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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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Airfixx said:
That isn't lost on me...... But it was still little more than a punt of an idea and the underlying point remains:

"We should only buy players from first XIs" is a myopic, superficial philosophy.......


(If you were to stop and think about it, I bet there's dozens of players that have been bench-riding at times for numerous reasons over the last 18 months that you or I would gladly sign; regardless of if they were on some fantasy list we'd concocted on NYEve.)
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There's 3 broad reasons why we could try and sign a player who is not getting into his team's first XI:

a) His competition for places is genuinely world class- ie Ferran Torres at City was competing with great wingers.
b) He's had a bust up with the manager. Potential attitude issues aside, player could still have sufficient quality and thus be suitable for us.
c) Formation means positional problem at current club that wouldn't apply at Spurs. ie a RB being benched because he's too attacking may still be suitable as a RWB at Spurs.

I don't think any of these reasons apply to Kulu.
 
So from really really wanting Diaz for around 50M pounds we go for a player we pay 1M for a loan? It’s like being a couple pounds away from buying a Mercedes and ending up buying a 1990 Fiat Uno

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Igula said:
Guimaraes, Countinho, Wood, Trippier, Gosens, Digne are all players that have moved that while not ideal improve on the players we have and add skills that we are sorely missing. They are also better than the players we are currently linked with

Bentacur, Dembele, McKennie, Kessie, Carlos are a few guys rumoured to be available at some point that we are also improvements on what we have and are linked with now.

Torres. Diaz. Vlahovic, Traore players that moved but may have been out of our league (LOL) thanks to our illustrious chairman.

The idea that with how awful our squad is starting 11 and bench and how many holes we have in terms of positions, players and skill sets that there aren't players available that we could bring in is ridiculous.

We still have no back-up striker. You are going to say there are zero players available to fill that role?

We have maybe 1 competent MFer who is 21 and in his first PL season. No MFers available to help us?

We have zero creativity in the side at all, no creative players out there?

We have nobody to take a set piece or corner, nobody out there to help with that?

Nobody able to score goals outside Kane and Son, again no help in that area?
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You really think so.
 
To Dare Is To Do. said:
Igula Igula think you'll agree with me on this one.
But I'd prefer one quality new player over 2-3 mediocre additions to our squad depth.
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100%

I have said we need help all over the squad but guys like Kulusevski and Amrabat don't provide help in areas we need.

I might be ok with 2-3 depth pieces if they made sense, still prefer the top player, but these guys don't even make sense which is even more frustrating.
 
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