Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 59
More than one calling me names after Fridays post, which is hilarious as it merely proves me right about these people yet again!
These the same people complaining superstars haven't been brought for every position to satisfy their egos and whinging that we are starting with the same XI from last season.
Spurs shut them up, showed that they are clueless people by smacking in 4 goals in the season opener against Southampton.
Why do they keep doing it to themselves, not real Spurs supporters at all.
It was a comfortable victory to get the season off to a start after Liverpool showed how difficult it could be only drawing 2-2 with newly promoted Fulham.
It has been a week of little bit of gardening, pruning, looking after the pond, and collecting sacks of weeds to take to the recycling centre.
Well I certainly have an opinion and I voice it but what I don't get is why people think I should change my correct opinion, for their incorrect one!
It's another example of a journalist giving an answer and then simply asking a manager or head coach to agree he's right. That isn't journalism.
Again another example, pander to the players, NO, the players have to pander to the manager or head coach.
The situation with Winks is the same as the other players we want to sell.
Well I certainly have an opinion and I voice it but what I don't get is why people think I should change my correct opinion, for their incorrect one!
People's idea of a debate is that I must change my opinion to theirs, but as I do far more research than fans out there and thus are better informed, it is far more likely that I am right.
Gotta love the arrogance haven't you.
Pisses the anti crowd off, love it.
Get them working for me and they don't even know it, mugs.
Right on to 'brighter' matters (the subtlety of the humour will be lost of them) and the pre-game press conference questions that show journalists do not have winning mentalities so just don't understand how one thinks.
It's another example of a journalist giving an answer and then simply asking a manager or head coach to agree he's right. That isn't journalism.
Why could he just ask what success would look like for Tottenham this season? That's the question so why add to it.
I have talked about having a big vision and how most can't see that far.
A winning mentality sets a very high standard so that you strive to achieve it and if you fall short you can still be successful.
Aim for the Premier League or the Champions League, if you pick up a domestic cup and achieve Champions League football the following season too, great.
What you do not do is set the lesser goal because subconsciously that's all you're aiming for, you're restricting yourself, you don't push yourself as much so you don't achieve as much.
Again another example, pander to the players, NO, the players have to pander to the manager or head coach.
The players have to prove in training that they are worth a place in the team and when they are given a chance they must perform, not make excuses and say I haven't been given a run of games.
You have to earn that right, not be given charity and that starts on the training field.
Nobody has considered that it might take Djed Spence time to adjust to the Premier League, to Tottenham, to being at a big club and the expectations that go with it, to new surrounding, to new and harder training sessions, to more detailed game management, to adjusting to Conte's specifics for his role, to system-based intricate passing, to his new teammates, to new facilities, to new nutrition planning.
An elite level football club is vastly different to a Championship club, it's a new world.
People seem to think he has been brought in as the number 1 right wing-back, I don't. I think he has been brought in to be developed as a homegrown and English Football Association trained player for Europe.
I see Emerson and Doherty sharing the role and Spence learning, yes he'll get opportunities as we have 8 weeks where e play twice a week and he is bound to play in the League Cup isn't he.
I look forward to that game so I can see Fraser Forster in goal, I'm a big fan, no pun intended, he is 6ft 7in (2.01m).
The situation with Winks is the same as the other players we want to sell.
We have put prices on their heads which are sensible prices, we are not asking the earth, as we sometimes do.
In a recent post I explained how a transfer fee is broken down and set against the accounts, thus showing what we can sell a player for and not lose money on the books, although to the man in the street we are.
Giovanni Lo Celso for instance was £17.28m not to lose money and we have received an offer of a loan + £12.5m.
We'll do a deal at £17m so if these foreign buyers raised their offer by EUR5m we'd agree.
You have all seen the reports, Rodon a loan with option, AC Milan want loan with option for Tanganga, we want obligation, everybody wants loans.
It seems to be the trend now to loan a player, have a look at him and then decide if you want him after a season.
