Pretty much so.
But everyone on here's an expert mostly. Wasted away behind a keyboard and not in the Spurs backroom.
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Pretty much so.
But everyone on here's an expert mostly. Wasted away behind a keyboard and not in the Spurs backroom.
Zaha doesn’t belong at a top 6 club if he won’t fight for his place. If he wants to start no question he should never leave Palace.
Jesus, you disagrees with him not beeing HG in Europe and that your argument. Wheres your logic?
But maybe he doesn’t see it as useful for this Spurs squad.
He passed up on Eriksen and apparently vetoed Maddison.
Do we know he ‘passed up’ on Eriksen? Him personally? Or were his wage demands just out of line with the clubs philosophy? That feels more likely.
Him passing on Maddison makes sense, to be honest. He’s very good but has well covered attitude issues & would’ve cost the world to bring in.
Fabregas only started 13 games in the league that year though and rarely started against the better clubs because he couldn't keep up most of the time. Legs were gone.
I'm sure though if we found someone half as good as Fabregas available for a decent fee, we'd have likely made the deal. The fact Eriksen was free and we passed up should tell you all you need to know.
Conte has shown he can utilise a creative midfielder but that Chelsea team would have won the league without Fabregas regardless. Kante and Matic were fantastic that year. His full backs contributed successfully and Hazard and Costa were deadly.
If our right wing back can contribute on par with Perisic, Hojbjerg and Bentancur can continue to be solid, Kulusevski can contribute like Fabregas did and Kane and Son can be deadly, I'm sure we'll be just fine.
He has 1 year left on his deal so it would be cheap and is 29 years old so in theory still has 3-4 years of good football left.
Long as we don’t give him a stupid long 6 year deal I don’t see it as an issue.
No but there’s levels to it.
We already have a 60m back up on the wing, and our current front 3 are class.
He’d arguably get more game time at any other club in the world bar maybe Liverpool. He’s certainly start more at City, Chelsea, Woolwich etc.
Difference between being a rotation option competing with 1 player compared to competing with 2 players.
No. I disagreed on his post that said that he wasnt HG because it was wrong. Go and look at my quoted post literally five posts down from his.
He then edited the post and added in Europe.
He wants Zaniolo and also Gordon. Conte seems to be going for very hard physical players, add to the set piece coach we have brought in and it’s clear power and speed are the main factors at the moment.
He does utilize. But much less than atraditional box to box like he loves to do. And fabregas was the 12th Chelsea player. Not a starter. Oh and fabregas was still very good. If we had a guy like him he would play. But I don’t think he would necessary buy a fabregas.
Paul Okeefe said it was Conte who vetoed Maddison while others at Spurs were keen. That makes it unlikely to be a financial issue. His attitude has also been good recently.
With Eriksen it’s harder to tell, but if we really wanted him we could pay him a higher sign on fee (free transfer), and then moderate wages.
I doubt we’d pass up on a free transfer for financial reasons.
5 players into 3 spots with tons of games. He will get lots of game time if he came, he would get more games at say Chelsea for sure but our fixtures are crazy and 3 spots is a lot of places to compete for if you are good enough.
Agree with this assessment.
He seems to want at least one type of elite athleticism, either pace or strength or both.
I said before. Unless Conte stumbles across a generational talent available for free (Pirlo) , joins a team with a creative genius in the squad (Fabregas) or one is offered to him at their peak (Eriksen) , he isn't going to prefer to get one over all else . And even then, rumours were he didn't want Eriksen when he was at Inter anyway.
He'd much prefer solidarity in that midfield. The Vidals, the Matics, the Kantes, the Hojbjergs. They're the winners in there.
5 players for 3 spots doesn’t sound too bad, but when you consider how good our front 3 are and Rich’s potential; it’s quite a barrier.
The fact he’d start more at City is a compliment to our attack… but is also why he could get frustrated if he does come.
Emotions of Gil replacements and my feelings
Zaha
Malinovsyi
Adama Traore
Dan James
You've changed your tune ...
Udogie doesn’t count. Will contribute nothing to this season so stop clutching at straws. Bet I’m right.
We are not signing another player mate. I have said this for ages now. Latest KP tweet is pretty much sealed it for me. We will get this Udogie in, who’s back on loan anyway so doesn’t really count, then we will try selling the cast offs towards deadline. Guarantee we sign nobody else for this season
Yeh said it all along on here. Personally don’t think we will sign another player now. This Udogie, but he’s going back on loan anyway.
Well you will need to accept it, as that’s what’s happening. Spurs won’t be making anymore signings so the quicker you don’t get annoyed if we don’t the better.
Any money we don’t sign another player.
I don’t think we will see a new signing period.
Spence was the last one in my opinion. Quicker we accept that and hope that’s enough with the quality of our squad the better.
I’ll reiterate what i said a few weeks back. I personally feel Spence will be our last signing
Based on previous. Getting all our targets now and I personally think Spence will be our last signing
I don’t know, but i do know spurs and Levy mate. I get that feeling when our business is done.
I personally think Spence will be our last signing. Are people happy with this? I don’t think we are going to go all out for this other CB now Lenglet is here and I certainly don’t think we are spending big on a CAM either.
What is the point bringing them in for WB role. We already 2 mediocre rwbs in royal and Doh with silence untried. I’d rather give spence a go than convert Adama or janes. We were supposed to upgrading the WBs not down grading. We are filling our squad with mediocre players. Fock just keep Gil and give him the chance to develop with the first team squad. Said it many a time why buy him then loan him to only then bring a replacement who is no better?
I think we can forget the idea of a creative midfielder seeing as Conte has in his head a system of playing that players either suit or they don't.
I guess we have to trust him and the rest of the set up to get this right especially as the gooners look very slick admittedly it's only a few games in but they are looking better compared to our sluggish start.
I guess we have to trust him and the rest of the set up to get this right especially as the gooners look very slick admittedly it's only a few games in but they are looking better compared to our sluggish start.