Gianluca Di Marzio, an Italian journalist, has all a sudden featured a strong story about Lazio facing competition for Tottenham Hotspur fullback Sergio Reguilon.
According to his website, Fulham and Lazio are currently vying for his services. The Biancocelesti had moved first, ‘after the contacts of the last few hours’, Lazio now seems to have been overtaken by Fulham.
The London club ‘expressed interest’ in Reguilon and are now ‘in the lead’ to sign him. They have the player’s will on their side in that fight, as he prefers to stay in the Premier League.
Di Marzio also adds that Lazio are ‘still in the running’, even though they need to sort some ‘issues related to the player’s salary’, and hence they’ll continue to fight the English club for his signature
This story comes in contradiction of earlier reports from the Spanish newspaper AS which claimed that the Spanish fullback is now set to remain at Spurs this season.
However, given the recent Fulham and Lazio attempts, we must now await further developments in this never-ending transfer saga.
Nuno couldn’t coach with what he was given, which showed how good a job Jose did and Conte when he took over (but Kulu and Bentancur helped him massively). Nuno had a better squad at Wolves, particularly midfielders. I felt sorry for him up until his pay-off! Good riddance.
Brilliant
Prize nincompoops.
The writing is on the wall when you have an out of position Doherty taking your place.
I could see a few teams near the bottom interested in him, but he probably wouldn’t fancy them… From Madrid to Spurs to Fulham isn’t ideal for him, but the world cup is coming up, he needs to be playing ‘reg’ular to be picked.
Every time I think of Hitchen now I picture him sat next to Paratici enthusiastically mirroring his passionate shouting, swearing, cheering and jumping up from his seat.. The Nuno era seems a long time ago now.
Good question ..not so much now but in the future , depending on his age , good player great engine ..in a team which doesn’t score enough goals.
I actually thought Winky could do well at Fulham..hey ho Italy calls ..
Football the side dish of THFC..infuriating..
Apart from that he is decent! Another punt that hasn’ turned out well. Hitchen’s tenure at Spurs is evidence enough for him never to work in football again.
What prize? English isn’t a prize if the player isn’t good enough. Is Winks another prize? Christ, we should have kept Dele and Clark. What an embarrassment of riches we had. Sess isn’t what we need. If he is a prize we should have cashed in, but no one would have given us our £20m back.
I can’t spell his real name!
Spending money doesn’t guarantee success but not spending ensures failure.
Harry Redknapp liked Maddison when he was at Coventry but we wouldn’t take a punt on him for £750,000. Then he signed for Norwich and we scouted him again, but he signed for Leicester. How deliciously ironic it would be if we now paid in excess of £60 million for him. I would have also liked Paqueta at Spurs. It will be interesting to see how he gets on in the PL.
Bowen is not what we need,Paqueta is.Along with one or two others on this blog were championing him when he was at Hull,but like Grealish,Maddison and others he wasn’t cosidered for whatever reason.
Probably down to the w*nker we had doing our scouting at the time and Levy’s poundland economics.
Could Spurs go after Bowen I wonder?
Dreggie…? West Ham seem to be signing Paqueta ..some who pop in here will say he is no good because West Ham are signing him ..leave orf he looks decent ..at least as good as our attacking midfielder..
When Spurs signed Ryan Sessegnon I remember a Fulham supporter ringing in to a radio station and claiming that Sessegnon was indeed very average as a left winger / wing back and that his successful 15 goal season for Fulham was playing off the right wing and cutting inside to shoot with his left.
Spurs have spent three seasons reducing his morale and coaching his best attributes out of him. He has pace and an eye for goal. Can he turn this into consistent performances? Based on what I have seen so far he lacks the confidence in his own ability to make this happen.
It could go either way.
Sessegnon is better.
He’s got a bit of pace, but nothing else. Definition of a headless chicken, next to zero footballing IQ
“why are we retaining Sessegnon?”
English. Simple as. Average but English wins a prize. Dele really missed the boat didn’t he?
Can we stop calling him Reggie too? It suggests affection and apart from a handful of half decent crosses ‘Reggie’ has not been all that.
It seems to me that Spurs missed a trick with both Bryan Gil and Reguillon. If only we had moved them into N’dombele’s gaff, while he was still at the club, they would surely have bulked up a little and been better able to compete physically in the ‘best league in the world’?
I’m not impressed with Spanish or French players in recent years. Not just the Spurs signings either. Am I allowed to say that?
I had high hopes for Reggy.. There were shades of a young Jordi Alba at first. He looked dangerous with the ball and I thought he just needs to sort out his defending..
