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Management Preparing for the Championship - What will our squad look like?

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Hopefully a few senior players will stay (but I doubt it). Danso, Kulusevski and Maddison, Davies will find his level (but will add a lot of experience). Lankshear could have a breakout season with a devent creative 2 AMs behind him. Vuskovic, Gray and Bergvall will have to suck up the fact we've invested too much in them to let them leave.


Kinsky / Austin
Byfield -- Danso -- Vuskovic -- Davies
Gray -- Bergvall
Kulusevski -- Maddison (capt) -- Moore
Lankshear

Subs: Austin, Abbott, Donley, Devine, etc.​
 
---------------Kinsky------------------
Spence-Danso-Vuskovic-Souza
----------------Gray-------------------
--------Bergvall---Maddison-------
Kudus-------------------------Moore
-------------Lankshear---------------

Austin, Dorrington, Hall, Phillips, Davies, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Williams-Barnett, Yang, Odobert, Richarlison
 
McFlash said:
Yeah, the last thing we need to be doing is selling off our prospects right now.
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Obviously he'd be integrated into the first team if we go down, but the reality is that Lankshear profiles as a bottom half Brexit Ball-type striker, and if we can be paid serious money for him right now, that can be reinvested into players that befit a more possession-based front foot style.

He is the kind of player Chelsea and City are constantly getting 25M for and we go "who the fuck is that?" and start imagining shady Saudi conspiracies.
 
Don't see Kudus, Spence, Bergvall or Bentancur staying. They'll all have clubs after them and seeing as we owe 300mil in unpaid transfer fees we'll be selling the players who don't fancy the championship. I don't think any of them will.
 
JimothyCF14 said:
Bergvall isn't staying. Absolutely no chance at all sorry.
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A 20 year old who renewed his contract until 2031 last year... sorry to say that it's not up to him. He's not even eligible to buy out the rest of his contract, having been here only two years.

I'd be selling the shit players before the decent/promising ones... and he's one of the half dozen who fit the latter. There would have to be a massive bid for the club to consider it.
 
Slav said:
A 20 year old who renewed his contract until 2031 last year... sorry to say that it's not up to him. He's not even eligible to buy out the rest of his contract, having been here only two years.

I'd be selling the shit players before the decent/promising ones... and he's one of the half dozen who fit the latter. There would have to be a massive bid for the club to consider it.
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Yeah half the reason we copied the Chelsea model and started signing so young was because it means you have much more control over the players' futures.

You might pay a higher initial fee up front for someone like Gray but he'll start on much lower wages than a peak-age 30-40m signing and you can get them on a longer deal as they want to secure their future. Since they're young, on long deals and don't cost much to keep they have much less leverage to force a move and you can strongarm them into signing a new deal to up their wages after a few years. And at that age they're also usually just hungry to play and improve anyway.

Bergvall, along with Gray and Vuskovic, are exactly the types of players we should be forcing to stay and building the next iteration of Spurs around. If we sell all our best experienced players and all of our talented youngsters then we're well and truly fucked.

The club will need to drum up some cash through sales (Romero, VdV, Porro, etc) but if they have any sense they'll keep a core of talented players to actually get us promoted and succeed in the PL in the future.
 
FightingIllini said:
Obviously he'd be integrated into the first team if we go down, but the reality is that Lankshear profiles as a bottom half Brexit Ball-type striker, and if we can be paid serious money for him right now, that can be reinvested into players that befit a more possession-based front foot style.

He is the kind of player Chelsea and City are constantly getting 25M for and we go "who the fuck is that?" and start imagining shady Saudi conspiracies.
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Thing is, would we get serious money for him from the teams linked? Wrexham's record transfer fee is 7.5m and I doubt we'd get much more than that from Middlesbrough. Is it worth rushing him out the door for that kind of money?

