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And yet he was a class above our midfielders in the game against Lens. Shows how far we have fallen in recent years.

This would be a reasonable post if we weren't paying a top 6 quality player price for him. Brighton signed Wieffer for a smidge more. Skipp would have been a decent signing for around £10mil, for £25mil it's an unjustifiable transfer and I despair that so many are saying that this is reasonable. The state of modern English football where fans have been brainwashed by the big 6 spending £60mil on every player that £25mil on a below average Prem midfielder is reasonable, pound for pound this is in the same ballpark as Maguire to United for £80mil. At the end of the day it will be us fans that suffer from this frivolous spending as the club suffers from further FFP and financial issues.

Or more likely we still go down with him and we get a points deduction and transfer embargo in the championship for breaking FFP due to breaking the bank to sign him.

The way I'm choosing to see it is that we're £20mil of bad business closer to Rudkin being shown the door.

I wish there was another Rudkin type DoF in Europe. He would be gagging to sign all our dross that we cant seem to shift if he was at another club.

Half of Spurs fans that I can see are celebrating like it's Christmas, the other half are saying "he's a Spurs supporter like us who managed to live our dream" like he's a competition winner. Ill take the opinions of the majority over your one mate thanks.

Skipp also isnt PL level. Will be a good player for us next season in the Championship though

This is stinking business, some of the worst we have ever done. The guy is a pretty weak passer of the ball which isnt good enough for £20mil.

That's what's rumoured in this thread, might be different who knows.

£14mil on Oliver Skipp, we might genuinely be the worst run club in the league.

Honestly I just cant see how we're going to even be close to staying up this season. Especially if we're targeting Skipp.

Cooper has barely played Ndidi in the DM role. Can he still play that position at a high level? I'm not so sure. Winks isnt a DM, if we're not in possession and we're not pressing as a unit (which we arent under Cooper) he doesnt offer much. He's only useful when we are in possession. Hamza is Hamza, he struggles to make a forward pass. Someone like Mandela Keita would be transformative for our team, we need someone who is comfortable on the ball and also combative in midfield.

DM is definitely a priority, you could see the quality we've lost there when Papy Mendy bossed our Winks/Choudhury midfield in the Lens game. If Ndidi cant rediscover his form/Cooper doesnt play him there then it has to be one of our main positions to target, Choudhury wont cut it for us as a starter and Winks doesnt have the defensive ability we need in that position for next season.

He wouldn't be allowed to play against Spurs anyway.

I prefer this approach, if we aren't going to have complete meltdown this season then he needs to try and reduce the negativity and try the best with the players he had. I think if Rodger had done the same in 22/23 we would have stayed up.

Hopefully the reason that this didnt go through was that his agent was stalling for a permanent transfer elsewhere rather than us taking too long on the details.

Why do people not see this guy as our 9 for the future? He reminds me a lot of a younger Van Persie or Lewandowski where they started on the wing but were able to use their elite technical abilities to be lethal in the box.

We were willing to spend 9 mil on Zaha. Use that 9 mil on Mandela Keita and leave Skipp at Spurs at we will be better off.

Blessing in disguise, now lets go ahead and sign Hlozek and one of Asprilla/Ionnadis/Hamer

You can get far better midfielders than Oliver Skipp for what Spurs would be asking for him. Definitely skipp this one.

Didnt Rodgers play him? I thought it was Smith who didnt like him in the slightest.

Genuinely dont think Kristiansen is much better than Thomas. The Lens winger went past him at will the other week.

I think he was just a solid part in a good team. Think Danny Simpson in our title winning team, he won the league with us but there weren't any suitors lining up to sign him just because of the amazing season we had as a team. The fact that Bologna weren't that bothered about retaining him, who have plenty of money to burn, tells you everything to know about how he is rated in Italy.

Not gone down well with the Betis fans in the comments.

This guy looks very good on the face of it. Hopefully in a years time we're going to look back and think how have the other teams allowed us to sign him.