But he still can’t defend very well, and his final ball is shocking. He can’t pass well nor cross well. He can’t shoot. He’s very lightweight. Some little guys are strong, but not Reggy.
You get what you pay for in life. Levy always chose the cheaper option. The rest is history, as they say.
On the other hand Kulu, Bent and Cuti have hit the ground running here under Conte’s watch and the likes of Harry, Sonny and Hugo always perform despite the coaching carousel.
Whom have we shed that once showed promise in recent years that have achieved greater things? Dele? Janssen? The list is endless but only Walker comes to mind as someone that achieved anything post-Spurs and he was a financial sale after all.
No, the issue is not one of bad fit but bad recruitment. Settling for the cheaper option mostly.
Its a measure of the admiration we have for Reggy that nobody is really “having a pop” but in their hearts and minds , for some reason he stagnated and somehow became weaker.
This was in stark cotrast to his early form – bold , brash , cavalier . I wish him good luck .
Truth is they are both poor , little end product and not great defensively..
I meant our coaches.
I just have this feelings that even if we sign ward prowse from soton, he will get to a point where is crosses would beat the first man at the opponent box. 😆
I can’t see how sessy is any better than reguilon when either of plays. I hope the club wouldn’t regret making this decision in the nearest future as we do on Bergwign.
You don’t expect players to perform well when they are starved of services.
I wouldn’t put this down to the coaches. Ward-Prowse is so good at set pieces because he puts hours of practice in to them every week after training has finished. If Reggie wanted to be better at crossing he needs to get on the training pitch.
I have the feeling they will all do well in other clubs which makes me thinks our club is the problem. We still create some few opportunities from the midfield when either of the above players aparts from winks feature for us comparing with what we currently have.
His style of play and crossing abilities was superb when playing for sevilla. Unfortunately, I think the problem with our defenders are the coaches and our playing style. Non of our players even wingers can cross the ball perfectly.
I think Conte sees Regy as a lad where you tell him a hundred times what to do and where he should be on the pitch in the system, and he still makes the same mistakes. Exasperating. So finally Conte decides enough already and brings in Perisic for now and Destiny for destiny and even selects the one-footed Doherty inverted because Tony’s got better things to do than explain it all again to Regy. Sess may never be great but at least he listens to Conte.
It’s hard to believe that Regy is “wanted by half the prem” as I read somewhere the other day. But then again 99% of this “news” is garbage as we all know so that’s why I’m here to cut to the chase as it were.
Reggie is not part of our dead wood club, he just isn’t part of Conte’s plans. If the manager doesn’t fancy you it is time to move on, sometimes this is the wrong decision. Mourinho messed up on a number of occasions with that, whereby he didn’t fancy De Bruyne and Salah. I wouldn’t put Reggie in their bracket though, but I agree with other posts, whereby why are we retaining Sessegnon? I personally don’t want either.
After a bright start Reggie, who I held him in high regard, didn’t improve. You could argue he got worse, but he was never truly awful like some of our squad, some of whom will stay! As a result he does need to leave with a dozen others and if he gets back his mojo whilst out on loan then so be it. Danny Rose before becoming England’s favoured left back was one of the worst players in the EPL before going to Sunderland.
A club cannot progress if its players are coasting, not looking to improve. Being a professional footballer is beyond skill, Pogba is a great example of this. There is no doubting his ability, but his attitude and professionalism have been questioned countless times. A manager has to get rid of the ‘toxic’ players, the rubbish and the ones who do not fit in with his plans. I think Reggie is the latter and it could be a wake up call for him, but the way Reggie has played he was not going to move us up to the next level.
Zidane was right about him. Many RM supporters were surprised them let him go but they retained a option to buy him back which they haven’t exercised. His end product seems to have deteriorated but I agree with you that it is hard to believe that Sessegnon is better.
He lost his crossing ability all of a sudden😒
And before you reply remember the word “sane”
This one is beginning to wind me up.
NDonkey – mental case ger rid. I actually hate the smug (insert word)
Lo Value – nasty side apparently and no great shakes (until it comes to Argentina)
WInks – I am on the fence here – he is one notch up from useless so get rid but I was surprised he was lumped in with the outcasts above.
Reguilon – a very decent player maybe not a WB in Conte’s eyes but when Conte leaves probably turned into a decent FB by his replacement.
Is any sane poster going to tell me Sessegnon is better?
two seasons ago this lad was the best thing since ………….. it proves how fickle we are , or is it because we are improving at a rate of knots ???
Sergio had us in raptures when he first arrived , he cannot be fourth best surely . However I agree that he didn’t strengthen physically and when signing continental players this must be an area of importance — The Prem is demanding………………….