Troy Deeney

[DiVaio]

Consider this for a minute.

We sign someone like Zaha/Wilson/Sarr who are fairly young and would expect wages of £100k+ and they do fairly well for us, certainly well enough to justify the outlay and enough to stay beyond one season.

Troy Parrott absolutely smashes it at Millwall, scores 15+ goals and looks ready for the PL. However, he also sees that if he returns to spurs he now has the task of competing with Kane and Zaha/Wilson/Sarr for first team football. He then sees his future elsewhere.

OR. We sign Deeney for a season then welcome Parrott back as Kane’s established understudy and wish Deeney well for the future.

If it takes having someone like Deeney for one season to allow Parrott to develop as a footballer, it’s absolutely worth it.

Sarr isn't a striker and one of Wilson/Zaha can play 2 seasons when Parrott get minutes elsewhere and still be sold with profit

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

More realistically, if Parrott does make the grade, it will be in 3 or 4 years time. He's only 18.

I think you’re underestimating Parrott’s ability. If he was 3 or 4 years off, he wouldn’t be joining a promotion chasing team. All the talk is that he’ll be their first choice too.

Look at what Mason Greenwood is doing at United. Whilst they’re two different players, it’s just so clear how talented they are. I’d be shocked if Parrott doesn’t score 10+ goals this season.

 

[SargeantMeatCurtains]

Sarr isn't a striker and one of Wilson/Zaha can play 2 seasons when Parrott get minutes elsewhere and still be sold with profit

I know Sarr isn’t a striker, I was more using names that seem to come up on SC a lot.

Personally if I’m Troy Parrott and I score shit loads in the championship, I’d be expecting to go back to Spurs and challenge for a place.

I can only imagine how difficult we would find it to sell Zaha and Wilson, who would both be pushing 30 and on high wages.

 

[joey55]

I think you’re underestimating Parrott’s ability. If he was 3 or 4 years off, he wouldn’t be joining a promotion chasing team. All the talk is that he’ll be their first choice too.

Look at what Mason Greenwood is doing at United. Whilst they’re two different players, it’s just so clear how talented they are. I’d be shocked if Parrott doesn’t score 10+ goals this season.

I'm not under estimating his ability, just doubting readiness for elite level senior football. Unless a young player is very fast or physically strong, you very rarely see them having an impact at a very young age. Often you see super fast, physical strong, youngsters getting way over hyped because they make an impact at 17, 18, 19 and it's assumed they have massive potential to improve, when in actual fact it's their physical attributes which their game is formed around and often they peak by the time they are 20.

Parrott is technically a brilliant player, but he's not quick and he's not going to be holding off Prem CB's for some time.

I never rated players like Reece Oxford, Micah Richards. They get into the first team at a very young age and everyone gets carried away, without really looking to see if they are showing the technical potential to have significant improvement. Lukaku isn't really much better now than when he was at 17-20. While Harry Kane is on a different planet to the kid who went on loan to Orient. Parrott is much more of a Kane type than a Lukaku.

 

[Gareth88]

Sign him up

 

[Stamford]

Shouldn't even be discussed. If you want to win stuff and push on you aren't looking at the likes of Deeney.

 

[$hoguN]

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[offside_ruel_fox]

Troy Deeney!? Stop the world I want to get off.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

I bet he shits like an Orc straight from the bowels of Mordor

 

[soflapaul]

While he isn't my first choice, if the recovery rate for his knee surgery at his age is good, he could work. He does bring a bit of a mentality that Spurs have been lacking.

 

[RikkiRocket]

Positives. He lives locally!

The rest? Jesus H Christ.

 

[bbunc]

To everyone laughing this off completely, who do realistically expect to get if our “budget” for a backup striker is 10-15M?

And if you think we need to spend more than that, who else are you selling without replacement to fund that?

Obviously Deeney would be a short term stopgap if it happens, but we could do a lot worse in that role at this price. PL ready. Physical menace.

 

[Snarfalicious]

It's really about bridging the gap to Parrott. Wilson's probably the smarter purchase if the rumored 10m fee is true. He will only be 29 next summer so if he stays healthy and provides a good tally behind Kane, he'd likely have more value than what we paid for him. If Parrott isn't ready (Needs a PL loan?), we could keep Wilson and look to the next summer, depending on what kind of contract we'd hand to Wilson at signing. Deeney's a bit different due to him being 4 years older and everything I can see has him as being under contract to 2021. But, if Watford essentially let us have him on a free to clear his wages, I think it's a savvy move to free up funds for fees elsewhere right now, given the circumstances.

 

[Partizan]

About as mobile as Llorente without the aerial ability and touch.

He won more aerial duels than anyone else this season

 

[joey55]

He won more aerial duels than anyone else this season

He also lost the most!

 

[THFCSPURS19]

He also lost the most!

Meh, still shows he is good in the air. We wouldn’t criticise Kane if he’d scored 30 goals but also missed the most shots.

 

[RikkiRocket]

Meh, still shows he is good in the air. We wouldn’t criticise Kane if he’d scored 30 goals but also missed the most shots.

Wanna bet??

 

[JR1994]

He’s dog shit. We want to win trophies and compete at the top of the league.. troy deeney isn’t taking us to that

 

[St José Dominguez]

It’s become a cliche but who on earth would come to Spurs knowing Kane is still here? Our entire achievements next season are going to rest on if Kane can stay fit the whole season in my opinion. Even if we somehow convinced a fantastic back up striker to sign we simply don’t have the money to spend on him when we have much bigger needs.
If we’re going to buy a player who can also play in the attacking three then really what’s the point when both Son and probably Dele could play up top if came to it.

Deeney or Wilson are both experienced and can do a job if required. They’d both be goal scoring threats off bench and both would be okay being back ups I reckon. Personally I’d go Deeney as think he’s a better passer and a leader.
Either or though until Parrot is ready to be back up.

 

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

He won more aerial duels than anyone else this season

let’s get him in then.