Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

Sissoko to napoli breaks down if it was ever happening

If levy had his fuckin hand in there to stop a move at any price the cunt needs hanging from the skywalk

we do need a back-up RB. AWB played the most minutes out of anyone at the club last season

I guess we thought we could get Trippier on the cheap but it doesn't make any sense at the prices that are being quoted

AWB would be an utter disaster at CB, so I doubt that's it. I'm sure we intend to spend the summer getting playing by Ramos, Varane, etc.

*getting played by

Un fucking believable

Fonseca has pulled out of spurs talks

Amazing.

Foiled / saved by Brexit tax changes.

In a shocking development, Rino Gattuso is being approached, according to The Guardian.

Right

What championship team should i support

(Spurs, 2023 obv)

Someone who's just left their job after 20 odd days for not getting backed on transfers obviously going to fit right in at Spurs

So as I understand it (but let's be honest it could change again because it's Spurs) Gennaro Gattuso was Fabio Paratici's preferred choice and he wanted him at Juventus before he left, but he wasn't available for Tottenham. (Contd)

— Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) June 17, 2021

i love Gattuso so much

Gattuso to Spurs?

Well, at least he has a good understanding of the club… pic.twitter.com/kMHJYapCqw

— Transfer News (@TransferChecker) June 17, 2021

Wolves have signed a curvy Colombian centre half

hoping we sign Daryl Dike, but only selfishly cos that'd still give me the opportunity to watch him when he leaves Orlando

we do need a back-up RB

I always get left backs and right backs mixed up. I can't remember which side Williams, Dalot or Telles play, but at least one of them must be RB?

Telles is the back-up LB

Williams is the current back-up RB but he's not even close to good enough

Dalot doesn't seem to be rated by the current management and will probably go back to Milan on loan

Can't believe Youngy's come home 😭😭😭😭😭

🚨 EXCL: Tottenham have decided against appointing Gennaro Gattuso to their vacant managerial position. Conversations were held with the 43yo after his surprise Fiorentina exit but he will not be getting the Spurs job. Search continues @TheAthleticUK #THFC https://t.co/Gcl6D2PrW4

— David Ornstein (@David_Ornstein) June 18, 2021

Hard to imagine anyone decent joining happily as eighth choice, or whatever we are up to now, so it’s either going to be Levy throwing even more money at a statement hire like Ten Hag, giving the job to someone who desperately wants it but shouldn’t be considered (Klinsmann) or Mason starting the season and I can guess which two of the three are most likely.

Paul Mason?

I believe his only experience in the sport was attempting to broker a move for an experienced Serb star to AEK

✓

lol

Spurs now rumoured to be selecting from a shortlist of Nuno and Potter, pretending the last six weeks haven’t happened.

no shame in being 4th choice for a shit job!

Milot Rashica to Norwich

glad someone signed him!

Nuno to Spurs?

Increasingly looks that way

Can't help feeling this will be disastrous and my heart aches for Nuno and the ILX Spurs massive

my heart aches and a davinson sanchez pains my sense

It’s a really weird decision, given that they were briefing that he had been considered and thought to be a bad fit a few weeks ago, but Paratici appears to like him.

You really are gonna not hire Potter huh

Dont look at me

#Spurs ruled out a move for Nuno after he left Wolves at the end of the season but Fabio Paratici admires the Portuguese coach and has a good relationship with his agent, Jorge Mendes [@Dan_KP]

— The Spurs Express (@TheSpursExpress) June 25, 2021

A good relationship with Jorge Mendes, you say?

various rags saying City are going to pay £100m for Grealish

if I had £100m spare I would spend it on something else

I would mostly buy cheeseburgers

they could spend that on the construction of an alternative "angel of the north" 300ft statue of Shaun Goater next to the Etihad, to always remind them of when they used to be a proper club!

As silky as grealish is, moving with the ball, I refuse to believe his qualities are in the 100 million category player. His desire to fuel the 'grealish is the next gazza' brit fantasy is totally naff. Juries out, for me, on whether he's the gazza (chasing one eyed, criminals with snacks) or the gazza (sublime and ridiculous on the pitch). He doesn't seem to have Gazza's excesses, but watch this space....

Less of the Brit there.

Isn't he more Beckham anyway?

only the hair

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.) at 2:31 26 Jun 21

Less of the Brit there.

well, thats me told, no more britbantz about britball, going to listen to some britpop and britrock to chillax

on a serious note, who does grealish replace in the man city squad, is it a death knell for G.Jesus, his performances seem to pass me by, but was surprised the other day when looking at the prem team of the season on 'whoscored' and G.Jesus was rated as the best player in the league last season in his position.

As silky as grealish is, moving with the ball, I refuse to believe his qualities are in the 100 million category player.

you are so wrong but it suits me for people and pundits to keep repeating this - maybe he'll get slated for being shit for England this Tuesday and City will lose interest! i doubt it though. he is the best player in the vast majority of games he plays in. possibly you need to be watching Villa on the weekly to appreciate how consistently excellent he is.

idk if "replacing" someone in the City lineup is necessarily the right way to think of it - he will be an option on the left wing or in that left-sided number 8 role, and i guess he could probably work ok out wide on the right, although he rarely plays there for Villa. In other words he could probably fit in somewhere instead of Sterling, Mahrez, Bernardo Silva, all of whom are apparently free to leave to raise some cash?

praying he doesn't go but it's looking increasingly likely.

idg the Gabriel Jesus point - what is his position according to Whoscored? as a first choice striker he feels like a busted flush at this point, hence the overtures to Kane

He's a bit of a false 9 isn't he? Drops deep a fair bit whenever I watch them, maybe he's just looking for the ball but he defo no longer appears to be the out and out goalscorer he looked when he started out with city

He often kinda seems a bit lost

Windsor Davies at 3:20 26 Jun 21

"idg the Gabriel Jesus point - what is his position according to Whoscored? as a first choice striker he feels like a busted flush at this point, hence the overtures to Kane"

an idle, off the cuff point, badly made *hands up*

I guess while reading the posts about the Grealish to Mancity thing, just remembered that g.jesus anomaly on whoscored, I mean, grealish is more of a replacement for an 'out of favour' Sterling or Bernardo, for sure...G.Jesus getting enough good ratings over the season to be considered top 2nd striker position in a team of the season seemed to contradict my thoughts over the season, but they are not my club and I guess I don't watch enough!!

any needle about the brit thing is a bit of a take on the latest tabloid fueled hype beast of an english born player that seems before they really have convinced consistantly on the pitch, I see grealish as a talented performer but the gazza comparisons/fanboying/ 100 mil valuations seem off to me..he scored 6 goals last season

Grealish is overwhelming

I was the other way about him when spurs were linked initially, going way back, but i had an eye on him thereafter and there just aren't any other players with his combination of positive characteristics out there as a ball carrier, creator, nuisance, end product.

100 million isnt what it was and hes every bit in that range