Sensible Transfers: Tottenham

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Tottenham were one of the most exciting teams in the Premier League last season, but they still missed out on Champions League football.
Alex Barker attempts to turn Ange Postecoglou's squad into a side that can climb up the table and start challenging for major trophies.

#premierleague #tottenham #football

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Chapters:
00:00 Sensible Transfers: Tottenham
00:27 What's the situation at Tottenham?
01:05 How do you fix Tottenham's defence?
03:05 Who could back up Udogie?
04:53 Why do Tottenham have an issue out wide?
06:33 What winger should Tottenham sign?
08:59 How do Tottenham replace Richarlison?

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[TheAthleticFC]

How well do you think Tottenham will do this season?

[EuroExpert_]

Sensible Transfers was a series that I've been watching as a fan for years. To get the chance to write and present one myself was an absolute honour. Hope you enjoyed everyone!

[th.nd.r]

Holy crap, N’Dicka, Kadioğlu, Bakayoko, and Openda? That would be a scary good team

[InAcCuRaTeJ]

Werner is not back on a permanent, hes been loaned out for a 2nd year

[ssseeessseeessseee]

Our strongest links are Solanke and Pedro Neto. I think both would thrive under Ange thanks to Neto’s directness and Solanke’s hold up play. Hope they happen!

[arthur_]

I've disliked all the sensible transfers from this season so far, in particular my own club liverpool and qhen I saw this notification I felt like straight up ignoring it but I've always found Alex's opinions level headed, this has easily been the best of the season

[Toobready]

I remember sugesting Nico Williams at the wing last season...

[Shelmer]

I’m going to need someone to put the teams together of all the sensible transfer videos and sim a season on FM please.

[ramadhiee]

Timo werner loan is not permanent, they have Just extended it .

[dylanwirjono]

I would argue that our best winger at taking on their man right now is Timo Werner. Every game he's always taking his man on and sending it into the box from the left wing with his pace. I do think we need one more winger with similar features.

[_HONOURED_ONE_]

'He's just happy to be here'😅

[SNPTHURL]

Need a dominant No. 6 to stop transition goals against

[smokey_tych]

Agree on the winger issue, it’s the main problem currently, with possibly Neto coming in it will help most definitely but Bakayoko availability would edge us to another level. Solanke would be a good replacement for richarlison I think, his aerial dominance would help us massively, unfortunately Richarlison being injury prone hammers the attack. Kulusevski is gradually being switched to a 10/8 where he looked quite comfortable in preseason as he’s not a good winger.

[oliversrensen]

Tottenham don’t need another “fast striker” - they have that in Son. What they need is someone who is able to unlock tight defenses by being a presence in the box, a clinical striker with a good header on him. Richarlison can fulfill that role at times, but struggles with consistency.

[louisisrael-quinn]

Please more videos from this guy, he is way better than the others

[rodric]

Best Sensible Transfers video of this window! Excellent choices and not just linking rumored transfers like with the other teams.

[TheCuriosityChannel_Defined]

You know it's a good sensible transfer episode when Alex has his hands on it!! Love seeing you man!

[ChrisITW]

Eze, Solanke, Neto are the targets. Maybe a different striker but those are the actual ones

[hansgruber]

As a Spurs fan, this is a really good video. Alex really knows his stuff.

Only issue here is we are right at the limit of foreign squad players, so realistically we can't be shopping across Europe for all these names here.

[beeswax]

this is (as a spurs fan) the first time i’ve seen someone get this right, it looks like we’ll get solanke instead of openda but i think we’re getting him for the same reasons you addressed with openda

kadioglu and bakayoko would be perfect, literally couldn’t have named better players for what we need

ndicka would be good but i think 4th choice CB is a position im least worried about addressing this season, think ST / RW and full back cover is much more important