Morning
The worry for me is the circus Kane brings will be unwanted distraction for those players that were so excellent last week.
I hope he’s nowhere near the match day squad unless he declares he’s staying
Harry Kane has travelled with the squad!
Bergwijn Son Lucas
Dele Skipp Højbjerg
Reguilón Dier Sanchez Tanganga
Lloris
Gollini, Doherty, Romero, Sessegnon, Winks, Lo Celso, Gil, Scarlett, Kane
1 0 Wolves
We still need to replace the goals of Kane, Bale, Vinicius & to a lesser extent Lamela
Goals in all competitions last season
Kane - 31
Bale - 11
Vinicius - 9
Lamela - 2
Total: 53 goals
There is a possibility that Kane may stay but I wouldn’t be surprised if we sold him on deadline day.
We desperately need to bring in some goal-scorers.
Romero not in the squad today
comment by The Beast 🐒 (U2836)
posted 4 minutes ago
We still need to replace the goals of Kane, Bale, Vinicius & to a lesser extent Lamela
Goals in all competitions last season
Kane - 31
Bale - 11
Vinicius - 9
Lamela - 2
Total: 53 goals
There is a possibility that Kane may stay but I wouldn’t be surprised if we sold him on deadline day.
We desperately need to bring in some goal-scorers.
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Yeah and the forwards I've seen us linked to aren't goalscorers
Traore 7 goals in 148 games or something
We have plenty of “forwards” who don’t score so many goals. Makes it even more frustrating that we didn’t go with Fernandes after having personal terms agreed.
Even if Kane stays we need to replace the other players mentioned goals just to ensure we don’t regress…
Unless we have an incredible last week I’m finding it difficult to see where our goals are going to come from.
I’m still hopeful that Paratici will bring in some quality attacking talent before the end of the window but each day that passes it’s becoming harder to see.
Unfortunately we need to sell to buy and no one wants our players
comment by The Beast 🐒 (U2836)
posted 2 minutes ago
We have plenty of “forwards” who don’t score so many goals. Makes it even more frustrating that we didn’t go with Fernandes after having personal terms agreed.
Even if Kane stays we need to replace the other players mentioned goals just to ensure we don’t regress…
Unless we have an incredible last week I’m finding it difficult to see where our goals are going to come from.
I’m still hopeful that Paratici will bring in some quality attacking talent before the end of the window but each day that passes it’s becoming harder to see.
Unfortunately we need to sell to buy and no one wants our players
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We would sell if Levy lowered the price, he expects premium prices for garbage, won't happen
We are going to have to hope some of our existing guys like Alli, Berg, Moura, and maybe even Son up their goal tallies, because there's no way we will replace lost goals with new additions now. Berg does not look great in front of goal though.
There is still 9 days to go so we could well see some additions. We also tend to leave it late to make signings for some reason.
I do feel that we will make / try to make some big moves late on.
The lateness of signings is part of the problem. New additions will miss 2 or 3 games already that we might drop points in, points we may have gained had we had these players sooner, that would then make the difference between finishing in say a top 4 position and not come the end of the season.
We will give the appearance of trying to sign players.
Even so - if we say bring in 2-3 quality players then at least we have them moving forward
As it stands it’s looking quite bleak and currently weaker than we were last season.
Unfortunately it looks as if it’s incredibly difficult to sign anyone of note and therefore we are looking at talented youngsters for the future.
We need at least 3 first team starters in all honesty.
Perhaps Paratici has something up his sleeve, I’m sure we have targets.
It also doesn't seem like we are addressing the HG issue much, with the many foreign signings we bring in. We sell Kane to City and they'll have a stronger English contingent than us which is something I never thought I'd see 5 or so years ago.
comment by Phenom (U20037)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Romero not in the squad today
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Is this cant injured already?
So we’ve signed a reserve goalkeeper a Spanish unproven kid and a injured defender
Fac king hell even Levy could’ve done that. What is the point of this dof?
Were we even in the hunt for Ings? I know we tried last summer so we obviously had an interest. I heard that Saints didn't want to conduct business with us due to the Hojbjerg deal but whether that's true or not, it's galling to see a top striker who we wanted to get go to a club lower down the table than ourselves.
Counter argument: do we need to replace all those goals if Kane leaves? If Nuno has us more defensively solid then we can afford to score less.
Maybe I’m clutching at straws
Wait so your argument is that we do not need to replace 50 odd goals if we have a better defence and ship less goals?
Surely we would want the same amount of goals and a tighter defence to move up the table or add more goals and a tighter defence to challenge.
