Tottenham Transfer Talk Thursday
Tottenham Transfer Talk Thursday
Good morning folks and welcome to Tottenham Transfer Talk Thursday.
A special good morning to all the positive success mentalities and a hello to all the destructive, negative failure mentalities, live and learn folks.
Let's get straight into Tottenham Transfer Talk Thursday.
Takehiro Tomiyasu
According to Sky Sports Italia, Tottenham have made a €15m plus €3m bonuses bid for Bologna defender Takehiro Tomiyasu. The club plan to close his signing in the next few days they say.
Now this sounds like a case of the Chinese Whispers I was talking about the other day (Spurs Talk on Sunday).
There was a story that we were interested and therefore might, just might, make an offer, which has morphed into an offer.
There may be something in it, there may not, I do not know but Di Marzio and his fellow Italian journalists that many dote on are unreliable and often misinterpret is classic Chinese Whispers mode.
You all know Sky Sources is actually what they have read on the Internet, well Sky Italia are no different, it's the same company after all using the same process and you can guarantee they provide fake stories to feed each other and feed the gullible listener too.
Now agreeing personal terms doesn't commit a player to anything, indeed player will often, or players agents, will often agree terms with several clubs.
Gonçalo Guedes
Tottenham Hotspur will likely target Valencia winger Gonçalo Guedes after the appointment of Nuno Espírito Santo claims the editor of Sphera Sports and Radio Esport 914presenter @DomingOrtiz.
Valência, he says, will demand a minimum fee of at least €20m for the 24-year-old (25 in November) Portuguese international (23 caps, 6 goals, 3 assists) left winger.
Yes you have guessed right, he is a client of super agent and facilitator Jorge Mendes, as is Nuno Espírito Santo.
Numerous sources in Italy and Portugal have reported that Fiorentina are very interested in the player. The Serie A side have a model of buying young, improving and sell at a profit.
Guedes has everything you could ask for in a wide attacker, pace, technique, vision and shooting prowess.
He scored 7 goals and had 6 assists in all competitions for los Murciélagos last season (we can say that now that the 1st July has arrived).
As a teenager he was hyped up and joined PSG from Benfica for €30m (£25.75m - US$35.56m - AUS$47.42m) in 2017 before being loaned to Valencia in September 2017 after only 13 matches.
That move was made permanent in August 2018 for €40m (£34.33m - US$47.40m - AUS$63.23m).
The majority of rumours suggest a price of €20-25m would be wanted with two years remaining on his contract.
Currency Converter
€20m
UK £17.20m
US $23.87m
AUS $31.44m
€25m
UK £21.46m
US $29.63m
AUS $39.51m
Guedes is still relatively young, relatively inexpensive, in need of some new scenery, and possessing the potential to explode into a top-notch player.
He is a name most won't know and how he will adapt and develop in the Premier League is an unknown, but them many of our fans didn't want Pierre-Emile Højbjerg because he wasn't a household name and wasn't expensive!
Last season in LaLiga Guedes made 85 shot creating actions (passing, dribbling, fouled), an average of 3.28 per game.
He had 1,128 touches, 590 in the attacking third and 84 in the opposition penalty area.
His dribbling success rate in LaLiga was 64.2%, he was ranked 5th for carries into the final third, 8th for carries into the penalty area and 8th goal creating actions.
New Manager Search
According to Italian journalists, Fabio Paratici wanted Nuno Espirito Santo as Head Coach at Juventus before the president appointed Pirlo, who they have now sacked and replaced by former Max Allegri, my first choice for the Spurs job.
That is not spin put out by Spurs either.
Matt Doherty says Nuno is a world class manager, a brilliant tactician and brilliant man manager.
At Spurs, Nuno will be more of a head coach than a a manager in control of everything, that's going to be down to Paratici.
He is here, whether you like it or not and that means getting behind him and supporting him, all fans.
For those of you who haven't heard the interview with Fabio Paratici on why Nuno was appointed, let me tell you what he said, what I continually bang on about, we need the fans to be positive.
Hear that, positive people, just as I keep saying.
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