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TEESSIDE1

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with Fulham looking more and more likely becoming a Premiership team i dont see Sessegnon being sold in a hurry and if he is it will take an offer beyond our reach imo sadly. but if Rose is to leave then Bertrand would be an upgrade on Davies offensively... good pace decent pass and IF Southampton do drop hes definately somebody to think about.

I like Bertrand but he’s nearly 29 and hasn’t been the same since his knee injury. We need pace and athleticism in our full backs and to do that they need to be in peak form and not approaching the downward spiral. Tierney is a much better prospect.
 

Univarn

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Anyone see the tweets from James Maddision from back when he was 16?

Resurfaced on twitter last night. Seems to be a gooner. Described Bale as a monkey and that he hated him.

One very funny comment though, he thought Wilshere was 10x the player Bale was, at the time anyway. HAHA!

EDIT: Link here -

SH: "Maddison, we would like you to join Spurs."
JM: "Bale is a monkey!"
Levy: "We'll double your salary and you will play Champions League football."
JM: "COYS!"
 

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I genuinely believe he should be our top target this summer, however difficult it may be to entice him. Even at 32 he's amongst the best CM's in the world and I reckon he could easily play another 2/3 years at the top level, similar to Pirlo. He's never relied on pace but his footballing brain has always been one step ahead.

We are crying out for a bit of invention and guile in central midfield. Luca would instantly elevate our play to a different level.

technology and diet nowadays have prolonged everyone's career in today's era. the 32 now is not longer the same 32 in 1995. i would say the 32 now is more like a 28 29 of the past.
 

stonecolddeanaustin

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with Fulham looking more and more likely becoming a Premiership team i dont see Sessegnon being sold in a hurry and if he is it will take an offer beyond our reach imo sadly. but if Rose is to leave then Bertrand would be an upgrade on Davies offensively... good pace decent pass and IF Southampton do drop hes definately somebody to think about.

It really isn't as likely as a number of people are saying that Fulham will go up. Chances are they'll need to do so via the play offs which is always a bit of a lottery, even if they will be by far the best team in it.
 

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I feel like a major upside with Zaha is that he's familiar and experienced in the PL. As seen before it can take a whole season to acclimatize for a player who comes from La liga, Ligue 1 etc.

Also as shown with City and Liverpool raw pace can be devastating and Zaha has an abundance of that. Sterling is twice the player now after being coached by Guardiola. We have our own example in Walker and Rose, incredible athletes that became great players under Pochettino. The same can be said about Salah who two season ago were a rather poor finisher and now he's winning the golden boot. Zaha might have the ability develop immensely if coached right.

You just can't coach someone to be pacey or physically strong but you can coach someone to be better at decision making and so forth. Just my two cents.
 

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Say and have your opinions! Poch wants Zaha! And has done for past 2 seasons! But I think it will almost be impossible deal to do, due to the history, and bad taste/attitudes among agents etc.
 

Haddock

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Say and have your opinions! Poch wants Zaha! And has done for past 2 seasons! But I think it will almost be impossible deal to do, due to the history, and bad taste/attitudes among agents etc.

Do you think Zaha wants to come to us? I'm not asking for ITK - just your personal opinion.
 

danielneeds

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Better decision making anywhere will always help, but we've got some of Europe's most prolific forwards/AM's, we hardly lack for product, We scored two away goals against Juve. That should be enough to take anyone through in a two legged game. But we'd already lost two goals waiting for Dier and Dembele to get their heads out of their arses.

I really don't think Dier and Dembele are giving us a level that's going to be very hard to improve on many weeks. We've already got Wanyama here who's an upgrade on Dier, we just need Poch to grow some bollocks.

Compare our midfield to those ahead of us in the league, and you see where we are lagging. At their best they are all playing 433's with two very reactive 8's (sometimes 3 in Liverpool and City'd case).
Really, you want to blame Dier and Dembele for our start away at Juve? The whole team was nervous, which was exacerbated by falling to sleep at a setplay.

