Your post calling me a cunt is obviously funny as you have some smiley faces. Kind of indicates the level on here !!
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Your post calling me a cunt is obviously funny as you have some smiley faces. Kind of indicates the level on here !!
Unless you're discussing David Raya you are off topic. Now to save the thread from you I shan't bother to answer any more of your troll posts.
That's the key for me, he's as near to a top level plug-and-play option as we're likely to attract.
Mamardashvili might take time to adapt to life in London and English football, with Raya that particular risk is completely eliminated.
Pay the man, Dan
This Raya negotiation has "backfire" written all over it. Chelsea just flipped Mendy so will be in splurge mode for a GK.
They could fuck about all window with Inter for Onana or try to prise Milan's starting GK away, or they could just pay up and get Raya...
The next Lloris needs to be able to pass and throw, and not letting in near post goals would be nice.
No... Because you didn't "gather" and share the "information" you're alluding to.
It was my post from earlier
Why are Brentford being so weird about Raya?
One of their fans has posted an argument they had with Fabrizio Romano accusing him of receiving money from Raya’s agent
Brentford fan’s deleted the post of their phone call with Fabrizio now though
Spurs should be aiming to be the Prem’s equivalent of Napoli, Atletico/Sevilla, Dortmund. All teams who win stuff often enough.
We don’t have the clout to sign the best of the best and we should be scouting domestically and abroad for the next big thing.
When I see people having meltdowns over Raya and Maddison (and Laporte/Pickford/Martinez), I see a complete lack of imagination and signings that cap our potential at 6th place or so.
However betting on a core group of U24s that can peak together in 2-3 years can get us back to those 2016 levels. Then we’d be in a position to kick on.
The World Cup showed that there are too many good players now to just restrict yourself to shopping in one market. HG issues? Look to the youth team and what the championship has to offer. It’s always been a source of Salvation for us
“Prem proven” is a fallacy. I can only think of 2 established players that we signed from within the prem in the last 15 years that lived up to, and exceeded expectations - Dembele and Wanyama. We Essentially loaned Defoe to Portsmouth for a year so that doesn’t count.
Darren Bent underwhelmed
Bentley a disaster
Palacios - external issues
Dempsey too short a stay
Sissoko more of a cult hero than a genuinely quality player
Richarlison…
The pool of talent is far too deep in world football to have such a narrow mindset.
It was a joke by me ref the phone call. Apparently an unfunny one because I didn't use any swear words or insult other posters. The joke was on topic by comparing myself to Fab as Trevor called him !!
You're right but as I said there's no football for 4 weeks.
What's the difference in getting him now and a week to go before pre season?
Probably cost around the same or more than Raya but is younger with higher upside. Guess it all depends on payment installments.
To stop other teams from hijacking the deal.
He’s moving his place of work from TW5 to EN2. I’ve been to both places and I’m sure he can cope with the accent change
.Kind of defeats the whole “prem proven” argument.
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This annoys me because he is a completely different profile of keeper. Just shows how scatterbrained the scouting is.
He’s good but in the traditional sense.
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Raya’s ballplaying ability is being overhyped.
He’s good at picking out long passes (something he won’t do under Ange). His short under pressure passing isn’t an ideal fit either.
In that sense, scouts might not see a huge difference between the 2
You must’ve seen the same YT video I did that caused concern.
However I came across this rebuttal:
Mamardashvili is definitely in the Courtois/Donnarumma style. I’m not against signing him because he’ll likely be a top notch GK in the traditional sense, but if Ange wants an extra outfield player in possession, it’s not ideal.
Who's the other teams? I thought Utd and Chelsea have their targets already?
I don't disagree in principle but I also just have zero faith in the structures which exist at this club to go out and pick out players who are under the radar. I also think you need to supplement these signings with big transfers who fix immediate problems as a club with our resources. Maddison doesn't do that imo, but Raya? Maybe.
If we were a cutting edge, data led club then I'd trust it. But if we miss out on Raya we'll probably go for Pickford, that's where we're at.
Sadly, I agree.
What makes the prem-centric approach even more maddening is that because of rivalries, we are limited to 16 teams we can do business with.
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