Think Olise got bought by Palace fella.....
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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window
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I'm sure you can rattle off some random names; but how many address our distinct positional needs?
If we're building a squad then we need to know they can contribute too. It's no good having a young chanpo bench as a few injuries in the wrong place and/or some good cup runs and we're stretched to hell.
+ Kessie or Brosavic
+ Vhalovic
+ CB (also non-HG)
- Dele
- Winks
= -5 x HG net...... It's an issue.
Doherty, Rodon & Kane also potentially out increases the issue further.
Think Olise got bought by Palace fella.....
Completely forgot about that transfer!!! Haven't kept up with le championship enough this season. But anyhow, those sort of signings would be solid, much in the way we hoovered up Alli. Harder for the scouts to get it right at that level though.
A young champo bench>Winks, Alli, Doherty etc. All day long.
And anyhow, it wouldn't need to be our ENTIRE bench. We're never gonna have Cityesque depth, so look at Liverpool. Origi, Minamino etc are massive drop offs but they do a job in cup games and in emergencies. I mean even Nathan Phillips stepped in last season and did a job.
A few HG players plucked from the championship and then academy graduates should do the rest of the job. We could do with adding to our English core though, finding our own Henderson, Trent etc would be ideal.
Completely forgot about that transfer!!! Haven't kept up with le championship enough this season. But anyhow, those sort of signings would be solid, much in the way we hoovered up Alli. Harder for the scouts to get it right at that level though.
This is very much the clinch......
It's easy enough to name the guys like Grealish, Madison etc. that made the jump but successfully identifying them before all the vultures are circling is the trick.....
At the moment a first team spot for Palace, Brighton, Leeds or whoever trumps a spot in our B-team.... Get back in the top 4 again and the dynamic shifts again.
Is Tarkowski's contract still a doubt? If so, could be another worth going for as a relatively cheap deal. HG, PL experience etc ... kick out someone like Sanchez (or whoever doesn't step up under Conte) and replace him with someone of that type.
But yeah, we've seen with Woolwich that signing HG players can be very pricey. White, Ramsdale etc are good players but the prices attached to them are always inflated, and I wonder if Paratici may be reluctant to pay that premium.
Just on our HG issues, our current situation, based upon the UEFA squad rules) is :
Club trained : Austin (3rd GK), Tanganga, Winks, Kane - total 4
(plus Skipp as u21, needs to be registered next season)
Trained by other FA Affiliated Clubs - Dele, Sessegnon - total 2
So currently we are limited to a total of 23 players in our squad (plus Skipp as u21)
There are question marks over Winks and Dele leaving, not to mention Kane and Sessegnon has yet to show anything playing for Spurs,
So if 2 of these leave, we are down to a 23 man squad (including Skipp) next season, and if 3 leave down to a 22 man squad etc.
And I don't see any Academy players breaking through next season unless we are very lucky - too few loans to gain experience or time spent playing with Spurs first team either.
So we do have an HG problem, and there is no point buying a Dael Fry from Boro to 'make up the
numbers' either.........
The other way to avoid an HG problem is to sell a MAXIMUM of either zero or one HG player......so we can still have a 23 or 24 man squad.
Club trained : Austin (3rd GK), Tanganga, Winks, Kane - total 4
(plus Skipp as u21, needs to be registered next season)
Trained by other FA Affiliated Clubs - Dele, Sessegnon - total 2
So currently we are limited to a total of 23 players in our squad (plus Skipp as u21)
There are question marks over Winks and Dele leaving, not to mention Kane and Sessegnon has yet to show anything playing for Spurs,
So if 2 of these leave, we are down to a 23 man squad (including Skipp) next season, and if 3 leave down to a 22 man squad etc.
And I don't see any Academy players breaking through next season unless we are very lucky - too few loans to gain experience or time spent playing with Spurs first team either.
So we do have an HG problem, and there is no point buying a Dael Fry from Boro to 'make up the
numbers' either.........
The other way to avoid an HG problem is to sell a MAXIMUM of either zero or one HG player......so we can still have a 23 or 24 man squad.
Tarkowski is a good call if his contract ends in June 2022, ony thing against him is but at age 28 going onto 29 means we would probably want to offer a 3 year contract rather than 5 years
Many of them address our needs.
Brereton up front for Alli is an easy move. Guys like Kelly, Tarkowski, Hause all easy to get and are upgrades on foreign players like Dier and Sanchez.
Johnstone, Darlow, Foster 3 cheap options and no worse than Gollini as 2nd choice keeper.
