Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg.

[blue to the bone]

Tottenham confident of signing Pierre-Emile Højbjerg from Southampton

Tottenham are confident that they will close a deal for Southampton’s Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, even though Everton have had a bid of £25m accepted for the midfielder

www.theguardian.com

Looks like a rehash of the matt law article to me

 

[ForeverBlue92]

Our transfers are always that dragged out you have no excitement when they actually happen.

Take Gabriel - I heard he had agreed terms far back as Feb/March yet we are still negotiating near end of July lol

 

[Tin-Tin]

This smacks of lazy scouting to me, threre must be so many players who can break up play and pass it sideways.

 

[RomanReigns]

Would you have said the same when we signed Gueye ?

Gueye had 1 season with Aston Villa. They got relegated and he had a very low buy out clause. The risk factor was very low.

in that 1 season he played 35 prem games and had the following stats: -

53 passes per match

144 tackles

75% tackle success rate

141 interceptions

344 recoveries

295 duels won


in comparison

Hojbjerg has had 4 full seasons in the prem already

this season his stats are: -

55 passes per match

80 tackles

61% tackle success rate

46 interceptions

326 recoveries

210 duels won


we are paying 25 mil for a much inferior player to gueye

if we were paying 5 mil then that is fine

would much rather spend 25 big ones or contribute 25 big ones on a much better player like Allan

 

[Goat]

Kante isn't good anymore is easily your worst take

Yeah that's not what I said.

I said he's not the player he was due to the fact that he's pretty much won the lot, bar CL, which he wouldn't be winning here.

Hes still a very talented player, but he's simply phoning it in at Chelsea these days.

 

[ClausThomsen]

In miles maybe, but not really in travel time. I reckon you could probably get the train from Lime Street to London as quick as you can get from Southampton to central London by either car or train.

That's assuming he lives in Southampton. Plenty of players live outside the area they play in.

I don't know his personal circumstances but if he's settled down there or has a young family or partner with close relatives / commitments down that part of the world then the Spurs move makes more sense.

Or he might just really like London or maybe thinks Spurs have a better crack at getting back into the CL as opposed to the revolving door circus that is Everton of the last few seasons.

 

[RomanReigns]

Gueye had 1 season with Aston Villa. They got relegated and he had a very low buy out clause. The risk factor was very low.

in that 1 season he played 35 prem games and had the following stats: -

53 passes per match

144 tackles

75% tackle success rate

141 interceptions

344 recoveries

295 duels won


in comparison

Hojbjerg has had 4 full seasons in the prem already

this season his stats are: -

55 passes per match

80 tackles

61% tackle success rate

46 interceptions

326 recoveries

210 duels won


we are paying 25 mil for a much inferior player to gueye

if we were paying 5 mil then that is fine

would much rather spend 25 big ones or contribute 25 big ones on a much better player like Allan

also his interception stats are atrocious

we already have two passengers in central midfield who barely intercept a thing, hojbjerg is not the type of player we need right now who is going to solve that issue for us

 

[Goat]

You mean Douglas Luiz right?

He looked good versus us, but went missing against Arsenal.

I think its just a case of seeing what we want to see.

 

[Nymzee]

He looked good versus us, but went missing against Arsenal.

I think its just a case of seeing what we want to see.

Everyone looks good vs us.

 

[Raino85]

Ignore Matt Law

Hojbjerg is and has been done

 

[Goat]

Our transfers are always that dragged out you have no excitement when they actually happen.

Take Gabriel - I heard he had agreed terms far back as Feb/March yet we are still negotiating near end of July lol

Thats cos all transfers take ages.

We only notice the Everton 1s cos we follow them from the start.

 

[Goat]

Everyone looks good vs us.

Precismo.

 

[Lanolin]

That's assuming he lives in Southampton. Plenty of players live outside the area they play in.

I don't know his personal circumstances but if he's settled down there or has a young family or partner with close relatives / commitments down that part of the world then the Spurs move makes more sense.

Or he might just really like London or maybe thinks Spurs have a better crack at getting back into the CL as opposed to the revolving door circus that is Everton of the last few seasons.

I was responding to a post about him 'staying' in London. He won't live in London now I don't think, it'd be a 4 hour round trip to training every day. If he lives in London now he could live in London and play for us, it'd be a minimal difference. That will have absolutely nothing to do with it though. He'll want to go to Spurs because they've finished above us in 9 of the last 10 seasons, and play regularly in the Champions League, including getting to the final last season. In all seriousness, the only reason for a Danish footballer to want to move to us over Spurs would be for the money. For purely footballing reasons it's a no brainer.

 

[TheSecondComing]

Ignore Matt Law

Hojbjerg is and has been done

ha

 

[Goat]

also his interception stats are atrocious

we already have two passengers in central midfield who barely intercept a thing, hojbjerg is not the type of player we need right now who is going to solve that issue for us

Now compare his stats to Gyfi.

Not somebody who plays for another club.