Reluctantly, I will have to give the club the benefit of the doubt as the window hasn’t closed yet, but the signs are inauspicious. For some reason that beggars belief, we buy and sell players, or rather loan them out as nobody appears to want to buy them, without ever really solving the obvious deficiencies in the team.
- Have we solved the problem of the RB/WB, or whatever the fans wish to call that position?
- Do we need an AM to add creativity to the midfield as we currently have Winks, Hojbjerg, Bentancur, Bissouma, and Skipp in that area who are most unlikely to score double digits between all of them?
- Why haven’t we bought a CB? Dier and Sanchez will cost us points as they do each season and I have my doubts that Lenglet is a long-term solution. I am unconvinced that he will perform in the PL, he lacks pace and physicality.
- After so many years, we still do not have an understudy for Kane. I don’t subscribe to the view that Richarlison can fill that void when required. I wish we had bought Jesus, better value at £45 million, and he scores goals.
In short, despite many fans declaring that our window has been very successful, I subscribe to the view that we haven’t properly solved the problem areas and if there isn’t more activity by the end of the window, Levy will certainly and deservedly come under scrutiny.
Spot on… Covid definitely didn’t help Maureen too.. 2 years of that with no fans etc…
Remember he was busted and fined in lockdown in Hyde park or somewhere was training Ndombelly. Making the Fatpants run.. Lol
Wish I was a fly on the wall for that one… One of lifes greatest mysteries… Why indeed.
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you realise we don’t have time for a rebuild right?
kane is on the last 2 years of his contract and son is declining.
it took arsenal 3 years to rebuild and they’re finally resembling a top 4 team.
levy was so scared of mourinho winning a trophy (unlikely as it was) and him having to pay him for it that he sacked him just so he couldn’t.
negative football is worth it when you win. this team isn’t able to win, it’s had one good player barely managing to get the club to top 4 for 8 years.
If only Mourinho left without signing a non-disclosure agreement. He didn’t need the money and if Levy’s reputation would have been sullied then so be it. The rich hide behind ‘pay-offs’ and the Spurs fans were treated with utter contempt by Levy when sacking Mourinho a week before the final. However unlikely it was, beating City needed Jose in charge. Jose obviously told Levy some home truths.
Mourinho wasn’t backed massively at Spurs, loads of punts (Rodon, Bergwijn, Reguilon) and only one proven EPL player who wasn’t past his sell by (Hojbjerg). Even if Lo Celso had the numbers to back up his commitment he still wouldn’t have saved Mourinho.
No manager could ever be successful at Spurs as long as Hitchen was in our building. He was an abject failure.
Richarlison can clearly serve as a deputy for Kane. The problem with fancying Jesus for the role would be persuading him that joining a club where Kane and Son are going to be the likely starters when fit, he get more football than he was getting at Citeh, where he was a least guaranteed medals. Bit of wishful thinking there.
My only concern is, why on earth did we sack Mourinho? ☺️
Yep. The only logical and fair way.. We cant help speculating and predicting though. Lol.
This isn’t very difficult to argue with from where I’m sitting..
1.. There is no immediate problem at right back.. Jelly has played well from last season to now. He has been our first choice, helped us get in to the Champions league. He has the minerals as I’ve tried telling people all this time. The manager trusts him and plays him… Doherty is a reliable back up, he was playing well at the end of last season. We have bought Spence so there is a third choice cover for there now..
2.. No we don’t need a centre attacking mid desperately. Conte doesn’t use one in our 343 formation. He plays with two holding. We have enough in the middle for this. These guys aren’t expected to go double digits, scoring goals isn’t their jobs… Signing a top CAM would mean Conte could switch to his favourite 352, so I’m sure that one will be bought at some point. Probably next window now.. I’m sure if the chance came to sign a top centre mid like Savic who can do it all then we’d go for it.. I’m also sure we won’t go and panic buy a lightweight CAM like Maddison who would get us nowhere.
