Do we need an out and out 10 with NDombele and Lo Celso there though? Eriksen needs to go but we are stuck with him til summer.
With the right protection NDombele should be further forward as well-its going to get very congested imo.
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With the right protection NDombele should be further forward as well-its going to get very congested imo.
Very few German players seem to play outside Germany though.
I think one of the challenges is that the league itself has a number of excellent sides that offer the domestic players a realistic chance of fulfilling all their ambitions. The PL will offer more money, but perhaps not enough to offset the risk involved with moving overseas.
I know I bore on about him, but Brandt could have been such a good acquisition for us.
The reason we cant play Ndombele further forward is that we would otherwise be too short at CM !
But Brandt didn't want to move outside Germany. Hence went to Bayern
ehhhh thats exactly my point.
Which is what Cranston said. The league offers too many perks for staying compared to moving to the prem. Basically all we have to offer is money.
Ah yes, the next stage; where we host an NFL match and then the stadium has to be knocked down and rebuilt again.
Indeed. That’s the problem. Maybe we should be doing what they are currently doing with the likes of Sancho - pick up the talented teenagers that are more open to moves overseas.
Let’s reverse Sancho the fuckers
I watched him against Man Utd. He's got all the ingredients. Positional sense is good, aggressive, tackles well, touch is good, passing is good, extremely dynamic going forward (beats people for fun), up and down the pitch like a fucking Duracell bunny. KWP is not fit to lace his boots, unfortunately. Only issue for me is his lack of height.
Nailed it.
I have a bit of a nationality bias but I think that Quaison would do well in the prem. A striker that can also play as a winger or an AM. Great size, great workrate. Top scorer for his country in the qualifiers and currently top scorer in a struggling Mainz side.
That he has a thunderbolt like this in his pocket is not bad either
He could definitely work as a starting striker for a team lower down the ranks in the league, or a second striker for one of the bigger ones.
But again I have a bit of bias and want to see this guy succeed. He's my McGinn.
Big problem is that most of the youngsters are seeing that nobody gets playing time in PL so want to go abroad.
Poch isn't giving much playing time to youngsters - if we had got Sancho as part of the Walker deal (as rumoured we tried) he's probably have been playing in our u21's not the first team ……..and been another player who never made it.
I'm surprised we signed Jack Clarke, lets see how he turns out (and if he gets playing time at Spurs)
Pochettino did not want him at all.
source ? Not disputing what you say, just interested
The story raises all sorts of questions at Spurs, one of which relates to the functionality of their recruitment strategy. Levy wanted Clarke, he saw him as a useful squad member and paid a fair amount of money for him, but Pochettino would not even look at the player in training. It is inconceivable that Pochettino did not discuss Clarke’s readiness for the Premier League with Marcelo Bielsa, the Leeds manager and his mentor.
What it certainly does do is shine a light on the sense that all has not been well at Spurs over the summer and goes some way towards explaining why Pochettino has been so irritable of late.
Remember when Pochettino said at the end of July that the club ought to change his job title back to coach from manager as he was in the dark over transfer activity? “I am not in charge and I know nothing about the situation of my players,” Pochettino said. “Sell, buy players; sign contract, not sign contract – it is not in my hands. It is in the club’s hands and Daniel Levy’s hands.”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/30/mauricio-pochettino-daniel-levy-tottenham-tension-Woolwich-jack-clarke-transfer
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*Dortmund.
Will be interesting to see where Werner ends up. I’m assuming Bayern.
Interestingly the link came up as 'Page not found' for me - could be that Spurs complained that it was inaccurate and Guardian couldn't substantiate so had to take down.
Could well be true for the reasons you say.
But tbh given the players arriving at Spurs in the last 5 years, of which I'd suggest only Son and Dele have improved here or worth more than we paid for them, Levy might well have justification in taking back a bit more control over transfers (its always a balance between owner and manager at all clubs) as Poch has always had to rely on players here before him for the majority of him teams.
And Poch is not good at getting players through from academy to the first team - his skill is taking young players who are already in the first team squad (Kane being a great example) and improving them. Which is the trait of a good coach, not necessarily a manager.
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