Good morning Malaya.
Sam Wallace in today’s edition of the Independent is pretty convinced that two transfer deals are being pursued with vigour.
Danny Ings becomes a free agent on Monday, which in reality means that for a mere £6million, someone could snap up a striker with 11 Premier League league goals to his name.
Ings is 22.
In his third season for Burnley he found the back of the net in the Championship 20 times.
Life in the top flight has been greeted with plaudits, but it’s also been more of a challenge for the former AFC Bournemouth ace, as his 6 yellow cards might suggest. Prior to that, his biggest total was 3 cards whilst at Bournemouth back in 2010/11.
Ings has made it plain that he won’t stay in Lancashire and so it’s just a matter of time with a deal with someone is allowed to be done.
Liverpool have been mooted as possible destination, but given the disarray at Anfield right now, Brenda might find himself running every expense over £3.50 past his American masters.
Spurs are also said to be making earnest enquires for another Burnley ‘star’, Kieren Trippier.
I’ve little to zero interest in THFC chasing down relegated players. It defies logic.
History is not littered with tales of players that went down, signing for better clubs and achieving glory.
As was pointed out to me on Twitter yesterday, Defoe and Carrick are the exceptions, but then that instance was of a club imploding.
As uncommon as success with relegated may be generally, what of Ings and Trippier?
Well, Ings needs to be looked at by Pochettino & Mitchell and decision needs to be made as to whether this the player is a good foil for Kane.
It looks to me as if Poch has an unshakable belief in playing a lone striker, so Ings (or whoever we buy to make up for our striking shortfall) will operate as a back-up to Harry.
Trippier is someone I wouldn’t recognise if they knocked on my front door.
What I do know, is that Kyle Walker finds slip on shoes complicated. He has to go before someone else gets hurt or dies.
According to Squawka, Trippier has created 63 chances to Bonzo’s 11, which leads me to believe he is a player who doesn’t make a habit of running the length of the pitch then pass to an opposing player.
Schnierdlin of course has announced that it’s Champions League football that he seeks.
Unless something seismic happens that is currently beyond my imagination, it’s highly unlikely we’ll land him.
He can hardly sign for Spurs then tell the press we offered him better compensation than Arsenal.
Perhaps he will sign for us, and the official site will wheel out some asinine interview where he saw the training facilities and the chairman told him of his vision for the club?
Yeah, that’ll be it.
Given the multiple arrests this morning, it looks as if FIFA’s days of naughtiness are numbered.
Or at least that would have been my feeling had our old mate Sepp been one of those ushered into a police vehicle under a neatly ironed bed sheet earlier on.
Until Blatter is removed, surely it will be impossible to make that scrofulous organisation fit for purpose.
#OnTheTakeSince88
