Kim Min-Jae

dtxspurs · Jul 30, 2020

This is a complete toss up if he’ll be good. Genuinely have no idea. Is there any precedent for a player coming from China to a bigger league?

THFCSPURS19 · Jul 30, 2020

dtxspurs said:
This is a complete toss up if he’ll be good. Genuinely have no idea. Is there any precedent for a player coming from China to a bigger league?

Wu Lei signed for Espanyol last year after spending his whole career in China.

Espanyol were relegated.

Deleted member 27995 · Jul 30, 2020

So which of our starting defenders is he going to displace .... ?

Joshua · Jul 30, 2020

Understand the risk involved in signing someone from such a weak league but I have kind of missed signings like this. Where we’ve employed actual scouting. Sure there’d have been plenty of budget centre backs from stronger leagues if it was a case of just getting a body in as cover. Obviously our scouts must have seen something in him which Jose has then agreed with if we’re pushing ahead with trying to sign him.

coy-spurs1882 · Jul 30, 2020

dtxspurs said:
This is a complete toss up if he’ll be good. Genuinely have no idea. Is there any precedent for a player coming from China to a bigger league?

sun jihai

dtxspurs · Jul 30, 2020

coy-spurs1882 said:
sun jihai

Ah of course, how could I forget.

freeeki · Jul 30, 2020

Vinny_Sammways_left_peg said:
So which of our starting defenders is he going to displace .... ?

Any one of them, the point is having quality competition for places, surely. The onus is on him to work his way in to the starting line up.

We also need to look at how quickly Jan deteriorated (for want of a better word) and recognise that Toby is potentially only a year or two behind that, so some early contingency planning seems to make good sense.

DJS · Jul 30, 2020

Goobers said:
Not so sure about the risk. For a left sided centre back ( not left footed admittedly) which he seems to be the money does not seem excessive. In terms of settling in we can afford to give him EL game time and allow him to adapt culturally to the game in England. Good age for development, good commercial interest from the Asian market. Physically impressive. I’m
Not sure this is a risky signing to be honest. This seems very sensible considering what for example Utd paid for a mediocre left sided centre back last summer ....

He plays left side?

Hadn’t spotted that in thread, first thing I did was look him up on tranfermarkt that said he was right-footed, although King was also right footed and preferred left side and a lot of teams don’t have the luxury of a left-footed centre back.

We jut got spoilt having top left-footed centre back in Super-Jan for such a long top time.

Joshua · Jul 30, 2020

Vinny_Sammways_left_peg said:
So which of our starting defenders is he going to displace .... ?

He doesn’t have to replace anyone. Keep in mind what Jose is saying. We need a squad full of talent like our competitors have. We need to stop thinking of our first XI as being untouchables. When we sign someone they don’t have to immediately bench someone or be resigned to the bench themselves. Multiple good options in every position ready to play when needed is what we’re going for.

Deleted member 27995 · Jul 30, 2020

freeeki said:
Any one of them, the point is having quality competition for places, surely. The onus is on him to work his way in to the starting line up.

We also need to look at how quickly Jan deteriorated (for want of a better word) and recognise that Toby is potentially only a year or two behind that, so some early contingency planning seems to make good sense.

Thing is people are already questioning his quality ...

So many experts on here.

DJS · Jul 30, 2020

coy-spurs1882 said:
sun jihai

He was Palace wasn’t he?

And didn’t they have a second Chinese player at that time?

Deleted member 27995 · Jul 30, 2020

Joshua said:
He doesn’t have to replace anyone. Keep in mind what Jose is saying. We need a squad full of talent like our competitors have. We need to stop thinking of our first XI as being untouchables. When we sign someone they don’t have to immediately bench someone or be resigned to the bench themselves. Multiple good options in every position ready to play when needed is what we’re going for.

Excellent post and I agree.

freeeki · Jul 30, 2020

Vinny_Sammways_left_peg said:
Thing is people are already questioning his quality ...

So many experts on here.

Yeah but not one of the fuckers has seen him play so who cares

wrd · Jul 30, 2020

I think he looks exciting, he looks like he has the physical attributes which suit being a CB in the prem; We won't know if it will transfer over to this league until he plays in the league. I'd be sad if it meant the end of Foyth though, perfect world would be if we loan Foyth out or at least do an Ake style buy back deal like Chelsea did and we got Kim in.

Deleted member 27995 · Jul 30, 2020

freeeki said:
Yeah but not one of the fuckers has seen him play so who cares

You're right.

Anyway, I'm off to get my brand new dogs dinner home shirt with Min-Jae on the back.

razzmaster · Jul 30, 2020

dtxspurs said:
This is a complete toss up if he’ll be good. Genuinely have no idea. Is there any precedent for a player coming from China to a bigger league?

Not China but Van Dijk left Celtic to come to England and did well.

He had to adjust to a big step up in quality, a different culture, different climate, different food and drink and a whole new language.

coy-spurs1882 · Jul 30, 2020

DJS said:
He was Palace wasn’t he?

And didn’t they have a second Chinese player at that time?

yes, palace bought fan zhiyi and loaned sun

TEESSIDE1 · Jul 30, 2020

He reminds me of Christopher Samba... a massive brick shit house of a player. Under Poch he would have been a car crash as we tended to defend on the half way line. Whereas under Jose we defend from deep which suits having a hulk at centre back. He’s not going to be out muscled and teams will struggle to get in behind him as our centre backs won’t be playing Russian roulette with the opposition attackers. Unlike Samba, Kim has a decent turn of pace too. Offensively - great player to aim for from corners and free kicks. He scored a very good header from a Son corner for S Korea so he’s definitely an aerial threat to.

doctor stefan Freud · Jul 30, 2020

THFCSPURS19 said:
Wu Lei signed for Espanyol last year after spending his whole career in China.

Espanyol were relegated.

Racist

DJS · Jul 30, 2020

coy-spurs1882 said:
yes, palace bought fan zhiyi and loaned sun

Ah yes, Fan Zhiyi was a centre back wasn’t he and went on to be a regular for them?

Sun I think was a right back and also went on to make more appearances for them?

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