• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Transfer thread

Finney Is Back said:
Surely you don't think anything other than the fact that De Zerbi has sold him because him and the coaching staff know that he still has a lot of developing to do and he's not going to be able to do that developing in our first team?
Click to expand...
The problem with any 'player development ' this coming season is the unfortunate (for them) lack of games.

Tbh RDZ has probably seen very little of Lankshear in the flesh to make a considered call on him. What is more likely, is due to the sheer amount of players we have/had, RDZ only has so much 'player development ' in him. He wants to crack on with the plan and system pronto. (Reflected in the signings).

He looks to be retaining some selection of youngsters...but the ones that have already seen quite a bit of first team action, and probably the ones that technically and mentally he's been impressed with.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
The problem with any 'player development ' this coming season is the unfortunate (for them) lack of games.

Tbh RDZ has probably seen very little of Lankshear in the flesh to make a considered call on him. What is more likely, is due to the sheer amount of players we have/had, RDZ only has so much 'player development ' in him. He wants to crack on with the plan and system pronto. (Reflected in the signings).

He looks to be retaining some selection of youngsters...but the ones that have already seen quite a bit of first team action, and probably the ones that technically and mentally he's been impressed with.
Click to expand...
When discussing Lankshear’s future, opinions from a RDZ who’s seen him little should not be so influential. Scoulding should have been the main voice alongside those at the club with more knowledge of him.
 
Yiddo.1882 said:
When discussing Lankshear’s future, opinions from a RDZ who’s seen him little should not be so influential. Scoulding should have been the main voice alongside those at the club with more knowledge of him.
Click to expand...
I think we are in a phase of what RDZ wants he gets. So if he doesn't want Lankshear he goes, and RDZ is happy for the money for the pot.

Of course, the other dynamic is Lankshear has control over his own career as well. RDZ, has nicely, said he's ok if players want to go.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
You know what he said previously he would be the perfect 3rd choice and one who IMO with a good coach would develop at pace
The fact we don’t have a first choice and how sold him is scary for me
The fact that people (not you) are validating it by the potential fee is madness
I suspect we sold him because we had an offer and were desperate for sales because no one, so far has brought a senior player who we would sell
That’s a reflection on the senior players for sale and the team selling them imo
I’ve watched him play live 3 times I think and on TV I think around 16/17 games
He literally has everything you would want from a striker imo other than pace. Pace didn’t hurt Kane and the stylistic similarities are there for me as is the career development trajectory and coaching
But what’s done is done
The worry is we still haven’t done the needed front end business but we have time
For what it’s worth I rate tel and think there is a striker there too…. But he will need time and patience
I actually like Richy and Solanke but their fitness issues are more than well known
I don’t think we need a world class striker, we need a side that attacks with purpose (Frank killed that) and with a plan. The chance creation increase alone will have a massive impact I think
Click to expand...
Lankshear would do very little developing as a third choice, players that age need to play and play regularly. The player will also know this and want to be somewhere that he has a good chance of starting games.
His game doesn't fit the way that De Zerbi likes to play.
He would be largely anonymous in PL football right now, he has isn't close to having elite movement, touch or awareness.
He has good physicality and is a good finisher. If he works on his movement, touch and awareness he has a chance of making it in the top half of the premier league in a few years time - I'd put his chances of that as 50/50.
If any of Tel, Richarlison or Solanke played championship football they'd all easily get 25 goals plus IMO.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Lankshear would do very little developing as a third choice, players that age need to play and play regularly. The player will also know this and want to be somewhere that he has a good chance of starting games.
His game doesn't fit the way that De Zerbi likes to play.
He would be largely anonymous in PL football right now, he has isn't close to having elite movement, touch or awareness.
He has good physicality and is a good finisher. If he works on his movement, touch and awareness he has a chance of making it in the top half of the premier league in a few years time - I'd put his chances of that as 50/50.
If any of Tel, Richarlison or Solanke played championship football they'd all easily get 25 goals plus IMO.
Click to expand...
They wouldn’t playing for Oxford
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
The problem with any 'player development ' this coming season is the unfortunate (for them) lack of games.

Tbh RDZ has probably seen very little of Lankshear in the flesh to make a considered call on him. What is more likely, is due to the sheer amount of players we have/had, RDZ only has so much 'player development ' in him. He wants to crack on with the plan and system pronto. (Reflected in the signings).

