Spurs Striker Search
Another day another rumour.
But you don't want to hear that, you want more culinary advice right!
It is summer, tea and scones for you, fresh homemade scones for the children (kids are baby goats).
Everyone can find 30 minutes to make scones, especially if you involve the children.
You can look up the recipe, change the apricots for blueberries or cherries or be creative and just try something.
The only thing I will say is that cheese and scones don't go together, one you put in a sandwich with Piccalilli and Salt n Vinegar crisps or grill on toast, the other you don't.
By the way Welsh Cheddar from Lidl is very flavoursome, recommended, don't get the Scottish, weak.
Right, end of culinary interlude.
For all new readers of my Tottenham Tittle Tattle ramblings, I posted on 16 June the three striker choices Spurs were contemplating, Habib Diallo, Artem Dzyuba and M'Baye Niang (who wants to join Marseille)..
Habib Diallo is now being linked with Tottenham once again.
What does this mean?
Several things.
It means we are keeping our options open.
It means we are checking with the relegated players the financial package they want and their clubs want.
To me, Habib Diallo has always seemed a sensible option along with Artem Dzyuba, the Russian who I'm sure Putin would not have wanted playing outside Russia, being as he is the Russian captain.
We have looked at homegrown strikers and many fans are calling for Callum Wilson, but the guy only scored 6 goals all season.
When you add his transfer fee, around £15m to his wage packed, around £70,000 at Spurs, plus a signing on fee and agents fees, the deal isn't so cheap after all.
There were homegrown and non-homegrown options.
You are only allowed 17 non-homegrown players in a Premier League squad (over 21), the rest can not play in the competition at all.
If we buy a non-homegrown right-back, Castagne for instance, Kim Min-jae and Pierre-Emile Højbjerg then we have no non-homegrown spaces available and that is assuming Juan Foyth is not at the club.
To buy a non-homegrown striker such as Diallo then we have to sell another which suggests that we are pretty confident that a deal will be reached for Serge Aurier and he will be on his way.
All these transfers are interconnected.
We are juggling wages, wages going out and wages coming in as it were.
Aurier on £70,000 would allow us to bring in two right-backs on £30,000 each, Timothy Castagne and Max Aarons being the two main contenders.
My last post looked quickly at our finances to give you an overall picture of what might be available for transfers.
Prior to that a piece of the homegrown non-homegrown situation and also one on how wages are a serious factor in our transfer business.
Putting the three together shows what a complex issue transfer are and of course there was the post explaining players having decisions to make and all the cogs of the wheels spinning until they all click into place and the circumstances are right for a move.
Troy Parrott is off to play regularly at Millwall and we have to see how he has developed next summer. His development must be borne in mind.
That means we either bring in a short term replacement and look at things next summer or we buy a player that isn't going to lose value, that we hope succeeds and grows in value.
Which option you go for depends upon who you buy.
In January the plan was to find a stop gap until the end of the season but we couldn't find a cheap option and didn't want to tie ourselves to having to buy a striker that we perhaps didn't want in the summer when more options would be available.
Now they are we have rather an abundance of choice compared to what we normally have.
You'll remember that in the wages piece, with the sale of Aurier, the conclusion was that there was £60,000-a-week left for a striker.
Habib Diallo with a goal participation figure of 55% is way ahead of Callum Wilson, Joshua King, David Brooks, Teemu Pukki and Troy Deeney.
His wage of £18,500-a-week frees up some wages if we wish to bring in a left-back, if we let Ryan Sessegnon go to Fulham on loan.
12 goals in 26 games and a salary probably of £25-30,000 per week
VS
8 goals in 35 games and a salary of £70,000 per week?
Goal Participation 55%
VS
Goal Participation 27%
What is your common sense choice?
ADmittedly one is homegrown and one is not but when Aurier is sold and with Foyth leaving,we have that one non-homegrown place available again.
The pieces of the jigsaw.
Change one piece and you change the jigsaw.
Daniel Levy is piecing together that jigsaw.
KWP, Foyth, Hojbjerg, Aurier are the start.
Each one turns a cog that allows another transfer to fall into place.
Patience is all we need.
While most fans think that you deal with one transfer and then move onto the next, you don't.
Your have a strategy.
You have an overall vision of what it is you want to achieve.
You know how much you can spend and how much wages you have to play with.
You decide with your manager the best you can achieve within your limitations and begins discussions with all parties.
Ideally you want to have deals in principle with players (and ideally clubs) before the window starts, then it is just a question of negotiating fees and the structure of fees.
At any time things may change and you have to rejig but take the right-back situation, we couldn't sign anyone until we have cleared the decks, know what fees we have coming in.
Now we have players who know of our interest, have agreed in principle they would like to join us, will have agreed rough wages.
Transfer fee discussion takes place and personal details are firmed up.
That's the situation Spurs are in.
We know what we want.
If alternatives become available, if circumstances change at other clubs, if agents contact us things can always change, but right now, we have the pieces in place waiting.
COYS
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