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Transfers January 2023 Transfer Thread. The Big One

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I'm all for signing young and promising players but we're just appalling at developing them. Put Gil, Sarr, Spence in that Brighton/Brentford squad and I can guarantee you we'd have people frothing at the mouth, and clubs throwing silly money at them.
 



Gil loan to Seville confirmed

Hmm in reality he is now the 6th choice attacker with Lucas fit again. He was never going to play.

If he can go to Sevilla and play most weeks and have a strong second half to the season it helps us.

It either boosts his pedigree in Europe and we can recoup the money we spent or he comes back next season and takes Lucas' squad place.

I would not be surprised if this has some connection to the Zainolo stuff...
 
2 years time, ex Spurs coach Antonio Conte, having just won the trebble with Althelico Bilboa, says "I could have had this Hinchliff kid from Moenchengladbach, but Levy would only pay £7m, and they wanted an outrageous £12m"

"So I got the sack"
"And now that kid is worth £75m and going to Arsnil"
2 things made me laugh:
1) Conte going to a club that are essentially not allowed to do transfers
2) that spelling of Athletic Bilbao is fucking glorious :harrylol:
 
Hmm in reality he is now the 6th choice attacker with Lucas fit again. He was never going to play.

If he can go to Sevilla and play most weeks and have a strong second half to the season it helps us.

It either boosts his pedigree in Europe and we can recoup the money we spent or he comes back next season and takes Lucas' squad place.

I would not be surprised if this has some connection to the Zainolo stuff...
I get what you're saying but he shouldn't be behind Lucas to be honest, the kid has bags more talent. A manager that proactively uses the 5 subs per game would also go a long way in keeping him at Spurs and developing him in the EPL. There's really no reason why him and Deki couldn't have alternating starts, subs earlier in the game.
 
I get what you're saying but he shouldn't be behind Lucas to be honest, the kid has bags more talent. A manager that proactively uses the 5 subs per game would also go a long way in keeping him at Spurs and developing him in the EPL. There's really no reason why him and Deki couldn't have alternating starts, subs earlier in the game.
There is at least one reason: Deki is levels above him.
 
I get what you're saying but he shouldn't be behind Lucas to be honest, the kid has bags more talent. A manager that proactively uses the 5 subs per game would also go a long way in keeping him at Spurs and developing him in the EPL. There's really no reason why him and Deki couldn't have alternating starts, subs earlier in the game.
I think people are getting a bit ahead of themselves based on a good game vs Palace. Don't get me wrong I rate his skills and want to see him develop but he needs consistent minutes to work the deficiencies out of his game and going to a good side in Spain is a better chance for him to do that than getting the shit kicked out of him in the champo for instance or sitting on the bench here every game hoping for the odd 15 minute cameo. He really needs to go and shine on one of these loans, force whoever the manager is in the summer to look at him as a real squad depth option as opposed to "emergency cover".
 
Very fond of Gil, but Conte isn't the coach to develop him right now and he's better off elsewhere. Talented lad, not sure what we should do with him, probably depends on the next coach. "Needs PL football" is a tired point. (Not that anybody here is making it, seen it on social media.)
 


I find this absolutely staggering. I know he's just a raw kid who's a long way from reliable but we are so bereft of creativity in the first team, and the bench is even worse, and we are happy to pack off possibly the best bench creative option we have - which tells you how fucking shit our creative options are. The kid also works harder off the ball than all our other forwards.

If we were bringing in a quality option who plays where he does I could maybe understand. But we aren't and there's loads of football still to be played, who plays WRF if Kulusevski gets another injury or if we need to bring someone off the bench who can do something different to all the other bumblers?
 
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