Strikers? None left - City have them all.

Don't you guys already have enough attacking midfielders?

 

Rumour has it we've signed Diarra...

 

Why do we really need Diarra again? I just don't really get it. Sandro is a stud and that means one of them will be sitting on the bench the majority of the time unless we play a little 4-2-3-1 with Lennon, Modric, or Vandy on the bench.

 

we have sandro, huddlestone and palacios as our dmids.

WHY?

im probably so worked up because there has been no solid transfers for the first team yet.

edit: harry says we need to sell before we buy. there are 7 players in the first team that are garbage and who could be sold, wheel and deal!!!

the players in question are: hutton, bentley, jenas, keane, crouch, bassong and alnwick.

 

Rossi, Mata and Ruiz, all really similar players. Looks like we are trying to create an attacking midfield trio that will have alot of versatility and fluidity. There is no fixed position. The 3 attacking midfielders can interchange among themselves. Do I sense beautiful football or should I say sexy football for Spurs?

 

Because a team needs more than one dmid, not only for injury/suspension/tiredness/form but also to have the option of playing both together in tough games or late on in matches to protect a lead.

Two dmids also allows the fullbacks to push on, as there is someone to cover for them.

 

Did a little FM scouting on Bryan Ruiz and he appears to be (according to them) a highly technical player with good moves, good finishing, and some pace on him. It also looks like he can be a threat in the air since he's about 6'1. I know he had a pretty solid season for Twente last year, so hopefully that translates into a decent season for us, if we sign him.

 

Looking certain that Palacios will be announced today or tomorrow as a Stoke player - fee about 8 million. Diarra also expected to finally be announced for us afterwards, but that's looking a lot less certain.

VdV told Sky Sports that Modric is definitely staying for at least one more season. Modders is disappointed but accepted it and VdV thinks he'll be over it in a few weeks.

 

Wow, a £6 million loss on a 27 year old player - how unLevy like.

 

best of luck Wilson P. at Stoke...I will never forget you coming in and saving our ass three years ago. what was it harry said about him at the time - "he'll never fit in...he likes to tackle too much".

 

Rossi is a striker. And your off ur rocker if u think we are landing any 3 of those. I wish I was wrong though

Looks like Lass might be wrapped up, great! So who the hell is our striker now!!!!!!!!

Diarra woudl work great as a 4-2-3-1 though. With a combination of Bale, Lennon, Modric or VDV up top and our mystical lone striker in front of them.

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...Spurs-seal-Modric-deal.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Apparently Chelsea will offer Benayoun + money for Modric now. I don't believe this for a second, Yossi has been fantastic for Chelsea in the preseason and as the article says he is perhaps the key to unlock Torres.

However if this were true, if we got good money plus Benayoun I would be happy with it. He is a little more of a winger than Modric however, so we might be stuck without a true CM to pair with Sandro. However in a 4-2-3-1 I think we would be dynamite with a pairing of Bale-VDV-Benayoun. Of course we still need someone to put int he goals!

Perhaps Torres + Benayoun for Modric?

 

But he can also play as a second striker which is like VDV. And of coz I'm not dreaming of the trio together, I would take Rossi over Ruiz and Mata anytime.

 

Benayoun is mediocre. Chelski still being delusional with their bids if that was true.

In any case VdV has said Modric is definitely staying for now. Still a chance that could change if Chelski offer mega money and the club has other players lined up, but I doubt it. Abramovich seems worried about financial fairplay, which is a good sign for the future.

Stoke claiming to have made a final offer for Palacios and Crouch. Apparently Levy is still planning to do his usual thing of leaving everything to the last minute.

 

Disagree, Benayoun is fantastic, but he wouldn't fit so well with Spurs and isn't the same as Modric.

Anyway, we need to sell Palacios and Crouch damnit! And Keane!!!!! It's getting too last minute and I'm afraid this will be like our winter transfer window with no one coming in!

Apparently we are going to bid 35mil for Hulk and Diarra is too expensive for us so thats off.

 

Keane's telling multiple news outlets that he's probably going to move, that his time is almost up at Spurs, that he's not interested in playing in the Championship but he just wants to play on a regular basis.

*sigh* Perhaps we should just let him go on a free?

 

guys we have Aaron Lennon who is a freakin boss on the RW I don't know why we need to bring another winger in here.

Hey last minute stuff is better than nothing, but I would prefer he'd do it earlier so guys can train with the team before the seasons starts... but hey it's a 9 month season lol not that big a deal.

 

Benayoun - meh. Looked great at West Ham, less so at Liverpool/Chelsea. Not for us. I'm reassured by the VdV statement and a quote from Jordan that Luka was knuckling down.

Not sure why the urgency to lose Crouch, he's a completely different option for us and I'd be happy enough to keep him.

 

I would have taken Benayoun over Pienaar, not Modric.

 

I wonder if he realizes that these may be mutually exclusive goals?

 

i hear inter wants robbie back....