The Spurs Transfer Wishlist & Scouting Thread

[dtxspurs]

Amadou Haidara assisting Timo Werner today:

https://streamja.com/O04O

 

[andy00900]

Amadou Haidara assisting Timo Werner today:

https://streamja.com/O04O

sign them both up, #NewChapter

 

[ToDarrenIsToDo]

Players I'm happy to move on or possibly will move on:

Vorm - free
Tripper - £30m
Alderweireld - £25m
Rose - £25m
Wanyama - £5m
Lamela - £15m
Eriksen - £60m
Nkoudou - £5m
Janssen - £5m
Llorente - free

= £170m

Players I'd bring in to replace them with:

Pope - £10m
Wan-Bissaka - £40m
Andersen - £25m
Grimaldo - £25m
Diawara - £20m
Grealish - £30m
Brandt £20m
Havertz - £50m

= £220m

£50m overall spent


It seems a lot but we could integrate all of these slowly by still playing a team at the start of the season that looks like:

Lloris
Aurier
Vertonghen
Sanchez
Davies
Dier
Winks
Dele
Lucas
Son
Kane

If we could get the players I've highlighted out and in I wouldn't even bother with a backup to Kane knowing that both Son & Lucas could if need be operate up top.

Lloris, Gazzaniga, Pope
Wan-Bissaka, Aurier, Walker-Peters, Grimaldo, Davies
Vertoghen, Andersen, Sanchez, Foyth
Dier, Diawara, Skipp
Winks, Sissoko
Grealish, Brandt, Havertz, Dele
Son, Lucas, Edwards
Kane

24 man squad, 10 HG 5 of which are club trained, genuine competition in every single position apart from the one we don't need any, up top. If Kane gets injured use Son or Lucas as alternatives knowing we have a choice of better quality AMs challenging than we currently have.

This is my wish list and apart from the volume of ins and outs, I honestly don't think it's unrealistic for a club like ours to be able to attract any of the players I've highlighted coming in. Move the firing players on and bring in better quality to give the current first XI a rocket and genuine competition for places. 4 of 5 of those and I'd be delighted

 

[LeParisien]

But last summer I was really happy with our canny business in the transfer market and argued to anyone who would listen that Poch very clearly intended the idea of 'being brave' to be all about not spending any money and having the bravery to compete our rivals as they invested to improve their squads whilst we were allowing ours to be weakened? Surely I can't have been wrong?!

You had a good education but you squander it with cheap rhetoric.

 

[scat1620]

You had a good education but you squander it with cheap rhetoric.

Yeah, to be fair, I am [genuinely] not very happy with that post. I think the underlying point (i.e. of course Poch wouldn't have been happy with our failure to do business in last summer's transfer market) stands, but I've couched it all in route-one sarcasm that just isn't very inventive or funny. It's quite literally the kind of post that @BringBack_leGin would have typed if there was a pro-Levy point to be made, and I'm not proud of that. Must be funnier.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Sessegnon’s value must have dropped now. Think we’ll be in for a good shout if we seriously want him

 

[Monkey boy]

I'm really happy he's come out and said this. Clear as day and his comments can't be interpreted any other way like the 'brave' comments from last year. Now's the time, if we don't start spending big and getting in our top choices we never will under Levy and co........and we will have wasted our chance with the best coach we've had in years.

We are likely going to need 6 new faces (RB, LB, CB, CMx2, AM/ATT)

Let’s be honest, is brave comments from last year really shouldn’t have been taken any other way. It’s only the Levy apologists that somehow spun it to mean that Poch was happy to buy nobody.

 

[Shadydan]

Let’s be honest, is brave comments from last year really shouldn’t have been taken any other way. It’s only the Levy apologists that somehow spun it to mean that Poch was happy to buy nobody.

I mean the ITK's have all confirmed that Poch turned numerous players down that Levy put forward so there's that.

Probably players like Janssen, Nkoudou, Njie mind you...

 

[daryl hannah]

Ryan Fraser? Links today.

Decent player, looks like he's coming up to his peak.

 

[hellava_tough]

Toby seems to be making the right noises about staying.

