• The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

ElTel said:
Can he defend? Because that's the problem we have at right back.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

He's got the athleticism and speed to make up for any negatives in his defending, like Walker did.

If we sign him, I am not entirely sure it'd be to play him at right back in a back four but as someone who can potentially play in a 433 as a winger or in a 352 as a wing back.

Would be a smart signing either way.

If you haven't seen him, you should try watch a Nice game or find highlights of a random one and just watch it and keep an eye on him.

Here's a YouTube clip, but as you know, they just highlight his best tackles, speed and skills etc.

 
Sheeplover69 said:
We've lost more games this season than Wolves have. A team that was in the fucking Championship last season.

Levy needs to either pull his finger out of his arsehole this transfer window and back Pochettino or just admit to the fans that he isn't serious about us competing for silverware, let Poch move on to a club that'll back him and ship our best players off to a club that matches their ambition.

Dier, Wanyama, Aurier, Foyth, Janssen and Llorente are mid-table quality at absolute best and should be shipped out during the summer transfer window.

Trippier has talent but has gone off the boil this season. Alli has been a passenger for most of the season, same as Eriksen to a slightly lesser extent. Walker-Peters, whilst full of potential, should not be playing week in, week out for a team aspiring to win the Premier League. I have a massive soft spot for Lamela but the lad is injured 24/7. If he hasn't got the body to cope with Premier League football, he needs to move on. Davies, whilst being a reasonably solid defender, doesn't exactly set the world alight and Rose is as temperamental as anyone else.

Add to that the potential to lose Eriksen and Alderweireld this summer, particularly if we fail to qualify for the Champions Leagued, then simply put, we are fucked.

Most crucially IMO, there's a Dembele-shaped hole in our team. A hole that even an in-form Sissoko cannot come close to plugging. If Dembele was fit and playing (and not playing "football" in China). We'd have qualified for the Champions League weeks ago. He had this beautiful ability of sucking players in (not off) and creating space for his teammates, giving players like Alli and Eriksen time on the ball. Failing to replace/improve on Mousa was arguably the biggest mistake we've made.

The sad truth is that we are probably £300m short of where City are in terms of squad depth and talent.

It's all well and good having the best training facilities and stadium in the country but if your team is dog shite, you will not win anything.

I'll be praying to the footballing gods all week for a decent turn out against Ajax and more crucially, against Everton next week. But even if we do somehow manage to scrape into the Top 4 - it will all be irrelevant if Levy refuses to back Pochettino in the transfer window... again... With everyone fit and in-form we can beat anyone. But aside from that incredibly unrealistic scenario, we're simply not good enough.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
One of the best post's ever seen on here but I'm afraid the apologist's will find reasons to take issue such as Brexit, the Berlin wall coming down or climate change for why spurs are the only team that refuses to have a better standard of recruitment along with poch being complicit with levy.
 
Will be intriguing to see how ruthless we are this Summer. Legitimate case for shipping out Trippier, Wanyama, Dier, Lamela and Llorente, to say nothing of the deadwood.

Should Eriksen go too, we will be an entirely different team.
 
What if Levy insists on getting the deadwood off the wage bill first before allowing any new players to come in. This is the usual policy.

Long summer ahead methinks
 
Cranston said:
Will be intriguing to see how ruthless we are this Summer. Legitimate case for shipping out Trippier, Wanyama, Dier, Lamela and Llorente, to say nothing of the deadwood.

Should Eriksen go too, we will be an entirely different team.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
We've got one hell of an overhaul coming. The way Poch spoke on the Premier League Show just confirmed it for me.

Stage 1. of Poch's transformation of Spurs was to get rid of initial obvious deadwood and the players who wouldn't buy into his system.

Stage 2. saw an improvement of young players and new players who bought into what Poch wanted from day one. This culminated in our 'peak' of 16/17 where we played our best football and still had WHL as a fortress.

Stage 3. seems to have been making the best of the Wembley year (and a bit!) and getting our arses into the new stadium - with Levy in particular seemingly kept busy by that. I cannot find any other excuse for signing nobody last summer.

Stage 4. is where we are now. Looks like all hands on deck regarding transfer ins/outs and we're going to feel the pain for cramming two + year's worth of squad turnover into one summer. Overall, I think we can be cautiously optimistic about it, but I feel we'll inevitably be having another transition year of sorts next season with the number of new key players we'll need integrating.
 
ElTel said:
What if Levy insists on getting the deadwood off the wage bill first before allowing any new players to come in. This is the usual policy.

Long summer ahead methinks
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

To be a bore and repeat myself

FightingIllini said:
ENIC have three choices.

1. No chance of finishing in the top 5 (and maybe worse) ever in the forseeable future and a half full billion pound stadium
2. Massive investment on par with those top 5
3. Sell the team
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
 
FightingIllini said:
To be a bore and repeat myself
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Good points, but Levy will look at our rivals and think it wont be that difficult to challenge for the top 4 next season. Man City and Liverpool are way ahead atm but Chelsea, Arse and Utd have enough problems of their own to deal with even if a couple of them secure CL football this season.

