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Next seasons squad

The sad thing about where we currently are is that the PL is winnable at the moment. Woolwich are good at what they do but they aren't a great side and I'm not sure they'll be able to defend the title. The Dippers are stuck between the fans wanting Slot out and the board wanting to keep him. City have to replace Pep. Chelsea are a brickshow. United will be interesting to see how Carrick will do now he's permanent.

However, it's very hard to go from two 17th placed finishes to challenging somewhere near the top of the table. That said, I expect us to be a very different proposition next year with RDZ, a new squad and less injuries.
 
Please say that was you being funny?

If these 2 wallies are still at the helm this summer then sadly it wouldn’t be surprise me if ENIC negotiate a deal to try and resurrect Gimenez’s career, like we attempted with Muani and Werner 🤞 Hopefully he hasn’t got a too-good-to-turn-down release clause for them to trigger 🤑

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We need quality. We've got quantity and potential.

We can sell plenty of Meh players to get decent money in.

Top players like Rice, Enzo, Caicedo cost >£100m so we can't buy cheap and then expect to beat those types of players.

We already know the Prem's best players and will work through those options e.g. for midfield we will have been trying to interest Wharton Anderson Gomez Baleba Fernandez etc etc and will presumably proceed with the ones that don't get snapped up by the Top5.

Fortunately RDZ knows the Italian and French league well and will have some gems in mind.
Kehl knows the German league well.
Someone will know the Spanish league well.

And Lange knows the Swedish 3rd division well.

The key for me is the forward line. If we can get a truly good striker and attacking wide player, that will make all the difference.

I'm really hopeful, I think we can really move up, just look at how MNU transformed after that idiot Amorim left.
 
Ball playing CM in Tonali mould......Hayden Hackney for me, PL player in the absolute making.

LWer........urgent

Striker......urgent

GK........semi urgent

Looks like we are getting Robertson and Senni so that's the start

Then clear the decks
 
I think we need to be realistic.
1. De Zerbi was always going to gut the squad
2. It's still Tottenham
3. Amazing how brick players that were not good enough for results.

I do agree with De Zerbi that we probably have 10-12 good players. The rest need to be sold or sent on loan. But this needs to be a 2-3 season process. For me, the below players should be staying next season
Kinsky
Porro
Spence
Udogie
Danso
VDV
Vuskovic
Palinha
Bentancur
Gray
Bergvall
Madders
Simons
Odobert
Tel
Kulu
Kudus

That means we can prioritise 3 key signings - LW, RW and a striker - drop £60-80m each on them. If we try to sign more we will downgrade target player and end up with more Gallagher's, Solankes, Richys etc. We have some good young players so let's get some established pros in to teach the players.

Next summer, we replace the players that didn't push on that we kept.

This will likely tinkle RDZ off so we also need to line up a potential replacement for him in a years time. We need to have at least 4 or 5 names with the same philosophy so we never end up witha Frank again.

Think you need to break it up

Released/out of contract - Davies, Bissouma, RKM
To sell - Dragusin, Sarr, Richi (1 year left on contract, older and on paper Solanke is more a RDZ striker), Vic (Italy agreed?), Romero (think he will push for it)

That's already 8 changes, and leaves

Will still be injured during 1st half of next season - Odobert, Xavi
Remaining squad - Kinsky, Udogie, VDV, Danso, Spence, Porro, Bentancur, Palhinha (seems RDZ wants him), Gallagher, Gray, Bergvall, Maddison, Tel, Deki, Kudus, Solanke

That is a squad of 18 already with no Europe

You then have

To evaluate - Vuskovic, Moore, Lankshear, Phillips, Takai, Yang, Scarlett, Devine, Williams- Barnett
For me, Vuskovic is only one we should be considering for immediate 1st team integration, Lankshear and Moore could be half season cover depending on how light we want to keep squad.

