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rossdapep

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Plenty of people have said that we don't need more attacking options because we have enough, etc. And whilst I don't think it's great to be too 'crowded' you only have to look at United today to see how it works.

For the past two weeks (probably longer) we've heard how Martial wants to leave, Rashford is not happy, Sanchez isn't settling and many other factors that would signal an unhappy dressing room, yet those players still produced today. We need some of our players to feel like they can't let up for a moment and that if they are out of the first team and are given a chance as a sub they need to take it. If you're out of the squad it's because you haven't been good enough and can be replaced.
 

guy

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Fullbacks are a huge problem, trippier and Davies are both solid, good players, but not suited to this system. The width needs to come from them but it doesn't happen consistently.

We need a new RB to replace trippier, and a lb to replace rose or Davies.
 

Kempus

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We need an experienced winner out on the pitch to help lead the rest of them. Our entire squad has won close to fuck all when looking at their collective winners medals. One or two proven winners may make a massive amount of difference.

Perhaps it's time to buy a few finished articles, who have played at the top, rather than young guys with potential?
 

Kempus

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We need an experienced winner or two. Someone who can lead the rest of them. Perhaps it's time to buy a couple of finished articles, who have won at a high level, rather than more young guys with potential?
 

DCSPUR

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THIS IS MY WISH! NO HINTS!!!
We need established Shaw-like LB, as Davies is a good back up, but not effective enough for games like today. Our game was based on quick wing backs, until this season.

We need the experience of Modric & Bale. If it costs 90m for the pair, it is worth it what they will bring to our club. Seems I selfishly hoping FFC don’t get autos, and fail in play-of, sowe can nab Sess, though I have given my observations.

Toby goes we bring in kid from Ajax.

WHAT WE KNOW
Toby likely to go=40m
Dembele to China?=20m
Llorente =5m
VJ= likely loan with option
CCV=5m

I am fairly confident we will bring in at the very minimum 70m plus on player sales.

Along with CL monies (which is to cover wages etc) I believe 200m spend is notcatvzll a pipe dream!

WHAT I KNOW
We always planned to spend 2018/19 season, as we move into the stadium. I personally believe we should go ALL OUT for especially Bale, if not Modric. And we ALL know we are his preferred.

POCH
He will have to make the right choices with the list of players we can get.

NOTE
Those who concern themselves with Bales fitness etc, he is approaching 29. Look how he carries Wales. Sanchez is 29, and look at him today.

*No optimistic ratings please, as from what I believe I know, we have over 100m set aside, with player sales funds to be added to it. The CL monies will cover wages etc*

It's interesting....I wonder whether Bale and/ or Modders could be the equivalent of Cantona for us....I do remember thinking a couple of seasons ago that Ibra could be that but was never going to happen with Maureen around. But Bale might just be our Cantona....give the guys that belief in the 3-4 big, big games that decide seasons.
It would also blow the new roof off the Lane if he came home
 

DCSPUR

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I’m torn between is it the manager or the quality of players or a bit of both. I just don’t know who else could’ve got much more out of these players... but then I do think if we’d has Mouriniho for the last 4 years would we have won something?
if we'd had Maureen he would (a) have been fired (b) wangled a couple hundred million out of Levy....the storm meets the immovable object....Levy would win that one and Maureen would have left. He's never won without being dominant on the resource front.
 

DCSPUR

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Hard to say mate, mabye time and experience will help but then again that first trophy and winning feeling is what they need and the longer they wait goes on it becomes more of a self fulfilling prophecy + we keep losing key players, Walker now Toby and Rose more than likely, season after that who’s next, eriksen, Kane? And if we don’t replace or improve on these key players then we just go backwards. Our team without a fully fit and In form walker Toby and rose and wanyama is worse than last season hence why we are 4th not 2nd.
maybe also playing the season away from home?
 

double0

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We need we need!! that is and will always be the talk after you lose an important game.
I can't help but believe Pochettinho is the right man for the job imo he's very close how do we get over the line? financial backing to buy the required players and refresh the squad, it is a must this coming window.

I feel we need better wingbacks for sure first.

It's so frustrating how we buckle the margins are so tight and it's another bitter pill we are forced to sallow. I trust things will change
 

yankspurs

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Poch will no way tolerate transfers being dragged out until the last minute. Tge club know that. Just telling it as it is. Negotiations been going on for mega months with agents/clubs etc.
The club may know that but knowing that and doing that with Levy are completely different things
 

yankspurs

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THIS IS MY WISH! NO HINTS!!!
We need established Shaw-like LB, as Davies is a good back up, but not effective enough for games like today. Our game was based on quick wing backs, until this season.

We need the experience of Modric & Bale. If it costs 90m for the pair, it is worth it what they will bring to our club. Seems I selfishly hoping FFC don’t get autos, and fail in play-of, sowe can nab Sess, though I have given my observations.

Toby goes we bring in kid from Ajax.

WHAT WE KNOW
Toby likely to go=40m
Dembele to China?=20m
Llorente =5m
VJ= likely loan with option
CCV=5m

I am fairly confident we will bring in at the very minimum 70m plus on player sales.

