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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread

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sammyspurs said:
Another Poch boo boo......we’d have at least an equally good CB as Toby now if Sanchez was allowed to continue his development from the 2017/18 season when Toby playing for Belgium and telling the world he was fit, yet Poch was dropping him.

Something went on there, and Sanchez was forging a very good understanding in the team.

Seems we pandered to Toby in the end, who probably won’t be here next season anyway, and put Sanchez back a year.
Same shit we are going to do with Eriksen now at someone else’s expense
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I disagree about Sanchez, he didn’t even look like a footballer at the end of the season. I don’t know how you can seriously say that. He’s got worse - probably down to Poch changing the CB pairings every week. The one constant you need is an unchanged CB pairing. Apart from that, mess about with team as much as you like.

Anyway, got to go now. Speak later.
 
Joe Clash said:
I disagree about Sanchez, he didn’t even look like a footballer at the end of the season. I don’t know how you can seriously say that. He’s got worse - probably down to Poch changing the CB pairings every week. The one constant you need is an unchanged CB pairing. Apart from that, mess about with team as much as you like.
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Thats my point....he was fucked last season from being shafted for Toby who probably wont be here when the new season starts anyway

We used to be long term visionists with players.....now its abput clinging onto the school of 2016
 
Park Lane Mark Twain said:
I'm pretty sure Guardiola wanted both Alexis Sanchez and Jorginho otherwise Man City wouldn't have been in for them but that's my opinion on it mate.

If I look at Pelliegrinis Man City and Guardiolas it's chalk and cheese. He hasn't worked his way from the bottom up so he'll always have at question mark over him but based on his playing style and how he's judged his talent coming in (Ederson for all of their money is one of the best Premier League buys over the last 5-10'years for the £35m odd or whatever it was money paid) and to my knowledge his Man City team are the only ones to break the 100 point mark in Premier League history, not even Ferguson achieved that. The two highest points totals ever achieved in English football have been achieved in 2 of Guardiolas 3 seasons.

Money or not they still sit 4th in record transfer fees paid per individual player and he does so playing some unbelievable football all without the two best footballers in the world.

I see why people have no respect for him but he has done a top job even with all the resources he has. I don't know if many could get the points he has in such a competitive league and do so without breaking the £60m region per player, unearthing players like Ederson, developing a few further and playing such beautiful football. I don't like him but I do think he's a top level manager even if he'll never manage at the likes of Burnley as you've suggested mate.
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For every Ederson there's a Claudio Bravo or Benjamin Mendy.

With the backing of an Emirate any duds can be written off as a 'mistake', a financial loss and quietly dispatched to Turkey or China. No 'ordinary' club can do this.

A £60m signing on fee is meaningless. It's the £250k+ a week plus bonuses, world class teamates and facilities and the ability to win honours that attracts a player. If the manager can spell his own name then that's a bonus!(obviously exaggerating here)

I'm not decrying the 100+ points that City amassed this season but there are only 10 games in the PL that matter to them, United, Chelsea, Woolwich, Liverpool and us (home and away). The remaining 28 games are virtual bankers, so that's 84 points almost in the bank. I'm not minimising what they did this season but it puts things into perspective.

With the size, depth and quality of their squad, their reserves would probably qualify for CL - all a function of their limitless budget.

I wonder how Sam would perform with an unlimited budget?
 
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Joe Clash said:
I disagree about Sanchez, he didn’t even look like a footballer at the end of the season. I don’t know how you can seriously say that. He’s got worse - probably down to Poch changing the CB pairings every week. The one constant you need is an unchanged CB pairing. Apart from that, mess about with team as much as you like.

Anyway, got to go now. Speak later.
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One thing looked crystal clear last season. We don't have the players to play 3 at the back.

Sanchez was always at his best playing in a back four. Toby was like a sweeper in a back four, but couldn't play in a 5.
 
Joe Clash said:
I disagree about Sanchez, he didn’t even look like a footballer at the end of the season. I don’t know how you can seriously say that. He’s got worse - probably down to Poch changing the CB pairings every week. The one constant you need is an unchanged CB pairing. Apart from that, mess about with team as much as you like.

Anyway, got to go now. Speak later.
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If there’s one thing I want for next season, it’s a consistent back 4. We chopped and changed way too much last season. I think it’s part of the reason we were poor in first halves; it took twenty minutes for the players to work out what they needed to do.
 
