Lol.

Gazza M wrote:

we're fucked if kane stays, but I don't see it. this is the kane replacement

this is an embarrassment if we couldn't make a move because we haven't sold enough players. how about not spunking 50m on a cb and hamstringing the rest of the window

I reckon Kane staying at TH is the best outcome for us as he'll be miffed and they won't have funds for a rebuild.

Ricky1985 wrote:

I'm still not sure this guy can do it as a lone 9 in the Premier League. He has tons of quality, but he is very small and quite slow. Maybe if Son play with him, it'll work for them. Regardless, if it's true, it'll be a good punt by Tottenham on a really talented striker.

My gut says he wouldn't quite be right for us just at this moment.

Talk is Nuno wants to change to play with a front 2 - presumably akin to what he did ay Wolves.

TBH if we don't land a new spine etc to be fit for purpose re 433 or 4231, IMO we should do likewise & play 4222 to maximise what we have instead of these square pegs scenarios.

Anzac wrote:

Gazza M wrote:

we're fucked if kane stays, but I don't see it. this is the kane replacement

this is an embarrassment if we couldn't make a move because we haven't sold enough players. how about not spunking 50m on a cb and hamstringing the rest of the window

I reckon Kane staying at TH is the best outcome for us as he'll be miffed and they won't have funds for a rebuild.

They're skint and have spent £50m on a centreback from Atalanta. If they sell Kane, their "rebuild" will literally be replacing him with Martinez.

I don't see anyone of note clamouring to play with Son and under Nuno Espirito Santo.

I'm not bothered either way. Kane stays and I think he will dip back to the form he showed in the 2 seasons prior to the last. Mourinho had them set up to counter-attack like mofos and that makes it easier for any attacker to do their thing. Add to that, the fans being unhappy with him, his unhappiness at having to stay, a more rigid tactical set-up, and I think he'll do well to get to 20 goals.

Clrnc wrote:

Yeah all I have heard the past 2 weeks here in OMITT is how good Laca and Xhaka is anyway. No loss.

Now it is Vlahovic or nothing for striker

I haven't noticed that, I criticized both. And suggested he doesn't score enough and he's small so he'll be battered In the prem. I talked about laca having no knees and being unable to run and still outscored this guy being a concern. And the fact a almost 40yr old ibra scored 50% more than this guy. Goals per minutes this season as being a concern. Maybe you misunderstood that as praise. I love strikers with no knees? Insigne was wonderful and creative throughout the euros but he was eaten alive by the big mids against England so much so they shifted him out wide so he could get his foot on the ball. Martinez would be put against the CBs rather then mids so that'd be a step up again. That's a concern that's all I said. And to be honest mate I said laca was Robbie Keane level for years and yous all roasted me for it endlessly so giving me shit for praising him is a bit rich. And I've never rubbed it in anyones face when they realised he's not that good.

And I spoke about xhaka being decent and people just having tantrums about him. The lack of quality in midfield is the problem. For half a decade xhaka has been our best CM (not 10, when Ramsey filled in for xhaka we were always horrific) He's not the height of our ambitions but neither does he stop us signing Better midfielders such as partey and promising mids like loco. We're clearly a better team with him that without him. We're horrific without him at CM for example villareal both legs. But we've seen endless examples of this over the years. But if anyone hasn't processed that over the last 5 years I can see why i shouldn't have brought it up. 

This is how I'd be thinkin about it. If you think your car isn't fast enough you don't throw out the engine until you've got a new one. And theirs no one engine per person rule . And even if you had a new one most CMs (engines) take a year to get used to the league. So either way you'd want to keep the old engine despite it not being the best engine for at least a season.

On that note, I'm done here. It's just to negative for me. I was hoping post Wenger things would lighten up and be a bit of fun. But it's not really, their just a lot of built up frustrations and anger. And I'm not looking to cause friction with people. Take care everyone.

Gazza M wrote:

Anzac wrote:

I reckon Kane staying at TH is the best outcome for us as he'll be miffed and they won't have funds for a rebuild.

my post was moreso we're fucked if they sign lautaro and somehow keep kane, but it looks like that won't happen anyway

In which case I agree, although I also think Lautaro would be a good addition across the forward line either central or wide.  
They idea of them improving whilst we don't just shits me. 

speedy wrote:

Maybe if I make it easier. If you think your car isn't fast enough you don't throw out the engine until you've got a new one. And theirs no one engine per person rule . And even if you had a new one most CMs (engines) take a year to get used to the league. So either way you'd want to keep the old engine despite it not being the best engine for at least a season.

On that note, I'm done here. It's just to negative for me. I was hoping post Wenger things would lighten up and be a bit of fun. But it's not really. And I'm not looking to cause friction with people. Take care everyone.

No offence but you have either not seen Lautaro enough last 2 seasons or you just completely don't rate him to even compare him to Lacazette. He's levels above him. Anyway as long as he is not going to Spurs its fine, no one cares.

Your post will only make sense if we get a new engine to rotate with our old, tried and failed engine. As things stand, we have sent our engine to complete refurbishment for the next 4 years. When that happens bet you we intend to use that engine hard for the next few years.