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  1. BigPlimpton

    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - DEADLINE DAY 31st August 2021

    “Struggled to find anyone else . . . in the whole of world football . . . in a buyer’s market . . . with a club net spend of a ham sandwich . . . .”
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    Player Watch: Emerson Royal

    We all knew at least one deal like this would happen when we brought in Mourinho. An ill-advised 'win-now' move that would burden the club with an ill-fitting player who couldn't be moved on that would end up out-lasting Mourinho. It was quite literally the most obvious move the club would make...
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    Adama Traore

    We basically can’t loan Rodon right now. If the international travel situation doesn’t get a resolution from the Government it’s going to be a struggle to get Romero into the team with any regularity before January. Even Sanchez starts to become problematic. And that’s already assuming they take...
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    Ilaix Moriba

    I knew that the circle of time would bring us back to Puig. Destiny itself beckons.
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    Player Watch: Emerson Royal

    Could any of our soon-to-be four RBs play as a nine? Listen, Dembele was playing as a RW as late as 2014. Anything can happen. Dohertino does make those deceptive runs in behind and that’s definitely not his only visually perceptible quality.
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    Adama Traore

    Love this shout. Doku is about to torch us in the UECL. Would love to get him in before that happens…
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    Ilaix Moriba

    This is a big red flag for another reason. Wittman was the agent behind the Max Meyer debacle. Ran down his contract at Schalke making outlandish claims and demands about how Meyer should be paid like a top champions league starting caliber player, constantly planting stories linking him with...
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    Ilaix Moriba

    Didn't he run for POTUS?
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    Player Watch: Bryan Gil

    'Got rid' is the wrong way of looking at it, i think. They are also selling Kounde to Chavs, arguably the top young CB talent in the world who started all season for them last year. Not because they want to but because they have to. They are a selling club and need to fund ongoing operations and...
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    Ilaix Moriba

    This situation reminds me of Riqui Puig. How he looked like he might be the missing piece a few years ago and how he could be Pochettino's dream to coach. But then he used us to leverage Barca into a better offer and more concrete promises of first team promotion. Now Puig's career is...
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    Player Watch: Bryan Gil

    DId we accidentally find our new number ten? Man he looked surprisingly good centrally finding those pockets of space Eriksen used to get in. Wand of a left foot too. Just wish he could hit FKs and corners...
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    Managing Director Football: Fabio Paratici

    Without getting too far into this, Hojbjerg for me is not elite playing as a 6 and I’ve got a lot of concerns with the notion floating around in these parts that 4-3-3 means you can just play whoever in whichever midfield spot because there are three of them. If that was true (it isn’t) and...
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    Matt Doherty @ Atletico Madrid

    That seems a bit harsh, but I'll admit the Pacos performance of Doherty and Winks, a game both should have dominated, particularly Doherty with no real threat on the right and plenty of possession, was one of the worst single game performances relative to expectations by any one Spurs player...
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    Managing Director Football: Fabio Paratici

    I understand what you're going for in that Gil has more upside and potential as a wonderkid than Vinicius ever had. Replacing Lamela with Gil was a good strategic move, regardless of whether Gil pans out. It was Coco's time to go and we got probably the best deal we could get. Getting Romero in...
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    Weston McKennie

    I really like McKennie at that price. It’s all relative. The xG addition alone from having him on set pieces and corners, particularly against mid table and lower league teams, is worth 25-30 million. That said, if this is the result of an N’Dombele swap, Kessie is a much better fit for what...
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    Cristiano Ronaldo

    They have to shift him or they’d risk not being able to pay Aaron Ramsey’s wages.
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    Lautaro Martinez

    Seems a little extreme of a take to me. Especially when we've been reduced to salivating over Weghorst.
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    Lautaro Martinez

    I don't want this to flame out but if we're going to splurge 80 million on a question mark from the bottom of serie A or ligue 1 who maybe isn't a complete number nine but has some nine-like qualities, why wouldn't be going for Zaha again? Prime? EPL Proven? Homegrown? Would be desperate to...
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    Dušan Vlahović

    We are so obviously winding up with Marcus Thuram. And we'll pay too much for him. And he will immediately become dead weight. The sad part is if we had bought a proper striker with potential any of the last three seasons we could have copied the Liverpool playbook when they sold Coutinho and...
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    Houssem Aouar

    Surely Tanguy has to be going back to Lyon for this one? I just can't understand how this transfer takes place when we're already struggling to find a proper fit for GLC, we already have Winks and Sissoko on the bench and N'Dombele in street clothes without enough squad space for European...
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