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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread
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Imagine holding your striker hopes in the likes of Giroud and Chelsea... 
Would be very strange if José Mourinho of all managers doesn't see that we need a proper DM in the team, the problem is that they are rare and difficult to bring in in January; a player like Ndidi would massively improve our midfield, but where do you get one for a reasonable fee this window?
Now he’s signed or will be signing a new deal we could just play him, call me crazy...
Criminal if trueUnlikely to sign a striker, and it was going so well
Please just go, Victor - for your own sake
20 positive tweets:
“Never gonna happen, cant see it”
1 negative tweet:
“Waaaaaahhhhhhh”
“Never gonna happen, cant see it”
1 negative tweet:
“Waaaaaahhhhhhh”
Consider the galvanising effect the likes of Palacios, Parker, Sandro Dier & Wanyama had in their respective pomp.....
An underappreciated position. Particularly in a league such as ours.
Vic was becoming so fucking good prior to his injury.
It’s an essential role and almost every top team has a top DM. Liverpool have Fabinho, City have Rodri, Leicester have a Ndidi.
It gives protection in front of the back 4 but also allows more freedom to attacking players and full backs to go forward safe in the knowledge they have a keen eye looking after them so it doesn’t just improve the defence.
You can play a midfield 3 without a DM and allow each player to pick up some defensive work but I generally think it’s much easier to get a balanced team with a out and out DM.
A good DM needs to have a good passing range and be press resistant as DM’s are often targeted by opposition presses, they need to have great defensive awareness (obviously!) and in the modern game a great engine enabling them to be proactive.
Wanyama has obviously got some sort of knee issue or something and Dier just isn’t near the standard. I do hope we can get someone like Sangaré in or even hijack Sander Berg’s deal.
Relying on Chelsea to end up with a striker.
That means no striker I’d say.
Utterly negligent
That means no striker I’d say.
Utterly negligent
Nowhere to hide for Levy now - this is rock bottom
We could have gone for Jovic already - he's played like 4 minutes all season
He will accept it, what's he going to do, resign his 15 million a year job?No chance.
Son up top is hardly the end of the world, is it?
Now we have Stevie the wing wonder to cover his Attacking LW place...
I'm still happy with that and Parrott as emergency 'throw smeone on', rather than Giroud personally.
Son is now 2 in 2 and has a fairly good goals ratio, just need to aim for his chest, not contesting headers up against 6ft3 defenders...
Perhaps that's part of being a Spurs manager, accept what you get, not what you want or need.
Exactly ....I think it’s a bit of a joke if we miss out, and unacceptable that it’s come to this.
But at the end of the day what you gonna do?
“Take a break” or “give up on football for a bit” in true fairweather fandom?
No, we’ll all be there on Saturday still thinking we can beat City. And why can’t we.
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