Jadon Sancho

[PrettyColors]

This kid has jaw dropping talent.. I think we're squarely 3rd in this race though. With him and Sessegnon, it is a sign of progress that some of the top young English players see us as a viable option, though.

 

[scottej5]

twosips on Bluemoon (seems to have info based on post history) says that Jadon misses London and is homesick. A signing like this or Sessegnon is really what I have been most excited for this window.

 

[Sandros Shiny Head]

Someone should tell him he has 2 feet

 

[JonnySpurs]

At the end of the day, Arsenal can offer him more money than we can due to our wage cap so I would be surprised if he went to us.

That's not relevant unless they're gonna start offering him over 100k a week, which they won't.

If he's that good then we'll be willing to be competitive when it comes to wages. Obviously we won't overpay but we have a clear track record of giving young, english players first team football. Arsenal do not.

 

[JonnySpurs]

He really reminds me of Leroy Sane. Looks a cracking young player and the prospect of signing the likes of Sancho and Sessegnon is far more interesting and exciting to me than landing another Carlos Kickaball from europe or whereever.

 

[Lemon]

He smiles a lot. This means a great deal to me.

Proper wonder kid name as well.

Come hither young man, together we can make history.

 

[danielneeds]

He'll need to expand his game a bit to make it in the PL though. That move of twinkling his toes and coming inside the fullback time and again will see any decent DM come and clean him out the next time he tried it.

 

[TorontoYid]

That's not relevant unless they're gonna start offering him over 100k a week, which they won't.

If he's that good then we'll be willing to be competitive when it comes to wages. Obviously we won't overpay but we have a clear track record of giving young, english players first team football. Arsenal do not.

What we are willing to pay a kid and what they will pay a kid are very different amounts. Also unless he is stupid, he will know he will eventually be on more money with Arsenal. If he is as good as he looks to become, he will get first team footy there. Arsenholes have a history of giving talented young players first team football and wages while he is as likely to be on the bench with us as he is there and we have a much lower salary cap. Look at other young players like Walcott etc that got regular first team places.

 

[Angel Eyes]

I've been a massive fan of this kid since page 2, sign him up already he looks born to be a spur !

 

[yanno]

If Sancho is homesick for London and wants a realistic path to getting some first team football, then I think we're in with a good shout of getting him ahead of our competitors.

Chavski - are still loaning or selling their best academy prospects even when they're 20-22 years old, so that's not attractive for an ambitious kid.

Goons - possible, but even those young players who make the first team have a habit of not progressing and developing under Whinger. The likes of Wilshere, Walnut, Oxthing, Iwobi, Chambers, Gibbs etc etc are no better than in their debut seasons.

Palace - might be attractive with DeBoer's record of developing young players at Ajax, but would they pay the wages?

Watford - a complete mess of a club who could be relegated.

Spammers - possible but Reece Oxford, one of the brightest young prospects in English football has been completely frozen out by Bilic.

My concern if we signed Sancho is that he'd probably be competing with Marcus Edwards for limited minutes in domestic cup games and thus might hinder Edwards' progress.

Also, the last Spurs team I remember with two small ball playing wingers featured Richard Cooke and the amazingly named Scottish wizard Ally Dick. I can't see Poch returning to that failed experiment.

 

[IGSpur]

Goons - possible, but even those young players who make the first team have a habit of not progressing and developing under Whinger. The likes of Wilshere, Walnut, Oxthing, Iwobi, Chambers, Gibbs etc etc are no better than in their debut seasons.

I agree Wenger has really screwed up developing them also they have Nelson and Willock who are both quality wingers who should come through, Nelson in particular, so it would make no sense in going there for him. That said Nelson is his best mate or one of them, I believe, so that might be a downside. I know Sancho is also friends with a few of our players too like Brown and Edwards as they went on holiday together

 

[panoma]

They are starting to realize Sancho might leave now. He allegedly passed on a deal making him the highest payed 17 year old footballer on the planet and he is homesick (from London). This poster on blue moon sums it up quite well:

Who can blame him?

We've spent circa £200m on young attacking talent in the past 2 years (including KDB) and Pep still wants to add to it with Sanchez; previously projected wonderkids like Iheanacho and Roberts have failed to crack it or be enchanted by the (dubious) developmental skills of Guardiola, so why should Sancho trust that he will be different?

The reality is our academy will now see a lot of kids (or at least the bright ones) come for the elite education (both academic and footballing) then back door it to a club with a proven track record of meritocracy and pride in youth integration.