Smart thing to do
- Keep squad light, focus on quality incoming, continue to correct HG problems (would allow a "bigger" squad when we return to Europe)

Have to buy
CF - Richi replacement, need a consistent goalscorer, my profile would be someone with pace (we have a hold up man in Solanke), if they can play off RW would give us more options and them more chances of playing. Think we might have to go to Europe to find the player. One of two positions we need to be willing to spend club record fee on.
GK - Vic replacement to battle Kinsky for #1, would be really good to go HG here, Trafford?
CM- Technical player, can help us both control the game and get the ball forward, expect to play alongside Bentancur most days. Second position to spend cash on.

Those 3 would push the squad to 21 players already.

Highly recommended
RW - neither Kudus or Deki are ready now (hopefully RDZ has a date), neither will have played competitive football in >6 months, seems risky to have no other option
LW - Odobert & Xavi out till 2nd half of season, if we sell Richi we become very light here with only Tel. Moore could be used as cover until Odobert back. A Perisic type signing would be ideal,

That would push squad up to 23 with everyone fit. It's the reason I don't see us buying more than 5 first team players in any scenario.
 
Looking at the table, ARS MNC are out of sight.
Then MNU LIV are better than us at present although at LIV Slot is hated, whilst at MNU Carrick is a bit unproven, Casemeiro is leaving, defence has some issues.
Then you get AST = catchable, they have overspent on players and wages, Emery may not stay, when McGinn was out their results tanked.

And then teams that are a lot smaller than us with European games to deal with BOU SUN BRI

Then you have CHE who are a billion in debt and keep spending good money on bad players, GHod I would love it if they exploded

Then mid clubs like FUL NEW EVE LEE PAL NFO who are all catchable

I really think we can achieve great things if we buy 3 really top players and if our injury curse is lifted.
 
Don’t think it will be a massive overhaul but 4/5 signing including making Paulinha permanent.

Vicario sell

Kinsky keep

Austin Keep



Porro keep

Spence keep

VDV keep

Danso keep

Romero sell

Dragusin sell

Vuskovic keep

Davies End of contract

Udogie keep

Souza loan if we bring in another left back



Paulinha sign(rdz seems to like him)

Bentancur keep

Bergvall keep

Gallagher keep

Gray keep

Sarr sell

Bissouma End of contract



Maddison keep

Kudos keep

Simons keep

Kulu keep

Odobert keep



Tel keep

Solanke we will keep him due to book value

Richarlison It’s a keep him or Solanke situation. I think I’d rather keep him but because of above Richi would go

Muani end of loan



So that’s 19 players staying

A CB looks to be Senasi

We then need to sign a goalkeeper

A striker

Another wide/attacking creator



We are not in Europe so we won’t need the biggest squad. Better to spend good money on 3/4 this summer and then 3/4 next summer when hopefully we are back in Europe.
 
Don’t think it will be a massive overhaul but 4/5 signing including making Paulinha permanent.

Vicario sell

Kinsky keep

Austin Keep



Porro keep

Spence keep

VDV keep

Danso keep

Romero sell

Dragusin sell

Vuskovic keep

Davies End of contract

Udogie keep

Souza loan if we bring in another left back



Paulinha sign(rdz seems to like him)

Bentancur keep

Bergvall keep

Gallagher keep

Gray keep

Sarr sell

Bissouma End of contract



Maddison keep

Kudos keep

Simons keep

Kulu keep

Odobert keep



Tel keep

Solanke we will keep him due to book value

Richarlison It’s a keep him or Solanke situation. I think I’d rather keep him but because of above Richi would go

Muani end of loan



So that’s 19 players staying

A CB looks to be Senasi

We then need to sign a goalkeeper

A striker

Another wide/attacking creator



We are not in Europe so we won’t need the biggest squad. Better to spend good money on 3/4 this summer and then 3/4 next summer when hopefully we are back in Europe.

I'd expect another season of struggle if that's the extent of our activity
 
Mark my words VDV will stay and be part of the new leadership team. You could see him in the huddle yesterday providing the encouragement to the rest of the team. He is a very good player going forward too with his marauding runs.

