Barcelona want to sign Tottenham's most expensive player Tanguy Ndombele, 23, who joined the north London side for £55m from Lyon last summer. (Mundo Deportivo via Star)
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Happy to discuss erections.Respectfully, we really need to move Dele and Winks on, and either pull up our boots where our academy is concerned, or stop buying rubbish.
The list from Bild didn't exactly give me an erection. Did it give you an erection?
Saint Etienne 4-1 Nice. From last December.When was this? How bad ? Attacking, defensively, both ?
I love Sabitzer. Such a versatile midfielder. I have even seen him slot in as a RWB.
Oh, I don't want to upset anyone now...
Most of our "central midfielders."
Barcelona want to sign Tottenham's most expensive player Tanguy Ndombele, 23, who joined the north London side for £55m from Lyon last summer. (Mundo Deportivo via Star)
I'll begin by saying that Bild's list is extremely underwhelming, and does not address some of the glaring deficiencies we have. If you gave me £150m to spend, plus whatever we took in from player sales, I would never make it my business to buy Sabitzer. I like his high-intensity style and he poses the same kind of goal threat that Eriksen used to, but he is not a player who can run a game or pick a team apart with his vision and range of passing.Sabitzer might be one that you think is a good buy, but he's the only one who looks like a forward player - and for that he's sadly not good enough in that role - and here's why
This will most likely offend you, Spursidol , but I think you make too many excuses for English players. You need to become more like me. Embrace your inner psychopath, and throw anyone who has a shoddy touch and anything less than one wing mirror under the bus.Dele - Hasn't been the sane for a year or so, but flashes of the old Dele at the start of Mourhino's tenure. Hopefully recovers the form which has got him 50 PL goals at age 23.
I think you have got this guy wrong. I think he has the ability to be a killer in the final third, and I expect to see that from him, although that's more likely to happen when we can bench the Low-IQ guys, and our coach doesn't leave it to the players to improvise the bulk of our attacking play.Lo Celso - Love the player but he doesn't score that many or create that many assists, he's more a player to create the chances for the assist maker.
This is one of the issues I have with the list. Where is the wing-forward/striker we are crying out for?So one of the players we need to buy (alongside DM, CB, FB's) is a goalscorer, whether playing as a striker (but how we rotate him and Kane is clearly an issue unless Kane plays as no 10) or a winger/striker.
I agree. I see him as a CM. I would be crestfallen if we let Ndombele go. I would rather Mourinho left, and we hired Nagelsmann. His Leipzig side are exceptionally well organised, but they lack technical quality. I would like to see what he could do with some of our gems.So a CM/AM like Sabitzer isn't any part of the answer for that, if he's bought it has to be as a cm or dm and probably only if Ndombele is sold (as Sabitzer would want to be first choice.
This is one of the issues I have with the list. Where is the wing-forward/striker we are crying out for?
Here we go. And this from the guy who is crying about Aouar being defensively lightweight.
20m last summer. 20 fucking mil. 10m less than fucking Sissoko. 5m less than pea brain Moura.
I'll begin by saying that Bild's list is extremely underwhelming, and does not address some of the glaring deficiencies we have. If you gave me £150m to spend, plus whatever we took in from player sales, I would never make it my business to buy Sabitzer. I like his high-intensity style and he poses the same kind of goal threat that Eriksen used to, but he is not a player who can run a game or pick a team apart with his vision and range of passing.
This will most likely offend you, Spursidol , but I think you make too many excuses for English players. You need to become more like me. Embrace your inner psychopath, and throw anyone who has a shoddy touch and anything less than one wing mirror under the bus.
I think you have got this guy wrong. I think he has the ability to be a killer in the final third, and I expect to see that from him, although that's more likely to happen when we can bench the Low-IQ guys, and our coach doesn't leave it to the players to improvise the bulk of our attacking play.
This is one of the issues I have with the list. Where is the wing-forward/striker we are crying out for?
I agree. I see him as a CM. I would be crestfallen if we let Ndombele go. I would rather Mourinho left, and we hired Nagelsmann. His Leipzig side are exceptionally well organised, but they lack technical quality. I would like to see what he could do with some of our gems.
I think you misunderstood me. I think you make excuses for senior English players, Spursidol, of whom Alli is one.No excuses for English players required.
I was saying that about GLC.You say about Sabitzer ' I think he has the ability to be a killer in the final third, and I expect to see that from him'
I think we are almost certain to sign him.I'd much prefer the home grown Eze
Here we go. And this from the guy who is crying about Aouar being defensively lightweight.
Fekir looks like a python that swallowed a water buffalo. And on one of our favourite football podcasts, he was referred to as a player who turns up when he feels like it; typically for the late evening kick-offs.Aouar's a midfielder, Fekir's a forward, and better without the ball than limp biscuits like Son and Bergwijn for example. And unlike Bergwijn, Moura, Alli and Son he doesn't have his phaser set to fucking bumble every week. The cunt produces. Has a fucking brain. Some composure.
And he was 20 fucking mil. And he can play striker too.
I think you misunderstood me. I think you make excuses for senior English players, Spursidol, of whom Alli is one.
I was saying that about GLC.
I think we are almost certain to sign him.
Did you see the latest quotes from KWP? Most peculiar.Dele has clearly not been focussed on his performances at Spurs for a year or more. At 22/23 was clearly misled into thinking he could both be a football player (earning £m's) and a fashion icon (earning £ms).
I was pleased to see an interview a few months ago when he said he had given up the fashion stuff and was focusing on football - but staggered the coaches hadn't dealt with that a year or so ago. In any business if an employee is being distracted and not putting the effort in, its up to management to find out (gently) the reasons and re-orientate the employee.
At age 23, every chance Dele will come back if he's properly managed, and to have got 50 goals by that age shows he has something most others dont.
If he doesn't get back to his former form he goes.
But we are short of HG players both bought in (only Dele and u21 Sessegnon, assuming Rose leaves) and after a disastrous experiment over 5 years of 'developing' 18 to 21 year olds which was against every other youth development methods I've ever encountered whether in football or outside. So we don't have that many short term options.
Fekir looks like a python that swallowed a water buffalo. And on one of our favourite football podcasts, he was referred to as a player who turns up when he feels like it; typically for the late evening kick-offs.
Did you see the latest quotes from KWP? Most peculiar.
He has technical ability. But he does not lift a finger defensively. He is as slow as molasses, and we already have the slowest attack in the fastest league in the world.If you ignore the 15/16 season he fucked his knee, he's averaged a goal/assist every 129 minutes the last five years. Not to shabby for a buffalo who's phoning it in?
Go on..
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“I think had [Pochettino} stayed, I’d still be at Tottenham,” Walker-Peters states.
“He was never really big on loans. There were always opportunities for him to send me on loan and he never did, so I think that showed his faith in me.
“Despite not playing me all the time, it showed that he wanted me around. If he hadn’t left, I don’t think I’d be on loan, so it just shows how fast football can change.
“Mourinho comes in and I get to play one game, but I don’t really get an opportunity like I thought I would, in terms of two or three games rotating with Serge Aurier, but the manager has to make decisions. That was his decision, so that’s fine."