Jase

He would be what Oscar was to Mourinho. 👀

How did we get into a situation with so many of our defenders are left with only 1-2 years on their contract!?

100 million is not that much of a difference from what they will receive next year when Haaland's release clause, is it? Also makes no sense for them to accept 100 million + Abraham when they can go get another a striker for a cheaper price (e.g. Andre Silva) than what we value Abraham if they receive 150 million+.

And we didn't even win that game against Bolton. 🤣 Conceded a stoppage time equalizer.

Oh. Do you have a link to the story?

I don't want to see another essay-esque response. 🥶

TBF, Fonseca had a good reputation before he went to Roma. Not sure his reputation has really gone south after the stint at Roma but on paper at least, think he fits what Levy wants at Spurs. And given what Spurs can and can't afford financially, they were never going to attract a top class manager and they have always been a club who build up good teams but never have enough about them to go on and win titles.

I want to say a bit more but I will not. 🤐

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Perhaps so but it still would have been interesting to see if he could have built on that 2018/19 form last season had he not suffered that injury. And funnily enough, what you described there kinda fits with Pulisic this past season as well.

Inclined to agree about Real Madrid and Barcelona but gotta say, players who some times just join them are as idiotic as those clubs. As for competing with others, not sure if our chances are as good as anyone else. Take the Haaland situation for example. How many people are actually confident that we can sign him if we have to compete with others (e.g. next summer)? You have people declaring it's now or never with him, even though he will cost less next year. Clubs like City and United can match our spending power if they want to and in cases like City, they even have the manager to pull players their way. On top of that, even though we have been successful under Roman, our instability, constant chopping and changing can probably be a turn off for some. Van Dijk, for example, preferred to go to Liverpool because of Klopp and the stability of their club, even though we never really submitted a bid for him. Lampard played his part but so did the pandemic. In Havertz's case, there were clubs that wanted him but none could afford him last year but us. Bayern Munich, for example, were hoping for Havertz to stay another season at Leverkusen so that they could get him this summer but he didn't and their hopes went out of the window. As for Werner, Liverpool pulling out of the deal might have also played its part. I know they still ended up buying Jota but they were able to arrange to pay his transfer fee in installments compared to Werner's because he had a release clause and Leipzig wanted the 50 million paid immediately, which of course was no problem for us. In the end, I guess both did not regret their decision considering what we won last month. In fact, one of them even said it loud and clear earlier this week.

Wonder if Loftus-Cheek was cursing his luck at any point over the past year or so. He was one of the most recent academy players to actually break into the first team first but now finds himself on the outside looking in after suffering an injury that was no fault of his own. It must hurt in some ways for him to see Mount, James, CHO, Abraham (despite his fortunes under Tuchel) establish themselves in the first team and win the Champions League last month. He could have so easily been part of the team had it not been for the injury.

You don't say... 🤣

Drama in the France camp...

Yeah, I mean you're not declaring it's now or never with Hakimi, are you? Or worrying that we might lose out to PSG on Hakimi like you do with Haaland? 🤪

Still wouldn't consider Hakimi in that category. I guess we just have different definition of "fantasy signing" here. 🙂

How is that even controversial? 🤣

Still. I don't think Hakimi is considered too big for our club or someone you wouldn't have imagined us signing a month ago or something.

Okay....not sure if I agree with that at all but for argument's sake, even if he is, he's not the Messi or Ronaldo of a wing back and his price tag is hardly astronomical compared to Haaland for example.

I'd argue that the Kante back in 2016 didn't have the same reputation as the Kante now, even though he was already good/great then. But even if you include him, that's just like 2 players in almost a decade.

How is Hakimi considered a fantasy signing?

Those are different circumstances. My point is simply that if we have to compete with others to sign someone big, we don’t seem capable to successfully complete the transfer, for one reason or another. Our last successful signing when it comes actually beating others was Hazard IIRC. And I wouldn’t consider Hakimi in this circumstance. He’s not that big name of a player.