I'm hoping the combination of Gio and Tubby (Ndombele) in their 3rd season in the PL will compensate for that.
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I'm hoping the combination of Gio and Tubby (Ndombele) in their 3rd season in the PL will compensate for that.
People will say that he only played 14 games last season, but he did also tear his meniscus in his right leg. That's sort of a valid excuse.
And he was outright good for Bayern on loan. 11 goals and 9 assists in 38 games in all competitions. Bayern just didn't want to take over his wages in full.
Coutinho is a luxury player, but he is a very good luxury player. We know that he is quality when healthy. There's plenty of empirical evidence for that.
Can you not call our players by derogatory names it is juvenile and shows a lack of respect. I hate when Spurs fans do this why would anyone want to be called by an insults it the exact same thing with what people call Harry Winks. If these players ever read these forums or twitter why would they want to pull on the Shirt for the fans.I'm hoping the combination of Gio and Tubby (Ndombele) in their 3rd season in the PL will compensate for that.
A problem is we just whack players into a system without maximising their effectiveness or buying the best player for each position.
Shockingly small swimming pool. Do not want.
As much as I hate Levy and ENIC, I'm glad he's running the show instead of 2/3s or this place.
Saying we shouldn't sell for any less than £150m is like being in a club at 11pm and turning down a solid 6. At 12 you turn down a solid 8 because you think you can get that 10.
At 3am you're at the kebab van, on your own, with sick on your shirt slurring profanities at a 3 that walks past because at this stage, it's better than nothing.
We're at 12pm now at Spurs. We have 2 hours to gamble whether to take the 8, because that ain't bad, or wait and see of a 10 comes along
If it doesn't then 3am is the equivalent of Kane sulking for a year or 2 and us only getting a fist full of cash after that time.
TheSpurEstI agree and I think Nuno could be the sort of coach to get the best out of Traore?
Sorry, guess it flew over my head
Coutinho would be a good pickup on a Bale type deal where Barca pays some of his wages. We’d be doing them a favor taking him at this point. I still think he’s a useful player much like Bale was. But I’d agree he’s not worth spending real money and wages on for many reasons.Of course he is good player on the grand scale.
But not nowhere as good as the money demanded for him. Hence we don't want to splash that same amount of money. This makes perfect sense to me.
Compared to what he costs and what he produces - he is shit.
Come on, per season he costs more than Kane. Why would we throw this kind of money on a 29yo mercenary who will be here for 1 or 2 seasons + if we'd buy him on permanent basis his resell value is 0.
Let's say Barca sell him to us for 25 mil and he demands 300k per week on 2 years deal. That would cost us 56 (!!) million EUR. And then he leaves on free. Even if he signs for free for same wage and same contract duration, he would still cost 31 million EUR. And all of this will be cost not investment, as he can't be sold on to next buyer.
With Kane money we need to build for future. Not waste it on players who will be here for 2 seasons and leave us in worse position than we were?!?
Why?
He's bang average. A trier and I've got nothing against him, but along with about 6 or 7 players still on our books he simply isn't good enough if we're a club with ambition to challenge for things.
Nuno...Noni...are we trying to become Ken Dodd's Diddy men?I'd rather pull a Chelsea and sign a youth academy player we let go on a free than Damsgaard because we need more help on the right.
Noni has also been playing quite well.
Well if we move Dier, Sanchez, Toby and now Davies we will need more CB additions than just Romero. Davies might be average but he can cover both LB and CB.
Unless the negotiations have already been done. BTW I'm on about Spurs not 9/11 and the rest of your leaps into those other topics.Come on.
What next?
Levy shot Tupac?
Levy organized 9/11?
Levy started COVID pandemic?
It would be really welcome if people would keep in touch with reality.
It is not in clubs nor Levy's interest to leak or fabricate such information. That only puts us to more difficult situation, as everyone would know he wants to leave desparately. This makes our negotiation position worse in every possible way.
Coutinho would be a good pickup on a Bale type deal where Barca pays some of his wages. We’d be doing them a favor taking him at this point. I still think he’s a useful player much like Bale was. But I’d agree he’s not worth spending real money and wages on for many reasons.
Wow, you hate Levy and ENIC, yet you are advocating for them to act stupidly?!?
Incredible.
Not that game but Chelsea away was a good example.When Kane used to get injured under Poch, we used to destroy teams by fluently rotating Dele, Eriksen, Son and Lucas. It's how we beat Everton 6-2 away (I think). I'm nt saying we're going to have the same level of productivity, obviously not, but we're not going to go from scoring 60 goals in a season to scoring 30 just because we can lose Kane. If we lose him, we have to change the system.
Wolfsburg said they aren't selling Lacroix.