Thinking about our roster and it is pretty ridiculous. We must definitely be planning on selling and loaning out players. In addition to the 18 rostered on Sunday, we had Dele, Gedson, Bale, Reguilon, Foyth, White, Sessegnon, CCV, Tanganga, (Rose) not dressed and we are talking about adding two more. I would not be surprised if we do mass sales at the end of the window. Obviously Rose is gone. Guessing we loan out White and Sessegnon. Guessing Foyth gets sold or loaned. We have to sell some guys that people don't want sold. I really hope we didn't make all these moves to clean house entirely.
Reguilon... “Bale has been an idol for me since that game against Inter,” he explained. “Since that game in the Champions League I started to follow him, to watch YouTube videos of him and I became a big fan. I bought his shirts, his books – everything about him. And now being able to be here with him, in the club that raised him… I showed him on the plane the tweets that I wrote to him, and the pictures that I have from him, and he enjoyed that! He told me that Tottenham is a top club – those were his words. He said that everything here is top. He praised the training ground, the players, everything. He didn’t say a single negative thing about the club and at that moment I thought ‘great!’"
As a League 2 side apparently corona testing isn't mandatory. We offered to pay for their testing prior to our league cup tie and they had a bunch of positive results. We are winning the match due to forfeit.
My understanding that this is the deal with all premier league clubs playing lower division clubs. They are not mandated to test and don’t have the money so the premier league teams pay for it,, because they can’t risk it. Pretty fucked up when you think about it.
Yeah it is. You'd think any professional sports league would be required to do testing or wouldn't be allowed to play.
I'm open to new thread title suggestions. My creative juices aren't firing on all cylinders at the moment. Must have been the short preseason.
He has a really high ceiling. He’s great with the ball and can defend well. But he needs to get stronger and he makes a lot of bad decisions. I hope we loan rather than sell because I think he can become a very good player as he gets more experience.
I read in that article and others that he's not in Mourinho's plans and will leave this summer, so what would be the point of a loan? I understand they can change their minds if he performs well on the loan but it seems like they can maximize his value by selling now
What makes you think he has “a really high ceiling”? Certainly nothing he’s shown while at Spurs. I’d also strongly argue against him being able to defend well given what he’s shown in limited action. He definitely needs to play one way or another, and a club like Fulham should provide him ample minutes. I just don’t think he’s much more than a failed Poch project at this point, who may be able to find himself and a mid-lower table club somewhere.
Would also be cool to give them a friendly at WHL once this is over with and give them the gate revenue or something similar.
Cool to buy stuff from their team shop but their owner can shove it up his ass trying to reschedule. “Leyton Orient have followed all the guidelines and done the right things... [forfeiting the match] is an incentive for people not to test.” Or, hear me out, you let coronavirus run through your squad because you weren’t testing already or following guidelines. Eat the loss, accept the charity, and get your team in order.
He is just trying to maximize his return. he understands. They are due to lose 2.5M this year and this was a $150K pay day, so my guess is he could care less about the game, although it is a roll of the dice that they could beat us and get another game so my guess is he is trying tot get more.
Hercules just put this out. If true, I think it points to Milik, unless someone else flinches... I am not commenting regarding one specific striker! Just to enlighten. You have read and got good idea on majority of our targets. We will sign the striker that fits into our budget structure, especially after latest government restrictions. We have money, but we are NOT going to be put to the gun! Instalments/loan with view for perm etc is our preferred. Josè is cool with his. We know who our top target is, but will not go crazy on figures been quoted. Very sensible I think. It is expected selling clubs will start getting very desperate few days before 5th October. Edit: I definitely think he means Milik, because he posted in the Milik thread after someone bashed Milik... BunionBoy said: I watch alot of Italian football and this guy is total pony. It would stink out like a jansen and French wingers let's hope it is a smokescreen because he would struggle to get into my Sunday league side Hercules: are you sure you were watching the right player?
Lots of links tonight with Skriniar. Don’t see it happening in normal times, but this year seems to be different. He would be a huge pull.
This would be incredible. Registration-wise, what do we need to do if we get Skriniar and a foreign ST?
I understand that part, but I would be very concerned about settling in a new guy at the expense of Toby not being here. I think Skriniar will be a great player, but I’m not sure he just walks into the team and performs.
I’d much prefer to keep Toby, but it’s also a bad idea and poor business practice to keep aging or declining players when we can still make a profit on them. We really got ourselves in a hole with this after the early Poch years. Sometimes you have to be ruthless if you want to be great.
What aging players did we hold onto for too long? There are always going to be a couple, but we were also the youngest team in the league two years ago, so I highly doubt this has been an issue that has plagued us compared to other clubs. Glad we had guys like Rose, Dembele and Vertonghem through their primes. You never know what age someone will decline. Look at Dele, Eriksen and Wanyama.
We should’ve started selling some of those guys after 17-18 at the latest when it was clear this team as constructed couldn’t win the big one. Then we got in a situation where several of them (Jan, Vic, Eriksen, Danny, etc) began to decline through age, injury, or indifference and we wound up getting virtually nothing for the lot. Some of this is hindsight, but I also think if we’re going to truly become a big boy club, we’re going to have to start making some much tougher personnel decisions. See the Dele rumors, even if they’ve been mostly quelled. It just seems like Levy has full faith in Mou and is finally opening up the books for him...let’s hope it works.
I think it is mostly hindsight. That is not a lot of aging players, and we were the youngest team in the league. We needed a veteran presence. Eriksen and wanyama weren’t old. Rose was playing some of his best soccer and we just lost Walker so weren’t about to give up our best attacking defender. Great teams do not sell every player at profits or even most. They keep players into their primes and play them until they are done.
We aren’t most teams, though, and we certainly aren’t great, and really haven’t been outside of maybe one year in the Poch era (16-17). We’ve always been a sell to buy club, and if you don’t sell any your assets when they still have value, you can find yourself in a predicament.
Right, but we managed to turn profits on enough players to allow us to reinvest in new players and hold onto a select few players who were aging. There has to be some balance. We are not a "selling" club entirely, and none of us want to be that. I think it is hard to do much better than we did under the circumstances.
Milan are rumored to want 55m and the latest coming from Italy is we are at 46. Seems like a deal is there to be made. This summer seems like as good of a time as any to say that I've never wavered from my love for Levy. Yes, he is far from perfect, but I am glad he's ours.