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Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 55

Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 55


Another fine day and a trip into Canterbury for me tomorrow to deal with a fraud case, a spot of shopping and enjoy the city on Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 55.

I did a bit of searching about transfers and other people writing about transfers.

After my last couple of explanation pieces I thought I'd look at what other write because I was expecting something to be missing from them all, the most important factor of all.

I came across an article on the first page of Google, meaning Google sees that post as informative and authoritative on that subject and it listed 11 factors.
  1. Age
  2. Experience
  3. Sell-on value
  4. Commercial value
  5. Medical history
  6. Playing position
  7. Transfer window (summer or winter)
  8. Contract length (existing abd intended)
  9. Transfer policy of selling club
  10. Status of buying club
  11. Agent power 

All very true, but where is the most important factor of all, where is the mention of mentality?

Teams were successful under Sir Alex Ferguson because he sought out playing with the right mentality and were intelligent football players.

While we have made giants strides in this respect under Antonio Conte with a recruitment policy that takes this into account, a first-team psychologist and an assistant coach whose responsibility it is to work on mentality and emotional control under match stress situations, I still feel we could do more. 

I see an opportunity to improve our pulling power for young players even more, indeed to make us irresistible to any aspiring young talent, even the supremely gifted and most coveted of young players.

What can we do to have an advantage over the competition?

We can target that area that they do not in transfer negotiations.

Presentation videos
Presentation Dossiers
Personal phone calls
Personal meeting with head coach, rather than just the sporting director or chairman
How to develop a player
How to develop a player mentally and the benefits of doing so for a long and successful career at the top of the game.

Antonio Conte

When it comes to Spurs, for many, common sense goes out the window, they don't use it to look at situations, hence why they arrive at their wrong conclusions.

It's a shame they then twist facts to try and fit those conclusions but here at THBN Towers we are beyond that.

It is patently obvious to anyone with half a brain cell that the Tottenham Hotspur vision has been laid out to Antonio Conte, his part in that and the 'how'.

That how obviously includes investment and that will have been discussed fully with Conte as Daniel Levy sold the Tottenham Hotspur job to the Italian.

He only signed because he liked that vision, he liked the resources he was going to be given to achieve it and the authority to put his playing vision into practice.

It was his job to reconstruct the playing side into a trophy and title winning side, not just once but build it so that trophies could be won regularly.

Despite his reputation, he will have had to sell Daniel Levy on his vision for the club, how he felt he could achieve the club aims.

If either party hadn't liked what they heard in this interview process then they would not have put pen to paper and agreed a contract.

The short-term contract was merely a safeguard for both sides. Both sides needed to test that they were a good fit for each other and that words turned into actions.

"We have to continue to build with the players, to continue to improve them. They have a lot of space for improvement. This is a young team and we can work for many years and fight with the best teams.

"You need to face four competitions in the best possible way. To do this you need a good squad with good quality. We have just started this process."

Should that initial time be a success, and it has been, then obviously with something to build, both sides would be willing to commit to longer.

Conte is now talking long term in press conferences because Tottenham have the capacity, thanks to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium income, to eventually match the top teams and compete financially with the guaranteed income it brings.

Once Spurs start winning trophies, then more commercial sponsorship deals and bigger ones will come along to boost finances even further.

That's the beauty of the long term vision Daniel Levy and the Spurs board had and the plan they put together to achieve it.

No it hasn't been fast, but it has always been there and followed, the club building itself from within, just the way UEFA wants it done.

Aston Villa were heralded when Randy Lerner took over, how did that go, they ere heralded again when rich new owners bought the club, how did that go?

Newcastle United ere heralded when Mike Ashley took over, how did that go?

Everton were heralded when their rich new owners took over, how did that go?

The club is more important than the owner and building the club to be a self-sufficient and sustainable big club will always be more important than a rich sugar daddy.

Tottenham Hotspur have been built in the right way regardless of what anyone else might tell you.

It has been built for the now and the future, whereas other clubs have now got to build themselves to compete, something they should have been doing all along but lacked the vision of our chairman Daniel Levy.

Successful people will always get moaned at, it's human nature to try and drag people down to your level.

Listen to those who try and drag you up.

Antonio Conte turned around Juventus, he has done before what he is going to do at Spurs.

Before Conte, Juventus hadn't won a league title for 8 years, a long time for the biggest club in the country and regular Serie A winners. 

He took the helm at the Old Lady and guided them to success to success, winning 3 Scudetto's in a row and laying the foundation for their dominance of the next decade.

