i dont know about him. he was going to enter his last year of contract this summer and signed a new long term deal when his on is career peak.
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i love Dele, but from our best players he's the one i see force a way out to a major club in spain.praying to be wrong
It's certainly possible, but if we keep progressing as a club and offer him the wages he deserves, he'll stay IMO.
Shame we will now lose out on all those unknown gems Mitchell and 'his' scouts got us from Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain and Portugal.
Leicester lost Steve Walsh, yet no massive articles on how they'll lose out.
Scouting/recruiting jobs are usually a merry go round. They leave and arrive quite frequently.
Leicester lost Steve Walsh, yet no massive articles on how they'll lose out.
Scouting/recruiting jobs are usually a merry go round. They leave and arrive quite frequently.
Still all part of a Poch re-build for me. Time will tell but he is Manager now, he is the boss, finally Levy has a man he trusts to run football.
Just my theory and I'm sticking to it until we hire Sherwood as DoF/Sporting Director or whatever capacity we are looking for to replace Mitchell with.
Trippier? Son? Wanyama? Wimmer?
Wanyama? Alli? Toby?
They ain't been too shabby.
Nor them. Even Sissoko is looking a decent player, much to my surprise.
Dier???
Lamela...eventually
Not sure we have a problem finding talent
Not sure we have a problem finding talent
Forgive me. That is a major error.
Wanyama? Alli? Toby?
They ain't been too shabby.
Not hard buys though.
Wanyama - A solid midfielder who had 2-3 years in the prem and who Poch had worked with before coming to end of his contract. Easy choice.
Toby - Great defender at Ajax, moved to Athletico Madrid where he wasn't made used of then went to Southampton and showed how incredible he was. Easy choice.
Alli - Talked up by the BBC 1-2 years before we even bought him as "the next Gerard". He was a regular 2 years before we bought him, at he age of 17-18. There was more talk about Alli than some of us seem to realise - for us he's the "Quality player out of the blue", wasn't really the case. Young English player with 24 goals in 88 games at the age of 18 for £5mil or so? Easy choice.
Son - One of the top scoring midfielders in Germany? Easy choice.
Lamela - One of the best young players in Europe, performing well at a high level and scoring a fair few goals? Expensive, but quality was plain to see.
The players where scouting was actually needed are: Lopez (Unknown), GKN (Unknown), Njie (Unknown, possible fail), Wimmer (Good player), Trippier (Good player), Dier (Very good player). Fazio, Stambouli, Yedlin all big failures.
Our set up is amazing at convincing gems to join us and more importantly to stay, but it isn't the best at finding them. Is it awful? Not at all, but some over-rate it. Toby, Wanyama, Alli didn't require a huge amount of thinking or digging to find.
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Alli was scouted by Pleat, Wanyama and Toby were known quantities. The recruitment in the last couple of windows has been poor
Wanyama? Alli? Toby?
They ain't been too shabby.
Fuck me, here's the black dog of doom again to piss all over our chips.
Cheer up will ya?
I don't think so. Any English player with half a brain knows he can make more in England than he can anywhere else. If Dele forces a move, then it will be to Man United or Man City. IMO, the most likely player to force a move elsewhere is Alderweireld. Barca, Man City, and Man United all need a good defender, and he's one of the best in Europe. Sooner or later one of them will come to him with an offer....I just hope Levy works his magic and gets 60 million euros+ out of it, or Toby holds his ground and helps turn Spurs into a powerhouse.i love Dele, but from our best players he's the one i see force a way out to a major club in spain.
You said our signings had been poor.
They haven't.
Frankly I don't care if we pick up players who are known quantities if the price is right & they perform. I'd rather have a Dele at £5 million than some of these foreign wonderkids for double or treble that amount. I think we've got it right for our squad & first team. If we are talking about scouting kids to join the academy, then once again, the production line seems to be working smoothly enough to me.
He doesn't fit the system which is very important, wages will be very high and the porn barons won't sell to us.