Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 54
By batter I don't mean keep the ball and pepper the goal, no I mean be effective in what we do and score goals. When we are 2-0 up wwe need to go on to score 4 on a consistent basis.
I think we improved in that aspect last season and that good work needs to continue. Better mentalities, better concentration in the last quarter of the game have been our downfall in the past.
It is quite incredible that this needs explaining to people and demonstrates how little some supporters know about the game.
This is basic business and yet people of this ilk, not necessarily Eashan here, complain about our chairman and owners clearly without knowing what they are talking about.
Hence why the anti-Levy people can never come up with a coherent strategy to take the club forward, not one of them in over 8 years writing this blog.
There are a multitude of factors that generate a sale and prevent a sale.
I have used this description before, but it is like a set of giant cogs all turning at once. They all have to be in alignment for their to be progress forward, one cog out of alignment and the machine doesn't work.
just take a loom at that image for a moment, there are lots of cogs there, some on top of others, but you can see different sizes and plenty that are interlinked.
Each one of those interlinked cogs is a factor in a transfer dealing, some are small matters, some are large matters, like wages and transfer fee structure, the transfer fee itself would be another.
In any negotiation you might have 2 directors of football, who agree something in principle.
Each sporting director than has to agree with the player and his agent a deal.
This isn't straight forward.
The are golden handshakes to negotiate for any player you decide to sell, because as a club YOU are the ones terminating his contract, a contract he is due payment for whether he does the rest of the work or not.
Then there is a signing on fee to negotiate.
There are selling agents fees to negotiate.
There are buying agents fees to negotiate.
Quite frankly a player should have to pay these, not the clubs but clubs do currently.
The length of a contract is usually minor unless a player is in his 30's and is looking for the security of a longer contract.
A players wages from a club like Tottenham will be greater than selling to a club abroad, unless it is an elite club, or to a club lower down the Premier League pecking order.
Naturally that creates an issue, just look at Ndombele on £200K a week and the incredibly lazy attitude he has shown to all potential buyers.
A club may only wish to buy a player if they can sell one of their own first, where we can get into a mortgage chain.
Anyone who has bought a house will know what this is all about and how long it can take util everything aligns for a deal to go through. You are waiting on other people and you have no control over events, you just keep your fingers crossed.
Selling a player is just like that.
There are image rights and a who bunch of player issues to discuss but these generally don't create too much of a hurdle (a little cog).
A player might wait hoping for a bigger team to come in for him than has already appeared or a big team may have said to him that they will sign him if this happens, that happens and they can't buy XY or Z.
If there is a chance Barcelona can sort some finances out, and they did, then as a player you will wait for them and not sign for a lesser club just to do something quickly.
As a player you don't necessary need something quick, it depends upon your motivation and you can't sell a player who wants to wait, it's out of the clubs hands.
The final two weeks of a transfer window are the busiest two weeks of a window, why can't people actually grasp that. Time pressure creates better deals, such as Rafael van der Vaart.
If Spurs had already bought a player for that position we would not have been able to buy him and Real Madrid were forced to come up with a deal that was too good for us to turn down.
Clubs further down the pecking order wait for these deals in the final two weeks, why should they miss out on a cracking deal by signing your player early?
There are playing time issues, a head coach discussed the vision they have for that player and his development, they discuss the role they see for that player.
If the players doesn't want any of that then that's another cog to adjust so that it fits the whole machine.
Our desire this window was to get the majority of our buying business done early so we didn't mess about, it helps that we have Champions league football, money, are a club on the up and have a top manager.
All that gives us a pull that clubs wanting to buy our players don't have.
Equally, every club has different motivation, not every club wants to do it's business early and all clubs generally want to line up replacements before they will release a player.
No disrespect to the clubs our players will go to but they will be lesser clubs generally, wwho can offer less wages and with no money in the game, will usually want to take a player on loan and have us ay part of his salary.
It is far better for us if we can arrange a permanent transfer so why should be agree to a loan, or a loan with an option to buy that just returns the player to us in a years time.
I haven't nearly covered everything here but tried to paint a picture to spark a light bulb moment in some that it is far more complex than they realise.
For instance, I haven't covered off the field issues.
Take Gleison Bremer wwho we negotiated strongly with and would have been happy to join us but his girlfriend/partner refused to leave Italy where she was hoping to get citizenship.
Thus his family prevented a transfer, not either club or either agent or the player himself.
There are hidden factors like the wider players family whom he wants taken care of. This is a growing factor, the buying club have to agree to all sorts of matters financial to help a players family.
