Matt1892

Joel Essex just summed up how everyone was feeling about this on sky sports news if anyone seen it.

https://medium.com/@TheSpursScout/edmond-tapsoba-the-perfect-cb-for-tottenham-5132aac8c811 Seems to have a lot of attributes we would look for.

Didn’t they bring someone new in with the responsibility for negotiating deals?

If you go back earlier in the window Liverpool fans were talking about how they had some master negotiator on board who got Mac Allister on the cheap. Fast forward 2 months and they’ve had their pants pulled down.?

I don’t think there midfield was, it was good but didn’t necessarily dominate. What they were good at was retaining possession along with the back line, they could pass it around amongst themselves for large parts of the game and had the patience to do it, as well as being allowed to do it as their supporters are not impatient about that type of football. Their aim being to draw you in to a press in midfield before going long to the likes of Mitoma so they could isolate the fullback. The real danger is that Liverpool play some of the best counter attacking football in the league, I just don’t see what Caicedo brings them now compared to what Lavia could in a year or two.

The way people go on about our slow back line you would think it was down to them that we didn’t finish with more points.

We scout the South American market and shop in the relegation market.

I get that but I’m sure it was Ashworth who said there was different funds for different groups of players.

I’m not sure why people are down on Chalobah, if he was in Ligue 1 playing for someone like Rennes last season he would have been like prime Costacurta.

I think the difference is that Brighton have invested in that area on players where as we have only really signed Minteh for any sort of transfer fee, who is then loaned out to develop to either come back in at a later date or not. That doesn’t mean the Irish lads or Kuol won’t make it but the idea behind Ashworth was copying Brighton to some extent, acknowledging that we can’t keep going out and buying ready made star players window after window. I’m surprised at how little we have invested so far in development players to go out on loan.

We have boosted the youth ranks but I don’t think we have done it like was expected when Ashworth came on board, Minteh is the only one that we have spent any sort of decent money on for a youth player. I don’t include Ashby in that group. It probably seems worse in that we have been linked with a few South Americans over a number of months that we have reportedly been watching yet they end up at Man City and Chelsea out of the blue.

It wouldn’t take Chalobah long before he replaced Schar as first choice, he has a high level reading of the game mixed with pace so he has a lot of the attributes desired to balance us out at the back. Plus he has Premier League and Champions League experience. What he hasn’t got is the range of passing that Schar has but I’m wondering if Howe will see beyond that since we could have Bruno and Tonali who can spread the ball about. I would be happy with him signing.

Joelinton and Bruno were really impressive today.

Leeds will win this.

Spurs are hoping that Kane will sign a new contract as he doesn’t want to be seen as a bad guy with the fans, I would say there is a good chance he does as well if they don’t sell him this summer.

Leicester in front

Great save to stop it from being 2-0.

Coventry 1-0 up

What was that from Simms.?

You can pinpoint the interview after the Chelsea game where he acknowledged his issues with getting up to speed as what seems like a turning point in his Newcastle career. Opinions definitely softened on him as a person at that point and to be fair to him he said he was going to come back ready to go and he has done that. I can see him being someone that Howe accommodates in to the team if he’s on form, which could be down either wing or even in the middle.

Nobody is being impatient with him.

He didn’t look out of place in our back line so it will be interesting to see how we plan on developing him.

I didn’t see it like that and others didn’t either, we are all entitled to our opinions. Just to reiterate that we all want him to do well before people are accused of having a vendetta against him or something.