Vincent Janssen signs for Spurs!

[WorcesterTHFC]

...is the right answer. It's not where you play, it's how you play.

Wasn't it Danny Blanchflower (or Bill Nick) who said that your plans won't work unless you work?

 

[Real_madyidd]

I wish the term 'back up' was not allowed on this forum.

No matter the industry, the thought of a 21 year old needing a 'back up' is ludicrous.

understudy?

 

[Spurs1960]

Junior partner?

 

[Lighty64]

this seems to of gone very quiet, so perhaps he is a backup option if we don't get Batman

 

[coys1976]

Daily Mirror report Tottenham Hotspur are closing in on the signing of Vincent Janssen from AZ Alkmaar. #THFC

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Daily Mirror report Tottenham Hotspur are closing in on the signing of Vincent Janssen from AZ Alkmaar. #THFC

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/signing-victor-wanyama-would-continue-8235061

Yeah, it is in this article and then he goes to talk about Batshuayi separately. But I don't think the situation has actually changed since the last time Lewis wrote about the transfer. He said it was close 12 days ago or whatever it was.

 

[DJS]

this seems to of gone very quiet, so perhaps he is a backup option if we don't get Batman

Reading earlier posts in this thread, I'm not sure if we're allowed to say the word 'backup'...

 

[Lighty64]

Reading earlier posts in this thread, I'm not sure if we're allowed to say the word 'backup'...

that's why I'm a taxi driver and not a brain surgeon, I never listened at school either

 

[luRRka]

that's why I'm a taxi driver and not a brain surgeon, I never listened at school either

Nothing wrong with that...I hear the taxi business is picking up

 

[Lighty64]

Nothing wrong with that...I hear the taxi business is picking up

not in the east herts licensing area, we have about 20 taxis too many and the council refuse to cap it

 

[luRRka]

not in the east herts licensing area, we have about 20 taxis too many and the council refuse to cap it

Sorry, it was a pun. Picking up as in picking up passengers. Probably not funny if I had to explain it

 

[Lighty64]

Sorry, it was a pun. Picking up as in picking up passengers. Probably not funny if I had to explain it

nah as I said "I is tick"

 

[chinaman]

Nothing wrong with that...I hear the taxi business is picking up

Undercut by Uber.

 

[luRRka]

Undercut by Uber.

It was a bad joke. At least I found it funny

 

[Hazelton]

Not reading too much into anything just yet. Suspect we're sounding out all potential striker targets and the agents are filtering it to the press, hence the multiple links. Doubt we'll make a solid move until we've found out the costs, wage demands, settled on our favourite etc. It wouldn't surprise me if the forward was our last signing, towards the end of the window.

 

[Spurs1960]

nah as I said "I is tick"

As long as you are not a parasitic tick like a former centre-forward, whose name escapes me, then that's all right then

 

[saltkjelen]

Rumours of AZ buying The leading goalscorer in The Norwegian league.

 

[Ledleys Knee]

Rumours of AZ buying The leading goalscorer in The Norwegian league.

Hopefully them getting a replacement in is the last thing holding it back, so this could be good news

 

[GetSpurredOn]

Still think I'd prefer Janssen over Batshuayi. I think Janssen is a much easier deal, and his goal scoring ability, both for AZ last year, and also how he has taken that to International level, suggests he isn't any less of a calibre player.
I fear we may hang on, and on, for Batshuayi, and it could end up being another Berahino scenario where we his club won't deal on our terms and we have left it too late move to plan B.
If rather just go for Janssen now, get him in and settled. He strikes me as the sort of player that, if we don't sign him now, he'll go to someone like Everton or Southampton for £12m, score consistently and be worth at least twice that next year.
He seems a closer like for like focal striker like Kane, so if Harry is rested, we don't have to change our style of play. As for those suggesting we need a plan B, there has been talk of a second forward coming in, so maybe that can be the alternative. Quincy Promes has been linked, a fellow Dutch player, capable of playing a different style.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Still think I'd prefer Janssen over Batshuayi. I think Janssen is a much easier deal, and his goal scoring ability, both for AZ last year, and also how he has taken that to International level, suggests he isn't any less of a calibre player.
I fear we may hang on, and on, for Batshuayi, and it could end up being another Berahino scenario where we his club won't deal on our terms and we have left it too late move to plan B.

Marseille can't afford to hang on.