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Mate, honestly…do yourself a favour and put the ones you know are just going to be obnoxious on ignore or just keep scrolling. You’re a good poster. Ignore the usual suspects.
I’ve never got this line of argument really. I kinda get it with coaches because you want stability there, but if we sign this guy and he’s so good that Madrid want him in 2-3 years then that’s a HUGE profit and a player who will have been brilliant.
Players are replaceable. Especially centre backs. And at the right fees we should absolutely be a selling club so that wouldn’t worry me at all.
Just go and pay his agent and the clubs owner. Money talks, not often they will get offered 8 digits personally.
If we get both Maddison and Scott, and that is funded by Lo Celso exit, I'd be happy with that.
However I stick by my original position, right now he's the best RCM in our squad so would get into our first XI in Ange's 433, but he's also unreliable due to injury frequency.
Reports are the player wants his next move to be the step before Real and tgo somewhere he can play regularly now....
Nobody in that level is playing him right now... Maybe City without Gundogan.
GK, CB, #9 are the hardest pieces to replace probably.
Still, I do agree, if he plays well enough that he's making that move in 2-3 years, we probably had good results too.
I think you can replace a CB without too much difficulty. It’s a position which relies a lot on collective organisation & good shielding. Sure a Rio Ferdinand is impossible to replace, but you can get someone who can play out & has recovery pace for 40-45m without too much trouble I’d think.
If we can flog a CB for 80/90m to a mega club that sounds like a great opportunity more than anything else. Someone like Bale or Modric is irreplaceable because they’re borderline magical game changers.
No but amortisation is limited to 5 so for ffp it's capped at 5.
We should move on well before then, we just can't afford to take that kind of risk.
Davies is a serviceable footballer, not sure why he always gets lumped in with Dier. He’s uninspiring but as a squad player dependable enough.
Pretty much every team has a handful of players like him knocking about, the issue is when he ends up first choice, not that he is a Spurs player.
We know now if it doesn’t work out they can just send them to Saudi.
Every time I see his name, my blood boils. Absolute scum of the earth cunt. Glad he's dead.
I know, I know... I'm a terrible person. I don't give a shit. He was filth. That fucker ruined pricing all over the globe and is costing honest working people a fucking fortune on a weekly basis. Greedy, unscrupulous, corrupt, scumbag. Fuck him and his fucking cronies. Stay well clear of that lot.
Shame about VdV, I liked him.
Not so sure that is the case. Bennacer has been targeted by big clubs pretty much since his 1st season at Milan, yet just signed a new contract in January.
I don't disagree with you mate about the Raiola bunch, but as long as we go into any deal with, as Richard Arlison out it, eyes wide open, then I see no reason to fear the future, as long as we have contingency.
I've said previously, squad refresh is massive. Knowing when to sell a player is a huge part of that. More important though is having the replacement already lined up. If we sign a player KNOWING that he'll likely be off to pastures new, then make sure your succession plan is in place.
If things pan out the way we all hope, then we'll be in a position where either the player wants to stay, or his replacement wants to come because we're a step up.
It's testament to how bad Reguillon and Sess are, that Davies still feels like the most secure LB we have. Admittedly, he can't play in a four and he's poor in the air, but his positioning is good, he knows when to progress the ball and he's simply a better footballer than those two.
Persic was obviously better in the final third, but he's been a weird signing that I won't be especially sad to see the back of.
Good professional & reasonably competent at both ends. Struggles in several departments and he's not going to progress play like a Lenglet, but he's more reliable and will actually stick a boot in for a tackle. A coaches player. The fact he can also fill in at CB (esp. in a 3) is good too.
Perisic was awful. A very obvious case of stats lying. He was good at set pieces so got a healthy amount of assists, but otherwise his attacking contribution was a few great crosses to Kane. On the other hand, a total liability defensively. He just isn't a wing-back in this league at that age.
A shame as in his prime a highly efficient, dangerous footballer. Tore England a new one in the WC. I prefer him as a wide attacking option and I hope that's where he's used from now on .. if he stays here.
VVD is right footed. They can easily move him to the right hand side of the pairing if they want to make VDV the featured LCB. VVD has played on the right side previously.