loanees to bulk out the squad.
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Agree with this, Hackney is obvious as we need a midfielder that can pass, other players like Fatawu, Harwood Bellis if Southampton dont come up would be sensible. Players that could easily play in the prem. Just got a feeling we'll still try and act billy big bollocks and prove we're a big club and chase stupid names all summer, or we'll over correct with a load of veterans.
 
Timberwolf said:
Yeah wonder how we'd go about targeting signings if we go down.

Smart approach would probably be to target some of the best upcoming talents at current Champ clubs that would soon be making the leap to the Prem anyway: the Olise, Eze, Wharton, Bowen equivalents. We've often lamented missing out on these players and now we can offer them guaranteed minutes and get them a season earlier in their development.

An obvious example would be Hayden Hackney at Boro if no PL clubs come in for him. And even if they do, being a guaranteed starter at a big club like Spurs aiming for promotion might appeal more to him if the only offers are Coventry and Ipswich who would likely come straight back down. He might be unobtainable, but I think he's the type we should be looking at.

Beyond that, talented up-and-comers from 2nd tier European leagues like Portugal, Belgium, Holland, etc. And a few decent loanees to bulk out the squad.
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I think this argument just shows the nature of our club. If Bournemouth went down they would have 4-5 talents to buy who would get them out of the Championship then blossom the next year in the prem. Our scouts only seem to be able to pick out obvious players like Maddison who won’t come if we get relegated or players who might be great in a few years.

The scouting, the medical everything just seems off with us compared to much better run clubs like Brighton or Brentford etc. a club with our asset base should easily be able to buy an elite team even in the Championship and springboard from there in the prem.

everything wrong with us goes back to the horrible horrible state Levy let the back office get into and how Joe simply neglected it as it was happening. Nothing gets fixed until the sporting director, CEO, head of scouting, head of medical are elite. Blows my mind that we have the best facilities yet hire donkeys like Lange to work in them. Like spending £500k on a kitchen and getting a temp to run it.
 
bk_spur said:
Yes- CAM pretty much fills itself after relegation- we'll hopefully have a fit Maddison and Kulu to man the 10. I'm guessing Simons will make a transfer request this summer and be gone.

Odobert in the Champo is a good fit, more his level right now. Hopefully we'd buy a top LW for him to deputize behind after re-promotion.

Kudus won't be leaving this summer as he will still be injured, so that's 1st choice RW covered (so long as he can be fit for the start of the season- fingers crossed). We do need a second choice RW though. Still do, especially now. We're probably best off simply buying the best RW possible to avoid this happening again, and especially to hedge against Kudus long-term injury recovery. Probably should do the same for LW to hedge Odobert too.

Richarlison is way too erratic for me. I'd be happy to have Solanke and Lankshear man ST for us.

Anyways, that's what I expect to happen to our attack. We're shopping for RW and LW this summer. While dropping into the Champo. It's gonna be ugly. 😐
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Kudus will be fit before the season starts, no? Think he's one that will v.likely be sold or loaned unless De Zerbi sells him a dream.

Obobert's the one with the long term injury (will miss around half of the season) so will need lots of reinforcements in wide areas. We have Moore to slot straight in at least.
 
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