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Richarlison

SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
Genuinely, what a completely ridiculous situation. How is this the club’s fault? We accepted bids from Everton and Vasco, we clearly allowed him to talk to Trabzanspoor. And literally no deal is good enough? He isn’t thinking straight.
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It's quite feasible that every clubs offer to him has not been acceptable. He stated HE would be making the decisions. Bit harsh to say he's not thinking straight.

I understand RDZ is wanting only the fully committed BUT it's a strange one with Richie because if you did include him in the squad...he has demonstrated (probably more than most players) that he will give it full commitment/effort every time he crosses that white line. It wouldn't be a wasted squad place unlike Xavi.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
It's quite feasible that every clubs offer to him has not been acceptable. He stated HE would be making the decisions. Bit harsh to say he's not thinking straight.

I understand RDZ is wanting only the fully committed BUT it's a strange one with Richie because if you did include him in the squad...he has demonstrated (probably more than most players) that he will give it full commitment/effort every time he crosses that white line. It wouldn't be a wasted squad place unlike Xavi.
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The market value is what it is. It seems Richy maybe overvaluing his services which is the reason for the situation he is causing.
 
SissokoWasGood (BoL) said:
We shall indeed see. I think the centre of gravity in the squad is shifting, which is why it’s important new leadership dynamics get formed. Because that reinforces the message being sent from the top.

Put it this way, I don’t think players like Tonali, Fernandes, Van Hecke, Marmoush, Robertson etc are going to give two hoots about Richy’s situation. They are professionals and would not ‘side’ with him over the club. Savio might be more sympathetic, some of the players here last season might also be, but I don’t think Richy has the political capital among the squad to seriously turn anyone away from being fully behind RDZ.

My only hope is that the players have been fully locked in for training for the Everton game, and there hasn’t been a distraction this week. I think it will be ok, and it’s more just frustrating that this all couldn’t have been sorted a couple of weeks ago.
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Of course, not saying they will take sides, I am saying it would only take a string of losses for players to look towards the Richy situation etc for it all to add to negative feeling.

At top level PL football it doesn't take much as all for things to sour, not saying they will, just saying it can. The press will play their part, from that side the clubs exposed RDZ IMO
 
Ace Face said:
The market value is what it is. It seems Richy maybe overvaluing his services which is the reason for the situation he is causing.
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Yeah. He has very much made the decisions. And he finds himself unregistered and unable to play top level football for 4 months. I think he’s seriously miscalculated his leverage.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
It's quite feasible that every clubs offer to him has not been acceptable. He stated HE would be making the decisions. Bit harsh to say he's not thinking straight.

I understand RDZ is wanting only the fully committed BUT it's a strange one with Richie because if you did include him in the squad...he has demonstrated (probably more than most players) that he will give it full commitment/effort every time he crosses that white line. It wouldn't be a wasted squad place unlike Xavi.
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I think there is a subtle difference between being willing to run hard on the pitch, and being fully committed to the RDZ way and everything that entails. Buying into the system, the patterns of play, forcing yourself as a more established player to submit to something else. I also think with the intensity and commitment RDZ is looking for, it’s about every second that your players are interacting. The kind of culture that sets. The kinds of behaviours that are acceptable. I don’t think Richy has demonstrated that he would fit well with that, that he would be additive to it.

Not withstanding, I think this is partly about Richy but also not about him. The club has said if you want to go, you can go. And if you want to fight, we will value you. So Djed can go. And Lucas get a new contract. No hard feelings either way. Again it’s the club sending a message about how they will be able to be dealt with.

I don’t think we’ve had a culture properly, since Poch. These are the steps being taken to build one back. I think Richy has not been thinking straight because he assumed he’d be able to come back into Spurs and ‘honour his contract’ but we have clearly set higher expectations on what we want to see in the commitment of our players. And good on the club for doing that. Richy has miscalculated, and now finds himself unable to play top level football. He has misunderstood the leverage that the club would have, the objectives the club had, and I think if he had better advice or maybe wasn’t so determined to make a stand for whatever reason, he might be earning perfectly good money and playing football in Liverpool or Turkey right now.
 
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