Tottenham Talk on Saturday 24th
Tottenham Talk on Saturday 24th
Morning good folk, it's Thursday as I pen this missive, it's another fabulous and happy day, but then every day is a happy day isn't it.
It's now Saturday morning and we are about to have a thunderstorm here on the coast.
Happiness breeds success, misery breeds failure so ignore all the jealous misery guts out there and make happiness your friend.
Thanks to you, page views have grown 31% over the last three months and click through rate, those who click on a second article has grown 104% over the same period.
That, despite me being in hospital on a ventilator for 3 weeks and producing no content!
The research is clearly paying off.
OK, on with the show.
Let me remind you that transfers are generally paid for in instalments over the term of a players initial contract.
Take Cristian Romero.
The figure of €40m is the figure I hear (plus €10m add-ons) so let's use the €40m.
He will sign a 5-year contract, that's 40 divided by 5 = 8.
In simple terms that would be €8m a year on our books as an outgoing.
So you can see that while we are making bids, buying players, the outgoing aren't in one lump sum.
What we have to do is match up incoming revenue, in the same way, from player sales.
You then have a transfer payment deficit or credit.
It is this balancing act that goes a long way to determining how much a club has to spend.
Incidentally, will we see a medical for Romero next week?
It's a distinct possibility I hear with a fee having now been agreed on Friday afternoon.
With that deal all but tied up, Paratici is going back to try and get the Kounde deal over the line.
Dávinson Sánchez
Dávinson Sánchez remains of interest to Sevilla and the Jules Koundé potential transfer is not dead.
Those who said he had refused Spurs were way wide of the mark, as I have said all along, he wants to join Real Madrid and is waiting to see if they will come back for him.
Real Madrid, not this window mind, have bid for him previously, a €55m (£47.05m - US$64.77m - AUS$87.72m) which Sevilla turned down, wanting nearer his release fee.
Times have changed now though and Sevilla have financial difficulties with no fans in the stadium, hence their keenness to get both money and players in.
It is a period of stabilisation for them as it is for most clubs at the moment.
It is a bit of a balancing act as their is other interest in Sánchez, both from abroad and within the Premier League.
How long does Paratici wait on Koundé?
Do we accept a deal from another club on Sánchez and forget any deal with Sevilla?
The suggestion from Spain is that Real Madrid have decided not pursue their interest in the defender despite selling Varane to Manchester United.
We offered him early, indeed we have offered several players but my understanding is that they want a money only deal, in which case, we would want to make the add-ons as large as possible while they will want them as small as possible.
They wanted a higher guaranteed fee, we wanted to lower liability and pay more on performance.
The idea that we have offered money and they say they want more money or a different pay structure but want only money so we offer players was nonsense.
You offer players you want to get shot of at the outset to try and reduce what you have to offer financially.
Romero we know is happy to come to Spurs having agreed a £50,000-a-week, plus bonuses, five year deal with an option of an extra year.
Bonuses are likely to double those wages.
Currency Converter
£50,000
€58,466
US$68,759
AUS$93,258
Jesús Manuel Corona
Duncan Castles has suggested Tottenham are interested in Jesús Manuel Corona, a 28-year-old (29 in January) Mexican international (51 caps, 9 goals, 7 assists) right-sided midfielder with Porto in Portugal.
He has played 763 minutes in the UEFA Champions League over 10 games and recorded 3 assists last season.
He scored 2 goals and had 8 assists in 30 Liga NOS games.
Corona has played:
- 140 games as a right winger, 24 goals, 24 assists
- 94 games on the right side of midfield, 8 goals, 28 assists
- 31 games as a right-back, 2 goals, 12 assists
- 19 games on the left of midfield, 2 goals, 4 assists
- 15 games as a left winger, 2 goals, 1 assist
- 8 games in central midfield, 2 goals, 1 assist
- 7 games as a centre-forward, 3 goals, 1 assist
- 5 games as a second striker, 2 goals
- 3 games as an attacking midfielder, 2 goals
Is that what you call a versatile squad player?
Clearly he is better on the right than the left despite being two-footed. He is in fact 64% right-footed, which would explain the higher output.
Corona has had 6 seasons at Porto, playing 182 matches (150 starts, minutes equivalent to 138.2 full games) scoring 23 goals from 117 shots (62 on target, 35%) with a further 40 assists.
One red flag, 30 yellow cards and 5 red cards, rather a high number of red cards for someone mainly out on the right.
Every squad needs utility players and squad players with experience on low wages for the Premier League.
Personally I doubt anything will come of this one, there are plenty of players who can perform such a role, ideally you would want them to be homegrown, but where that player used to be prevalent, Paul Madeley of Leeds United and England (1963-80) springs to mind, they are not so now.
