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Tottenham back away from signing 'dream' midfielder after learning Chelsea are paying £19m for him
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Tottenham back away from signing ‘dream’ midfielder after learning Chelsea are paying £19m for him
Brogan Clasper
Wed 26 June 2024 11:15, UK
Tottenham Hotspur were forced out of the race to sign an exciting young midfielder this summer after Chelsea became involved.
Midfield is an area where Ange Postecoglou is looking to add to at Tottenham with the likes of Conor Gallagher having been strongly linked.
TBR Football understands that Aston Villa’s Omari Kellyman was of interest to Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion and West Ham United.
Chelsea now look set to conclude a deal for the 18-year-old this summer with the midfielder having undergone his medical at Stamford Bridge.
Kellyman doesn't get into any England youth teams ahead of Jamie Donley which the real reason why Spurs won't bid for him.
And only reason for Chelsea's bid is its part of a Villa/Chelsea 'scheme' to make both their club's ffp issues a lot smaller or go away by each buying each others youths at high prices allowing £m profits to be booked by the both and reduce their ffp issues
Even if we buy that Polish attacking midfielder?
What about home grown quota
and what about meeting the home grown quota?
Quite possibly. Based off Ali Gold's last video, it also sounds like the scenario where Richarlison stays and we're bringing in 'competition' (the counter one being if Richarlison were to be sold to Saudi or somewhere similar and noises suddenly start coming out about us signing a higher profile striker).
The one that stands out is when Villa signed Ings from Southampton. Out of the blue, zero talk in the media beforehand, just got it done behind the scenes and confirmed it all
Lots of discussion about forwards to buy - worth reminding ourselves of the players with most goal involvements in PL last season :
Son - 17 g, 10a (total 27 Goal Involvements)
Richarlison - 11g, 4 a (15 GI)
Johnson - 5 g, 10a (15 GI)
Maddison - 4g, 9 a (13 GI)
Kulusevski - 8 g, 4 a (12 GI)
Porro - 3g, 7a (10 GI)
Sarr - 3 g, 3 a (6 GI)
Werner - 2g, 3 a ( 5 GI)
Udogie - 2 g 3 a (5 GI)
Romero - 5 g, 0 a (5 GI)
Most of Son's GI came when he was playing as centre forward (probably less than 5 GI when playing LW), which is why it makes sense to try to upgrade the LW position with the best player we can get so as to increase GI from the left if we can do this window - in effect upgrading on Solomon, Gil and Perisic who were our options last season, whilst keeping the experienced Werner.
Equally Richarlison's injury/unavailability record has substantially reduced his goal scoring, so if he's sold for a reasonable fee we could upgrade. If he's not sold he'd stay and Ange needs to try to manage his injuries and availability.
Son - 17 g, 10a (total 27 Goal Involvements)
Richarlison - 11g, 4 a (15 GI)
Johnson - 5 g, 10a (15 GI)
Maddison - 4g, 9 a (13 GI)
Kulusevski - 8 g, 4 a (12 GI)
Porro - 3g, 7a (10 GI)
Sarr - 3 g, 3 a (6 GI)
Werner - 2g, 3 a ( 5 GI)
Udogie - 2 g 3 a (5 GI)
Romero - 5 g, 0 a (5 GI)
Most of Son's GI came when he was playing as centre forward (probably less than 5 GI when playing LW), which is why it makes sense to try to upgrade the LW position with the best player we can get so as to increase GI from the left if we can do this window - in effect upgrading on Solomon, Gil and Perisic who were our options last season, whilst keeping the experienced Werner.
Equally Richarlison's injury/unavailability record has substantially reduced his goal scoring, so if he's sold for a reasonable fee we could upgrade. If he's not sold he'd stay and Ange needs to try to manage his injuries and availability.
If we can great. But I'm not totally convinced about Toney, so getting HG in other positions might be the solution - Eze for example would be a good upgrade and a top HG player.
You kind of answer your own question. Conte wasn't question not because he is an Italian, exactly as I'm not critical of Ange regarding his nationality. That arises as a result of the way the article frames Ange's stated desire to 'give a leg-up' to his Aussie brethren. Go look at it.
As for the licence given Antonio Conte that was based in hard fact. He had won the title in England in the EPL ditto Jose. That's how it works Rich and that's EXACTLY how it should work. Although a retrospective will show I did raise an eyebrow at the long list of 'analysts'and sundry other parasites Conte wanted on the pay roll. There was a meme from Good fellas to this effect that was posted.
Once Chelsea figure out how to get away with Cheating (again) it'll be like the wild west in the PL. Clubs like Newcastle, City, Vila and others will start doing what they like. Teams like Everton and Forest have owners with money but no income to validate spending.
Then there's us. 43% wage to income ratio. Strict adherence to FFP. Spend what you earn, at most.
Challenging for titles mate. FFP titles. Best financially run club titles. Winning at painfully slow organic growth titles. Best multipurpose entertainment arena that also hosts football titles.
Apparently Palace looking at Nusa and Jobe Bellingham.
Having signed up Wharton and already managed to find, sign and advance Eze and Olise, you have to think they're probably doing something right there.
That said, I haven't seen a minute of Nusa or Bellingham play so they could also be about to waste a lot of money.
If they sell Olise and Eze though, they'll have a lot of money to use and they seem to like younger players with promise but also evidence they can perform too.
Having signed up Wharton and already managed to find, sign and advance Eze and Olise, you have to think they're probably doing something right there.
That said, I haven't seen a minute of Nusa or Bellingham play so they could also be about to waste a lot of money.
If they sell Olise and Eze though, they'll have a lot of money to use and they seem to like younger players with promise but also evidence they can perform too.
What’s he doing ?
Why are they bothering to post this when the uptight Aussie kid has told us he’s not leaving Italy
Lied about it being his first post
Tbf they’ve spent aggressively the last 2 years and it’s got them nowhere
