Fans are routinely moaning and groaning about transfers. One, because they tend to have no real concept of the business of making the financial outlay, and two, because there are so many components that can go into making a deal work. However, there is one route that makes life easier. Pay the asking price for a player that one believes will make an immediate positive impact upon the squad.
Tottenham has been looking for an out-and-out striker who can share the burden with Harry Kane for many years. Numerous attempts have been made, but with little or no success, Soldado, Janssen, and Vinicius are but three recent misfiring efforts.
The line ‘so ‘oo would yew pick then, Mr know-it-all’ has been thrown at me more than once, and I am fond of reminding the intellectuals asking that until I get paid the big bucks, why would I do it for free.
Here’s an exceptional pick that it would be churlish to keep to myself. The boy is perfect and has all the qualities that the club (and ENIC) would seek and would, I believe, also be a crowd-pleaser.
Ben Brereton is the name. Stoke, born, playing for Blackburn, who paid Nottingham Forest in the region of £7million for the boy. The striker has now shot to the top of the Championship scoring charts with ten goals from 11 games so far, alongside Fulham’s Aleksandar Mitrovic.
So he’s cheap as chips, and at 22-years of age, he fits neatly into Daniel Levy’s file marked, ‘nice little earner’.
Thanks to his mother’s South American blood, Ben represents Chile, and as you can see, he’s scored for them too. Physical, yet with an elegant touch, and at a price you can afford.
Crack on, Fabio.
Good vid. Some nice goals. It’s a big step up to the Prem though. Gregory Raisak was one who struggled.. I had big hopes for Ryan Sessy too, watched him score and assist in the play off semi final, and scored the winner in the final knocking out Villa. He scored 15 odd goals from the wing and was the youngest championship player of the year ever at 19 yrs old.. Yet the lads been poor what’s happened to him?
He’s not foreign he just plays for them.
Trouble is Danny gets so bogged down in the finances he forgets about the player. In the end the discount, pay method or loan blinds him.
Definitely need 2 strikers in.
Do you mean Steve Hodge?
I’ve learnt that where Spurs are concerned a Spurs player is only Spurs player when he’s in the shirt running out of the tunnel. Anything else …. Pah !
I think we should look into Scamacca at Sassuolo. They call him the new Kane in Italy. He plays with intensity and has an excellent long shot.
Vlahovic as the poor man’s Haaland is the obvious one. Get both of them in.
Jovic on loan is another option short term.
Cheeky bid for Calvert-Lewin, Dele plus cash.
No change there in recruitment dept, didn’t we famously buy Steve Hodgson from Nottingham Forest because he had one good game against us, David Bentley was much the same.
5Live last night was said before United bought Wan-Bissaka they had a spread sheet containing over five hundred right backs.
Paralysis by analysis. Still hard to beat actually watching a player regularly..
C-Ship strikers can be very hit and miss, though so can foreign players too. It’s a conundrum.
‘Pay the asking price for a player that one believes will make an immediate positive impact upon the squad.’
That generally happens one time out of ten with Daniel. Poor scouting along with spreadsheet analysis of the deal rather than the appropriate considerations over the football aspects of it. 22 years and counting…
Remember that old conundrum who would come to Spurs to play second fiddle to Harry Kane.
Well I think Levy has solved the problem.
My tip to the Spurs scouting dept aka Mr Levy, free of charge, Kyogo Furuhashi of Celtic.
Lightning quick, always on the move, runs beyond defenders, small but an excellent header of the ball.