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Post by RobEG on Aug 16, 2024 9:44:15 GMT
Re Odobert.
That's come out of nowhere, and not sure if its good or bad. I assume Ange wants him and its some squad depth, so good enough for me!
On the downside, I see Merse has predicted we'll finish top 4. Prepare for a relegation battle.
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Post by zisssou on Aug 16, 2024 9:44:46 GMT
I thought Villa did pretty well selling Diaby for that amount. He looked OK, but Bailey is decent. Onana a good buy considering they sold Luiz.
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Post by Syrette on Aug 16, 2024 9:55:31 GMT
All those players at Chelsea and not a decent striker to speak of. Nkunku? Not an out and out centre forward, admittedly.
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Post by A46Matt on Aug 16, 2024 9:58:00 GMT
Yep Odobert is a surprise signing for sure. I think we’ve got a pretty well balanced squad now. Just need to offload Lo Celso and maybe Skipp (homegrown requirements depending) and only place we really need cover/competition for now is for Udogie. Has been quite the squad transformation in a short period of time.
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Post by RobEG on Aug 16, 2024 10:22:25 GMT
Yep Odobert is a surprise signing for sure. I think we’ve got a pretty well balanced squad now. Just need to offload Lo Celso and maybe Skipp (homegrown requirements depending) and only place we really need cover/competition for now is for Udogie. Has been quite the squad transformation in a short period of time. I think Solomon will probably be on his way out too. Then hopefully we can use some of the youngsters as additional squad options. I'm actually feeling quite optimistic. Looking forward to European football again.
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Post by mikeck on Aug 16, 2024 10:23:01 GMT
We cannot get rid of Skipp at the moment due to the homegrown regulations. We have loads of youth coming up, and some of these young signings now might tick some of the trained as homegrown boxes, but we've been left in such a sorry state for homegrown players in the current first team squad.
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Post by A46Matt on Aug 16, 2024 10:37:03 GMT
Completely forgot about Soloman. I know we’re in quite the pickle homegrown wise and it only gets more complex for the Europa squad rules too.
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Post by RobEG on Aug 16, 2024 10:40:32 GMT
Skipp is a decent shout for playing in European games anyway. I know he's another who gets a lot of stick, but he's a solid (if unspectacular) performer and with some regular games will probably improve.
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Post by mikeck on Aug 16, 2024 10:44:39 GMT
Completely forgot about Soloman. I know we’re in quite the pickle homegrown wise and it only gets more complex for the Europa squad rules too. Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to Spursplain to you There was a really useful article by Alaistair Gold the other day explaining the homegrown issue and it is a minefield to navigate (I won't link it as Football London is a fucking misery of pop-ups). I think Spurs are now doing everything they can to avoid this issue in the future, let's hope! I'm all for bringing KWP and Marcus Edwards back just to allow us to have them as homegrown/club trained players and alleviate that pressure. I do also think they would be useful squad additions and not just strategic signings too
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Post by RobEG on Aug 16, 2024 12:31:13 GMT
I think I read that article. Well about half of it before the pop ups made it unreadable I can't see us doing much more business now. An upgrade on Biss would be great, but I can't imagine there are many of those players around and available. Hoping Bentancur can stay fit this season.
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Post by RobEG on Aug 16, 2024 12:33:03 GMT
I wonder what the Levy out brigade make of this summer. I mean we're clearly building towards a longer term plan by buying young players, but have also spent big on a striker we really needed and offloaded some excess players. Surely not much to complain about....
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Post by cristar on Aug 16, 2024 13:41:49 GMT
All those players at Chelsea and not a decent striker to speak of. Nkunku? Not an out and out centre forward, admittedly. Yeah he is pretty utility across the whole attack. Was interested to see how he'd do in the prem, but didn't play at all last season.
