Spurs Chat and Tottenham Summer Transfer Talk
Spurs Chat and Tottenham Summer Transfer Talk
He is a defensively minded coach, which is not how Dejan Kulusevski has been employed previously so his career was going to stagnate.
You can see hints of Dele there with neither the Mourinho, Nuno or Conte systems suiting his style of play.
Spurs have bought them because Conte feels they will suit his system and thus he'll get the best out of them.
Paratici is already working on the summer transfer window.
There has to be forward planning, you know who you are going to buy in the summer, what money you'll need, what positions they fill etc and buy in January, if you can, while keeping in mind you mustn't ruin the summer window by overspending for instance.
Everything is geared towards summer windows, as the coaching article looking at Sevilla and Monchi showed.
If you missed that then you really should be reading regularly, you'll have plenty more to think about than the average fan if you do.
Transfer Fees
Youngsters, particularly Championship youngsters are overpriced.
Youngsters have generally done nothing in the game and everything is about potential.
A transfer fee, I have always stated, should be based on what a player has achieved and have add-ons if, and only if, he achieves the potential the selling club believes he has.
This can be achieved by clauses for how many appearances, goals, assists, trophies, qualification for European football, finishing positions, international caps etc that a player receives.
This can all add up.
When at Fulham, we saw them, at least in the press anyway, demanding £50m for Ryan Sessegnon, who never in a million years was worth that.
Eventually we bought him for £30m, but even that was too much and hindsight has proved me right.
To use him as an example, we should have negotiated a fee and the rest in add-ons, which a section will complain about as being tight, but that is how deals for youngsters should be done.
Clubs are increasingly using loans (there is a limit) particularly over longer periods, Kulusevski for instance is an 18-month initial loan deal.
As I have said all window, Conte is planning for next season, not this season and the lengthy of the Kulusevski loan deal demonstrates that.
What else has happened, well Steve Hitchen has resigned, obviously after sounding out the field.
The arrival of Paratici to fill, effectively his role and also run the football side of things clipped Hitchen's wings.
He was reduced to overseeing the domestic scouting and running a project to find homegrown talent.
Friendships don't come into it when you are not getting job satisfaction and the level of responsibility that you want.
He has resigned to be free to take over a Director of Football role somewhere else, early rumours suggesting Everton.
He might be highly respected within the industry and highly respected at Spurs, but the proof is in the pudding and his signings have produced a mediocre middle of the table team.
Good luck wherever he goes.
Tottenham have long held an interest in the 22-year old (23 in July) right-winger as have Juventus.
Having just signed a young talented Swede I can't see us buying Zaniolo with Lucas Moura already competing for that slot.
One player I can see us being interested in and another we have been following since his days in France is Napoli striker Victor Osimhen.
The 23-year old (24 in December) Nigerian international (19 caps, 10 goals, 6 assists) has scored 9 goals with 2 assists in 19 games this season, 5 goals and 2 assists in 13 Serie A games covering only 896 minutes, which is equivalent to 9.56 full games.
He missed 3 UEFA Europa League games because of a calf strain and a cheekbone fracture and 9 Serie A games for the same reason, plus 1 for a red card suspension.
Osimhen has played 19 minutes and 16 minutes in his last 2 Serie A games as he was eased back from injury.
He didn't play in the Africa Cup of Nations and has not scored in his last 6 Italian domestic league games.
The Lagos-born right-footed centre-forward is under contract until 2025 so will be at maximum cost and more than the club-record fee of £59.07m (€70m - US$80.19m - AUS$112.80m) potentially rising to £67.50m (€80m - US$91.63m - AUS$126.86m) with add-ons, making him the most expensive African transfer to date.
For Napoli, Osimhen has scored 19 goals and had 5 assists in 46 games.
Antonio Conte
The more you hear Conte talk, the more he mirrors what I have been saying over and over again, winners think differently to fans.
If you are spending tens of millions of pounds you should check every aspect of your purchase, both skill, character and how that affects his mentality.
Conte says we have loaned out players because of the mistakes made in the transfer windows in the past, while Paratici says assessing a players character is the most important thing.
They are both saying mentality counts.
They are both saying they want winning mentalities, not the average mentalities that so many players have.
It is your mentality that drives you to achieve a vision, without total belief and total commitment, that can only come from total belief, you will not be the best you can be, simple as that.
It is why Dele needed a new challenge, he no longer had the total belief at Tottenham, he couldn't have when manager after manager didn't trust him.
Conte said to close the gap the mistakes must be minimum, on the pitch, outside the pitch.
The first team sports psychologist should play an important part of this helping the players control their anxiety level and thus being able to make more level-headed discussions rather than emotional decisions while under pressure in the heat of battle.
Every aspect of the Tottenham operation needs studying and every little improvement made, however minor.
The club are listening to Conte and working towards his goals with the squad regardless of how these agenda driven journalists want to angle their negative based questions.
Conte says we have to have a vision and follow this line.
That means not deviating from it for trying to get top 4 in the short term, the long term goal is more important.
If you can achieve the short term while working towards the long term, great...
But you don't jeopardise the long term by skewing off the track for the short term.
The past is irrelevant, the only thing that matters is how the club operate since Conte arrived and it is only on that, that it should be judged against.
Enjoy your day folks
COYS
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