Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 24
Good morning and it's another spiffing day to be a proper positive Spurs fan during this exciting period of our carefully and meticulously planned evolution under Daniel Levy and ENIC.
To further your excitement I have the Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 24 piece for you. I know, you can hardly contain yourself can you.
The eternal question, will he get straight into the news or will be keep us waiting again with some brilliant in sight into life at and around Tottenham.
I'm undecided on that one folks, as of yet there is no Spurs Chat piece here, but who knows something might occur and I'll come back to fill in the blank, take you off the main transfer route into a local route (railway terms).
If you have topics you'd like me to talk about please leave them in the comments. They all go for moderation so I do read them all and post all the sensible ones, leaving out the odd abusive one from some Levy hating doss-house in Scotland.
In the meantime I said I read all comments, I should have said all but a certain Scottish idiot, I just delete those immediately I see them now, grew tired of their daft comments.
I went off to listen to Jason Cundy and Jamie O'Hara talk about Richarlison and whether he wwill be a good fit for Tottenham and a player was mentioned by Cundy who he would happily see moved on Hakim Ziyech.
The Chelsea winger has not been a success and that highlights a problem when you buy players from, what is a second tier league in Holland.
This applies to any player who has played at a smaller club, been a success and then gains a move to a big club, can they handle the pressure?
Some players can't.
Suddenly they are not a big fish in a little pond getting all the praise and adulation to boost their ego and confidence.
Suddenly they are just a squad player with players of the same grade or better.
The praise and adulation are not there, they have to be earnt and that can only happen on the field.
That means in new surrounding, perhaps a new culture and language, with new teammates, new manager, new system, new role, they have to produce straight away.
At a big club there is no time for charity, it is sink or swim.
You don't get a run of games to 'prove' yourself, you do that in training, on the pitch we are talking 3 points so you MUST perform.
That is where a winning mentality comes in, that is where rising to a challenge comes in, not hiding from it, not finding excuses.
OK, it has to be factored in that a player is learning a new system, that does take time, it has taken the Spurs players half a season to do so.
So from a club point of view you give that time, but you then need to be showing the club something in the second half of the season that says we have a player here, we need to keep him.
From a club point of view winning is what matters, if you can't help achieve that then we'll move you on and bring in someone who can, it is that ruthless.
This is where players like Dejan Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancur, Ivan Perišić and Clément Lenglet have an advantage.
They have all played for a big club and experienced that pressure, that competition for their place from players just as good as they are.
Hence when they come to another big club they know what to expect and, hopefully, that allows them to settle quicker.
It certainly worked for the two Juventus boys, both excelling for us and Kulusevski, arguably, being the reason we are in the Champions League.
There I have said it, there was going to be another article around that point as most ould say Heung-min Son was the main reason.
For me Kulusevski came in and made the difference, took our game up a notch, you can't argue with his output. The stats speak for themselves, 5 goals and 8 assists in 18 games, 1,267 minutes, a goal contribution every 97.46 minutes.
I think Lenglet will excel for us and I think Richarlison fits our system and has the mental approach that will see him succeed.
Indeed I'm happy with all our new signings from that mental standpoint.
Bring on South Korea and lets see them in a Spurs shirt, jersey or uniform, whatever you call it wherever you are.
Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 24
Clément Lenglet
The negotiations for Clément Lenglet started when Barcelona offered him to us as a two-year loan with obligation to buy.
While we held an interest in him, Conte wanted him at Inter Milan, that deal wasn't deemed advantageous to us and Lenglet himself had to be convinced by Barcelona that his future lay away from the Spanish giants.
They needed the French international off their books and his wages off the payroll so they could register new players, thus they wanted Spurs to pay 100% of his wages.
Tottenham turned those discussions into a one year loan agreement where Spurs will pay £116,000 per week (around €7m annually) and Barcelona will pay £83,000 per week, the remainder of his €12m gross annual salary.
Spanish fans are not happy this is a loan deal, nor are they happy at paying 40% of his wages still, when we have splashed money on Richarlison.
