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Porro joined Sporting in 2020. It was probably a loan to buy deal so the 8.5 was the price agreed at the start of the loan, not the price City would have charged after he was successful there.Porro sold for 8.5m this summer.
You are correct: the quote regarding Conté thinking that Porro will transform Spurs came via journalist Dean Jones.
It's a digestive fluid.
Regardless, that was the sale price.
Is conte a high-quality manager? I don’t see much flexibility from him. Do top class coaches consistently switch to 3atb? Ten Hag? Ancelotti? Klopp? The number of managers who play 3atb is not that great.1. That's because he is a wing-back. He played in a back 4 defensively at Sporting because the manager's system had flexibility between formations.
2. If Poch is really a top-class coach, he will be able to have the flexibility in his system to have adaptable formations.
3. Pep is currently playing a system with 3 atb. Every high-quality manager has the ability to adapt their system to match up against and use the benefits of most formations. There are teams all over Europe having success with defensive wingers or attacking wing backs.
4. See above for Pep but also watch Brighton or go back and watch Tuchel.
Like tea when you dip a chocolate digestive into a cup of it???
Like tea when you dip a chocolate digestive into a cup of it???
Agree. I just don't really see the point since it all seems rather obvious Conte will not be re-signing with the club. A new CB could have been a revelation in this team but for the amount of money we spent on Porro it isn't even a guarantee that he is the answer to our RWB position. Plus the Spence money. 60m spent so poorly in the context of the coach and their contract situation.Is conte a high-quality manager? I don’t see much flexibility from him. Do top class coaches consistently switch to 3atb? Ten Hag? Ancelotti? Klopp? The number of managers who play 3atb is not that great.
Maybe someone could get Porro playing as a defensive winger, as you say, but there’s an opportunity cost to buying a specialist wing back. We could have bought players able to play in many different formations like a centreback or creative midfielder.
It’s impressive how wrong that article is.Regardless, that was the sale price.
City declined a buy back at around 17m.
The original ask was considerably lower according to ‘trusted sources’.
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Tottenham made to look silly by Sporting as trusted source reveals how much Pedro Porro should have cost
A report has revealed how much Pedro Porro should have cost Tottenham after Sporting Lisbon held strong and used an inflated transfer market to their advantagesg.news.yahoo.com
For some. Other just spew their bile on places such as this forum.
Ten Hag is suddenly a higher quality coach than Conte?Is conte a high-quality manager? I don’t see much flexibility from him. Do top class coaches consistently switch to 3atb? Ten Hag? Ancelotti? Klopp? The number of managers who play 3atb is not that great.
Maybe someone could get Porro playing as a defensive winger, as you say, but there’s an opportunity cost to buying a specialist wing back. We could have bought players able to play in many different formations like a centreback or creative midfielder.
This should probably all go in the Pedro Porro thread but, yes, he was a City player through summer 2022 when he was sold to Sporting, who triggered an ‘option to buy’ after an successful loan.he was on City’s books between 2019 and 2022”
He was not on City’s books in 2022.
Ten Hag is suddenly a higher quality coach than Conte?
Maybe not so much flexibility from him atm but 3-4-3 isn’t Conte’s usual formation.
Klopp plays 4atb but Porro and Trent are very similar. Trent hardly crosses the halfway line. The CMs in Klopps system do all the hard work.
Be honest, you’ve picked a position and opinion on a player before they have signed, because you think a manager is leaving and then confirmed that opinion in your head after one game BUT really you haven’t thought that opinion through very well?
Telling richo is dud and will bigger than tanguy who actually scored a few goals some spectacular, he could keep the ball, beat a man and generally do things which richo will never do. Unfortunately he was lazy. However Maddison was who we should got in the summer this allowing play two up top rather than 3. And not have rely on bloody creativity from royal!Maddison would have cost around 70-80m but you know hes worth it. What has richy done to justify a 60m price tag?
We could play Kulusevski as an AMF if Conte was going to use one.Telling richo is dud and will bigger than tanguy who actually scored a few goals some spectacular, he could keep the ball, beat a man and generally do things which richo will never do. Unfortunately he was lazy. However Maddison was who we should got in the summer this allowing play two up top rather than 3. And not have rely on bloody creativity from royal!
Not defending levy but we’re we ever after him? Also Simone want to buy richo which I found was levy.We should have got Maddison AND Porro. This is what proper clubs do. Maddison slots straight into that creative midfield role the next day and completely changes the game.
It’s as simple as that. Levy simply doesnt want to spend the money.