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I for one am glad we've beaten Burnley in this war of attrition to be the #Bravest
Okay, they're going to have to sell someone though I would've thought.
It's total bollocks. So one guy has to sit out the Champions League group stages, who cares?
That is an interesting point to make!
So who’s to blame Pochettino or Levy.
Sound like Levy backing the manager.
No one knows what goes on behind closed doors. I never believe this "I know someone who knows xyz and he said........................... (Enter bullshit). I trust poch but levy has a history of working like this so who do we think is to blame. Yet again everything is done late. Even tho we have champs league football on offer we still dont use this to our advantage. Fucking do something levy!
McGinn has been rubbish this game.
Do not want.
Do not want.
Well it has been mentioned actually, specifically for Chelsea, which is why they are repeatedly linked to same players as us.
It's also precisely why they signed Rob Green and United signed Lee Grant.
It's a little bit more acute than that - if we signed an over 21 year old foreign trained player we'd have to leave out 4 players from our PL squad and 5 players from our CL squad.
In short, we aren't going to sign a foreign trained player without selling at least one......all links to a player not trained in England are complete bollocks
Which brings me back to the point I made earlier (again, without giving credence to SC's claims re: Martial): if we've allowed our HG quota to get so out of shape that it's preventing us signing affordable, quality non-HG players, then it's a massive fuck-up on our part.
Please explain. You get 25 slots in the CL, only 17 of which can be over-age foreign trained. We're already at that cap, so if one comes in, someone gets squeezed out.
Agreed - but nearly all of the teams around us struggle to meet it as well
From 1st Feb last season we were at our maximum quota - with Janssen and N'Koudou out on loan, Sanchez also counted as u21. Davies counts as foreign trained for CL. So we've gone from maximum possible squad with everyone accounted for to adding 3 players that need to be registered in both comps.
My maths above is out by one in both scenarios, but the point stands.
The rule, specifically is:
25 players, 8 of which must have been trained by clubs from the same national league, with 4 from the club own youth system.
Our CL squad for 17/18 was (HG in bold and Spurs youth in bold italics):
Lloris, Vorm, Gazzaniga, Whiteman, Trippier, Rose, Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Sanchez, Aurier, Davies, Walker-Peters, Lamela, Wanyama, Dier, Sissoko, Dembele, Alli, Eriksen, Lucas Moura, Winks, Amos, Georgiou, Oakley-Boothe, Heung-min Son, Llorente, Sterling, Kane
Is that right?
If so, we have 10 players trained by clubs in the same national league, 8 of whom came from our youth system.
Seems like we have some wriggle room.
Doesn’t mean much. Frankfurt just exorcised their loan-right-to-buy for a poultry €2m after he’d spent two years on loan there.
They’d happily sell him for a handsome profit.
As a kid he showed a shit load of potential. If you watch YouTube of him in Croatia as a kid he looks like a young Rooney. He’s not quite fulfilled that potential, he is a bit hot headed at times, works hard without the ball, capable of some great stuff but also can be erratic. Did have by far his best season last year for Frankfurt, but no coincidence that that was under fellow Croatian manager Kovac who I believe managed Rebic in the Croatian U21s and was probably the first manager he’d had in his senior career who’d trust him and get the best out of him.