Conor Gallagher
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poor choice of words - he wasn't easy to define in terms of a specific role. There, fixed itAnyone who couldn't tell what Modric brought to the team didn't know a thing about football
mil1lion
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Although he wasn't a jack of all trades or anything either. He was an exceptional passer and dribbler. So good at receiving the ball in tight spaces. Great reader of the game. He really stood out in a few areas. Sorry but its nothing at all like Gallagher for me. I would have thought the comparison would be more like a Jenas to be honest.
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Maybe Henderson or Milner at Liverpool a more apt comparison. Not very glamorous but vital in allowing Liverpool to play with tempo.
Watching Gallagher he looks all action but also very clunky, a bull in a China shop player. Used to hear from opposition fans about Kane how he ‘doesn’t look like a footballer’ in the early days and because of how he moved they thought he was poor or overrated as if all elite strikers have to be graceful like Henry.
But most Chelsea fans certainly the ones I speak with really rate him as the energy of their midfield and are sick he might come to us. His stats are top draw and Ange and the scouts seems to want him clearly for a reason. If it’s simply to allow us along with Sarr to maintain a consistent tempo with his energy then yes it’s not glamorous but it takes the workload off the likes of Maddison and Bentancur who can concentrate on creativity.
To me Gallagher or whoever we get if that deal can’t work is seems to be a functional player to make the rest of the system work and a big upgrade to Hojbjerg.
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Not him but others have reported Chelsea need to sell him for 40-50m. It’s been repeated so much I get the impression Chelsea board are pushing it, Gallagher is their biggest FFP asset and clearly they have issues.
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To throw a cat amongst the pigeons...
If I were to choose from the admittedly tiny sample of this weekends games, between him and Skipp, I'd probably say that Skipp offered more to the team and looked the more dynamic player.
I personally think Skipp had a great game and Gallagher was pretty anonymous.
If I were to choose from the admittedly tiny sample of this weekends games, between him and Skipp, I'd probably say that Skipp offered more to the team and looked the more dynamic player.
I personally think Skipp had a great game and Gallagher was pretty anonymous.
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Anyone who couldn't tell what Modric brought to the team didn't know a thing about football
Completely agree but unless you were watching spurs regularly then you wouldnt appreciate how good he is as he didn't get many assists or goals but if you watched him regularly you would know just how good he is. It wasn't until likes of sky etc started to highlight him that non spurs fans realised how good he is.
Alot of us only watch spurs with the odd other big game so we might see most teams 3-4 times a season which lets be honest isn't enough to form a proper opinion about a player. Chelsea fans appear to really like him so he has to have something about him. Don't think we will spend what it takes to get him this month but really hope we get him.
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But no one is likely to pay them that much, so the real question is, do they need to sell him so badly they would take £35m? What about 30m? That’s when a deal starts to get really interesting.
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No move happens without Gallagher's approval and while the board might want to push him out, he has a manager who has started him every single game he has been available in the league.
If he eventually gets annoyed with the higher ups, the way to stick it to them would be to stay longer (at least to the summer) and just take more of his transfer value to himself in sign-on bonuses.
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100%. It took a while for fans of other teams to realise what he was bringing at spurs. Because he wasn’t a goals/assists/highlights player.
He made the whole team tick, we saw that before others did. Everyone knows just how good he is now, but it wasn’t always like that.
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Depends on their FFP requirement. They might need a minimum of say £38m to meet their requirements. It’s not money per se they need as they are rich but rather to meet a regulation. Little point of selling if it doesn’t get what they need.
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That’s clearly the figure they are putting out in the press, but I bet they’ll get twitchy and take less at the end of the window.
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This is why announcing the FFP breaches now could help - be better if they had come with an initial penalty involved - i.e. 10 point deduction, that the clubs can appeal.
But for a club like Chelsea - a 10 point deduction is a much bigger deal than for a club like Everton. Chelsea are more likely to be wanting to compete for a top-4 spot, or even chasing a title, next season, and a 10-point deduction would scupper those plans.
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The analysis by Swiss Ramble projected that they're on track to exceed next year's threshold by about £100million, so they need to clear that by June 30th to avoid sanctions.
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I think people must have realised how good Modric was, even if they didn’t watch us much. He came very highly rated to England as one of the standout players in an impressive Croatian team. He had a ropey start under Ramos (like everyone else) but once Redknapp took over he was fine and pretty soon we were playing some of the best football in the league. And within a couple of years Modric was getting enough attention for Chelsea and Madrid to want to buy him.
I don’t think he really flew under the radar or anything, it’s just we had a bad start when he first joined.
But I do agree that most fans probably only watch their own team play regularly so don’t know much about most players for other teams. I certainly don’t watch enough of Chelsea to have a really solid view of Gallagher in the way I would about players here at Spurs.
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Whilst I personally do rate Gallagher and would love to sign him, I hope we aren't looking at him simply because there is a potential deal to be done with Chelsea due to FFP.
If he's the right man he's the right man and I hope that's a call made on the footballing side.
And to be fair I believe we are doing that more these days.
If he's the right man he's the right man and I hope that's a call made on the footballing side.
And to be fair I believe we are doing that more these days.
Agree - you have described modric perfectly - in the global game, he wasn't the best passer or dribbler but he did everything so well (probably his reading of the game was his strongest suit) that the overall package was beyond exceptional! Not saying conor is like modric at all - just reflecting that he is a player who doesn't need to be best at everything - he just seems to do everything at a good level already and as we've seen Ange's coaching improve so many players, I imagine that Ange sees some kind of potential in him for our team
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All noises have been that he’s the one Ange wants. I think the FFP element just gives us a potential in where we wouldn’t dream of having one otherwise.
