Seemingly a really good player - though with youth talent and player satisfaction in mind, I'm hoping we're looking to rotate the centre backs heavily to balance minutes for everyone. Perhaps Micky as a LB is something they're happy with going forward (for injury/suspension scenarios, at least).
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Seemingly a really good player - though with youth talent and player satisfaction in mind, I'm hoping we're looking to rotate the centre backs heavily to balance minutes for everyone. Perhaps Micky as a LB is something they're happy with going forward (for injury/suspension scenarios, at least).
If we are planning to spend 40m on another CB maybe next season we will be playing a 3-4 -1 -2 formation.
Romero - Drags - VDV
Porro - Biss - Bent - Udogie
Mads
Son - Richy
I liked what Werner has offered to us this season, but we should be absolutely away from signing him, we should be looking for a first team player and keep Kulu and Johnson as subs, and we also will have Solomon for that position.
Toney and Gimenes aren't the answer for anything, we should be going for someone better an keep Richarlison as sub, he's probably better than both.
Gyokeres
Richy or a replacement striker is totally inadequate. We will need 2 if Richy is sold.
With that, surely Ange would have to ditch his inverted full back system as we would have no width in the team. Porro and Udogie would have to provide the width,
Who though, realistically?
I hear you about strikers but City also won more prem titles without Haaland than with him. Spurs and Newcastle won fuck all with Kane and Isak.
The Firminho type of false 9 link man, I’m right there with you 100% but we need to fuck Havertz out of this conversation. He’s still shit and they didn’t win.
I think what we don’t have is the technical ability up front to keep the ball, link play and also some decision making. Then on top of that we don’t have a forward that terrifies defenders 1v1. A big #9 could do that but we can do it without one as well if we get players like Eze, Simons, or Olise out wide.
Toney is a decent target man with decent touch but we’ve never seen him against a deep block or in a team that wants to keep the ball and we have no idea what happens to his touch when you double the amount of running he’s doing because we are pressing to get the ball back straight away.
Werner and Richy are the perfect excuse for Levy to pull the rug and say that budget isn’t needed for 2 forwards.
Nobody would be surprised if we ended up with Werner on another loan and only 1 forward signed. He did it with the 2 CBs we needed last summer. Dav Sanchez and Dier were the excuse and it cost us our season.
I think you and
Klaus
are both right. It seems possible to make convincing arguments for and against signing him. I wonder how much we will be dictated by a lack of other options. I hope we don’t go for Solanke for one, I just think he’ll flop.I think you and
Solanke is probably out of our price range. I like him but also with you that I’m expecting him to have a worse season next year than this one.
I’m pretty intrigued by Guirassy and need to find a way to watch him some more. €17.5m clause, reasonable wages currently and was apparently always mobile but very good for hold up and bringing people into the game. This season he’s become prolific as well.
Same age as Toney but if we are keeping Richy and have young strikers possibly coming through like Lankshear or Veliz/Scarlett maybe Guirassy is lower risk and possibly even higher reward….
Agree we need two, but I was alluding to fact if Richy stays it will be 50m less for Ange to spend.
Agree totally, it's rare you see a leopard change its spots.
I am a celtic part time fan as well and said to an avid Celtic fan that it was likely within two yrs neither of our clubs would have Ange, as Levy would inevitably short change him and screw him over and in true spurs tradition it would be the managers fault and the cycle continues.
Lets hope for once we back a manager and give him a good crack at success.
He’d be much more of a risk than Toney, although granted, I haven’t seen much of him but with one decent season under his belt he could just be another Michael Ricketts.
I’m not banging the drum for Toney btw, just using him to illustrate a dearth of options. I just don’t want us to fudge it by only bringing another winger in and the spurs PR pushing it out as solving our attacking options.
It's actually more than 1 decent season for Guirassy.
23/24 - 28 goals from 28 games at a rate of a goal every 79mins !!! (holy fuck)
22/23 - 11 goals from 22 at a rate of a goal every 150mins
Overall the last 2 seasons he's scored at a rate of a goal every 99 mins.
That's a better 2 season stretch than Toney has had in his life , including the lower leagues. Given the financials and the risk attached with Toney's character, I'd still say that Guirassy is much LESS risk than Toney. Especially if you are keeping Richy because Toney will definitely expect to start over Richy even if he;s not scoring. Guirassy would be in a new league and possibly more patient (that's a guess).
Your last point is my biggest concern of the window. I can already see it so clearly... We bring one striker and then come up with excuses about no buyers for Solomon so we end up just bringing Werner back and acting like we haven't just left another manager short in a key area.
Should be o
Should be okay with those 4 as a 6 based on what? We had them this year (
Apart from odd patches and bentas injury) and it obviously gave us no defensive solidity at all
You say Guirassy is less of a risk than Toney but in no way can that be remotely true. Toney has experience of playing in the league,knows the opposition,scores goals in the league and lives in London.
It’s the complete opposite.
Guys like Guirassy are much bigger risks than players that have proved themselves at this level and are settled here.
As I said before I’d prefer the likes of Gyokeres,Vlahovic or Sesko but those are not happening. We must get the centre forward signing correct or we are looking at another season relying on Richy or Sonny at centre forward if whoever comes in doesn’t hit the ground running.
