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Hot Spur

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I'm not sure about that. Edwards has more potential but he is younger and not that good right now. Onomah and Winks are around his level, both players would star in HNL.
Onomah and Winks are nowhere near Coric level. If they were they would also have half of Europe chasing them. Edwards may have the potential to get there.
 

GutBucket

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Onomah and Winks are nowhere near Coric level. If they were they would also have half of Europe chasing them. Edwards may have the potential to get there.

Half of Europe was chasing Lovren and Mangala at one point and almost nobody wanted Wimmer. Saying that they are nowhere near Coric level is just crazy.
 

piedpiper

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If many a club could not get Coric to sign over the last 3 months. why would he now sign for us in january. Don't buy it.
 

TEESSIDE1

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If many a club could not get Coric to sign over the last 3 months. why would he now sign for us in january. Don't buy it.

He wants to play in the Champs League with DZ, they'll be eliminated come January.
 

Ionman34

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They may be "decent" but they are not Coric decent.

Let's see how Winks goes over the next few months. I have a very good feeling about this boy.

He might not be anywhere the level of Coric yet, but stranger things have happened.
 

EJWTartanSpur

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Football weekly podcast this week, quote from Rafa Honigstein

" Levy has a reputation in Germany for loving the art of negotiation to the point that he may just be negotiating for the sake of enjoying having a good negotiation. Notorious for coming up with inventive and varied clauses that nobodies seen before. In Germany, his tenacity is regarded with a sense of endearment but I'm not quite sure those feelings are shared in the Premiership"

LOL. Not strictly ITK but thought it seemed to fit in here.
 

THFCSPURS19

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Football weekly podcast this week, quote from Rafa Honigstein

" Levy has a reputation in Germany for loving the art of negotiation to the point that he may just be negotiating for the sake of enjoying having a good negotiation. Notorious for coming up with inventive and varied clauses that nobodies seen before. In Germany, his tenacity is regarded with a sense of endearment but I'm not quite sure those feelings are shared in the Premiership"

LOL. Not strictly ITK but thought it seemed to fit in here.

Do they discuss Spurs a lot? If so, could you PM me that podcast?
 

Bus-Conductor

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Thanks all, yet again. I have to say the last two days were much more exciting than anything we have seen on the pitch this season. Wonderful highs and lows but for some reason I always felt something would happen, didn't even let Isco being off put me down, but had to contain my optimism knowing that I'd be shouted down.

Also people seeing Sissoko as a right winger must keep in mind that in Ligue 1 he was most regularly deployed as a central box-to-box midfielder and formed a very effective partnership with Capoue in a two man midfield. I think newcastle rarely played him there because he needs to be partnered with someone more disciplined, we have that in Dier, think he will be most effective there, but he can also be effective playing as a Right Winger or Attacking Midfielder if we need a plan B. His performance against Portugal is also very positive because he showed that he could play through packed defenses.

I think he offers us a lot, we payed over the odds for him, but he essentially offers us alternatives and covers the positions of two or three players. For that alone he is a useful squad member.


I am sorry mate, but he absolutely did not. I watched him play week in week out. Toulouse played a 4141 which was a fluid diamond in attack which flattened out in defence, with Capoue as the "1" in front of the defence and Didot always at the base of the diamond the one helping Capoue out defensively. Sissoko was expected - and did - muck in at times, he's not scared to get a foot in or work hard, but unless someone was out injured for the odd game etc, he was almost always deployed as one of the wide or forward midfielders in the diamond and always preferred bombing forwards than backwards.

He played the kind of role that Jenas should have been playing, and to be honest Jenas would have been a damn site better at it, as it was jenas made a decent fist of playing in a CM2 most of his career with us, which Sissoko has never been trusted to do anywhere for more than the odd game anywhere.
 

EJWTartanSpur

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Do they discuss Spurs a lot? If so, could you PM me that podcast?

It's The Football Weekly podcast which is part of The Guardian newspaper. I have the podcast subscribed on my IPhone.

They don't really discuss Spurs much more. It's just a little bit about Sissoko which is pretty banal then Rafa just blurts out this little bit of info. It's a general round up of deadline day and Sissoko is the first story they talk about so it gets like maybe 3-5 mins on its own.
 

Bus-Conductor

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Do they discuss Spurs a lot? If so, could you PM me that podcast?

It's my favourite football podcast, Guardian football weekly, hosted by the urbane and dryly witty james Richardson, with really good guests like Honigstein, Philippe Auclair, Jonathan Wilson, James Horncastle etc etc. You can get it through iTunes, or go to the Guardian website I guess ? They cover the PL but also European football too.
 

Bus-Conductor

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Football weekly podcast this week, quote from Rafa Honigstein

" Levy has a reputation in Germany for loving the art of negotiation to the point that he may just be negotiating for the sake of enjoying having a good negotiation. Notorious for coming up with inventive and varied clauses that nobodies seen before. In Germany, his tenacity is regarded with a sense of endearment but I'm not quite sure those feelings are shared in the Premiership"

LOL. Not strictly ITK but thought it seemed to fit in here.


We haven't bought that many players from Germany in recent years though have we ? Son, Wimmer…struggling to name to many others (Freund ?)
 

EJWTartanSpur

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We haven't bought that many players from Germany in recent years though have we ? Son, Wimmer…struggling to name to many others (Freund ?)

Those plus Holtby as mentioned, but I guess this could be as much about several bids/negotiations that didn't reach an agreement, as it is about ones that succeeded. Kramer, Gotze, Tasci, Meyer, Bender?, Rode, just a few names that popped into my head there as examples of players we may have contacted clubs about over the past few years. There will be tons more.
 

npearl4spurs

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Wow. Just finished reading every post.

Wonderful stuff. Thanks, SC.

Happy with with window. 9/10...only Isco, Coric, or some other AMC would have made it 10/10.

So excited for the rest of the season
 

For the love of Spurs

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Football weekly podcast this week, quote from Rafa Honigstein

" Levy has a reputation in Germany for loving the art of negotiation to the point that he may just be negotiating for the sake of enjoying having a good negotiation. Notorious for coming up with inventive and varied clauses that nobodies seen before. In Germany, his tenacity is regarded with a sense of endearment but I'm not quite sure those feelings are shared in the Premiership"

LOL. Not strictly ITK but thought it seemed to fit in here.

That's fantastically brilliant.
 
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