Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 33
It must have been great for Sonny to spend several weeks back in South Korea and stay there until the rest of the squad join him, although the adulation he gets wherever he goes makes it for different than you or I visiting.
Like all players, he maintains a level of fitness during holiday periods, each player has a specialised training regime for them to complete and we have seen images of Sonny running on a road beside a river.
The Tottenham Hotspur Global Football Development (GFD) team have begun their work in Korea.
As with every tour, they have a busy schedule of community outreach and development, this time with a Player Development session at Seongnam Football Centre on Monday morning.
Why do I tell you this?
Because it sums them up.
He refers to me, I assume it a he given his language, proper ladies don't use such terminology, in his comical way because of my content, well and me, BUT he keeps reading!
You will see the irony in that.
But what else does it tell you?
it tells you that he enjoys being angry, that his anger is a part of whp he is, a part of his life that needs to be fed.
Feeding his anger is more important than Spurs success.
He can not stand being shown to be wrong.
And that is the thinking of anti-Levy fans.
Hanging onto that anger is so so important to them.
Just imaging when we win a trophy, because we will, that anger will remain because it won't be good enough.
They can't live without their anger.
You'd be taking 20 years of their life away, 20 years where they haven't understood what is going on.
A lack of knowledge of building success fuels that and you could say that has now been replaced by a refusal to understand why the club has been built to generate income.
These are the same people who complain about us earning a £100m+ a year from non-sporting events, yet demand £100m a year is spent on transfers!
It's illogical.
We support, you support only for 90 minutes, unless your conditions of support are met.
So I say thank-you my pet, for putting your head above the parapet and exposing your creed to the world.
My Mum has a spider in the house that she calls George, it's like her pet, I have my pet, should I call him George too, perhaps I should. The name concours up images of intelligence so that juxtaposition appeals to my sense of humour.
You vindicate our opinions George, you give them substance, you tell us we are right, you tell us we have Spurs best interests at heart and the George's of this world their own egos override Spurs best interests.
Thank you George.
Wing-Backs
Whilst wing-backs are important in Antonio Conte's system, the squad has to have balance, then there is the homegrown issue that we have to address and the association trained issue for European competition.
What we can not afford to do is overload the squad in one area and having six wing-backs is simply too many.
Djed Spence (England), Matt Doherty (Ireland), Emerson Royal (Brazil), Ivan Perišić (Croatia), Ryan Sessegnon (England) and Sergio Reguilón (Spain).
There is also Ben Davies (Wales) who can cover left-back and Ivan Perišić could be used as cover for Heung-min Son, but Richarlison (Brazil) now has that role.
Off those, only Djed Spence and Ryan Sessegnon are English-association trained players.
Ben Davies is Welsh-association trained and Matt Doherty is Republic of Ireland-association trained. This matters for European squads.
We can not buy and name unlimited players, we have to submit a list of 25 players to the Premier League, a maximum of 17 who can be non-homegrown.
You have seen stories suggesting Matt Doherty could be allowed to leave and Sergio Reguilón, both because they are not English-association trained, not because they are not deemed good enough.
With Richarlison being bought, that would suggest Perišić is the left wing-back, backed up by homegrown and English-association trained Ryan Sessegnon.
We then have a choice of Doherty or Emerson on the right-hand side backed up by homegrown and English-association trained Djed Spence (when he is bought).
That leaves Spanish-association trained Sergio Reguilón, Brazilian-association trained Emerson Royal or Irish-association trained Matt Doherty as expendable.
It might be therefore, which produces a better offer, although we must also keep in mind that for the Premier League, Doherty is a homegrown player, which gives him the edge over Emerson Royal.
We prefer player sales to loans, but clubs are looking to loan players like Sevilla's interest in, homegrown and Spanish-association trained for the Spanish Champions League qualifiers, Reguilón's case.
Hence moves taking place later in a window than earlier, as we wait to see if permanent offers come in, or informal talks rather.
It is not a case of not being able to shift a player, we can always do that on other clubs terms, but shifting players on our terms and using loans as a fall back option when Plan A doesn't come to fruition.
Now there are better players than Spence available, but we must make a homegrown and English-association trained player signing and Spence is considered the cheapest option here, deemed acceptable to Antonio Conte.
He is Conte's first choice in this position for that reason, not because he is the best player in that position.
This is one of those juggling acts you have to do with a squad, like when we had Kyle Naughton as a reserve right-back, it helped the homegrown, it helped the wages bill and freed money to be spent elsewhere.
With similar criteria, Spence is the modern day version of Kyle Naughton, from an off-the field squad building point of view.
Blimey, 500 words on wing-backs, well 499 to be exact, amazing what flows when you start writing.
For all these advertising-based blogs and websites, that's a whole article!
Basically they need a minimum of 150 words so if you see a small post you know why it has been writing, it isn't for your benefit, it's solely for clicks to receive advertising money.
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