We need a striker. No position, maybe outside of a better midfield option than Bissouma and Hjojberg is as important. Surely not in question.
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We need a striker. No position, maybe outside of a better midfield option than Bissouma and Hjojberg is as important. Surely not in question.
Had a one year option they likely wouldn't take because of the wages and the fact he's not played for Spurs for fuck knows how long.
Guaranteed this happened because it made the most financial sense to Tottenham primarily as cynical as it sounds.
How does he not fit into this team? He is a creative attacking midfielder and we play with one of those.
Maddison I'm afraid has done nowhere near enough to stop a potential replacement being signed. We clearly need another option there and he clearly needs the competition. What he served up last season wasn't good enough.
Both Eze and Maddison are better wide attackers than Son and Werner
if Son and Richy are our strikers next season, there is no hope
If a striker is not available better than Richarlison, then no point in buying, regardless of what we might want.
And if that is the case we need to find other ways to improve the squad which improve our goal scoring - not dissimilar to Liverpool playing Mo Salah as a forward who wasn't a conventional striker.
Giving up on Maddison who's only been here a season and cost us £40m is wild and just totally premature.
Also paying that much money for a player who is essentially only competition for Maddison is also mental, we are talking about a £60m instant downpayment on a player so he needs to be a certified starter.
Also Eze and Maddison are nowhere near alike anyway so he's not really a like for like replacement.
Maddison needs definite competition for sure. He’s always been a bit injury prone and was outright assaulted by a host of defenders last season with referees giving him little protection.
But giving up on him is silly. He showed utter class before the injury. Both him and Bentancur have to hit the ground running after a proper preseason but their performances need to get back to the form we know they are capable of.
Nobody is giving up on him. We just can't hang a season where we will play 50+ games on him. It's not fair to anyone. We need a strong squad and that means two good players for every position.
If Maddison were like Luka Modric, always fit and always quality, maybe we could turn our nose up at Eze. But he isn't, he played 10 good games last season and 0 after his injury. It would be like saying we don't need a striker because Richarlison had a short run where he scored.
Yeah, but is Eze at 60m+ the best allocation of resources? He’s a cracking player but I’m not sure.
If our scouts find someone else for a good price that's fine too, I'm not wedded to Eze. But we absolutely need an alternative to Maddison.
Maddison is flimsy and fragile and will certainly get more injuries next season. We have to learn from last season's collapse not repeat the same mistakes.
Defo. Hopeful that Bergvall could make a Dele-like impact too. Although that is a bit of a longshot.
Yep. Our other 8's/6's don't score or assist enough goals. All our other midfield options aren't going to do what Maddison does if he's struggling with form or injured.
Eze homegrown and we are short on those.
Exactly. 60mil on a player that is 2nd best LW and arguably only equal to our best 10, is NOT the most efficient allocation of resource. Its clear that Ange views Son as more a CF so we need a dribbly LW and RW as our current wing options are useless against low blocks which we were facing more and more of as teams worked us out
Didn’t eze also miss a good chunk of last season injured? And was really on fire at the back end of last season. Whereas madders was absolutely cooking until the injury, I’d say between him and odegard as the best AM’s in the league
Again I’m not against it, unless it means we don’t go out and get an out and out tricky winger (which eze is not)
People do have selective memories when it comes to our own players
Again I’m not against it, unless it means we don’t go out and get an out and out tricky winger (which eze is not)
People do have selective memories when it comes to our own players
Sure but Doue definitely prefers the wing. He might be able to play 10 but he is more of a winger, a dribbly one too that beats defenders either way which is what we are crying out for against low block sides
bus-conductor ever watched Jota Silva or Ritsu Doan? Never heard of them but heard we've scouted him
No, sorry.
We play with two of those. The two who play in front of the sitter should be creative types that can get into the box. Your full backs are your extra midfield players. Eze and Maddison would be outstanding together in our team. We play so many games against teams who have no interest in coming out and playing so we need as many creative types in the team as possible against those types of teams.
If we don’t fix our front line then it won’t make a blind bit of difference who plays in midfield. Front three are horrific at keeping the ball and it must be frustrating as fuck for the rest of the team. Out of Sonny,Richy,Deki,Werner and Johnson we don’t have one player who can play with their back to goal. Richy can’t do anything very good,Sonny,Werner and Johnson need space to run into and are straight line players and Deki plods about producing very good moments inconsistently.
We need a massive upgrade on a striker and wide player. If we don’t nothing changes for us next season.
I don't know what he prefers tbh mate. never seen him play a full game.
I can just look on transfermarkt and see that he has played all those positions and for France u23 the other day he was clearly playing more like a 10 than a wing.
I think we would play him LWF mostly but he'd be in the conversation for Maddison's role if he needed a rest or picked up a knock. Neto definitely wouldn't. That's all I'm saying mate.