Tottenham Transfer Talk - Tuesday Morning
Tottenham Transfer Talk - Tuesday Morning
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| Victor Wanyama still feeling knee pain |
The press hasn't been telling you but I have, Victor Wanyama has an ongoing knee problem and low and behold after he returns to us and starts training he feels a pain in his knee.
Hence he doesn't travel for the Audi Cup.
A player who is always injured is of little use to us and shows why we want to sell him, unfortunately, nobody wants to buy him. There is interest but nothing concrete and missing these two games injured isn't going to help.
Tottenham and Fulham couldn't come to an agreement over Georges-Kevin N'Koudou. They wanted to take him on trial and then decide whether to buy him or not, which is of little use to us if they decide not to.
It would give us no time to sell him and offloading has proved impossible for the last 2 years.
The only possibility is they will watch him over these two games, assuming he gets a runout.
Other than that it is a question of putting him in the shop window or of making up the numbers just in case and to continue training.
The right-back situation.
We have looked at right-backs and we would like to buy one, but the prices being quoted are more than we are prepared to pay.
Unless a player becomes available who we are interested in at the right price, we will be making do with what we have, Aurier, Walker-Peters, and Foyth, although we know both Toby Alderweireld can play there (he has regularly for Belgium) and Eric Dier can (he did for us).
There is a fallacy that Foyth doesn't have the pace for a right-back but he isn't a slow player by any means, he just isn't Kyle Walker pace.
Troy Parrott has impressed and taken his chance. With Son providing cover for Kane, Parrott will be developed saving us the need to buy a backup striker.
He is beyond where I expected him to be and a season around the first team will do wonders for his game. It would be great to see him score in the Audi Cup, but his shot against Juventus that led to the goal was a strikers strike.
Hence he doesn't travel for the Audi Cup.
A player who is always injured is of little use to us and shows why we want to sell him, unfortunately, nobody wants to buy him. There is interest but nothing concrete and missing these two games injured isn't going to help.
Tottenham and Fulham couldn't come to an agreement over Georges-Kevin N'Koudou. They wanted to take him on trial and then decide whether to buy him or not, which is of little use to us if they decide not to.
It would give us no time to sell him and offloading has proved impossible for the last 2 years.
The only possibility is they will watch him over these two games, assuming he gets a runout.
Other than that it is a question of putting him in the shop window or of making up the numbers just in case and to continue training.
The right-back situation.
We have looked at right-backs and we would like to buy one, but the prices being quoted are more than we are prepared to pay.
Unless a player becomes available who we are interested in at the right price, we will be making do with what we have, Aurier, Walker-Peters, and Foyth, although we know both Toby Alderweireld can play there (he has regularly for Belgium) and Eric Dier can (he did for us).
There is a fallacy that Foyth doesn't have the pace for a right-back but he isn't a slow player by any means, he just isn't Kyle Walker pace.
Troy Parrott has impressed and taken his chance. With Son providing cover for Kane, Parrott will be developed saving us the need to buy a backup striker.
He is beyond where I expected him to be and a season around the first team will do wonders for his game. It would be great to see him score in the Audi Cup, but his shot against Juventus that led to the goal was a strikers strike.
Guido Fienga, Roma Chief Executive and Franco Baldini, Technical Consultant, are going to make another move for Toby Alderweireld today, now his release clause has expired.
They are under the illusion, one assumes, that Daniel Levy will lower his price. He won't.
The fee remains the same as the release clause and the wages they are offering are nowhere near what he is currently getting at Spurs, that is without doubling his wages if he signs a new contract.
In other news, I am creating a forum to run alongside Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN) that will allow discussion of articles as well as transfer talk, match day talk and perhaps a subject I have not seen elsewhere.
I'll be looking for leading lights in the forum with intelligent comment to make. Profanity and abuse will not be tolerated. When it's ready for use I'll let you all know.
They are under the illusion, one assumes, that Daniel Levy will lower his price. He won't.
The fee remains the same as the release clause and the wages they are offering are nowhere near what he is currently getting at Spurs, that is without doubling his wages if he signs a new contract.
In other news, I am creating a forum to run alongside Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN) that will allow discussion of articles as well as transfer talk, match day talk and perhaps a subject I have not seen elsewhere.
I'll be looking for leading lights in the forum with intelligent comment to make. Profanity and abuse will not be tolerated. When it's ready for use I'll let you all know.
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COYS!!