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  1. J

    Team for Chelsea

    I'd like to see Kulu as a false 9. Receive it back to goal then either lay it off or turn and carry it. Have some hold up and technical ability centrally again with pace and breaking lines from out wide. Sarr, Johnson, Son given licence to bomb on past Kulu. Porro and GLC to look for through...
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    Black, Baptiste, and Ajayi will all be 18 in the summer so move up from the U18 group automatically. Also in their year group are Rowswell, King, Wilhoft-King, Arganesse-McDermott, Irow, and Akhamrich. And goalkeepers Krasniqi and recent England U18 call up Carey Bloedorn. Hall in the same...
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    Eberechi Eze

    And the operative phrase from mine being "not nailed on." Maybe you're right, we'll see. Anything above £15m and market rate signing on fee / wages is overpaying imo. Would they be willing and able to do that with limited FFP wiggle room? I expect CL may be the deciding factor for any...
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    Eberechi Eze

    If they want to give him a £10m signing on fee, they're welcome to him. I'd estimate his market value to at around £15m right now. But either way Hull can only sell him to where the player wants to go to. So are they going to turn down £15m+ add ons knowing he could go for less at any time...
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    Eberechi Eze

    He has to want to go there, is a London lad, and his brother plays for our U15s. So not nailed on they get him back.
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    Eberechi Eze

    So would I but that player has to be obtainable. Same goes for the winger position. If those top class upgrades aren't obtainable at DM (Ederson, Onana, Zubimedni) or WF (Williams, Neto, Kvara) then we're looking at either better value (Fofana, Chiesa, Lauriente) or longer term upgrades...
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    Eberechi Eze

    If Eze joins us at all I would think it would be as 1st choice LWF and/or rival Maddison for number 10. Going by credible links and ITK we seem to want 1) a versatile AM/WF (Eze, Baena, Olmo),.. 2) A specialist WF (Nusa, Williams, Neto).. ..and 3) a number 9 (Giminez, Zirkzee, Solanke). Then...
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    Arsenal

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    Giorgi Sudakov

    I think you're right. But it's a shame as I had an immense chant up my sleeve.
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    Antonio Nusa

    It should also be noted that ITK and the press have strongly linked us to: Baena, Gibbs-White, Eze, Gudmunsson, Sudakov. All essentially no.10s who can play wide - specifically right footed and probably off the left in contrast to Kulu. We've also been linked to that classic all out dribbler...
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    Conor Gallagher

    I agree with all of that, and I'd rather keep Gio and loan the youngsters out also. My point is we can't sustain a specialist back up 10 in the squad, for precisely the same reason Gio will be leaving. They're not going to get enough game time. Not enough match rhythm to hit form and...
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    Conor Gallagher

    I agree 100% on Gallagher. Personally though I really don't want to see us signing another specialist 10 at this point. Not with Donley, Devine, and Moore all coming through. That's England's best playmaker at U20, U19, and U17 age groups. Failing to create pathways for them would be a...
  13. J

    The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - 31st January

    I was going to say Pino or Brahim Diaz. Diaz is homegrown having come through CIty's academy, and minutes probably most displaced by Mbappe and Kendrick.
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    Spurs Youth Thread 23/24

    Ok well let us know when you're done. Sounds like a real page turner.
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    Tottenham Takeover Talk

    If they can re-finance the Stadium debt with an equity injection, it frees up X amount for the team. I think our repayment is somewhere around £30m a year. So effectively maximises our PSR potential spend. In a CL year that puts us comfortably above Arsenal and Chelsea and closing in on...
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    The Summer 2024 scouting thread

    100% agree with all of this. He's made for that 6 role for the next decade. I know it feels slightly insane to have an 18 year old playing in the most demanding lone 6 role in football. But his ability, profile fit, temperament, and intelligence are all exceptional. He'd challenge Bissouma...
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    Let's All Laugh At... Let's All Laugh At West Ham

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    Financial Fair Play (general thread)

    I agree it 100% needs to be a pro-active and not retrospective. That was the biggest mistake of FFP. You want to sign a player you have to demonstrate you're within your PSR budget right now. Or the player cannot be registered. All clubs, players, managers, executives, and agents have to...
  19. J

    The England Thread

    I take your point. People are entitled to care about what they want. I'm just tired of how much oxygen is taken up by relatively minor or trivial issues, at the expense of critical ones. Particularly by the media and major political parties.
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    The England Thread

    I love how Patriotism in 2024 gives zero fucks about the news of over 2 million British children not knowing where their next meal is coming from. And instead deploys all available fucks over the colour of a cross on a football shirt. Just another normal day on normal Island.
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