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2021 Transfer Thread – Something Else Spurs Need To Get Right This Summer

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With Tottenham Hotspur securing seventh place in the Premier League table for 2020/21 with our final day victory over Leicester City, we of course pipped rivals Arsenal by a point which was a good reason to smile.

There’s no denying though that this is now a huge summer for the club, we have the ongoing managerial search, there will be the distraction of the European Championships and then, not only will fans be focusing heavily on how we choose to strengthen the group, a big topic of talk this summer will be whether or not Harry Kane finally moves on.

If Kane does leave, he surely goes with the best wishes of most, but a move abroad would be more palatable for fans who wouldn’t want to see him lining up against us. A departure would significantly boost our transfer kitty, but it would also be another major headache to solve – not just in terms of finding a quality replacement, but it might see others address their own futures, so the calibre of our incomings would also need to send a message that minus Kane, we are still looking to break that ceiling.

Let silly season begin…

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  • Niall D says:

    Afternoon folks,
    I m sort of Middle ground on the rebuild, I do think that there are a fair amount of players who need to go, but I don’t actually think that they all need to go at once, as I said in an earlier post let’s move 6 or 7 over the summer and get 3 or 4 in then 3 out January 1 in then 3 or 4 out next summer with 3 in.
    Bearing in mind some of these moves are more to do with ageing players.
    But I do suppose that it does depend on Kane staying, a lot of the Transfer speculation talk has died a bit since, Neville separated himself from “Kane wanted out comments” .
    Re Poch would I like him back, yep, for me, maybe a season too early, but I think he may have learned a thing or two since leaving us, as did Levey, and compromise by both on player recruitment could now be the common ground. He has now a couple of trophies under his belt and more euro experience, and of course massive experience in dealing with player egos if PSG squad are anything to go by, so Dele etc should be easy by comparison.
    I would argue that he, would come back in a stronger position and could take us forward.
    I certainly would welcome him back, if only for the football.
    Is the likes of Rodgers a better option? Bottled it 3 Times with Liverpool twice now with Leicester.
    Look at his team against us on Sunday, Cup winners a chance in the CL at home with their own crowd, Ref gives em two pens and he, still couldn’t coach em over the line.
    Now he’s Spursy.

  • TK says:

    TQ2, Who better to undertake a massive rebuild than the man who was fired for wanting a complete makeover? Rebuild can mean new men brought in or it can mean men renewed.

    A man who shows a little bit of love can be the best exorcist of all the negativity we watched on the pitch in the past months. Bringing back Poch would be an endorsement of hope.

    Poch is more likely to thrive in a return to N17 that he would by staying in the internecine world of PSG. Let him return to us with Mbappe as a present. Now there’s a front line: Mbappe, Kane, and Son, with Bale to come on as a wing at 60 minutes every other match.

    Isn’t VS the site for wild Spurs dreams? Dreams that dazzle us in the darkened night that now invites visions of doom and gloom. Be gone, negativity. Enter, mad passions of dazzling play.

  • TK says:

    A complete rebuild means all new players. But that doesn’t mean new bodies with different names. A renewed player is a new player. Let the discontent and the lethargic be renewed. Let hope return to those who have been lost. Infuse the players with a new vision that will renew them. Six or seven out, six or seven in, and a refreshening of those who stay. same old same old, out. same old renewed, in. Six out, half a dozen in, and all renewed with the dark vision replaced with the light of the sun.

    Like the prisoners in the Cave (chapter 7 of Plato’s Republic), let them see the light of the sun and leave the flickering shadow behind. Renewal, rebirth, and that’s a new team.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    TK….never mind Mbappe, we already have plenty of goals in us, it’s the defence that needs to be given priority so if they have any decent CB’s or full/wing backs he is welcome to bring those. I know we need a decent attacking midfielder but I’d rather go without than take Neymar, Di Maria is getting a bit long in the tooth but is still a decent player though.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    Both Poch and Jose (and Ryan in his short time) have failed to improve the mental attitude of the squad to rid us of this ‘Spursy’ reputation we have, I don’t see how or why this is likely to change in a second Poch reign so I don’t see any option but to rid the squad of those who don’t have the stomach to fight for every point.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    So many journos raising our hopes, it’s going to be a big let down if we don’t get him now!

  • TK says:

    TQ,

    I wouldn’t mind Mbappe in if Kane really does insist on leaving. One hopes, of course, that the coming of Pochettino would bring about the staying of Kane. But I wouldn’t mind Mbappe in, too.

  • TK says:

    TQ, I’ve living long enough to know that the destiny of most hopes is to be dashed and disappointed.

    Oh well. Such it is.

    But hopes can be fulfilled. And sometimes what arrives is far more than what reasonably have been predicted.

    Who knows. Maybe we’ll get Brendon Rogers and he’ll finally start winning things here. Laughing loudly.

    Even a small and isolated island off the coast of France once had an empire that spanned the all the time zones. Too damned arrogant to do it right, but no one could have predicted such would happen.