Danso absolutely should stay and be one of the first names on the team sheet. In a league where teams set out to not lose first we need someone with his defensive nous to complement VDVs weaknesses. Many Spurs Fans are obsessed with ball playing CBs even when the combination cannot defend properly. He isn't even that bad with the ball and neither is Palhinha. We're not talking Davinson Sanchez here.
 
Don’t think it will be a massive overhaul but 4/5 signing including making Paulinha permanent.

Vicario sell

Kinsky keep

Austin Keep



Porro keep

Spence keep

VDV keep

Danso keep

Romero sell

Dragusin sell

Vuskovic keep

Davies End of contract

Udogie keep

Souza loan if we bring in another left back



Paulinha sign(rdz seems to like him)

Bentancur keep

Bergvall keep

Gallagher keep

Gray keep

Sarr sell

Bissouma End of contract



Maddison keep

Kudos keep

Simons keep

Kulu keep

Odobert keep



Tel keep

Solanke we will keep him due to book value

Richarlison It’s a keep him or Solanke situation. I think I’d rather keep him but because of above Richi would go

Muani end of loan



So that’s 19 players staying

A CB looks to be Senasi

We then need to sign a goalkeeper

A striker

Another wide/attacking creator



We are not in Europe so we won’t need the biggest squad. Better to spend good money on 3/4 this summer and then 3/4 next summer when hopefully we are back in Europe.
I don't disagree with that but we need a minimum of two prem quality forwards. If love Kroupi and Marmoush but realistically one of those and another, as well as keeping Solanke.
 
I don't disagree with that but we need a minimum of two prem quality forwards. If love Kroupi and Marmoush but realistically one of those and another, as well as keeping Solanke.
Don’t disagree but forwards are the most expensive commodity. I guess the two options are you buy two and go for the idea that one of them might work with each costing less. Or you go big on one. As with no Europe next season my idea is try and go for quality over quantity.
 
Also adding quality rather than quantity another reason is how far are we off? We got 11 points from 7 under RDZ. Extrapolate that over 38 games that’s 59 points this season that would have been 6th. Previous seasons you’d be a couple of wins from 5/6th. So add a bit of quality and you could bridge that gap. Is 5/6th what we want to aim for, no. But it’s a good step back in the right direction.
 
Also adding quality rather than quantity another reason is how far are we off? We got 11 points from 7 under RDZ. Extrapolate that over 38 games that’s 59 points this season that would have been 6th. Previous seasons you’d be a couple of wins from 5/6th. So add a bit of quality and you could bridge that gap. Is 5/6th what we want to aim for, no. But it’s a good step back in the right direction.

It's balance and gaps

We only played Chelsea and Villa in RDZ's run that traditionally would have been "tough" games for us (yes, yes, PL, no easy games) and we were 1 and 1 (to add some context/caveats to the extrapolation).

Our front line has no threat, lets be clear, a decent striker (not WC), fit in our front line all season and we would probably have been 10th-12th, it is a priority problem.

Without Xavi and Maddison, no creative players. We need a CM to both manage possession and trigger attacks from deep. Wings are a little light with current injury set

Truth is what we have known for years, the difference between this side and top 4 is Kane & Son
 
29, been in the injuries, didn't really make that final step up, his goals have dropped off hard

Make senses only if you think he's an experienced option to rotate around, not as our #1 starter.
He got double figures last year, injuries are to play this season on his stats. He is a very good operator.
 
He got double figures last year, injuries are to play this season on his stats. He is a very good operator.

He's had two major seasons with limited time due to injuries, and is 29.

Genuinely boarding on criminal negligence if we (with our medical team) buy an aging pacing winger with a history of injuries
 
He's had two major seasons with limited time due to injuries, and is 29.

Genuinely boarding on criminal negligence if we (with our medical team) buy an aging pacing winger with a history of injuries
Every player our there will have had injuries, he hasnt played less than 25 games a season at Brighton

As I say, he is a top top quality player
 
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