Think a fairer version of the pitch is "Come and sign for us and we will give you a much better chance of having a professional career, with us, one of our affiliate clubs or with another club." vs. "Stay with Spurs and hope that you're good enough/lucky enough to break through."
He's going to face the same or tougher competition in City's academy. It'll likely come down to money and/or guaranteed first team involvement from us and City. Fingers crossed that we can convince him to stay. He looks fantastic.
Pretty clear now that our transfer policy is to sign at least one of these young up-and-coming prospects per window and loan them back to continue their growth (see Sarr, Udogie and now Bergvall). It's such smart squad building and creates a constant churn of new players coming into the senior...
That's just factually inaccurate. Bale broke out in 2011-12 when he was 22 (10 G, 14 A). He was a timid scrawny 16 year old who Harry almost sold. Remember the curse that he carried for so long? Remember how it suddenly clicked for him?
Johnson had a bad game today. He's been frustrating in...
I can easily see a young Bale in Johnson. He's got speed for days. Just put on some good muscle and gain confidence. I can see him chipping the ball past defenders and running onto it ala Bale v Maicon. Give him time.
I picked up Kudus in FPL. I think he's an unbelievable talent, bummed we didn't buy him as I think he would be perfect for one of the WF positions in Ange's system.
Anyone able to pick them all out? I think I saw Santiago shooting and setting up Donley. Was it Dorrington with the attempted bicycle kick? Soonsup-Bell? Don't know them all well enough to know.
I know this isn't the thread for it, but I'm really sad we didn't bring Mohammed Kudus in. I had a feeling he was going to be special and it seems like he's coming good on the talent for West Ham. I know there were rumours we were in for him and that he was demanding a Champions League release...
Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere or if this is the wrong thread (couldn't think of another one that might apply), but I thought this quote from today's Guardian article was interesting:
Of our summer signings (Vicario, Johnson, Van de Ven, Maddison, Veliz, Phillips and Solomon), the...
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