A Quick Transfer Update
Hello folks and another quick Tottenham Tittle Tattle post instead of the intended post to round up a few things.
Kim Min-jae is still a target and we are still haggling over a fee.
He wants to join us as I have written before and his Chinese club are disappointed he wants to move to a bigger league after only a year.
They basically want to stand in his way which will stunt his career development and I'm sorry but if you are lower than a top tier club you have a duty to help a players career progress.
Selfishly hanging onto players will mean in future players won't want to join your club.
There is a food chain.
Chinese football is League Two football defensively, all the foreign players bought are attackers and midfielders, few are defenders.
Hence Kim Min-jae stands out.
When he arrives, assuming we can eventually agree on a fee and payment structure, he will need to adjust to a much faster football where he has less time on the ball to make decisions.
Fulham were promoted and Scott Parker wants Oliver Skipp which is rather ideal for Spurs, he being an ex-Spurs defensive midfielder himself.
A season playing for Scott would be great for his development and Ryan Sessegnon knows the club too so he could be another to get a season under his belt.
A lot depends upon our transfer window and how it goes, how much it costs and whether we can offload Danny Rose.
He is a 24-year-old (25 in a couple of days) Algerian left winger who notched 17 goals in the Championship and had 9 assists.
Quite frankly we need wide men who can score goals like Hung-min Son does.
It is great looking good but end product is everything, which has been my beef with Erik Lamela since he arrived.
Brentford reportedly want £20m for him.every Championship player seems to be £20m!
Mistake ridden Serge Aurier is leaving so naturally we want to get as much as we can for him to aid our transfer window.
That means new right-backs and I doubt Max Aarons will be one of them now.
The financials for him are not in our favour, there are better options and cheaper options as my recent comparison with Timothy Castagne showed.
Whether we sign Eberechi Eze is down to José Mourinho and whether he decides he wants him.
That allowed us to stand firm on our valuation as our bid was the only bid that matters. Southampton couldn't sell him to a club that he didn't want to go to.
I advised his price would be £15m + £3m add-ons and that is what has been agreed, i gave you his wages and the fee for Kyle Walker-Peters of £12m.
All spot on.
He has his medical next week then it can all be announced.
I laugh at my detractors once more.
I have been writing about homegrown and non-homegrown, something neither ITK accounts or journalists had considered, but after my posts they start talking about them, another coincidence? No, obviously not.
With Juan Foyth leaving we had three non-homegrown places available,which were pencilled in for Kim Min-jae, Højbjerg and a right-back (you all know my colours are nailed to the mast of Timothy Castagne).
Serge Aurier leaving frees up another space so a non-homegrown striker is an option but it would help our cause to have a homegrown backup to Harry Kane,which has made Callum Wilson an interesting option for us, if we can get the financials right.
I understand he wants to join Spurs and is prepared to accept £70,000-a-week, which is only £10,000 over the £60,000 we had allocated to the position.
I can not understand people with these sort of views.
When you hire a new employee on millions a year, you discuss everything with them first.
They know the financial situation of a club and they take on a coaching job knowing full well what funds are available, what the wages structure is and therefore they type of player that can be signed.
It seems fand have seen Mourinho spending hundreds of millions at other clubs and assumed the club would have to change to suit him,no, he has to chage to suit the club.
He signed a contract knowing all this.
He isn't stupid, he knows what it takes to win, he knows how to build.
He knows the implications of reduced income and that it means a reappraisal of transfer targets amid a new financial reality.
The successful concentrate on what they can affect, not what they can't affect, hence they don't worry about what other clubs are doing, it's irrelevant, only what can be affected at Spurs matters.
Mourinho understood the situation,drew up a list of targets and sat down to discuss what could be done with the financial constraints we are working under.
Daniel Levy then does the business and that is supporting the manager, it isn't what fans believe, simply throwing money at the matter.
You have read my posts on various positions where we have 23+ centre-backs and 18+ right-backs for instance, that we are looking at.
This is the reality at every football club and a club does the best business it can within it's budget, a chairman doesn't try to do the worst job as daft fans seem to think.
That just shows a lack of understanding of football and business quite frankly.
Spurs are not in a position to go out and buy the best player in each position, but in conjunction with the manager the best jigsaw to improve the squad overall is and will be pursued.
Why is it that the ill-informed expect me to change my view to their incorrect opinions?
They don't like it when I don't, tough, I'ma proper supporter, I support and understand why things happen at the club like the signing of Roberto Soldado, a proven goalscorer who was mismanaged.
The reason he failed was simply because he wasn't given enough game time and lost his confidence.
My next post will go into that but there is no reason why he couldn't have been given 10 minute cameos and the prime example of mismanagement of him was when low of confidence he scores a goal.
That was the idea time to bring him on for 30 minutes or 20 minutes in the following few games, instead he at on the bench for the next 3 games.
Confidence destroyed again.
There was nothing wrong with the purchase of him but a lot wrong with how he was handled.
We then had a period where the manager only wanted certain targets that were unobtainable and didn't want other signings.
Then there was Aston Villa being sold and the potential new owners informing the existing owners that if Jack Grealish was sold they would not buy the club, hence,despite the press talk, he was never actually for sale.
All three of those incidents the anti-Levy clowns blame him for yet there are other explanations these people either don't know about or choose to ignore.
Tottenham reached a Champions League final,yet our low level supporters prefer to complain than celebrate our rise.
No upward curve is ever directly upward, there are always ups and down but as long as the general curve is upward their shouldn't be anything to complain about.
Our own fans hold us back, our own fans have a failure mentality, our own fans try to create an air of failure, an environment surrounding Spurs of failure which the club has to battle against.
It's absurd.
Do you complain at your wife 6 days a week and then expect game time on the 7th?
Is that supporting her?
It isn't supporting Spurs either.
COYS
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