3.. We haven’t bought a CB because Conte’s first choice was Bastoni. He didn’t want to come.. So we loaned Lenglet. He probably isn’t a long term solution, hence why he’s a loan..
4.. After so many years we finally have an understudy for Kane… Richarlison can play as a striker this isn’t a view, it is fact… He led the line for Everton and scored the goals to save them from relegation… Jeebus probably scores more goals than Richy. But Richy is versatile and offers so much more… Like the manner in which he dispossessed that wolves player, and then with the outside of his foot crosses perfectly for Kane. Jeebus doesn’tdo that. Richy can not only play up top but he can play left or right wing.. Jeebus is weaker and less effective on the wing, whereas Richy favours this position…. They are two very different players and I think are perfect signings for both clubs.. They suit their new roles.
Of course our windows been successful.. The proof is in the pudding… Just four games in, we haven’t even got going yet.. We are unbeaten, in the top three, our best start in the premier league in 13 years.
Hilariously you were banging on about not being ‘entertained’ a few days back.. Four games in and I would understand the sourpuss negative attitude if you were a Leicester fan..
Let me guess the Forrest game didn’t entertain you either… You’d rather we were playing “pretty football” and losing 3 nil..
I don’t write this often, but you are so wrong. One is a footballer and the other is a charlatan.
I agree with lots of this, but just because Aurier wasn’t good enough didn’t mean we had to sign Royal. Poor recruitment practices lead to poor recruitment. I don’t think we can compete for trophies with someone who is ‘defensively decent’ and cannot attack. Until he offers more in attack he is a waster because he gets turned inside out by good left sided attackers on too many occasions.
Ardiles and Villa had just won the World Cup, there is no comparison. Modric was very highly thought of by Bilic in the national team, but he was just a kid.
As it had rarely been done, people were sceptical but you know what, when you buy good players they tend to do very well.
Agreed
Yup.
You’re taking the proverbial.
Arguably the signings of Luka Modric, Nico Kranjcar and Vedran Corluka were similar signings under similar conditions after the 2008 Euro’s as opposed to the 1978 World Cup.
Looking back at the Burkinshaw era, one has to give both him and the board tremendous credit for signing Ardiles and Villa. It was a bold move and I could never see this board with Levy at the helm taking that type of decision.
I fully understand the lack of Levy’s priorities when it comes to the footballing side of things,and his constant use of smoke and mirrors.
You promise yourself you won’t be swayed by the talk of a 150M warchest,because we have our best manager in a long time who demands success.But it seems to have worked yet again.
We all on this blog have highlighted where our deficiences lie in the squad and Conte must know them too.So why haven’t they been addressed properly?
Perhaps Bastoni didn’t want to come or his club didn’t want to sell?
I shared that because you asserted N’dombele is an AMF. I would suggest that N’dombele was neither an AMF a CDM or any other combination of abbreviated initials.
N’dombele was a POS.
Pile of 5hite.
Bentancur has replaced Winks in the starting 11 and is at least twice the player Winks has been / will ever be.
Kulusevski has replaced Moura / Dele in the starting 11 and has done brilliantly in terms of goals, assists and his general all round contribution.
Romero has replaced Toby / Sanchez as a right sided centre back and has been brilliant but injury prone.
Perisic has been here for five minutes; hasn’t been starting games but is already Spurs leading assist provider and has shown moments of quality which indicate there is much more to come.
Paratici has replaced 40% of the starting 11 outfield players and introduced several younger players into the squad with varying degrees of success.
Emerson Royal is here because the consensus was in favour of Serge Aurier being dumped. Royal is defensively decent in my opinion. He’s not a waster as some would have you believe. Doherty was arguably Spurs most improved player before he got injured towards the back end of last season. Spence is a player for the future.
Conte’s actions suggest he rates Royal. Conte’s words tell you what he thinks about Spence. Doherty and Royal appear to be universally popular with the playing squad.
Is there really a huge problem here?
I wish we’d signed Slash to play just in front of a wall of Marshalls at the back, Lady Gaga and Axl Rose up front.
