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Are you planning on us getting relegated? Literally only ever been good in the championship. He is what he is.
See him in Schipol last week. Looked a bit sluggish.
Better than Llorente?
Would love it if true. We haven't had a proper deep playmaker capable of spraying it about since Huddlestone. Would be great to see him unleash Moura over the top! Might be priced out with Barca involved though...
But he's not. Llorente's return with us last season was a goal every 220-ish minutes. Gayle's returns in the PL since 2014 have been a goal every 220-ish minutes. He's quite certainly no better that Llorente at all.
This is the problem with the transfer mirage - everyone who plays somewhere else is somehow viewed as being better and able to improve your team. That's how clubs like Spam end up burning piles of cash and going backwards.
Dwight Gayle is hot shit in the championship - he was last time, too. But he's proven that he can't produce at the PL level through many seasons. It'd be ridiculous to waste money on him when he's absolutely no better than our current #2 striker and can provide nothing that we don't already have from our attacking players.
It's really fucking sad you even mentioned his name in connection to Spurs.
We've got a pretty bloated squad - 3 of our current players cannot be registered in CL squad and one cannot be registered in the PL squad.
So :
- We will try to sell a couple of players, the obvious ones being N'Koudou and Janssen but it could even be the likes of Aurier (we have KWP already available to replace him) and/or Sissoko (but not if we are short in CM)
- If the likes of Dembele leaves, as has been rumoured, for a massive last contract in China we may well try to replace him, but if not reply upon Sissoko and youngsters..
- If there are 'bargain' players available, perhaps because they are surplus in a big club, like Lucas Moura was in January, we may buy, provided we can make room in the squad through loans or sales (which may not be that easy or even possible in January). For preference we'd probably try to buy a Home Grown player as we have room in the squad now - but the number of quality homegrown players available is not big.
So realistically - between none and one 'bargain' ?
Yup another quiet TW.
So :
- We will try to sell a couple of players, the obvious ones being N'Koudou and Janssen but it could even be the likes of Aurier (we have KWP already available to replace him) and/or Sissoko (but not if we are short in CM)
- If the likes of Dembele leaves, as has been rumoured, for a massive last contract in China we may well try to replace him, but if not reply upon Sissoko and youngsters..
- If there are 'bargain' players available, perhaps because they are surplus in a big club, like Lucas Moura was in January, we may buy, provided we can make room in the squad through loans or sales (which may not be that easy or even possible in January). For preference we'd probably try to buy a Home Grown player as we have room in the squad now - but the number of quality homegrown players available is not big.
So realistically - between none and one 'bargain' ?
Yup another quiet TW.
They seem to admit some doubts about the veracity of the source.
Would be great if true though. If carefully managed, Dembele can be very effective for us this next year, but his best days are behind him, and we'd do well to secure a replacement for the future before too long.
So we will?
Frenkie and Winks. A kid can dream.
I've got this bad feeling that PSG have been selling us the likes of Aurier and Lucas for cut rate fees in order to comply with FFP, but more importantly, to soften us up for when they make a bid on one of our big name players like Eriksen. Would anyone be willing to swap Eriksen for Draxler +cash if PSG do come calling? Hope I'm wrong on this one.
Pochettino and Levy screwed up in summer. No doubt at all if posters are bothered to think about it.
Kane needed and still needs a break, which will no doubt come at the expense of the league cup or injury, Son the same if not more so and to a slightly lesser extent some of our World Cup stars.
But Kane in particular because of his importance to us and on that basis it demanded a viable playing option.
A really short sighted approach.
Kane needed and still needs a break, which will no doubt come at the expense of the league cup or injury, Son the same if not more so and to a slightly lesser extent some of our World Cup stars.
But Kane in particular because of his importance to us and on that basis it demanded a viable playing option.
A really short sighted approach.
No.
Because Draxler is shit.
Only way I'd accept Eriksen going to PSG is if they give us Mbappe and Verratti in return.
Well- good luck with that. I personally think Levy would settle for a little over 100m.
Maybe.
There was a club before Christian Eriksen and there will certainly be a club after him.
But it's IQ will be halved.
