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Transfers January 2021 Transfer Thread

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Allejo10 said:
Priority should be a Sissoko replacement, that's what keeps us away from the title at the moment. We can't keep a player on the pitch just because he cover spaces. He offer little defensively and nothing in the attack.
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You think there is a player out there that Jose will start over Sissoko?

We have guys here that already should be playing ahead of Sissoko but nope for some reason we are a special team that needs a useless plug that can\t defend or play with the ball in our side to "protect" the RB even though he doesn't actually do that.

I think by doing nothing Sissoko may have found a loophole to keep his spot, because when talking about who should replace him it is hard to pinpoint a guy who can add nothing to the squad like Sissoko does. Whenever you point out what other guys do better the response is always that is not what Sissoko is asked to do!
 
poch's coat said:
How is that box to box midfielder going to protect Aurier? Because if you leave him unprotected then we are going to start shipping a shitload of goals.
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Who's protecting all the other RB's in Europe ? Whoever it is, let's just get one of them.

Have we got the slowest RB in Europe combined with the most swashbuckling footballing philosophy?

Reguilon probably needs more arse covering than Aurier and a pretty limited player in Hojbjerg is doing it better over that side and managing to press more, tackle more play a modicum of football too.

What is this "only Sissoko can shuffle between RB and CB in a bus park" bollocks?

Here's an idea, we get a player who can run, press and play football and he'll still be able to do the 5 yard circular shuffle when we play ManC and Liverpool, but he'll also be some use the other 36 games too, unlike Sissoko.
 
sudoku said:
www.football.london

Daniel Levy negotiated a bargain Matt Doherty transfer fee for Tottenham

The deal Tottenham have done with Wolverhampton Wanderers for the Republic of Ireland right-back is an absolute bargain
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Despite being born in Dublin, the Irishman counts as a homegrown player with both the Premier League and UEFA because he joined Wolves from Bohemians when he was just 18 and played for the Midlands club for three seasons including the season in which he turned 21, which fits in with the homegrown requirements.
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Later retracted by FootballLondon/Alistair Gold

Jose Mourinho leaves three Tottenham stars out of Europa League squad but one gets back in - football.london

Doherty is NOT HG for EL squad - complication is probably caused by loan to Hibernian when u21 (a club NOT affiliated to The FA) and accordingly time spent there does not count to the 3 years before age of 21 to become HG for EL.
 
Worth saying that Doherty was born in January 1992 and joined Wolves at 18 year and 6 months old in July 2010.

In January 2012 he had a 6 month loan at Hibernian (a club not affiliated to The FA).

Which is why its tricky trying to find 3 years at which he's been at a club affiliated to The FA before he turned 21 (or the end of the season in which he turned 21) to qualify as HG for EL purposes - PL allow him to be HG as they do not count the Scots as a 'foreign' association so he just squeezes in 3 year.
 
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Allejo10 said:
People are quick to judge, but have you watched any Millwall game? They are one of the worst teams to watch, Parrott barely received the ball in the attack, had do drop deep to do something. In one game he ended playing as CM and played out of position in some others. Despite that he was one of the best players for them, creating some chances by himself and setting up others. The best thing to do is send him to a team that acatually play some sort of footbal and has a tactical plan. He will come good.
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Tomorrow's headline.

Spurs look to sell young Irish striker
 
Spursidol said:
The devil is in the detail (or in this case Club trained and Other association trained players and then the size of the squad - which numbers 24 with one HG player short).

Currently we have :

Club Trained - 4 Kane, Bale, Winks, Whiteman,
Other Assoc Trained 3 Hart, Dele, Clarke
Overseas Trained Players (17) : Lloris, Aurier, Doherty, Sanchez, Alderweireld, Dier, Reguilon, Davies, Hojbjerg, Sissoko, Lo Celso, Lucas, Ndombele, Son, Bergwijn, Vinicius, Lamela

Under 21's who could become Club trained players include Tanganga and Skipp.

So if you want to :.
  • Buy top level center half as competitor and eventual replacement to Alderweireld
  • Buy box to box midfielder to fill Sissoko’s current position, Sissoko becomes backup
  • Buy starting RW, move Bergwijn to rotation option
  • Bonus points: replace Doherty with young RB with potential to supplant Aurier
you need to sell an existing overseas trained player to be able to buy each new player. Who ?

In practice if we want to upgrade a player such as Sissoko, Aurier etc, the answer is likely to be to sell the player being upgraded (ie sell Sissoko, Aurier etc).

Perhaps the exception maybe to sell Sanchez to bring in another CB to eventually replace Alderweireld - but given we need to sell an overseas trained player to create a space in the squad for Rodon it seems more likely that Sanchez sale will be to create the space for Rodon.

And for those wanting to sell Dele or upgrade Clarke - who are the HG players we want to buy as the pool of those is not large (although one of them might be Sessegnon if we consider him to be a good enough LB/LWB for Spurs).

And will Bale be good enough to be retained next season ? Jury out atm for me, If Bale goes we may need to keep Winks to keep our player numbers up.

We also need to bring in a goal scoring AM, as otherwise we are too reliant on Kane/Son

By no means impossible, but could be tricky to achieve in one summer.
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I find it really frustrating that Dier, Davies and Rodon are not home based players.

I know they are the rules but it's very annoying when one plays for the ENGLISH national team. The other 2 have played for clubs that play in the ENGLISH football system.
 
bus-conductor said:
Who's protecting all the other RB's in Europe ? Whoever it is, let's just get one of them.

Have we got the slowest RB in Europe combined with the most swashbuckling footballing philosophy?

Reguilon probably needs more arse covering than Aurier and a pretty limited player in Hojbjerg is doing it better over that side and managing to press more, tackle more play a modicum of football too.

What is this "only Sissoko can shuffle between RB and CB in a bus park" bollocks?

Here's an idea, we get a player who can run, press and play football and he'll still be able to do the 5 yard circular shuffle when we play ManC and Liverpool, but he'll also be some use the other 36 games too, unlike Sissoko.
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Who do you suggest?

I can't imagine anyone good will be available in January.
I know you like Kessie.
 
Love Josh Dasilva at Brentford, hope we take a look at him. Reminds me of Dembele/Ndombele, been overpowering Championship midfields this year.

Dasilva and Sabitzer in, Winks and Dele is out is my dream.
 
Swoos said:
Dele to PSG and Sabitzer in as his replacement?
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In all seriousness though, we'd need to be careful of our foreign player number doing a move like that. Gazzaniga out perhaps?

Merry Christmas everyone.
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Swoos said:
Dele to PSG and Sabitzer in as his replacement?
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Providing we can sell an overseas trained player currently in our EL squad - Lamela or Moura probably the most obvious if Mourhino sees him as an AM, although if Mourhino sees him being played as a CM, Sissoko is the obvious one to move on.

Wonfer what fee Leipzig want - suspect we want it to be less than say £25m
 
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