There was a case in 2019 0f a Premier League players parents demanding a six figure sum (£100,000+) for their son to sign for a new club and they weren't his agents.
That payment was more important to the player than the players game time on the pitch!
It's just the same as you moving house, you don't just move to the first property you see and you do your research into the area, the schools, facilities, transport links etc.
I would highly recommend you check out this YouTube video:
The End of the World is Nigh
I think the tweet says it all with the kids, presumably anti-Levy kids as I don't get to see much of it, having a doom and gloom meltdown.
Exactly, people forget the very successful Chelsea side with Frank Lampard in it didn't have a number 10, creativity came from elsewhere. A number 10 is a fans obsession boosted by equally narrow minded journalists.
There is more than one way to play a game and a number 10 requires a system change, OK for certain games or to change this when e are struggling but not to base the team and playing style around.
What happens if your playmaker is injured, then you're screwed, but with a system you just replace the part that is misfiring or injured.
Plan B is always to do Plan A better, a change in system is Plan C.
Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg
“I’m not the most talented player my team-mates will come across, but I’m one they can trust 100% and know even when it hurts, I will be there even when it’s difficult because that’s how I grew up, that’s who I am.”
Transfer News
The film producer owner of Italian side Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, wants €40m from West Ham for Piotr Zieliński, the London club have offered €35m.
Should he leave their #1 choice as his replacement is Giovanni Lo Celso who would probably prosper in the slower paced Italian game.
Zaniolo or Paqueta
Spurs will either be signing 23-year-old (24 next July) Italian international Nicolò Zaniolo from Roma or 24-year-old (25 in August) Brazilian international Lucas Paquetá from Lyon.
There has been a step forward after meetings with Roma at the weekend but we also have an outline agreement for Paquetá if we don't make the progress wwe expect to make with Zaniolo.
Antonio Conte
“If the idea continues to be in this way, there will be zero problems to continue my life in Tottenham because I stay well and I like this group of players and I have a good relationship with Paratici and with Daniel Levy.”
The doom and gloom of the ever decreasing anti-Levy smattering once again shown to be at odds with reality and demonstrates these folks simply don't understand either business or football.
When will people grasp the project at Tottenham is unique and thus appealing with the self-sufficient and sustainable resources the club has available now to achieve it.
Antonio Conte on Harry Kane:
"The club will want to try to renew the contract of their best players. You know very well that Harry is for us is an important player, but I see him very happy. I see him happy. His feelings are positive.”
Antonio Conte:
“I’m happy, I’m happy. We’re working really well together. It’s not that one year on the contract more or less can change the situation.”
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In the past we were very careful and tried very hard to ensure that all player sales were done before any matching purchase(s) were announced. That policy is great value as we are never in negotiations with parties who know that we're actually in a position where we NEED to sell.
Now that we're more of a buying club with a fair deal of attraction in the marketplace - that is to say a very desirable destination for many players - we are now (just) able to afford the approach that many have been crying out for years for - that of getting our purchases done early in the window and allowing everyone to benefit properly from a busy pre-season. Later purchases complicate this, but also they mean (generally) considerably better value from player sales.
Are the people who were complaining about the lack of early deals the same ones who are now complaining a…
On another note, I've read comments suggesting the Roma game was lacklustre with players on both teams cruising. I thought it was a compelling match and could see the intelligence in Mourinho's system with a balanced squad able to play effectively in his preferred way. It will be interesting to see how they progress.
As for Spurs, I thought they were quite good overall with promising signs from new players and a few old habits still apparent, such as risky back-passes to Lloris when finding a player further upfield seemed a better option.
Once again we needed time to settle and looked vulnerable early in the match but then Mourinho's MO seemed to be to…
Not that we were perfect at all, simply that his decisions repeatedly put us at a disadvantage. How a scissor-takedown (Karate term worth three points) of Kane in the box results in a free kick for them leaves 'questionable' in the distant rear mirror.
Nevertheless, it was a good opportunity for the team. Kuti showed he wouldn't be bullied into submission - as did others to give them their due - but Kuti's response was more emphatic.
I largely agree with your assessments though. Not bad; not perfect. We definitely dominated though. I'm in no doubt that we would have won that one had we had access to a half-way decent ref, so I'm happy enough.
Whenever I doubt my ref-assessment I always ask the questions :
Which team were committing the most offenses - and how lopsided was that?
Which team were awarded the most cards.
In this case Roma (by far) & Spurs were the answers. This clearly confirms my contemp…