Reports Pochettino isn’t interested and wants him gone. Club willing to sell for only 30m. Newcastle interested (Mirror)

Brutal! Are we going to have many players left?

 

23 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Reports Pochettino isn’t interested and wants him gone. Club willing to sell for only 30m. Newcastle interested (Mirror)

Would be quite an FFP loss.

51 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Reports Pochettino isn’t interested and wants him gone. Club willing to sell for only 30m. Newcastle interested (Mirror)

Assuming any of the rumours about Pochettino rating/not rating players (if he has any input at all) are true, he's currently up one:

Positive Talent ID
+ Doesn't rate Félix
+ Doesn't rate Cucurella

Negative Talent ID
- Rates Kepa

1 hour ago, PloKoon13 said:

Assuming any of the rumours about Pochettino rating/not rating players (if he has any input at all) are true, he's currently up one:

Positive Talent ID
+ Doesn't rate Félix
+ Doesn't rate Cucurella

Negative Talent ID
- Rates Kepa

Don't Think Pochettino Rates Kepa Highly, Just Doesn't See Any Options That Are Viable At A Reasonable Price Or Much Of An Improvement On Kepa

4 hours ago, Jackson27 said:

Don't Think Pochettino Rates Kepa Highly, Just Doesn't See Any Options That Are Viable At A Reasonable Price Or Much Of An Improvement On Kepa

This. 

We have way bigger priorities (CM and striker) 

Selling him even at a massive loss improves the quality of our side. 

I cannot believe how we used that much money on an average footballer. These days footballing skill seems to amount to nothing. It is all running and athletic metrics. 

Give me wine drinking Pirlo over these headless chickens any day of the week. 

13 hours ago, PloKoon13 said:

Assuming any of the rumours about Pochettino rating/not rating players (if he has any input at all) are true, he's currently up one:

Positive Talent ID
+ Doesn't rate Félix
+ Doesn't rate Cucurella

Negative Talent ID
- Rates Kepa

we have to thank Kepa for not beeing relegated as he was making some game changing saves for the first half of the season. then he went to beeing average in a team where everyone else bar Silva and Enzo were complete and utter sh*t

6 hours ago, mojo said:

we have to thank Kepa for not beeing relegated as he was making some game changing saves for the first half of the season. then he went to beeing average in a team where everyone else bar Silva and Enzo were complete and utter sh*t

Hardly. Kepa is a decent enough reactionary shot stopper but his overall skillset is not good enough. Claiming crosses / corners, positioning, long range shot stopping. Very similar to De Gea. Neither are world class.

8 hours ago, mojo said:

we have to thank Kepa for not beeing relegated as he was making some game changing saves for the first half of the season. then he went to beeing average in a team where everyone else bar Silva and Enzo were complete and utter sh*t

That could be offsetted by saying relegation only became a discussion because of the points he lost us against Fulham, City, Spurs and Everton.

Edited June 18, 20233 yr by Argo

It makes sense for Pochettino to prefer Chilwell + Hall given he likes his wingbacks to offer a lot in attack. 

I see he has a new haircut.

If we keep him it’s as a LCB.

If we did get £30 million for him and MP wants another left back then get Tierney in. Genuine competition for Chillwell. He’s a better left back than Zinchenko and a better defender than Chillwell and can cover LCB too

4 hours ago, 19seventyone said:

If we did get £30 million for him and MP wants another left back then get Tierney in.

Our medical department is busy enough thanks. 

Praying the Saudis bid 50m for him.

Apparently we are exploring selling him depending how big a FFP hit we take. 

Newcastle, Juve and Atletico all reportedly interested.

Don't get me wrong he's been dreadful but seems to bit extreme to spend all that money to only give him one season?

He's still fairly young so probably still get near the same price next summer regardless. 

12 minutes ago, Remodez said:

Don't get me wrong he's been dreadful but seems to bit extreme to spend all that money to only give him one season?

He's still fairly young so probably still get near the same price next summer regardless. 

I think he's the odd man out in our group of full backs considering Pochettino likes having full backs with attacking qualities. 

Cucurella is also a very unbalanced defender. 

6 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I think he's the odd man out in our group of full backs considering Pochettino likes having full backs with attacking qualities. 

Cucurella is also a very unbalanced defender. 

I've pretty much ruled him out of ever being a top left back, I'm thinking more him at CB primarily. Different systems obviously but he would be useful in a Ake like role with James just staying up front pretty much.

Edited July 12, 20233 yr by Remodez

4 minutes ago, Remodez said:

I've pretty much ruled him out of ever being a top left back, I'm thinking more him at CB primarily. Different systems obviously but he would be useful in a Ake like role with James just staying up front pretty much.

Pochettino prefers both wingbacks up with the DM slotting with the CBs. 

But who knows. Just can't wait until preseason. 

He's defintely been scape goated last season. He was bad, but so was everyone else. 

Problem going forward, is that he's not really an out and out LB. And we have Chilwell ahead of him there, and arguably Maatsen might be better in that position.

But he's not especially good at CB either. And we have other options there.

So I don't know where he'd fit in. Other than just general squad cover for both positions.

2 hours ago, Remodez said:

Don't get me wrong he's been dreadful but seems to bit extreme to spend all that money to only give him one season?

He's still fairly young so probably still get near the same price next summer regardless. 

No one is paying £56m for him this season, never mind next season. He was never a £56m player and we are prepared to take the loss. We also can’t afford to have a backup fullback on £175k/w, sets a bad precedent. Deal never made any sense to me, but Tuchel isn’t here anymore.

Play him in midfield. Mainly because we’ve pretty much only got Enzo there. 

14 hours ago, ducavis said:

No one is paying £56m for him this season, never mind next season. He was never a £56m player and we are prepared to take the loss. We also can’t afford to have a backup fullback on £175k/w, sets a bad precedent. Deal never made any sense to me, but Tuchel isn’t here anymore.

No I meant whatever fee we get this summer is what we will likely be offered next summer anyway so might as well keep him in the hopes he comes good. 

I'm pretty sure the £175k quoted has performance related clauses and bonuses so I wouldn't focus too much on that personally. 

On 17/06/2023 at 20:48, Jackson27 said:

Don't Think Pochettino Rates Kepa Highly, Just Doesn't See Any Options That Are Viable At A Reasonable Price Or Much Of An Improvement On Kepa

40mil for Onana is a steal. Straight swap for lukaka.

7 minutes ago, smileysmiles said:

40mil for Onana is a steal. Straight swap for lukaka.

Yes it's a shame we couldn't have done that.