SEMTEX Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? If they want to be consistent top 4, they definitely do. They need rid of Keane and they need to replace him with a top striker. And then they need Crouch and Pav to be content with bit part roles. Though I'd say they needed quality at CB before a striker. May as well discount King/Woodgate from existence imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? Yes. Crouch doesn't score enough, Keane can cartwheel his way through the exit door, Pav is inconsistant and doesn't perform away from home (will probably be gone at the end of the season). Defoe is the only one i trust to score (Crouch i also trust but not to score). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delima Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? More like, Bassong, Gallas, Kaboul and you still need a CB ?? Anyway, bodywise Spurs are well covered if not overloaded. Their future transfers need to be real quality like VDV or young talents like Gareth Bales, otherwise it will be pointless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leffe186 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? More like, Bassong, Gallas, Kaboul and you still need a CB ?? Anyway, bodywise Spurs are well covered if not overloaded. Their future transfers need to be real quality like VDV or young talents like Gareth Bales, otherwise it will be pointless. Quite. This January will be a strange window. Most people have to sell to buy, even Man City will have to unload some players from their squad. Blackburn may now have a little money to spend, and the talk is of Randy Lerner giving Houiller a wodge, but who else? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? More like, Bassong, Gallas, Kaboul and you still need a CB ?? Anyway, bodywise Spurs are well covered if not overloaded. Their future transfers need to be real quality like VDV or young talents like Gareth Bales, otherwise it will be pointless. King and Woodgate can not be relied on, Kaboul imo is better at rb, Gallas is on a 1 season deal so will be off, so that's Dawson and Bassong we have for next season. Both players i rate but still think a real quality cb might be needed to partner either one. We need to offload players too. Giovani Dos Santos and Robbie Keane need to be shipped out with immediate effect. Bentley, Hutton, O'hara and Pavlychenko can leave at the end of the season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 So that's 6 players (and probably Gallas out the door too) for next season and 2 or 3 real quality players in. Pretty much what you said Delima. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 So that's 6 players (and probably Gallas out the door too) for next season and 2 or 3 real quality players in. Pretty much what you said Delima. Do you think they'll all go realistically? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ObiChrisKenobi Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? If they want to be consistent top 4, they definitely do. They need rid of Keane and they need to replace him with a top striker. And then they need Crouch and Pav to be content with bit part roles. Though I'd say they needed quality at CB before a striker. May as well discount King/Woodgate from existence imo. Wouldn't call Defoe prolific either. Last season was his best haul for league goes, before that he was only really getting 8-9 a season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 So that's 6 players (and probably Gallas out the door too) for next season and 2 or 3 real quality players in. Pretty much what you said Delima. Do you think they'll all go realistically? Gio and Keane are almost certainties and Gallas, O'hara and Bentley are very likely. Pavlychenko depends if he doesn't mind sitting on the bench and Alan Hutton (who i think is a clown of a rb) might sadly stay. Kranjcar sadly is likely to leave ahead of Hutton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam Liam Liam O Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I think you'll struggle to shift Bentley. He was the one I was most interested in. Any idea how much money is he on? He was the 'new Beckham' at the time you signed him for an awful lot of money and presumably wages. I just can't see you taking the expected loss and him taking the wages drop to shift him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I think we'll shift him easily tbh. Reports when he signed siggested he's on 40k and i'm sure Levy will find some sucker/moron/idiot who is willing to pay 8m plus. Keane will be the hardest one to shift imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? If they want to be consistent top 4, they definitely do. They need rid of Keane and they need to replace him with a top striker. And then they need Crouch and Pav to be content with bit part roles. Though I'd say they needed quality at CB before a striker. May as well discount King/Woodgate from existence imo. Wouldn't call Defoe prolific either. Last season was his best haul for league goes, before that he was only really getting 8-9 a season. To be fair, he hasn't played anything resembling a full since (with last season an exception) since 2006/07. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I think we'll shift him easily tbh. Reports when he signed siggested he's on 40k and i'm sure Levy will find some sucker/moron/idiot who is willing to pay 8m plus. Keane will be the hardest one to shift imo. He'll leave on loan imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Keane & Bentley would improve us so much. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Keane & Bentley would improve us so much. Keane would, Bentley I debate, he looks really low on confidence he needs a smaller club to raise his profile again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Keane & Bentley would improve us so much. Keane would, Bentley I debate, he looks really low on confidence he needs a smaller club to raise his profile again. Smaller club than us? I doubt he'd move to a smaller club than us and he'd easily be the best winger at our club if he left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ObiChrisKenobi Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Crouch, Defoe, Pav, Keane and you still need a striker? If they want to be consistent top 4, they definitely do. They need rid of Keane and they need to replace him with a top striker. And then they need Crouch and Pav to be content with bit part roles. Though I'd say they needed quality at CB before a striker. May as well discount King/Woodgate from existence imo. Wouldn't call Defoe prolific either. Last season was his best haul for league goes, before that he was only really getting 8-9 a season. To be fair, he hasn't played anything resembling a full since (with last season an exception) since 2006/07. Another reason to sell him on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Keane & Bentley would improve us so much. Keane would, Bentley I debate, he looks really low on confidence he needs a smaller club to raise his profile again. Smaller club than us? I doubt he'd move to a smaller club than us and he'd easily be the best winger at our club if he left. Back to Blackburn or someone like that. He needs somewhere with less pressure, playing for us at home especially can be quite intense, he needs to be the big fish in a small pond something he wouldn't be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Keane & Bentley would improve us so much. Keane would, Bentley I debate, he looks really low on confidence he needs a smaller club to raise his profile again. Smaller club than us? I doubt he'd move to a smaller club than us and he'd easily be the best winger at our club if he left. Back to Blackburn or someone like that. He needs somewhere with less pressure, playing for us at home especially can be quite intense, he needs to be the big fish in a small pond something he wouldn't be. Aye fair point about the pressure, this place can be intense. Still think he'd handle it though, he just can't handle competition well (bit like Routledge) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Heneage Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Maybe KI could put me right on this but I always saw Bentley as a good crosser but not someone who will get to the byline. He'd offer us something different in that sense, but I always thought he was a central player moved out to the right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colocho Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Started off as a CAM if I remember correctly ... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallace Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I think Spurs will have a problem moving players on unless they drop the prices they ask for them. Clubs don't have much money at present and quite a few need to move players on themselves before they can buy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kingdawson Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Well for us he's been doing a bit of both but he cuts inside more than he stays on the byline. He's a weird player actually. His usual game involves him going to the byline (ie going on the outside) then cuts inside, then cuts outside again to cross. His crosses are usually good but he has little to no pace and tries these spectacular long rangers at least once or twice a game (usually it ends up in row Z). His free kicks are some of the worst i've ever seen. He steps up and does his little David Beckham impersonation, flicks his hair back whilst 'concentrating' and seizing up the goal....only to produce the biggest pile of crap free kick in football history. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cajun Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Well for us he's been doing a bit of both but he cuts inside more than he stays on the byline. He's a weird player actually. His usual game involves him going to the byline (ie going on the outside) then cuts inside, then cuts outside again to cross. His crosses are usually good but he has little to no pace and tries these spectacular long rangers at least once or twice a game (usually it ends up in row Z). His free kicks are some of the worst i've ever seen. He steps up and does his little David Beckham impersonation, flicks his hair back whilst 'concentrating' and seizing up the goal....only to produce the biggest pile of crap free kick in football history. Sounds a bit like Milner actually (minus the Beckham impersonation, he knew his limits). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Remember Milner smashing a 30 yard free kick off the underside of the bar in the UEFA cup back in the day. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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