I'd take him at 40m. Everyone keeps talking about starting 11 I think this season shows there's no such thing and you need strength in depth.
Lloris. Plus sarr will be HG
Already discounting Lloris, but yes good point. Either way, we'll be stacked on NHG and will ideally want to keep the door open for another NHG signing in the summer
Lloris was named in our 25 man squad, surely him leaving and potentially Dier, solves that problem. And we only sign a midfielder if one leaves
Perisic can also be left out
Ish. Doesn't fully solve the issue.
We registered him when we sent him on loan. Same as Arse did with Saliba if im not mistakenIsh. Doesn't fully solve the issue.
We had 25.
Assume Spence and Reguilón in and out and not registered.
Lose Lloris (16+8), Perišić (15+8) and Whiteman (15+7)
Add Werner and Drăguşin (17+7) 1 space left for an HG.
If we then also shift Dier or Højbjerg or say Gil we open a space (16+7).
But we add udogie and sarr next season (18+7 = 1 too many, and no wiggle room if a great NHG deal comes up).
Point being, it makes sense to target 1 HG player now if there's a good fit available.
P.S. I don't think Sarr can be HG. Looks like he signed on 27/8/21. And turned 21 on 14/9/23, so wouldn't have had 3 years at the club before turning 21. He was just shy of 19 when he signed. But I may have the details wrong on the 3 year rule.
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Yes. Bit needs a full 3 years, even including the loan back to Metz, which he cannot fulfil. Unless the 3 years before 21 includes being 21 (so is essentially 3 yrs before turning 22). We will have been a Spurs player for 2 years, 1 month when he turned 21 recently.
This is what Google says - Featuring on the list again in 2022/23 and now this season, the Senegal international will be classed as homegrown next term as he will have been registered as a Tottenham player for a period of three seasons before his 21st birthday or the end of the season in which he turns 21.
Agree, seems like we really have a very clear plan in place for once (but doesn’t surprise me as we have Ange who is clear and realistic in what he wants and we have a strong recruiting set-up), in past windows we’d be scraping to sign some journeyman cheap CB on the last day of the window and a ‘we tried’ attempt for someone we were never seriously interested in, this time round we’ve already agreed a fee for a much needed quality attacking option, are very close to hopefully agreeing for a top CB priority and we seem to have a plan for CM whereby if PEH likely leaves we pull the trigger on Gallagher who on top of Werner and hopefully Dragusin would be a window beyond my wildest dreams when it comes to Spurs and as I said in the ‘race for …” thread, sign a CB, ST/WF and a CM in Jan and we will be giving ourselves a very strong chance of top 4 and an outside chance of a title race.
Just needs to be registered as a member of our squad. We could register him theoretically and send him out for his entire 16-21yrs and bring him back home grown if I'm not mistaken
Completely agree, I think Gallagher is a really quality player, he showed it at Palace and he’s suit Ange's style of football down to the ground.
Premier League fans completely overrate Prem experience lol