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Post by A46Matt on Aug 16, 2024 16:19:02 GMT
I think I read that article. Well about half of it before the pop ups made it unreadable I can't see us doing much more business now. An upgrade on Biss would be great, but I can't imagine there are many of those players around and available. Hoping Bentancur can stay fit this season. Football London is only readable in reader view. Horrible mess of a site. A pre-injury Bentancur would be a bonus, think he’ll start in place of Bissouma on Monday. The Levy out brigade would still be mad if we had signed Mbappe as they would have no doubt pointed out that we had missed out on player x instead. As I said before our squad turnaround has been impressive. Now just gotta hope results follow.
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Aug 16, 2024 18:01:36 GMT
A simple VAR flow chart for us to cut out and keep - and no doubt bin about 20 mins into tonight's game.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Aug 16, 2024 18:22:19 GMT
Sancho not in the squad at all. Definitely goodbye then.
A reasonably exciting team been put out tonight. Minus the no real striker part.
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Post by Frog on Aug 16, 2024 18:38:33 GMT
Not sure who will want him.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Aug 16, 2024 18:45:42 GMT
PSG seems to be the rumour. Absolutely no idea why though. Probably bullshit.
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Post by Frog on Aug 16, 2024 18:50:40 GMT
Didn't they just sign a winger though? If they want to swap him for Ugarte and a bit of money I am all for it.
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Post by rftp on Aug 16, 2024 18:53:31 GMT
Yeah, seems like a good deal, get it done.
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Post by Tuffty on Aug 16, 2024 18:57:35 GMT
Yeh dunno how true it is about Sancho going to PSG, supposedly as part of the deal with getting Ugarte. I know there's plenty interest on our side but haven't heard anything from PSG.
I know it's always been his way for a while so this is a cold take, but fuck me there's some amount of ads for gambling aren't there? Paddy Power into BetFair to move back to Sky Sports coverage who are plugging their own Super Six to then another ad break for Bet365.
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Post by baihu1983 on Aug 16, 2024 19:06:01 GMT
Skipp is a decent shout for playing in European games anyway. I know he's another who gets a lot of stick, but he's a solid (if unspectacular) performer and with some regular games will probably improve. At times he shows promise. Rest of the time the guy comes off as another Winks. But yeah he needs regular football so hopefully he can stay injury free.
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Post by reddevil93 on Aug 16, 2024 19:41:59 GMT
What a bizarre yellow. Wasn’t a pen sure, but wasn’t a dive.
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Aug 16, 2024 19:49:44 GMT
Our press seems much improved. We're winning the ball high up the pitch a lot more in this game than I can remember us doing in a single half before.
Desperately need someone to be getting 20+ goals for us this season though. Fernandes needs to be relied on for chances, not goals. Doesn't help that we've managed to start the season without a fit striker.
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Post by cristar on Aug 16, 2024 19:50:51 GMT
We probably should be winning with the Bruno chances. It's mostly slow and stagnant though. You wouldn't know Mount was playing aside from getting a stupid yellow.
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 16, 2024 19:51:20 GMT
Best first half of a first game of a season I’ve seen in years. I hope this is a sign of things to come👍
That’s me being postive guys 😊
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 16, 2024 19:52:59 GMT
Though, Mount is still sabitzer ordered from wish…
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Post by Solid-SCB- on Aug 16, 2024 19:56:40 GMT
We've put one or two nice moves together. Won the ball in dangerous places a lot too. The balance is just off because we're having to play with two midfielders as a makeshift strike force.
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 16, 2024 20:01:30 GMT
We've put one or two nice moves together. Won the ball in dangerous places a lot too. The balance is just off because we're having to play with two midfielders as a makeshift strike force. Agreed, Poundland sabitzer needs to get off the pitch 👍
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Post by clemfandango on Aug 16, 2024 20:13:54 GMT
Casemiro has been immense
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Post by askew on Aug 16, 2024 20:33:12 GMT
Casemiro has been immense Savour it, before the workload catches up with him.
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