Levy doesn’t do planning from a footballing perspective. He just reacts to the latest crisis he has helped create. Will be another when Conte leaves after not being properly backed.
it’s also rumoured Klopp wants Ruben Nevis in January.What a MF that would be,although it’s strange that he has persevered with a 37 year old Milner,as good a servent as he’s been for them.
And we can’t commit to be one decent playmaker thanks to Levy’s deep pockets and short arms.
Ambiguity is king. Nice work.
Jesus is certainly dividing opinion.
Yeah recruitment has been wantin. Though I think they aren’t the best contrasts as all had a reason. walker wanted out (at the time Dier wanted manu at the same time). Poch and big chunks of the fan base were done with Trippier and KWP isnt the required standard either.
Agreed. A club run properly and competing with City in a totally unfair system. We can’t compete with them because we are forced to listen to the Levy lies that tells us we can’t compete. If we were run properly we could have won everything under Poch.
Paratici has done a reasonable job, it’s short of remarkable though, likes of Bastoni should have been through the door and the loans out should have been actual sales.
But the trajectory feels right
A classic case in point being Liverpool’s apparent agreement with Dortmund and the player to sign Bellingham in January.That is proper planning and he will be a real star.But we will have Winks to come back.
Agreed, no point buying for buying sake and patience is needed, to a certain degree. But if we couldn’t get Bastoni because we didn’t offer enough wages/fee that is a problem that Levy has stubbornly done for years. Despite making profits, whilst others accrue debt, we are still the 6th highest wage payers in the EPL. We make more than Arsenal in revenue now, yet they pay more in wages. If we are blaming the stadium debt for this, the thing that is meant to generate revenue so we can compete on a more level playing field, then it serves no purpose to the football side of operations.
At some point Levy has to show willing and unleash the shackles instead of continually drip feeding us excuses and lies.
Once Conte wins more than Burkenshaw I’ll agree with you.
I don’t care if Conte likes Doherty or Emerson Royal as players. I don’t and I don’t have to like it. Bill Nicholson wouldn’t have gone near them that is for sure.
Despite his commitment to the team I don’t think Hojbjerg is a particularly good footballer, and Bissouma is better, but blogs like this are designed to allow subjective opinions to be aired, as long as they are not ridiculous (although some people stoically believed and repeatedly posted Ndom was going to turn into a star) or offensive (although some people stoically believed and repeatedly posted Ndom was going to turn into a star…….not a typo).
This is what the painful rebuild feels like. It will take some time and it will be painful. We can only hope it does, indeed, result in a successful rebuild.
Agreed with this yesterday, not changed my mind! At the start of the window what were our priorities? How many have been sorted? Smoke and mirrors have blind sided us yet again. What a great window we have had (say some). Really? It’s been 6/10 but nothing more.
Other teams ‘seem’ to be strengthening their First XIs. Not their squads, but their First XIs. The team that would be picked if they had to play a final. At present, we still have too many players who need carrying in our best team, and they are mainly in defence. Why do we need so many DMs too?
How do you know that he is happy with the signings? Do you think that he was in agreement in signing Spence which smells of being a typical Levy punt? We will see at the end of his tenure how he rates as a Spurs manager compared to Keith Burkinshaw, for example.
Firstly, I am not saying that he has done a bad job and I have posted on several occasions that our squad is certainly stronger than last season. My gripe is that obvious deficiencies have not been fixed which include the RB, CD and AM areas. We currently have five DMs who will contribute little in the way of goals and assists. It is a matter of opinion whether he is the best head of recruitment that we have ever had but Mitchell, for example, was never given a chance and since then, he has done very well at RB Leipzig and currently Monaco. Paratici has his pants pulled down by Barca when we signed Emerson Royal, and for me, the jury is still out on Bentancur, Richarlison and even Kulu, who seems inconsistent. We spent a lot of money on Gil, Sarr is unproven, as is Spence. The one signing who has impressed me is Romero if he can control himself but he seems injury prone.
