Tottenham have been linked with a move for the highly rated Manchester City youngster Adedire Mebude.
According to Fabrizio Romano, the young winger is currently attracting interest from Tottenham and it remains to be seen whether the Londoners are willing to come forward with a bid before the window closes.
As per Evening Standard, the young winger is unhappy at Manchester City and he has stalled contract talks with the Premier League champions.
The winger has a deal with City until the summer of 2024 and therefore the Premier League giants have a substantial amount of time to agree on a new deal with him and convince him to stay at the club.
Mebude is a prodigious young talent, blessed with flair and frightening pace. He could be an asset for Tottenham in the long run if they manage to secure his services.
A world-class manager like Antonio Conte could help him develop. Furthermore, the Londoners might be able to provide him with a clearer pathway to the first team as compared to City.
It will be interesting to see how the situation develops now.
But why are they out of form. The season has just started, they should at least be full of running and enthusiasm.
You may be on to something. We could loan Dr. Evil to say Everton who are in the bin FFP-wise and his tight fisted ways could keep them solvent.
None of those are ‘massive statements’ imo
Best CB prospects in the world? Sure. Romero is handy but that was no statement. It could be inspired at seasons end but a statement signing says ‘HUGE’ from day one. That’s Haaland, none of those, maybe the Liverpool forward is close. Casemiro is a solid pro prob past his peak, for the money that screamed ‘DESPERATION’, that was the statement. He could be great but that’s not exactly signing Messi in his pomp
Remember we have two star players up front in Kane and Son plus the other two in Charli/Kulu are solid.
Chelsea are pinning their hopes on journeyman Aubameyang and Sterling (he’s effective but the sort of player you shrug if it’s your club he signs for).
Arsenal have the potential risk flake Gabby Jesus, great start, let’s revisit if you’re Harry Kane or Son in 6 months.
I wish we’d signed a truly world class mid but – like Rice as H said, or maybe Bellingham, but Bissouma should be no slouch.
In Arsenal and Chelsea I don’t see squads chock full of star players. The Liverpool and Arsenal squads even look a little thin. Man U it’ll take a season to work out what’s in their squad it’s huge and unbalanced. City are City, PSG/R Madrid in the England, cheers for that.
The Liverpool forward? Sterling? Getting Fofana who is one of the best CB prospects in the world for 70m? Casemiro? We have a back five that has Royal, Davies, Dier and Sanchez in it more often than not.
Only one PL club made a statement signing this summer – City with Haaland and that’s a deal that was agreed years ago involving family ties and all manner of skullduggery
You are measuring against the previous years of utter mediocrity rather than benchmarking against the top clubs. We haven’t made a statement signing since Jurgen. Neither will we under Levy and the wait for silverware will continue. No deep breaths required here, just pers-ective of where we are versus clubs with real ambition.
We’ll see but possibly the positions you’ve claimed are either ‘nice to have’ rather than ‘need to have’, will be revisited in January, or just not Conte priorities.
I’d rate the window 8 out of 10, in retrospect January was a 9 out of 10 but looked a 6 out of 10 at the time. So too early to judge but I thought relatively promising.
Another perspective in today’s Daily Telegraph, where they rank each PL club’s transfer activity. Spurs and Man City top the table with 9 out of 10. Richarlison seen as very important.
Flawed in my opinion, as we still lack a decent attacking midfielder, a proven RWB, a goalkeeper to replace Hugo and another quality CB.
Chelsea were in for Richarlison. Bissouma is widely regarded ‘a steal’ by most everyone associated with the game.
The fact is in 12 months we’ve added five first 11 starters and the ‘first choice sub’ – plus Lenglet and Spence are the unknown quantities.
Its about as successful a transfer period we’ve had on the last couple of decades. We’re also adding to the sides physicality (tallest PL side) and getting younger (squad was in danger of looking far too old on average).
Perspective and deep breaths needed here.
We need to turn up and put in a shift but I get the feeling this is the game we return to winning by 2 or 3 clear goals
None of the big clubs were in for any of our signings. Coincidence? We have 23 years of proof that Levy doesn’t care about the football team. Take Kane out of our team and we are totally screwed. As we will likely see next year when he gets flogged with a year left on his contract.
