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Japhet

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Let's hope this is bull.

"Tottenham Hotspur could send Giovani Lo Celso back to Real Betis as they attempt to buy Manchester United target Bruno Fernandes from Sporting Lisbon, sources have told Football FanCast."


Pretty sure it is. Anyone with eyes in their head can see that Lo Celso is quality.
 

SpartanSpur

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Ali Gold is usually the guy that downplays rumours, so that is interesting. Guess that ties up with TottenhamBoys 'in the balance' ITK. (As evidenced by the Utd based info in the Standard).

Foyth on loan the other way would be a pretty great move to be fair, seem to be a good club at developing players.

If we want Bruno then hopefully that loan offer and Mourinho factor could swing things in our favour.
 

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From Ali gold in an article just now

Should both players depart then it will free up funds to look for another playmaker to ease the burden that will be placed on Lo Celso.
Spurs and Mourinho would love to sign Bruno Fernandes. Tottenham had all but agreed a deal with the player in the summer but hadn't agreed a fee with Sporting, particularly with the lack of movement with Eriksen.
Mourinho is a big fan of the Portugal star and Spurs are looking at him once again, with the prospect of Juan Foyth heading the other way on loan.
However, the fear is that United will outmuscle Tottenham financially if both sides go head to head for the £60m player who started for Lisbon, and scored twice, on Saturday night

Who are the two players to leave to free up funds? Eriksen and Foyth?

Have to agree re man Utd, we could never offer what they will so all on Jose to convince him we're a better option
 

daryl hannah

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Who are the two players to leave to free up funds? Eriksen and Foyth?

Have to agree re man Utd, we could never offer what they will so all on Jose to convince him we're a better option
I think I remember Bruno saying he'd rather get the right move than the best money.

I don't think he's a money player.

Unless he's lying.
 

Dean

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More than that - we're not going to waste a £14.4m loan fee (figure taken from transfermarkt).
I agree that Lo Celso is a quality player. And I agree that wasting funds is definitely what we SHOULDN'T do, but, does Mourinho rate Lo Celso? Concerning that Eriksen has consistently started ahead of him. There's an argument that he's not what Mourinho wants.
 

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Who are the two players to leave to free up funds? Eriksen and Foyth?

Have to agree re man Utd, we could never offer what they will so all on Jose to convince him we're a better option
He says eriksen and wanyama
 

Japhet

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I agree that Lo Celso is a quality player. And I agree that wasting funds is definitely what we SHOULDN'T do, but, does Mourinho rate Lo Celso? Concerning that Eriksen has consistently started ahead of him. There's an argument that he's not what Mourinho wants.

I genuinely have no idea what Mourinho is seeing in Eriksen and not seeing in Lo Celso at the moment. Eriksen has been dreadful for ages now, but every time Lo Celso gets on the pitch stuff starts happeneing and the intensity shoots up.
 

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I genuinely have no idea what Mourinho is seeing in Eriksen and not seeing in Lo Celso at the moment. Eriksen has been dreadful for ages now, but every time Lo Celso gets on the pitch stuff starts happeneing and the intensity shoots up.


It's completely unrealistic to think that Mourinho can't see the difference between what each of the two players are bringing to the team right now, so there must be a reason.

I can see only two things that make any kind of sense.
Either Lo Celso isn't fit enough to last more than 45 minutes or so (this applies to Lamela also) or Mourinho wants Eriksen's experience of the league on the pitch while Lo Celso gets half an hour a game for a while to get used to the league.

Bearing in mind that Eriksen's experience of the league isn't doing us any favours, I'm inclined to think that maybe Lo Celso isn't quite ready to cope with the intensity of a full 90 minutes yet.
 

rossdapep

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It's completely unrealistic to think that Mourinho can't see the difference between what each of the two players are bringing to the team right now, so there must be a reason.

I can see only two things that make any kind of sense.
Either Lo Celso isn't fit enough to last more than 45 minutes or so (this applies to Lamela also) or Mourinho wants Eriksen's experience of the league on the pitch while Lo Celso gets half an hour a game for a while to get used to the league.

Bearing in mind that Eriksen's experience of the league isn't doing us any favours, I'm inclined to think that maybe Lo Celso isn't quite ready to cope with the intensity of a full 90 minutes yet.
I think you may be right. Could be tactical too.

Against Bayern and Norwich, Lo Celso wasn't particularly great, that can be put down to him getting used to his role with us.

You have to remember that Eriksen is used to working defensively, running off the ball, whereas Lo Celso may not be just yet. You can get away with taking a breather in La Liga & for PSG. In the PL it requires non-stop running and tracking
 

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I think you may be right. Could be tactical too.

Against Bayern and Norwich, Lo Celso wasn't particularly great, that can be put down to him getting used to his role with us.

You have to remember that Eriksen is used to working defensively, running off the ball, whereas Lo Celso may not be just yet. You can get away with taking a breather in La Liga & for PSG. In the PL it requires non-stop running and tracking

Yeah, that's pretty much what I meant by Lo Celso not being ready to cope with the intensity of a full PL game, but you've explained it much better than I did. Thanks!
 

Japhet

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It's completely unrealistic to think that Mourinho can't see the difference between what each of the two players are bringing to the team right now, so there must be a reason.

I can see only two things that make any kind of sense.
Either Lo Celso isn't fit enough to last more than 45 minutes or so (this applies to Lamela also) or Mourinho wants Eriksen's experience of the league on the pitch while Lo Celso gets half an hour a game for a while to get used to the league.

Bearing in mind that Eriksen's experience of the league isn't doing us any favours, I'm inclined to think that maybe Lo Celso isn't quite ready to cope with the intensity of a full 90 minutes yet.

If it's a case of thinking Lo Celso can't make 90 minutes, I'd rather see him play from the start and see how far he gets before he needs to be subbed. Bringing him on for the odd 15 minutes here and there is denying him the opportunity to get up to speed in favour of Eriksen who quite obviously has other things on his mind. Maybe Eriksen is in the shop window til the end of this window though. If that's the case I hope he gets kicked to the curb in favour of GLC if he's still here when the window closes.
 

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If it's a case of thinking Lo Celso can't make 90 minutes, I'd rather see him play from the start and see how far he gets before he needs to be subbed. Bringing him on for the odd 15 minutes here and there is denying him the opportunity to get up to speed in favour of Eriksen who quite obviously has other things on his mind. Maybe Eriksen is in the shop window til the end of this window though. If that's the case I hope he gets kicked to the curb in favour of GLC if he's still here when the window closes.

I think that, whatever the reason, Mourinho is seeing exactly what the rest of us are, and I don't think we're going to be waiting too much longer before both Lamela and Lo Celso are starters.

Shop window isn't a bad guess either, Eriksen did sit on the bench for a few games until it was time for clubs to think about their January shopping. My feeling is that Eriksen will move to Inter in the next week or so, he certainly seemed to be saying goodbye when he was subbed yesterday (from what I've seen, I wasn't there. I could be way off.)
 

carpediem991

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Maybe Eriksen is in the shop window til the end of this window though.

An Eriksen does not need to be in a shop window. If it does something then it kills his reputation bit by bit.
He plays just because of lack of options. Which is sad enough.
 

glacierSpurs

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Really shouldn't miss this chance to sign him up if he is so bent on coming to us. What a talent. If we were close to winning the title with a peak Eriksen a few seasons ago, we could just win it with Bruno in the coming seasons.
 
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