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Good luck with that one.
£70m minimum
Make it 100 with it being January and Palace relying on him so much.
But yeah go get him Levy you stingy dwarf
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Good luck with that one.
£70m minimum
Let’s try and get Zaha NOW
One of the only players around that challenges the 1st XI
Would give us instant options and give everyone a bit of help and more legs
Treading water and wasting his talent at Palace
Imagine what Poch could do with him...
No company I have ever worked for, or had dealings with , has covered periods of a month with temps.
Son, Dier, Moura, and Sissoko are all going to be back within a month.
Kane and Alli, I'm assuming, within two.
We'll use Llorente, GNK, and Skipp to fill in and possibly replace Dembele if a No 1 target is available.
That would be a boost, although I hope we aren't rushing him back. Let's hope Dele's is the same and will only take a couple of weeks to recover from. If we can arrive ahead of the Leicester game with everyone available bar Kane then it will look a it more promising for us.DT reporting that Sissoko could be available for Thursday
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...-does-not-look-great-dele-alli-ahead-chelsea/
Pochettino also revealed midfielders Lucas Moura and Moussa Sissoko, who were not involved against Fulham, may be fit enough to face Chelsea, who they lead 1-0 after the first leg.
He wasn't match fit, and no one expected him to be. To be match fit he'd have to play matches.Not sure Dier could last 90 minutes against a team like Chelsea. He didn't look at all match fit to me when he came on against Fulham.
No, we don't have depth at CF. We have Kane, one old striker who can barely move, and one that is nowhere near good enough. One look at Llorente's PL minutes shows just how much faith Poch has in him. "Depth" means actually having viable options, not just numbers.
Son isn't a striker. Moura isn't a striker. We need someone good up front as a backup. All top teams have this, even those with great strikers.
As to foreseeability, we absolutely could foresee that Kane, who plays virtually every game, even when carrying knocks, would get injured at some point. I'd even go so far as to say that his ankle ligament injuries make future ones more likely; as I understand it, once you've done them once, they're weakened and more likely to go again. So yes, I think one doesn't need a crystal ball to see that if Kane gets injured we don't have proper backup.
As for midfield, it surely was apparent last summer that Wanyama had a chronic knee problem; the ITK alluded to it being like King's knee issues. We also knew that Dembele was fading and always likely to miss a significant amount of games through injury. That's two first-choice midfielders we knew we couldn't rely on. Sissoko has done well this season but he remains limited compared with a proper CM, and I very much doubt Poch was expecting to rely on him in that position.
We have been unlucky with injuries, but some of those we saw coming, and I don't think it's unreasonable to expect your only decent striker to get injured at some point if you play him every single game.
Sadly, our decision not to recruit this summer looks like it will cost us. We should have shifted unwanted players for realistic prices and invested in quality replacements. They didn't need to be worldies. There's quality out there.
Yes is back in training according to the OS.That would be a boost, although I hope we aren't rushing him back. Let's hope Dele's is the same and will only take a couple of weeks to recover from. If we can arrive ahead of the Leicester game with everyone available bar Kane then it will look a it more promising for us.
Secondly, what is going on with Wanyama, last I saw was that he was back in the gym, did he ever get back on the training ground?
Hospitality clubAre we a football club or a hospital?![]()
There’s a video of Dele jumping up when we scored. I really don’t think he’d be doing that if it was a serious tear.
Yep: (Lewis) Holtby General !Are we a football club or a hospital?![]()
If we are lucky Dele will be 3-4 weeks. If not poss 2 month job like Jan.