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Transfer window thread?

Ive dont think Maddison is ready yet, is more of a prospect.

Would be a good buy for a season or so down the line, not as an immediate first team player.

More likely, if Lamela is to leave, Moura replaces him.
 
Maddison is unproven but great potential. Lamela is a top european player but with a very bad injury record.

A club with our finances i would go for the younger one.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
Ive dont think Maddison is ready yet, is more of a prospect.

Would be a good buy for a season or so down the line, not as an immediate first team player.

More likely, if Lamela is to leave, Moura replaces him.
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I kind of see our current AM options as:

Playmakers: Eriksen, Lamela
Pace/trickery: GKN
Goals: Alli, Son
Bugger all: Sissoko

Moura would go into the pace/trickery option; but he doesn't have the vision or passing of Eriksen and Lamela.

A more balanced six for next season might look like:

Playmakers: Eriksen, Lamela
Pace/trickery: Moura, Malcom
Goals: Alli, Son

That's why I'd see Maddison as an alternative to Lamela (as Eriksen's back-up), whereas Moura is something quite different (GKN x10)
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
Maddison is unproven but great potential. Lamela is a top european player but with a very bad injury record.

A club with our finances i would go for the younger one.
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And we are currently short on homegrown players, especially including any new Brazilians and Sanchez turning 21. I'm a big Lamela fan though.
 
Gutter Boy said:
I kind of see our current AM options as:

Playmakers: Eriksen, Lamela
Pace/trickery: GKN
Goals: Alli, Son
Bugger all: Sissoko

Moura would go into the pace/trickery option; but he doesn't have the vision or passing of Eriksen and Lamela.

A more balanced six for next season might look like:

Playmakers: Eriksen, Lamela
Pace/trickery: Moura, Malcom
Goals: Alli, Son

That's why I'd see Maddison as an alternative to Lamela (as Eriksen's back-up), whereas Moura is something quite different (GKN x10)
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I think you might need to reevaluate your convenient pigeon holes. They are too abstract.

Eriksen and Lamela just dont overlap in our team at all. They play together, not in place of each other.

While I do think Lamela could play Eriksens role, it seems clear at this point Poch just doesnt agree.

Moura and Lamela occupy the same positions on the field, it would be either/or.

And if you watch Moura you will see his passing is pretty good, in fact his game in general reminds me a great deal of Lamelas - with added pace and directness. And it looks like he has goals in him as well.

Malcom also seems to occupy this side of the field, so in your 6 we would have 3 rwf players.
 
While I do think Lamela could play Eriksens role, it seems clear at this point Poch just doesnt agree.


Im not sure we can draw that conclusion as Lamela has not really been available these past couple of games that Eriksen has been out.
Previously whenever Eriksen was rested for cup/europa league games Lamela was used in his place in the central playmaking role, iirc

I do think he is most likely off this summer though - too many injuries
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I think you might need to reevaluate your convenient pigeon holes. They are too abstract.

Eriksen and Lamela just dont overlap in our team at all. They play together, not in place of each other.

While I do think Lamela could play Eriksens role, it seems clear at this point Poch just doesnt agree.

Moura and Lamela occupy the same positions on the field, it would be either/or.

And if you watch Moura you will see his passing is pretty good, in fact his game in general reminds me a great deal of Lamelas - with added pace and directness. And it looks like he has goals in him as well.

Malcom also seems to occupy this side of the field, so in your 6 we would have 3 rwf players.
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I don't think the side of the pitch matters at all in our system - they are so fluid the AMs now.

Eriksen often ends up at RWF for example while Alli takes up the #10 position

That's why I think qualities, and what mix/balance of them we need against a specific opponent, is much more useful a way to categorise than right, central or left.
 
billyiddo said:
While I do think Lamela could play Eriksens role, it seems clear at this point Poch just doesnt agree.