So far we haven’t really done either and going into the 2nd game of the season with no Kane, Bale or Vinicius in attack along with both Dier and Sanchez as centre backs
The Vinicius goals came against rubbish teams in the cups, no need to mention him.
comment by The Beast 🐒 (U2836)
posted 2 minutes ago
Wait so your argument is that we do not need to replace 50 odd goals if we have a better defence and ship less goals?
Surely we would want the same amount of goals and a tighter defence to move up the table or add more goals and a tighter defence to challenge.
So far we haven’t really done either and going into the 2nd game of the season with no Kane, Bale or Vinicius in attack along with both Dier and Sanchez as centre backs
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I’m not exactly saying that, but beating United 2-0 is that same amount of points as winning 6-1.
And a lot of our goals came in the Europa League.
My point is, if Kane goes, and we’ve lost Bale, Lamela and Vinny as listed about) - replace them with a 20 goal a season striker and shore up the defence, we can still have a profitable season.
I don’t think the season is lost if we don’t bring in someone as prolific as Kane
We may start the season well. Let’s wait and see but we will desperately need reinforcements as the season progresses
Right now we desperately need a new goal scoring striker, right back, holding midfielder, centreback and a Creative midfielder.
That’s 5 x quality players before we even consider top four.
We still have Sissoko, Aurier. Winks, Doherty, Dier, Ndombele (wants to leave) & Kane (can ants to leave) still on the books.
We have 9 days of the window left.
We really are in a bit of a mess
20 goals a season strikers are so easy to find.
We probably better off buying 3 20m strikers and hope one comes good then buying 1 60m striker called N'Goals who will flop.
comment by Genius of Nielsen (U9059)
posted 18 minutes ago
Counter argument: do we need to replace all those goals if Kane leaves? If Nuno has us more defensively solid then we can afford to score less.
Maybe I’m clutching at straws
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Potentially that is true. We scored the equal third most goals in the league last season, but lost so many leads that cost us a lot of points. So a better defence this time round is more important than maintaining our goalscoring. That said, the aim should be to try and improve both I guess, although I'm actually not expecting us to get as many goals this season whether Kane stays or goes.
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posted on 22/8/21
Morning All.
posted on 22/8/21
Morning
The worry for me is the circus Kane brings will be unwanted distraction for those players that were so excellent last week.
I hope he’s nowhere near the match day squad unless he declares he’s staying
posted on 22/8/21
Harry Kane has travelled with the squad!
posted on 22/8/21
Bergwijn Son Lucas
Dele Skipp Højbjerg
Reguilón Dier Sanchez Tanganga
Lloris
Gollini, Doherty, Romero, Sessegnon, Winks, Lo Celso, Gil, Scarlett, Kane
1 0 Wolves
posted on 22/8/21
We still need to replace the goals of Kane, Bale, Vinicius & to a lesser extent Lamela
Goals in all competitions last season
Kane - 31
Bale - 11
Vinicius - 9
Lamela - 2
Total: 53 goals
There is a possibility that Kane may stay but I wouldn’t be surprised if we sold him on deadline day.
We desperately need to bring in some goal-scorers.
posted on 22/8/21
Romero not in the squad today
posted on 22/8/21
comment by The Beast 🐒 (U2836)
posted 4 minutes ago
We still need to replace the goals of Kane, Bale, Vinicius & to a lesser extent Lamela
Goals in all competitions last season
Kane - 31
Bale - 11
Vinicius - 9
Lamela - 2
Total: 53 goals
There is a possibility that Kane may stay but I wouldn’t be surprised if we sold him on deadline day.
We desperately need to bring in some goal-scorers.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yeah and the forwards I've seen us linked to aren't goalscorers
Traore 7 goals in 148 games or something
posted on 22/8/21
We have plenty of “forwards” who don’t score so many goals. Makes it even more frustrating that we didn’t go with Fernandes after having personal terms agreed.
Even if Kane stays we need to replace the other players mentioned goals just to ensure we don’t regress…
Unless we have an incredible last week I’m finding it difficult to see where our goals are going to come from.
I’m still hopeful that Paratici will bring in some quality attacking talent before the end of the window but each day that passes it’s becoming harder to see.
Unfortunately we need to sell to buy and no one wants our players
posted on 22/8/21
comment by The Beast 🐒 (U2836)
posted 2 minutes ago
We have plenty of “forwards” who don’t score so many goals. Makes it even more frustrating that we didn’t go with Fernandes after having personal terms agreed.
Even if Kane stays we need to replace the other players mentioned goals just to ensure we don’t regress…
Unless we have an incredible last week I’m finding it difficult to see where our goals are going to come from.
I’m still hopeful that Paratici will bring in some quality attacking talent before the end of the window but each day that passes it’s becoming harder to see.
