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Fernando Llorente
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WiganSpur
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He's good for backup. He scores goals and he's decent technically. He's more than just a lump and has a lot of experience.
Aurier, Gomes, Gray/Martins and Llorente in with Janssen, Nkoudou and maybe Sissoko out makes sense. Reckon KWP will go out on loan too.
Aurier, Gomes, Gray/Martins and Llorente in with Janssen, Nkoudou and maybe Sissoko out makes sense. Reckon KWP will go out on loan too.
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I was not on board when he was the answer to the "who is going to be our starting striker?" quandary, but as a backup to the best striker in the league I think he'd be a good pickup.
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Goal's Chelsea correspondent:
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Confirmed: Spurs are in for Fernando Llorente. More difficulty for Chelsea. Battle is on to convince him in final 24 hours. #CFC #THFC
Nizaar KinsellaVerified account@NizaarKinsella 20m20 minutes ago
Confirmed: Spurs are in for Fernando Llorente. More difficulty for Chelsea. Battle is on to convince him in final 24 hours. #CFC #THFC
sunnydelight786
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6 and half years too late.....
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KWP won't go out on loan. He has this season to convince Poch to sell Trippier next summer
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Any more performances like Burnley and he'll likely be out in Jan.
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http://www.goal.com/en/news/tottenham-match-chelseas-15m-llorente-bid/1eecvtv0o1fpv1uisxcqbh5nsm
Tottenham have made a £15 million offer to Swansea City for Chelsea target Fernando Llorente, Goal understands.
Swansea are working on securing a replacement for Llorente as they soften their stance on keeping the experienced striker, but Mauricio Pochettino's side believe they have a chance in stealing a march on their rivals.
Tottenham have made a £15 million offer to Swansea City for Chelsea target Fernando Llorente, Goal understands.
Swansea are working on securing a replacement for Llorente as they soften their stance on keeping the experienced striker, but Mauricio Pochettino's side believe they have a chance in stealing a march on their rivals.
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15 goals last season in a struggling Swansea team.Pretty sure missed few games as well.Would be decent back up for Kane imo.But limited in that really is a pure striker.Could never be used as an AM like janssen could.But defo rather him on bench if we need goal in last 20.
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Intrigued by this stance. May be a bit shy of Janssen in terms of mobility and work rate, but has proven to score goals in this league, and was a great backup for Juve a couple of years back.
Now would I want him starting a bunch of games if Harry was out injured? Probably not, but give me Llorente off the bench any day, great hold up play and dangerous in the air, great against bus parkers. We don't make the most of subs, usually just weaken the side, with like for likes, this would be a good change of tact IMHO.
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Never will we pay that for a 32 year old. You lose £7.5 m per year on the transfer cost. Plus wages. money sense it would be the same as buying back Bale for a year and selling him on to United next year. Players cost are sky rocketing every year.
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His header is really, really good. Could be useful in set-piece and crossing
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Kwp won't go on loan while rose is injured.
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I'm surprised Swansea don't want Janssen. Him and Abraham could be quite an interesting striking partnership.
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Maybe they do, it could happen
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thats 7 moves in the last 24 hours. I dont see it happening.
I wrote back in March on the Summer Transfer Wish List thread that we should make Llorente a target this summer. I've followed his career a long time and there are specific reasons why I suspect Pochettino wants him.
#1: He is one of the most dominant aerial threats in the opposition box of any player of the last decade. Last season, per Squawka's stat metrics, he scored 8 headed goals in league play. 6 of his goals were from set pieces (3 from corners and 3 from free kicks, though several of them were not headers, but scrambles where he put himself in a position to score). By comparison, Kane only scored 2 headed goals. There are very few teams in Europe that earn as many set pieces as Spurs. In our first three league games, we've had a total of 31 corners, and if I'm not mistaken, zero headed attempts directed at target (might be wrong on that, but I can't recall any that really tested the keeper). There have been another 5 or so direct free kicks in dangerous areas in the first three games that also would have been prime opportunities for an aerial threat like Llorente to test the keeper. Having him as an option late in matches when you're chasing a win at 0-0 could end up being the difference between finishing second and winning the title.
#2: He is an exceptionally experienced professional, who also has won major trophies throughout the continent. World Cup Winner, Euros winner, Serie A title winner, numerous cup final appearances in Spain and Italy. Having someone with his pedigree can add a lot to a squad on the younger side looking to contend with high pressure competitions like the Champions League. He will help Harry Kane's game develop. He also has really good character and plays with a lot of passion. There aren't many players with careers like his that would have embraced the grind of a relegation fight the way he did at Swansea last season.
