With the departure of young Troy Parrott to Millwall for the 2020/21 season in order to make good his name, once again spurs are left with no credible back-up options when it comes to either resting or rotating Harry Kane.
As we discovered earlier today, the games next term will come thick and fast, with Spurs facing no less than 3 qualifying rounds before being admitted to the Europa League proper. Whilst Mourinho has a surfeit of attacking midfielders, when it comes to out and out strikers, there’s nothing there. Nothing.
Simon Jones then, for the Daily Mail then, suggests that Watford might sell us Troy Deeney. I can feel the collective sharp intake of breath.
Context is our friend in most instances and that’s the case here. Deeney isn’t what I would describe as an amazing footballer, but he’d be preferable to a Fernando Llorente type character, and he’d be cheaper to run than Callum Wilson. Watford have averaged about 10+/- goals a season from Deeney and now at 33, if used more judiciously, could well do a job for Spurs.
Not the signing one would expect a club with a billion pound stadium to make, but needs drive as the devil must.
He does seem nice and genuine. He scraps too. We need better though if we intend to compete with the big boys. 10 goals a season and thats him playing every game.
I look back fondly to the eighties when we won 3 trophies in that decade. In those days we bought top quality players and it repaid us with the cups, both home and Europe.
Lets be honest ENIC never buy by quality anymore, they buy cheap, long before the new stadium and this pandemic. They will just use it as another excuse. Loaning/buying the likes of Deeney will get us nowhere. It’s another penny pinching deal that will make it unlikely that Kane will get rested or rotated much, just like with Llorente. Short sighted and stupid in the extreme.
I’ve met troy. My mates son kyle (poet&vuj) interviewed him earlier in the year. Proper nice bloke. He’d jump at the chance to play for Tottenham
Yes… But didn’t buy them, we bought cheap and poch turned them into good players. Poch was happy to build a project, Jose will not stick around to build players, so we will see a lot of 30 something’s this summer.
He’s better than nothing.. I can think of loads more who I’d prefer though.. Deeney is the English Giroud to sum him up.. He is physical, slow, strong, good in the air. Can come up with the odd goal but can get outplayed completely by top defenders.. Not good enough. We will carry on winning nothing buying average players from average teams… Deeney is great for watford, like Rasiak was for derby. Mediocre at the top level…. Someone like Vardy would give Maureen dangerous options. Theres nothing wrong with having two quality strikers with different styles. Its needed…… All this rubbish about our ‘back up’ striker has to be a bit budget because Kane has to play up top every game is madness…. The ropey league is stacked, we have 3 qualifiers before the group then they come thick and fast… We could really do with 3 strikers. One injury or 2 injuries and we are strikerless again.
I seem to remember a time not very long ago when we stocked virtually the entire England team at the height of the Poch era.
😆 He gets me everytime.
It’s not a far fall… It’s just penny dropping. Spurs been fighting on scraps for years.
Perhaps we could also change our strip to yellow and get relegated next season? Is this really what it has come to – scrabbling around for 33 year olds from relegated clubs. How the mighty have fallen. Levy will be sending around a begging bowl next or opening a crowd funding site online.
Yep I did, scary to have a Levy lookalike on the touchline, bad enough having the real thing in the stadium. The anti-Christ himself, destroyer of THFC.
As said on another post. Not a fan of deeney, but where we are as a club, and a squad, with our chairman, he seems a good shout. He is trouble for any defender, good to come on to change the dynamic up front, and generally plays with a lot of passion. Lacks the real quality, but beggars can’t be choosers.
I think dacoure is worth a look too.
Has anyone noticed the new physio or medic who is the spitting image of levy? I kept on thinking it was him in a mask and tracksuit.
No way the club is going to lose 200m as reported…they just won’t make as much as normal without full attendants and CL…They’ve taken the loan as easy money… funny how they can fund the flat and shop development down the road, that’s still going ahead…
Nothing wrong with having ambition …..(as I sink to my knees ! )
I fully understand what Levy is, what our club is, but is what we are being fed by the club genuine (that we can’t invest because of CV19) or just a big cover up? A bit like the disasterous austerity policies driven down American throats after the Depression and our throats after 2008. We’ve taken a £175m loan when Chelsea have spent. If things were so bad, Chelsea would have held on to their money to counter the CV19 loss, but they haven’t. I don’t trust Levy as far as I can pick him up, but are fans being lied to, exploited, both, or are these genuinely ‘unprecedented’ times? Being cynical at everything Levy turns his goblin hands to, I choose the former, but in that case questions need to be asked of him.
We could do a lot worse, at the very least you get maximum effort, might even shame Tanguy into action. If you had Troy breathing down your neck you’d get a move on.
just seen a link for us to loan Deeney, better than nothing..?
The answer is really simple. Levy runs the club like a business and is only interested in making money. Chelsea/Liverpool run their clubs like a football club and win trophies which leads to more money. Why win trophies when you can make money instead?
It’s possible as the transfer window doesn’t close until the middle of October for Premier League transfers and the season starts in the middle of September. Saw on online article where some expert says that there will be few actual transfers and a lot more loans with options to buy like Lo Celso and Gedson. That suits the penny pincher.
Who wants a fiver we start the season with 1 Striker…??
I think a club of our stature (alleged) needs at the very least a quality international (one who actually plays in the major tournaments or has played for any of the Home nations at international level, as our second striker. It’s not a case of just back-up to Kane anymore, with the number of games upcoming whomever it is will get a lot of playing time (hopefully). I’d take him as a third striker though.
CV-19 has hit us hard. We even took a £175m loan with the caveat of do not expect to sign anyone decent, hence the Deeney link. However, Chelsea go through the same pandemic and have still used the Hazard funds to buy in Pulisic, Werner and Ziyech. They will also look to buy others of quality. Whether it be Havertz, Oblak or Chilwell, these are players we know of and have considerable qualities. How are Chelsea surviving this pandemic when we have been spun an endless tale of woe? Didn’t we earn more money than them last year and have a lighter wage bill, yet these guys are giving an inexperienced and downright grumpy Lampard a fighting chance? Mourinho gets scraps. It is embarrassing at the moment.
Seems very wedded to Watford, but he could be a useful addition, not just for his goals, but for his fiery attitude and leadership. The fact that he will stand up to authority even at his own club probably means he wouldn’t be welcome.
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