Dier has lost it. Too heavy, slow and his decision-making has slowed down too. I'd be happier with Tanaganga getting minutes in a high line over Dier.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Dier has lost it. Too heavy, slow and his decision-making has slowed down too. I'd be happier with Tanaganga getting minutes in a high line over Dier.
Villa, Woolwich and Newcastle have had one season where they have looked better than us. Just one in about 7 years.
Let’s calm down a little bit.
The fact they went from being worse than us year after year after year and then got better in a bad year for us shows how quickly things can change in football.
You need to go back and look at the long term statistics, take a deep breath, and realise what the anomaly is. Clue: it was last season.
There’s a saying in Italy, if you’re born round you aren’t dying square.
That’s how I feel about almost all of our defenders sans Romero. They’ve had too many chances to think they are of the quality required for us to win things.
Sure we can pontificate and make narratives as to why they might be a little better under Ange. But you know what I’d like? Players who we don’t need to make any excuses for.
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I see a pattern.
Ange seems to 'like' all the wage thieves who Spurs can't sell or give away because of their huge salaries.
Hitchen disease is killing Spurs.
Sanchez isn't "fringe" we're one injury away from him playing.
Woolwich finished 2nd last season and conceded 20 goals less than us yet they've gone out and spent 40m on a defender who can challenge the starters. They also spent 20m on a prospect for that position in Jan, meanwhile we're negotiating over 5m for Ashley Phillips. They also spent circa 110m on a CDM.
This is called being aggressive, hungry and ambitous in the market. "Well they can't be as bad as last year" is the exact opposite of that sentiment.
And yeah-yeah "gooner" "praising the rivals" whatever, it's true. We're practically sedimentary in this transfer market and completely ignoring the biggest issue the team had all of last season. And people like you are excusing it by convenient coach blaming as if we don't have serious personnel issues.
An issue is we're going to be playing a high defensive line, with that lot, it's quite worrying.
So all of the people inferring something from the number of goals conceded last season are wrong?
A simple “yes” will suffice.
It was Lloris.
No it wasn't. We've gone backwards and other teams have gone forwards. Newcastle have obviously improved immeasurably since 2-3 seasons ago, Villa have signed a very good defensive coach AND signed Pau Torres, Woolwich have signed a 110m DM, Saliba's come in to the team, Timber etc etc..
If you're expecting us to magically go ahead of them just because "football changes" then you're living in a dream world. It changes because teams go ahead and make it change with the right transfers, hence why..
SIGN SOME FUCKING DEFENDERS YOU BALD CUNT!!!
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Do you remember when I said that we need to sign a new centreback?
We can’t have sensible discussions on here because people are constantly creating strawmans.
Completely agree. We need players more comfortable on the ball and some pace.
Just one?
You come across as very emotional. I’m sure you could add more value than you do because you’re a smart guy. Maybe this is just a place for you to let it all out.Yes, yes you're wrong. Horrifically, terribly, utterly wrong.
It's funny how some are more forgiving of some things than others of other....
As a far as I'm concerned; if Levy is DOF-by-proxy this summer then that's his own cross to bear... He should be hammering his zoom account on a daily basis, tour or no tour, London or Singapore until we have CBs through the door...... If he's been told to come back next week by BL or W'burg then get on the case and try and get some other shit moving; otherwise it's work that'll bottleneck and cause panic in other areas later down the line.
...If we have the other head scout bloke temping 'upwards' then shouldn't he be busting his arse trying to endear himself enough to get the job full time?
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You're acting like people are wrong to be panicking/getting angry at the situation and it's bullshit. The situation is shit. The fact we were 6th/7th best defensively under Jose when sitting in and cowering for 90 minutes doesn't change the shitness.
1 CB would be the absolute bare minimum and should have been done weeks ago.
One centreback with the right profile to go straight into the first team would be satisfactory.
If we can get a second then that’s great too but there a bigger issues to fix after that starter like the hole Kane will leave.
It doesn’t take much for people to panic or get angry!
The end result will be important. Clearly if we end up scraping in Lenglet then that will not be good enough. If we have to wait another couple of weeks and get a top quality defender in at the last minute then there’s been a lot of wasted cortisol.
Can he play CB?