Fans all over the world complain about the running of their clubs.
From what I understand, Lenglet will obviously now not be registered to play at Barcelona, thus his salary (the element Barcelona are paying) does not go into the LaLiga Fair Play calculations.
So for this calculation, his entire wage is off the books, even though it isn't!
You can see why there was a deal to be made here and how we could negotiate down the percentage of his wage we covered. Barca were in a poor negotiating position and Spurs were in a strong one.
The boot is on the other foot with other players like Tanguy Ndombele or Giovanni Lo Celso for instance.
We will see Lenglet having his medical in London shortly, as I reported a couple of days ago, this deal is done and its expected to be official by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Lenglet had plenty of offers but chose Spurs after Antonio Conte spoke to him about the role he sees for him at Spurs and obviously game time comes into that discussion.
I see a bit of Eric Dier in Clément Lenglet as he suffered the same fate in Spain that Dier suffered here.
He made mistakes, that often were not his fault.
Just like Dier when the players around him were out of position or making mistakes, Sánchez seemed to fall over on his own every 5 minutes, he has to try and do his job and theirs at a time when he has lost faith in them.
If you lose faith in the players around you, your game suffers, you are on edge, nervous and that anxiety causes you to make mistakes, particularly if pressure is placed upon you by people incorrectly blaming you for things that aren't your fault.
Lenglet has had a similar problem at Barcelona. All their centre-backs have been poor since he joined.
Initially it all went well for the highly-rated youngster, then it went pear shaped. he made mistakes, others made mistakes, causing him to make more mistakes, confidence goes down hill, you are removed from the team and then you have the mental pressure to deal with.
I don't think fans appreciate that when a player is down, it is difficult to get back up mentally, just look at Dele Alli and Harry Winks or Jessie Lingard.
All three ex-England internationals whose game has suffered, in the case of Dele and Lingard because they became more obsessed with their social media profiles than their football, Winks just lost confidence.
This is where a sports psychologist is needed, but it isn't compulsory for players to see them, as it should be, a player is left to decide whether he wishes to seek help.
That's wrong. e don't see the problems we have, we see problems in others so it should be someone else recommending to the sports psychologist a certain player needs help.
By making it compulsory you will take away any stigma because plenty will see it as weak going to one for help, even asking for help for some people.
Who needs a Spurs Chat section when you can get it here!
Djed Spence
The Middlesbrough chairman has tried to up the fee and we will not move from the current agreed position.
Our offer is more than Nottingham Forest and then there has been the stumbling block of a sell-on clause as he tries to extract every last pound from a sale.
We will see what happens when Fabio Paratici starts progressing other deals instead and whether Gibson (Boro Chairman) comes to his senses.
This is why you are seeing stories of Spurs interest in 29-year-old (30 in December) ex-Manchester United and England attacking-midfielder and now free agent Jessie Lingard as a homegrown player.
Spence would be a homegrown and more importantly for European competition, association-trained player, so it's that we are looking at with regards to Lingard.
Jack Clarke
Sunderland are, as expected, talking to Tottenham about taking Jack Clarke again next season, having had him on loan from us for the 2021/22 season.
Sunderland want to sign him permanently, rather than a loan, but that doesn't rule out an initial loan of course.
Talking to Sunderland fans, they say the 21-year-old (22 in November) has something about him, there is ability there but he is very hit and miss.
Sunderland are talking about £3.5 million, I think we signed him for £6.5 million plus £3.5 million add-ons that will not have been activated.
The right-winger with only a year left on his contract would join attacking-midfielder Alex Pritchard at the championship side (promoted from League One).
TUMI Pre-Season Tour
The TUMI Pre-Season Tour being undertaken by Spurs this year is to South Korea.
Yes that's right, our club is of such a stature today in South Korea that we get our pre-season tour sponsored.
TUMI is an international travel and lifestyle brand, a manufacturer of high-end baggage for whom our own Heung-min Son is an ambassador.
Antonio Conte and his staff will get personalised luggage and lifestyle products to use.
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