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Xavi Simons

LutonSpurs

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I want to add to everyone's collective Willian/MGW/Eze trauma and give this player his own thread as the speculation grows.

Claims player is in London.

Claims no Chelsea bid.

Claims we've made a bid.

General acceptance he wants Chelsea.

But we won't dare to beleive right now. It's just not that easy for us.

COYS
 
LutonSpurs said:
I want to add to everyone's collective Willian/MGW/Eze trauma and give this player his own thread as the speculation grows.

Claims player is in London.

Claims no Chelsea bid.

Claims we've made a bid.

General acceptance he wants Chelsea.

But we won't dare to beleive right now. It's just not that easy for us.

COYS
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What have you done - I was just thinking this one might actually work out as we don't have a player thread for him :D

Oh and Romano (I know I know) says that as of yet we haven't made a bid. I always tend to believe this side of things over the sensationalism of bids being made and everyone jumping in off the back of that. But as always, who knows....
 
If this really is a possibility, how do people compare him to Eze, MGW and Paqueta in terms of what he'd bring to the team and how he'd fit?
 
Glenda's Legs said:
I think Plettenberg is meant to be a reliable source, but who knows these days!
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He seems to get German news pretty early.

Guess now the Ally Gold and Ornstein voices are what we want to here.

The rest are all just copy and paste merchants.

Romano defo has contacts but he doesn't always know. He relays 2nd hand info. So don't bet your life on what the fella says.
 
glorygloryeze said:
If this really is a possibility, how do people compare him to Eze, MGW and Paqueta in terms of what he'd bring to the team and how he'd fit?
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He is comfortable in multiple positions. Think that although he's a 10 he has also played a lot on both left and right wing and even a bit up front. He is extremely top-level when it comes to playing through balls. Dare I say he'd be a better fit for what we need than Eze would have been - much as I really liked Eze.
He's a great purchase for building a squad due to his talent, versatility and (I hope) room to keep improving as he's only 22.
 
Exceptional talent, whose career has stalled just a little in the last 18 months or so. He was known from a very early age as a real prospect, in the Barcelona academy mainly, and his breakthrough season at PSV was very good. His numbers (games, goals, assists) at Leipzig have also been pretty good, but when I have seen him play for the Dutch national team, his performances have slumped in recent years. He was a guaranteed starter in the run-up to Euro 2024, but has now been surpassed by Tijani Reijnders, and it will be difficult for him to regain his place.

He's only 22 and he's got plenty to prove still. Hard as nails, good mentality. I wonder how he will do in the more physical games. His ceiling is higher than that of MGW or Eze (or Deki or Maddison for that matter). But I'm not entirely sure he's a good fit for the Premier League, and €70m is a lot.

Edit: just to add: I would be surprised if he picked Chelsea over us. His self-esteem is pretty high, so for that reason he might see himself at Chelsea, but his career is not progressing in the way that it did, say, two years ago, and he knows he has to settle down somewhere and play. His advisers are aware of this, and for him, coming to us would be a much better deal than playing 1 out of every 3 matches at Chelsea.
 
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glorygloryeze said:
If this really is a possibility, how do people compare him to Eze, MGW and Paqueta in terms of what he'd bring to the team and how he'd fit?
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He's more Eze than the other two. I.e. a dribbler, rather than a passer.

He was a really exciting prospect. The jury is still out though as to how well he'll recover from his ankle surgery. He hasn't recaptured the same elite dribbling ability yet, though it is still early (within a year) to tell.
 
Presumably, we talk with the players agents to see if there is interset first? Or has MGW affected us and we're more hamstrung doing things by the book now - bidding and having no idea if the player is interested. I doubt it. Everyone gets an idea of salary expectations and interset in joining the new club.

I guess the issue is we're attractive enough to be in the mix always, but often not as attractive as the other clubs in the mix - goons/madrid/chavski etc.

In which case, we're only going to sign him if the chavs are not really interested.
 
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Hotspur75 said:
Exceptional talent, whose career has stalled just a little in the last 18 months or so. He was known from a very early age as a real prospect, in the Barcelona academy mainly, and his breakthrough season at PSV was very good. His numbers (games, goals, assists) at Leipzig have also been pretty good, but when I have seen him play for the Dutch national team, his performances have slumped in recent years. He was a guaranteed starter in the run-up to Euro 2024, but has now been surpassed by Tijani Reijnders, and it will be difficult for him to regain his place.

He's only 22 and he's got plenty to prove still. Hard as nails, good mentality. I wonder how he will do in the more physical games. His ceiling is higher than that of MGW or Eze (or Deki or Maddison for that matter). But I'm not entirely sure he's a good fit for the Premier League, and €70m is a lot.

Edit: just to add: I would be surprised if he picked Chelsea over us. His self-esteem is pretty high, so for that reason he might see himself at Chelsea, but his career is not progressing in the way that it did, say, two years ago, and he knows he has to settle down somewhere and play. His advisers are aware of this, and for him, coming to us would be a much better deal than playing 1 out of every 3 matches at Chelsea.
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I wouldn't pay ANY attention to his place and output for the national team. Just think about who's the manager.
 
Kandi1977 said:
I wouldn't pay ANY attention to his place and output for the national team. Just think about who's the manager.
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Good point, I agree. Just saying this because he could have also opted for Spain, and decided to choose the Netherlands (some years ago already) - and has been very engaged for the national team in the last three years. So the fact that he cannot hold his place in the first 11 must have been irking him.

I have to say that I don't know what the impact of the ankle ligament injury has been. That certainly played a part in him losing the battle for the no. 10 shirt for Oranje, but Reijnders is a better player, in more or less the same position.
 
Don't really trust the site but Capology have Simons on about £100,000 a week , we should be able to better that and surely Timo can have a word with him and tell him how wonderful North London is.
 
Pole position! The good times are almost peaking. Get ready for the crash. 1 or 2 even more positive bits before it all falls apart. I'm going for "poised to sign", and "deal wrapped up quickly, Simons to become new Spurs players, unless ..." - and then a little twist. "It's not over yet, Chelsea has sent intermediates" - and so on.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1961081437752340899

But hey, it's just football, eh, part of the circus.
 
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