If we don't get money to spend now, it may never be happening. This opportunity with an already talented team in a new stadium, with one of the best coaches in the world will not come very often in our lifetimes.
You’re in the champions league final for the first time, probably should sit back and enjoy it instead of stressing about the future. Even if you invest heavily you may never make it back.
We’re going to spend, we’re just not going to buy outside of our transfer protocol (young and cheap). I’d be shocked if we went over €30-35m for anyone.
I haven't looked at the books or anything, nor would I have any understanding if I did, but didn't Arsenal keep a tight budget post-move to the Emirates? Would we similarly be restricted?
I think Poch has said enough publicly to indicate something will happen. I'm not talking about signing proven top players. Young up and coming players like we have done in the past. Our books look amazing with one caveat. I have no idea what we are required to pay back on the stadium loan. We were the most profitable team in the PL last year and only gets better this year with CL money and the larger stadiums we played in this year.
I'll be upset if we don't spend over 40 on at least one player. Young and cheap is fine when you're adding depth but we need a quality starting midfielder, and we're not getting one of those on the cheap. If Eriksen gets sold then we'll need two new starting caliber players. If he goes though we'd at least have all the money we get for him to spend on new guys. But yeah champions league final first. Then we can get back to bitching about Levy.
agree with what others have said, but I'm pretty sure the TV deal is a lot better for EPL than when emirates was built. That said, Spur's new digs are more expensive...
You have to figure that if Eriksen and Toby go there will be at least 100+ million available. Not saying I wouldn't prefer to keep them, but throw in others like Janssen, Wanyama, etc. and even without net spend there will be money to do business. I would assume we will spend over and above that though. I would hope that if Eriksen goes that we do whatever we have to in order to bring in a Brandt, Ziyech, NDombele etc. We will need guys who are proven assist players.
What lineup do we go with assuming everyone is healthy? Big assumption obviously but might as well start this way being two weeks out. I don't see how you can drop Lucas after his semi performance but I also don't see how you don't start Kane is he's healthy. Maybe go with Eriksen in the midfield to start? Then you can move him forward later in the game and bring on a fresh midfielder (hopefully Winks). 4-2-3-1 Hugo Aurier Toby Jan Rose Sissoko Eriksen Lucas Dele Son Harry
this is the one i want to see, personally, maybe with eriksen shifted up and dropping dele a little further
To your point, does anyone know statistically if Eriksen has a bigger key pass/assist impact if he is forced to start so deep? I don't believe he has the same defensive chops or strength that Dele has, so I agree that Eriksen should be up and Dele can make those late incisive runs that will either by overlooked by the LIV backline or drag them out of shape. I'm getting hyped.
Hate to break it to you, but we aren’t signing guys like Ziyech or Ndombele. The transfer fee is one thing, but wages are an entirely different situation.
I'm not sure I'm comfortable starting Winks after he's been out for so long. If he's healthy enough to play though I'm definitely bringing him off the bench at some point. Whereas I am comfortable with starting Harry if he says he's ready to go.
Because if he starts, we have zero attacking threat off our bench. Eriksen also struggles to influence the game while playing deeper. I don’t think Winks is going to be ready to start fwiw.
I think Harry needs to start the match on the bench. He can come on at 65 minutes with fresh legs and play against a relatively tired defense. He always tries to rush back from injuries and if we start him I think it will hurt more than it helps. He won’t be match fit and he’ll be trying to force things like he always does after an injury.
We need size to challenge their back line. Kane is also arguably our best passer outside of Eriksen. Think you have to start him, but in Poch I trust.
Against a team that is almost assuredly going to score against us I’m not sitting our best goal scorer. And like owsley said he’s one of our best passers which can help spring counters. England is going to run him into the ground in the nations league less then a week later so I don’t think it’s rushing him back.
Unfortunately they’ll spend big this summer and be back in the top 4 next year. I hope I’m wrong but I doubt it.
They’ll spend big, but when haven’t they? I could possibly see them being better than Chelsea next year, but that’s it among the top clubs. Does Ole even make it to 2020?
Thanks to some Serie A magic, it looks like Spurs are guaranteed at worst pot 2 for the CL draw next year. Of course winning the damn thing would earn pot 1.
Holy complicated, Serie A. This will all clear up this coming Sunday, but someone did the maths on Roma's path to getting in to the fourth and final CL spot from Italy. I didn't realize they do H2H before GD for ranking. And IF Roma miracle in, then Chelsea can still beat Arsenal. And IF Arsenal win, Porto can still screw up on getting through two two-legged ties in August.
We're being linked with fuckin everyone. Every agent knows the situation that Levy is in: get players now or Poch could bolt. We have record profits and a deep run in the CL to line our pockets. So if an agent or team wants to raise the price of their outbound players, drop a little "Tottenham is being linked with" or "Spurs lead the race for" and watch the bids rise.
Ran into an extremely handsome gentleman in Wengen, Switzerland. We were both sporting Tottenham gear and had a good chat about the season. His girlfriend was beautiful and played like she cared about our convo as did my wife. A true top lad.
Kane says he’s fit for the final and will accept whatever Poch decides on: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48425345
I think we need a healthy Winks as much as anyone. Without him we have to play Eriksen deeper, and run a greater risk of being overrun in the midfield.
I’m sure if that happens Klopp won’t say anything about the length of time between the semis and the final
This doesn’t make sense. How does poking fun of Klopp blaming random things for losses have anything to do with Ajax?
You got your feelings hurt by something Klopp said at a presser just like when you got your feelings hurt when people were pointing out Ajax wasn't actually that great. Makes perfect sense.