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GutBucket

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I think people are seemingly more keen for this as they just want a signing.. rather than because he’s any good.
He's definitely good, that's a fact, plus he can cover any of front 3 and even more positions. Ideally we get another left footer to compete with Kulusevski but he's a good player, and Son can't be relied on anyway.
 

JR1994

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Also a possibility their opinion just differs from yours and they quite like the idea of a player with 7 goals in 16 games this season for squad depth.
Almirons on a similar purple patch season and scored 9 goals and I’ve not seen 1 post saying we should be in for him... My point is if there wasn’t a link to him (with no other links out there) nobody on here would have even considered him before the window opened.
 

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Obviously a different quality but can see this being a Charlie Adam style agent offering around and us turning it down.
 

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It was also said about Potter's Brighton that they played great football but had nothing up front to convert it into goals. Trossard was part of that front line. I think he'd be exactly the type of player we continually get stuck with.
 

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Not the biggest fan of this idea, but I suppose if we're on a tight budget and most of the money is going to RWB, then we could do someone like Trossard who is, at the very least, cheap, PL proven and versatile.

I can just see him being another Pienaar, though. Good player who barely gets on the pitch, clogs up the squad and then leaves for a paltry fee in 2 years time aged 30.
 

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He's caused problems for a lot of the better teams. He's got great technique, can create and can go past players as well as having a very good shot on him. The only slight downside is his age, although even that could be a positive as he's now an experienced player.
If he had been playing with top strikers i think his figures would be much better.
 

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His agent is trying to move him offered out to everyone, Gives me Steven Pienaar vibes :hungover:

That's exactly who I was thinking of. A decent player who is available at a reasonable fee but one who we don't really need. Money best spent elsewhere especially with it being so tight
 

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Trossard, Richarlison, Kane, Son, Kulusevski, Gil and Lucas if we ever see him again is a good set of forward players.
 

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His agent is trying to move him offered out to everyone, Gives me Steven Pienaar vibes :hungover:
Appreciate the info as always mate but as I posted previously, he’s levels above Pienaar.

Pienaar 20 goals in 200 games for everton

Trossard 25 goals in 115 for Brighton and he’s much more of an overall threat, more creative.

Each to their own but when people are saying things like this I’d question how much they’ve properly watched Trossard closely, fwiw i think he’d be an excellent addition, versatile and would add creativity we much need :) ? also he’s an exciting player, again something we don’t have much of in our squad.
 
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djhotspur

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Appreciate the info as always mate but as I posted previously, he’s levels above Pienaar.

Pienaar 20 goals in 200 games for everton

Trossard 25 goals in 115 for Brighton and he’s much more of an overall threat, more creative.

Each to their own but when people are saying things like this I’d question how much they’ve properly watching Trossard closely, fwiw i think he’d be an excellent addition, versatile and would add creativity we much need :) ? also he’s an exciting player, again something we don’t have much of in our squad.
I think as a rotstion option if he’s cheap then fine. But my big worry is succession planning for Son. Just need to find a truly pacey threat again
 

fishhhandaricecake

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I think as a rotstion option if he’s cheap then fine. But my big worry is succession planning for Son. Just need to find a truly pacey threat again
Yep absolutely agree mate, he’s not a succession plan for Son but he’d be much needed quality depth and creativity that we need now.

We’d need an additional different future signing for Son succession planning but we are a few years off needing that just yet and if Gil keeps improving and we have better luck with injuries then a fully fit front 6 of the following would be some brilliant options:

Kane/Richarlison

Son/Trossard

Kulu/Gil

? ?
 

WiganSpur

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I think as a rotstion option if he’s cheap then fine. But my big worry is succession planning for Son. Just need to find a truly pacey threat again
Yeah almost as a Kane replacement too. I think I would push Richarlison up as a 9 and sign a top class left winger - with a competent back up as a 9 until Scarlett is ready.
 

