trueblue84
Player Valuation: £50m
If it was our medical staff who made the assessment, I'd have a defibrillator on standby.
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100% this.
dixiesdisciple
Player Valuation: £2.5m
Agree, there is potential there. On the ‘proper CM’s’ bit.. the spurs team that got to UCL final.. their midfield was Winks and Sissoko.. not exactly stellar but clearly effective. Can none of ours play these roles? Doucoure/Allan? Alongside a Zinchenko? DCL up top, Alli off him with Gray and Gordon either side? Or Alli off the left, iwobi in behind with either gray/Gordon on the right. Not saying we’d push top 6 but surely mid table!
Zinchenko, Doucoure & Winks would be a decent midfield imo. Dele playing off DCL could also be a great partnership.
ZissouBlue
Player Valuation: £8m
Yeah in general I think we overstate how much a defensive monster is needed if you have CMs who are better on the ball. If we bring in two CMs who are good at retaining possession and passing, we don't necessarily need to play with a true #6. Then you can accommodate someone like Doucoure to do more of the running around when you need more steel in midfield. Not sure we have the dough for it, but hypothetically if you had a Zinchenko/Doucoure double pivot (or something along those lines) with Dele/Gibbs-White/Iwobi playing in a more advanced midfield role it would be potentially effective just by having competent players on the ball. Agree that mix in attack could do a very decent job assuming Dom stays healthy.
Not that I wouldn't feel better with a proper DM, but we just badly need midfielders who are comfortable on the ball and good at playing it forward, above all else.
AmericasToffee
Player Valuation: £40m
Would be nice. He's a talent and would crush as a second striker if he's in peak form. Let's wait and see, though.
Pickford
Patterson
Tarkowski
Mina
Mykolenko
Doucoure
Iwobi
Gray
Dele
Gordon
DCL
Richarlison who?
0 money spent great success
Patterson
Tarkowski
Mina
Mykolenko
Doucoure
Iwobi
Gray
Dele
Gordon
DCL
Richarlison who?
0 money spent great success
kiss the crest
Player Valuation: £35m
I thought the club were going to spin it were Tom Davies was looking sharp in training, but no it’s Dele, listen because this lad has done a few star jumps and 20 sit ups in a certain time doesn’t mean we have signed a new player, as he was getting marked against Davies Gomes Gbabmin etc on these tests
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £50m
I do think the deal is destined to be a disaster and it'd be better for that club to try and offload to reduce the wages and avoid having to shell out almost Richarlison-level money to Spurs. It's a huge gamble to keep him in our financial situation.
Raino85
Player Valuation: £35m
I just dont get it.........how can you male a statement of 'best condition of his career'
I very much doubt we have info on his condition in February 2017!
BigDuncTributeBand
Player Valuation: £25m
Every season the same [insert numpty] has come back in amazing condition, ready to tear up the prem…then proceeds to tear hamstring.
bluestevon
Player Valuation: £80m
Pre season will show us.
It's not like the guys an arsehole with toxic habits that'll wreck his career, he simply just seemed to lose motivation for the game and needs a certain connection with the manager.
If he has found that desire again, even if it's based on proving the media wrong them it's great news for us. Sometimes it just takes the right environment to make something click with a player.
If he has gotten himself in great shape and starts well this season, he'll become a big favourite and will thrive from that (as will DCL and all the attacking players)
It's not like the guys an arsehole with toxic habits that'll wreck his career, he simply just seemed to lose motivation for the game and needs a certain connection with the manager.
If he has found that desire again, even if it's based on proving the media wrong them it's great news for us. Sometimes it just takes the right environment to make something click with a player.
If he has gotten himself in great shape and starts well this season, he'll become a big favourite and will thrive from that (as will DCL and all the attacking players)
For what its worth we heard the same thing for the last 3 summers at Tottenham, i dont think fitness has ever been an issue for Dele as he is always posting instagram stories of summer workouts before pre season had started mainly from training camps in Dubai and Mykonos. He actually started the season really well last year and then reverted back to his old ways of just not being very good at football. I still have a major soft spot for Dele and would love for him to recapture his early career promise so here's hoping he does.
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