Paulinho signs for Spurs!

[wee_spur]

José Paulo Bezerra Maciel Júnior

Linked with indirectly through some ITKs then definitely via The Goat.

Wiki states:

Currently plays as a midfielder forCorinthians. He is well known for his extreme levels of mental toughness and also his aerial prowess.

Paulinho is a box-to-box midfielder who "is a strong and powerful runner, pushing his side forward from midfield to supplement his fine defensive work. Paulinho also offers a useful presence in set piece situations at both ends of the pitch."

Discuss.

 

[specspurs]

The Paulinho whose agent is Kia Joorabchian and has been linked with Chelscum,AC Milan and Inter. The Paulinho that scored against England yesterday.
Good player but personally would be utterly amazed if he ended up in a Spurs shirt.

 

[whitelightwhiteheat]

He sounds an ideal foil for Sandro and Dembele. Granted I've never seen him play (didn't bother watching the friendly last night) though.

 

[YiddoInPoland]

do we really need another box to box player?

 

[$hoguN]

do we really need another box to box player?

We need a DM, a Creative CM and probably a box to box player too.

As if those ITK are to be believed, we are going to start next season with a midfield consisting of Sandro, Dembele, Carroll, Holtby and Siggy, as apparently Livermore, Huddlestone and Parker are all being shown the exit.

 

[beats1]

We need a DM, a Creative CM and probably a box to box player too.

As if those ITK are to be believed, we are going to start next season with a midfield consisting of Sandro, Dembele, Carroll, Holtby and Siggy, as apparently Livermore, Huddlestone and Parker are all being shown the exit.

NO WAY WE NEED 3CM's

I think we have a goalscoring midfielder in Sig but work is need to adapt to a slightly deeper role
We have a DM in Sandro and also dembele, as he has been our DM since Sandro been injured(he was leading interceptions and tackles the other season)
We have a great box to box midfeilder in Dembele
We have a playmaker in Holtby who can also cover DM and the box to box role
We also have two very good playmakers coming through in Bentaleb and Carroll as well as pritchard in a Isco CM role

Now of course we need players now for the first team. We need imo a experienced CM as all our CM's are under 25 atm if Parker leaves. In terms of position we need a creative CM and a DM that sit and offers protection for the defence. That all in all is 6CM's with one young CM which even then is as most teams only tend to have 3-5 good ones. I actually think if we push one of the young ones for that last spot we should be fine but that would require us to get a DM that is also a playmaker like a Carrick.

 

[Markovan13]

This has got a £30 million transfer to PSG written all over it...

 

[RJ1882]

Is he that good?
I think we need someone much more creative than the standard box to box midfielder. Perhaps Dembele can fill this role i he is given license to play further up the field with Sandro and a new signing playing deeper. Dembele has so much more to offer in that respect compared to what we seen this season.
if Huddlestone Parker and Livermore all go then without doubt we'll also need a new DM.
Paulinho Bernard and Damiao all this window to join Sandro? Absolutely no chance.
If we sign those 3 I'll give £50 to the site.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Unless of course it's another 'Paulinho'. The one that's plays as a striker for Livorno for example. I didn't know he existed until SSN said he'd scored the goal that confirmed Livorno's promotion to Serie A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Sérgio_Betanin

 

[Barry Mead]

Is he that good?
I think we need someone much more creative than the standard box to box midfielder. Perhaps Dembele can fill this role i he is given license to play further up the field with Sandro and a new signing playing deeper. Dembele has so much more to offer in that respect compared to what we seen this season.
if Huddlestone Parker and Livermore all go then without doubt we'll also need a new DM.
Paulinho Bernard and Damiao all this window to join Sandro? Absolutely no chance.
If we sign those 3 I'll give £50 to the site.

Is Dembele that good creatively? I somewhat doubt it, over his career he has been going deeper from striker to am to cm and arguably better suited to dm than cm, good defensively but hardly creative. I think we need a more creative box to box cm in the mix and a player who can play the am/advanced cm role and help orchestrate the attacking play. Our final third play particularly our interpassing and movement off the ball is pretty poor for a team that supposedly wants to be a serious title contender

Whether we actually get the players we need is another matter

 

[Hoopspur]

Fast, strong box to box midfielder. A kind of not so good JJ?

This sort of news gets me excited though as it shows we are really looking at the World market now again. Also we are looking at pace still which I like in our team.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

Fast, strong box to box midfielder. A kind of not so good JJ?

This sort of news gets me excited though as it shows we are really looking at the World market now again. Also we are looking at pace still which I like in our team.

Yeah mate, obviously some of the targets we have been linked too wont come to fruition, but I feel we are deffo looking in the right places, not just Brazil but the America's in general.

 

[Gedi]

And we can all sing an adapted version of Royksopps "Poor Leno" if we sign him. Yay!

 

[absolute bobbins]

The Paulinho whose agent is Kia Joorabchian and has been linked with Chelscum,AC Milan and Inter. The Paulinho that scored against England yesterday.
Good player but personally would be utterly amazed if he ended up in a Spurs shirt.

Steer fucking clear, this guy is dodgy as fuck

 

[Syn_13]

Steer fucking clear, this guy is dodgy as fuck

If he's owned by Kia Joorabchian then we may as well look elsewhere, it'll be an absolute nightmare to try and settle a deal with the club with that parasite hanging around like a bad smell.

 

[Gedson100]

Monaco and Inter are interested?

End of thread!

 

[Spursidol]

Monaco and Inter are interested?

End of thread!

Seleção Brasileira ‏@BrazilStats18m
Paulinho's agent G.Bertolucci has revealed that the player received offers from Monaco and Inter. #Corinthians won't accept less than €20M.


Hmm, not sure we will want to pay that much if he's not going to be an automatic starter...Sandro, Dembele et al

 

[bryanabutler]

Seleção Brasileira ‏@BrazilStats18m
Paulinho's agent G.Bertolucci has revealed that the player received offers from Monaco and Inter. #Corinthians won't accept less than €20M.


Hmm, not sure we will want to pay that much if he's not going to be an automatic starter...Sandro, Dembele et al

Would sooner buy Draxler, for that amount of money

 

[Antilokhos]

Would sooner buy Draxler, for that amount of money

Would sooner buy Draxler for any amount of money, but it ain't going to happen.

 

[shelfboy68]

Would sooner buy Draxler for any amount of money, but it ain't going to happen.

Let's be honest here none of these are going to happen these are all out of our league so what we will end up with will be more likely a young championship player or some loan.

We have to all realise that our spending is and will be the square root of fuck all so lets not look for harrods shopping when we are looking to shop at lidl.