One can live in hope: He would be the bees knees!
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Almost certainly not - but he's the perfect example of an opportunistic signing if the stars aligned to make it at all possible.
There are a fair few excellent players who made ill-advised moves to mega rich clubs - some of whom may be more than happy to try their hand at PL football. It's paying their wages that would be the sticking point.
I want to try Lamela as a 10, just to see if he could do it, but if he can't, I do wonder about Pritchard in a couple of years time. He's not ready to be a consistent starter in all likelihood, but the pieces are there for him to potentially be that player.
He is also lightweight, loves the odd ball hogging and is heavy on the form swings. Don't get me wrong, I rate the lad (as I do Lamela), I just don't see him as the type of player we need. Him and Eriksen would be all up in each others business. Don't really think he'd fancy us either
ochsulk:Weren't we trying that with Eriksen on the left in pre-season? I thought it was looking pretty good to be honest, but wasn't continued by Poch.
As we saw in the Burnley game when he came on, I think Lamela can be good at holding onto the ball, jinking past a player, and doing a nice pass to a teammate. That isn't always the easiest thing to do out on the wing, and I wish we'd give him another chance to play at number 10 during the (increasingly unimportant) run in.
If I recall correctly, wasn't he seen as Totti's successor in the Roma team and would have eventually been moved to number 10 there?
To be honest, the idea of Eriksen, Lamela, and Pritchard all rotating in that front three behind Kane makes me excited.
That was my impression too.
I think part of the problem is that we either rely on Eriksen for goals, in which case he's too far forward to be in the ideal playmaker location, or we let him play deeper, but have no consistent offensive threat outside Kane, with LW and RW currently sputtering.
I agree about an Eriksen-Lamela-Pritchard band, and want to see it tried, but we're just passengers on the Pochettino express.
With Eriksen I prefer him out left as in the middle when recieving the ball he often gets bullied off it and we don't get him in the game, playing slightly to the left he IMO looks a bit more dangerous, as I said I think the central number 10 player has to be good at both receiving/holding the ball and making clever passes, that's possibly either Lamela or Pritchard but hard to tell, I would love us to have a player like David Silva in the team but someone like him is hard to find.
My reason for asking about this is at the moment the fundermental issue I see is that Chadli, Eriksen and Townsend/Paulinho are unable to retain possession and then link with those around them well. This means that Mason and Bentaleb move the ball forward only to see it come back again in the form of a counter attack. Burnley was a shocking performance but I think we would have done better with the likes of Dembele at number 10 holding off two or three players and therefore allowing us to retain the ball in an attacking area and build an attack. As far as I can see Kane is quite good at holding the ball, Dembele is excellent and Lamela is ok, the rest are poor at it and it really affects our build up play.
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I think he's a decent squad player and has been under used, could have allowed Mason some rest, who's now knackered.
From a handful of post match and press interviews I've seen of him his attitude appeared good, not a mercenary.
Pastore is a very technically superb player to watch, always liked him, built big and strong also for the type of player he is. Personally idlove him here, but we also need a fast little fucker, ie Lennon in his prime who will take a man and provide a quality delivery, whether that's an assist or cross. People like Depay, Gaitan, Salvio, Brahimi and Volland fit the criteria. I don't think Townsend will ever click in that sense and i don't know if Pritchard is that quick honestly. And the whole Pastore like hazard thing is reasonably accurate, very good technically, dribbling, passing, shooting but instead of having blistering pace alla hazard he is big and strong, able to bully a defender more.
Also with all these teams after Schneiderlin now, it's safe to say we won't be getting him, divert all attentions to Camacho now, only thing he lacks is premier league experience, I personally think he is better than Schneiderlin however in the CM destroyer role we really need, good in the air and willing to sit in front of back 4
Do you know anything about this Weigl fella?
I like it. Tactically drilled and efficient players, those germans.
Howedes would be a solid signing. Can play across the back four too. Centre back pool of Wimmer, Dier, Vertonghen and Howedes is pretty good. I'm assuming we'll be selling Kaboul, Chiriches and Fazio in the summer if that is the case. Three of those four capable of filling in at full back too if needed.
I'm on for scouting the German market.
I'm on for scouting the German market.
Haven't seen him play to be honest because I'm not watching the second division. But a lot of people are talking about this young fella. He is also a u20 national.
Absolutely right. & the German league is far more like the EPL than the Spanish, Italian or French (etc) leagues. Fast paced & physical so it's not as big a culture shock to players coming from a league like that to ours.
Think that's quite a huge understatement...
Lets be honest, if we get Howedes we're punching well above our weight. He won't be short on options.
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