Tottenham Talk on Monday
Tottenham Talk on Monday
Good morning folks, hope today is a good one for you.
Shame about yesterday but if you have the best striker in the world and you don't create chances for him you are helping the opposition.
As well as the keepers did, I don't agree with the two kids taking a penalty, clearly they bottled it mentally, as did Rashford.
Their pathetic run-ups cost them any chance of scoring and side footing just hands the advantage to the goalkeeper, it gives him more time to reach the ball, unless you hit it with power.
More experienced players should have taken the penalties.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin has taken three penalties in his career and scored all three. Shouldn't you trust a centre-forward?
Raheem Sterling has scored two international penalties.
Takehiro Tomiyasu
I told you the Takehiro Tomiyasu fee was all agreed before the Twitterati latched onto it and this appeared briefly in our club shop.
It has since been removed, but I guess he'll be wearing shirt number 21.
While everyone keeps calling him a centre-back, he played the last half of the season as a right-back.
As I said a while back in my pieces on him, I think that is the position we have bought him for to replace Serge Aurier, who Spurs are expecting to depart.
He could play in a back-three of course as he has pace.
We'll soon see him in Spurs kit.
Moussa Sissoko
Reports in Italy suggest Napoli are reviving their interest in Moussa Sissoko so we'll have to wait and see if that converts into actual bids.
Plenty are interested, but in this market, most clubs are looking for loan deals or loan and pay later at best.
Nobody has money, all want money incoming for players, not outgoing on other players.
A loan deal usually involves a loan fee and the other club paying the players wages.
Tottenham, like every club, calculates what a player costs them every year, including appreciation or depreciation.
When they loan someone out, they look to recoup that annual cost through not paying his wages and a loan fee.
Obviously, each year used up of his contract reduces his transfer fee so that has to be taken into account.
French international Sissoko is 31 (32 in August) and under contract to Spurs until 2023 so if he went on loan for a year, he would only have a year left on his contract and not command much of a fee.
Érik Lamela
The 29-year old (30 next March) only has a year left on his contract so the club are looking to offload him.
Italian reports suggest there are three Serie A clubs targeting him, AC Milan, Napoli, and Bologna.
Just to show you how incorrect journalists are, his FIFA agent Vincenzo Morabito spoke to Radio Kiss Kiss in May and had this to say about his client.
“Lamela’s future depends on Tottenham, with Kane who has already asked to be sold. We will be able to talk about him once this situation has been resolved and the coach fixed, but at the moment Lamela is not for sale”.
Journalists always have Lamela up for sale and did again as soon as the season finished but his agent paints another story.
Tactical Issues
There is too much pressure on Kane and Son at the moment and not enough from elsewhere, although a mentally right Dele might resolve that.
Going into the season that is pure guesswork though.
Bergwijn offered us nothing last season, Moura is very hit and miss so we need goals from the wide positions too.
The biggest problem area might be the defence but getting more out of what we have and bringing in fresh faces will need us to sell.
However, why should players drop down a grade and reduce their wages?
That is our perennial problem, having temporarily returned to our former stepping stone status.
Post a Comment