Along with CL monies (which is to cover wages etc) I believe 200m spend is notcatvzll a pipe dream!

WHAT I KNOW
We always planned to spend 2018/19 season, as we move into the stadium. I personally believe we should go ALL OUT for especially Bale, if not Modric. And we ALL know we are his preferred.

POCH
He will have to make the right choices with the list of players we can get.

NOTE
Those who concern themselves with Bales fitness etc, he is approaching 29. Look how he carries Wales. Sanchez is 29, and look at him today.

*No optimistic ratings please, as from what I believe I know, we have over 100m set aside, with player sales funds to be added to it. The CL monies will cover wages etc*
I agree with going all out on Bale. Bring him home. Would be a massive statement and lift to the club. In fact, massive is probably understating it. Too bad he probably isnt a realistic option
 

Flashspur

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I suppose it is only natural to view another FA Cup SF defeat as proof we haven’t progressed. However, I have to say our progression over 4 years has been phenomenal. My suggestion is we look at this in the context of that long term progression. The world hasn’t ended because we lost the SF. I think Poch and Levy will enhance the squad. We’re here for the long term. Stay strong. COYS!
 

spursfan77

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I think you're largely right. I do still think Aurier will come good and I think things may be different had he joined us earlier in the summer, I suppose our hands were tied what with his situation. Perhaps we should have brought in another RB earlier on, before we sold Walker. I was more frustrated with our inability to secure an attacking option or a CM.

We should have got the right back we wanted before Walker was sold. A club with good transfer planning should have a list of players for each position in case a situation like the Walker one arrives. We don’t seem to have that process in place. If we did we would have had a target in mind and got him in before Walker was allowed to go.
 

Trix

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If people really believe we don’t need upgrade offensive players to play with Kane, or alternate etc, i then give up. I rate Sonny, but he is not the one to effect a change. In other words, Sonny? Kane etc need competition. And before someone throws in Lamela, he is not the player to make a difference.

Just saying...
Let's just say we have £150mil to spend in the Summer, that is just 3 quality players nowadays, and that is with us being creative in the market. AM's are a looooong way off from being a priority IMO and especially if Dembele goes.

As I posted a couple of weeks back, I heard LB and a CM/2 anything else was dependant on sales. That at the time, and even more so now looks to be exactly what we are crying out for.

Yes we could improve our attacking options but if that is at the expense of some real quality in the middle, it would be nonsensical IMO.
 

Trix

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I understand Trix but you say you think we are ok up front / attacking positions but we didn’t really create anything against Brighton, Stoke or the second half today in particular. May be it’s just the reality that some of our attacking players aren’t as good as we think, or is it an attacking style / patterns of play issue from the training ground?

For me it's because as soon as teams sit deep we become incredibly one paced. Eriksen has to drop deeper and our play becomes obvious and predictable. I honestly believe a player in the middle who can switch the play quickly AND help out Eriksen threading balls through would improve our attacking play immensely. ATM when we are IP against a deep sitting defence we just go side to side and back again until Eriksen comes to get it. We have players in front that have great movement but none of our CM's have the tools to find them with through balls with any sort of regularity. We need another option to keep things moving with a bit of quick thinking or to spread the play wide at pace, not one of those floated easy to defend passes Dier keeps attempting.
 
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spursfan77

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For me it's because as soon as teams sit deep we become incredibly one paced. Eriksen has to drop deeper and our play becomes obvious and predictable. I honestly believe a player in the middle who can switch the play quickly AND help out Eriksen threading balls through would improve our attacking play immensely. ATM when we are IP against a deep sitting defence we just go side to side and back again until Eriksen comes to get it. We have players in front that have great movement but none of our CM's have the tools to find them with through balls with any sort of regularity. We need another option to keep things moving with a bit of quick thinking or to spread the play wide at pace, not one of those floated easy to defend passes Dier keeps attempting.

I’ve said that we need that player for years but it seems Poch prefers physical beasts in there over guile. Of course if you could find the player who can do both (personally I think Alli is that man) then that’s who we should go for.
 

daryl hannah

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Our recent transfer business is a cause for concern. It’s not just that players like Janssen and Llorente haven’t worked out it is more troubling that they look like completely the wrong type of player in the first place. In the last few years it seems that of 4 or 5 incomings per summer only 1 is a useful addition to the squad / first 11, last summer it was Sanchez, the summer before Wanyama. We can buy young or we can buy old but we need to get the right profile. Many on here expressed their concerns about Aurier having watched him before he arrived and who can say they were wrong. This was after 6-12 months of scouting for a new RB, not exactly encouraging from a scouting perspective.
We hear throughout the course of a season every year that we're scouting x and y players. When it comes to the window, we end up signing 'opportunities'—like Aurier, like Llorente, like Sissoko. I don't believe any of those players were scouted. If they were, the scout needs putting out of his misery.

Of course you can say "ah yes, but we signed Toby etc. etc." But I agree the 'misses' are far outweighing the 'hits.' For this reason, even if we do have a decent budget this window I have zero faith in our transfer strategy.

Trouble is, THFC need to get it right this year, or those beautiful new royal blue seats will become empty as the season goes on...
 
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