Unfortunately we need to sell to buy and no one wants our players
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We would sell if Levy lowered the price, he expects premium prices for garbage, won't happen
posted on 22/8/21
We are going to have to hope some of our existing guys like Alli, Berg, Moura, and maybe even Son up their goal tallies, because there's no way we will replace lost goals with new additions now. Berg does not look great in front of goal though.
posted on 22/8/21
There is still 9 days to go so we could well see some additions. We also tend to leave it late to make signings for some reason.
I do feel that we will make / try to make some big moves late on.
posted on 22/8/21
The lateness of signings is part of the problem. New additions will miss 2 or 3 games already that we might drop points in, points we may have gained had we had these players sooner, that would then make the difference between finishing in say a top 4 position and not come the end of the season.
posted on 22/8/21
We will give the appearance of trying to sign players.
posted on 22/8/21
Even so - if we say bring in 2-3 quality players then at least we have them moving forward
As it stands it’s looking quite bleak and currently weaker than we were last season.
Unfortunately it looks as if it’s incredibly difficult to sign anyone of note and therefore we are looking at talented youngsters for the future.
We need at least 3 first team starters in all honesty.
Perhaps Paratici has something up his sleeve, I’m sure we have targets.
posted on 22/8/21
It also doesn't seem like we are addressing the HG issue much, with the many foreign signings we bring in. We sell Kane to City and they'll have a stronger English contingent than us which is something I never thought I'd see 5 or so years ago.
posted on 22/8/21
comment by Phenom (U20037)
posted 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Romero not in the squad today
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Is this cant injured already?
So we’ve signed a reserve goalkeeper a Spanish unproven kid and a injured defender
Fac king hell even Levy could’ve done that. What is the point of this dof?
posted on 22/8/21
Were we even in the hunt for Ings? I know we tried last summer so we obviously had an interest. I heard that Saints didn't want to conduct business with us due to the Hojbjerg deal but whether that's true or not, it's galling to see a top striker who we wanted to get go to a club lower down the table than ourselves.
posted on 22/8/21
Counter argument: do we need to replace all those goals if Kane leaves? If Nuno has us more defensively solid then we can afford to score less.
Maybe I’m clutching at straws
posted on 22/8/21
Wait so your argument is that we do not need to replace 50 odd goals if we have a better defence and ship less goals?
Surely we would want the same amount of goals and a tighter defence to move up the table or add more goals and a tighter defence to challenge.
So far we haven’t really done either and going into the 2nd game of the season with no Kane, Bale or Vinicius in attack along with both Dier and Sanchez as centre backs
posted on 22/8/21
The Vinicius goals came against rubbish teams in the cups, no need to mention him.
posted on 22/8/21
comment by The Beast 🐒 (U2836)
posted 2 minutes ago
Wait so your argument is that we do not need to replace 50 odd goals if we have a better defence and ship less goals?
Surely we would want the same amount of goals and a tighter defence to move up the table or add more goals and a tighter defence to challenge.
So far we haven’t really done either and going into the 2nd game of the season with no Kane, Bale or Vinicius in attack along with both Dier and Sanchez as centre backs
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I’m not exactly saying that, but beating United 2-0 is that same amount of points as winning 6-1.
And a lot of our goals came in the Europa League.
posted on 22/8/21
My point is, if Kane goes, and we’ve lost Bale, Lamela and Vinny as listed about) - replace them with a 20 goal a season striker and shore up the defence, we can still have a profitable season.
I don’t think the season is lost if we don’t bring in someone as prolific as Kane
posted on 22/8/21
We may start the season well. Let’s wait and see but we will desperately need reinforcements as the season progresses
Right now we desperately need a new goal scoring striker, right back, holding midfielder, centreback and a Creative midfielder.
That’s 5 x quality players before we even consider top four.
We still have Sissoko, Aurier. Winks, Doherty, Dier, Ndombele (wants to leave) & Kane (can ants to leave) still on the books.
We have 9 days of the window left.
We really are in a bit of a mess
posted on 22/8/21
20 goals a season strikers are so easy to find.
We probably better off buying 3 20m strikers and hope one comes good then buying 1 60m striker called N'Goals who will flop.
posted on 22/8/21
comment by Genius of Nielsen (U9059)
posted 18 minutes ago
Counter argument: do we need to replace all those goals if Kane leaves? If Nuno has us more defensively solid then we can afford to score less.
Maybe I’m clutching at straws
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Potentially that is true. We scored the equal third most goals in the league last season, but lost so many leads that cost us a lot of points. So a better defence this time round is more important than maintaining our goalscoring. That said, the aim should be to try and improve both I guess, although I'm actually not expecting us to get as many goals this season whether Kane stays or goes.
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