Im not sure we can draw that conclusion as Lamela has not really been available these past couple of games that Eriksen has been out.
Previously whenever Eriksen was rested for cup/europa league games Lamela was used in his place in the central playmaking role, iirc

I do think he is most likely off this summer though - too many injuries
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I genuinely dont recall him getting starts there more than a few times. I think if Poch agreed it would have been more common by now, as it is, to my memory - its barely happened.

I say that as someone who really thinks Lamela would thrive there as well.


Gutter Boy said:
I don't think the side of the pitch matters at all in our system - they are so fluid the AMs now.

Eriksen often ends up at RWF for example while Alli takes up the #10 position

That's why I think qualities, and what mix/balance of them we need against a specific opponent, is much more useful a way to categorise than right, central or left.
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Of course it matters. Son plays best on the left, when on the right he is nowhere near as effective. Ditto Lamela on the left being invisible compared to the right.

Eriksen plays centrally and floats because he can, because he is genuinely two footed and makes it work.

Yes, Son/Lamela (for example) come central and even switch flanks - but they do have a primary position which they play for the majority of the game.
 
billyiddo said:
While I do think Lamela could play Eriksens role, it seems clear at this point Poch just doesnt agree.


Im not sure we can draw that conclusion as Lamela has not really been available these past couple of games that Eriksen has been out.
Previously whenever Eriksen was rested for cup/europa league games Lamela was used in his place in the central playmaking role, iirc

I do think he is most likely off this summer though - too many injuries
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I also remember in the Brighton game before xmas, when Lamela and Eriksen were both playing, Lamela was the one tending to come more central and deeper.
 
Gutter Boy said:
And we are currently short on homegrown players, especially including any new Brazilians and Sanchez turning 21. I'm a big Lamela fan though.
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I really think England and the english league will be the next big market trend for players over the next few years. When you see how our youth players did over the summer in the world cup.
 
Lamela it far too one footed and although Ericksen is not sturdy he is still better at dealing with physical pressure.
Lamela is just ATM staying to he get fit and get his move Serie A and so we can recoup some value IMHO.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I genuinely dont recall him getting starts there more than a few times. I think if Poch agreed it would have been more common by now, as it is, to my memory - its barely happened.

I say that as someone who really thinks Lamela would thrive there as well.




Of course it matters. Son plays best on the left, when on the right he is nowhere near as effective. Ditto Lamela on the left being invisible compared to the right.

Eriksen plays centrally and floats because he can, because he is genuinely two footed and makes it work.

Yes, Son/Lamela (for example) come central and even switch flanks - but they do have a primary position which they play for the majority of the game.
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Before last season we played 3 behind the CF and both Eriksen and Lamela were starters - then we switched to 2 behind the CF and Lamela was injured. It's only really now that there is an opportunity to see how Lamela is viewed in relation to being Eriksens understudy as it's the first time that he has been fit and not an automatic starter.
(Infact he's not even back to fitness yet...)
 
spursfan1976 said:
If this triple swoop is true & does happen in the next 2 days I'll be shocked - http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2018/01/2...igning-lucas-moura-javier-pastore-and-amadou/
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Shocked, because it's based on absolutely nothing?
Spurs have been heavily linked with PSG duo Lucas Moura and Javier Pastore this week in the Telegraph, while they are also believed to be interested in Napoli man Amadou Diawara, The Sun report.
If Pochettino could bring in all three of the targets, it would be a highly impressive triple swoop for Spurs.

They've forgotten to mention Malcom,( with whom we have actually been speaking). So, a quadruple swoop may be on the cards.
Oh - and they've forgotten Sessegnon too. Quintuple (?) swoop?

(If the above happens I will give up sarcasm forever!)
 
Sturridge to Saudi Sportswashing Machine after Inter dropped their interest. Saudi Sportswashing Machine will pay a £1.5million loan fee and cover the player’s wages £120,000-a-week wages until the end of the season.

Inter going for Pastore instead ties in with "respected ITK" JJetset saying a player for the first XI (not Moura) is now going elsewhere.

Aubameyang -> Arsenal
Batshauyi -> Dortmund
Dzeko -> Chelsea
 
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