Spurs Talk on Sunday
Spurs Talk on Sunday
Transfer Talk
Tottenham have tried to buy him before and would be interested in the 25-year-old (26 in December) French international (27 caps, 1 goal, 8 assists) again.
Fabio Paratici has not been a client of Jorge Mendes over the last 10 years, only signing one of his players, a certain Cristiano Ronaldo.
Nuno Espirito Santo is a client of super agent Mendes and there are 9 of his clients at Wolves.
There are two currently at Tottenham, Matt Doherty and Carlos Vinicius.
Will we now have greater access to his pool of players?
He has a few players at Manchester City too.
Here are just a few we may be linked to if Nuno is the new boss.
- André Silva - centre-forward
- Rúben Neves - defensive midfield
- Renato Sanches - Central Midfield
- James Rodríguez - Attacking Midfield
- Rafael Leão - centre-forward
- Trincão - right back
- Diego Costa - centre-forward
Scouting means seeing a player in as many situations as you can, particularly under stressful conditions and when things go wrong.
You want to know how a player reacts, both physically and mentally.
Again there is the need there for a psychologist to mentally assess a player before we finally decide whether to buy said player or not, something missing from our armoury at the moment that is sorely needed, given how poor we have been in that area.
Tomiyasu joining Atalanta
We are now being linked with many Italian-based players with Fabio Paratici in charge of transfers, but the advantageous tax system in Italy makes bringing them to the UK more expensive than people realise with many wanting the difference in tax paid by the club.
You do not see that many Italian-based players moving to England, particularly not Italian nationals.
The latest player we are linked with is 6ft 2in (1.88m) 22-year-old (23 in November) Bologna right-back, Takehiro Tomiyasu.
The Japanese international (23 caps, 1 goal, 2 assists) has a powerful shot on him and switches between centre-back and right-back.
Last season he played 15 games as a centre-back in Serie A, 14 games as a right-back (2 goals) and 2 games as a left-back.
Basically, the first half of the season he played centre-back and the second half of the season as a right-back.
Tomiyasu has the physicality that would suggest he could handle the Premier League and has speed too, something we have been missing on the right side since Kyle Walker left for Manchester City.
His performances for Bologna, where he was Man of the Match on his debut (2019/20 season) and Player of the Month for August, have caught the attention of the Italian media.
We are reported to be confident of sealing his £15m (€17.45m - US$20.82m - AUS$27.42m) transfer, this of course after the same people report all transfers are on hold!
My understanding is that Tomiyasu is staying in Italy and joining fellow Serie A side Atalanta for around €20m (£17.20m - US$23.87m - AUS$31.44m) and has already agreed personal terms on a 5-year deal.
Tomiyasu is being tracked by Everton, Inter Milan, AC Milan, AS Roma, Borussia Monchengladbach, Bayer Leverkusen and Arsenal.
His replacement at Bologna could be a player Juventus have enquired about, 21-year-old (22 in December) Gabriele Zappa who played for Cagliari last season on loan from Pescara.
Tomiyasu is a player who likes to play regularly, one reason why he chose Bologna to move to, so a rotating right-back role is perhaps the role we have in mind for him, although he is comfortable in a back-three also.
Signing him would again raise our profile in the Asian region and specifically Japan where Manchester United dominate after signing a Japanese player,but as I say, I believe he is going to Atalanta, who have UEFA Champions League football next season.
Full Stadiums Next Season
The Spanish Government are eliminating capacity restrictions for stadiums and arenas which means the Spanish 2021/22 LaLiga season will start with stadiums back to full capacity.
After more than a year, the Covid-related restrictions for attending sporting events finally end in Spain.
The Spanish Government are eliminating Rule 15.2 from its national regulation preventing the spread of Covid-19.
Good news for Spanish football, now it is over to our Government, surely fans will be back before the start of the new season, financially the game needs it.
New Manager Search
The Sun are reporting that Nuno Espirito Santo is wanting full control over transfers, which in reality means Jorge Mendes having full control over transfers, which is 100% not something Spurs need.
He may be a Super Agent, but he is in it for what he can get out of it and moves his players around regularly for commission and if he can work for both clubs and the player, he gets even more commission.
Tottenham have brought in Fabio Paratici to handle all transfers, including what we pay for players, leaving Daniel Levy to do what he does best and what makes him the best at in the Premier League, building the club off the field.
Spurs can not give Nuno, or Mendes, control, that would simply negate Paratici.
The press have not learnt their lesson with some suggesting we have reached agreement, ESPN saying we have not reached agreement.
Unfortunately our silly fans latch onto fake news and treat it as real and spout their farce conspiracy theories.
It takes people with a bit more common sense and big business understanding, it would seem, to appreciate it is only the second or third week in July we actually need a new manager in by.
Before then he has no effect, Ryan Mason can quite competently handle pre-season fitness training with the medical staff and international players are taking a holiday after their international duty ends.
For some that is as late as 11th July (Euro 2020 Final and Copa America Final).
Wales were just eliminated so that means Ben Davies and Joe Rodon will be back at Spurs, not before 13th July, that's another 17 days.
When you consider that, there is no rush, no panic, no farce, just calm.
I can't influence who is appointed, thus it isn't something to worry about and get ones knickers in a twist about, but alas that's where folk sink to on social media.
The problem is they think their opinion matters to everyone else, it doesn't, particularly when it's wrong or agenda driven.
Social media is full of these entitled sheep who, never having been near a multi-million pound organisation, know how to run one better and never having coached in their lives, suddenly know better than qualified coaches, even trophy-laden ones.
I have no time for these fools.
We are searching for a manager, we are interviewing people.
Tell me, and this is a question for all you idiots out there, when you go for a job interview, is every candidate in turn offered the position and turns it down until they get to your interview?
No, a whole bunch of people are interviewed.
The Tottenham manager search is no different, we are interviewing people, everyone we interview is NOT offered the job.
You can not walk away from something you are never offered.
According to our dishonest press, everyone talked to is about to sign, utter bullshit and evidence reporters, yes even Alasdair Gold, know nothing about what is taking place during these discussions.
I see those who know on forums and agreeing that Mr Gold is writing bullshit and conning fans.
They (journalists) are NOT told, the club keep everything quiet, they keep transfer discussions private, they keep managerial discussions private.
They have all parties agree confidentiality before discussions even begin and that includes Fabio Paratici!
What you get Italian journalists, who have been proven to be talking nonsense, telling you what is happening they are making it up, just like UK journalists.
They visit forums and take information from there, it was rife on Twitter yesterday.
If you do your research like I do, you can see the source of material, you can see where each paper, each journalist is getting their information from.
It's quite comical.
Of course the Twitter fan doesn't do that research, they are in the dark, those who conduct their own time consuming research are always going to be better informed.
Applying common sense to a greater volume of information leads to obvious consequences and disgruntlement from the less or ill informed.
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Pre-season is medicals and fitness, anyone can do that, international players don't return before 12th July (Rodon, Davies), the rest will take their holidays after they are eliminated from the Copa America or Euros, so in fact there isn't really any rush.