I don't think anyone does, but he is out of contract so maybe club decided to gamble, in the current climate it was obvious but the club can get their money back at a later date.
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I honestly don’t need think we will see a vast amount spent across all teams this summer pal, I get a feeling that this situation we are faced with will scare a lot of teams into being far more cautious than we have seen in recent years.
Potential full back options at both LB & RB? Could be a possibility with Fraser given his style of play and how Mourinho likes to have one full back pushed really high up
That's what I said a couple of weeks ago. Fraser would only make sense if Jose sees him as a very ofensive right-back. Something similar to what he did with Valencia at United.
Fraser does have a very good final ball - assists and crosses. An he can cover a lot of ground - was one of the first players in distance covered in the 2018-19 season; 12th, if I am not mistaken.
I don't think it will happen, but I have to say, I'm still not convinced about any of the right-back options we are allegedly after.
If a club like Barcelona are claiming money is tight then you know there is a problem.
I'm sure Mourinho will teach him all there is to know in that area.Based off the link you posted Hojberg has made no errors this season.
How could he possibly fit in with our team if he doesn’t make errors?
I say this because he's not homegrown. He's not young and he's not had a good season this year. He's also a LW a position which we have young sessegnon and other players like Son/Bergwijn who play there.
People saying he's a good signing - We're Tottenham and we won't be winning anything anytime soon if that's our level of ambition.
He's good depth for Lamela, who was injured whilst I was typing this.
If we get 35m for Dier I’d be extremely surprised , However even though I am also not a member of the MS appreciation society I do think we’d get 10-12 m rather than 5.
Getting a back up player for the perennially injured Kane is also at least as much a priority as finding a better no 6.
Although it’s important, I think improving our first team is more important rather than our bench. So getting a DM out weighs a striker for me if I had to choose.
hope we get both obviously though.
Shows abit how underappreciated Hojbjerg is really - probably because he plays for Southampton perhaps?
To be fair, that also shows how underrated Winks is when it comes to carrying and moving the ball forward. Winks is probably the most un-Mourinho DM so will be interesting to see where he fits in when we have an actual decent DM in the team.
Hojbjerg/SkippI actually think is a pretty good team to build on. We could probably do with upgrading on Sissoko, perhaps with Soumare who is definitely more a deep lying playmaker than a defensive midfielder.
Lo Celso/Winks - Ndombele/Sissoko
That Bennacer guy posts pretty good figures. No idea who he is but could he be a cheaper alternative?
(I know winks is in one chart but I’m always struck how none of our players are in these things. Always rings alarm bells)
Ismail Bennacer plays for AC Milan and has been one of their best players this season alongside Theo Hernandez. AC Milan fans that I've talked to want to build their midfield around him and Lucas Paqueta.
And the irony is, if money is tight across the whole game, even the top end, we probably have the worst manager in the business at coaching the best out of what he has available.
Just 8 months ago, we had the best!
Not sure that Jose is bad at coaching with what he has although time will tell, he has a proven track record of coaching players of all abilities to be winner's.
As for poch I loved the man, his passion and love for spurs was there to see, but I never felt that he would be a winner and I had said it a couple of times prior to him leaving.
I wish him all the best and he is welcome at the club anytime imo, but I don't think he will get anywhere near Jose's level of success, poch is a good but not great manager again imo.
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We've seen Jose being successful because he was able to bring in who he wanted no interference. He's been able to fall out with players and piss off others and keep working unmolested. It would be interesting to see what happened Poch if he had those conditions.
Also it will be interesting to see if Jose doesn't get what he wants from Levy, how long before bodies appear under the bus and the excuses start.
I'm a fan of Theo Hernandez.
Also Luca Hernandez. With Alphonso
Davies taking the LB role. Is it possible to get Luca?
Lucas has been kind of a flop at Bayern, especially in comparison to Pavard, Davies etc. I don't know if we're linked with him, but I don't think Bayern would be against selling Lucas Hernandez. He has potential though, even with Theo's season at AC Milan, I still think Lucas is the better of the two, because he's way better defensively, even if he lacks a bit attack-wise when compared to his brother.
This is exactly what I mean.
There are plenty of players under the radar we could be getting that can improve us. We need a LB so with Luca surplus to requirements why not go on for him. There can't be many teams interested in him that his price tag will rocket up. He played LB in a world cup winning team. I thought he defended really well against some tricky wingers that tournament.
Theo would be more expensive due to his age.
Which begs the question of why did he agree to join knowing how we operate which isn't a secret in anyone's world.
Along with levy knowing how Jose works it does seem a case of the odd couple, with the virus taking effect on finances, I don't think he will get much chance to complain about targets.
Maybe Jose decided to join us to prove that he can be successful at a club that doesn't throw money around, after all look what he did at Porto I wouldn't say they were bigger than us.