Gah, fucking Berahino again.
I give up.
I give up.
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So for those who disagree, would you be content with just Wanyama and Janssen this summer?
What I disagree with is that I have to suffer this same fucking question every season, with an ever revolving cast of names, absolutely regardless of how many or few we've already signed.
You mention having someone to come off the bench as a plan B, and then mention six players who're all 60m+ players
They don't use those players as a plan B. They're set up to use their skills from the off. And yes, we can improve, so you can stop not knowing what to say. Suggesting we improve with players with a skill set not being utilized in our tactical set-up is the bizarre part. Instead of wanting a player with those abilities for the squad, maybe stop and consider why that's the situation is that we don't have one. Could it be that Poch doesn't feel, it's what we need?
At times, mate. Not all the fucking time!
If at the end of this coming season it's evident that our transfer activity cost us the title or top 4, then bitch and moan away and tell us "I told you so." In the meantime, just sit back and enjoy this great Spurs project. You'll be happier for it, trust me.
at 15 20mill he would be a decent buy
Clearly you didn't see both Sanchez and Hazard have terrible season's. The Chav's finished a mighty 9th and Woolwich lucked out with our collapse. We had our own winners who arguably did it more than those names mentioned. Sturridge and Aguero are injury prone and were out scored by Kane. Martial was good in patches but certainly not consistent. Mahrez also had periods of going missing. Considering our squad was 'only' good enough for top 6 last season, I think the signs are there for us to do well with just a few new faces. We don't need wholesale changes as our first 11 is more than a match for anyone.
Sorry but if you watched us every week, it was abundantly clear we were struggling to unlock teams and lacked that bit of class that could turn draws into wins.
Our chance to goal ratio must have been crap imo
Not many top players will put their careers on hold whilst we take a few years to sort out the stadium & the cost of it.
To be fair, players don't come to us to win things. We aren't that sort of team if we are being honest.
But it will be a big test when bigger & better clubs come calling & we are suffering from the big stadium move.
Hazard yes I agree but Martial and in particular Sanchez were crucial for their teams. Sanchez is a game changer who even when Woolwich play badly which happened all the time last season baled them out.
A wide forward like Sanchez or Martial would significantly add firepower to our team and it is the type of player we lack really.
Well, at 658 total shots, we were #2 in Europe behind Real Madrid, and #1 in England. Our 69 goals were #10 across Europe, and #2 in England, giving us a conversion rate of 10.5%, which was lower than some, but we did not get any ridiculous luck, unlike some (like Leicester). We also struck the bar frequently.
Now, if you want to claim we struggled to break teams down, you can, but to claim we struggled more than others is actually measurable.
We had the most shots (658), and most shots on target (250) in the Premier League. So, we didn't struggle to make chances. We only scored the second most goals (69). So, other teams converted more of their chances. But, while creating chances is repeatable, conversion % is not. There is no way to predict who will get lucky on conversion % next year. It's not something controllable, and signing some "magic" dribbler won't change that.
Our ability to create chances is repeatable, and we are already the best in England at that.
Sanchez actually underperformed extremely badly last year, with a really low conversion %. He bailed them out of nothing.
Invariably strikers convert more of their chances. Our inability to score more from the opportunities we created was on nearly every occasion I can remember the reason we lost winning positions.
None of this is difficult to understand which is why I find our elongated and protracted negotiations such a fcuking joke.
It is just like the Brexiteers. Never really wanted to leave the EU as in we don't really want to challenge because we would not know how to cope if we actually won the Premier.
Just a gentle reminder that we actually have the best dribbler in the world.
£15mill wow - much more than expected but then again they pd 34 odd for mane - overpriced. Seems the EPL money making some clubs silly.
Is Mason price now gonna go up over 10? Bet levy trying it on.
Mason is a full England international, that surely adds £5m+ to his value, he must be worth equal/more than Townsend who was sold for £12-14m!
Two problems here:
1) Strikers convert more of their chances. Actually not true. Strikers shoot more, and seem to show aptitude at taking shots (hence how they got to be strikers), but not at converting them to goals. This has been measured, and is clear. Conversion % is not repeatable save for very few players.
2) You remember something. Memory is faliable. As in, not reliable. I don't care what you remember. I care what actually happened. Between stats and video, we can actually see everything that really did happen.
It's not hard to understand your point, no. It just happens to be factually incorrect.
As a Canadian, it wouldn't be right for me to waste a transfer thread on your national collective idiocy. I said my points already in the Brexit thread. Go there.
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