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Tottenham_God

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No, we don't want squad fillers, we need players who will improve the team or at least at the same level. Why bring in players that don't improve our level, that will take up bench space ahead of promoting our youth
So you differentiate between a squad "filler" and "player". Jesus and Sterling are squad players at city for example and that's exactly what we want, which I think we agree on, competent players who could all be worthy of a spot in the starting 11, depending on form.
 

daryl hannah

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Sell on value only matters if a player flops - like ndombele/lo celso. Amortisation writes off their value against tax over the contract, right. Anyway, the last player we sold for any decent money was Walker. Rose went for free, Verts, Toby, Dembele, Wanyama, … even Eriksen was only £18m. We haven’t maximised players’ sell on values for ages.
 

arunspurs

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Carrasco would be a decent buy, if we want to replace or upgrade on Lucas or Bergwijn. Carrasco is a very good utility player - who can play Left wing, right wing or wingbacks on either side.
He is class as well - technically strong player. Also, like Kulusevski has good brains and intelligence on ball.
IMO, he ticks all the box to be a Conte player.

Carrasco at 28, can give us solid 3-4 years and be integral squad member. Yes for me. But dont think he will be cheap though. 2 years left on contract - I doubt Atleti would let him leave for less than 30m.
 

YB123

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Carrasco would be a decent buy, if we want to replace or upgrade on Lucas or Bergwijn. Carrasco is a very good utility player - who can play Left wing, right wing or wingbacks on either side.
He is class as well - technically strong player. Also, like Kulusevski has good brains and intelligence on ball.
IMO, he ticks all the box to be a Conte player.

Carrasco at 28, can give us solid 3-4 years and be integral squad member. Yes for me. But dont think he will be cheap though. 2 years left on contract - I doubt Atleti would let him leave for less than 30m.

If they want Emerson as is lead to be believed, a deal could be brokered.
 

barry

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Carrasco would be a decent buy, if we want to replace or upgrade on Lucas or Bergwijn. Carrasco is a very good utility player - who can play Left wing, right wing or wingbacks on either side.
He is class as well - technically strong player. Also, like Kulusevski has good brains and intelligence on ball.
IMO, he ticks all the box to be a Conte player.

Carrasco at 28, can give us solid 3-4 years and be integral squad member. Yes for me. But dont think he will be cheap though. 2 years left on contract - I doubt Atleti would let him leave for less than 30m.
Belgians normally do really well with us. The last dud was Blondel and he was a youth punt.
 

snakehipsspurs

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Watched his youtube vid. From my understanding he doesn't "think" Paratici wants him, or maybe Dybala wouldn't want to sign for Paratici, but he's not ruling it out completely. At this moment he doubts he'll come.
Shock horror aggregators peddling half truths again. Absolutely boils my piss.

Doesn’t sound like he actually knows then and is speculating. As are we all.
 

sly1

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Sell on value only matters if a player flops - like ndombele/lo celso. Amortisation writes off their value against tax over the contract, right. Anyway, the last player we sold for any decent money was Walker. Rose went for free, Verts, Toby, Dembele, Wanyama, … even Eriksen was only £18m. We haven’t maximised players’ sell on values for ages.

This is one of the biggest "myths" that I see mentioned again and again on this site. Players values are amortised as part of the accounting procedures at football clubs. But that doesn't really tell you anything very useful about the true worth of the players or whether a club would expect sell-on value.

Son's value in our accounting books is probably very low because it has been amortised over his various contracts. That doesn't mean that we would sell him for £3m this summer, or that it "wouldn't matter" if we sold him for free. Receiving £50m for a player means that you have £50m more than you would have otherwise, regardless of how the assets are represented in accounting terms. To be honest, it would probably be better if football fans (myself included) had never heard of the term "amortization", because it doesn't tell us anything useful about what we care about.

Don't get me started on "the 60m is spread over 6 years, so we only need to pay 10m this summer", or "we need to pay the money this summer to make the loan permanent", or ""club X still owes us £5m for player Y, so they might sell us player Z for cheap". None of these transfers are paid out of a current account or a "war chest", and people get very confused thinking about it like that. It would be a lot more accurate to imagine clubs buying players as if they were taking out a mortgage to buy a house. Regardless of how payments are structured between buying and selling clubs, all premier league clubs have access to finance/loans, and any transfer can be paid back in installments over a long period of time, regardless of whether the selling club wants the cash up front.
 
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Trix

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You really are De Ketelaire or bust? Half agree with you tbf though✌?

He's MY first choice but there are others also I'd prefer over Dybala. He's a quality player no question, I'm just not convinced he's the best fit for us, but it's not me building the squad and how it will all come together.
 
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