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Yeah almost as a Kane replacement too. I think I would push Richarlison up as a 9 and sign a top class left winger - with a competent back up as a 9 until Scarlett is ready.
Yeah i agree, i feel we would be better off putting money towards and elite prospect LWF then getting a stop gap, which Trossard would be really.
 

cliff jones

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I think as a rotstion option if he’s cheap then fine. But my big worry is succession planning for Son. Just need to find a truly pacey threat again
we have a a truly pacey threat already, who has been mainly starved of opportunities due to the lack of creativity in recent line-up's. The number of angled runs he made in behind in the first half v Villa only for colleagues to pass sideways or backwards showed this and his determination not to give up.

Anyway, back on topic, Trossard is no slouch, but can provide something a little different as well- which I won't repeat again here.

I've just read he's not actually out of contract till summer 24, in which case I'm a little less keen than I was!
 

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Appreciate the info as always mate but as I posted previously, he’s levels above Pienaar.

Pienaar 20 goals in 200 games for everton

Trossard 25 goals in 115 for Brighton and he’s much more of an overall threat, more creative.

Each to their own but when people are saying things like this I’d question how much they’ve properly watched Trossard closely, fwiw i think he’d be an excellent addition, versatile and would add creativity we much need :) ? also he’s an exciting player, again something we don’t have much of in our squad.
I agree with you and personally really rate Trossard.

However I do see the Pienaar analogy... yes, Trossard is levels above Pienaar, but then today's Spurs and our current ambitions are equivalent levels above Spurs when we bought Pienaar. The effect of Trossard coming to us may be the same... he's a big fish in a smaller pond, and I'm unsure if he is of a high enough quality to take our team/squad to the next level. Bissouma was Brighton's best player before we bought him and he is struggling to progress at Spurs, though in fairness it is very early days.

If we want to make the next step and be challenging for silverware I'm not sure Trossard is of the requisite level and he could be the next overpaid player that we struggle to get off our books. As Conte keeps repeating, we can't afford to make any more mistakes in the market.
 

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I think people are seemingly more keen for this as they just want a signing.. rather than because he’s any good.
No, he’s just a good player who’s shown very good form for the last 12 months and people think he’d be a smart signing given his quality, versatility and fit for our system. He’s a class little player, I’d be very happy if we signed him
 

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I agree with you and personally really rate Trossard.

However I do see the Pienaar analogy... yes, Trossard is levels above Pienaar, but then today's Spurs and our current ambitions are equivalent levels above Spurs when we bought Pienaar. The effect of Trossard coming to us may be the same... he's a big fish in a smaller pond, and I'm unsure if he is of a high enough quality to take our team/squad to the next level. Bissouma was Brighton's best player before we bought him and he is struggling to progress at Spurs, though in fairness it is very early days.

If we want to make the next step and be challenging for silverware I'm not sure Trossard is of the requisite level and he could be the next overpaid player that we struggle to get off our books. As Conte keeps repeating, we can't afford to make any more mistakes in the market.
This is it for me really, look at Arsenal, they have Martinelli, who's been excellent this season, and Smith-Row who both play LWF but are about to bring in Mudryk because they believe he could be an elite, world class, player in a few years. Now obviously one shouldn't base one's own business on others and i don't necessarily think we need to be spending £100 mil on a LWF but if we really want to challenge for the league we need to change our mentality of buying players just to be back up, rotation players. In my opinion any player we bring in should ether be ready to straight away challenge for a starting spot or be considered a special prospect who will one day. Personally i think that is the only way we will ever improve as a team and get to the point of challenging for titles.

If we already had a stacked team then maybe id feel differently but our squad is so far from being perfect, it needs serious work and i don't think now is the time to be buying squad players.

 

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Almirons on a similar purple patch season and scored 9 goals and I’ve not seen 1 post saying we should be in for him... My point is if there wasn’t a link to him (with no other links out there) nobody on here would have even considered him before the window opened.

Almiron has 18months left, Trossards 6 months left. Troussards been discussed prior to these news events in our other General football threads on players who we can go for in expiring contracts.

Overall, Trossard has had a far better career than Almiron. Trossard on back of PL form gained Belgium callups. He had been carrying a team which had Maupay & Welbeck as strikers.

Someone likened him here to Pineaar. Again, he is levels above Pineaar.

In Man City game in 2 weeks time, we have Trossard & Pineaar on bench - who would we want to come on ?
 
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