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Paul Lambert targets Tottenham midfielder Lewis Holtby

Jamturk

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Loan him out again for the season.

(if he can't break into the team)
 

thinktank

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Why would a new manager come to this club and flog him without taking a look? Not gonna happen. Levy will want this player developed and value increased.
 

Black

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So we should loan out the only player at our club who seems to know how to play a through ball?
 
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UncleBuck

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How on earth would Lambert expect to finance this? Villa by the looks of it will open to offers this coming summer and don't currently have a pot to piss in!
The only way this would happen would be in cold, hard Benteke currency....
 

Jenko

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Different mid to lower prem manager, rinse and repeat. We'll be reading this all summer because we loaned Holtby out, Lamberts turn now.

What we do know is nothing has been decided from our clubs point of view, because we haven't hired the decision maker yet.

Edit - Actually this is Tottenham, and thinking about it, if we get a very good offer (caulker-esque) Levy might cash in, as he will do with the whole squad, otherwise see above.
 

Greenspur

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Why would a new manager come to this club and flog him without taking a look? Not gonna happen. Levy will want this player developed and value increased.

I think the same thing about all the rumours. Buy him, sell her, Chelsea wants ....

Any new manager will insist on an input. Ergo, it is very unlikely that any of this stuff is true.
 

yid-down-under

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One thing for sure is that we are top heavy on midfielders and need to shift a few. IMO holtby should be one that stays
 

davidmatzdorf

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Passing over for a moment the highly speculative and typically arbitrary nature of this story: I'm not seeing why the club - not just Sherwood - doesn't seem to value Holtby.

People are constantly focusing on his fervent, enthusiastic, all-action style and I wonder if this is not concealing his quality. He's got vision and a wonderful first touch. As someone pointed out above, he's one of the very few players we have who can thread a through-ball into the gaps in a packed defence.

I lost count of the scores of our attempted through-balls this season that bounced off a defender's knee or arse, simply because we took so bloody long shuttling the ball sideways outside the penalty box that all the gaps were closed by the time someone tried anything creative. This problem was worse under AVB, but it's not as if Sherwood actually solved it - he just found other options that included permission for strikers to enter the penalty box. Holtby was one of the few players who seemed to be able, occasionally, to circumvent the stultifying tactical strait-jacket that required us to slow the ball down whenever we came within 6m of the penalty box.

Holtby seems to me, unlike quite a few of our other recent acquisitions, to be ideally suited to English football. He needs to calm down the headless-chicken stuff, because he exhausts himself and has to be substituted on 70 minutes when there's nothing left in his tank. If he can do that - and get a balance between craft and effort - he could become a fantastic all-round midfielder.

We'd be utterly mental to get rid of him - or even to send him on another loan - at this juncture.
 

Yid

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I say we loan them Nabil and Tom Carroll instead.

I wouldn't mind loaning out Nabil, but I'd rather Tom Carroll return to us for another shot.
I believe Tommy is just about ready for prime-time. At least to get his feet wet gradually, bit by bit.
So yeah, Lewis and Tawmmy both come back, while Nabil ships out on loan...Move some deadwood, sign either Kono or Muniain (while Lamela bulks up), and we're set in the midfield...as well as up front (for the most part).
 
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