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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread
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You forgot Messi. Or was the back-up striker you mentioned?
Are you
Airfixx
's multi by any chance ?
I'll leave the multis to you and others.Are you
We seem to be progressing on transfers based on need:
1) CDM
2) HG keeper
3) RWB
4) ST
5) Messi
I think I quite specifically mentioned that it would have made sense if we could move Lamela on (for similar amount).
Also Dorethy will be financed from sales of Aurier.
In terms of competition for GLC - there will be no movements until Ndombele is here. Then we have CLC; Alli and Ndombele. And if he is moved on then money comes from there.
ST; DM and LB would all be priotizied higher; I agree. But theoretically Lamela -> Eze could have still strenghtened us without large cash outlay.
you've got his condescending tone down to a fault
Why do you think our scouting team and manager don't agree with you ?
The evidence ! And I still dont always agree with them !
Why Pochettino has spent £30m on Sissoko
Spurs have been lacking pace in wide areas, and after missing out on Wilfried Zaha, Moussa Sissoko became the next big target to provide thatwww.independent.co.uk
Well would you after that explanation ?
There was no argument for buying Sissoko at that time and certainly not for 30 mill. My god that article makes terrible reading
Poch wanted Zaha, Levy bid 12 mill, Palace said he is not for sale and i would have too at that price and offer so late in the window with only a few days to find a replacement, so Spurs go and sign Sissoko for 30 mill on deadline day???? That is just horrendous. You don't buy a player for 30 mill who is nothing like the one you bid 12 mill for. Like him or not, everyone knows Zaha is a skilful pacy wide player who can contribute some goals and assists. Sissoko is just a powerful runner, no skill to beat a man, doesn't score doesn't assist. He provides no attacking threat. It was a pure last minute panic buy. Terrible
If we had 30 mill why not bid that for Zaha at the time, maybe that offer would have been enough to tempt Palace into selling at the time. Or have a genuinely similar alternative to spend that money on, not Sissoko.
"Dele Alli is the only man in the front four with real acceleration" what kind of bollocks is this?? Is this journalist paid to write such nonsense? Dele has more acceleration than Son, Lamela and even Kane?
Then we have this beauty from Poch "So we need someone who has characteristics like we saw from Liverpool, like Sadio Mané, the type of player that can break the defensive line" yes Poch, Mane has the pace and aggression to break the defensive line but he also has amazing ability to contribute something when he has broken that defensive line!!
The Sissoko transfer made no sense no matter how anyone tried to justify it. Nothing against the guy and over time he has proved himself in a different role which has helped the team but he was not the solution to the problem at the time when we needed a genuinely class wide player with speed, skill, goals and assists threat
Says he who is indistinguishable from a dozen other perpetually fatalistic dullards here....
"Multis" indeed.
.....Any time divs like you insult or disagree it's as good as a badge of honour.
Once Doherty is announced the next one in will be a striker and he is going to be someone who can actually challenge Kane, have faith people!
Once a striker is signed, I think the window will take a turn. We'd have addressed the most important issues. Then I think it'll be deals that arise that are too good to turn down.
If a CAM or CM becomes available who is too good to ignore then I wouldn't be shocked to see us move again.
If a CAM or CM becomes available who is too good to ignore then I wouldn't be shocked to see us move again.
Sadly, it's looking a bit like Rakitic.
Though hopefully he's off to Sevilla.
I still think he's off to Sevilla
This just seems like more poor recruitment planning to me. Even if it took 20m to get Eze last summer (or January), I would much rather have paid that than the 37m we've ended up paying for Clarke and Bergwijn (or the 27m we've paid for Bergwijn in January). He's much better than Clarke (much further along the development ladder as well) and has similar attributes to Bergwijn in a younger HG package.
Clarke seemed a really strange purchase to me, yes there was some noise around him initially, but then he had that really bad medical issue and could barely get a game for Leeds the few months before we bought him, yet we figured it wise to spunk 10m on him?
There's no guarantees Eze will work out, but the combination of physical, technical and mental strengths with Eze seems like a pretty rare combo and a package definitely worth a punt of ever there was one.
This little gem belongs in the “Poch wanted SIssoko” arguments (Jack Pitt-Brook is a Spurs journo of reasonable repute,no?) that we’ve had with people likeTomHotspur (apologies if it’s not you Tom)
todd1882 and a couple of others.
But how does this relate to Eze?
Not related particularly to Eze - the specific comment I wa replying to was ' Why do you think our scouting team and manager don't agree with you ?'
The reasons why some players (apparantly) are signed by clubs are not necessarily ones that may fans would agree with.
As its a slow day, I thought the link suggesting that Sissoko was signed as a (sort of) alternative to Mane might inject a bit of humour as well.
