Team Whispers: Who should Spurs sign in January?

[C0YS]

This is a good post but can't work out who suggested Harry would be leaving....is it just the journo?

Yeh its Paul Wilson talking out of his arse, which tbf is what he normally does. He literally does no research on anything he writes often resulting in some bizarre and quite funny articles.

https://stevedunthorne.wordpress.co...the-guardian-is-a-disgrace-to-his-profession/

 

[C0YS]

wonder if Utd are thinking the same about him

Yeh, this is an important point. On post injury form I think Utd would be mad to go for Rose considering the price we would want for him.

Reckon Utd are more likely to wait until the summer and see how he is doing then rather than coming in in Jan.

 

[arunspurs]

Yeh, this is an important point. On post injury form I think Utd would be mad to go for Rose considering the price we would want for him.

Reckon Utd are more likely to wait until the summer and see how he is doing then rather than coming in in Jan.

Way Mourunho was having a go at Shaw all game yesterday, I would not be surprised if they come in hard for Rose.
Regardless, I cannot see Rose seeing leaving in Jan.

Personally, we should go get Sessegnon & loan him back to Fulham till summer. Then look at LB situation in summer.

 

[mill]

Way Mourunho was having a go at Shaw all game yesterday, I would not be surprised if they come in hard for Rose.
Regardless, I cannot see Rose seeing leaving in Jan.

Personally, we should go get Sessegnon & loan him back to Fulham till summer. Then look at LB situation in summer.

If rose does go there I’d love to see his reaction to mourinho having a go at him all game

 

[sammyj]

Will mourinho be at United in the summer

 

[coys200]

As an example if we replaced Sissoko and Llorente with Martial who can play as an attacking mid or a number 9 we'd be a miles better squad. Doesn't necessarily need to be two players if we can find someone who ticks both boxes. I'm just using Martial for example purposes but theoretically you could have Lamela as Eriksen/Son/Dele depth, Barkley as Dele/Winks/Eriksen depth and Martial as Kane/Son/Dele depth/rotation.

We need to be cleverer with recruitment, stop bulking squad with fillers and use expensive quality to cover multiple players. Means there isn't a spare part not getting game time and everyone is sharp and involved.

Not sure about this if we want to compete bit as we already clearly are competing though.

Yeah you could do it with 2 players. Barkley is essentially like for like sissoko a player that can play CM or AM if needed. And then basically another Son a player who can play pacy winger or striker. We’d then almost exactly mirror united with rashford/ martial Lukaku and Ibra.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Yeah fine. I don't see why there's a need to upgrade on those players in January when they'll cost more. Sissoko is doing fine in midfield, Janssen is on loan. No idea why you've mentioned N'Jie. I'd rather we spend the money on a proper midfielder. It seems some people just want us to sign players for the sake of it.

Your post said you didn’t see the need to sign any attacking players, not that you thought there were more pressing priorities. There can be no denying that those attacking players need upgrading, I’m not sure why waiting until the summer is sensible. Contrary to the expectations of our great leader prices continue to go up which suggests acting now is cheaper than waiting until the summer.

Do we need reinforcements in midfield ? Yes. I’d love us to actually compete with Liverpool for Goretzka, but do I think that will happen ? No.

Obviously this is a fans forum and what we post doesn’t matter a jot in the real world. What is more relevant is how our manager feels about these things and he has been pretty clear he expects some activity now and not to get players in the summer on the last day of the window. Now of course the club could choose to ignore his wishes but I don’t think that would be wise with both the PSG and Bayern, and potentially Man United, jobs all open in the summer.

 

[Shadydan]

Your post said you didn’t see the need to sign any attacking players, not that you thought there were more pressing priorities. There can be no denying that those attacking players need upgrading, I’m not sure why waiting until the summer is sensible. Contrary to the expectations of our great leader prices continue to go up which suggests acting now is cheaper than waiting until the summer.

Do we need reinforcements in midfield ? Yes. I’d love us to actually compete with Liverpool for Goretzka, but do I think that will happen ? No.

Obviously this is a fans forum and what we post doesn’t matter a jot in the real world. What is more relevant is how our manager feels about these things and he has been pretty clear he expects some activity now and not to get players in the summer on the last day of the window. Now of course the club could choose to ignore his wishes but I don’t think that would be wise with both the PSG and Bayern, and potentially Man United, jobs all open in the summer.

Buying players in Jan is way way more expensive than buying in summer.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Your post said you didn’t see the need to sign any attacking players, not that you thought there were more pressing priorities. There can be no denying that those attacking players need upgrading, I’m not sure why waiting until the summer is sensible. Contrary to the expectations of our great leader prices continue to go up which suggests acting now is cheaper than waiting until the summer.

Do we need reinforcements in midfield ? Yes. I’d love us to actually compete with Liverpool for Goretzka, but do I think that will happen ? No.

Obviously this is a fans forum and what we post doesn’t matter a jot in the real world. What is more relevant is how our manager feels about these things and he has been pretty clear he expects some activity now and not to get players in the summer on the last day of the window. Now of course the club could choose to ignore his wishes but I don’t think that would be wise with both the PSG and Bayern, and potentially Man United, jobs all open in the summer.

WOuld love for us to sort out a tremendous CM in January, given the tight top 4 competition and the Juventus matches.

