Solanke who is injured and has not been especially prolific, Richarlison who is injury prone and erratic, Scarlett who is inexperienced and totally unproven, Son who is useless as a central striker, Tel who has not yet become a regular scorer. We need a top scorer .
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Transfers Rate the January Transfer Window 2025
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Rich and Tel will share mins, means Rich can rest and isn't such a risk of going down injured now he won't play as much.
Solanke is fit in 3 weeks and good luck finding a striker more prolific than him to cover for 6 months and also going by your parameters a player who is experienced and proven in this league.
The only players you can be thinking of that we should have got is the likes of Isak, Haaland and Watkins lol
Apology accepted. You misunderstood (overthought) my point.
Sorry but no, that's pretty much the opposite of what it is. If he performs really well and likes it here then we just keep him, and there's nothing Bayern can do about it, that's the point. So far from being a bandaid, it's a permanent solution already in the bag if we want that, but with money-back-guarantee if in 3 months we don't want it.
What if Tel does well but gets offered more by Chelsea, United, City, Liverpool, Woolwich or anyone else?Sorry but no, that's pretty much the opposite of what it is. If he performs really well and likes it here then we just keep him, and there's nothing Bayern can do about it, that's the point. So far from being a bandaid, it's a permanent solution already in the bag if we want that, but with money-back-guarantee if in 3 months we don't want it.
I suppose Levy will sell a few more tickets, between now and the end of the season, than if he had done nothing but; apart from that; this deal looks a bit lame to me.
We've signed a player on loan who has already told us he doesn't want to play for Spurs.
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Nah mate; he means those other proven prolific EPL strikers......... You know the ones.... Thingy and N'Wotsit.....
Very disappointed we did not get outfield players in earlier. However we are still in all cup competitions and at best we may a have a few more PL points. We did get Kinsky early and he looks ok. We would not have got Tel any earlier and I do not think Danso was first choice. The 2nd CB was not triggered until they knew Dragusin was out for the season. Villa & City did better but others including MU & Woolwich worse.
Overall whilst difficult to know how good the 2 outfielders are about a 7. It looks to me that Levy has backed Ange and unless it gets worse then I think he is here for the season.
Overall whilst difficult to know how good the 2 outfielders are about a 7. It looks to me that Levy has backed Ange and unless it gets worse then I think he is here for the season.
Why as cover, we need someone to actually replace Richy. Most fans don’t rate him anyway. So how have we ,what, 5 or 6; strikers who are actually top players?
In 3 weeks we could be out of the FA Cup amd the Carabao cup.
Mason can concentrate on keeping Spurs in the Premier League until Dyche arrives in the summer.
We could be out in both by the end of Sunday night
There's no guarantee mah dude - unlike most people, I don't presume or assume an unknown with certainty that's what got Manchester United fans knickers in a twist about this transfer...until it's a done deal for now it is a bandaid...Sorry but no, that's pretty much the opposite of what it is. If he performs really well and likes it here then we just keep him, and there's nothing Bayern can do about it, that's the point. So far from being a bandaid, it's a permanent solution already in the bag if we want that, but with money-back-guarantee if in 3 months we don't want it.
I remember a similar loan that sounds like Bimo Churner...
I'm happy with this transfer window. We can't forget we're in the middle of a rebuild. We made some good signings for the future and they can also do us a job now.
Like who?
So then it begs the question why would you want 5 strikers at the club playing 2 competitions?
Hard to compare us to other clubs on this occasion due to the length of our injury list
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Worth looking at how some of our rivals fared in the window - ManU despite being a far richer club than Spurs only got one defender in and lost several attackers so arguably ended with a weaker squad than the started the window with. And their squad is weaker than Spurs if neither club has injuries.
And looking at all other PL clubs, fully half seem not to have signed anyone else, including Newcastle, Woolwich and Chelsea . Arguably the only club to have signed more decent players than Spurs is ManCityThe Winter Football Transfer Window 2024-25 Latest News | Premier League
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Spurs signed 3 first teamers in Kinsky, Tel, and Danso (without counting Yang who could only be registered at Spurs this window) plus also 3 x 18 year olds in who will play in our u21's - one or two of whom may well train with first team in the short term and might even make our bench and next preseason.
Kinsky looks to be as good or better than most PL GK's so we are no longer dependent on Vicario, Danso looks a dependable CB with the benefit of HG in PL whilst Tel is one of the highest regarded young players in europe, so getting him through the door is an impressive feat : he may turn out to be 'average' or might go back to his 23/24 form where he was very special.
I suspect it maybe Spurs biggest and best January transfer window since Harry Redknapp bought 5 first team players (including Defoe and Keane) in January 2009 following Juande Ramos disastrous start to the season, with only the more recent January window bringing in Bentancur and Kulusevski coming anywhere close.
So with the players brought in .... for me it’s a definite 7 and if Tel reverts to his 23/24 form it could be a 9 (a mark I've never given to any window)
Good question, god knows - but loans to buy are not uncommon, so there must be some way of mitigating that risk.
Indeed - so all the more reason to say that a loan with option to buy is better than getting him on a permanent deal now, then finding out that isn't gonna change and we're stuck with an unhappy player for 5 years...
But that's exactly the point - if he turns out to be a dud, we don't have to keep him, same as Werner! Obviously none of us wanted Werner's loan to be extended, but would you rather have had him on a 5-year permanent deal? :/
Of course if you mean he's a bandaid because he's unproven in the PL, well that's true of loads of transfers, loans or otherwise, so not really relevant to the conversation I was having earlier.