Could look at older strikers as 4th choice guys if we bring in Vlahovic and are going two upfront.
Kessie is a free, so that's a no brainer. The real test will come when Levy has to pay big transfer fees.
Kessie transfer fee might be low because he’s close to doing a Bosaman but that means his personal rewards will be high in terms of sign on fee and wages, particularly if other big clubs are in for him also driving up the prices.
Conte's 3-5-2 also has a wing back scoring goals. At Chelsea it was Alonso, at Inter Milan it was Hakimi.
Furthermore regardless of manager, I don't want a team where only 2 players can score goals.
So what's the solution to this?
Vlahovic would be great, but as he can't be on the pitch along with Son & Kane, it's not enough.
I think we could try and a goalscorer who can play RW or AM, perhaps Raphinha or Goncalves. Alternatively, we get an attacking RWB such as Lamptey, Livramento, or Baku... which would mean our threats from both flanks at wing back would compensate for lack of traditional goalscorers.
Furthermore regardless of manager, I don't want a team where only 2 players can score goals.
So what's the solution to this?
Vlahovic would be great, but as he can't be on the pitch along with Son & Kane, it's not enough.
I think we could try and a goalscorer who can play RW or AM, perhaps Raphinha or Goncalves. Alternatively, we get an attacking RWB such as Lamptey, Livramento, or Baku... which would mean our threats from both flanks at wing back would compensate for lack of traditional goalscorers.
This Solbakken kid for Bodö looks a prospect.
Livramento would be incredible, but Chelsea have a buy back clause they can exercise for him.
Tanguy Ndombélé - Stats 19/20
Player stats of Tanguy Ndombélé (OGC Nizza) ➤ Goals ➤ Assists ➤ Matches played ➤ All performance datawww.transfermarkt.co.uk
Tanguy Ndombélé - Stats 20/21
Player stats of Tanguy Ndombélé (OGC Nizza) ➤ Goals ➤ Assists ➤ Matches played ➤ All performance data
I wish you would look at some statistics before posting. You will see from the attached link that Poch certainly started Ndombele consistently (having demanded Spurs most expensive player, he could hardly not do so) - but consistently Poch yanked him off during the 2nd half
In his first season he started 12 PL games and subbed on in 9 games, playing 1007 minutes (ave over 21 games is 48 mins/game) as he finished very few games.
In his 2nd season (20/21) he started 28 PL games and subbed on in 5 games for a total of 2106 minutes played (ave 64 mins played over 33 mins) as he rarely finished the games he started
No surprises that he has only finished ONE PL game this season.
Over the 2 + years he has been at Spurs he's played 90 mins on a PL match LESS than 10 times - no matter which manager he played under he lacks the basic fitness to play the PL games - and firget the cup games which might mean him playing mid week !
Nobody doubts his ability to play well - but he seems better on Youtube with a few minutes than over any length of time in a game - hence he's pulled off by every manager
And no surprise he is not in French squads either.
I repeat, we need Kessie or other creative CM in to paper over Ndombele's inability to play full games. And I'd be staggered if Ndombele can suddenly play 90 minutes a game under Conte after failing to do so in last 2 years. And if Ndombele cannot play 90 minutes once a week (when Conte really wants players to do 90 minutes at weekends and mid week....... Ndombele will be off when we get good replacements in
I didn't need to look at those sub stats because they don't contradict the point I was making, in some ways they support it. Being subbed by a bunch of managers, who all subsequently lost their jobs for being incompetent tosspots is hardly resounding proof of their stellar judgement or reflect his ability or even effort.
Like I said, I'm not blind to his weaknesses, but I think some of them have been exaggerated.
We bought a guy who excelled as an 8 in a CM3, and have barely used him in a similar set up since he's been here.
If he gets a run of games in a system like this, in an actual functioning team, and doesn't work out then fair do's. Time to move on.
Ndombele is taken off as he's not fit enough to complete a game.
Poch commented when Ndombele joined for a full pre-season he was overweight and unfit ... and despite his best efforts, he remained unfit to complete most games.
That is his weakness - inability to play for 90 minutes in PL
There have been games where he's needed to come off early on, when he was dealing with or managing injuries etc, but numerous games since where he was looking no less fit or capable of carrying on than others. Plenty of games where subbing him was fucking stupid, and managers that did it have ended up being sacked, so hardly vindicates their management choices.
You got a link to Pochettino calling him overweight ?
Strange he never really had this problem in France, or even in the Champions League for Lyon against teams like City and Barca.
Totally agree on tarkowski. How no one has snapped him up by now is mental. Solid solid defender does all the basics very very well.