I genuinely have no idea why you shared that
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Antonio Conte is THFC manager & if he’s happy with the signings, outgoings, squad, etc then so should everyone be!?
The best manager by far since Bill Nicholson that THFC have had & so many think, (within their blatantly limited scope), they know better than him?
W.T.F??
Can it be both?
Or neither?
Is this a secular crucifiction joke or a serious observation?
Bentancur makes a meaningful, consistent contribution to the team, in terms of his all round levels of fitness, competitive nature and deserves to be in the starting 11. Ndombele could never do this consistently at Tottenham. He was one of the most unprofessional players to ever represent Spurs in the modern era. Worse even than Prince Boateng.
Paratici’s recruitment has added 4 players to the starting 11 that have improved everything about Spurs. “Moderately stronger” is understating what Paratici has done so far. I agree regarding the style of play. It’s not great to watch and like you I believe that matters when you follow the Tottenham. Spurs have to entertain. To bring some balance to that; we have looked solid most of the time. Especially in the games that Romero played in.
Are you blaming Paratici for the sales of Walker, Trippier and Walker Peters? If so I think that is also a bit of a stretch. Paratici can only do his best within the constraints he is working under. That is the same in any job for everyone.
He’s doing better than I expected and I am no apologist for Levy or ENIC. Paratici has done a remarkable job in a relatively short period of time in my opinion. I would go as far as to say he has done as much as was reasonably possible and could prove to be the best head of recruitment spurs have ever had if the likes of Spence, Sarr, Bissouma and Richarlison match up with Romero, Kulusevski, Bentancur and Perisic.
I see Jesus getting crucified for some average performances away on a cold night in Nottingham – the winter season where Arsenal traditionally struggle
I think you may well be proved wrong regarding your disdain for Sarr. Gollini was a replacement for Poch’s illegitimate son; Gazzanigga. In this respect it was hardly a failure. It was a risk free loan for a covering player. Spence, like Sarr, is also unproven in the EPL so it’s a bit early to write him off to back up your anti Paratici narrative.
Romero, Kulusevski, Bentancur and Peresic have added quality to the starting 11.
No debate to be had about that. I can smell Highbury.
I really don’t believe there is a debate to have regarding which of Richarlison and Jesus will prove to be the better signing.
In terms of goals scored; both have played in the Premier League for a sustained period of time and both players have averaged around 1 goal every 3 games for their previous clubs.
It could be argued that Richarlison’s numbers are slightly more impressive as he was playing in average / struggling teams when he achieved his 1 in 3 ratio.
Jesus was after all receiving the very best service form the very best available players while he was at City.
In terms of assists Jesus has 32 in the EPL and Richarlison has 16. This is significant. Jesus was often playing with Aguero during his City career. Richarlison has not had the opportunity to play with attacking, top quality, players until he arrived at Spurs recently. I will be looking at both players assist stats at the end of this season as that will probably tell you more about how each player has fared at their new clubs than the goals to games ratios.
My view is that Jesus will probably burn brightly at N5 until the season stalls for the World Cup. By the time he returns I can only see Woolwich slipping down the table from their current lofty position and my best guess is that once Jesus realises he is now playing for a second rate side, compared to his time at city, then his interest levels will wane; just like Aubamayang and Lackathreat before him.
Liverpool’s 9 goal haul yesterday puts the goons 0-4 away win at Bournemouth into perspective. They were a bit lucky to beat Fulham at home yesterday and Jesus was quiet for long spells in that game. I was actually thinking that Mitrovic would probably have been a better signing than both Jesus and Richarlison while watching the game.
Goons bubble will burst. It’s not if it is when. Looking ahead at their fixtures I would predict it will be in the run up to Christmas.
Actually MS, when Paratici went to Juve,in 2010, they hadn’t won Serie ‘A’ for 8 years. It should also be noted that they (Juve) haven’t won it in the last two years since he left! Serie ‘A’ is considerably stronger and more competitive that Scottish football, albeit not the predominant league it was in the ’80’s and early ’90’s.
