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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26

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I think we should attempt to have a conversation with Rodrygo tell him hes the start of a complete overhaul with a couple of world class players a season coming in. Tell him we are serious and pay big bucks. We desperately need an A lister.

He is icing if anything, and like Savinho I am just not convinced.

We need to get the cake sorted in my opinion, and get the right ingredients, and someone who really knows how to bake.
 
We barely have the ingredients at all. And the same owners pretending they were not fully behind Levy's parsimony seems more than a bit of a stretch

Buying or acquiring Rodrygo does nothing to change that in isolation.

It's nearing the end of December.

I am already close to being disengaged for the 2nd successive year, so dispiriting following this team under Frank has become.

Nobody but nobody tell me Frank should not have us in the top 8 to 10 at this stage. The only bit of that on the owners is the bit that said 'You're hired'

Nobody was moaning too much when we signed Simmons, Muani and Palhinha.
 

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If this is true, Frank needs to be sacked tomorrow.

A physical pressing midfielder who treats the football like a stick of dynamite. He's 31 in Feb. After the signing of Palhina, it's really concerning if this is the profile Frank is pushing for. Old, slow players. Goretzka hasn't played well in about 5 years.


How are you still under the apprehension that our managers get their actual choice of player with the years of evidence at your disposal???
 
How are you still under the apprehension that our managers get their actual choice of player with the years of evidence at your disposal???

Hold on. If we want Goretzka it's because of Frank not the club, and that doesn't mean that I am under the impression managers get who they want.

Yes the managers don't often get who they want, but you are silly if you think 31 year old Goretzka would be a club signing rather than Franks.
 
Buying or acquiring Rodrygo does nothing to change that in isolation.

It's nearing the end of December.

I am already close to being disengaged for the 2nd successive year, so dispiriting following this team under Frank has become.

Nobody but nobody tell me Frank should not have us in the top 8 to 10 at this stage. The only bit of that on the owners is the bit that said 'You're hired'

Nobody was moaning too much when we signed Simmons, Muani and Palhinha.
You seem to be falling into the inter net binary where two things can't be true. In isolation Rodrygo vastly improves our attack, but setting that aside this profile player is about life beyond Frank.Tell me if you were coming as a top coach to Spurs if Rodrygo and Oshimen are in the squad would you be happier with the current options...No, Conte and Jose were seduced by the talent of Harry and Son and they said so. We want to shop higher for quality of coach improving the squad does this.

Frank wasn't my pick but having seen what Ange did last year to the team I expected i, and still expect 8th. So Im about where I thought we'd be. We have a poor squad full of overrated journey men and gone from an incompetent coach to an average one. Its not a quick fix
 
You seem to be falling into the inter net binary where two things can't be true. In isolation Rodrygo vastly improves our attack, but setting that aside this profile player is about life beyond Frank.Tell me if you were coming as a top coach to Spurs if Rodrygo and Oshimen are in the squad would you be happier with the current options...No, Conte and Jose were seduced by the talent of Harry and Son and they said so. We want to shop higher for quality of coach improving the squad does this.

Frank wasn't my pick but having seen what Ange did last year to the team I expected i, and still expect 8th. So Im about where I thought we'd be. We have a poor squad full of overrated journey men and gone from an incompetent coach to an average one. Its not a quick fix

I won't quite fall for your interpretation and how you have sought to lay a palatable foundation for a possible incoming coach, but I do admire the thinking.

I would be very surprised if our management are also in tune with you but you never know.

I'm also struggling to see a manager who deserves such a feast as one you are hoping the club provides.
 
I am not any kind of ITK but isn't the problem created right at the start with every head coach because we can't get the strategy right? Are we "do everything to win now"? Are we "take some lumps now to build with youth"?
With Mourinho and Conte it seemed like win now was the strategy, but they never got the tools they needed.
With Ange and it was build with youth, but panic stations when results are bad.
With Frank who knows? The new crew in charge said the priority is win now. Let's see what they do ...
 
Only 5 days until the warchest opens :freundgoal:
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