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Andy Robertson

Interesting play this one - its very much a case of a player the old regime would simply not have bought - Levy was always about resale value and Robertson in two years will have zero resale value.

We've added experience to our young team few times over the years - Nouradine Naybet, Edgar Davids, even Saha / Nelsen when 'Arry was in charge - its usually been a sign we're on the downward trajectory which may be a coincidence, but hopefully in this instance its a player who is still in good nick.

Davies is out of contract and somewhat out of his depth in the EPL these days, Spence can be employed as our right back competition for Porro and Sousa needs time to adjust to the country and league. For me this would mean we have two right backs and two left backs in the squad, adding depth in an area where we are injury prone. Also for all of his excellence, Spence ruins the shape for the side by being so right footed.

The experience, the cost, and the leadership are key here.

If we sign him that's two captains we've signed this Jan - one ex Chelsea and one ex Liverpool. That tells us as much as the quality of the player.
 
Well he would certainly bring a winning mentality, having won it all under Klopp and Slot, plus Robertson’s crossing would be an asset to Frank’s horseshoe… heck, we might even see some of those elusive defence splitting passes…

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As I said in the main transfer thread, would be good to hear from someone who has actually seen him play this season.

My outside view is Slot replaced Roberts and TAA and that's been a big part of their struggles this season, and at one point during their brick run he had to bring back in Roberts to stop the rot.

Definitely not a traditional Spurs signing, interestingly, would be something I'd see Villa do
 
We definitely need experience. It's why I thought we could have gone for Henderson at the start of the season. Similar profile.

Where does that leave Udogie and Souza though? Souza going on loan?
 
Benny_Lad said:
We definitely need experience. It's why I thought we could have gone for Henderson at the start of the season. Similar profile.

Where does that leave Udogie and Souza though? Souza going on loan?
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Udogie is 1st choice

Brazil's domestic football season has been done for some time, Souza is 19 and raw, don't see a lot of immediate game time, and the club view will probably be to evaluate on training ground until summer and decide loan/keep

Roberts gets the Davies role plus take more of the games we would have given to Spence
 
Surfless said:
Interesting play this one - its very much a case of a player the old regime would simply not have bought - Levy was always about resale value and Robertson in two years will have zero resale value.

We've added experience to our young team few times over the years - Nouradine Naybet, Edgar Davids, even Saha / Nelsen when 'Arry was in charge - its usually been a sign we're on the downward trajectory which may be a coincidence, but hopefully in this instance its a player who is still in good nick.

Davies is out of contract and somewhat out of his depth in the EPL these days, Spence can be employed as our right back competition for Porro and Sousa needs time to adjust to the country and league. For me this would mean we have two right backs and two left backs in the squad, adding depth in an area where we are injury prone. Also for all of his excellence, Spence ruins the shape for the side by being so right footed.

The experience, the cost, and the leadership are key here.

If we sign him that's two captains we've signed this Jan - one ex Chelsea and one ex Liverpool. That tells us as much as the quality of the player.
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Naybet and Davids put us on an upward trajectory.

It wasn't really Harry's plan to sign Saha and Nielsen, he wanted much better as we were in with an outside chance of the title at that stage and ended up having to settle on those two at the end of the window when the club hadn't delivered. A better player to use as an example here for Harry is Gallas, a player that improved us.
 
Surfless said:
Interesting play this one - its very much a case of a player the old regime would simply not have bought - Levy was always about resale value and Robertson in two years will have zero resale value.

We've added experience to our young team few times over the years - Nouradine Naybet, Edgar Davids, even Saha / Nelsen when 'Arry was in charge - its usually been a sign we're on the downward trajectory which may be a coincidence, but hopefully in this instance its a player who is still in good nick.

Davies is out of contract and somewhat out of his depth in the EPL these days, Spence can be employed as our right back competition for Porro and Sousa needs time to adjust to the country and league. For me this would mean we have two right backs and two left backs in the squad, adding depth in an area where we are injury prone. Also for all of his excellence, Spence ruins the shape for the side by being so right footed.

The experience, the cost, and the leadership are key here.

If we sign him that's two captains we've signed this Jan - one ex Chelsea and one ex Liverpool. That tells us as much as the quality of the player.
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I don't think it is resale value but can see why that's the label that has been given. The way I think about it is more about the balance sheet value. Robbo is in his last 6 months of contract at Pool. He's running his contract down to become a free agent in the summer. Therefore his transfer value shouldn't be too high. We then need to prove over the life of any contract we give him we can afford the write-down value as we probably won't get much resale value.

It's gonna be interesting what his transfer fee is.
 
I think this is a direct consequence of Davies' injury.

With Udogie being managed to prevent further injury on the left, Djed Spence would been used there as rotation, while Porro has been run into the ground. We need rotation/backup, and Robertson needs minutes if he is to be ready for the World Cup. So a short-term deal with little or no resale value could still be very valuable to us.
It will give us better rotation on the left, and better rotation on the right.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Wow, Souza must have really bombed in his first training!

Robertson feels like Davies a year younger. Seems a bit unnecessary, unless its a 1 year deal to cover Souza going to the championship next season?
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It does make me laugh the way you blindly put so much faith in really young players with zero experience of English football, let alone PL football instead of excellent, experienced players who have won everything.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Naybet and Davids put us on an upward trajectory.

It wasn't really Harry's plan to sign Saha and Nielsen, he wanted much better as we were in with an outside chance of the title at that stage and ended up having to settle on those two at the end of the window when the club hadn't delivered. A better player to use as an example here for Harry is Gallas, a player that improved us.
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Not the uncommon of a type of signing for us really. Perisic, Palhinha, Llorrente was getting up there in years too wasn't he?
 
Finney Is Back said:
It does make me laugh the way you blindly put so much faith in really young players with zero experience of English football, let alone PL football instead of excellent, experienced players who have won everything.
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I just think bed blockers harm all parties.

Sign young, or at peak, but never those declining
 
If it goes ahead how does this effect our CL squad numbers , Robertson is not Association trained he's from a foreign country , Scotland :)
 
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