Traore, Under Armour, Musacchio, Rodriguez, Waddle

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Right let's get into the Tottenham News Shorts - Issue 60 that concerns recent news regarding Adama Traore, Under Armour, Mateo Musacchio, Jay Rodriguez and Chris Waddle.

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Wouldn't it be nice to be linked with a players who is not 'one of the brightest prospects' in Europe, Africa or anywhere else.

Exactly how many of these players are there, there seem to be hundreds, whatever happened to someone being a promising player. No now it's the 'new Iniesta' the 'next Messi' the 'next Zinedine Zidane' or some other such nonsense.

The latest 'widely regarded brightest prospect' in the game is apparently Adama Traore, an 18-year-old currently with Barcelona. Spanish paper Marca suggest Spurs, Manchester United and Stoke City are interested in tabling bids for a player not for sale.

If Barcelona rate him highly and don't want to sell then a loan will be the only option which would be pretty pointless.

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I seem to recall lots of moaning when Under Armour became a sponsor. Quite why it's hard to figure out. The are a company with an emerging market we want a bigger slice of and will be able to promote our brand to new people growing our fanbase as well as bringing our name to new potential sponsors.

It all made perfect sense. Under Armour are now the second biggest sportswear brand in America, ahead of Adidas. Our sponsors have seen a 20% rise in sales, Adidas has dropped 23% report the Wall Street Journal. Adidas of course are the £750 million shirt sponsors of Manchester United.

The rise of Under Armour can only be good for our profile in an important growing market.

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Mateo Musacchio has done a bit of press and fan relation work inventing a story that the Tottenham offer to buy him wasn't good enough for him or the Spanish club. You'd hardly expect him to say anything else having failed to secure his move and now playing on lower wages than he was offered by Spurs.

The fee offered was what everyone agreed was the market value for the player, the fact that Villarreal wanted 76% of the transfer fee for a layer they only own 35% of was the only reason the deal didn't go through. To expect another owner to simply relinquish their 30% profit was a crazy notion that never had any chance of success. Why would his agent suddenly just want to give away £5.10 million ($8.23m - €6.35m)?

No Mateo, Villarreal's greed scuppered your move not an offer not good enough from Spurs.

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During the summer transfer window we tried to sign Jay Rodriguez even though he is injured and out until September. There were suggestions that he was our number one attacking target and the expectation is we'll be back in for him in January. 

Liverpool were also talking behind the scenes and now it seems Manchester City are interested in adding him to their wealth of players. They need home grown players with the like of Joleon Lescott and Micah Richards refusing to simply collect a wage for being English and take no part if any actual football. Jake Rodwell also left to join our next opponents Sunderland, Rodriguez needs to think twice before moving there.

Ross Berkeley did the right thing staying at Everton where he'll get to play, he doesn't want to turn out like James Milner, a bit part player at best, he player 20 minutes or less in 15 Premier League games last season. Money more important than playing obviously.

He's in an England squad having played 13 minutes of Premier League football, game in which the only English starter for Manchester City was Joe Hart, Newcastle United their opponents played two, 30-year-old Mike Williamson and Jack Colback.

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Chris Waddle has come out in defence of England and he has a very valid point, the Premier League dictate football in this country and don't work with the FA to produce a strong England side the way they do in Germany.

In Germany every encouragement is made to bring on young German talent, in England it's the total opposite. Winning has become so crucial to get a Champions League pot of gold that bringing on young English players simply can't be afforded space.

"Back in 1990, you could have picked at least two decent England squads from the old First Division. 
"We do well nowadays to find 23 players. And its only going to get worse unless people start standing up to the Premier League and saying 'We want a successful national team'. 
"We haven't got the players. So if we're going to do anything, we've got to find a system which isn't going to be great on the eye, but is going to get results. 
"If people want us to be an entertaining side who will never win anything, then they can applaud that. 
"In Switzerland, we are going to have to counter attack. Otherwise, we'll get picked off because they are a very good team. We find it hard to accept here. But Roy will have to say 'We need to defend and we need to counter attack'."

No club should be allowed to try and convince a player he shouldn't play for his country, yet they do, just as managers try to convince players not to go to the African Cup of Nations. They know the situation when they buy theses players, if you don't want to lose a player for that period don't buy them, it's not rocket science.

If clubs didn't then perhaps more young English talent would get it's chance, but that is unlikely to happen with the ridiculous loan system we have in place. All loans to fellow Premier League clubs should be banned, it encourages rich clubs to simply stockpile players on the chance they might develop into high quality instantly ready players.

The clubs themselves think it is ruining the game but if rich clubs vote against change then nothing can be done.

The Man City v Newcastle game rather showed what Waddle was talking about. Until t he matter is addressed England haven't a hope of winning anything at international level or even competing.