Certainly he has been Italian centric, but I think it is better to exploit the market you know, as there is less chance of making mistakes. Look at Wenger when he first went to Arsenal, with his encyclopedic knowledge of French football. Yes, your question is valid, about whether our new signings would get into the City, Liverpool, or Chelsea first teams.
Then again, some of them would not get into ours! I think the squad depth has been considerably strengthened, my only criticism would be could we have done more to strengthen our first team, as Arsenal have done? I think the problem is that some of our top targets were genuinely not available. Bastoni, Gvardiol, Bremer in the CB positions in particular.
Either way, the jury has to be out on our transfer business this off-season, until those recruits have been assimilated into the team and their impact assessed. I would say by the World Cup we will have a much better idea of the success rate. Of the buys for the future, I think Ndogie looks like a great deal and hopefully Spence as well, thus giving us our WB’s of the future.
Jesus could walk on water but even he’d have trouble scoring from the bench. That’s why he took the option of joining a Europa League team where he knew he’d play week in week out.
Gotta judge Jeeez & Richy at the end of the season, surely? Doesn’t really make sense now; one’s the main man and one’s currently a sub mostly, playing 2nd fiddle to Kane & Son.
Conte was quite defensive about Sonny in the presser. Personally I think he’s being played too deeply – so there’s a quick fix for the Italian!
It will be fascinating reading the team sheet .
Conte is adept at not wanting to be second – guessed and today will be the most revealing.
Think we all feel that Sonny might be “rested” , that Perisic HAS to play and that the centre-backs WILL be Dier , Davinson and Davies , still leaving those answers as to where he’s going with his defence ? Ipersonally feel this fixture is perfect for Richarlison full debut , it promises to be old fashioned thud and blunder , conditions where he might thrive . Above all else …………. C O Y S !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Intellectual overload there, feat. two gen x’ers and a split personality.
That “tool” would be me! If you have a sensible riposte to make, post something readable. If you don’t like the site, there is a clear option ahead for you.
I think in that period, Juve in Serie A, were similar to Celtic. Italian football is not the strength that it used to be. My concern is that Paratici seems Italian centric and it could be argued, Juve centric. My somewhat basic metric of measuring the worth of a player we have signed is to ask myself whether he would get into any of the teams like Liverpool, City or Chelsea? I think the jury would be out on that question.
I’m not allowed to like my own posts, using my author’s name.
Who said that?
I can’t like my own work?
It isn’t a guess
It’s a pretty educated guess to…
Sorry sunbeam. You’re simply not up to the required standard to contribute here.
It isn’t a guess that he scored 8 and 9 recently for City or 1 goal for Brazil in 3 years.
It’s a pretty educated guess to say he wouldn’t start over the current golden boot holder and arguably the PL’s most complete 9.
Yes, a fake/fraud who won 7 consecutive Serie ‘A’ titles at Juve. Nice to know that in your opinion Perisic, Richarlison and Bissouma are underwhelming bench-warmers. I guess Romero, Kulusevski and Bentancur were just lucky stabs in the dark, Paratici probably just threw some darts at an Italian Serie ‘A’ dartboard!
More guessing. Can we have a balloon animal if we eat all our jelly?
Ah, so it’s all my fault. How old are you?
Yes, that is why we have employed Paratici and Conte and are identifying and signing targets from Serie A
Don’t threaten me with my own content 🤣
Your counter is to ask me to out guess you?
Do you do children’s parties?
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Quite honestly I think that Paratici is a fake / fraud and the players he has brought in are at best underwhelming benchwarmers that are slightly better than the previous ones. Of course even frauds accidentally get it right from time to time but as much as we all enjoy Kulusevski and Romero let’s not forget Sarr,Gill, Spence and Gollini as well as the inability to get any kind of first team player over the line this season.
Indeed, but the majority of owners recognise they’re just owners, and employ football people to make the footballing decisions allowing them to sit back and watch the £££ roll in. We have the CEO of a property management enterprise making decisions about footballing matters he thinks he is expert in, but really has no clue about.
