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Tricky one. I want Smith in the job long term, but can we afford relegation? 
 

I’m sure spurs ideally wanted to persist with Pochetino, but there was a point where they had to make a change and so far it has improved their fortunes. 
 

I’m not sure what I’d do, anything less than 4 points from the next 2 games and I think the board will be forced to make a change! 

43 minutes ago, Tommo_b said:

I want to know how much you lumped on!

It was nice day when it came off to be fair! 

23 minutes ago, Rodders said:

 

p232 of the new manager speculation thread: 

 

 

He's not wrong you know! 

edit - the wednesday referred above would be the 10th October... 

 

spooky 

Glad we have someone who could be bothered to look!  

One more to come I think 

An exciting wide forward who can play up top too - Maupay plan B, who’s plan A?! 

Heaton, Steer 

Guilbert, Elmo

Engels, Konsa, Chester 

Mings, Hause 

Targett, Taylor 

Luiz, Houihane 

McGinn, Marvelous 

Grealish, Lansbury 

NEW, Jota 

El Ghazi, Trezeguet 

Wesley, Kodjia

Kalinic, Nyland, Bikir, Tishbola, Hogan need to be sold 

Bree, JDH, O’Hare, Green, Ramsey, RHM, Davis all need a loan 

What else did that guy on Twitter/Facebook predict as seemingly he knew his stuff! 

Very excited by this signing, even if we only have him 1-2 years. 

Robinson to Sheffield united could mean Maupay to us? 

I honestly hold out hope that we can get Tuanzabe and Abraham back on loan. I don’t see an issue with the loans of those two players given we’ve already had them - they’re in positions we need and will give continuity from last season. We can’t buy in every position we need this year, it would be too expensive, this delays too important signings until next summer. 

GK - Butland (loan to buy) 

CB - Tuanzabe (loan) 

DM - Phillips (20m)

DM - Hayden (10m) 

RW - Benrahma (15m)

LW - Trézéguet (loan to buy) 

ST - Abraham (loan) 

I doubt we’ll get 7, but I honestly think that Green needs to be loaned, hence another winger needed and we need two DM’s as if say Phillips gets injured we can’t be playing Houihane or Lansbury in that position without being murdered! 

Hergazi and Mings would be a heavy weight central partnership! 

I reckon we’ll end up getting him on a loan with option to buy towards the end of the window. 

45 minutes ago, Farlz said:

 

I like it, I'm sold now. Get him in. 

Looks good left and right hand side 

My thoughts on where we up to, starting XI, subs and squad:-

GK - ?

RB - Guilbert

CB - ?

CB - Mings 

LB - Targett

DM - ?

RW - ? 

CM - Grealish 

CM - McGinn

LW - El Ghazi 

ST - Wesley 

Subs - Steer, Hause, Elmo, Houihane, Jota, Kodjia, ? 

Squad - Nyland, Chester, Taylor, Lansbury, Tishbola + kids 

                          ?

Guilbert     ?        (Mings) Targett 

                   ?         McGinn

(Behrahmi)   Grealish     El Ghazi

                        Wesley

Steer, Nyland, Elmo, Chester, Hause, Taylor, Tishbola, Lansbury, Jota, Hourihane, Green, Kodjia + the kids 

Outs:- 

Kalinic 

Bikir

Hogan 

There’s a few of us that need to chill out a little bit!!

We need two centre backs (eg Mings & Webester) and two defensive midfielders (eg Hayden & Phillips). These positions are priority! 

Then in order RW, ST, GK 

If we don’t get the additional striker or goalkeeper then I still think we’d be ok. 

At at least one CB and one DM is vital ASAP! 

Linked with David Trezeguet - Egypt winger!

If it is to be Butland, Mings and Webster coming in as our starting back 3, with Steer, Hause and Chester as back up, I’d be happy with that! 

Would love Butland! Quality no.1 - sell Kalinic and Nyland. 

I winder if we’ll get another striker too or whether we’ll go with Wesley, Kodjia, Davis and RHM. 

With john Percy reporting this, it seems very much on as he generally on the money! 

Exciting signing, but a word of caution. The Belgian league is worse than the championship and he has scored far less than Tammy - could this be seen as a downgrade? 

Jota 

El ghazi 

Hause

Mings

Butland

Benrahma 

That would be a very good start to the window. Four first teamers and Jota and Hause as squad players. 

I would love Benrahma and Maupay - but what would be even better is for Smith to find some more players like this for the price he paid for them for Brentford!! They really have got some bargains! 

1 hour ago, HeyAnty said:

We not got 2 lb already? Doubt we be in for him

I count 1 - Taylor. We need a first choice. 

I’d take Moreno on a free - only 26! 

3 hours ago, Reivax_Villa said:

Very interesting watch.

 

 

Some interesting points - makes you realise how hard next year is going to be - especially if we don’t sign most of the 5 loan players! 

It would be understandable if we signed players such as Jota, Etheridge etc. On realistic wages and reasonable fees as opposed to spending millions on more “glamorous” signings. At least then if we got relegated we’d have a team we could keep to come straight back up. 

It’s a business at the end of the day.