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Flynn

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I'm not buying any of it until we get some "Grealish eating a whopper meal on the M40 Thame services wearing a spurs shirt" ITK.
 

SpartanSpur

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PARTIAL OPINIONS
1. Toby-no interest at reasonable price in PL. possible end of Europe window, but very cold with no interest that once existed
2. Danny Rose likely to still be here. He is available, but no realistic takers
3. Mousa is very reluctant to go to another PL club. Loves London and us. Down to him. One of the most liked and respected players by the whole club
4. Sissoko is a staying -DCM
5. That Nordic kid is being touted around at 15m the real deal. We are very aware, but don’t know if we will bite
6. Louds of very average shyte with crazy prices being offered
7. A few ‘Revisits’ and couple new names has been given to us. Agents not necessarily desperate, but know the buying club who has the cash, will now make the call. I don’t like it, but this is DL’s strength. We know the bottom dollar the selling clubs wants. If there are goers, we will know next few hours. Media will get wind, as agents will use every tool to get these deals done.
8. Expect 2! But! If (7) is addressed in our favour, possible 3

Damn today has set on fire with info. Cheers Herc. Surely no Toby = no Martial. Personally I'd happily keep Rose and Dembele so I like that possibility, even Toby at least we haven't bent over for him or Utd if the terms don't suit us.

Part (7) is very interesting and would be a huge opportunity to potentially 'save' this window, imagine Levy loves this kind of thing.
 

RichieS

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Dec 23, 2004
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Sissoko to play in defensive midfield? Wow.

This could possibly work, but smacks of a last ditch attempt to find a use for him and not waste our money.

Biggest problem is he isn’t a great defender, has never shown an ability to read the game, and he cannot pass the ball more than 5 yards.
It might be "DCM" in the sense that both the '2' in Poch's 4231 are defensive mids. So he would play alongside Dier or Wanyama. I struggle to see him anchoring a midfield 3 though... I'm not against keeping him anyway as I think Poch has always seen something in him.
 

Lighty64

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17 pages in 6 hours cheers for anything other than whats in the RO, sorry A&C i'd usually read every page, but at this rate i'll still be reading today's when it closes tomorrow. why does this always happen when I'm not about:mad:
 

freeeki

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Aug 5, 2008
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17 pages in 6 hours cheers for anything other than whats in the RO, sorry A&C i'd usually read every page, but at this rate i'll still be reading today's when it closes tomorrow. why does this always happen when I'm not about:mad:

Trying to put as much in the RO as I can, others are doing the same, for the benefit of those who don't have the time, inclination or ability to check every page of this thread between now and the window closes (y)
 

0-Tibsy-0

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Aug 13, 2012
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PARTIAL OPINIONS
1. Toby-no interest at reasonable price in PL. possible end of Europe window, but very cold with no interest that once existed
2. Danny Rose likely to still be here. He is available, but no realistic takers
3. Mousa is very reluctant to go to another PL club. Loves London and us. Down to him. One of the most liked and respected players by the whole club
4. Sissoko is a staying -DCM
5. That Nordic kid is being touted around at 15m the real deal. We are very aware, but don’t know if we will bite
6. Louds of very average shyte with crazy prices being offered
7. A few ‘Revisits’ and couple new names has been given to us. Agents not necessarily desperate, but know the buying club who has the cash, will now make the call. I don’t like it, but this is DL’s strength. We know the bottom dollar the selling clubs wants. If there are goers, we will know next few hours. Media will get wind, as agents will use every tool to get these deals done.
8. Expect 2! But! If (7) is addressed in our favour, possible 3

1 - Good news if he is re-integrated properly. But id guess would definitely mean no Martial and all the ITK has pointed towards Toby not being forgiven,
2 -Good, if he buckles down, wouldn't bring in a better replacement now anyway. And Sess isn't available.
3- don't mind either way - but wanted a top quality CM coming in
4 - Oh Jesus - definitely though we would strengthen this area of the team with a quality ball playing CM. Not impressed.
5 - Good prospect from what I can see, would be happy if this was in addition to really good quality CM
6 - Cool, end up with another Sissoko..
7 - if we get a good deal on a playerthat Poch wants with this method then that's great. Hardly points to a coherent plan though.

Cheers for the info to everyone passing on, Lets hope we are all happy by 1700 tomorrow...
 

absolute bobbins

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Text received:........

