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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 14th June 2013

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IGSpur

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Carroll, Bentaleb, Luongo etc.

A Cm group of those three plus Sandro, Dembele, Paulinho would be perfectly adequate.


Same thinking as you although I think may be a bit too early for Bentaleb.

If we assume 433. Midfield 3 options of Sandro, Dembele, Carroll, Holtby, Sigurdsson, Paulinho with Luongo backup has plenty of depth. Carroll has the potential to be a very good lock pick and with those players around him next season is a great opportunity to give him his chances. I won't profess to knowing too much Paulinho bar the videos and reports, but it seems all of them will have high workrate and they can all pick a pass. Even Luongo.

We won't give Carroll the chance to be our creative player. AVB doesn't seem to trust youngsters

Unfair on AVB. He's had 4 seasons with 4 different clubs, and so it's not much of a timescale to develop players. Won't touch on Academia as know nothing about it. But at Porto when he played his stars and experience he went unbeaten and won a treble.

Chelsea he played youngsters instead of experience and got sacked.

Here he is under massive pressure straight away for various reason, and had a bad experience at Chelsea, think there's enough reasons for him not to experiment with youngsters. Only disappointment was Carroll not getting more game time instead of Thud. Next season will be a better time to judge whether he trusts youngsters.
 

whitelanefever

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Bit harsh. We brought in around 6 players last window didnt we? So to bring in 3 isn't out of the ordinary.

Just by getting rid of Parker, Huddlestone and Livermore we could afford Paulinho 15m.

Selling Naughton and or BAE will get us potentially 10m, plus an extra 5m then their wages could cover Bernard.

Then any other sales we make Defoe? Pay max another 15mil and plenty of wages leftover from Bentley, Gallas and other realease and we have Damiao.

Net spend of 20mil. Granted I cant remember the last time we made a net spend of that much, but with ITK saying there's a warchest (Id expect that to mean a bit more than 20mil) then I dont think it's outrageous that we could acquire these players. Only problem would be Levy messing about thinking he can get them for cheaper.

WRT to no squad depth the players I mentioned being sold or released they were either not being used much and/or we have capable youngsters to step up and replace i.e. Carroll, Rose and Smith
But there's added cost's to consider as well Agents fee, signing on fee's & then there's the players been sold have to be paid out for remainder of contract lenght if they hav'nt asked for transfer, so compensation has to b agreed, there's also other hidden extras like accomodation, relocation sums, legal & banking fees.
But with xtra tv revunue coming in I do agree we could easily sign 3 players
 

Tspurs

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Well, tomorrow we'll see the bargain of this year giving his all against Brazil, and I hope Levy does something to get him.....Keisuke Honda!
 

voxy28

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if we get Honda... the commercial impact will be huge.:)

His passing range is just what we required... from right midfield to left wing. You can imagine Honda + Bernard = Goals!!!
 

lifeof...

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I actually think his creativity suffered as he was trying too hard

He has tons of ability. You watch him flourish after that first goal

I think this is only part of the truth, his teams mates were not on the same wave length, He is all about, keep moving, fluidity, and move the ball about quickly...to often, the players around him lacked mobility, or the speed of thought to be ready to receive the ball and use it. At times you could see to many of them standing looking at him, with a blank expression. Hopefully this will not be the case this coming season
 
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