Transfer thread

[metalgear]

I value Romero more.... a lot more actually.

I'd be happy to sell VDV if a high fee was offered. He isn't a great central defender and relies on his pace instead of good positioning. I think we look better defensively when Romero partners Danso.

i know we disagree on this one but i think its worth mentioning that romero has huge faults - reckless fouls, impulsively gets drawn out of position, slow to release to attack, can't head the ball and over confident which makes him prone to losing simple balls.

i'd rather keep one of a kind VDV and pair him with a CB like danzo or dragusin or palhinha. pace allows us to keep a high line, throw more bodies forward and a great insurance policy.

 

[glasgowspur]

i know we disagree on this one but i think its worth mentioning that romero has huge faults - reckless fouls, impulsively gets drawn out of position, slow to release to attack, can't head the ball and over confident which makes him prone to losing simple balls.

i'd rather keep one of a kind VDV and pair him with a CB like danzo or dragusin or palhinha. pace allows us to keep a high line, throw more bodies forward and a great insurance policy.

I think having vdvs pace beside him makes Romero more prone to switching off and charging out of position, he has an insurance policy.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Veliz was actually close to EPL level/looked ok in cameos. Gedson though by comparison had clearly never played the sport in his life and was just a love child of Jorge Mendes or something

Hard to see him as EPL level with 2 goals in 25 appearances in European football, probably he's happier in Argentina.

 

[Finney Is Back]

i know we disagree on this one but i think its worth mentioning that romero has huge faults - reckless fouls, impulsively gets drawn out of position, slow to release to attack, can't head the ball and over confident which makes him prone to losing simple balls.

i'd rather keep one of a kind VDV and pair him with a CB like danzo or dragusin or palhinha. pace allows us to keep a high line, throw more bodies forward and a great insurance policy.

Romero is a FAR more creative passer than VDV and his getting drawn out of position is usually because he is trying to cover for VDVs terrible positioning. VDV has pace, which is valuable in a high line team but of little use in a team that doesn’t play that way. I’d probably rather use VDV as a left back.

 

[Bishop]

This resonates with me. It's the quality over quantity argument.

What happens if Spurs buy 2 players in a summer window of the quality you talk about. Then in the January window they buy just one, again of this elite quality. Alongside, keep buying these younger players (e.g. Souza) and nurturing them whilst selling players for the types of money we got for Johnson.

I've lost count of the sheer number of players Spurs buy. They take their budgets and they spread them way too thin and it hurts us on the pitch. As City have just shown, I don't think you need to be spending £100m on every signing but there is that high end price you need to pay.

If we follow this model for 3-5 years then our club will find itself in a different place.

Too much sensible squad building suggested in this post. We won't do it.

 

[Bishop]

From what I understand, the wage structure is the reason why we don't follow that pattern. The reasoning behind that is that if you 'break the bank' for one player, then others will start asking for bigger wages and your expenditure will spiral out of control. I think Middlesboro and Leeds set up an example of a route a lot of chairmen didn't want to follow.

Unfortunately, we went a bit too far in the other direction. You can't have a team entirely made up of prospects. It's not the 90s anymore and what Ferguson did at ManUtd won't happen again. It's a different league now. You also need quality, experienced professionals with strong work ethics and winning habits in your squad and that's a balance we never managed to get right, unfortunately.

United didn't even do what we have tried. They actually had top class prospects with World Class potential (Giggs, Beckham and Scholes) aligned with an already high quality league winning and European competing side. It's not a comparable situation in any manner. If you do have players of that calibre then yes you can still do it managed properly and the players are integrated well.

 

[Bishop]

I am unsurprised and feel sorry for Frank.
We whiffed at the chance to get Semenyo in the early summer, and between MGW and Robertson, we seem to be getting stuck in 'transfers' which then fall apart for 'intangible' reasons.
I think the biggest 'crime' of this window happened in Oct/Nov with Paratici. Someone gave him an official job again and figured he was spearheading movement in this and the summer windows, someone didn't either read the man or the room, he essentially dumps us at the first sniff of better (if you believe the rumours because he felt manager and Lange should be punted), so the guy whose basket we put our eggs in has essentially downed tools, meaning the most we can do is put him on a short-term 'freeze' and try to muddle our way through things last-minute.
If generous, you'd say this is the new 'structure' finding their feet. I think it's a mess TBH.

It all feels quite normal to me. When aren't we a mess?