Spurs Transfer Reality Update
Spurs Transfer Reality Update
It is Saturday morning and welcome to some more Tottenham Tittle Tattle on a belter of a day again, the beach is calling perhaps.
I thought I'd bring you a Spurs quick transfer reality update to help you understand the situation a little better and some of the issues we have to take into account.
Now I see ITK accounts were plastered with my Tanguy Ndombele information yesterday which has not changed in the last 2 months.
Why if they are ITK have they not reported this 2 months ago and why did they not report the car crash Steven Bergwijn had.
I privately reported it to one regular reader in Ireland via DM on Twitter back in mid-June?
They ain't in the know.
You can see it's me by the lack of space after a comma, a common error of my dodgy eyes as you all know (and love).
The Grammar Police don't get onto me anymore!
Back to Tanguy Ndombele.
I ran a quick poll on Twitter asking should we keep or sell Tanguy Ndombélé as he is clearly agitating for a move.
The poll was rather split.
59.2% said keep him
40.8% said sell him
He polarized opinion.
His lovers see him as this super player and no doubt if he wants to be he will be, but the issue his he doesn't want to be a Tottenham yet.
Their arguments are that he is brilliant, even trying to tell you he has been brilliant for us.
He hasn't, he has done virtually nothing.
His detractors see he doesn't want to play for us, isn't committed to wearing the shirt and understand a non-committed player is a waste of space.
It is irrelevant whether he succeeds elsewhere or not.
The only issue is can we change his mental attitude, can we get him to want to play for Spurs, can we get him to put the effort in in training that he isn't putting in?
Well,as you know, only you can decide what you want to do and it is the same with him, only he can decide whether he wants to play for us or not.
Until he decides he does, he'll continue to remain on the bench.
Onto another player Spurs fans haven't understood, Ryan Sessegnon.
We bought Ryan Sessegnon for the future.
He bought him to develop, he was nowhere near being a Premier League player even though he had a season in it for Fulham.
He is a kid whose body needs to grow.
Men simply push him off the ball, he isn't strong enough to use his body to keep them at bay and doesn't have the knowledge understandably of how to do that.
Why would he, he has never had to do it.
Next he has to learn how to shield the ball better.
He gives the opponent to much sight of the ball.
In tight situations you place yourself between the ball and the man and keep the ball as far away from them as you can, he doesn't.
When you receive a ball, you control it with either foot (inside or outside) that takes the ball away from any opponent, another skill he is learning.
To defend, as he is being taught to be an attacking left-back, he'll need these skills and the knowledge of what the opponent is trying to do in these situations so you can counteract them as a defender trying to get the ball off an attacker.
The Championship Play-off Final at Wembley on 4th August is between Brentford, managed by Danish coach Thomas Frank and Fulham, managed by Scott Parker.
Will Ryan Sessegnon be loaned to Fulham for another season of Premier League football if they go up?
That affects our transfer market.
If we loan him we may need more cover at left-back, unless we intend to use Japhet Tanganga,but to me he is clearly a better stand in right-back than left-back playing on his wrong foot.
If we need to bring one in then that affects how much we can spend on other players.
It's a balancing act.
A right-back, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg and Kim Min-jae will take up most of our budget.
We still have to bring in a striker which means it is doubtful Eberechi Eze, who has been to the training ground with his family on numerous occasions, may end up going elsewhere.
The club are very keen on him, Mauricio Pochettino was a fan of him but José Mourinho isn't.
Mourinho wants players now, he wants players who he can play immediately, who are ready, not players that need development.
Yes, he'll improve players so he doesn't need the finished article, but he can't overload the squad with potential that needs developing.
That will be music to some fans ears.
He is a winner, he wants to win things, he has been brought in to win things.
So, which striker we bring in as back-up, could be affected by the Championship final, which right-back we bring in could be affected to as Timothy Castagne is possibly half the price of Max Aarons.
The homegrown quota needs an eye, we can only have 17 non-homegrown players of course.
That affects our transfer market.
If we loan him we may need more cover at left-back, unless we intend to use Japhet Tanganga,but to me he is clearly a better stand in right-back than left-back playing on his wrong foot.
If we need to bring one in then that affects how much we can spend on other players.
It's a balancing act.
A right-back, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg and Kim Min-jae will take up most of our budget.
We still have to bring in a striker which means it is doubtful Eberechi Eze, who has been to the training ground with his family on numerous occasions, may end up going elsewhere.
The club are very keen on him, Mauricio Pochettino was a fan of him but José Mourinho isn't.
Mourinho wants players now, he wants players who he can play immediately, who are ready, not players that need development.
Yes, he'll improve players so he doesn't need the finished article, but he can't overload the squad with potential that needs developing.
That will be music to some fans ears.
He is a winner, he wants to win things, he has been brought in to win things.
So, which striker we bring in as back-up, could be affected by the Championship final, which right-back we bring in could be affected to as Timothy Castagne is possibly half the price of Max Aarons.
The homegrown quota needs an eye, we can only have 17 non-homegrown players of course.
- Hugo Lloris
- Toby Alderweireld
- Davinson Sánchez
- Son Heung-min
- Erik Lamela
- Eric Dier
- Moussa Sissoko
- Giovani Lo Celso
- Paulo Gazzaniga
- Steven Bergwijn
- Serge Aurier
- Lucas Moura
- Tanguy Ndombele
- Gedson Fernandes
Now that is the non-homegrown list with Jan Vertonghen, Michel Vorm and Juan Foyth gone.
That leaves 3 places we can fill with overseas players.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg and Kim Min-jae are two and that leaves us with just one non-homegrown player left.
If we are going to go for Timothy Castagne, then we have to buy a homegrown striker or homegrown player for any other position.
If we buy a non-homegrown striker then we will have to buy Max Aarons with Jeremy Ngakia, it seems, deciding on regular football with relegated Watford.
Whether he reviews that decision in light of their relegation we'll have to wait and see.
If we have to bring in Max Aarons that reduces what we can spend on a striker and homegrown strikers are more expensive.
A conundrum that no journalist or general fan considers, they still think you can just buy every foreign player going.
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3 comments
We need full-backs for both sides. Personally, I'd love to see us work out a deal with Norwich to bring in both Aarons and Lewis. It would boast our homegrown contingent and both players are young, athletic and can play now whilst still having plenty of room to develop. I don't think it is likely as Norwich would probably want at least £50m for the pair but maybe a deal can be done involving cash plus loan moves for Sess, Skipp and Parrott (who could use the match exp. and would light-up the Championship) and Walker-Peters going permanently or something similar.
Foyth's future is also in doubt but he's mostly been injured since Mourinho came in so it is difficult to see for certain whether or not he has a future at the club.
Heard anything Clive?