The hotel owner telling the chef how to make bread.
Tut tut you heard a very good point and basically reverted back to your original point without addressing the point shown to you. That mate is ignorance. Stop being a stats guy, people like you seem to read football instead of watch it. Please apply some logic, if Jesus was at spurs he would be in the same position Richarlison is. Richarlison is a great holder of the ball, energetic and great at link up play. Therefore, due to how arsenal play and their current situation, it’s fair to say Richarlison would’ve been main man there if he went and due to the style of football, he probs would’ve hit the ground running too.
Don’t be an ungrateful fan, we have never operated in this manner buying before selling and all the signings have looks solid. Don’t look at arsenal, Man City etc… and think we don’t have enough. We need a number 10 yes, maybe another centre back but besides that our squad is complete, you just need patience.
Do you genuinely think Jesus would have had a start for us so far?
Instead of who? Which game(s)?
Have you watched the Blue Scum game yet Gorgeous?
That is the same at every professionally-run club on the planet. The owners have the final sign-off.
while I believe there is no doubt Jesus is a good striker he was always destined for arsenal as was Zinchenko because of Arteta it is grossly unfair at this stage to compare him to Richarlison who let’s be honest was given 20 mins v Chelsea and changed the game and 14 v wolves as he sat another sorry performance from Son.
When Richarlison is getting the minutes it should be at that point we start to judge finally just to add I dont believe they are in any way the same kind of players he’s Brazil’s no 9 and for me that says enough COYS
I think you make some good points MS, but I would not wholly agree on Jesus. Yes, I think Jesus is better value at 45 mill than Richarlison is at 60 mill, but as he was never going to come to us, it’s a redundant question. He has a strong history with Arteta and at the Arse he was always going to be the main man, which he was never going to be here. He has benefitted from that fact and a soft early season schedule. However his international stats do not suggest he is a better striker than Richy, who has a better goals per game average for Brazil, the only genuinely comparable metric.
I concur there are unanswered questions at RWB, AM and CB, but I don’t believe it is possible to undo all ENIC’s previous ineptitude in the space of 12 months. I think we finally have a coordinated recruitment plan, with Paratici and Conte on the same page. Most importantly Conte is upbeat, happy with the progress and there is a genuinely positive vibe around the team. Any weaknesses will become more apparent as the season unfolds and must be addressed then, but overall I think we need to reserve judgment on our new recruits and assess where we are at by the start of the World Cup.
I certainly haven’t been very excited by the football so far this season, that’s for sure! I agree that the squad is moderately stronger but my point is that the glaring deficiencies have not been solved. As an example, we sold three RBs in Walker, Trippier, K-W-P, and released Aurier and we have bought Doherty, Royal and Spence. Go figure!
Paraticci identifies, Conté is consulted. But no contracts are agreed and no monies change hands without the express signature of Dan the man. 20 years of mediocrity are the culmination of this very structure. It’s a sh1t show. Man United fans have had enough of it, and are making their voices heard loud and clear.
Deal…we’ll revisit your articles at the same time
Come on guys show some positivity ffs especially before a game, I feel like slitting my wrists after reading this negative durge. Harry I agree with a lot of your comment but ffs the day you say something positive about the club will be the day we actually win a trophy !!! . Give Conte some time ffs, he needs time to get in the players he needs, he’s only been at the club for five minutes and it’s not easy getting in players these days. He’s clearing the decks at the minute cannot do it all in one go. He needs at least another two windows to get the squad he needs. May be judge the squad in another 12 months time mate. This season will be to try and cement top4 and then we go again next season in the transfer window. And PS he went for Richarlison for his flexibility, he can play anywhere along the front 3, Jesus can’t do that , it’s not rocket science mate. How about giving Richarlison a chance, the Brazilian public prefer him over Jesus all day long and they certainly know their football. I’d start him today over Son if I was Conte, Son has been poor and this is what competition for places is all about, no player should play off their reputation , Conte is and will be ruthless abs we’ve needed a manager like this for a while, I think Richarlison will start which will give Son the kick up the arse he needs .
