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Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 45

Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 45

Good morning, after a day off yesterday I return today with Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 45.

I'll be off to Lympne Castle today for tea and cake.

Comments

Thank you George for your response that still demonstrates you lack an understanding of the English language and what I write, rather than what you incorrectly interpret I write to suit your pre-determined agenda.

You need to re-read the two recent posts about the overall explanation giving you a picture and better understanding of a player link.

A player link is just that, it is someone we explore, not someone we are definitely buying.

I'm struggling to think of a way of making it simpler to understand the difference between assessing a player and buying a player, but clearly you need further explanation and if you do then further anti-Levy anti-Spurs fans must too.

West Ham are paying Lingard £200,000 a week, which I don't think he is worth and I doubt very much we would entertain paying that.

Would he have accepted less to play Champions League football if we really had wanted to sign him?

Without actually discussing things with his agent, hence a link, we wouldn't know.

Just because we are linked with someone DOES NOT mean we are trying to sign them as journalist rite and fans believe, as many clearly do.

Fabio Paratici sounds out many players and agrees deals in principle for many players for the same position, that is a well known fact many overlook.

All the cogs have got to fit and if one doesn't, be it financial, be it game time, be it timing, be it alternative options etc., then it doesn't happen.

I trust that helps to correct a few individuals.

I was asked a question.

"Thanks Clive. I have a question about the Maddison to Spurs links. Is he not a Gooners fan or something with a less than positive social media trail as it concerns Spurs? Or am I thinking of someone else?? If that is the case, why would the club go for him - surely that is not a good signing when you think of the mental/psychological side of things?"

Darren Bent is an Arsenal fan yet he played for Spurs, who you support is irrelevant as a footballer, football is your job, you go where you feel is best for your career and give everything.

Maddison made one tweet years ago that he didn't like Spurs, so what.

Again, playing football is his job, Spurs are a better club than we were when he made that tweet. We have grown past Arsenal and are set to continue to grow, both on and off the field.

We are a far more attractive proposition now, with Champions League football than we were in the days of Europa League football.

With the right Head Coach we ought to be in the Champions League each season, although we will have to wait and see over the coming seasons how Newcastle bypass Financial Fair Play and what happens to Chelsea without an owner dishing out loans.

I am assuming the purchase price of Chelsea was increased by £1.5 billion to cover them and that money gone to help Ukraine victims, but I don't know. It would certainly make more sense of the price paid.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand.

The club simply looks at a football player and assesses them, yes we look at mentality far more than we used to, but we are looking for strong mentalities, winning mentalities, mentalities than can handle pressure and thrive in it.

Do you seriously think that everyone who plays for a club supports that club?

All that matters is the individuals desire to be the best they can be, then they will go wherever they can achieve that and if that is Maddison at Spurs so be it.

In a winning mentality, getting better is the only criteria that matters, what club you support doesn't come into your head. A player is not going to attempt to perform less well if he doesn't support that particular club.

And neither does it mentally hold them back, the personal desire to improve and achieve overrides any perceived mental block.

While we have supporters who only actually support the club if their acts in a manner they deem acceptable, a footballer does not act in the manner of a supporter.

The two have different mentalities. The fan is generally not prepared to do what it takes to achieve, although they'll think they are.

A footballer works from a young boy to achieve a dream.

For some achieving a dream is enough, they plateau, they seek social media adulation, their ego takes over.

These are the players to avoid, at least until they grow up enough to snap out of it.

Those focussed on their career, those with a winning mentality think differently, as I keep saying, we are a different breed.

We will go where we need to go and do what we need to do to achieve what we want to achieve and we will accept anyone who can help us in our goals.

There isn't an issue over Maddison at all.

The only issue is fans mentality.

fans think players think like they do, they don't, neither do managers or club boards, chairmen and owners.

They can't, they have to look further ahead and fit everything into achieving that vision.

I'm about to wander into another field so I'll leave it there.

UEFA Champions League Squad

We looked at squads, both the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League a few days ago.

I explained that once e moved Rodon on, we would have just ONE non-homegrown playing spot available in the squad.

Which position therefore do you use it on and who will we need to jettison next summer to buy more non-homegrown players?

I believe we have brought in Clément Lenglet as a temporary measure to buy a non-homegrown centre-back next summer.

His departure would open up a Champions League place, but I would also assume there is a clause in the deal that allows us to buy him.

That, at the moment, is too expensive. His wages are too much, the transfer fee Barcelona want is too expensive which makes the whole package worse than say a package for Alessandro Bastoni.

The press are reporting that Memphis Depay has turned us down, but we don't have a space available yet to buy him and we already have two players in his position I have never seen serious intent in our links.

He wants to stay at Barcelona, they want to force him out and are offering him around.

Will Bastoni become available late in the window?

If he does and we have already filled this last possible Champions League place then we wouldn't be able to buy him unless we sold another non-homegrown player quickly.

Do we buy an attacking midfielder like the talented Nicolò Zaniolo from Roma or Nicolò Barella from Inter Milan to fill this place and wait until next summer to sign a centre-back?