He rejuvenated Inter Milan too to win the Scudetto, something they hadn't done for 10 years.

I have no doubt he will build us into a club who will win things regularly so the club has a bright future, plenty for us supporters to look forward to.

After the Roma defeat Antonio Conte mentioned those details I referred to recently in a chat section about Sir Clive Woodward and making continual tiny improvements.

He also pointed out that new signing Yves Bissouma from Brighton is still, naturally, learning our system and what we require, which suggests he ill not start against Southampton on Saturday.

"It was a tough match but I think it's a good thing, it's a good way to start the season. I understand that if we want to be competitive and win every match we must continue to be strong in every situation."

There were good signs against Roma.
"Of course, there have been many good things. But we never want to lose and today we lost for details. We conceded goals from a corner, we have to be more careful because if we want to raise our level we have to take care of every detail."

What's positive today?
"That we didn't have any injuries. We got Ben Davies back but I didn't want to risk him. Lenglet played a good recovery, Bissouma is starting to understand our football ideas and Perisic and Doherty are putting minutes in the legs after injuries. We need it. to find our peak quickly, but there are positive things."

Next week we start again.
"We want it to start. After a month of traveling to Korea and then here in Israel we can't wait to start. We have an important game with Southampton on Saturday, we have to prepare well. The improvements will be seen in the new season, we want to start playing to get the three points."

On Clément Lenglet’s display: 

“I’m happy for Lenglet, for Clement because he came in with personality. We need a player to play, to play with personality, to have the quality to play football, also to attack. It was positive.”

 

Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 55

More and more youngsters are heading abroad in search of first team football these days and it is not just from England that they travel.

There are grumblings in the Italian press about youngsters turning down clubs like AC Milan to join foreign sides like 20-year-old (21 next January) Empoli centre-back Mattia Viti.

The youngster has brought €15m (including bonuses) much needed funds into the Serie A 14th placed side last season, who have a ground capacity of just 16,284 by joining French Ligue 1 side Nice.

Serie B striker Lorenzo Lucca of Pisa has joined Ajax in the Netherlands. The 21-year-old (22 in September) is an Italian U-21 international who chose Ajax over Serie A sides Sassuolo (capacity 21,584) who finished 11th last season and 13th placed Bologna (capacity 38,279).

Sebastiano Esposito, a centre-forward from Inter Milan, has chosen to go out on loan to Anderlecht in Belgium rather than a loan move in Italy.

The 21-year-old (22 next July) wouldn't have seen much opportunity with Romelu Lukaku and Laurtaro Martínez in their ranks.

Cesare Casadei is a 19-year-old (20 next January) Inter Milan midfielder who has been targetted by Spurs and other big clubs in the Premier League, plus Arsenal, despite struggling to qualify to move here post Brexit.

Chelsea have offered €7-8m while Inter are asking for €20m.

Rodrigo De Paul

Fabio Paratici and Antonio Conte are considering 28-year-old (29 next May) Argentine central midfielder, Rodrigo De Paul from Atlético Madrid.

The player has no desire to leave the Spanish side however.

Giovanni Lo Celso

Villarreal have submitted an official offer for Giovanni Lo Celso. LaLiga and Villarreal are his preferred destination.

The offer is a loan with a mandatory purchase option of £12.54m (€15m) which is below our valuation. 

It will be rejected and we expect them to increase the offer.

Random Facts

Heung-min Son was the only player in the Top 5 European leagues (England, Italy, Spain, Germany and France) to score 10 goals with his left foot and his right foot.

Harry Kane is Tottenham's leading all-time goalscorer against Southampton with 11 goals, Heung-min Son is second in the all-time list with 10 goals.

Indeed, they are the only two players in the Spurs squad to have scored against the Saints for Spurs.

A great resource for Tottenham facts:
Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 55

Harry Kane is the longest serving player at Tottenham Hotspur having been at the club since 1st January 2011.

In my piece 2 days ago I explained why Oliver Skipp would not be playing against Southampton, while Ally Gold was misleading everyone saying he'll be fit and ready.

Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 55

Two days after my piece it emerges that the foot cut to the top of his foot he sustained will not be healed in time to play and he'll miss the game.

And people (wrongly) believe he is the mouthpiece of the club!

Anyone with an ounce of common sense would be able to tell you that a cut to the top of a foot that needs stitches, would not be ready in a week.

For a start you have to go easier on the training and avoid ball work.

How are you going to prepare with a team for a game if you can't fully take part in training?

You can't put anything into practice, it would all be theory.

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