Kim Min-Jae

[DannyNZ]

Liverpool is the exception, every second french kid coming through Is an arsenal fan because of their french influence 15-20 years ago, here in Australia, there's a significantly higher amount of Liverpool fans compared to the other traditional big clubs in the 20-30 year Olds, mainly because of Harry kewell, and I see quite a few Leeds fans around, also because of the Australian influence. This is something I've only heard, and not experienced for myself, but I've heard that in New Zealand, there is a lot of new bayern fans Because of Sarpreet Singh, who played 30 or 40 minutes in the Bundesliga. As much as we want players who'll be great on the pitch, levy will look at the off pitch presence as much as the on field presence, and this guy can provide both, so it's a no brainer.

Liberato Cacace is another I'd love for similar reasons, he's easily good enough to compete for our left back spot, and he'll help our of field presence in New Zealand. He's heavily linked to Leeds and Lazio, but I hope we can pop up and steal him from them.

Singh was a talented youngster at Phoenix down in Wellington with a great eye for a pass and the ability to execute. Cacace has a fantastic engine and is a good player but think he is a long way off EPL standard and needs a stepping stone, has time on his side don’t think he’s 20 yet. Some good young talent being developed down here and cheap as chips.

 

[Who’s our next manager?]

Media this morning say that Geoffrey Kondogbia is up for sale for £25million. Top defensive midfield and can play central defence and left back.Beast of a player and left footed.

 

[mr ashley]

Let’s call this for what it is- It’s a gamble.
I’ve got no problem with it, especially if we use this approach as one strand of our recruitment approach. It’s essential we establish a link with a club or two that we can loan players to, to give game time and a suitable challenge.
Our recruitment model should look something like this:
1. Academy players- a championship season loan
2. High potential signing- PL or EL 6month/season loan
3. First team signing- immediate integration into the squad

Sadly I think I’ve just described the Chelsea model (which is incredibly effective)

 

[arunspurs]

This is a risk signing.
He is 23. At no point, he has faced competitive players in competitive league or competitive international games. Only game of note is against Brazil which is a friendly.

I hope people set their expectation low on him for now.

 

[thecook]

The risk is offset by the speculated fee of £10-£15m. If it doesn't work out then it's not like we blew £50m+ on him. A large % of such a small fee should also be recoverable, and remember as far as budgets are concerned that fee is averaged out over the length of contract

 

[Japhet]

The risk is offset by the speculated fee of £10-£15m. If it doesn't work out then it's not like we blew £50m+ on him. A large % of such a small fee should also be recoverable, and remember as far as budgets are concerned that fee is averaged out over the length of contract

We could have Malang Sarr for £0.

 

[thecook]

We could have Malang Sarr for £0.

ah but is he also a colossus!?

 

[bbunc]

We could have Malang Sarr for £0.

let’s hope our scouts know what they are doing. Sarr seems to be off to Torino, not exactly top level. I’ve seen some real questions on his actual defending and his aerial stats are pretty bad. Sounds like a Foyth almost.

that said, a smart team would find a way to land some of these young guys on a free (Sarr, Ngakia, Ferguson, etc) and have a plan to loan them out for development and create a good player or worst case transfer value.

don’t love that we are stocking the team with Jose type players, but he is the manager
and seems like Kim is bigger and more commanding in the air, while having similar ball skills.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

 

[arunspurs]

Ofcourse the selling club will deny it.

Today's original story came as exclusive in KBS, which is one of the top media house.

 

[Japhet]

But Foyth is so weak physically. He’ll struggle in a physical league as a centre back

Kim is 1/2 inch taller than Foyth. We've barely seen Foyth play but he didn't look weak to me - a bit rash sure, but although he's not a lump like Harry Maguire he didn't look like he got bullied to me.

