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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread
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I've been looking at those 3 over 30s this morning and thinking about Poch...
A coach who's best 2 seasons at Spurs were with an outfield average age of under 25. Fit, hungry, impressionable players. No massive stars.
Then I think about the summer of 2018 and his line "it's hard to upgrade this squad" and wondering why or how. Those kind of signings (not Messi) must have been possible.
I very much doubt any of those 3 will play any form of high energy pressing football.
The question is, is Poch happy with it? Is he willing to play something different or is he going to struggle to get those players to play his football.
May actually be a turning point in his career. He may learn to adapt in order to win or he may refuse to adapt and be regarded as a one trick pony.
Monaco 1924
Lyon 1950
Lille 1946
Compared to England, a lot of French teams are fairly young.
According to Grauniad blowhard Barry Glendenning, Leicester want to poach Tomiyasu from under our noses
You're skating on very thin ice.
I fear for Poch. If he doesn't win the Champions League, and dominate the league and cups in France, then he will be out of a job very soon.
I hope he does have some success. Not usually one to care once a player/manager moves on, but I have soft spot for Poch.
Training sessions are going to be tough on Poch and Jesus to keep all these entitled players in line and get them to play the way you want. They will have their own way they want to play try asking Neymar and Messi to press every game next season.
I suspect chats with Kane are shaping what we do next. Not just for strikers but budgets for other positions.
I dunno, I feel like that team could probably win Ligue 1 without a manager. All Poch has to do is get them through the CL somehow, and with that squad they should be going deep (tonnes of CL winning experience); I mean who has a better team on paper than that?
Yeah, I suppose a lot of the groundwork has probably been done already which could be why so little is been leaked...
Getting Neymar to press and track back won't be too big of an issue. He's always been decent at that. Messi however is a different matter.
Ramos becoming a key locker room figure could possibly help Poch if those two can get along. Ramos may act like a cunt, but he was always the guy who helped keep Real Madrid in check. He's got a lot of experience herding cats.
Re: Ramos - Turning up there and calling the shots is very different to growing into being the respected leader over time like he did at RM.
His injury record (so yes his injury record is a bit of a worry):
Denis Zakaria - Injury history
This is the injury history of Denis Zakaria from AS Monaco. On this page injuries as well as suspensions.
Spot on BC. Another year another "Dybala" head fake. This guy would get killed as the lone man in the PL (a la Werner) and getting the best out of him would necessitate playing with a big guy or casting Sonny aside. Very underwhelming stuff from our new man with a plan Paratici. But it does follow our typical opportunistic recruitment pattern, big name + financially struggling club + easily impressed supporters = great transfer.
What say you on this Vlahovic guy? I didn't watch a single Fiorentina game last season as my football life was sucked outta me.
Also, Bayern are in for some 21yo French winger. Do you know anything about this? He's not even in Ligue 1 (or the Messi-ligue if you like) so it was surprising.... I'll try and find the story to see which shit, true-farmer's ligue team he plays for but the deal was for 10-15M so he must have some talent.
I think the fee also factors in. It was a lot of more for seriously poor returns.
I guess one of the frustrations with Sanchez is there is seemingly no progress or learning from mistakes at all. If anything, he has regressed. He’s also failed to develop as a ball-player too.
If we’re going to play an error prone CB it should be Tango or Rodon who might be able to show linear progress from the experience.
For me, there’s zero hope of Sanchez developing into an elite defender. You might think I’m being harsh but he’s at Phil Jones levels.
Extremely harsh on Phil Jones.
This basically sums my thoughts up. I always found him surprisingly shocking, but of course he was so young and everyone held hope that he would mature as a defender... but he hasn't.
We've lost enough time on the Davison Sanchez experiment. Let him move to Italy where the ball moves a bit slower and in three years he'll probably be considered a monster that Spurs will be stupid to have let go, but he's just not going to work in this league and at this club.
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