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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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LOL I bet you didn't and you'll still tag him in every second post of yours
This is not a dig at Arcspace or you or anyone else, but I do wonder sometimes if the 'ignore' functionality actually exists. There's not a day go by without someone replying to someone they've recently claimed to have just put on ignore. Does anyone really actually ever press the button? Do we even know if it works? Or did Admin just put it there as a joke knowing that people would only threaten to use it, but never actually go through with it because despite all the arguing, none of us can actually bare to not know what 'the enemy' is currently saying (possibly about us)?

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No and then Yes.

Tanganga is a kid who needs a leader beside him and I think he's being thrown under the bus at the moment. I don't think Conte would have picked him last night if he didn't believe.
I think last night selection was Conte sending a message to the board.

I like Tanganga, but he needs a loan or some one on one training. In the last 3 games he'd been at fault for goals. He's young, and I respect he needs someone next to him to speak with him (like Dier had with Toby and Jan) but he still needs to cut out the mistakes.

Overall I don't think he's the level required for Spurs. We need a new centre back on top of Romero being made permanent as well as a new RWB this summer.
 
Not sure why you dived in here to be honest, been known to do similar mind you

Lighten up, mate(*).... I'm not giving you a hard time am I?

You asked a question.... It didn't seem to be of a closed nature...... I answered.



(*You keep claiming the contrary, but you're regularly prickly with me..... The flipside being that you are happy to have the occaisonal dig at me; but I don't bite back...... )
 
I think last night selection was Conte sending a message to the board.

I like Tanganga, but he needs a loan or some one on one training. In the last 3 games he'd been at fault for goals. He's young, and I respect he needs someone next to him to speak with him (like Dier had with Toby and Jan) but he still needs to cut out the mistakes.

Overall I don't think he's the level required for Spurs. We need a new centre back on top of Romero being made permanent as well as a new RWB this summer.
Broadly agree but let's not get into the "we need a team full of experienced professionals" or the 50M quid for Ben White camp.

He is not at the level we need. Yet. But he never will be if he doesn't play and like the rest of us, make mistakes.

There are so many other problems in front of the back four that need to be addressed.
 
How does a side like Villa sign Coutinho and Digne and we've done absolutely nothing of any note yet despite being desperate for players in just about every area of the pitch? It's an absolute farce. The fact that some are desperate for 100m sprinter Adama Traore only shows what an absolute shambles we are.
 
Think this is our current squad. Looks like we could potentially add 3 players and not be in the shitter, but since we are no longer in Europe; it doesn't make sense to have such a huge squad.

Association trained: Davies, Doherty, Rodon, Austin, Dele
Club trained: Kane, Winks, Tanganga, Whiteman

Foreign: Royal, Bergwijn, Dier, Højbjerg, Lloris, Lo Celso, Moura, Ndombele, Reguilón, Sánchez, Son Heung-min, Romero, Golini

U21: excluded from squad count (Gil, Skipp, Clarke, Sessegnon)

Total : 22 (up to 25)
HOMEGROWN : 9 (min 8)
FOREIGN : 13 (max 17)
EPL squad is 21 with 4 "spare" non-HG slots which in theory we could fill because we are not in Europe.
Planning for Europe 2022-23 means IMO one or maybe both of Doc and Rodon will leave before next season.
NON-HG (13) EPLNON-HG (17) EUROPE
1LLORISLLORIS1
2GOLLINIGOLLINI2
3ROYALROYAL3
4ROMEROROMERO4
5DIERDIER5
6SANCHEZSANCHEZ6
7REGUILONREGUILON7
8HOJBJERGHOJBJERG8
9NDOMBELENDOMBELE9
10LO CELSOLO CELSO10
11BERGWIJNBERGWIJN11
12MOURAMOURA12
13SONSON13
GIL14
DOHERTY15
DAVIES16
RODON17
HG (8)ASSOCIATION (4)
1DOHERTY
2DAVIES
3RODON
4ALLIALLI1
SESSEGNON2
CLARKE3
OMOLE4
CLUB TRAINED (4)
5AUSTINAUSTIN1
6WINKSWINKS2
7KANEKANE3
8TANGANGATANGANGA4
SQUAD TOTAL: 21SQUAD TOTAL: 25
SELECTEDSELECTED
U 21U 21
SESSEGNON
GIL
DEVINE
CLARKE
PASKOTSKI
LAVINIER
SARR
SKIPPSKIPP
SCARLETTSCARLETT
JOHNJOHN
WHITEWHITE
MARKANDAYMARKANDAY
CESAYCESAY
WALCOTTWALCOTT
BLFBLF
MATT CRAIGMATT CRAIG
MIKE CRAIGMIKE CRAIG
MUNDLEMUNDLE
 
