The January transfer window is set to open in a couple of weeks, allowing Tottenham Hotspur to part ways with players who have no future with manager Antonio Conte. According to The Athletic, Spurs are allowing midfielder Dele Alli to leave.
Alli started well this season under former manager Nuno Espirito Santo, but under Conte, the 25-year-old appears to be less involved and doesn’t seem to be part of the future.
In the past, chairman Daniel Levy refused to let Dele leave amid interest for the midfielder. However, it seems as though the managing director of football, Fabio Paratici, has convinced Levy to part ways with the England international.
Furthermore, Levy and Tottenham might have to accept the reality that no club is willing to spend a sum on Dele. As a result, they’ll have to be content with a loan and hope he can rediscover his former elsewhere and sell him since Dele is under contract until 2024.
Carrick, Bale, Modric, Berbatov, Walker. these were spread out over period of about 16 years, and I can’t think of any others…
Verts and Toby were both great for several seasons under Pochettino, but did any top club come with in with a bid? They were all very good, but let’s remember, Dembele for example was doing ok for Fulham and was in his mid 20”s when he moved. Nobody else went for him.
So is Gollini I think, coming out if the Utd academy. He’s not very good but he’s part of the homegrown quota. Bit like Hart…
i thought there was something different in place if that was the scenario, if you played U18 for the same football association that runs the league. Might be wrong.
Thankfully the penny has dropped with the majority of the fan base, finally.
Looking forward to the new centre back, creative midfielder and striker coming in January. Can’t wait, what a nice post Christmas boost that will be. 🎄🎅🎁
N’jie, how have you forgotten about him already EM?
And I give you Carrick. As I say, you can pick your players to suit your argument. However, there are the other players who’ve been great value, even if we have not gone on and sold them to big name clubs. You could pick Vertonghen, Toby, Dembele, Eriksen.
Loads of no hopers, I don’t think they’re signed for football reasons. They have to fit an age, salary and potential resale profit criteria. It’s like buying stocks and shares, you buy lots of low cost/risk shares and hope a few of them come up trumps. Pure speculation.
It’s quite ridiculous, if you are serious about winning something. Which is why I don’t think I ownership are bothered about trophies, only maintaining the business model.
What about the French bargain basement players like Noclue and the other one who’s name escapes me, and Chirices was another.
Funny how nobody took him then, although he went to Newcastle .
We are a safe haven for the perennial under achiever…
That’s about it, in truth. Problem is most of them think they are Man City Liverpool material.
Huddlestone, Dawson, Livermore, Mason, Capoue and Sissoko to name but a few.
Sure, once every 5-10 years a player leaves that’s good enough to go to a competitive side. Most of them disappeared down the pyramid. Only to be replace with more of the same by Baldy…
Yup
Agreed. Rose is a great example of how Levy and his executive staff mismanaged the playing personnel.
Funny how so many of our players go to Arsenal, City, Manure, Inter, Madrid, Athletico and Seville and do well and win stuff. There was a time when Rose would have been able to get a better berth than Watford. It’s just a matter of picking players to suit your argument.
Funny how many of our players go to teams like Watford and Hull when they move on. Playing for a club of Spurs’ profile can lead one to believe that these players are better than they actually are.
Hardly surprising that we don’t win stuff with a squad chiefly made up of Hull & Watford level players…
Pochettino hugely overachieved. Turned Walker, Rose, Dier, and many others into top class players for a decent stretch of time. Chronic underinvestment ultimately resulted in him failing but that’s due to that imbecile Levy.
There’s an ideal world, then there’s Levy world.
Pochettino made it work with that group of players at a certain age. Once they got older, we’re not replaced or churned and Pochettino left after not being backed, they got found out. Some of them will never get back to that level…
13 Covid cases in the squad a and we’re ready to play professional football 10 days later. Better jab up these younger age groups eh? Never know, one in 100,000 might end up in hospital with it… 🤔
The amount of players who’ve been kept too long at the club is almost criminal, the clubs lack of foresight of not realising when to move players on has been the main issue for this.
Rose for example wanted out years ago and was causing problems, yet he was kept on the books to fester up until last summer, others have gone but we still have some such as Dele who clearly need to move on.
I think so too. Can’t see him needing to have signed for us otherwise, even for 15m per season. Spam are no different to us with a decent first team and a paper thin squad now showing it’s cracks.
As much as I detest the chavs, they have an owner committed to winning and who understands the best way to do that is to have real football expertise running the operation. Our micro-managing dips*** couldn’t be more polar opposite.
Spurs have seriously mismanaged Dele and the rest of the squad for about 5-6 years. These players are assets but Levy has never been in the real world when valuing them. Not everyone can be sold for a world record fee and top quality players are rarely bought at cost. At one point we could have got £50-60m for him. Now, he is worth £15-20m but who would pay good money for him? Then again, Alex Iwobi was sold to Everton for nearly £30m so if we can find an idiot to sell him to we might get a decent price.
Dele’s star waned years ago, yet fans held out for a rebirth (some still do). I can’t blame them, but it was obvious 3 years ago for me that Dele wasn’t turning in to the player we all dreamed he could be. That is when he needed to be sold. A good football brain in the club would have known that but we had Levy! In respect to a loan, I can’t see him making a success of it in England. He should go abroad and try to start again. l can see him ending up in Turkey like Sturridge.
I look at Chelsea and see how they handle players. Would they have done the same as Spurs with this lad? Of course not. They move players on and they do it quickly. Some transfers work out, some don’t (that is football) but rarely do you see a Chelsea player seeing out his contract and wasting away at the club. They might do it on loan, but the First team players and the young scholars do not see them ‘polluting’ the training ground. I would like that message to be repeated by ourselves. Man Utd did it with Sanchez (too late to be fair), Arsenal should do it with PEA and hopefully we can start with Dele and include a few more.
I think I read yesterday his value is down to around £25m
There was a story going round last year that Levy wouldnt sanction a move to PSG now I am hoping it was down to an unfair offer but the story said he wanted £85m
Just to clarify after checking, Ben is considered homegrown in the EPL but foreign in European competitions.
Not me guv !
Let him go on loan in the Championship.I’d like to see him try his flicks and tricks on some of those gnarled pros in that league.We’re probably stuck with him until his contract expires whenever that is.
Conte will do similar. Some medium to heavy tweaking. After one or two summer windows we will be a different outfit… Everyones saying how great Spam have been, and how rubbish we’ve been. Yet we can go above them with our games in hand.. Reality is that players will come and go. Conte wouldn’t be our manager if he had zero control over signings.
Not sure why the two posts above are down voted ☝.. They are correct… Dier counts as foreign, Davies is homegrown.
Journo-World. Most of them make it up as they go along.
That’s an alternate reality.
Davies is definitely homegrown.
I did say in an ideal world.. Lol.
Dier is foreign actually I always forget he was at Lisbons academy.
Dele started well ! In what universe did he start or finish a game well in the past 18 months ?
a loan deal is all we’ll get because nobody in their right mind would pay actual money for him.
Are Dier and Davies home grown ?
I’d like some of what you’re on please.Sadly none of that will happen,except hopefully the selling part.
If we can shift some more English homegrown, and replace with high quality English then we would soon be strong… In an ideal world sell Dier/Davies, Winks, Dele….. Replace with Conor Coady, Declan Rice and Kalvin Phillips.. 3 players right there would give us the spine needed…. And get Rudiger in the summer. And Vlahovic.. And Kane stays and returns to form….. If we end up (next season) signing the likes of Belotti, Zouma and Traore and Conte walks then I’m not sure I could take it.