Spurs have found a way to put faith in young British talent and finish above us with a fraction of the annual investment/wage outlay; the monotonous argument that we're too big-time to do it is one for morons. Everton tearing us apart last year with a team accommodating Holgate, Tom Davies, and Lookman should have been a lesson us.

If I was Sancho and either of those clubs tried to entice me, I'd be gone; after all, this is a club that for the past few years has deemed Jesus Navas, a winger with a worse goals/assists output annually than most rightbacks, as a better bet on the wing than mercurial young talents like Barker and Roberts, or even Buckley and Nemane (they literally couldn't have done worse)

Pablo Maffeo got Man Of The Match against United in the Derby, never to be seen again; Pep opted to play Navas and Fernandinho out of position in the absence of the two geriatric orthodox rightbacks in the squad rather than give the kid the further opportunities that performance should have earned him.

If the owners are serious about the CFA being anything more than a Chelsea-esque vanity project, they need to seriously evaluate whether those currently running football matters at the club are the right men to utilise, validate and vindicate it.

 

[Spurrific]

Seems to be an Arsenal fan, based on his likes on Twitter.

Yes, I have nothing better to do ATM.

 

[Dirty Ewok]

If Sancho is homesick for London and wants a realistic path to getting some first team football, then I think we're in with a good shout of getting him ahead of our competitors.

Chavski - are still loaning or selling their best academy prospects even when they're 20-22 years old, so that's not attractive for an ambitious kid.

Goons - possible, but even those young players who make the first team have a habit of not progressing and developing under Whinger. The likes of Wilshere, Walnut, Oxthing, Iwobi, Chambers, Gibbs etc etc are no better than in their debut seasons.

Palace - might be attractive with DeBoer's record of developing young players at Ajax, but would they pay the wages?

Watford - a complete mess of a club who could be relegated.

Spammers - possible but Reece Oxford, one of the brightest young prospects in English football has been completely frozen out by Bilic.

My concern if we signed Sancho is that he'd probably be competing with Marcus Edwards for limited minutes in domestic cup games and thus might hinder Edwards' progress.

Also, the last Spurs team I remember with two small ball playing wingers featured Richard Cooke and the amazingly named Scottish wizard Ally Dick. I can't see Poch returning to that failed experiment.

As much as i like Edwards and want to see him succeed from a club standpoint not signing a talented youth player shouldn't be affected by having a talented youth player.

If Edwards is as good as we think he will beat out a player like Sancho for time on the pitch. If he doesn't beat out Sancho for time then it is an indicator of his talent and work ethic. Which way it goes will be up to Sancho and Edwards to determine with their own efforts.

 

[dave5150]

Not sure I would worry about him stagnating Edwards' development.

We've had ITK before that Poch doesn't buy players to play, he buys them to train and the ones performing best in training will play.

Having some competition for Edwards would surely be a good thing and they may push each other to train harder and be even better.

 

[arunspurs]

JJ on daily mail story in twitter...

I guess, there is interest

 

[Mouse!]

I like this link.

It's the way in which we can fight back against the megabucks clubs who try to poach our best players.
Where they can tempt our established stars with cash, we can offer their youngsters a pathway to the first team.

 

[mill]

I like this link.

It's the way in which we can fight back against the megabucks clubs who try to poach our best players.
Where they can tempt our established stars with cash, we can offer their youngsters a pathway to the first team.

He's obviously still young but I can't see why he and Edwards can't fill the role njie and gkn have over the last 2 seasons tbh

 

[Jody]

If Sancho is homesick for London and wants a realistic path to getting some first team football, then I think we're in with a good shout of getting him ahead of our competitors.

Chavski - are still loaning or selling their best academy prospects even when they're 20-22 years old, so that's not attractive for an ambitious kid.

Goons - possible, but even those young players who make the first team have a habit of not progressing and developing under Whinger. The likes of Wilshere, Walnut, Oxthing, Iwobi, Chambers, Gibbs etc etc are no better than in their debut seasons.

Palace - might be attractive with DeBoer's record of developing young players at Ajax, but would they pay the wages?

Watford - a complete mess of a club who could be relegated.

Spammers - possible but Reece Oxford, one of the brightest young prospects in English football has been completely frozen out by Bilic.

My concern if we signed Sancho is that he'd probably be competing with Marcus Edwards for limited minutes in domestic cup games and thus might hinder Edwards' progress.

Also, the last Spurs team I remember with two small ball playing wingers featured Richard Cooke and the amazingly named Scottish wizard Ally Dick. I can't see Poch returning to that failed experiment.

He's 1.78m.

 

[Jody]

And plays on the left for anyone worrying about Edwards development.