Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 41
Well good morning folks, up early and writing a brilliant piece for you in preparation for your morning coffee, although really it should be tea, spot of Assam this morning myself.
Today is rubbish collection day, there is a pun about anti-Levy clowns in there somewhere so no doubt I'll have a George leave a comment, but it is also Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 41.
What a lead up and link, incredible.
Today will be an explanation day too.
The businessman is now liable for €250M of debt.
The Chinese Government stopped Chinese money leaving the country after they decided to stop state investment in elite football.
That meant Inter could no longer get Chinese sponsorship to prop up Inter's expenditure and thus they took out huge loans with investment firms.
If they default on those loans then those creditors automatically take control (ownership) of the club, hence why Inter have to make a profit of €60M to pay the instalments this summer.
That is non-negotiable.
Therefore they have to sell, but who they end up selling and for how much remains to be seen as they keep changing the goalposts to prioritise one deal over another.
It has never been easy to buy Inter players and that hasn't changed this window either.
The Zheng family are in huge financial trouble in China with reported debt of £2billion.
Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 41 Transfer Talk
Jessie Lingard
Tottenham have arranged talks with Jessie Lingard's representatives but will not be entertaining anything near £200,000 per week, his reported wage demands.
He is not only homegrown but English-association trained and that is important in selecting a UEFA Champions League squad as it helps to dictate how many non-association trained players you can name in a squad.
But why is this extra homegrown player important when we already, probably, have the 8 we need?
For that we have to look at both the potential Premier League and Champions League squads.
Spurs Premier League and Champions League Squads
OK, so let's look at this.
Troy Parrot is going out on loan, Bryan Gill will go out on loan, Tanganga will be going on loan somewhere, Winks will be leaving, Rodon will be going out on loan.
For the UEFA Champions League we are down to 3 club trained, 3 association trained and 2 Under-21 qualified.
For the Premier League we are down to 8 homegrown players and 3 Under-21 qualified, although I suspect Scarlett will be going out on loan too, so another reduced from each list.
For the UEFA Champions League a club submits two squads, List A and List B.
List A is submitted generally on 2 September and List B 24 hours before each game.
List A is a 25 man squad that must contain 8 locally trained players. Any less and you have to reduce the squad size.
Locally trained constitutes 'club trained' (3 years between 15 and 21) and 'association trained' (3 years between 15 and 21).
Amongst your 8 locally trained players, you can have no more than 4 association trained players. Therefore 4 places must be filled by 'club trained' or you have to reduce the squad size accordingly.
Tottenham will only have 3 club trained players in likelihood so can only name a 24 man squad.
Tottenham only have 3 association trained players so can only name a 23 man squad in this scenario.
Now you see the importance of signing Djed Spence and why we are looking at another homegrown, more importantly, an English association trained player, like free agent Jessie Lingard.
List B, by the way, is players born on or after 1 January 2001 who have had two consecutive years for the club since they were 15 years old, but it is List A that is affecting our transfer business.
This explanation also helps understanding of why some players haven't been loaned out already, the club have to know where they are and cover the bases before allowing a player to leave.
It is the Champions League squad, rather than the Premier League squad that is the issue.
Now if we loan or sell Tanganga, who wants regular first team football that he isn't going to get at Spurs, Rodon, who wants weekly football ahead of the World up that he isn't going to get at Spurs and Winks, who has been told to leave, then we have 8 homegrown players having bought Spence.
So it isn't homegrown for the Premier League squad we are looking for but English association trained for the Champions League squad.
You can see from the Premier League squad we have 3 places available for non-homegrown players.
Now, like Davies, Joe Rodon came from Swansea City and is not English association trained so like Davies counts as a non-homegrown player in the Champions League squad so loaning him out to play elsewhere, not only develops him but frees up a space in the Champions League squad for another non-homegrown signing.
Now think of all the non-homegrown players we are being linked to, we can only name one of them in the Champions League squad, so which one should it be?
We are looking for a centre-back, meaning if we signed a non-homegrown one than we couldn't name a player like Memphis Depay in our Champions League squad without dropping someone else or selling or loaning someone. out
Hope that helps folks.
935 words encase you are counting them, no hang on a minute that's a few more isn't it...oh and!
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PS. I wonder how many of you that last bit of subtle but intelligent and related humour went over your heads of?
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