Tottenham Transfer Talking Saturday
Tottenham Transfer Talking Saturday
Good morning folks and welcome to Tottenham Transfer Talking Saturday from Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN), the site where common sense abounds.
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If so then the low blood pressure and the heart can be dealt with with stronger medicines.
Monitoring myself for the next 3 weeks is the order of the day.
Tottenham Manager Talk
One of their main complaints it seems, is he finished 7th twice with Wolves.
Well what's wrong with that?
They were a mid-table Championship side.
You have to look at what resources a club has and how they fair with those resources.
The Premier League is two leagues, the Top 6 and the rest so Nuno won the rest league twice.
Yet our dumb fans ridicule him for that!
The season before last Wolves played excellent football and were a tough team to play.
Last season a couple of players were sold and their main goalscorer, Raúl Jiménez was injured for most of the season, only managing to play 10 Premier League games.
When you are a club with limited resources that is a big blow to take so no wonder they struggled to maintain their 7th place finishes.
Supporters have short memories and knee jerk opinions, which is the jerks way of looking and assessing things.
Now whether he plays youth enough, unless he is forced to, is another matter for which their may be some justification.
Tottenham Transfer Talk
Lucas de Vega Lima
Onto Transfers and Tottenham have been following the progress of Barcelona youngster Lucas de Vega Lima.
The 21-year-old (22 next January) central midfielder plays for Barcelona B in Segunda Division B.
He was born in Brazil so is qualified to play for Spain (residence) or Brazil (his actual nationality).
Between August 2019 and July 2020, he was on loan at Cartagena playing in the Segunda Division.
We have looked at many Barcelona youngster and tried to sign many but nothing ever comes of it and I'd expect the same this time.
We tried to sign him last summer but Barcelona refused to sell even though reports suggested he wanted to come here.
The only ray of hope for Spurs is his contract ending in 2022 as Barcelona want to develop him by loaning him out, not selling, according to Spanish reports.
João Palhinha
The Portuguese club want to offer the defensive midfielder a contract extension and will demand over €40m (£34.35m - US$47.77m - AUS$62.91m) for him suggests Portuguese newspaper, the Record.
The Portuguese press is very unreliable and like our press often make up stories. Is there any truth in this, there could be if he is a Paratici pick, but contract talks suggest he could be using the story to press for a better wage.
He has 5 international caps for Portugal, scoring once and is 94% right footed.
Wolves are said to be interested in him at £25m (€29.12m - US$34.78m - AUS$45.79m) and Leicester City have taken a close look at him.
Dele Alli
Fair play to Dele Alli, praise where it's due.
His attitude sucked last season and his laziness showed. He just wasn't interested in playing Mourinho's style of football.
His fitness suffered and he was to engaged with his image, ego and off the field activities than on it.
He had made it and was coasting, living off the past.
Now though, he is training ahead of pre-season with Kyle Walker-Peters at Hotspur Way.
An encouraging sign.
Does this mean he is going to be fit this season?
Does this mean he has had a change of attitude and now appreciates he has to work to improve his game every day.
Has his winning mentality returned or is this a false dawn?
Joachim Andersen
Joachim Andersen seems to be a main centre-back target and if I were pushed, I'd say he seems to be our number one choice.
Last season he was on loan at Fulham and proved himself in the Premier League, frustrating that he didn't join us before, instead going to Lyon.
The 25-year-old (26 next May) Danish international (5 caps) cost Fulham a €1m EUR loan fee (£900,000) and stood out with his passing out of defence against us.
I'm hearing we are very hopeful of signing him, but obviously any developments will not happen until Denmark are eliminated from the Euros (playing Wales next) and perhaps after he has then had a holiday.
Transfers of international players looks unlikely to happen, for the majority, until late July, which will piss the kids on Twitter off.
I'm also hearing he is keen to join Spurs.
Fingers crossed.
Jules Koundé
Sevilla need to raise money and Monchi is great at finding young talent they can develop and make a profit from.
If Sevilla are interested in a player then it's something to take note of, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal already have along with Real Madrid and PSG.
Jules Koundé is a 22-year-old (23 in November) French international (2 caps) centre-back that Sevilla may be willing to sell and whom Tottenham have been following.
However, Manchester City offered €55m (£47.30m - US$55.76m - AUS$86.44m) last summer for Koundé and it was turned down.
His release clause is €80m (£68.80m - US$95.66m - AUS$125.73m) so Monchi would want something in between.
I have heard he wants €70m (£60.19m - US$83.74m - AUS$109.99m) and the player himself wants Champions League football, which Sevilla have next season and Tottenham don't.
Real Madrid want him and by all accounts that is his preferred destination, as he already knows the Spanish league and Real Madrid can challenge for honours, rather than just compete.
The Spanish giants have offered €50m (£43.00m - US$59.82m - AUS$78.55m).
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