Samu Castillejo

[Sweech]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...-alderweireld-open-tottenham-transfer-5393068

* TOTTENHAM are battling it out with Atetico Madrid for Malaga’s Spanish under-21 winger Samu Castillejo, writes John Cross.

Malaga’s financial problems mean they may have to sell for around £8m and both clubs have made enquiries.

This could be an Adrian Esparraga recommendation. We've reportedly hired Adrian as a scout and his last job was with Malaga.

 

[coxson]

Interesting. We seem to be linked with more spanish players lately. Camacho, Camarasa and now this guy.

 

[Karlinho]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footb...-alderweireld-open-tottenham-transfer-5393068



This could be an Adrian Esparraga recommendation. We've reportedly hired Adrian as a scout and his last job was with Malaga.

We didn't hire this bloke to sit on his arse in front of the tv in Spain. I want to see Germans. I want to see Portuguese. Scandis, Dutch, French!


Just kidding. Lol

 

[jbstarr14]

Interesting. We seem to be linked with more spanish players lately. Camacho, Camarasa and now this guy.

"Thpurth..."

 

[Ossie85]

Good player, not great. But he's young, and the price quoted is not high
Left footed attacking mid that can play both wings. Extremely skinny though

 

[ButchCassidy]

Good player, not great. But he's young, and the price quoted is not high
Left footed attacking mid that can play both wings. Extremely skinny though

"Good player, not great" is exactly how I would describe Chadli, Townsend, and possibly Lamela. Is he better than them? Do we really need another "good" winger?

 

[PrettyColors]

"Good player, not great" is exactly how I would describe Chadli, Townsend, and possibly Lamela. Is he better than them? Do we really need another "good" winger?

Agree completely. Obviously every team needs world class players, but for incoming transfers we really must set our sights higher. There's no point in buying players who are slight upgrades IMO. Well, there's a point, but our money would be much better spent on impactful players who are marked improvements.

 

[coxson]

Well, he just turned 20 and made his debut for Malaga's first back in August 2014. And yesterday made his debut for Spain U21, so he still got time to become a great player.

 

[kremlyn]

Di Maria was too skinny, as was Crouch.

 

[Japhet]

Trouble with 'skinny' players is that by the time they have bulked up enough for the Premier League they generally become slow players. Could do with someone who already has the physical attributes IMO to make it much less of a gamble.

 

[ryantegan]

Trouble with 'skinny' players is that by the time they have bulked up enough for the Premier League they generally become slow players. Could do with someone who already has the physical attributes IMO to make it much less of a gamble.

Like Bale

 

[Japhet]

Like Bale

Smart arse!

 

[mill]

"Good player, not great" is exactly how I would describe Chadli, Townsend, and possibly Lamela. Is he better than them? Do we really need another "good" winger?

Bit of a turnaround of your attitude isn't it? You accused me of only thinking short term when I suggested the similar about Wimmer the other day.

It's completely contradictory of your posts the other day

 

[mill]

"Good player, not great" is exactly how I would describe Chadli, Townsend, and possibly Lamela. Is he better than them? Do we really need another "good" winger?

We only have 3 wide players at our club and some would be happy to be shot of all of them ASAP. I personally don't believe we should sign squad players atm (apart from strikers) but having a squad the manager trusts is extremely important, we've only 3 wide players and only 1 is comfortable on the left. It's not good enough.

Additionally when we buy a 20 y.o. player we're buying a young talent to be brought though over a couple of seasons. We can't compete for world class players. That is a terribly short-sighted view to take. Ahem