Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 80
It's a Sunday and it's a matchday once again against newly promoted opposition that we would hope to secure three points against.
You can read my pre-match piece here:
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It is also Spurs Summer Transfer Window Day 80 leaving just 2 more days to finalise anything else.
You build a club that can generates for itself £100m for the transfer market every summer and the clueless complain about it.
What other club has done that? NONE.
That just proves that these followers, not supporters, whom we have already established in previous posts, can't see as much as positive supporters, are benefits driven people.
They would rather have a state handout that work to achieve something for themselves.
They believe, it seems, that a club should not build itself to generate it's own money, no it must all be given away by an owner simply because he has made a success of his life where they haven't.
This is Labour politics all over, policies that brought down the USSR and are failing in the European Union, with countries like Germany reportedly near bankruptcy.
Spurs have spent over £110m plus paying £43m for Romero (so over £150m), but it's not enough apparently, showing these simpletons will always want more of other peoples money, rather than generating their own.
The good to come out of this situation is that I can block another idiot on social media and fill my timelines with more intelligent fans who actually support the club for more than 90 minutes a week, which equates to 0.87% of the time.
That's 99.13% of the time they aren't supporting the club!
Like I say followers.
The squad is unquestionably stronger and it ought to be obvious to everyone that you can't solve every problem in one window, particularly when you are talking about the top of the market.
Building is an evolution process, increasing the strength summer on summer and obviously to do that you have to generate money, which the club has been set up brilliantly to do.
Squad strengthening:
- Ndombele out: Bentancur in
- Lo Celso out: Kulusevski in
- Gollini out: Forster in
- Clarke out: Spence in
- Reguilón out: Perišić in
- Rodon out: Lenglet in
- Bergwijn out: Richarlison in
- Winks out: Bissouma in
Spurs UEFA Champions League campaign starts with a home fixture against arguably our toughest opponents in Group D, French Ligue 1 side Olympique Marseille.
Matchday 1: Wed 7th Sept: Marseille H 8pm
Matchday 2: Tues 13th Sept: Sporting CP A 5.45pm
Matchday 3: Tues 4th Oct: Eintracht Frankfurt A 8pm
Matchday 4: Wed 12th Oct: Eintracht Frankfurt H 8pm
Matchday 5: Wed 26th Oct: Sporting CP H 8pm
Matchday 6: Tues 1st Nov: Marseille A 8pm
We will surely want to field our strongest side to get off to the best possible start so squad rotation might have to start with the game against Nottingham Forest today.
Our upcoming fixtures are:
Sun 28th Aug Nottingham Forest A 4:30pm
Wed 21st Aug West Ham United A 7:45pm
Sat 3rd Sept Fulham H 3pm
Wed 7th Sept: Marseille H 8pm
Sat 10th Sept Manchester City A 5:30pm
Tuesday 13th Sept Sporting CP A
So we are playing:
Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, Tuesday.
Who and when do you rotate?
Kane will surely want to play against West Ham, Marseille, Manchester City, and Sporting which means a rest against Fulham and perhaps today against Nottingham Forest in preparation for a busy period.
Which games is Richarlison going to start as a striker or wide man?
When does Moura replace Kulusevski?
Clément Lenglet has played over 45 games for Barcelona in the Champions League, should we therefore allow him to concentrate on that competition and keep Davies for the rigours of the Premier League?
When, indeed do you, give Dier a rest?
Skipp and Bissouma can deputise in midfield.
When does Doherty start, which games does Sessegnon play?
All that planning has to take place now.
Conte will be hoping to improve on his poor Champions League record, one quarter-final and one Round of 16 stage in 5 attempts.
Is his style of football suited to the Champions League?
It'll depend on the knockout round draw, but he'll be hoping to better that European record.
Transfer Talk
Spurs are said to have agreed a £2m deal to sign 17-year-old striker Will Lankshear from Sheffield United and he will not be loaned back to them.
This may well be because of the UEFA Youth Cup which is an U-19 competition run alongside the Champions League (UCL).
Spurs had to get tough with Harry Winks who was digging his heels in and refusing to move by suggesting to him that he would not be in either the Premier League squad or the Champions League squad, that he would not be training with the first team, as Conte demonstrated and that the club would simply cancel his contract.
It is a wrench having to leave your boyhood club but he has the opportunity now to learn from playing in Italy and come back a better player.
That would give him a chance of staying, albeit a slim one.
Sergio Reguilón looks as though he is going to secure a loan move back to Spain with no buy option, our last resort and join Atlético Madrid, who, of course, have UEFA Champions League football.
The President of Lazio, Claudio Lotito, says they pulled out of a deal for him because he is out injured for 6 weeks, not the 3 previously reported.
“I am not going to sign a left-back who is injured, will be out of action for a month and a half, especially with the break for the World Cup coming up as well.”
ITK from Ukrainian sources (no idea how reliable they are) suggest that a London club has put in an offer for 19-year-old (20 in September) Dynamo Kyiv centre-back Ilkay Zabarnyi.
Zabarnyi is on Tottenham's radar and a move to this unnamed London club is said to be close, it would need to be with the summer transfer window closing in to days.
If it were us I'd see him being developed for the future and us relying on the five centre-backs, at least until January.
Spurs apparently rate him highly and there is nothing imminent for Japhet Tanganga at the moment, although that could change very quickly.
In June, Ukrainian football icon Yozhef Sabo urged Tottenham to sign the wonderkid this summer before his value shoots up to perhaps £43m.
Sabo, who has managed Dynamo and Ukraine in the past, believes Zabarnyi is a top player and spoke to 1927 Kiev about him after an international.
Question: There was information that "Tottenham" is interested in Ilya Zabarny. A good option for Dynamo?
"Zabarny is a good player, takes football seriously, must grow. Plays well in selection, in the air, in transfers. It must be bought."
Question: Is the price of €30 million fair? (£25.54m - US$29.89m - AUS$43.39m)
"I think it costs more. It can be seen that this is a football player. Why, right away. Plays well, has speed. That is why Babayan was not inferior in speed. It is necessary to sell - he will have a completely different mood and motivation. Of course, you shouldn't give it away for nothing - in a year or two, Zabarny will be worth 50 million euros." (£42.41m - US$49.82m - AUS$72.31m)
The UAE Professional Football League recognized the Ukrainian as the best coach of the national championship in the 2021/22 season after Al-Ain became the champion of the UAE, 10 points ahead of the silver medallist Al-Sharjah.
Seven of the team were selected for the national team.
We'll leave it there for today, enjoy the game today folks, fingers crossed it's three points.
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