Apart from Poch this week saying Townsend was part of his plans?
You'll find out for sure on Sunday if he's in the team again. If he doesn't make the squad again, we've pretty much fucked up.
Apart from Poch this week saying Townsend was part of his plans?
Maybe the overseas and homegrown limits had an effect on this too?
Part of his plans to get MS?Apart from Poch this week saying Townsend was part of his plans?
The Goat did also say 'never say never'. Deadline day always has a twist in it somewhere. Reckon the MS deal will be back on at various points on Monday.
We identified Schneiderlin and Mussachio as two keys players. Yet failed to land both. Quite disappointing really. I just hope Poch gave Levy the go ahead to sign Stambouli, otherwise it's another situation where we're forcing players on the manager.
You'll find out for sure on Sunday if he's in the team again. If he doesn't make the squad again, we've pretty much fucked up.
There'll be a story to bump up ratings/views/whatever. Anything can happen on deadline day. We'll just have to wait and see what it has in store for us this time.Not a chance. We're about to sign his alternative and Southampton's MS replacement has gone back
The Goat did also say 'never say never'. Deadline day always has a twist in it somewhere. Reckon the MS deal will be back on at various points on Monday.
We have a squad of 25. Not all of them will get in the matchday squad every week. He's played in a in over half our games this season, which suggests he is part of his plans.
Have you seen much of him play for Monaco ? I wouldn't say he's been rubbish. Third highest passer in the French league last year, 8 assists (Rodriguez top with 11), helped them into the CL. He's a quality footballer.
Got to say, despite being a bit worried that MS would hinder the development of Bentaleb, I am also amazed we wouldn't be happy to offload a peripheral player who's unlikely to start much and who isn't the best worker off the ball as a rule (and has an issue listening to a manager's instructions) and so might not be a great fit for Pochettino's system.
Stambouli and now this. Weird night.
Rather we go all out for a LW. Loan or buy we need good cover for Chadli.
If he can't make a match day squad over Chadli, Lennon, etc then there is an issue.
Since he's supposedly a makeweight for MS, who would be a starter, we'd be looking at keeping him as 2nd/3rd choice over another 1st choice player. Which is silly.
Huh?
It depends really. Talk was of Southampton wanting £27m for MS (and judging by the fees they got for others I'm not surprised). They seemed to rate Townsend around £8m (if he was their player he'd be at least £15m!). A fair swap would have been Andros plus maybe £5m. Doubt that was Southampton's deal though.