He looks to be retaining some selection of youngsters...but the ones that have already seen quite a bit of first team action, and probably the ones that technically and mentally he's been impressed with.
Click to expand...
He can’t have seen more than a weeks training
But that’s the call he has made
The issue that seems to be glossed over for the Lankshear debate is we are still left with 2 players who combined struggle to make 38 league games
The next player in line is who now…. Tel???
 
robp135 said:
Solanke and Richarlison will miss 15 games each. He would get his chances.
Click to expand...
I don't think he would many chances at all. I think De Zerbi would play Tel there if Solanke and Richarlison were unavailable. Tel is significantly better than Lankshear as well (an certainly a lot better suited to a De Zerbi team). I even think that Scarlett is ahead of Lankshear at the moment as well as being a much better fit for a De Zerbi team.

The fact that De Zerbi has happily sold him surely tells us that he doesn't think he would've played him?
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
The problem with any 'player development ' this coming season is the unfortunate (for them) lack of games.

Tbh RDZ has probably seen very little of Lankshear in the flesh to make a considered call on him. What is more likely, is due to the sheer amount of players we have/had, RDZ only has so much 'player development ' in him. He wants to crack on with the plan and system pronto. (Reflected in the signings).

He looks to be retaining some selection of youngsters...but the ones that have already seen quite a bit of first team action, and probably the ones that technically and mentally he's been impressed with.
Click to expand...
I bet he has seen a lot more than all of us commenting on here? I bet he also has better information than we do from the stats tools and also from the coaches at Spurs. I find it weird that people think De Zerbi would let Spurs sell a player if he thought that player was going to be one he needed to achieve his ambition of winning the league (and we should be clear that this is De Zerbi's ambition).
 
Finney Is Back said:
Lol. I know you've a history of massively overrating young players GB but this is your best yet!
Click to expand...

Wait and see

- Kane will be 35
- Watkins and Toney will both be 32 and are already notably waning
- Delap and Ferguson's careers are floundering

The door is wide open for a young #9 to grab the shirt - be it Lankshear, Neave, Ezenwata, Harry Grey or whoever
 
Last edited:
Gutter Boy said:
Wait and see

- Kane will be 35
- Watkins and Toney will both be 32 and are already notably waning
- Delap and Ferguson's careers are floundering

The door is wide open for a young #9 to grab the shirt - be it Lankshear, Neave, Ezenwata, Harry Grey or whoever
Click to expand...

The lads from Villa looks the biggest prospect and thats off one game, thats how devoid of CF options the game has now. It dire
 
so what is our total funds from sales now? its starting to feel like we have balanced out the players we bought. And now Im wondering where this big push to improve has disappeared to?

spence 30m, Romero 40, Lankshear 20, Vuskovic 50, Solomon 7 ( total 147 )
v
Van Hecke 52, Tonali 100, Fernandez 85 ( total 237m )

so we have spent 90m and we are still looking to offload at least Vicario and maybe Sarr or Bentenour so that could be another 30m combined.

And we still have all our creative players out injured. Kudus, Maddison, Kulusevski, Odobert, Solanke.
 
Sandman said:
so what is our total funds from sales now? its starting to feel like we have balanced out the players we bought. And now Im wondering where this big push to improve has disappeared to?

spence 30m, Romero 40, Lankshear 20, Vuskovic 50, Solomon 7 ( total 147 )
v
Van Hecke 52, Tonali 100, Fernandez 85 ( total 237m )

so we have spent 90m and we are still looking to offload at least Vicario and maybe Sarr or Bentenour so that could be another 30m combined.

And we still have all our creative players out injured. Kudus, Maddison, Kulusevski, Odobert, Solanke.
Click to expand...

Yeh for all the talk we are currently in a situation where we have undoubtedly improved 2 of our starting 11 and improved defensive/GK depth. Beyond that as we stand today and for all the big wages big fees,.......our Brentford starting line up if we went today is a shocker.
 
MartyFunkhouser said:
Yeh for all the talk we are currently in a situation where we have undoubtedly improved 2 of our starting 11 and improved defensive/GK depth. Beyond that as we stand today and for all the big wages big fees,.......our Brentford starting line up if we went today is a shocker.
Click to expand...
Yeah I was really excited at the start of the window. I dont doubt we have a bloated Squad with no Europe. But last season our problem was scoring goals and we have done nothing directly to improve that.

I have faith in RDZ and his more attacking tactics etc. Our stats from his 7 games in charge showed marked improvements. But we also relied too much on spectacular goals and our forward line was wasting chances all over.

Selling young players that wont get game time. I can get it as there is only room for so many. But Im very against the lankshear sale.

And we have done nothing to improve our strikers at all. Tel Looks like he is coming on in reliability. he was playing hard at the end of the season and could make the left side his own. and with Kudus coming back that could be strong.

But we cannot go into the season relying on Solanke and Richarlison again. We simply cannot.
 
Whaaaaat? WTF are city doing? If Rodri really is off too, I'm starting to think we might actually finish above them!
To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back