Great for the buying club, crap for the selling club.
A selling club wants a player gone, they want him sold and a fee coming in, they want a loan if they have to, but with an obligation to buy.
They don't want to have the same problem in a years time when a buying club never really had an intention of buying the player in the first place.
What Tottenham are doing is holding out for the right money, the right deal.
What buying clubs are doing is waiting until we have to change our stance and deal on their terms more than ours.
This late in the window lots of club have registered their interest and the type of deal they are willing to do.
Winks, and others, will have assessed each club and each project and have their own idea of what is best for them.
They have to wait for a right offer to be made or for Spurs to change our stance.
Over 40% of deals are regularly done in the last two weeks of a window and loans are prevalent then to fill a gap.
The quiet isn't an issue for me, things will move...eventually.
Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 59
It is always a good idea, in my brilliant opinion, when a side is interested in one of our players to see who else they are interested in as an alternative.
It helps you build up a picture of the characteristics of a player, learn new players and possible undiscovered gems.
These also might be players that on Spurs radar for now or one we are following to see how they develop.
Sides abroad with less money have to find and develop these players for the bigger clubs to buy, the food chain of football.
Spurs are climbing that food chain.
With increased income, we have to do less speculating and more buying of first-team ready players.
We will always still speculate because the next Bale, the next Ronaldo, even the next Messi is out there somewhere.
We have bought players like Gil because we feel he will develop into quality and make us plenty of money selling him basically. It hasn't worked out that way, he is too lightweight for the Premier League.
Antonio Conte is building a young, tall team with steel and drilling them in his system so that is they stick together there should be a raft of trophies.
As with everything, it has to be spread over time, every problem isn't going to be solved in one window, every upgrade we want isn't available in one window.
We want a high quality centre-back, but we don't want to sign just anyone, we have specifics and are having to wait to see how the window pans out to see if our top targets become available.
Then, rather than buy a lesser player, we'll wait to resolve the issue in another window.
Lenglet is misunderstood by our fans, there is a quality player in there, that's why Barcelona snapped him up.
OK, with Messi leaving it hasn't worked out, it hasn't for any of their centre-backs though.
A season long loan plugs a gap for now and I'll say it again, he will become our first choice left centre-back.
Anyway, back to the food chain.
AC Milan are interested in Pape Matar Sarr, their alternative is a player you have probably never heard of, Raphael Onyedika.
He is a 21-year-old (22 next April) Nigerian defensive midfielder playing at Danish Superliga club FC Midtjylland.
Another alternative is 22-year-old (23 next January) Jean Onana, a Cameroonian international (9 caps) defensive midfielder from French League 2 club (they were relegated last season) Bordeaux.
To give you an idea of the state of finances in Italy, newspaper La Stampa are reporting that Italian Champions AC Milan can not afford £21.1m for 22-year-old (23 in September) Davide Frattesi of Sassuolo, hence looking at Sarr or Onyedika.
This is why they don't want obligations to buy, only options, hence potential moves not progressing.
Take Zaniolo. Roma do not want players in part exchange, they want £42.19m (€50m - US$50.94m - AUS$73.63m) in cash and if they can't have that they want an expansive initial loan with an obligation to buy that is going to amount to the €50m.
They want a chunk of money NOW.
This also explains why Udinese, who normally keep a player for a couple of years to cash in on an increase in valuation, are selling Destiny Udogie after only one year.
Even so, Spurs are paying £21.94m (€26m - US$26.49m - AUS$38.31m) including bonuses for the player expected to be a fixture at left-back in the Italian national side for years to come. He has been offered a 5-year contract and personal terms have all been agreed.
He missed his sides cup game officially with a muscle strain, but Udinese do not want him getting injured before the deal goes through.
We are getting, hopefully, a high quality left wing-back for years to come and one who will increase in value.
A Bryan Gil but more proven in the men's game than Gil, more physical presence, more chance of developing successfully in the Premier League.
