Hogwild
Player Valuation: £30m
That's odd. Southampton has moved on numerous quality footballers over the past several years. Admittedly the one we bought was pretty crap, but it shouldn't sour us on the whole concept.
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George Michael
James Tarkowski - Matt Law
Oleksandr Zinchenko - The Athletic
Harry Winks - Matt Law
Keane Lewis-Potter - El bobble
Andrew Ridgeley
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James Tarkowski - Matt Law
Oleksandr Zinchenko - The Athletic
Harry Winks - Matt Law
Keane Lewis-Potter - El bobble
Andrew Ridgeley
Baggzio
Player Valuation: £15m
Bit weird to lump them both together when one is a Leicester player that can't even get in their team and has done nothing in his career and the other is a regular for Spurs who fight for top 4, started for Spurs in a Champions League final and is an England international. This is one thing I really can't understand with our fans, if we're linked with a player they're either A. "world beater and far too good for us, won't come" or B. "utter crap, don't bother with him".
Is there anything to be said for a player that you know will give you at least a 6 or 7 out of 10 every week. It's the same with Tarkowski, lad will come in and be far away our best defender but he's crap because he played for Burnley, despite them literally turning down bids for £30m for him like last year. This doesn't even take into account that we were literally one of the worst teams in the league last year, do people expect us to sign world class players, despite being broke and despite being crap ourselves?
Think many people just want to see a big improvement and the players mentioned whilst bringing stability, are pretty dour names in all reality.
If they had a few decent games then all that would be forgotten of course. Football fans are very fickle in that respect.
He isn’t very good either.
Brownie
Player Valuation: £70m
I still think he's bang average and am glad we didn't sign him. Can't see him lasting long at Spurs now they have Bissouma.
Can he play DM?
jonnyboy316
Player Valuation: £35m
19 premier league appearances for Winks last season (many as a sub). That is a regular to you? I am not expecting world class players. I am am expecting some imagination from our recruitment team. By signing players over 25 who are unlikely to improve further we are not going to progress and we will not be able to command a good fee for them in the future to build the squad. How can we get out of this rut if we keep on making decisions like this? I am not against Tarkowski as he is on a free and has qualities we are lacking. Winks is very similar to Tom Davies in profile. It is depressing that we can’t identify better options in other leagues for £20m. They are definitely out there.
It will be interesting to compare us with Leeds next season. Both narrowly avoided relegation, both look to be selling our best player. They are looking to recruit from abroad whilst we are looking domestically. If we end up with Winks, Tarkowski and a couple of Chelsea loanees it tells you a lot about our recruitment process/team or lack of it.
Double Negative
Player Valuation: £500k
Enjoy yourself. Off to Elounda myself on Friday…
BlueStevie35
Player Valuation: £70m
Wrong we merely want to loan Winks, Spurs prefer to sell
brieverton
Player Valuation: £40m
I think they are terrified of taking risks. God forbid we sign a relatively unknown player from Belgium or France for example for £15m that turns out to be worth £60m in a year or two.
It's all safety first but the problem there is that it's massively inhibiting. They know what Winks offers, which in my opinion is next to nothing, but somehow this type of signing always trumps the unknown quantity.
If he doesn't come with a sicknote then he might be part of a group that gets us from 16th to 14th, but problems and all we still don't have to accept that as a given. We can and should do better. There is little chance of resale value here, and complete anathema to the "Buy low, sell high and reinvest" strategy that should be so central that everyone in player recruitment is indoctrinated with it to the point of exhaustion.
It's a black mark against both Thelwell and Lampard as I see it if Winks is considered the best we can do. It tells us to expect little more than more of the same.
It's all safety first but the problem there is that it's massively inhibiting. They know what Winks offers, which in my opinion is next to nothing, but somehow this type of signing always trumps the unknown quantity.
If he doesn't come with a sicknote then he might be part of a group that gets us from 16th to 14th, but problems and all we still don't have to accept that as a given. We can and should do better. There is little chance of resale value here, and complete anathema to the "Buy low, sell high and reinvest" strategy that should be so central that everyone in player recruitment is indoctrinated with it to the point of exhaustion.
It's a black mark against both Thelwell and Lampard as I see it if Winks is considered the best we can do. It tells us to expect little more than more of the same.
You too mate - Might bump into you over the weekend - Getting a boat from Elounda over to Spinalonga
random
Player Valuation: £15m
It’s very simple: we shouldn’t be signing players from clubs below us. Or clubs above us.
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