It's amazing how every club has demanded super high prices for their players this summer(imo based on what Liverpool have laid out) yet with two days to go they know that Premier league cash is still king. The number of players being shopped around by their agents today is incredible. It's not just the buying clubs that are now getting desperate

Followed up by........

Yeah, I'm sure there are at least a couple that are of significant interest to your lot.:)

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Nothing concrete there but reasons for some of you miserable twats, not to be lugging the extension lead and the toaster up to the bathroom just yet.
This is clearly what some of the clubs were hoping for when they agreed to the window change, perhaps to avoid the usual Premier League tax that is priced into a player valuation as European clubs start to get twitchy.

If it works, it's a master stroke that probably won't be seen again but I highly doubt it will.
 

Tit&Ham

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Aug 19, 2012
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Just an opinion to prevent lot's of speculation and discussion:
Sander Berge is like a Dele Alli signing. Very decent now, enourmous potential, young and fairly cheap.

Please do not respond to this - I just know the player from my country... (Don't ban me)
 

Lighty64

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Trying to put as much in the RO as I can, others are doing the same, for the benefit of those who don't have the time, inclination or ability to check every page of this thread between now and the window closes (y)

cheers freeeki, looks like the busiest day and I'm totally out the loop, will be off out in 10 for another 2-3 hours
 

Guntz

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Aug 15, 2011
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1 - Good news if he is re-integrated properly. But id guess would definitely mean no Martial and all the ITK has pointed towards Toby not being forgiven,
2 -Good, if he buckles down, wouldn't bring in a better replacement now anyway. And Sess isn't available.
3- don't mind either way - but wanted a top quality CM coming in
4 - Oh Jesus - definitely though we would strengthen this area of the team with a quality ball playing CM. Not impressed.
5 - Good prospect from what I can see, would be happy if this was in addition to really good quality CM
6 - Cool, end up with another Sissoko..
7 - if we get a good deal on a playerthat Poch wants with this method then that's great. Hardly points to a coherent plan though.

Cheers for the info to everyone passing on, Lets hope we are all happy by 1700 tomorrow...

Yeah because that's going to happen...:LOL:
 

wrd

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Think I'm having transfer windows seizures as I thought it said Modric kid not Nordic kid, I'd probably bite at 15 mill, seems to have potential.
 

0-Tibsy-0

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Aug 13, 2012
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Yeah because that's going to happen...:LOL:
I said 'hope'.

I consciously make myself write something positive in order to convince myself i'm not depressed at the current situation...

It's not working too effectively.
 

SpartanSpur

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Jan 27, 2011
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Love how the window has gone bat-shit crazy with less than 48 hours left, you'd have thought clubs and agents would have got desperate at least 2-3 days ago. Should be a fun ride across the PL.
 

Ben1

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Look forward to seeing who the second potential signing is if they all end up staying, doesn't seem a space.
 

JonnySpurs

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If Dembele stays then I'd like to see us go for a player like Sander Berge (Nordic kid) as there will be less pressure on him and he can develop.

If Dembele goes then I'd hope we'd move for a more established CM.

Fully expect Utd to move for Toby today/tomorrow and hopefully we can tie it together and do a deal for Martial.
 

Ron Burgundy

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Jun 19, 2008
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PARTIAL OPINIONS
1. Toby-no interest at reasonable price in PL. possible end of Europe window, but very cold with no interest that once existed
2. Danny Rose likely to still be here. He is available, but no realistic takers
3. Mousa is very reluctant to go to another PL club. Loves London and us. Down to him. One of the most liked and respected players by the whole club
4. Sissoko is a staying -DCM
5. That Nordic kid is being touted around at 15m the real deal. We are very aware, but don’t know if we will bite
6. Louds of very average shyte with crazy prices being offered
7. A few ‘Revisits’ and couple new names has been given to us. Agents not necessarily desperate, but know the buying club who has the cash, will now make the call. I don’t like it, but this is DL’s strength. We know the bottom dollar the selling clubs wants. If there are goers, we will know next few hours. Media will get wind, as agents will use every tool to get these deals done.
8. Expect 2! But! If (7) is addressed in our favour, possible 3

This feels very opportunistic. I appreciate we may have reacted to a tricky market, but surely this is miles from what we were hoping, and that’s assuming any of these make it over the line
 
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