We have been pretty rubbish for most of this season but still are third and in the CL semis. Luckily for Levy he has a manager who can organise a team and when Harry is fit we have one of the best strikers in the world. While Levy has these two components he will believe we can challenge for the top 4 without having to break the bank
 
ElTel said:
Luckily for Levy he has a manager who can organise a team and when Harry is fit we have one of the best strikers in the world. While Levy has these two components he will believe we can challenge for the top 4 without having to break the bank
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

We can *challenge* for the top four like the Jol days with a considerable but still modest and conservative investment in the squad.

But we're never playing another Champions League game after Wednesday without eye-watering cash infusion. Which isn't some random destination we suddenly arrived at, it's the build up of years of disinvestment, plus obviously the strength of our rivals.

And if we shirk from even modest housekeeping of the squad? I'm not sure what the bottom is next year. Top half could be a struggle depending on investments at other clubs.

Financially, football is a mug's game, always has been, always will be. Sustainability is possible, profit hoarding will always get you found out in the end.
 
Let's face it. This is what's really going to happen this summer...

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear Mr Levy,

As discussed, here's my summer wish list.

ST Icardi
RW Sancho
CAM De Beek
CM Ndombele
RB Youcef Atal

It'd also be great if we could keep Toby and Christian at the club.

Kind Regards,

Mauricio

----------------------------------------------------------------------

Hi Mauricio,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Good one. I can get you Llorente on another year plus Ryan Sessegnon and Jack Grealish if we can get them for £20m.

As for Eriksen and Alderweireld. Their transfer fees will be going straight towards repaying our stadium debt.

Danny xoxoxo

PS. And yes... you're still expected to finish top 4.
 
sammyspurs said:
There’s a couple sides I’ve noticed to the whole thing.
Some can see the bigger picture and wider improvement but can still get pissed off during specific poor performances and certain players underperforming to their abilities, and the manager making silly mistakes in some big games.
I’m in this category and I’m pissed off that we could have had third wrapped up weeks ago.

Another group are all very big about “backing the players” during games. This usually refers to Kane, Dele and Eriksen while the rest of the squad are fair game for an absolute tirade of abuse.
The manager is absolved of all responsibility and the chairman is seen as the first person who affects how we play. The overall and wider progression is dismissed out of hand.....you can see that by the entitlement of demanding Levy’s head for losing the first leg of the CL semi final without Kane and Son and not being above City and Liverpool in the league.

Apparently this season is proof that the team has been neglected. I can only conclude that these people think the PL and CL double is what we should be winning.

They are “cheering on” a squad next week, hoping it can get to play Barca in the CL final, and after sticking 3 goals pst them already this season and drawing away with them, hoping we can turn them over in a one off game.
Yet they think this squad is shit and the chairman is a cunt, and we got here because of three players.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

We're at a rather absurd point, where for some (and by proxy the rest of us too!), if we don't win the CL it's armageddon.....

Think about that for a minute.


UGLY.
 
FightingIllini said:
The point is, there is a number that could have gotten both of those pens to paper last summer, and if we weren't willing to meet those demands, we were best off selling them last summer. Being prepared to do so, and being prepared to buy replacements.

Again, if we lose Toby for 25M, that's a business failure for the club, resulting from poor financial management. Same story if we lose Eriksen for anything less than an eye-watering sum.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Ozil had "a number" in mind too.

#PayTheMan
 
MemphisWill said:
Why are you focusing on the on-pitch results? FFS, as has been pointed out we could easily win a tin pot like the CL and still be regressing. Anyone can win a fucking trophy...only one club can ever win the fucking summer....that's what we're competing for! How can anyone ever get excited about unboxing FIFA in August if it doesn't come with loads of new players on your favourite team?!
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Yes, bruv! :freundgoal:
 
Totti said:
He's got the athleticism and speed to make up for any negatives in his defending, like Walker did.

If we sign him, I am not entirely sure it'd be to play him at right back in a back four but as someone who can potentially play in a 433 as a winger or in a 352 as a wing back.

Would be a smart signing either way.

If you haven't seen him, you should try watch a Nice game or find highlights of a random one and just watch it and keep an eye on him.

Here's a YouTube clip, but as you know, they just highlight his best tackles, speed and skills etc.

Click to expand...
Click to shrink...



I'm taking that as a "no" to the original "can he defend" question. :dembelelol:
 
FightingIllini said:
We can *challenge* for the top four like the Jol days with a considerable but still modest and conservative investment in the squad.

But we're never playing another Champions League game after Wednesday without eye-watering cash infusion. Which isn't some random destination we suddenly arrived at, it's the build up of years of disinvestment, plus obviously the strength of our rivals.

And if we shirk from even modest housekeeping of the squad? I'm not sure what the bottom is next year. Top half could be a struggle depending on investments at other clubs.

Financially, football is a mug's game, always has been, always will be. Sustainability is possible, profit hoarding will always get you found out in the end.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

You must live in a perpetual puddle.

So much crystal ballin'........ And of course the trademark hysterical overplaying the potential of others.

Topped off with the good old fashioned insinuations of embezzlement.
 
Cranston said:
Will be intriguing to see how ruthless we are this Summer. Legitimate case for shipping out Trippier, Wanyama, Dier, Lamela and Llorente, to say nothing of the deadwood.

Should Eriksen go too, we will be an entirely different team.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

If you put too much garbage out in one go the bin men won't take it. You need to spread it out more. We should have begun clearing out the garbage last season instead of doling out new contracts.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top