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This smacks of weeks of gamesmanship, reports of “pulling out of the deal” then it being back on and overall futzing around until October. Meanwhile, our record signing sits on the bench during a critical period while we run our other central midfielders into 3 games a week. Such is the manner of big money transfer sagas I suppose but I think JJ’s words that “this will bang on all pre season” are going to come true.
 
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rio bryan said:
I think that is now in dispute !
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RichieS said:
He is, but he's an "active" DM like Wanyama rather than a "disciplined" one like Dier - he goes looking for the ball rather than staying put covering space. It may be that @rio bryan wants us to have a sitting DM as well.
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It's more the case, that people wanted a replacement for Winks i.e the deepest midfielder, but it looks like Hojberg is not that player.
 
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Karol said:
Thank you

I believe rio bryan will be disappointed when the window closes and we haven't signed another DM
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Hojbjerg is not a DM thus not a direct replacement for Winks which a lot of people were hoping for and what we needed and thats not being detrimental to Hojbjerg.
 
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SpursTillIDie1882 said:
Our gap would be if we lost Ndombele, a gap in terms of creative attacking midfield player, we lose him then really only Gio as a player than can really do it and unlock defences. We've already lost Eriksen, and losing Ndomebele leaves us far too light in the midfield in terms of quality creative, attacking, unlocking defences type of player.
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Agree with this. We need another creative midfielder as GLC will not play every game which means we will be dependant on Winks and Sissoko and we know how that plays out. RB, CM and ST in that order is what we need still from this transfer window.
 
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rio bryan said:
Hojbjerg is not a DM thus not a direct replacement for Winks which a lot of people were hoping for and what we needed and thats not being detrimental to Hojbjerg.
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Based on one game against Ipswich as opposed to his whole career beforehand and Guardiola comparing him to Busquets at Bayern? Ipswich were abysmal and nobody really needed to defend so Mourinho allowed him to hunt the ball.
 
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Rosco1984 said:
Based on one game against Ipswich as opposed to his whole career beforehand and Guardiola comparing him to Busquets at Bayern? Ipswich were abysmal and nobody really needed to defend so Mourinho allowed him to hunt the ball.
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I don't think any of us know how Hojbjerg will be deployed, especially after one pre season game against a useless Ipswich side. If anything, I'd say I'm glad to see Mourinho experimenting in such a low profile match with Hojbjerg roaming, Winks sitting deeper and Gedson at RB. Doesn't mean for one second that is the masterplan.
 
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If we could get PSG involved that would be ideal. They seem to be quite quick to close deals and should offer close to what we want. He is a home grown player for them and they know his talents well. Hopefully then we could get a more direct replacement rather than a CB, as good as Skriniar is.

Sabitzer (16G/10A last season) is a good example that we have been linked with. We could potentially get him and have some left over to add to the striker budget.

Milinkovic-Savic is the dream replacement but highly unlikley.

Alternatively we could look for a top quality DM like Ndidi or Zakaria if we get circa £50m to work with.

Edit: I'd love Ndombele to come good, but until we get any indication that he wants to turn his Spurs career around I'm finding it very hard to pine for him to stay.
 
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Rosco1984 said:
Based on one game against Ipswich as opposed to his whole career beforehand and Guardiola comparing him to Busquets at Bayern? Ipswich were abysmal and nobody really needed to defend so Mourinho allowed him to hunt the ball.
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He wasn't a Def Mid playing in the Winks role for Soton, have a look at the heatmap in the games he played for them, nobody needed to defend ??? thats what Winks was doing, did you not watch the game ?
 
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rio bryan said:
He wasn't a Def Mid playing in the Winks role for Soton, have a look at the heatmap in the games he played for them, nobody needed to defend ??? thats what Winks was doing, did you not watch the game ?
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Agree. Hojbjerg is more like a Scott Parker in that he is perpetual motion and has an intuition where the ball is going enabling him to get there at the same time and tenaciously disrupt play. He will not patrol a 10m square box in front of the CBs like Winks will probably continue to do.
 
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Cut our losses and sell him? Did he join on the pretense that we were CL finalists and supposedly one of the top European clubs? He looks disinterested whenever I’ve seen him. I really don’t see Mourinho being successful with him or with Spurs in general, I’d love to be wrong but we look stale, he looks out of his depth. Sorry to go off on a Mourinho tangent but it boils back to him with most players tbf as his way of playing looks too rigid and not to the strength of our team.
 
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