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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024

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KaneIsAble said:

View: https://twitter.com/TheSpursExpress/status/1740139258579398680

Not the first manager to say it, baldy has never relented on his bullshit. I'll be shocked if we have someone through the door in time for Burnley.

Will probably be like Porro all over again, where we huff and puff, and ultimately pay the asking price late in the window.

Actually he did it to Ange already with VDV, took it to the last few days of the window, and he ended up playing the first game of the season without having played any of the pre-season games.
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Reading between the lines and going on our past history, he’s been told we aren’t getting one in early. Surely nobody truly believes we will? Just don’t do it to yourselves.
 
Pathfinder said:
Man City have used Ake & Gvardiol as LBs & CBs. Stone has at times played RB, CB & DM. Rico Lewes' played RB & CM. Rodi's played CB and DM.
Alvarez has played as LWF, CF and OM.
Liverpool have also shuffled a bit in their defense. Out of necessity.
No, it's not ideal but at times one does not have a choice.
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Makes sense. Let’s go get Dragusin then - According to Transfermarkt, he can play left and right at both Centerback and Full/Wingback. Being a backup at 4 positions in our injury prone squad should mean plenty of game time. Love the versatility.


Todibo can only play central defender but - wants assurances of gametime because he wants to be on the France team for the Euros and has/had an attitude problem perhaps. I think Todibo is more talented at this point but I’’m terrified of Frenchmen with potential attitude issues after Tanguy.

Maybe he’s changed but worth the risk?

 
Zest said:
Think that it’s good nowadays to halve the transfer fee, mentally.

Todays £15m was a £7.5m player just 2-3years ago, type deal.

Not seen him enough to have any opinion, but he’s hitting great numbers and if the data/Ange team think he can tide us over for 18months (say) until Scarlett/Veliz/Par show more clearly if they can step in, no big risk at all.

Bundesliga is much closer to the prem than South American Football, and Veliz has looked way too green so far. Just see him as a potentially ideal buffer signing, who might just surprise us, and can save Son/Richarlisons legs if capable of coming on from 60minutes here and there.

Plus it may allow a chunk spent of a high quality CB and CM (though I suspect we only have money for a CB and the rest will rely on sales of Hojbjerg etc).
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Buffer signings are a great way to clog your squad with players you can’t shift because they are on prem wages that nobody else want s to pay them.


Next thing you are hearing that we can’t sign a new forward until you have shifted them off the wage bill.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Reading between the lines and going on our past history, he’s been told we aren’t getting one in early. Surely nobody truly believes we will? Just don’t do it to yourselves.
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I actually think the bald cunt genuinely enjoys the last minute deals. Sort of like Redknapp loved the transfer deadline day. I think he actually looks forward to it. Probably stays up late swapping stories with his business buddies like kids talking about a new toy.

:levylol:
 
sudoku said:
thehardtackle.com

Tottenham eyeing up a move for Joe Gomez

Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly interested in signing Liverpool defender Joe Gomez, but the Reds' are believed to not be keen to sell the player.
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Gomez, whose current contract is set to expire in June 2027, is considering a move away from Anfield in search of more prominence. However, Liverpool are not ready to offload their utility defender midway through the season.

Many fans and pundits alike downplayed Gomez after his struggles last season, believing his injury struggles have taken a toll. However, the 26-year-old centre-back has been a key asset of Liverpool’s squad this season, and Jurgen Klopp has deployed him in both right-back and left-back roles in several games.

With left-back duo Andy Robertson and Kostas Tsimikas both injured, Liverpool have to keep Gomez fit and available until the other left-backs return from their injuries.

With Joel Matip also out injured and his long-term future hanging in the balance, Liverpool are now unlikely to let a player with that kind of flexibility leave the club. Tottenham will have to turn their radar elsewhere, with Liverpool set to rebuff their intentions to entice Gomez away from Anfield.
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Joe Gomez?

Yeah OK football journos
 
Pathfinder said:
Man City have used Ake & Gvardiol as LBs & CBs. Stone has at times played RB, CB & DM. Rico Lewes' played RB & CM. Rodi's played CB and DM.
Alvarez has played as LWF, CF and OM.
Liverpool have also shuffled a bit in their defense. Out of necessity.
No, it's not ideal but at times one does not have a choice.
I do agree with you about selling Romero, though. Yes, he's one of the best CB in the world (when he plays), so if Real M. are interested in him (as has been rumoured) and came in with a £80m bid and if Spurs had a player - like Antonio Silva or de Ligt - already lined up I'd be tempted to sell him.
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Bless, you must have spent ages making no valid argument.

I said no title winning team has had to use other players as CB's

Your first line shows 2 CB's being used away from CB
Your 2nd line shows 1 player being played (sort of) out of position as a CB, not all of them.
Your 3rd line shows an attacker playing different attacking positions (nothing to do with defense at all)
Your 4th line shows vague references to a team who have won 1 title in 34 years shuffling a bit, where we know they didn't shuffle and had 1 or 2 of the best CB's available all season in that 1 title winning seasons.
A title winning team is built on a solid defense that plays most games. CB's playing CB as regularly as possible is critical. You can wing it occasionally with 1 out, but not both, for sustained periods of time.
I said it under both Mourinho and Conte, having a weak defense upsets the whole team as the forward players need confidence in the players behind them.
 
KaneIsAble said:

View: https://twitter.com/TheSpursExpress/status/1740139258579398680

Not the first manager to say it, baldy has never relented on his bullshit. I'll be shocked if we have someone through the door in time for Burnley.

Will probably be like Porro all over again, where we huff and puff, and ultimately pay the asking price late in the window.

Actually he did it to Ange already with VDV, took it to the last few days of the window, and he ended up playing the first game of the season without having played any of the pre-season games.
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Wait till February when Ange says he is happy after getting his cb on 28th January and the observations made in the Levy/Enic thread that:

"Ange said he was happy, levys not done anything wrong"
 
KaneIsAble said:
So if Levy doesn't consistently back off when the price gets high, why is our record transfer so far below the rest of the big six, including chavs and arse who have had a similar or even lower revenue than us for several years? We're clearly choosing not to compete for players being sold at a certain price point.

Scum were supposedly in competition with City for Rice, and they ponied up the £100m required for the transfer. Do you see us paying such a large sum? The last time we did something like that for Ndombele, and it was only about £50m.
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The ironic thing is is that we have actually shown that we can operate at that level of the market. In 2019 we signed Ndombele early having beaten off competition from big clubs, namely Juventus and Real Madrid who were very strongly linked.

Our move (although ultimately failed) for Dybala also proved that we can go for those calibre of players.

Now, obviously, it can be argued Levy was pushed into acting like that in the Summer 2019 due the horrendous state of disrepair the squad had descended into, and the Champions League final just exacerbated the fans calls for investment to a level even he couldn’t ignore.
As we all knew deep down though, it was far too little, far too late.

Its almost as if that window has made Levy shit the togs the a level where he refuses to even contemplate operating at that end of the market again, instead reverting to his “safe” bare minimum approach.
 
KaneIsAble said:

View: https://twitter.com/TheSpursExpress/status/1740139258579398680

Not the first manager to say it, baldy has never relented on his bullshit. I'll be shocked if we have someone through the door in time for Burnley.

Will probably be like Porro all over again, where we huff and puff, and ultimately pay the asking price late in the window.

Actually he did it to Ange already with VDV, took it to the last few days of the window, and he ended up playing the first game of the season without having played any of the pre-season games.
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Ange: "I'm hopeful it will be much earlier than the end of the window before we bring someone in."

Levy, eager to please, puts a red circle around January 30th on his calendar.
 
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