Of course our own Mr Tottenham, Stevie Perryman played anywhere in midfield or defence, always liked to see him playing sweeper myself, my own main position.
A sweeper controlled the defence so had to be an excellent reader of the game and know what was going to happen before it did, not just for your own position but the whole of the defence and then pass instruction.
Those were the days, ankles are tender with all the kicks mind, no feigning injury in those days, that was South American or the Italian jolly foreigner.
Fabio Paratici
Isn't it great to see plenty of positive tweets about our Managing Director of Football, Fabio Paratici.
Tasked with a rebuild, the fans are being treated to rumour after rumour, but this time they can see a reason, they can see he is juggling players, no more so than at centre-back.
While it is down to their agents, Paratici is clearly trying to shift Dávinson Sánchez as part of a deal.
That's welcome news to many, myself included and the fact we have several quality options isn't a change, but the fans knowing more about it is.
Not all will want to come to us of course and we can't buy them all but we have main targets, we have fall-back position targets and back-up targets.
Joachim Andersen and Merih Demiral look like a fall-back options at centre-back whereas Cristian Romero and Jules Koundé look like a main targets.
Maxence Lacroix would seem to have ruled himself out as a main target.
All have to be sounded out and made aware of the situation.
Multiply that for perhaps 5 positions (goalkeeper, right-back, centre-back, wingers, striker), you could argue midfield as a sixth, and you have a lot of work.
Gollini (keeper), Tomiyasu (right-back), Romero and Koundé (centre-backs), Gil (winger), Ings (striker) would seem to be the plan.
I'll repeat for those who still don't understand, Paratici is the one doing the negotiations, Daniel Levy has left him too it basically.
I don't hear anyone praising Levy for employing Paratici and giving him the authority to rebuild us.
Are you surprised? No, nor am I.
They played a friendly in Cádiz on Thursday morning (won 1-0), trained their in the afternoon, before travelling by road to Lagos where they will stay until Friday.
Jules Koundé is among them which suggests a transfer is not yet close.
Maxence Caqueret
Sandro Tonali
Griezmann, weekly, earns €881,423 (UK£753,657 - US$1.04m - AUS$1.41m).
Midfielders
There are plenty of midfielders on our radar:
- Franck Kessié, who I expect to sign a new contract at AC Milan or join Liverpool
- Manuel Locatelli (Sassuolo), who wants to join Juventus
- Renato Sanches (Lille)
- Houssem Aouar (Lyon)
- Miralem Pjanić (Barcelona)
- Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United)
- Leander Dendoncker (Wolves)
- Lorenzo Pellegrini (Roma)
Ryan Gravenberch
- 19-year-old (20 next May)
- Dutch international central midfielder at Ajax
- Under contract until 2023
- 5 goals and 6 assists in 42 Eredivisie games
- Goal every 620 minutes
- 21-year-old (22 next February)
- French U-21 central midfielder at Lyon
- Under contract until 2023
- 0 goals and 2 assists in 37 Ligue 1 games
- 0 goals in 2,331 minutes
- 21-year-old (22 next May)
- Italian international defensive midfielder at AC Milan
- Under contract until 2026
- 1 goal and 7 assists in 60 Serie A games
- Goal every 4,353 minutes
Weston McKennie
- 22-year-old (23 in August)
- USA international central midfielder at Juventus
- Under contract until 2025
- 5 goals and 2 assists in 34 Serie A games
- Goal every 340 minutes
Harry Winks
Harry Winks looks as though he was going through the motions in our last pre-season friendly against Colchester. His passing was poor.
Aston Villa previously and now Everton have made an enquiry for him. The fact that he is homegrown makes him important to other clubs.
He wants to fight for his place but Oliver Skipp already looks a better player. Winks hasn't kicked on from a promising beginning and the club want to develop Skipp so don't need Winks standing in his way.
In 5 seasons at Spurs, Winks has had 7 shots on target (19.4%).
Antoine Griezmann
I have seen it reported that Fabio Paratici contacted Barcelona over 30-year-old (31 next March) French international (95 caps, 38 goals, 27 assists) second striker Antoine Griezmann.
However that is not the case, Barcelona have been offered him to nearly every top club this summer report Spanish newspaper Marca.
Because of his wages though, coupled with the fact he is under contract until 2024, means nobody is interested at the moment.
Naturally he has been offered to his former club Atlético Madrid who would be interested in a loan with option to buy if the sums were right..
Have a happy day folks while I spend some time watching the family of starlings, with always seem to arrive with a group of sparrows, feeding from the suet balls again, then I'll get stuck into some more research for you good people.
See you all tomorrow morning.
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