Think this is our current squad. Looks like we could potentially add 3 players and not be in the shitter, but since we are no longer in Europe; it doesn't make sense to have such a huge squad.

Association trained: Davies, Doherty, Rodon, Austin, Dele
Club trained: Kane, Winks, Tanganga, Whiteman

Foreign: Royal, Bergwijn, Dier, Højbjerg, Lloris, Lo Celso, Moura, Ndombele, Reguilón, Sánchez, Son Heung-min, Romero, Golini

U21: excluded from squad count (Gil, Skipp, Clarke, Sessegnon)

Total : 22 (up to 25)
HOMEGROWN : 9 (min 8)
FOREIGN : 13 (max 17)

Its a shambles from top to bottom.

Our club trained players are piss poor and cant be sold because we dont have any to replace
Similar story with England trained players. We dont buy PL proven cos its too expenisve
We have too many foreign players and need to shift some to buy new ones.

The club wont shift deadwood
They wont pay wages and fees for good players

We are literally fucked in every direction
 
How much longer are some of you guys on here gonna defend these parasites getting fat off our great football club while the team continues to stagnate?

https://londonnewstime.com/tottenham-hotspur-high-road-plans-for-72-units-approved/646894/
How much longer are you gonna keep posting your "How much longer posts"?
There's an anti-Levy thread. Please go there and remain there. You literally post about nothing else.
How much longer are you and the other arsewipe lackeys gonna keep spamming this thread?
 
I think it is plain to see that the squad needs an overhaul. I also think it is at least naive and at worst completely delusional to think this window will provide us with an opportunity to do it. Those of you who think, in the 13 days previous, we could have signed and bedded in players who would’ve made any difference to the Chelsea result/s are a bit thick.

I look back at the quote from Poch in 2015 when he said something to the affect of “we are ahead of our expected progress” and really see it as a watermark moment that has since skewed a broad perception of trajectory, achievement and acceptable performance across the whole spectrum of those involved with the club. From those that run it, to those that support it. Realistically, the needles on the gauge of the ownership are moving back more conservatively and that of the (wider) supporter base are pushing more ambitiously… which is as understandable as it is infuriating.

I will say that I have largely been of the opinion that ENICs ownership has been more beneficial than not. I have lamented many decisions and fumed over the lack of others… but If you objectively view the “growth” of the club over the period… I still feel that way and there is little you can say to sway my opinion. Many a fan of other clubs would say the same, which I am equally happy to “poo-poo” but the fact remains that, with all of their faults, we have progressed. The grass is always greener… and we could have easily ended up with a piss stained paddock of dry chaff, trying to stay mid-table.

That said, I must that my patience is wearing thin. Bargain signings, inexcusable holes in the squad, merry-go-round managerial appointments and a lack of awareness have us very quickly on the precipice of riot. In the appointment of Conte, Levy has afforded himself a very brief moment of something resembling grace to correct our trajectory and rejoin the path Poch set us on…. But it needs to be done.

2-3 signings would be great (honestly think it will be 1-2, and also don’t rate Adama at all) but think the blade should fall at the end of the Summer window, and then only.
taking emotion from individual games out of the equation that's not far from my own stance. My main fear now is Conte walking, I was resigned to the fact this season was going to be difficult as soon as Nuno arrived. We've lucked out with our manager but my fears on our scouting and the 'Don' still remain...
 
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