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Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 66

Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 66


Well it didn't take long for the traditional Saturday 3pm kick-off to change did it, 1 game and the TV grabbing us immediately to shift the Chelsea game to 4:30 on a Sunday.

That Sunday is Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 66.

Plenty of Spurs fans are excited that we have bought Yves Bissouma from Brighton and I haven't watched him enough to get excited yet.

My impression of him for Brighton in that FA Cup tie against us, at least I think that was the game, was that he tried to do everything himself, a one-man team and didn't seem to want to pass when he could have.

So with that in mind, I want and need to see more of him and what he brings to the club.

His spells at Lille and Brighton were very different, he was asked to perform different roles at each club, but did both effectively.

In France he was more attacking and at Brighton he was asked to perform a more defensive role.

You can see this in his passing stats.

Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 66


Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 66

It is that last stat that shows he can be a progressive player and that there is an adaption we can make to his game to bring out even more from him.

Tanguy Ndombele

My fingers are crossed, so is everything else.

Tottenham and Napoli have agreed a deal for the lazy Tanguy Ndombele who has been training away from the first team squad at Hotspur Way.

The deal will be a loan deal with an option to buy but turns into an obligation if they achieve UEFA Champions League football next season.

With Giovanni Lo Celso going on a loan deal too, Spurs have decided they have waited long enough for concrete offers or obligation to buy deals.

A loan with an option has always been the fall back option, the third best option if you like.

Napoli through Director of Sport Cristiano Giuntoli, have met with Ndombele's agents this week in Paris to thrash out personal terms.

Ndombele flies out for a medical this weekend on a €1m (£844,765 - US$1.01m - AUS$1.46m) loan fee deal with a €30m (£25.34m - US$30.34m - AUS$43.78m) purchase option.

Spurs will be covering 50% of his wages, which rather shows his wages have been the stumbling block all along and suggests to me that he hasn't wanted to take a pay cut to play football, indeed he hinted he'd be happy to stay.

So we will get, if they take up the option, €31m (£26.18m - US$31.35m - AUS$45.26m) for a player with plenty of ability but an entitlement problem.

Now if you remember my article on transfer fees and how amortization means you rite off an equal portion for each year you use have that player on your books., Ndombele currently is worth around £26m.

In a years time he would be worth roughly £17.57m.

Accountancy wise, not the huge hit fans are suggesting.

Bryan Gil

Bryan Gil is expected to depart this week with a deal for him close, leaving Harry Winks of the four training away from the first team.

Spurs are in advanced negotiations with Valencia for Gil, whom they wish to replace Gonçalo Guedes, the Portuguese winger joining Wolverhampton Wanderers, with.

Harry Winks

Put yourself in Harry Winks shoes for a moment, take your Tottenham head off and think sensibly.

The club tell you to find another club but the clubs who come in for you are not of a level that you feel you wish to play.

Harry Winks has played European football regularly for Spurs and must therefore see himself as of that standard. He therefore wants a team who is going to be playing in Europe this season or next season.

That is where he sees his level.

Why therefore, would he join a newly promoted team or a relegation fighting team?

Yes he'll play every week, but relegation teams often lose confidence and playing in a side with no confidence isn't going to do his game any good at all, plus why does he want the risk of being at a club in the Championship when he feels he should be in Europe?

So what are his options in the Premier League?

Well, who is going to qualify for the UEFA Europa League or the Conference League this season?

You would think the clubs fighting it out would be Newcastle United perhaps, West Ham Unites, Manchester United and Arsenal.

Everton are going to be in a relegation battle, Nottingham Forest could be in a relegation battle, Wolves look a mid-table team, Leicester have no money and having to sell players thus may struggle to get European football back.

He isn't going to join Arsenal, West Ham is unlikely being a Tottenham lad and a Tottenham fan, Manchester United haven't shown any interest in him with leaves him with Newcastle Unites as his only viable option.

Valencia have shown interest but they finished 9th in LaLiga but on the plus side the slower Spanish passing game might suit him and it would be a new adventure in the sun.

He is probably going to have to take a hit on wages, unless he refuses every deal and Tottenham have to loan him out and thus pay part of his wages so he maintains his £70,000 a week.

What would you be doing in his shoes?

The ex-England international midfielder is another who upset the club, indeed I reported when he ran to the press anonymously to complain about José Mourinho and was stirring trouble, a negative force on the training ground.

That didn't go down well upstairs and the situation has never improved, the club want him gone at all costs and are frustrated he is still here.

Chelsea vs Spurs

I agree with Jamie O'Hara on talkSPORT that this is a good time to be playing Chelsea for Spurs.

That is more to do with their situation than ours.

Spurs have improved from the shambolic team we were and a team learning a new system.

When a new manager comes in with a new style of playing then players take time to adapt until they can play that system to a high standard.

I always go back to Brendon Rogers at Liverpool who has a very ordinary system as the Liverpool players learnt his system and the following season they should have won the Premier League but fluffed their lines at the end.

Conte has spent 7 months and had a pre-season and has had a bunch of new players, who have yet to learn the system so Tottenham are not the finished article yet, we are a work in progress.

On the plus side, Kulusevski has slotted in brilliantly, as has Bentancur and much of that has to be down to their mentalities.

Ivan Perišić has played for Conte before thus knows the system and his advice has already helped Ryan Sessegnon improve and get off the scoresheet in the Premier League for us.

Spurs are improving but we are still not always solid enough in defence, conceding a goal against Southampton as we did is an example.

You expect a stronger attacking side to expose that more, but Chelsea are in somewhat of a transition and two of their centre-backs have departed and Marcus Alonso is going to join Barcelona so they may not be as solid as they have been in the past.

Spurs have the firepower to take advantage of that.

In 2022, before this weekends round of matches, Tottenham have scored more goals than Manchester City, we have scored 17 more goals than Chelsea, not bad for a team apparently lacking creativity!

Chelsea have beaten Spurs by being tight at the back and taking their chances at the other end generally but they may be weaker at the back at the moment until they buy and players settle.

There is the potential of an opportunity for Spurs to exploit that as Chelsea haven't kept a clean sheet at Stamford Bridge in their last three games.

Tottenham are chasing a fifth straight Premier League win, something we last achieved in December 2018 but to temper things, Tottenham didn't win a single London derby away from home last season.

Since Conte arrived Spurs have the 3rd most points in the Premier League, 7 above Chelsea, Spurs have scored the 3rd most goals, 13 above Chelsea, we are 3rd in conceding, 5 goals less than Chelsea (4th).

Spurs have fewer shots than the other top clubs and we concede more shots but our conversion rate is 1st, Chelsea's is 9th best.

We create fewer chances but ours are of a higher quality and throw in the fact we are the leading goalscorers in the Premier League in the calendar year 2022 and there is cause for optimism today.




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