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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Pedders81 said:
for me in the current set up I would play Eze instead of Maddison but in the bigger picture I see Eze as complimenting our squad, giving us a different skill set to what we currently possess. Look at City (I’m not on about their spending power)… they often play Rodri and 4 creative midfielders. There’s times where they’ve no natural pace/width in the team yet they’re absolutely lethal. I know a lot of this comes down to tactics and mentality but they’ve such a diverse squad in terms of skill sets that they can frequently adjust their approach depending on their opponent. Whereas with Spurs we’re currently very one dimensional. Not that it will happen, but we’ve a squad now that suits wing backs yet Ange doesn’t play this way. Given our lack of quality out wide, by adding Eze we could play something similar to City.

——————————— Vicario ———————————
——— Romero —— Dragusin —— Van de Ven ———
Porro —— Bissouma ——— Bentancur —— Udogie
—————— Maddison ——— Eze —————————
————————— New striker ——————————

or Maddison/Eze then a new striker and Son
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TravellerOfBoth said:
Honestly, I've been thinking for a while now that a great solution for us could be a back 3. We have three excellent centre backs, two of which (Romero and Van De Ven) like to charge up the pitch. Porro and Udogie are good full backs who could be astonishing wing backs if allowed to be. We don't have a pure holding midfielder in my eyes, but we do have a lot of players who could be part of a double six. I just think it could suit us down to the ground... We won't see it though.
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People are certainly stuck on formations and making players fit within Ange’s 4-3-3 we saw last season.

Its more about philosophy and principles than formation. The 4-3-3 we saw last season could’ve been the most basic way to intro his philology.

Ange has shown to be flexible in his past no reason to believe he won’t be again.
 
Pedders81 said:
for me in the current set up I would play Eze instead of Maddison but in the bigger picture I see Eze as complimenting our squad, giving us a different skill set to what we currently possess. Look at City (I’m not on about their spending power)… they often play Rodri and 4 creative midfielders. There’s times where they’ve no natural pace/width in the team yet they’re absolutely lethal. I know a lot of this comes down to tactics and mentality but they’ve such a diverse squad in terms of skill sets that they can frequently adjust their approach depending on their opponent. Whereas with Spurs we’re currently very one dimensional. Not that it will happen, but we’ve a squad now that suits wing backs yet Ange doesn’t play this way. Given our lack of quality out wide, by adding Eze we could play something similar to City.

——————————— Vicario ———————————
——— Romero —— Dragusin —— Van de Ven ———
Porro —— Bissouma ——— Bentancur —— Udogie
—————— Maddison ——— Eze —————————
————————— New striker ——————————

or Maddison/Eze then a new striker and Son
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Playing Eze instead of Maddison would make us even more blunt especially against low blocks. Eze isn't a passer, he will go by players though but that will slow us down even more and probably become even more predictable when we attack.

Also you know that the 3CB isn't going to happen under Ange don't you?
 
The 3 current links (Eze, Gallagher and Toney) are all with England and presumably focused on the tournament. How would we get deals done while they’re in Germany?
 
skywalker68 said:
Is advancing the same as preparing a bid or, on a different level.
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In contact with, considering, looking at, thought to have, discussing, approaching,

And then he signs for Chelsea after a mornings negotiating.

In all seriousness we have no one better at the club, and that tells you how piss poor we are as an attacking team since Harry left.

I just cannot see that Ange and the clubs new recruitment team are standing still on this player.
 
Shadydan said:
I'm convinced that fans want Eze because he costs a lot and it looks like we are showing ambition as opposed to him being the right profile fit because where does he play in an Ange team and why do we need him so bad?
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Richard Arlison said:
So he’d be more than fine if he needed to beat his man on either side from out wide if that was his role.

Anyway, this has got boring now. Eze is a good player, I’d be very happy to see him in a Spurs shirt and I think he’d help us get better and be more of a threat to the teams we want to catch up with
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More than fine, hmm let's see shall we...:D
 
RicharliSon said:
The Portuguese league is shit. While his numbers are still to be respected last season, I see it as the same level as the Dutch league, which is a league we've seen plenty of players have fantastic records in and then come to England and aren't able to put up anything like the same numbers. Dirk Kuyt and Mateja Kezman spring to mind. A couple of years ago he was hardly setting the world on fire for Coventry in the Championship. I think he's decent, but that's it.
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Zomb said:
He looks a great player

Good touch, strong and works hard, plus goals. Will add a lot to our build up and ability to progress the ball and make chances.
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Agree with Zomb. I think people don’t understand how much strikers cost. You need to pay a premium for the position, which makes sense because, you know, scoring kinda matters. I don’t know the exact figure we should be getting the player at but: striker is our biggest need. We need someone with ability to press and finish. He has both qualities and the fact that he’s hitting his peak years now is a good thing not a bad one.

I like young signings for the future too but we’re about to compete in 4 competitions and we have a realistic chance in at least 3 of them. Buy the guy who works well in the system and has shown results as he’s in his peak years. It’s who we need.
 
dmize1 said:
Agree with Zomb. I think people don’t understand how much strikers cost. You need to pay a premium for the position, which makes sense because, you know, scoring kinda matters. I don’t know the exact figure we should be getting the player at but: striker is our biggest need. We need someone with ability to press and finish. He has both qualities and the fact that he’s hitting his peak years now is a good thing not a bad one.

I like young signings for the future too but we’re about to compete in 4 competitions and we have a realistic chance in at least 3 of them. Buy the guy who works well in the system and has shown results as he’s in his peak years. It’s who we need.
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I don’t think people understand that sticker has the smallest part to play in Ange’s teams

Wing and an attacking 8/10 are far bigger needs.
 
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