Talking Tottenham and Transfers on Monday
With my 91-year-old (92 next February LOL) Mum unwell with flehm on her chest and knees giving way in her weak state there are more important things to attend to so we'll see if I can find the time for posts with another project to deal with.
Spurs managing director of football Fabio Paratici has been conducting an evaluation of all departments which link to the footballing aspect of the club including a refresh of the scouting set-up say Football.London.
In other words, the Kaisen approach that I have been banging on about for 5 years or more.
If I keep banging on about these things, eventually they get done, we have seen a first team psychologist and an evaluation of every department this season alone.
Our recruitment has changed, we place much more importance of mentality, on personality, than we used to. Sky Sports are reporting that extensive homework is being carried out on player ability and character.
For new readers I have banged on about evaluating every aspect of the football club and making, even minor changes, to improve in tiny steps that add up to significant improvement.
It is what Sir Clive Woodward did with English rugby which resulted in us winning the World Cup. He left and England stopped doing it, it took 10 years to recover from that.
🎙 | Daniel Levy: “The delivery of a world-class home was always a key building block in driving diversified revenues to enable us to invest in the teams and support our ambitions to be consistently competing at the highest levels of European football.”
Multiple income streams, another of my mantras to increase revenue and regular readers will know I feel there is till much more we could do, but it takes vision and thinking big.
OK, let's turn our attention to Tottenham Transfer Talk.
Our top 3 left sided centre-back targets would appear to be:
Alessandro Bastoni
Alessandro Bastoni
Pau Torres
Josko GvardiolOf those Bastoni is our first choice, not Torres as I have seen reported elsewhere.
Conte has personally spoken to his former centre-back who has told him he will come to Spurs.
All we have to do is agree a fee as an outline contract has been agreed with his agents.
We also have to wait for Inter to finalise a deal for his replacement and they have lined up Gleison Bremer for that so hopefully there won't be a long delay.
Torino will obviously want to line up a replacement before they allow Bremer to leave and I haven't looked into whether they have done that.
We will be seeing a new left side to our team next season with Ben Davies and Ryan Sessegnon as back-ups who will get plenty of game time with four competitions to play.
That strengthens us for the domestic cups so perhaps you'll dare yourself a little dream.
Piotr Zieliński
Italian news outlet Il Mattino have suggested that both Conte and Fabio Paratici rate Napoli midfielder Piotr Zieliński highly.
Conte tried to sign the Polish international to Inter Milan in 2019 and as I reported previously he has irrevocably fallen out with his manager at Napoli.
The fee of €50m (£42.51m - US$53.81m - AUS$75.46m) the Serie A side are asking is a bit rich, not a figure we want to pay.
Dane Scatlett
The next step for Dane Scarlett, after signing a new contract, will be a loan spell to get some game time under his belt.
Championship clubs like Preston North End want him but it is felt a League One loan might be better for his development at this stage of his career.
Agenda Driven Twitter Twits
It is the best thing I ever did, OK slight exaggeration but you get the drift, blocking the agenda driven on Twitter, but occasionally one is still unfortunate enough to bump into one of these folk.
Daniel Levy hung onto Harry Kane, refusing to accept a low ball offer and now we have confirmation of the news we had in January that Harry Kane will be happy to talk contracts, as we are backing Antonio Conte.
All agreed last summer, Conte has merely kept the pressure up to ensure the investment agreed with him would be forthcoming this summer as promised.
The announcement has been made, throwing a curve ball to journalists whose Conte is thinking of leaving narrative was suddenly shown to be, well, made up.
But what of our agenda driven fans at this time of rejoicement?
They are looking back, they are complaining we sacked Jose Mourinho, a manager many of them didn't want in the first place and wanted sacked!
That isn't support in any shape or form. What they are saying is they would rather not have progress, they would rather not have Conte as manager, they don't want success...
They just want to be right.
Except they are not, the whole building a football club thing is way beyond their pay grade, they haven't read the manual, been on the management training courses, acquired the knowledge.
No they are the floor sweeper who thinks they should be chairman as they would do a better job.
Err, no.
Back to your crayons boys.
More Tottenham Transfer Talk
Before we have a chat about individuals, let me say we are targeting players who are either free agents or players that their clubs are willing to sell.
That makes conducting a negotiation a lot easier and as Tottenham have Champions League football, we are dining at the top table every player wants.
That means players haven't got to wait around for Champions League clubs to come in for them and only sign for us if they can't get one.
Our Managing Director of Football is doing what he was brought in by Daniel Levy to do and given the responsibility the anti-Levy crowd refuse to accept he has, even though he wouldn't have signed for us without it.
It is great to see a strategy working.
Spurs are interested in signing Lille midfielder Renato Sanches, he is negotiating with AC Milan, as reported yesterday.
Villarreal are willing to offer €15m - €18m to Tottenham for Giovanni Lo Celso. Romano suggests we want €20m, but is that £20m which would be €23.53m
A young player Spurs are following but NOT looking to sign this window is 21-year-old (22 next January) Mychajlo Mudryk. He is a Ukranian left-winger or midfielder.
Tottenham have been and will follow Marc Guéhi, a year after Crystal Palace paid £18m for him from Chelsea.
Tanguy Ndombélé
It seemed unlikely at the outset, a loan with an option to buy at €54m but that was the situation with Tanguy Ndombélé.
Ndombélé had an agreement with Lyon that they would buy him if they qualified for the Champions League, however they didn't even qualify for Europe.
They have to sell players to help balance the books and obviously Ndombélé has to return to Spurs.
Weston McKennie
Italian journalists are saying that Fabio Paratici will open negotiations in the coming days for American international midfielder Weston McKennie.
The 23-year-old (24 in August) Juventus central midfielder has been capped 31 times by the United States, scoring 9 goals and having 4 assists.
He missed 11 Serie A games towards the end of the season with a metatarsal fracture. That's the long bones in your foot that connect your ankle to your toes.
Enjoy your day, even the hater (anti-Levy guy of course) who tells everyone else not to read Tottenham Hotspur Blog News (THBN) yet keeps reading himself!!! LOL you work it out.
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