Adrien Silva

[mill]

We've bigger priorities than cm imo unless we're signing the likes of kroos etc

 

[Japhet]

I don't know if anyone watched the U21 game yesterday but the guy we should be looking at from Sporting is Daniel Podence, like a young Griezmann.

Looks impressive, but (genuine question) does he have anything that Marcus Edwards doesn't?

 

[ComfortablyNumb]

Looks impressive, but (genuine question) does he have anything that Marcus Edwards doesn't?

Right-footed (which almost always means more two-footed), and a bit quicker. Draws a lot of fouls, but that seems to be because he runs into defenders, rather than around them. Not sure that would work so well in the Prem. In tight spaces, he'll have to rely on the foul, whereas Edwards seems to have a genuine ability to dribble around players.

 

[Mouse!]

Stylistically, for anybody who hasn't seen him play, he is quite a lot like Moutinho, not necessarily world class at anything, but very good at nearly everything. Very busy athletically and will get stuck in a lot, has 17 caps for Portugal and I reckon he would have more, if it wasn't for Moutinho himself keeping him out of the side.

Scored 6 in 36 all comps this year, so a strike rate of 1 in 6 which is not bad for a central (often deeper sitting) midfielder... For 15-20 mill I would be down, he isn't young but we do need some experience in he side I feel, he would be good for a player like Winks

Not when he's taking game time off him.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Looks impressive, but (genuine question) does he have anything that Marcus Edwards doesn't?

I think he has more pace and perhaps better body strength.

 

[spurslenny]

Experience. Not to be underrated imo.

I'd take him in a heartbeat.

 

[Stopspot]

For what it is worth he just won Portugal the confederations cup

EDIT: He won them third price

 

[luRRka]

For what it is worth he just won Portugal the confederations cup

He won Portugal the 3rd place play off. By scoring a penalty in extra time. He also missed a penalty

 

[THFCSPURS19]

He won Portugal the 3rd place play off. By scoring a penalty in extra time. He also missed a penalty

Andre Silva (Milan striker) missed the penalty.

 

[luRRka]

Andre Silva (Milan striker) missed the penalty.

Right you are

 

[rich75]

Ofcourse many media lie. But not all reports can be discarded all the time. I will discard this rumour not because of Portugeuse media, but because , I know we won't pay 25m for a 28 year old

Didn't we do exactly that with Soldado ?

 

[arunspurs]

Didn't we do exactly that with Soldado ?

Not under Poch though. In fact burning our hands with Soldado probably made us more skeptical towards buying older pro for bigger money

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Not sure why we would pursue a 28 year old defensive midfielder for 30 mil. Espechially if, according to itk, our money is tight.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Ofcourse many media lie. But not all reports can be discarded all the time. I will discard this rumour not because of Portugeuse media, but because , I know we won't pay 25m for a 28 year old

Let me get this straight: We wouldn't pay 25M for somebody who is born 1989 (Silva)? So Sissoko, who is born in 1989, didn't happen?

 

[ebzrascal]

I would really like this to happen.. He can pass, he can link play, he can dribble and he scores the odd goal, bags of experience to..

 

[spacessships]

Fascinated that he seems to be a go to penalty taker on both national side and club as a CM. Not sure why CM would be where Poch would want to spend money most but I wouldn't complain having experience like his in the side.

Signing him would read for me that Poch felt inexperience and/or lack of depth contributed to our failed UCL campaign last year and he wants to take it more seriously this year, but then again this is probably not happening like JJ said.

 

[DanielCHillier]

Let me get this straight: We wouldn't pay 25M for somebody who is born 1989 (Silva)? So Sissoko, who is born in 1989, didn't happen?

Lessons learnt . . .

 

[ebzrascal]

Fascinated that he seems to be a go to penalty taker on both national side and club as a CM. Not sure why CM would be where Poch would want to spend money most but I wouldn't complain having experience like his in the side.

Signing him would read for me that Poch felt inexperience and/or lack of depth contributed to our failed UCL campaign last year and he wants to take it more seriously this year, but then again this is probably not happening like JJ said.

I think he will be competition Eriksen and Dembele as he is not quite the same as either but can do both their jobs if required. If we going to do well in the Champions League we really need options in those positions. Tactically it would make us even more flexible.

 

[Flashspur]

It's an odd one...the press reports are unrelenting. Where there is smoke etc?

 

[Pizza]

Tabloids aren't giving up on this. Sun say we've bid 27mil.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/3934050/tottenham-mauricio-pochettino-27m-sporting-lisbon/