Gianluca Di Marzio, the man to follow for Spurs news in Italy, tells us a deal is expected next week. It was reported by his employer Sky Italia and copied by Fabrizio Romano and then down the media chain.
Conte in his Sky Italia interview said that transfer choices were well thought out, perhaps they are better thought out that has been the case previously.
Jack Clarke vs Bryan Gil vs Destiny Udogie.
Are we seeing a progression here?
Are we signing better quality potential, greater ceiling potential?
As you know, I have advocated gaining a market advantage to attract the best youngsters in the world to Tottenham Hotspur whether wwe can match what is being offered elsewhere or not.
That edge is in developing a player mentally, in becoming neurolinguistic programming specialists to enhance performance.
We have made some steps, there are more we can take.
Sports psychology should be at the core of the club, we should develop ourselves to become the leaders in the world of football.
If we had a program in place then Dele Alli would not have lost his mentality and we would not have lost £80m, because that would have been his value in the current market.
What would it cost £100,00 - £200,000 to have a team of psychologists seeing each player each week.
Instead what are we getting for him, chicken feed, peanuts, basically giving him away to get rid of him.
When the warning signs were there, use of social media and training levels dropped, that was the time to sell or to send him to a psychologist to straighten his head out and get him motivated by football and not by the ego acceptance disease.
£80m e have tossed down the drain by not handling it right.
When someone tells me a club does all it can to help players, and I have had a club employee tell me this, they are talking bollocks.
There is a site more they could do that they haven't even thought of.
All aspects of the club operation should be assessed and improved.
Get your positive mindsets together, regardless of job title or wage and have them brainstorm, have them as the club think tank, not just the board.
See what ideas come out of that, however absurd they may sound.
Then you need a team with vision to think through each idea, to find out what the thinking was of the person it originated from and how the group developed the idea.
Get together with the original idea maker and discuss a potential vision, record, document, create a presentation perhaps and put it to the board or Daniel Levy.
Some ideas will make it, some will fall by the wayside but striving to improve past everyone has to be a goal and indeed striving to improve last everyone striving to improve should be a goal too.
An idea like this should not be judged and a decision given one way or another, as with all my ideas.
They should be taken, discussed, thought about, potential should be sought, opportunity should be sought, a vision, a path, achieving is the easy part.
Only when something has been exhaustively researched, brainstormed and assessed should a decision one way or the other be made.
An open mind, not a closed mind, a success mind, not a failure mind, a positive mind, not a negative mind.
Something I have found that works very well from the charitable sector for the initial brainstorming session, that everybody loved to get involved in as it takes people away from daily repetition and thus gets them engaged, is splitting people into groups of 8 or so.
Sit them at separate tables, give them a couple of huge sheets of paper, one to place your idea in a bubble in the centre and crete bubbles linking to it with ideas.
The other sheet having columns for others to note the ideas and formulate them into groups.
A spokesperson stands to present the groups idea(s) to everyone else.
At the end get a general consensus of opinion about each groups suggestion then discuss it or them as a whole to see what other ideas emerge.
You end up armed with a lot of information, a lot of ideas and everyone has had a good time taking a break from the norm.
Discuss it amongst yourselves!
What ideas have you got to help take Spurs to the next level?
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I suspect you meant 'afflicted' by Spurs Twitteritis but get your message anyway. I like your thinking.
@Keith.
Great to see some more like-minded Spurs supporters coming on to comment. Personally I see this as an oasis in the desert. Like you I agree with almost all he posts.
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I believe that Sonny has the skill to take great corners that have a very high reliability of getting to where they need to get to. I observe so many where the corner is wasted due to the taker getting it wrong. We used to see that more at Spurs - but not for a while.
Another bonus is that when the ball gets recycled and comes back out wide then Sonny often receives it somewhere near the corner of the box - and we all know how dangerous he is from there. I would say that it's one of his favourite spots to score from.
I think Sonny taking corners works very well for us.
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