Airfixx said:
If only everyone's relationships were as eternal as you and your fluffer, eh?
It'd be beautiful if the things you get him to do weren't so utterly depraved...
p.s. @ me, bitch.
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Hey, Airfixx Airfixx , there you go.
Your'e acting like a jilted lover now though and turning the thread into a
version of some Marriage and Relationships guide.
Why not join me for some fun in the the toilet rather than souring this good thread for others.
Most people don't want to read through this shit
 
Cranston said:
If there’s one thing I want for next season, it’s a consistent back 4. We chopped and changed way too much last season. I think it’s part of the reason we were poor in first halves; it took twenty minutes for the players to work out what they needed to do.
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Couldn't agree more.

Look at Liverpool's back 4. TAA, VVD, Matic and Robertson. Play week in week out. No rotation.

Pending fitness, same defence every game please.

In this way you develop an instinctive knowledge of what your teammates will do. Even more important when VAR is being introduced. Offside decisions depend on the defence operating as a single unit.
 
Joe Clash said:
Can’t you make your point and then leave it? You’ve been going on about this for 3 years. Are you really so tender? Arcspace calls me a racist everyday - it doesn’t mean I’m one. Boy you love a grudge Scott. How does that pan out in the real world? You won’t get satisfaction on here - you need to actually get out and confront these evil doers.

(BTW this is not me defending SchmoodSpur SchmoodSpur . He doesn’t need my help).
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Yeah Joe never defends Spursdem, didn't you know?
 
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Park Lane Mark Twain said:
£25m Aurier
£25m Lucas
£30m Sissoko
£20m Janssen
£10m Llorente
£10m Nkoudou
£40m Sanchez
£160m in total for a group that hasn't penetrated our strongest XI when fully fit.

c£75m gave us a team of Lloris, Trippier, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Rose, Dier, Winks, Eriksen, Dele, Son, Kane, all of which we are still able to field present day who many would argue when fully fit is close to our strongest XI.
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Who's fault is that though?
 
Cranston said:
If there’s one thing I want for next season, it’s a consistent back 4. We chopped and changed way too much last season. I think it’s part of the reason we were poor in first halves; it took twenty minutes for the players to work out what they needed to do.
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That was true throughout the team, not just the defence.

Effect of 10 top players being in WC last 4 and arriving back almost the day before PL starts without pre-season. A recipe for fatigue and muscular injuries, requiring too manty changes throughout the team.

Won't have that problem next season, but will need to integrate in a few new players in the team and the new faces wont necessarily know the game of the current players which will lead to some mistakes, inevitably.

But with almost 60 games a season if we go far in the CL (plus players on international duty), we will need Poch to have a 'controlled' rotation of players both to rest some players but also keep the others match fit so they can slot in when required.
 
Park Lane Mark Twain said:
Rondon is 29 years of age and would add genuine options that allow us not only to use him from the bench but occasionally rest Kane if need be in select games. 8-10 league starts, all the cup games and cameos off the bench would probably see him start roughly 15 games and get 15-30 minutes in maybe a dozen more perhaps. If he's happy doing so for the next 3-4 seasons whilst picking up the most money he's earned in his career to date I think he'd be the perfect squad signing.

It would probably mean that we are not only sufficiently covered for if Kane gets an injury but we could probably rest him when he's fully fit in games against certain teams as well. Less mental fatigue for Harry and less burden all for £16.5m if Rondon as you said is game for it for a few seasons.
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Additional advantage of having someone “older” is that the age at which Parrott might actually be ready to have an impact, he’ll be tailing off.
 
mikes01666 said:
Couldn't agree more.

Look at Liverpool's back 4. TAA, VVD, Matic and Robertson. Play week in week out. No rotation.

Pending fitness, same defence every game please.

In this way you develop an instinctive knowledge of what your teammates will do. Even more important when VAR is being introduced. Offside decisions depend on the defence operating as a single unit.
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You can say the same about the attackers, the more they play together the more they get used to each others runs and movements. But then you will get fans saying why players are not rotated and players playing week in week out are at risk of exhaustion. Manager can't win
 
Spurs_Bob said:
bored? have a read...


leeds fans on clarke to spurs.


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"£10-14m up front, another couple if Spurs qualify for the CL again this coming season, a couple more if he plays for England's first team and a 10% sell-on clause."

:levystare:

"Daniel Levy is one heck of an astute businessman. The job he's done for Spurs is absolutely incredible, IMHO"

:levywhoa:

"If there is one thing that I do have a pet hate with Leeds United it has to be the lack of urgency in getting in players early. We seems to be on the transfer trail of so many players according to a magnanimous amount of websites but we are I believe a little too meticulous and overly cautious when getting signings in."

:levylol:
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Whilst not much sentiment about Clarke (which is a worry) it's sobering to read them talking about £1m purchases... we're banging £80m around here like it's chump change. Reality check needed a times!
 
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