Eriksen I think is probably leaving, and in honesty, I’m not that bothered. His season has been mediocre at best, and while I think he’s a great player to have around the club, if we can get £75M+ for him then we should take it.

Eriksen isn’t irreplaceable. Nor is Toby. Nor, in fairness, is anyone except Harry Kane.

May I remind you that we lost Luka Modric, Dimitar Berbatov and Gareth Bale - all arguably more important players than Eriksen - and lived to tell the tale. If he wants out then cash in and get the money spent wisely and quickly.

Good post

Btw, have you got a link to the 'Toby making noises about staying'?

Great news if true

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Sessegnon’s value must have dropped now. Think we’ll be in for a good shout if we seriously want him

JJ has already confirmed that he has release clause that is well below the reported £50m. Only issue is the chairman doesn’t like us so we have to find away around it. Player is desperate to join apparently.

 

[hellava_tough]

JJ has already confirmed that he has release clause that is well below the reported £50m. Only issue is the chairman doesn’t like us so we have to find away around it. Player is desperate to join apparently.

If he's got a release clause, then it's nothing to do with the Fulham chairman, surely?

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

If he's got a release clause, then it's nothing to do with the Fulham chairman, surely?

AFAIK we could meet the release clause but that doesn't stop the chairman waiting for another club to meet the clause too and then obviously selling to the other club.

However I think the final decision after the clause is met by any club, will be down to Sess, if he really wants to join us and we meet the clause there is nothing the chairman can do except for drag it out as I mentioned above.

 

[hellava_tough]

With player sales probably being around £100m (Toby £25m, Eriksen £50m, Wanyama £5m, Janssen £5m, Aurier £15m) I reckon if the club give us £50m on top of that, with shrewd investments it'll be a good return.

I honestly can't see the club going nuts and giving us more than £150m to spend, even if £100m of that is made up of money due to player sales

You're almost certainly right, w.hich is problematic consider that we probably need to bring in 5 x £50m rated players to freshen the squad up (CB, RB, LB, CM, AM)

However, we could get creative. If Toby signs a new deal we wouldn't need a CB for a season or two. And perhaps we could pick up a free transfer for another position? Some have mentioned Herrera at CM on a free; who knows?

Spend £15m to £20m on a young 'up and coming' player (e.g. Maddison last season) and suddenly you're looking at 2 players for £40m to £50m a pop, which would be doable.

It's going to be an interesting one this summer; either we finally slap down some serious moolah, or we play it clever to get our signings.

 

[hellava_tough]

AFAIK we could meet the release clause but that doesn't stop the chairman waiting for another club to meet the clause too and then obviously selling to the other club.

However I think the final decision after the clause is met by any club, will be down to Sess, if he really wants to join us and we meet the clause there is nothing the chairman can do except for drag it out as I mentioned above.

I suppose it ultimately depends what's written in the contract.

But I always thought that the 'release clause' allowed a player to speak to another club and the parent club couldn't stop the sale. Otherwise, what's the point of a player putting a release clause in their contract?

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

I suppose it ultimately depends what's written in the contract.

But I always thought that the 'release clause' allowed a player to speak to another club and the parent club couldn't stop the sale. Otherwise, what's the point of a player putting a release clause in their contract?

I think you're right. I too always thought (believed) that it's just a matter of meeting the fee to activate the clause & it's all down to the player to decide.

It's how we got Dembele for £15m.

 

[Spurrific]

Ryan Fraser? Links today.

Decent player, looks like he's coming up to his peak.

Not glamorous but I think he’d be an astute signing tbf

 

[cider spurs]

Stump up shorty.

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

I suppose it ultimately depends what's written in the contract.

But I always thought that the 'release clause' allowed a player to speak to another club and the parent club couldn't stop the sale. Otherwise, what's the point of a player putting a release clause in their contract?

Legally speaking your are correct but I reckon their chairman will find any way possible to delay the deal if necessary. I know it sounds petty but that's probably the worst he can do. He cannot outright stop the deal going through which is a bonus for us.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Legally speaking your are correct but I reckon their chairman will find any way possible to delay the deal if necessary. I know it sounds petty but that's probably the worst he can do. He cannot outright stop the deal going through which is a bonus for us.