    If that one doesn’t work for ya, what about a tiny little nomadic group in Mongolia that sculpted that largest land empire in history. A rather nasty bunch with a sadistic khan, but who no one could have predicted such would happen.

    Not a damned reason that THFC won’t win multiple CL league titles. After all, we ride our horses wearing spurs, and the Mongols wore no spurs at all.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    TK….I’ll be 70 just after the start of next season so I just hope someone at the club recognises the importance to me of winning something again before I exit this world! lol

  • TK says:

    One advantage to Poch returning is that he will arrive with a pretty clear idea of which players need to be shipped out as a function of dreary attitude. He wanted a rebuild when he was fired. DL made a record unsurpassed when he brought in no one–zero, ziltch, nada. Poch would arrive demanding a rebuild and with knowledge about who won’t respond to his beseechings. If he gets no such promise, he won’t arrive.

  • TK says:

    Gotcha by 5 years, TQ2S. Estamos no mesmo barco. We’re in the same boat. We won the double when you were nine. That was a fine nine.

    It is past time to hoist a cup of mead or two. Winning the European Runner-Up Cup next season won’t do it for me. That’s a cup that will be filled with donkey’s piss. Not much there to prompt a toast.

  • Hot Tottingham says:

    I bid farewell to both Danny Rose and Paulo Gazzaniga…

    We have also kissed goodbye to a few younger academy players as well. Sterling and Marsh to name just two.

    As for Danny, I wish him well. He was a long serving player at Spurs and in his prime, probably the best LB in the PL… Good luck to him.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    I second that HT. I liked Gazzaniga and though he had the potential to take over from Hugo but can see how the shortage of homegrown made it necessary to bring in some english players, Hart being one of them, to make up the numbers and not leave us short in our CL and/or EL squads.

  • Niall D says:

    Didn’t know they were gone, good luck to both.
    At their best very good players for spurs. A bit sad Danny lost his way a bit.
    Aahh TK the Mongol empire( old Teemujin) they took no sh#t.
    Re Poch, I think he would have a fair bit of credit in the bank, given his furnature statements, which came true, he is loved by supporters, and as TK says, has a fair knowledge of who needs to go,
    he also, I think has a good few players who respect him from his former time at Spurs.
    And regarding established players, he made, Dier a pretty decent and respected player, could he turn him round again and improve some others who have “lost their way” who knows.

  • DoncasterHotspur says:

    And today the Poch rumours are starting to go quiet. What an absolute shambles. Jose was fired 6 days before a cup final with no plan in place. I suspect the timing was due to the joining of the ESL the day before in the hope of deflecting from the inevitable fallout.
    Each day we have a different rumour, clearly we can’t believe everything we read in the media but it is clear that Levy has zero plan and no clue as to who the manager should be.
    Personally I think it is too soon for Poch to come back but Levy at the moment is only interested in placating the fan base and making sure season ticket sales are sufficient to fill the stadium – the deadline for renewals is next week. Poch will more than likely have to work under even more restrictions than before, don’t forget we have renewed the Bank of England £175m loan. There is simply no money to spend on players unless we sell (Harry Kane).
    Meanwhile the teams we are supposedly trying to compete with have already strengthened their squads (Leicester and Liverpool).
    We are an absolute shambles of a club at the moment with zero plan, zero direction and zero leadership.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    City are reportedly interested in Grealish at around £100m, I can’t imagine they could afford both him and Kane in the same window.

  • DoncasterHotspur says:

    TQ2spurs – I don’t think City will play £100m for Grealish, I also don’t think they will pay the money Levy will no doubt demand for Kane.
    Interesting that the season ended on Sunday and it doesn’t look as though Kane and Levy have had their conversation yet. I believe the England squad will be meeting up on Saturday so there is little chance of anything happening until the Euro’s are over. How will the uncertainty over Kane and others impact upon our search for or new manager.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    Hi DH, I believe there is a definite link between the two in that DL possibly thinks that bringing MP back and promising backing to rebuild the squad is his best bet in persuading Kane and others to stay.

  • TK says:

    Erik ten Hag, anyone? He was in the rumours, went out, and now is back. It was said he signed a new contract with Ajax, but now they’re saying it was only a one-year extension so the Ajax could up the selling price to another team.

    Y’all hearing anything about this? At least Ajax doesn’t park any buses or lorries. They like to move forward.

    I’m still more enthused about Poch. But then I’ve been foolish enough date a couple of ex wives along the way, and that’s rarely a good idea. But having admitted that, I’d still like to see Poch come back. If it turns out disastrously, it will flow like water off the duck’s ass away from me.

  • TQ2Spurs says:

    Would definitely be my choice if we can’t get Poch. We don’t need a short term manager, which Conte would certainly be, and the guy who has just left Lille clearly isn’t one for spending a long time at one club either. We need a manager that is prepared to see through a project of not only rebuilding our current squad but also improving our recruitment, not just for the first team but for the academy as well.

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