A kind of cunt, the kind that starts a post with 'personal opinion' and then immediately follows it by stating it's personal opinion as 'we know'
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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26
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Trouble is there's no legs/pace in our deeper midfielders only burgvall, he tries but he's limited... Gallagher will fill a void hopefully very well
The decision for the club now, is whether to drop Kudus & Bentancur from the Champions League squad; and write off Kulu coming back this season.
Tel will definitely expect to be first in line - and there is no way another attacking player will sign with Spurs without assurances he will be in the Champs League squad. And will the new backup full back be included?
Tel will definitely expect to be first in line - and there is no way another attacking player will sign with Spurs without assurances he will be in the Champs League squad. And will the new backup full back be included?
Just to add and ask, just who do we have currently who can do any of this?
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Spurs fans are some of the most deluded in world football after United fans.
Its a great signing for us right now.
Gotta take into account the wages as well as just the fee, though. Atletico put him on 150k and Chelsea apparently offered him a contract extension of around the same (but only after they dicked him around for months).
Not many clubs in Europe at all are gonna pay those types of wages, especially outside of the PL, so the pool of clubs that can actually afford him massively shrinks. Especially when most top PL clubs have pretty established top quality central midfield options.
I reckon if his wage demands were lower - say 50-100k p/w there would be far more clubs interested and the transfer fee would be higher. It also explains why Atletico are willing to get him off their books for a lower price as he's like their 4th top wage earner and he's not a consistent starter.
As a comparison, a big reason we were so happy to shell out so much on Archie Gray and why Chelsea have spent so much on youngsters is cos you can get away with paying them them much lower wages.
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Yeah, he looks fuggin decent, but come on, it's YouTube, we all know all to well some pulled together highlights can make any player look amazing, so let's not get too ahead of ourselves.....
Oh, lucky boy. Worse places to live than Palo Alto.
- English
- 25 years old
- Experience in Prem and Champions league
- NEVER missed a game through injury
- Smart person
If he's good enough to captain Chelsea, and good enough for Athletico - he's good enough for Spurs.
If he was good enough for Atletico, going out on a limb to say, maybe he wouldn't have been made available, and played more.
The issue is that it's not that he's a bad player. He's a good player, but number 1, wrong profile of what we need. We dont need another runner like Bents, Sarr and Berg.
Secondly, we pretty much don't have a manager. He's finished and it's a matter of time. We should not be buying opportunistic punts, just because, especially when we're going to have a new manager who might not want him and we've added to the deadwood.
Thirdly, He's going to be a top earner, and I'm sure promised the world. He's better than what we have, but if this is the type of statement signing we're getting then we're not going forward (which is very evident).
In a vacuum, it's fine. But this just reeks of them scrambling, seen he was available and bought him. Makes much more sense for Villa than us, but more sense for him to come here because he wants game time before the world cup. It's a total non-mover of the needle.
Why in gods name would you put this in writing?
Why in gods name would you put this in writing?
Dr Tottenham will see you now
Bents will likely miss the rest of the season
Palhinha is on loan (and 31 years old)
Bergvall is still only 19
Grey is only 18
Sarr is 22
3 kids, and an old man on loan - Sounds like we absolutely needed an experienced player in his prime playing that position.
I thought everyone wanted us to pay the going rate for these players and raise our wage budget so we actually get them?
We do need a different profile of CM
BUT
With Bentancur (and most likely Bergvall) injured for a while, we do also need another player of this profile and we needed to upgrade Bentancur in the long term anyway.
If you see Gallagher as an opportunity to upgrade Bentancur now instead of the summer, he's a good signing.
Good luck to the lad. Came here twice, gave it his all, scored a couple, assisted a couple...he just lost his mojo when he went to the cunts in blue. But he always worked hard for us and wasn't a shithead. Hope he does well in the States.
It's a lovely notion but I'm absolutely expecting Bentancur to still be here in 2 seasons time, finding it very difficult to get excited for this signing as I feel it's an incredibly short-term response to injuries that will soon be assuaged by the return of Sarr from AFCON and Bergvall from injury anyway, both of whom do much the same thing on the pitch as Gallagher. I won't deny he is probably a distinct upgrade on our next best player (Sarr or Bergvall IMO) in that role, but frankly I'm more depressed than anything by this transfer as you can definitely write off the possibility of us buying a passing midfielder until we've trimmed the midfield in the summer now.
I will concede his energy and pressing will be a welcome addition in a team that desperately needs individuals showing those qualities, so maybe from that angle it might prove a good transfer, akin to when Parker came in to steady the ship for 'Arry in MF. Fingers crossed.
Yeah I think it's defo a good thing - Levy woulda probably turned his nose up at this type of deal cos of the wages. He would've been all over the loan with an option, no doubt, then tried to wrangle a discount.
Thing is, even if we are offering higher wages we need to pick the right players or we'll just end up like Man Utd.