 

[Laboog]

let’s hope our scouts know what they are doing. Sarr seems to be off to Torino, not exactly top level. I’ve seen some real questions on his actual defending and his aerial stats are pretty bad. Sounds like a Foyth almost.

that said, a smart team would find a way to land some of these young guys on a free (Sarr, Ngakia, Ferguson, etc) and have a plan to loan them out for development and create a good player or worst case transfer value.

don’t love that we are stocking the team with Jose type players, but he is the manager
and seems like Kim is bigger and more commanding in the air, while having similar ball skills.

Why do you not want Jose type players? He is the manager, as you said, but without his type of players to use his tactics with, Spurs will fail. The most successful clubs have players that work with the manager's style. I'm all for buying Jose players if Levy is going to give Jose the 3 years his contract is so he can build something.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Kim is 1/2 inch taller than Foyth. We've barely seen Foyth play but he didn't look weak to me - a bit rash sure, but although he's not a lump like Harry Maguire he didn't look like he got bullied to me.

Maybe, but Kim weighs 9kg more- so nearly a stone and a half more. That’s a much sturdier frame compared to Foyth

 

[emiley heskey]

Kim is 1/2 inch taller than Foyth. We've barely seen Foyth play but he didn't look weak to me - a bit rash sure, but although he's not a lump like Harry Maguire he didn't look like he got bullied to me.

Foyth is 1.87m and kim is 1.9m ... Almost every match foyth played for us, I thought he got bullied by opposition players

 

[WiganSpur]

In fairness, watching him he looks like he'd be just as suited to a Pochettino side than a Jose Mourinho one.

 

[emiley heskey]

In fairness, watching him he looks like he'd be just as suited to a Pochettino side than a Jose Mourinho one.

Defenders like terry, ramos, carvalho, azpi, gary cahill, walter samuel didn't suit to pochetinno style?

 

[WiganSpur]

Defenders like terry, ramos, carvalho, azpi, gary cahill, walter samuel didn't suit to pochetinno style?

Generally I think Mourinho likes power and aerial dominance, Pochettino likes more technical players. I think this guy looks up to it in both those aspects. My only concern is how he'll cope with attackers with faster minds and feet. If he's an aggressive defender he may find diving in a lot results in him conceding a lot of penalties for example.

 

[bbunc]

Why do you not want Jose type players? He is the manager, as you said, but without his type of players to use his tactics with, Spurs will fail. The most successful clubs have players that work with the manager's style. I'm all for buying Jose players if Levy is going to give Jose the 3 years his contract is so he can build something.

I’m just skeptical that he’ll be here more than another year or two, so building the total roster overhaul around his particular style may not be ideal long term. Like I said though - he is the manager, so it also doesn’t make much sense to be buying the types of players he doesn’t want. Hopefully here we end up with someone well rounded enough to play on a team that sits back or presses high.

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

I worry that this signing will be more for commercial benefit rather than guaranteed quality to add to our defence. I'm sure Jose would have a list of defenders he would prefer over this guy, but I could be wrong.

In one of my previous post on him he looks like his has all the attributes strength, tackling, the speed he has as giant is remarkable , good passer, ball playing defender.... however just from clips im more convinced of him then i am of seeing dier play for us at the back... maybe a tad facetious but i really mean it too

 

[JayB]

For me this would be a similar signing to DeAndre Yedlin. A young, highly marketable defender with all the physical attributes to succeed in his position, but untested coming in from a shit league. A better prospect actually, as Kim looks to have good technique which was never true of Yedlin.

Yedlin was by no means a success for us but we still turned a modest profit on him. Prices have gone up massively in the market since that time, but the underlying principles are the same. Even if Kim doesn’t make it, it’s a fairly low-risk signing.

With Dier, Toby, Sanchez, Tanganga and Davies able to fill in as well, we can afford to gamble a bit on a CB like this. If he manages to adjust to the massive leap in the quality of the competition it will be a brilliant signing and if not, oh well, we’ve got more than enough cover and will likely get our money back. Certainly worth the risk IMO.