They’re all out of form except maybe Hojbjerg – impossible to judge.
We spent joint 4th most money and got all but one of Conte’s priority signings in – even then Lenglet might prove himself who knows.
You might just be composing about Conte’s ‘vision’ for the squad.
I get pessimism but this is a bit ridiculous – we’ve the best chance of winning something since ‘peak Poch’. In the last year we’ve added Romero, Bissouma, Richarlison, Kulu, Bentancur and Perisic while losing no one of note.
We’re a lot stronger. Players just need to find form – we are picking up points while in garbage form, no way we continue playing this bad with almost every player in average to poor form, it just doesn’t happen.
I have to say H that Bissouma’s yellow card wasn’t for his foul it was for his reaction afterwards of bouncing the ball away in anger.I’m not defending him,but it is something the refs have been told to watch for this season.
I think that played on his mind,perhaps realising how childish he had been and his game then suffered for it,although I think he did pick things up a bit in the second half.
I think he will come good eventually if he can replicate his form from Brighton last season and we will perhaps see more of his creative side.Certainly all the new players brought into the squad will get games,it just depends on when Conte loosens the reins.Perhaps the game against Marseille will see Lenglet in the side as well as Bissouma.
But we need to our pace in matches as it’s painful to watch.
I think Chelsea could have made use of Richarlison, Bissouma, Perisic and Udogie potentially.
Still prefer Richarlison as a squad player over Sterling. They paid way over the odds for the Sideshow Bob big hair upgrade.
I repeat, for £250 outlay you want a STAR PLAYER. They didn’t get one.
Serial winners don’t care about getting there, they know they will. They care about winning.
If you want to adopt Arsene Wenger’s 4th place is a trophy in itself mentality I suggest you look at our trophy cabinet over the last 23 years. Take a duster and some Mr. Sheen with you and give it a clean whilst your at it.
Spot on.
I think our hopes are resting on Sarr as there won’t be much, if any, creativity from the other four. That’s if Sarr gets any game time at all
Our ponderous style of play needs to be crisper and sharper. Dier thinks he is Stevy G following his long range passes which fail to hit the radar!! Once you stifle Kulu,Kane and Son there is nothing there!
Sorry to say it but I can actually see Fulham beating Spurs?!!
Yes JG is a party animal but would have grown up quickly at Spurs. Simply put too clever for his own good Levy attempted to exploit Villas perilous financial situation at the time by trying to buy Villas best player on the cheap that backfired and failed miserably!!
My frustration with this window is that we have limited ourselves to one style of play ..unless Kane is to play as a number 10..( might happen)..I find the reliance currently on p#ss poor wing backs , excluding Peresic,somewhat ridiculous..let’s hope Spence can prove himself in the LC and make a positive difference.
Winning is the metric and we haven’t done it in 23 years barring one minor trophy.The only winner in our qualifications for the CL has been Levy,certainly the players have nothing to show for it.
Not probably. I’ve given up with Levy in charge. We have managed to fall behind yet again when we could easily have improved by getting some real top talent.
Bryan Modric
and probably endure yet another trophyless season?!!
Harder to shift than N’Belly though.
Reckon we could get a loan deal for Levy?
Ideally somewhere a long way away: perhaps we could crowd fund his wages…… I’d certainly be prepared to chip in to get shot of the tight sphinctered, vertically challenged Bond villain.
Levy won’t pay for anything we really need. We will likely finish below Arse and maybe Utd this season.
I do think City is a bad fit and also we had a patch we were SO POOR we could have built the whole team around him, there was nothing else there
It was a stupid call by Levy, but apparently the lads drink driving/party boy rep played against him
Now we signed Bissouma despite similar so…?
Maybe we’re taking bigger risks now
Yes whilst the absence of another quality CB could prove costly IMO Conte’s priority signing was recruiting a quality creative midfielder?!!
Sadly agree with all of that. It’s pointless hoping that Levy will ever show real ambition. He runs a REIT with a football club to front all the risk.
You think their business is equal to ours? Every one or their players – Peri may be equal to Cucarella but a decade older – would walk into our team. We should be looking for that level of quality as our failure to get even one decent CB is going to cost us the chance of silverware. Levy out.