#3: He has played for Marcelo Bielsa, so knows what it will take to play in a high pressing system. Llorente's best season as a professional was 2011-2012 at Bilbao in Bielsa's first season, where they went on a magical run to the Europa League final and the Copa Del Rey final (Llorente scored 29 goals in all competitions that season). Contrary to some perception that he is just a lumbering forward, he actually is very technically gifted, is two-footed (great ball striking with both feet), can hold the ball up well and links up play well, too. There's a reason Antonio Conte, who is one of the smartest managers in world football when it comes to recruitment and setting up a squad, has wanted to sign Llorente since last January and by some accounts, is willing to let Batshuayi go out on loan if Llorente ends up at Chelsea. He's still a really good player.
#4: Pochettino knows him well and admires him. Here's an old article (in Spanish) from early on in Poch's tenure at Espanyol when he praised both Bilbao and Llorente (https://futbol.as.com/futbol/2010/12/11/mas_futbol/1292022008_850215.html). Llorente scored multiple times against the Espanyol side Poch managed, and Poch actually played against Llorente when the current Barcelona coach, Ernesto Valverde, started Llorente as a 20-year old for Bilbao against an Espanyol side that Poch was the starting CB for back in 2005.
If we sign him tomorrow, he will have the same influence that Davids and Parker had on past squads. The fact we are going for him indicates that there has been a paradigm shift at the club and Pochettino is now running the show when it comes to transfer market activity. We already had evidence of this with the deals for Foyth, Sanchez and Aurier, but a move for Llorente is one of a manager who never wants to be humiliated in the Champions League again and has the ambition to win right now at his current club, not ten years down the road.
#1: He is one of the most dominant aerial threats in the opposition box of any player of the last decade. Last season, per Squawka's stat metrics, he scored 8 headed goals in league play. 6 of his goals were from set pieces (3 from corners and 3 from free kicks, though several of them were not headers, but scrambles where he put himself in a position to score). By comparison, Kane only scored 2 headed goals. There are very few teams in Europe that earn as many set pieces as Spurs. In our first three league games, we've had a total of 31 corners, and if I'm not mistaken, zero headed attempts directed at target (might be wrong on that, but I can't recall any that really tested the keeper). There have been another 5 or so direct free kicks in dangerous areas in the first three games that also would have been prime opportunities for an aerial threat like Llorente to test the keeper. Having him as an option late in matches when you're chasing a win at 0-0 could end up being the difference between finishing second and winning the title.
#2: He is an exceptionally experienced professional, who also has won major trophies throughout the continent. World Cup Winner, Euros winner, Serie A title winner, numerous cup final appearances in Spain and Italy. Having someone with his pedigree can add a lot to a squad on the younger side looking to contend with high pressure competitions like the Champions League. He will help Harry Kane's game develop. He also has really good character and plays with a lot of passion. There aren't many players with careers like his that would have embraced the grind of a relegation fight the way he did at Swansea last season.
#3: He has played for Marcelo Bielsa, so knows what it will take to play in a high pressing system. Llorente's best season as a professional was 2011-2012 at Bilbao in Bielsa's first season, where they went on a magical run to the Europa League final and the Copa Del Rey final (Llorente scored 29 goals in all competitions that season). Contrary to some perception that he is just a lumbering forward, he actually is very technically gifted, is two-footed (great ball striking with both feet), can hold the ball up well and links up play well, too. There's a reason Antonio Conte, who is one of the smartest managers in world football when it comes to recruitment and setting up a squad, has wanted to sign Llorente since last January and by some accounts, is willing to let Batshuayi go out on loan if Llorente ends up at Chelsea. He's still a really good player.
#4: Pochettino knows him well and admires him. Here's an old article (in Spanish) from early on in Poch's tenure at Espanyol when he praised both Bilbao and Llorente (https://futbol.as.com/futbol/2010/12/11/mas_futbol/1292022008_850215.html). Llorente scored multiple times against the Espanyol side Poch managed, and Poch actually played against Llorente when the current Barcelona coach, Ernesto Valverde, started Llorente as a 20-year old for Bilbao against an Espanyol side that Poch was the starting CB for back in 2005.
If we sign him tomorrow, he will have the same influence that Davids and Parker had on past squads. The fact we are going for him indicates that there has been a paradigm shift at the club and Pochettino is now running the show when it comes to transfer market activity. We already had evidence of this with the deals for Foyth, Sanchez and Aurier, but a move for Llorente is one of a manager who never wants to be humiliated in the Champions League again and has the ambition to win right now at his current club, not ten years down the road.
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Buster18
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Swansea are trying to get Bony which is why they're letting him go.
