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The transfer thread

harr1984 said:
Agreed. We do need a new no.2 for the long term, but don't think a January window is the time to visit that (unless an obvious candidate becomes available out of nowhere). I thought Foster would be a lot more dodgy than he has been, other than the Man U game he has been fine and if he was going to mess things up at least was in a game we was 3-0 up in. I don't think quality wise we would get a much better no.2 who just sits on the bench and plays some cup games, I guess someone younger who is better with the ball at his feet is what we will be looking for but it's hardly a priority....
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Ive seen us linked to a couple of keepers in the Championship that can wait till the summer or brought and loaned back.
If I was Trafford/Patterson, I am not sure I would want to leave now whilst fighting for a league winners medal anyway
 
thfcsteff said:
He cannot play with his feet either!!!!!!

As my friend just said, we're shopping at Poundland thanks to HG issues. And why haven't we had something lined up for weeks? Vic was hurt in Nov!!!!!
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We don’t have homegrown issues. We already have 3 spare places for overseas players in the PL squad and that’s with Regulion in there wasting one, so 4 in real terms.
 
Kandi1977 said:
Have we lost any points because we've had Forster instead of Vic? I can't think of any games we've lost because of the GK.
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Forster hadn’t been the issue
But also it’s impossible to quantify how much better or worse we are without Vicario because of everything else
Vic, IMO would have done better at the near post shot vs wolves. That’s an area he excels at
He is also better, although not perfect, at the passing out game
 
Raziel said:
And that's exactly why we should stay to fudge away .. he thinks "better things" are in line for him. Guy bring his own fudging circus as another negative.

I'm all for bringing in experience this window, but not rehab projects
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I’d argue the opposite. He isn’t interested in earning 4 times his take home salary in Saudi as he wants to try to pay his way back into the England set-up. I’d be far more worried about signing him if he was happy to move to Saudi.

I guarantee that if he had accepted a move to Saudi then you would be arguing the opposite and saying that showed why we were right not to go for him as his hunger has gone and he’s just after money.
 
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Bedfordspurs said:
Forster hadn’t been the issue
But also it’s impossible to quantify how much better or worse we are without Vicario because of everything else
Vic, IMO would have done better at the near post shot vs wolves. That’s an area he excels at
He is also better, although not perfect, at the passing out game
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No chance in hell any GK would have saved that shot. I was a one in a million hit. No one would have had time to react to that.
 
Kandi1977 said:
No chance in hell any GK would have saved that shot. I was a one in a million hit. No one would have had time to react to that.
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Dunno
We have seen Vic and others save shots like that just by being in the right place
It was a rocket I agree but Vicario makes a habit of coming out to them rather than going backwards like Forster or Hugo do
It’s by the by anyway. We can’t quantify what should have or would have happened
But I don’t think Forster has been the issue some thought he would be
 
Gutter Boy said:
Im starting to think we should just recall all of Keeley, Philips, Donely, Devine and Veliz, and blood the future through the second half of this season. Forge a young team for the next 7-8 years out of this adversity.
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All of them are better off playing regular men’s football than a few minutes here and there for us. Of the 5 of them probably only Phillips makes sense seeing as he has played regularly at Chanpionship level so the step up to PL is less severe and he also fills a position where he is likely to get a reasonable opportunity to start games for us.
 
Kandi1977 said:
I don't think GK is a priority at all in this window. Vic is back in training soon. Another 3-4 weeks and he's back.
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It's a double priority. 1. We need a backup who isn't a fundamentally different type of player (good with his feet, agile, vocal) to Vic, and 2. we need some competition for Vicario. It doesn't make sense to me with all the games we play that Forster, Whiteman and Austin are his only competition as none of them come close performance wise. Forster is a solid keeper but he's 37, and not a challenger to the no1 position.
 
January window is more about opportunities than priorities anyway.

A good handful of squad roles that would be useful to find another signing in. We should sign players for any of those roles where the best opportunity for a signing that makes sense short and long term is possible.

Fixing a problem is more important than what problem is fixed in January and where we are right now.
 
braineclipse said:
January window is more about opportunities than priorities anyway.

A good handful of squad roles that would be useful to find another signing in. We should sign players for any of those roles where the best opportunity for a signing that makes sense short and long term is possible.

Fixing a problem is more important than what problem is fixed in January and where we are right now.
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I think you've just summed up why it's so hard to get anyone positive this window. Short and longterm fixes are by their very nature expensive at the best of times, and, well, Tottenham.
 
Finney Is Back said:
I’d argue the opposite. He isn’t interested in earning 4 times his take home salary in Saudi as he wants to try to pay his way back into the England set-up. I’d be far more worried about signing him if he was happy to move to Saudi.

I guarantee that if he had accepted a move to Saudi then you would be arguing the opposite and saying that showed why we were right not to go for him as his hunger has gone and he’s just after money.
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I’d support any move of his to Saudi Arabia because you can guarantee he’d put a lot of the money to good use. The work he’s done/did for kids in Manchester is phenomenal.
 
braineclipse said:
We do have home grown/club trained issues in the EL. And it seems quite likely that the EL should be a real priority for us.
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There are only a tiny number of players that can address that issue (KWP, Edwards, Cirkin, Winks, Skipp, Kane). One is massively unrealistic and most of the rest wouldn’t improve us. Though I do think KWP would be a sensible signing to cover both left and right fullback positions.

We can also naturally perform better in the Europa by having a bigger PL squad which will mean the players are less fatigued for the Europa (as well as for the PL so win-win). There are also players we could swap out if the Europa squad for better/fitter ones while we retain the swapped out players in the PL squad.

Having 3 spaces for overseas players in the PL squad is massive (4 if we consider Regi to be a persona non grata). We also have 4 keepers in there so could not register one of those to register another association trained player.

If the club is serious about success then there is loads of wiggle room at Spurs in terms of spaces for players. Especially as all the youngsters in the squad are still u21 players next season.

The size of the wage bill and PSR is also not an excuse for us.
 
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Surfless said:
I think you've just summed up why it's so hard to get anyone positive this window. Short and longterm fixes are by their very nature expensive at the best of times, and, well, Tottenham.
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Add in Europe this year
No teams know their position for their current European campaign so may or may not sell on that basis
Historically they would know if they were out of the CL and need cash
 
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