The College Dropout

Yeh before obviously. I’m suggesting there’s reasonable value in the market for the fairly shrewd. I think if we got a decent offer for Targett we would let him go. But won’t hawk him around and upset him.

Just make more of a fuss and turn it into a circus. More of one. He might love Spurs but Levy doesn’t love him. Make it harder for Levy. Kane can only count on the next 3-4 years. If he cares about winning things and playing in the biggest matches consistently he needs to try and push a transfer through. I think Levy thinks he’s an idiot. From what I understand. He had a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ to be sold if a good offer came in based on a few conditions. Levy definitely made sure it wasn’t written in the contract and most certainly laughed when it was signed. Kane doesn’t have professional representation- I’m confident Levy wanted to exploit that and he did.

I disagree. I’d take Moreno or Estupiñán in a heartbeat. For the fees they signed for, they could double their value easily which is great for FFP. And they would be good upgrade on Targett. I think Burn is different. He’s a leader. Affinity with the club and fans. And a harder profile to replace. But Targett is more straight forward to upgrade imo. If you wouldn’t sell Targett for £15m and sign Moreno for £14m or Estupiñán for £18m… I just don’t understand the logic.

There’s a big gap in performance and ability from ‘absolute worldie’ and Matt Targett (and Burn). Too big.

I wouldn’t sell Burn under any reasonable circumstance. But if we sold Targett for what we bought him for. Surely we could get a solid upgrade for £5-10m more. Moreno at Villa was £14m and Estupinian was £18m.

Genuine question, is he any good? I just seen him play now for Leicester.

Aye. I think both Targett and Burn are good midtable players. Both clubs we bought them from are fair enough to think they would take the money and get upgrades on them with most of that fee.

I also would have never have signed that contract in the first place.

He definitely thinks Kane is an idiot like. And his advisors. If I was Kane I would’ve been forced that move and made it clear as day I would not sign a new deal.

I like Brightons transfers and possible attack man. I don’t know if any of them will have elite output. But with Kudus, JP, Mitoma, Ferguson they will play some very sexy football this season. Plus Welbeck, March and Enciso. All of these lads can drop a shoulder, play a pass, technique pace and balance. If it clicks it will be orgasmic to watch at times. I think we are one player short of that type of skilful profile. I like how Brighton sign ballers.

Is Kanes agent still his brother? He should be on the phone to Florentino Perez. To only be linked to Bayern and Man U is piss poor. Bayern is a good move but you would hope Barca, Real or a big Italian club would also be interested. PL is a waste of space until Pep leaves unless City are interested.

Nobody has ever bid crazy money for Kane. That’s his major problem. It’s al topping out at around £110m due to age and contract issues. Levy isn’t going to get the rate for him that he should

Harry Winks has 10 England caps. Pure ‘top 6’ favouritism. 2 of our lot should make their England debut minimum this season. Maybe even 4 or 5.

The ‘it’s a job’ thing has a wide net of interest though. Saw a podcast with Michail Antonio. He said he didn’t grow up watching loads of football and doesn’t watch loads of football now. Barely knows any referee names too. Doesn’t mean he doesn’t care about football he’s just not a fanatic who wants to know the ins and out of everything

Levy used to make shrewd signings. Carrick, Berbatov, Bale, Modric etc. did smart things like get the Bale sell-on clause removed. The stadium is magnificent and is becoming the number 1 stadium in the country for musical tours and such. Massive revenue. But In recent years he’s lost the plot chasing short term success on the pitch. Uktimately he doesn’t care if Spurs win things and it shows. And he’s believed his own hype.

Bogarde was 30 when he joined though. Left at 34. He signed that contract knowing that would be his retirement fund. Most of the Chelsea lot could still earn £20m+ by the time their Chelsea contracts end.

Aye. He doesn’t carry the ball like Rice but everything else he seems to be at least as good as imo. But Caicedo is younger and can play more positions.

Nobody else could have gotten this much out of the squad than Eddie last season. That’s for sure.

Aha ok interesting. Yesterdays line up arguably we started the leading attack. Everything else seemed a mix.

I always assumed most managers give their strongest team (or atleast the one most likely to start together) a runout near the end of pre season. We don’t seem to have done that.

Abramovic transfers largely worked from day one iirc. First season they finished 2nd and went CL SF. Next season won the league. And was largely competitive for the entirety of his reign. Lots of money and solid leadership. I do hope the Todd era continues to suck.

You’re thinking Bogarde. But Bogarde signed way before Abramovic but was hanging around a year or two into the Abramovic era.

They keep on stacking them. I fancy Poch to sort it out to a large degree through.

Think we beat anyone at home if we turn him. It sounds like we have a few injury problems though. We are likely to start a few players that didn’t feature much last season and our summer signings may not be ready to start.

Even if he’s 85% fit. He starts.