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Richard Arlison said:
Now I want to send them Hall and Lankshear as well and Donley :ange-lol:
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First & foremost, I want us to send our kids where there's a creative & daring coaching staff. Where they play modern, front-foot stuff. It's gotta be teams who got the same philosophy as Spurs otherwise what's the point.

I don't mind sending them to teams where they're gonna have to fight for their spot and where they ain't gonna win every weekend, even where they gonna have to fight relegation. Teaches them the hard way and can only be beneficial in the long run...talent is one thing, but gotta have the broad shoulders and brass nuts for when the shit hits the fan. You don't build that through loans where everything goes nicely rosey.

Also important not to send the kids too far from Hotspur Way or if you gonna send them further afield and especially abroad, at least make sure they got family in that area or that a relative goes with...I've heard too many stories of kids being sent to so & so on their own and they struggled big time. We're talking about young boys, sure they need to mature and already earn decent cash, but it's vital they got that support network right there with them.

Oxford ticks a lot of boxes.
 
Jaynola said:
First & foremost, I want us to send our kids where there's a creative & daring coaching staff. Where they play modern, front-foot stuff. It's gotta be teams who got the same philosophy as Spurs otherwise what's the point.

I don't mind sending them to teams where they're gonna have to fight for their spot and where they ain't gonna win every weekend, even where they gonna have to fight relegation. Teaches them the hard way and can only be beneficial in the long run...talent is one thing, but gotta have the broad shoulders and brass nuts for when the shit hits the fan. You don't build that through loans where everything goes nicely rosey.

Also important not to send the kids too far from Hotspur Way or if you gonna send them further afield and especially abroad, at least make sure they got family in that area or that a relative goes with...I've heard too many stories of kids being sent to so & so on their own and they struggled big time. We're talking about young boys, sure they need to mature and already earn decent cash, but it's vital they got that support network right there with them.

Oxford ticks a lot of boxes.
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Strong agree.

Parrot in the Erie seems to have gone well. Euro loans should definitely be on the cards too.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Why are you so against Neto?

Just the injuries? or you think the end product isn't there?
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Just another long-term injury waiting to happen. I mean, the lad's missed about 600 days over the past 4 years! Gotta be in the global top 5 or 10 most often out.

No matter how talented he is, the fact he was ever considered worries me a great deal about our decision-makers. It's utterly idiotic, no other way to put it.

50 or so mil for a guy who's as fragile as Sessegnon. Do we ever learn?!?!
 
Jaynola said:
Just another long-term injury waiting to happen. I mean, the lad's missed about 600 days over the past 4 years! Gotta be in the global top 5 or 10 most often out.

No matter how talented he is, the fact he was ever considered worries me a great deal about our decision-makers. It's utterly idiotic, no other way to put it.

50 or so mil for a guy who's as fragile as Sessegnon. Do we ever learn?!?!
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Unless they know more about those hamstrings than we do?

I agree on his injuries but last year it was both hammy's. If they have any reason to believe they can get his hamstrings in shape and his price is in the 40m rage because of his injuries, I can see why they might be looking. Kane had dodgy ankles for a few years and then figured it out.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Strong agree.

Parrot in the Erie seems to have gone well. Euro loans should definitely be on the cards too.
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Yeah I'm defo not saying no to foreign loans. I actually think our kids should go on 2 or 3 loans minimum before they make the 1st team squad here...unless they're supremely talented ofc. And though I want the majority of them loans to English teams, an experience in Germany, Holland or France, where they give younguns a proper shot and where they generally play attractive football, that's defo a wise tactic. Belgium and Portugal decent shouts too, especially if they get to play in European competitions.

In an ideal world, we'd build some sort of affiliates program and have a network of minimum 5 or 6 well-structured clubs here & abroad where we send players year in year out. Consistency is key and I'd rather that than those odd one-off loans to teams in Sweden, Poland and the likes.
 
Richard Arlison said:

View: https://x.com/thfc_cho/status/1806365877194960942


This kid is meant to be the absolute shizzle.

Rumours are his club president said they are in negotiations with a London club in the top 20 in the world...

Sounds like Spurs buy and loan back maneuver all day tbh
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Min hyuk yang, just from a marketing and money point of view you would think the club doesn't want to loose it's big south Korean following .

still wouldn't surprise me if that's Chelsea they're talking about
 
McCOYS said:
An option for CB might be to take Rodon back, as 4th choice CB. At least until January, I'd be ok with that. I think I read somewhere that Dragusin can play RB.

Drăgușin has also played as a right-back on occasion. Acording to his Wikipage.
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I’d be fine with Rodon as 4th choice. Doubt we’d be able to buy one as good for that position, that may accept his place. Even if we could, maybe £20m?
 
Kaz Hirai said:
just from a marketing and money point of view you would think the club doesn't want to loose it's big south Korean following .

still wouldn't surprise me if that's Chelsea they're talking about
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Probably Chelsea and at some point this talent hoarding they are doing needs to be stopped. At least by agents. It can't be good for the game when one club is just buying every highly rated talent and leaving them in different affiliate clubs around the world. They end up either destroying generations of talented players or in a position of way too much power in the market.
 
Shadydan said:
Your reading compression and general lack of understanding about context is as per usual utterly abysmal, nowhere did I say that I am 'content' with just attacking football and developing younger players or not being successful, Christ what a desperate takeaway from such a basic post, what are we even doing here? lmao
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Ironic 😁
 
Confusius said:
How about if we get
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Or
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Richard Arlison said:
Unless they know more about those hamstrings than we do?

I agree on his injuries but last year it was both hammy's. If they have any reason to believe they can get his hamstrings in shape and his price is in the 40m rage because of his injuries, I can see why they might be looking. Kane had dodgy ankles for a few years and then figured it out.
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It's not just his hammies, though.

Ankle, calf, knee, thigh, hammies...just needs to break a foot and he's done the whole leg. And all were serious injuries.

I used to work with some of the MotoGP guys and also some former basketball players back in the day (not bragging) and every single one of them told me that you never ever recover 100% from ankle and knee injuries. You always leave some in the operating theatre.

When I played, I did both ankles, the right one pretty bad...played a pass, saw a big fucker coming right at me with a late nasty tackle, jumped over it but then landed badly and ended up having my peg face the wrong way. Puked my guts out then passed out on the pitch, such was the pain. I was out for months and was genuinely concerned I'd never be able to walk properly again, let alone run & play football. Luckily it healed...but...pre-injury I was a pretty fast fucker, I could put in sweet crosses and would bang in a fair few free kicks, also had a decent leap...I tell you what, when I returned, despite having really looked after myself, done proper rehab & reinforcements and all, I was never the same. It wasn't just psychological either, you just feel your body ain't the same and it's an atrocious feeling. In my case, it's not one yard of pace I'd lost, it was friggin 5. If I had a proper career, it'd have ruined it in no time, for sure. Obviously I wasn't an elite pro with access to the very best facilities & docs, didn't have big wads to spend on specialists outside the club's etc etc, but still.

I feel for the Netos and Sessegnons of this world, and yeah there's always the chance you could suddenly become Iron Man, but far more often than not, you'll just end up injured again. Happened to so many players, like two of my all-time faves...the great Marco van Basten and the class Fernando Redondo.
 
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