 

[spursfan77]

Mirror reporting THFC now confident they will beat Chelsea to the signing of Ross Barkley

It's by John Richardson though, who if Sunday supplement is to go by over the last 10 years, makes up most of his stories. One of the worst journos out there.

 

[fletch82]

Waiting for the summer this year will backfire anyway as it' the world cup

So if the chance is there in January the club would be silly not to take it ?

I' being silly again aren't I

If it's left in till summer the same old time consuming bolloxs will be rolled out players with national sides ,just want to concentrate on national side the dog ate my world cup homework.
And then moneyvags shows up pays every fecker off player that we thought would sign after world cup is given 2 days off to go to cash mountain and sign do medical we have to sign Dave from Accrington Stanley as only 7 mins of window remains
Spurs fans meltdown Dave is well Dave never plays a game for us goes to France becomes Ronaldo goes to cash mountain scores hat trick against us on debut we bottled it for not playing him
Harry Kane signs for madrid stadium falls down we are at Hackney marshes poch misses Harry goes with him we get peter Reid as manager world ends.

So as I said if available in Jan feckin get them in

 

[BPR_U16]

WOuld love for us to sort out a tremendous CM in January, given the tight top 4 competition and the Juventus matches.

and the CL matches after Juve

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

and the CL matches after Juve

The semis will be particularly tough.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Buying players in Jan is way way more expensive than buying in summer.

Historically but transfer fees trajectory is becoming like Bitcoin. Just look to the summer and you can see Real Madrid going on a galactico spree, PSG not having won the CL looking for some new Neymars, Chelsea with a new manager needing to build a new side, Man U with a new manager needing to give him some shiny new toys, Atletico after their transfer ban, and on and on. Just look to what happened to prices from last Jan to the summer, prices definitely went up. Similarly the wisdom that prices were lower at the end of the summer window was blown away by the Neymar deal.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

Historically but transfer fees trajectory is becoming like Bitcoin. Just look to the summer and you can see Real Madrid going on a galactico spree, PSG not having won the CL looking for some new Neymars, Chelsea with a new manager needing to build a new side, Man U with a new manager needing to give him some shiny new toys, Atletico after their transfer ban, and on and on. Just look to what happened to prices from last Jan to the summer, prices definitely went up. Similarly the wisdom that prices were lower at the end of the summer window was blown away by the Neymar deal.

We're not winning an arms race with that lot whatever calendar month we're in.

 

[Shadydan]

Historically but transfer fees trajectory is becoming like Bitcoin. Just look to the summer and you can see Real Madrid going on a galactico spree, PSG not having won the CL looking for some new Neymars, Chelsea with a new manager needing to build a new side, Man U with a new manager needing to give him some shiny new toys, Atletico after their transfer ban, and on and on. Just look to what happened to prices from last Jan to the summer, prices definitely went up. Similarly the wisdom that prices were lower at the end of the summer window was blown away by the Neymar deal.

That doesn't change the fact that Jan will always be more expensive than summer, citing the Neymar deal as evidence of prices increasing is a total non starter as he had a release clause.

Going by your examples what do you think will happen if those teams decided on going on their shopping sprees in Jan rather than the summer, how much do you thihk players would cost then?

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

That doesn't change the fact that Jan will always be more expensive than summer, citing the Neymar deal as evidence of prices increasing is a total non starter as he had a release clause.

Going by your examples what do you think will happen if those teams decided on going on their shopping sprees in Jan rather than the summer, how much do you thihk players would cost then?

They won’t because their managerial changes will happen in the summer. Anyway don’t listen to me, Poch has pretty much said the same thing that we need deals agreed in this window even if the players are going to arrive in the summer.

 

[FreddieYid]

The January transfer window is always more expensive than the summer, however at the rate transfers are skyrocketing, players values are going up double digit millions from one window to the next and come the summer £50m will be the new £35m.

That alone could make clubs rethink their strategy towards the Jan transfer window.

 

[Colonel Dax]

Buying players in Jan is way way more expensive than buying in summer.

Not necessarily. As mentioned previously in this thread, it would be useful to find players we can sign now but who could join us at a later date. Similar to what we did with Dele and Liverpool did with Keita. Here's what Pochettino said earlier this month:

"It’s so important today to identify your targets for the summer. If not and we wait until May and, before we sign, we sell, it’s so difficult to bring in players that can help.”

"The Dele signing is a very good example of the need to anticipate. We cannot be reactive because if we are, we are going to lose. If we are going to compete in the same period with City, United, Liverpool or Chelsea, then we are going to struggle to bring in the players we want. Maybe we need to sign the player in January and they can join in the summer."

“We tried to make early signings last summer but we could not, for different reasons. Now, we are going to try again to do things early. If we cannot again, I am going to say: ‘Come on, we could not again!’”

 

[Shadydan]

They won’t because their managerial changes will happen in the summer. Anyway don’t listen to me, Poch has pretty much said the same thing that we need deals agreed in this window even if the players are going to arrive in the summer.

You're not really addressing my point or countering any arguments at all which suggests that you know the answer to your own question but for some reason you're choosing to be difficult about it.

I know what Poch said...I don't disagree I'm merely offering you a perspective as to why we may not do any deals in Jan just like the majority of other teams and that is because players are overpriced and therefore l it doesn't make much business sense.