I fear Skipp may push for another loan, preferring both Farke's style of football and his management. Mourinho's natural inclination would surely be plead with Levy to buy Vidal and pay him £300k a week. Mourinho can only pretend so long to be a champion of youth players by giving them a minute here and there in the league and the odd cup game. The reality soon becomes apparent. Skipp hauled off at HT at Burnley never to make another start in the league. Rodon now experiencing the same. He just doesn't have the ability to improve young players, he expects them to know what to do. In truth Skipp will not be a Mourinho type player until he's balding. If we are to persist with Mourinho it may be at the expense of players like Skipp.
I don't think Mourhino has much choice simply because Spurs need to make a lot of changes to the squad this summer - I could easily see arguments for up to half of them (say 10-12 players) being on people's lists to replace, so no chance we could :
- Identify and persuade that number of
quality players to join Spurs
- Afford that number of quality players
- Integrate that number into the squad.
Realistically we might hope for 4 - 6 quality recruits coming in plus Skipp and Sessegnon back from loan. Hopefully say 3 or 4 are immediately first team material
So still a couple of holes left in the squad (eg one CB in whereas Mourhino might like two) with those 6 - 8 players coming in the summer coming to fill maybe 10 holes.
So a player who knows Spurs and Mourhino (ie no integration, no cost and no issues around identifying them and getting to know them) on a plate for Mourhino...... .......... solves a lot of problems.
And given our 'overseas trained' player' problem, Skipp avoids that problem.
So Mourhino won't want to turn away a player given to him on a plate who's looked one of the best players in the Championship which these days is regarded as one of the top 6 leagues in europe - higher than the likes of Netherlands and Portugal for its combination of technique, intensity and that its highly competitive right from its top clubs to near to the bottom so no easy games..... not too different to PL other than PL is even more intense etc.