Harry With Money and The Champions League. Oh Shit. (Transfer Thread)

Re: 2010 Summer Transfer Season

Get ready for Joe Cole, 2 random Africans and a Croatian.

 

Re: 2010 Summer Transfer Season

This thread's title is rotten. Double, do your thing.

 

Re: 2010 Summer Transfer Season

I'll be happy if we hold onto all our key players and add only one or two top, top players.

Oh, and a good backup keeper.

 

Thoughts on Luis Suarez, celeste? I'm guessing you know more about him than most of us. Would he add something different to Spurs?

 

HR said he is probably looking at 1 big money signing. If that's the case, I would take Tevez, Villa or Torres.

 

Wouldn't say it's down to his motivation or lack of it with the national team.
The dutch league is just notorious for high scoring games and strikers with insane goal ratioes. 1 in 1 ratio for a top striker is not uncommon in Holland.

 

Re: 2010 Summer Transfer Season

Cole, Mbola, Muntari, Pletikosa? lol wouldn't surprise me.

 

From the closed thread -

Spur_Forever:
I advocate buying a world class goalscoring midfielder for 15-20 mil

rbpierce: candidates?

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We don't really need a goal scoring midfielder, as we already have one at the club.
Niko Kranjcar, his ratio in Spurs shirt is the same as Lampard without penalties. And that is without playing in a goal scoring position. The question we have to ask though, is do we want to play a formation to suit a goal scoring midfielder? Cause that pretty much means dropping a striker and playing with a lone man up front in todays football.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/07/harry-redknapp-gareth-bale-spurs

We do really need a Torres, someone that can playup top on their own, score goals and be a matchwinner. A big ask though and no immediately obvious and attainable candidates.

 

Spurs-era Berbatov, not the husk he's become at Manu.

Watch 'Spurs sleeping giant' on youtube. Berbs was incredible at Spurs.

 

Fair perspective, but the following is my view: if we're going to have a shot in the Champions League while simultaneously attempting to finish in the top 4 again, we need a Gerrard/Lampard/Fabregas-type option in midfield. Not just in terms of the goals that such a player would provide, but also in terms of the dynamic runs in the final third of the pitch. This type of player will be especially important if one of our "wing wizards" (i.e., Lennon and Bale) is injured or loses form.

Modric is very close to being in that category, minus one key ingredient: goals. I'm confident that the goals will come, so I'm happy with Modders as one option (maybe even the principal option) in this position. But other than Jenas--who I hope gets moved on over the summer--there is no one else who really fits that bill. I'm not confident that Modric can last a whole season, so I think we need someone else. At the very least, such a player would provide this central midfield attacking option when Modric is injured; and at most, he would challenge Modric for the starting place.

As I mentioned in the other thread, Hudd is a deep-lying playmaker, who doesn't really get into the box. Kranjcar may have a good goal ratio, but he just doesn't have the dynamic element to his game. In fact, he's one of the slowest players in the squad. I like him a lot as a player, but I just see him more of a left/right midfielder or even a deeper playmaker. Additionally, while not my (or Harry's) favorite formation, we may occasionally need to play with 5 in midfield. And in such situations, I really don't think that Kranjcar can be the attacking, incisive player who comes forward to score from midfield.

On a slightly different topic, although I generally agree with the posters who say that we don't want (or need) wholesale changes; we have to bear in mind that next season will be a completely different set of challenges. We'll have more games, against better sides, and (in the Premier League at least) we'll be playing as one of the "top 4" so we'll have a target on our backs. Also, it would be plain stupid not to exploit the fact that (for once) we are one of the few teams that can offer Champions League football.

For so many years, I've seen us court top-shelf talent, only for them to go somewhere that can offer them a chance to shine in Europe's top competition. A whole new category of players (who would previously have never given us a second look) will make themselves available to us. And while I'm not saying we should be trigger happy, we can certainly use this opportunity to replace Bentley, Jenas and O'Hara with a world class attacking mid. And while we're at it, replace Keane and Pav with a world class forward.

 

The 4-5-1 formation is great for away matches in Europe. Modric can play the deep lying midfielder role. we don't need another. Redknapp has already come out and said he'd only get a 'Torres'-kind of player. Someone exceptional.

 

Gourcuff at the Lane would be fecking unbelievable. Problem is, he's set for a starring role at the world cup. If he does well, he'll cost at least 20-25 mil.