They are options we are exploring, both clubs have financial troubles and both clubs need to raise money therefore.

Either deal would be difficult to achieve but that doesn't stop you exploring the possibility, looking at the finances etc, much the same as we did with Jessie Lingard.

He will have been informed we were not going to sign him before he signed for West Ham, I have no doubt.

As I said in a previous article, we are a club players now wait for to see if there is a chance of signing for us ahead of others and if everything doesn't fall into place, the particular scenario whereby they could sign doesn't materialize, then they go and sign for an alternative.

We had that with Gabriel Jesus who was offered to us, we looked into it and turned him down, as Richarlison was our #1 option. he thus signed for a Europa League side.

Jermain Defoe

Jermain Defoe presented the Walter Tull trophy to Hugo Lloris after the 2-1 victory of Europa League runners-up Rangers on Saturday afternoon.

The friendly was settled by two Harry Kane goals and it was revealed that Jermain Defoe is going to return to Spurs after his retirement from playing to take up a coaching and ambassadorial role.

That is great for our youngsters to have another club man coaching, a legend and certainly adds something to our ambassadorial ranks and the promotion of the Spurs brand.

What I have taken from our three pre-season friendlies is the one-touch passing and the off the ball movement that creates it.

There seems to be a better understanding of the angles needed to achieve it, a reminder of a brief spell under Mauricio Pochettino when we excelled at it.


8 comments

  1. my only concern is that we still play ourselves into trouble in and around our own goal area, we put players under pressure who then panic and make another pass and play that man also under pressure, this will lead to goals that are unnecessary to give away so cheaply. Yesterday was no different particularly in the first half
    • Hi Tony.

      I don't argue with your point. I think it's fair and observable at this stage of the season. I was recently worrying myself that our clean sheet tally has gone down considerably :-(

      However...

      I got to thinking of some of the factors that might be affecting the situation.
      A) The break.
      B) Fitness.
      C) New players.
      D) A possible intention to play to feet more.

      A) For all of us it takes a while to get back into the swing of things after a break. When you play at the top, top level you can return relatively easily to a pretty decent level after hard training and a few matches. Getting back up to the elite level, where you probably finished last season before the break, is harder still. In my experience this doesn't happen pre-season, but only after a couple of full-on competitive top-level matches.

      B) The top level and fitness go very much hand-in-hand, so comments above also apply to this.

      C) For all that the new players have obvious quality, they need to bed in and learn…
  2. Ohhh wow backtracking on lingard r we I thought we were interested in him as u said many times before now we weren’t I would love to meet u ya melt total victim all ur life n only way u can speak up in on here as no balls to say it to anyone face stop thinking u know best n talking down to folk
    • I haven't backtracked a centimetre, merely tried to explain what I have actually said rather than what you INCORRECTLY perceive I have said. You are either dishonest or plain stupid, because of your agenda.

      You interpret things incorrectly which makes your opinions untrue. This is why, you are why, the opinions of anti-Levy people are utterly worthless, you guys are not in the real world but your own.

      I have NEVER EVER said we ARE buying Jessie Lingard, NEVER, yet that is what you claim.

      So no, no backtracking, just making things clear wth FACTS, not your incorrect interpretations, ya melt!
    • Does the idiot not know he has signed for Nottingham Forest!!! He expects us to be interested in a player who has just signed for someone else? That has to be the answer Clive.
    • Hi to everyone here.

      Unfortunately, everyone here seems to be showing simplay as ANONYMOUS, so I'll make clear for those who don't necessarily appreciate the structure of how comments are displayed here, that my reply is directed to the original ANONYMOUS who started this particular branch of the replies. I'll refer to them as A-1 if I may. The other two can be A-2 & A-3 from the order they replied. Bizarrely, A-2 sounds like he's talking on behalf of the author (Clive/THB). Why that would appear as ANONYMOUS at all confuses me but probably not important.

      So, Hi A-1.
      I don't agree with your take / interpretation of what has been published here, but I'll try to express that without sneering or looking down my nose at your current interpretation. Those who know me will find that amusing as I have a tendency to come across as patronising even at the best of times.

      If I may then, One of the points I would draw your attention to is the explanation that transfer…
    • Each of these is a player we're showing interest in. Some are serious interest and others are ones we go for only because all others have been dropped or otherwise chosen a different destination. Generally speaking there will be a hierarchy, or order of importance where we understand we will only go for those of a lower order if *ALL* those of a higher order fall through. This makes good sense. We have to do it all at the same time as otherwise any single failure would leave us very much behind any competent alternative suitors.

      All that said, my understanding from what Clive said in the various articles, is that Jesse Lingard held an interest for us - as in we were following progress - yet we were a long way from making a firm offer as he was among those in the lower orders of precedence. As such, when he went elsewhere, this may possibly be seen as a minor irritation, but hardly a setback as the chances of our needing to take that option up were negligible.

      My take was that C…
  3. Now I understand why we keep hearing about this guy, he's not all there is he. I, like you Clive, block anti-Levy people from social media, they just distort everything