The second striker position is one that sorely needs to be filled and the club seem to be thinking that way too. While most of the talk has been around Vlahovic, another player that needs to be in the reckoning is RB Salzburg’s Karim Adeyemi. For one thing he ticks all the right ENIC boxes in that he is affordable, young, and won’t have massive wages. For another there is Salzburg’s incredible success of indentifying and brining along the best young strikers in the world with Haaland, Hwang and Daka all having made their breakthroughs there. Daka is someone we really should have been all over during the summer and he is beginning to show at Leicester why he is one of the most highly regarded young players in the world. In any case Adeyemi is next on the Salzburg conveyor belt, his numbers have been excellent so far this season, and he is definitely someone we should be closely monitoring.
posted on 21/10/21
Couldn’t agree more, I don't understand why we have become so rubbish at identifying these players.
Although more of a wide forward, we should be looking at Anthony at Ajax as well.
If Kane goes in the summer then our front 3 plus bench could be:
Son Vlahovic Anthony
Bench:
Gil Adeyemi Lucas
Plus also:
Bergwijn
Sess
Dane scarlett
posted on 21/10/21
Forgot to post this on the Spurs page 👀
posted on 21/10/21
comment by Striketeam7 - Levy out (U18109)
posted 15 minutes ago
Couldn’t agree more, I don't understand why we have become so rubbish at identifying these players.
Although more of a wide forward, we should be looking at Anthony at Ajax as well.
If Kane goes in the summer then our front 3 plus bench could be:
Son Vlahovic Anthony
Bench:
Gil Adeyemi Lucas
Plus also:
Bergwijn
Sess
Dane scarlett
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Yeah I don’t get it either. If we are by our own admittance a club that can’t spend it out with the big clubs then what I don’t get is why we don’t create a system like the RB clubs or Dortmund etc which would give us a competitive edge in other ways.
posted on 21/10/21
You've got the Liverpool issue of a few seasons ago though.
Why would any highly rated forward who has a high value want to join Spurs to be second choice to Kane when they could likely go to a better team and start games.
The only way you'd get either of those players, Vlahovic or Adeyemi, is if you sold Kane.
posted on 21/10/21
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 5 minutes ago
You've got the Liverpool issue of a few seasons ago though.
Why would any highly rated forward who has a high value want to join Spurs to be second choice to Kane when they could likely go to a better team and start games.
The only way you'd get either of those players, Vlahovic or Adeyemi, is if you sold Kane.
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Don’t agree with this. Daka joined Leicester even through he knew he was going to start off as number 3 in the pecking order and didn’t Liverpool manage to get Jota even with an established front three. Clubs are able to buy players in positions they have covered all the time. This is just a convenient excuse for our appalling failure in not adequately filling the second striker position.
posted on 21/10/21
It's not quite as black and white as I've laid it out because there are promises and incentives that are always involved.
But Jota was a signing that almost came from nowhere and it wasn't widely reported that many other top clubs were looking at him. Not to say they weren't, but Jota at the time wasn't seen as an Adeyemi or Vlahovic where their stock is very much at their peak at the moment and they are linked with a host of top clubs, why would they go to Spurs and be 2nd choice to Kane where they could elsewhere, better than Spurs, and play.
You also mention Jota but he's only one adequate squad player in about 3/4 years. They are not easy to find and I don't doubt the club have tried many players over the last 3/4 years as well, including those who have been and gone or are still there, Minamino, Shaqiri etc.
posted on 21/10/21
comment by JustYourAverageFan (U21016)
posted 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
It's not quite as black and white as I've laid it out because there are promises and incentives that are always involved.
But Jota was a signing that almost came from nowhere and it wasn't widely reported that many other top clubs were looking at him. Not to say they weren't, but Jota at the time wasn't seen as an Adeyemi or Vlahovic where their stock is very much at their peak at the moment and they are linked with a host of top clubs, why would they go to Spurs and be 2nd choice to Kane where they could elsewhere, better than Spurs, and play.
You also mention Jota but he's only one adequate squad player in about 3/4 years. They are not easy to find and I don't doubt the club have tried many players over the last 3/4 years as well, including those who have been and gone or are still there, Minamino, Shaqiri etc.
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I get what you are saying, but I also firmly believe it’s not as impossible or as difficult as many make it out to be. Lots of clubs are able to add depth to their attacks even when they have an established forward or frontline. I mean this summer Wolves were able to add Hwang when they already have Jiminez as their first choice forward. Villa added depth too with Ings, as did Leicester, United, Palace etc.
posted on 21/10/21
In the case of Palace and United, the signings of Edouard and Ronaldo I believe were made to improve what was already there and would probably be expecting to be starting more games than they aren't.
If you were looking to say to a player, we are wanting you to come in and provide competition for a certain player, that's very different. When Kane is your main striker, there are very few CF's in the world who you would play instead of Kane in your system and with the levels that Vlahovic and Adeyemi are currently at and with their stock as high as it is, I can't imagine they'd go to Spurs to compete for a place with Kane as I can imagine they'd have options from clubs who are in a better position than yourselves and would probably play more games. Again, it's subjective and depends on incentives offered as well, but looking at it strictly from a competitive game time point of view, I can't imagine many top strikers would move to Spurs to compete with Kane.
A better option would be a more experienced forward who has been around a few clubs playing a competitive squad role, similar to Giroud for example.