Totally disagree. Having carried Villa single handedly on his shoulders, being just the kind of player we need via his creative flair I am convinced he would have been a hero at Spurs. Pure conjecture as it’s history now!!
With the five of Sarr/Hojbjerg/Skipp/Bentancur/Bissouma I’m convinced there’s a perfect pairing.
We’re rushing to judgement that there’s no form or creativity in there too quickly.
Grealish looking more a bullet dodged by the game – he’s not a ‘creative mid’ or a ‘metronome’, he’s more just a tricky winger with no end product. Carries the ball up field and wins free kicks.
for a more neutral/less emotional perspective take a look at the F365 article – Spurs in ‘winners’, Chelsea/Man U/Arsenal all in losers.
Reasoning? Arsenal have improved their first 11 but still have no depth in the squad and injuries to key players they’re screwed. In other words they have no Richarlison type etc
Chelsea for having no strategy and spending a ridiculous amount, and some of the players jury is out for that spend. For the money spent, £250 mill, you’d want a Haaland type signing – they didn’t get one.
Man U I agree with less, more they’re saying their summer is why they’ve already dropped pts…though they look potentially set now and far stronger than last season.
Why did we have a good one? Organised, built strength in depth which was the plan. They agree two more players would have been a ‘perfect’ window but not many teams achieve that.
Just some perspective from elsewhere.
…relatively modest asking price (2018 Grealish at the time £35m-£40m. Even done the deal at £45m.Sold to Man City for £100m!!
Reserving judgement on this summer transfer window.Suffice it to say that given that it’s all about quality not quantity then our N London rivals stronger offensively and defensively this season have IMO arguably had a better transfer window than ourselves.
Constantly devoid of a vital playmaker, overloaded with holding midfielders where is that quality creative midfielder???Well he is still around. In fact the irreplaceable ageless 36 yrs old supremo CREATIVE MIDFIELDER Luca Modric winner of numerous trophies is still strutting his stuff for Real Madrid. Consequently the collapsed Grealish deal in 2018 stinks and still hurts!! There for the taking had we paid the asking price and Levy botched the deal!!
Whilst Skippy will do his best. Hardly the solution long term me thinks?!!
Chelsea £255 million spend on an ‘equal at best’ window compared to Spurs – madness
The last 10 years are quickly forgettable.
The initial optimism that behind the scenes the approach to transfers was changing has now well and truly faded. The early activity was encouraging but hardly broke the bank with Perisic and Forster on free transfers and Bissouma in for around 25 million. Another PR stunt by Levy and ENIC to generate season ticket sales I suspect as once the deadline had passed the activity in the transfer market reverted to the usual Levyonomics. With the drawn out and painfully slow Spence transfer followed by all the soundbites about who we were “interested” in “looking at” “ watching “ blah blah. Our squad still lacks depth in defence, attacking midfield and attack. If Kane and Son get injured we are in big trouble. We have a squad capable of one game a week only. The fact the Conte appears to have gone along with the lack of activity at the end of the window and is now saying “ we controlled the game against West Han is worrying. My hope is that we have only eleven EPL games I believe before the World Cup and the January window and either Conte will have had enough by then or we resolve our glaring issues with the squad then. Man City look to have done the best business returning a profit on transfers whilst still adding Haarland and others that immediately improve their first eleven. This is the difference between a club that operates to win by buying top quality players that they can quickly sell on if needed and our club who operate as a property development business pretending to be a football club and buy cheap punts and players not good enough who we then cannot sell on and end up loaning out.
Challenging and finals but not winning anything. Enjoyable? Not really.
Neither club has ever qualified for the Champions League or reached the final. Would you rather have had say the last 10 years that Palace or Saints have had or the last 10 years that we have had. I’d suggest our period of challenging for top 4 and reach finals here and there has been more enjoyable.
So another anticlimax to the transfer window.Did we really expect anything else?It looks like Southampton are following Palace’s blueprint of buying young talent and unlike us they buy them to play them.And neither club has won anything for ages,just like us.Hey-ho roll on January for more letdown.
Farizzio is as accurate as a stormtrooper
Great for when contes gone. He won’t get any game time while syrup is here though so.. meh