Tottenham Talk on Monday 2nd Aug
Tottenham Talk on Monday 2nd Aug
Good morning alpha supporters, it's Tottenham Talk on Monday 2nd Aug from the common sense blog, Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN).
There will be a second post today at 12 noon GMT.
Thanks to all you readers, both UK and all around the world, the blogs viewing figures for the month of July nearly hit 80,000 way up from the 50,802 of June after receiving 25.4K viewers in the last week.
Manchester City and Chelsea are being linked with Ilaix Moriba now I see, player Spurs are interested in which I brought to your attention a couple of days ago.
I believe Cristian Romero will be in the UK early next week ahead of having a medical and completing the paperwork for his move.
His manager, Gian Piero Gasperini said to the Italian media;
“He (Lovato) has already played three friendlies. If he replaces Romero, we’re fine.”
There appears to be a change in policy at Spurs, instead of demanding top dollar for each player, we are letting older players go fairly cheap.
The fee for Sissoko will be small, we have agreed a fee with Southampton for Winks and it isn't £30m, plus Sánchez isn't going to be anywhere near what we paid for him with just two years remaining on his contract, plus our desire to ensure he leaves.
The weekend produced the usual meltdown from all the beta fans (must have negativity in their lives) while the alpha fan (positive fans) ignores the noise over a piece of dramatic journalistic guesswork.
What will be, will be so let's wait and see.
At the moment there is nothing to report over Harry Kane, his price is £200m.
If Manchester City want to pay it, that is there prerogative, they do have over £200m more annual income into their business than Spurs do.
Hence the need for a top of the range Chief Commercial Officer at the club who produces positive results.
If the rumours of a stadium naming rights deal and a training kit sponsorship deal prove to be accurate, then that would probably produce anywhere between £35-50m annually.
Could that fee up transfer kitties of £100m each summer?
Anyway, the meetings Paratici has this week will be interesting, particularly with Fiorentina over Nikola Milenković and Dušan Vlahović.
Christian Eriksen
Worth a read, a short article from Marca over Christian Eriksen collapsing at the European Championship earlier this summer.
While Inter are assessing him he can not play in Serie A because it is against the league's rules to allow anyone to play who has a heart starter fitted, which Eriksen does.
A heartbreaking insight into his reaction to Eriksen's collapse, he had no doubt he was dead.
Harry Kane
The Twitter meltdown (apparently) over the suggestion Kane will insist on a move from a journalist led me to speculate to one, a certain Paul Thomas @PaulThomas10, a regular reader with a sensible head on his shoulders.
"The concern is that a deal was done for £160m early in the window and this has all been a game played out through the press to throw selling clubs off the scent. It's a possibility."
I have stated ad-infinitum that he is a £200m player and that Spurs price is £200m, which City will surely struggle to meet, especially if they sign Jack Grealish for £100m from Aston Villa.
Of course it depends who they sell and for how much as well.
That might mean they wait for next summer to sign Kane for £100m if we haven't convinced him with our transfer activity and improvement on the field to stay longer.
Again that might depend on whether we can get Dušan Vlahović, the man Paratici sees as his eventual replacement. We want to bed him in for a year and cover all bases.
But things change every day in football, although some don't understand that and things come to light that some already knew and others didn't or, in the case of Bryan Gil, that nobody knew until the story broke after the deal with him and Sevilla had been agreed.
Some things are kept close to the chest, some aren't, it depends who you are dealing with. For instance, generally an official from Valencia will talk to the local press when they have transfer meeting, hence why I was way ahead of our press on the Soldado transfer.
I got kept up to date by a local journalist, same with the Tanguy Ndombele transfer and the Giovani Lo Celso transfers.
N'dombele was all agreed in May, Lyon didn't want buying clubs to know they had money coming in so prices weren't raised and their President spun a load of yarns to the press which all our journalists lapped up.
That is the one nagging doubt I have about Harry Kane, that a similar thing has happened that I'm unaware of.
I can only go with what I know, it's £200m or he stays from Spurs point of view so I retain that positive outlook, it's what winning mentalities do.
But if the offer comes, then Kane will be gone, until then he is on the lucrative contract he demanded. Even so, Vlahović or Ings are probably essential, or at least to have on stand-by.
If we can't get either than we have a whole bunch of backup strikers, many of which I have already detailed for you.
I'm excited by the possibilities, the potential if we ended up bringing in;
- Pierluigi Gollini (26)
- Bryan Gil (20)
- Takehiro Tomiyasu (22)
- Cristian Romero (23)
- Nikola Milenković (23)
- Manuel Locatelli (23)
- Dušan Vlahović (21)
While seeing departures;
- Joe Hart (34)
- Cameron Carter-Vickers (23)
- Serge Aurier (26)
- Toby Alderweireld (32)
- Dávinson Sánchez (25)
- Moussa Sissoko (31)
- Harry Winks (25)
- Érik Lamela (29)
Just look at the ages and the incomings are on less wages than the outgoing so their annual wage increase for signing an extension each year doesn't stretch us financially.
We get a refreshed squad, a younger squad (third oldest last season) that can grow together, just like last season's squad did.
I think Eriksen showed us we can't hang on to players, although that did give us a UEFA Champions League final so financially it was worth it you could argue.
Total age of players coming in in that scenario is 156 who, all but one, has plenty of experience, while the total age of players going out is 225 (1 extra).
There is plenty of interest in those still here and you can add Steven Bergwijn to that list, who personally I would replace with doubts remaining about his finishing ability.
He seems to lose concentration when shooting and has a very poor record is going one-on-one with the keeper.
He's fit, he's bulked up, he may turn his Spurs career around this season, we'll have to wait and see but there are plenty of experienced wide attackers that we have been linked with this window.
Dávinson Sánchez
The agent of Dávinson Sánchez, agent Néstor Fernando, has admitted to Radio Caracol, that he has held talks with Sevilla, which we already know as a deal had been agree for Jules Koundé.
"They are just rumours, yes I have spoken with the people of Sevilla, but at the moment they have the complete squad.
"If there is any transfer from them, those rumours could be true, but there is nothing concretely, only conversations."
It would seem that if Koudé goes to Chelsea or another club who can offer Champions League, which Sevilla can, then they would like to replace him with our Sánchez.
Adama Traore
Journalists are linking Spurs with Wolves winger Adama Traore who seems way overpriced at £45m (€52.73m - US$62.57m - AUS$85.19m) considering he scored 3 goals last season.
He is fast, but his end product is poor, yes if he can improve it he'll be worth considerably more, but can he, that's the question.
He is wanted by Leeds United who have bid £30m (€35.15m - US$41.71m - AUS$56.79m) and has been linked with Liverpool and Chelsea previously.
I believe this is merely his agent contacting Tottenham having failed to find a buyer for his client thus far. Don't think we have interest in him.
The story has come from the unreliable Duncan Castles of The Times.
He was a part of the Portuguese coach’s setup at Wolves and played a role in the progression of Adama Traore.
You all know I think this is an essential element of our coaching for all players and I think our performances in the big games have proved that.
However, we seem to have no in-house psychological support beyond the Academy.
I'll bid you farewell and remind you that there will be a second post today automatically scheduled for 12 noon GMT penned at 3am as I couldn't sleep.
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