Rivalries aside, Jesus is a proven goal scorer but why would he come to Spurs and most likely sit on the bench when he’d be playing every week for arsenal and his former asst manager at city. Richarlison is overpriced for sure but happy to play back up. For the money we spent on him we could have got that decent centre back – T’Pau, Skriniar or bob carolgyes, but we didn’t, and that’s why we remain a long way from the finished product
I think the window has start to resolve some of the recent years of neglect has built up.
It was never going to be one summer to resolve this, Jose mentioned this even Conte has as well.
That has to temper what we think as fans. From what I’ve read of yours Marbella over the years you seem balanced and not over excitable.
Success of this window might need to be judged on a few seasons rather than August.
balanced I would say is the window, especially if we get another and Dier replacement in the next few days. Score for where we are at it’s a 7 out of 10
He hasn’t started a game yet, like Jesus wouldn’t have for us
What I can tell you is that Jesus got 8 and 9 in his last two PL seasons, and has scored once for Brazil in 3yrs
I don’t think it was a risk free signing, he’s ‘surprised’ fans/pundits etc with how quick he’s adapted – his stats were good but he played on and off for City who score huge amounts of goals. He wasn’t/isn’t Aguero so no one knew how good he really was, he never set the world on fire on the international stage.
I don’t disagree he now looks good but hats off to Arsenal they looked over at the mess at Chelsea and saw Son and Kane hogging the forward spots at Spurs and got their ducks in a row real quick. The Arteta connection is there too.
Of course we could have offered him a load more cash and maybe we should but in a ‘straight fight’ I get why he went to Arsenal especially in WC year.
Yeah, definitely Levy identifying all these targets from Serie A isn’t it. Not Paratici and/or Conte
Ndombele is a central midfield player. Always was for Lyon. Jose Mourinho played him as an attacking midfielder because he is Jose Mourinho
Probably as stimulating as liking your own posts on substack , I’d imagine
Would you mind just posting under the one username?
Also, I have to ask, replying to yourself on forums, is that mentally stimulating?
Bentancur has NOT replaced Ndombele. One is an AMF and the other one isn’t.
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And we played a blinder by avoiding this Jesus chancer, who has 2 goals and 3 assists in 4 games?
…. and they will. Levy will refuse offers, and loan them out until they’re in mobility scooters.
He is a good player, Jesus. But let’s not get it twisted
Sorry, how many goals has Richarlison scored?
We shall revisit this.
Well Mr Jesus would have been unhappy still sitting on the bench – you have to say he made the correct choice to get guaranteed minutes and there it is.
We were probably defeated by it being ‘World Cup year’.
Arsenal were lucky Chelsea were in a total mess when they secured this deal because 9 times out of 10 I think Jesus would have ended up there. Instead Chelsea got drawn into the Barca charade with Raphinha (which was quite funny admittedly).
So Richarlison is scoring and Jesus isn’t?!
You’re thinking? I don’t believe you. Prove it.
Reguilon is not part of the first team group. He didn’t tour and is training apart. His replacement was Perisic. Ditto Winks (Bissouma), Nodombele (Bentancur), and Lo Celso (Kulusevski)
Toddle off to a different site then.
Conté replaces nobody. Pochettino replaced nobody. Sherwood replaced nobody. AVB replaced nobody. Redknapp replaced nobody. Get it into your skull that no matter what ‘manager’ takes the flak, the transfer dealings are the domain of Daniel Levy. He’s who signs and sells. That’s why we are wher we are.
And one for Reguilon who is joining Atletico?
Exactly. The defensive deadwood remain.
Wow, what can I say, except that these comments are true to form for this site of negativity
Conte has said we’ll replace any outs. So when Tanganga goes, lets see. They will be added to the four you mentioned plus Lenglet.
Two signings by the 1st, bookmark it. One for JT, one for Gil
I’m here on earth mate. Different planet from you clearly.