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Tonin, Schick and Foyth


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Another youngster for the future we are keeping an eye on is 16-year-old (17 next January) AC Milan centre-forward Riccardo Tonin.

The Under-17 international played against England in August at the St. George’s Park Tournament at Kidderminster Harriers’ Aggborough Stadium. when the Italians beat us 2-1, a game he scored in.

He has been linked with Southampton and clubs in this country can offer a youngster a professional contract at 16 so there is an opportunity to pinch a player, if he wanted to move.

Tottenham target Patrick Schick, who failed a medical at Juventus, may well be on his way to Roma. They are keenly trying to buy the 21-year-old (22 next January) Czech Republic striker from fellow Serie A side Sampdoria who are asking for £24.04 million (€26m - AUS$39.19m - US$31.02m) for him.

News from El Dia roday that Juan Foyth is on the way with his father Ariel and representative Daniel Bolotnicof. We constantly hear that Pochettino has phoned players and tried to convince them that Tottenham should be there destination. The Argentine newspaper report that Foyth has told the media he has had 6 or 7 phone calls with him and it is those calls that convinced him that Spurs is where he should be and not French giants PSG.


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16 comments

  1. Just how many more defenders are we planning to buy? It's not rocket science that we need a balanced squad, and we're not exactly scoring for fun at the moment. An injury to Kane and Eriksen and/or we're going to struggle to create, let alone score. The chances we do create I don't suppose Jannsen will be anywhere near them if last season was anything to go by. Apparently he can't get match fit- I remember saying how ponderous he looked a year ago. He needs a much slower league.
    We should be concentrating on the now not the future too. We want CL football next season at the new stadium don't we?
    • As Clive has said on numerous occasions, we need to do both all the time. I'd love to see attacking players talked of more in the transfer discussions but they can be a lot harder to deal. We've heard already how much Kane is a reason why the type of players we're looking for are wary of coming to Spurs ATM.

      I'm sure many attempts are going on in the dark to organise things. Some more successfully than others. We have to keep many balls in the air transfer-wise though, if we're to continue to progress. We cannot afford to focus on one aspect to the exclusion of all others. That would guarantee failure.

      I'm sure we hope for the same results. Maybe different approaches, but the same success for the club.

      COYS!!
  2. On current form there is nothing to fear for another centre forward coming and not getting a game and that comes from Harry's biggest fan !

    I know it's old ground and been well covered but anyone that thinks Davis & Trip are good enough for anything other than cover are blind or blinded by by the spin.
    3 games in and 5 points droped and no real plan to change a game poses big question of what we need and have been doing all summer.
    One very pissed off supporter. I have had 2 great days out at Wembley and it's only the football that is spoiling it.
    • I thought we were lacklustre today. Not good enough. I expect that will get better as we get into the swing of things, but another poor start to the season that could have a big impact by the end.

      We controlled the game, almost totally, but offered too little in the way of threat in spite of that. We looked tired at the end instead of Burnley. We need to build up the fitness levels again.

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  3. 3 games in Ade and we are still at half pace. The build up is so slow and predictable. We have no proper width or pace and no real ability to make changes to change the game. Everyone knows exactly how we are going to play, is it to much to think we might have worked on a few new tricks over the summer. If we really did think we had a tittle challenge in us , can we get away with the boys being tired and sluggish 3 games in. There have been no World Cup or Euro's they should be flying !
    • One would certainly hope so Steve. There are always issues we're not aware of though, of course (I can't tell you what they are as I'm not aware of them :->).

      I can only guess that fitness levels need boosting somewhat. Our style of play requires them to be very high and that takes rebuilding with actual games at the start of the season. Also, more guessing I'm afraid but intelligent at least I hope, we need to rebuild that understanding between the players. We have a head-start there to be sure but the off-season is always disruptive in that respect. Even when we keep the team together as well as we have this time there are still issues with that.

      Our game relies particularly heavily on high fitness and close team understanding. Our opponents have so far done well trying to thwart our very aggressive approaches to all three games so far. It really is a lot easier to coach a side to defend and disrupt than it is to do so for a side that is constantly pushing fo…
  4. Oh well onwards and upwards.
    So true that who we choose or those that choose us, so young in life are defining moments that you could never comprehend it's importance and it's ability to effect ones state of happiness.
    COYS
  5. I agree with your comment about no new tricks Steve. Whether we attack down the wings or the middle the ball inevitably arrives in and around the ‘D’ which allows defenders an easier task in that they are not pressured to cover more space and consequently few gaps appear.
    Take a look at our attacking the players’ positions on the WhoScored Positional report. All four of our attackers are squashed together in the middle and this is a pattern that has been repeated on many occasions. In other words they tend to either gravitate or congregate there. I have checked this report, and that of FourFourTwo (sadly discontinued now), after every match and I can assure everyone that this is the case. Nobody it seems is prepared to attack or patrol the areas in and around the front corners of the box. This is a major reason why so many of our chances go unconverted. We are not drawing defenders out of their comfort zones and, as I have mentioned before, it’s a similar approach when we have a corner…
    • Some very good points there Hib. True also (Steve) that Roses and Walkers don't grow on trees, though in Trippier we certainly have someone who contibutes threatening balls across with high frequency.

      As a team that are spnding most of their time in possession and attacking it seems fundamentally important that we make more progress in finding ways to beat teams that set up to defend resiliently against us. Not an area we've improved on much in the last few years. Room for improvement.

      Not that I'm unhappy over all. Recent seasons have seen our developing in many areas and performing at a much higher average level than even in the eighties when Glenda (God bless his heart) was running the show on the pitch.

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  6. Well Hib if me and you know it you can bet your life every team in the land know it to. The side is crying out for pace, width and the ball getting to the touch lines and maybe when we have so much possession dare I say a second striker or is that just to old fashioned.
    Funny thing is I love 3 at the back but you can't play that system without flying fullbacks, thus my disappointment at losing Walker and the quotes from Rose. They don't come along that good very often. Chrissy H and Danny T last time and that's over 30 years ago !
  7. I seem to remember Eriksen, commenting in the press last week, on the need to be more clinical in front of goal...well Christian seems you forgot to pass that message on and ignored your own advice.
    At least Alli stopped his showboating so perhaps we should be thankful for small mercies....
  8. I am still not convinced we play Dele in his best position.
    He was signed as a box to box midfielder and from there you are much more involved in the game , not waiting for others to get the ball to him . He is to good a player to be limited to to few touches but I also recognise how many goals he scored from number 10 slot and goals win games !
  9. As for Glenda and I would say Platini. They would be totally unplayable in todays non contact football. Think Messi they add some. As for D.M just dream and I saw him in a Spurs shirt XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    • You saw that game? Nice. Ossie's testimonial IIRC. Envious you saw the game.

      It's so much fun to watch the players of the day try to bring Glenda down, time after time, just to be left flailing at a point where he'd been a little earlier.

      His last goal at the Lane when he dribbled it from our own half to walk it over the line with the keeeper left on the floor, as well as one or two others that had attempted to tackle him. A real footballing deity.

      COYS!!
  10. I was at his last game too. It was never in dought , he was always going to score but even I didn't think he could through a dummy from the halfway line.
    • I was so sad to be losing him - but that made up for a lot of it. Something to remember forever.

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