Personally I reckon he'd be a useful 2nd/3rd choice striker option if we go down. He's limited technically but he's an absolute unit and a menace at that level. Plus it would be good to integrate some of our promising youngsters on loan into the side if we go down. Would love to see Moore, Devine, Lankshear get proper minutes, as well as easing in Byfield & LWB.

Can always sell him a year later for similar money if he's not good enough, or maybe his value shoots up if he bangs them in for us - he's feeding off scraps playing for Oxford.
 
Leviathan said:
Does Levy still attend the games? Was he there tonight?
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Nope

Tomo said:

View: https://x.com/chriscowlin/status/2031073684060819699?s=46&t=Gc6HrWVZT0mtSXU7r8ZBIQ

Two well run clubs right now. Keep this kid
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Boro & Wrexham eh? But is he ready for the Premier League? Hes better off staying with us

end of school crying GIF
 
Well, I hope the club prepares for the nightmare scenario, several talks must be hold to see who we can convince to stay on board and for once start a promising project with Pochettino on the helmet.

Obviously we don't know the players intentions but on first thoughts:

GK: Kinsky, Austin + New goalkeeper
--> Don't know about solid options in the championship. If we stay up, maybe look at someone like Noah Atubolu of Freiburg. He has his sights on english football and is a good promising lad. Huge improvement in the last two years.

RB: Spence, new player
--> Not so sure about Spence, Porro will be off. A new player who can deal with the intensity of the championship and has a good mentality is needed.

CB: Vuskovic, Danso, Takai, Phillips, Davies, Byfield
--> Keep Vuskovic at any cost, also try to keep Danso and give him an important role in this project. If he is off, get another experienced CB in.

LB: Souza, new player
--> Same as at RB. Get another LB who can deal with the intensity and is up for a promotion fight.

CM: Gray, Bergvall/ Gallagher, Devine, Maddison, Donley, Abbott, Williams-Barnett, new player, new player2
--> Try to keep one out of Gallagher and Bergvall, best case both. Get two experienced players in. They should be able to do some good build up play and also are fine with the intensity of the league. 9 players for 3 positions, but probably needed with a few being more flexible.

Wingers: Odobert, Solomon, Moore, new player, new player2, new player3
--> Need a whole new group of players here, who can breakt through low blocks and score goals. Maybe Kulusevski can be one of the three.

ST: Richarlison, Lankshear, Scarlett, new player
--> Add an experienced goal scorer if Richarlison is injured. If Richy is not up for the challenge get two new strikers in.


I hope we don't see how we really line up in the championship, time will tell now...
 
Timberwolf said:
Thing is, would we get serious money for him from the teams linked? Wrexham's record transfer fee is 7.5m and I doubt we'd get much more than that from Middlesbrough. Is it worth rushing him out the door for that kind of money?

Personally I reckon he'd be a useful 2nd/3rd choice striker option if we go down. He's limited technically but he's an absolute unit and a menace at that level. Plus it would be good to integrate some of our promising youngsters on loan into the side if we go down. Would love to see Moore, Devine, Lankshear get proper minutes, as well as easing in Byfield & LWB.

Can always sell him a year later for similar money if he's not good enough, or maybe his value shoots up if he bangs them in for us - he's feeding off scraps playing for Oxford.
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Those clubs might have prem lge money so we’ll take 15m
 
Timberwolf said:
Thing is, would we get serious money for him from the teams linked? Wrexham's record transfer fee is 7.5m and I doubt we'd get much more than that from Middlesbrough. Is it worth rushing him out the door for that kind of money?
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No, it isn't. But if Wrexham or Boro go up, then they have real money to spend.

Develop surplus young talent, send them on loan, have them succeed on loan, sell for good money, hold if good money doesn't arrive. That's the basic strategy.
 
Say we do go down, we know what ENIC will serve up...which is certainly not the strongest side in the Champo. They'll do the bare minimum again and more than that, they’ll get all the big decisions wrong again.
 
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