The fact was in the second leg, we were so far on top of them it was untrue, but we weren’t clinical enough to put them out the game.
 

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Really, you want to blame Dier and Dembele for our start away at Juve? The whole team was nervous, which was exacerbated by falling to sleep at a setplay.

The fact was in the second leg, we were so far on top of them it was untrue, but we weren’t clinical enough to put them out the game.

But just like defending isn’t all about defenders, attaking isn’t all about forwards and our midfield isn’t clinical either, it’s ponderous and predictable. And Dier and Dembele are slow in the transition, both in attacking and when we have to transition quickly into defence.
 

spursfan77

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Levy says in the Poch book that he and Poch don’t envisage paying £60 million for a player and all the costs and pressures that come with it (too high a price if the player fails).

So I fail to see us buying Zaha or anyone at that level/price. It’s there in black and white in his book. It seems that Poch understands that unless he’s changed his mind/ethos/philosophy/type of project ince the 9 months since the book was written.
 

daryl hannah

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Levy says in the Poch book that he and Poch don’t envisage paying £60 million for a player and all the costs and pressures that come with it (too high a price if the player fails).

So I fail to see us buying Zaha or anyone at that level/price. It’s there in black and white in his book. It seems that Poch understands that unless he’s changed his mind/ethos/philosophy/type of project ince the 9 months since the book was written.
meanwhile the rest of the top 4 just get on with it...

Edit: It would help if we had a decent scouting setup, and not just aspirations to secure left-overs on deadline day - maybe if we had confidence in our previous purchases it wouldn't be so much of an issue...
 

JamieSpursCommunityUser

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Levy says in the Poch book that he and Poch don’t envisage paying £60 million for a player and all the costs and pressures that come with it (too high a price if the player fails).

So I fail to see us buying Zaha or anyone at that level/price. It’s there in black and white in his book. It seems that Poch understands that unless he’s changed his mind/ethos/philosophy/type of project ince the 9 months since the book was written.

There was ITK last summer stating Zaha had a £35m release clause, activate from this window.

Suspect he'll go elsewhere for the highest salary though.
 

daryl hannah

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Yeah but we all know the differences in how things are approached.

Comments like this are fucking tiresome to read considering we all know how it works and have done for years.
For me, what's tiresome is watching us buy players like Llorente, Janssen, Sissoko, Nkoudou, Njie, and now Aurier when we're on the cusp of reaching the next level.

We're all entitled to voice our opinions on here.
 
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Shadydan

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For me, what's tiresome is watching us buy players like Llorente, Janssen, Sissoko, Nkoudou, Njie, and now Aurier.

We're all entitled to voice our opinions on here.

Shock, football teams have failed transfers from time to time.

It seems like people are picking out faults by the club in order to vent just because we lost on Saturday, some of the bollocks I've read on here is absolutely hilarious.
 
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For me, what's tiresome is watching us buy players like Llorente, Janssen, Sissoko, Nkoudou, Njie, and now Aurier.

We're all entitled to voice our opinions on here.
No doubt, but the the statement I quoted wasn't about any of the players mentioned above ...

I'm not denying you an opinion on if you think Spurs are wasting money on players at all :)
 

danielneeds

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But just like defending isn’t all about defenders, attaking isn’t all about forwards and our midfield isn’t clinical either, it’s ponderous and predictable. And Dier and Dembele are slow in the transition, both in attacking and when we have to transition quickly into defence.
But if we're putting our forwards in good positions, that they are wasting, then are they just absolved of it because in your opinion the midfield is too "ponderous?" Wastefulness has been a theme of the season. It's alright against most of the PL fodder we encounter, because we monopolise the ball, and create 20+ shots and chances.

Too often we're profligate, another chance comes along, and we're often OK. But in these top level matches, one must be more ruthless - Chelsea last season were a great example of this - not creating chance after chance, but just killing teams with a quick 1-2 punch.
 
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JR1994

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Can see Zaha staying at palace. Values only going to increase with performances and he currently seems to enjoy being a big fish in a small pond.
 
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