According to Spanish outlet AS, Juan Foyth could well be on his way out of Tottenham and out of the country. Villa Real are the club with the interest, an according to the report, the Castellón side have been a fan of the boy since he was at Estudiantes de la Plata, but the fees were always too high.
This would be a great help out for Spurs who are desperately looking to free up money in order to move again in the summer market.
What is galling in all this, is that according to the All or Nothing series, Steve Hitchen has been aware of the need to provide a back-up striker since last year, and yet here we are again. Scrambling about in the dying embers of the window, being linked with some frankly mediocre frontmen and failing to even get one of them over the line.
With Daniel Levy’s words echoing in our ears about fans having little or no grasp of the complexities involved, it appears laughable as rivals spend without much fuss at all.
I thought Leeds wanted him for around £12m?
As for the meanderings below I thought Cullen was now Levy’s chief scout.
Cant remember the exact quote but she talked of spotting young players and all would be fine.
Well Mourinho did target him when Utd played AJax so he could see a problem with him. The question is can he and his staff coach the mistakes out of Sanchez?
The player , to my untutored eye, who needs some proper coaching is Sanchez. He is very quick for a CB and naturally strong, but he seems to me to have been badly coached. His mistakes are generally because he gets caught ball watching and gets the wrong side of his man which he generally gets away with due to his pace, but he also lacks concentration. I am sure these faults can be ironed out with some proper coaching. If I can see it, surely the coaching team can do the same.
To clarify, I would prefer he stayed at CB to develop, rather than switching to RB one week and back to CB next game. Jose must have confidence in Tanganga to use him as RB/ LB although he has been a CB.
personally I see him as a CB, but as you say, if he can be coached.
If he can be coached to play the percentages properly, he will be a fine player. Looks comfortable on the ball. Needs to play in the one position rather than switching from RCB to RB/ RWB. Loan with no option to purchase is the best option for us.
I think any player that only plays 4 games a season would struggle, especially in defence. I think he has so much potential, he still an excellent reader of the game for his age. He needs chances, I hope this turns into a loan rather than a sale.
The way he plays at the moment is not up to the speed of the Premier League. Then again neither was Son when he first arrived. Son has adapted and I think Foyth can too. However it will take a decent run of games to achieve this and it doesn’t look like time is on his side. He has a tendency to back himself on low percentage options and gets caught out.
Quite agree. What’s the point of selling him for peanuts? There is still potential in the lad and he has said the he wants to stay. We have a thin enough squad and we have plenty of games to play. Then again as the eighth richest club in the world, we have to sell before we buy.
In all honesty, what would we get? £5m and maybe £15k pw off the books? Great to shift dead weight (if they believe he is, i personally think he is a player we will regret losing).
As you have said in other posts HH, this is not about Covid, its about Spurs and ENIC. Clubs far poorer than us, in far worse situations than us, have spent more than us year on year and yet…still not done a leeds. In actual fact, only Leeds has ever done a leeds in the history of the PL.
Not with Steve Bruce either.
Not with Ashley there, who strangely enough is a real Spurs fan.
Then he entirely fits the cheapskate chairman’s parameters. The only employee who is paid the market rate, in fact more than the market rate, is Mourinho. Spoilt by Poch’s success operating on a transfer shoestring, yet still attaining four CL qualifications, Levy has figured out in his own labyrinthine Machiavellian mind that if he pays top dollar for a good manager, they can perform miracles with the current squad without noticeably spending any money. He is in for a rude awakening.
The invention of the video loop was a wondrous thing
Nice gig if you enjoy watching videos of young men running around in shorts.
This All or Nothing series is something of an open wound for Spurs fans. Causes a reaction each time something sensitive is exposed, prodded and poked.
Hehehehehe precisely, come the revolution I’m going to install the Go Compare bloke as our chief scout.
Sid James Park is a trophy free zone, a bit like Spurs. Seems that they want to change that and bring back the glory days last seen at the turn of the last century..
The thieving bar steward.
If you compare Mitchell’s CV with Hitchen’s, you’ll see there is nothing to compare.
Except Stevie Halitosis is probably earning about £35,000 + expenses.
Even NUFC have spent £33 mill on two players and have signed Ryan Fraser on a free. Perhaps St James Park is a Covid free zone? We have needed a back up striker for Kane for several seasons, let alone since last season. I haven’t watched the Amazon documentary as I don’t need to be persuaded what a despicable little runt Levy is, but Hitchen strikes me as another of Levy’s glove puppets without any discernible autonomy over any transfer decisions, rather like the entire board. Levy doesn’t like employees who are independently minded, like Paul Mitchell.