Spurs Rumours Archive April 10 2013

 

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10 Apr 2013 16:33:02
Tottenham are tracking an Argentine player in Greece, Emanuel Perrone. Apparently Villas Boas has seen something in him and can get him for around £2 million. I have some inside knowledge on Tottenham, due to someone in a good position at Armour.

Benteke is also a priority target replacing Adebayor, who has been told he can find another club. But the signing of Benteke will mean lower end transfer targets, unless CL football is guaranteed. Villas Boas has £20 million to spend until they are definitely in the hat for the group stages and the club expect Benteke to cost at least that and so could offer a player exchange. The club are not looking at life after Bale, so are not banking on that money.

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Emanuel Perrone, i've heard it all now. I bet the tea lady at our training ground could come up with more credible stories. How are our kit makers going to know anything about our scouting.

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No way will Levy spend anything like £20 mill on Benteke

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Absolutely agree that Levy will not pursue Benteke for anywhere near £20m. If Villa happened to get relegated, and he was available for circa £12m, then it is possible. Other than that I would think it was remote at best.

Benteke is massively overrated in my opinion. Granted he is only 22 years old and has already impressed in his first season with a 50% goals to games ratio, but surely people see past the headline statistics just like when I said similar things about David Bentley, Andy Carroll and Jordan Henderson.

Ok let's look at this supposed world class striker in the making. let's analyse his ability and then I will leave you to draw your own conclusion:

1. He has played 30 games with 28 starts, and has managed to score 15 goals and a further 4 more assists.

2. His average Opta rating has been 7. 5.

3. He has very strong ability in Aerial Duels, and is good at long shots, key passes and reasonalbe finishing.

4. He is extremely weak at holding onto the ball, and more importantly consistently fails to be aware of being offside. A pathetic 64. 7% pass success rate around the danger area is one of the worst in the league

5. He has been man of the match in seven games, but it isn't too hard at Villa to look better than the rest.

6. Looking at the teams he scored against we arrive at following: Swansea (H), Norwich (H), Reading (H), Norwich (A), 2 x Liverpool (A), Swansea (A), West Brom (A), Newcastle (H), 2 x Everton (A), West Ham (H), Reading (A), QPR (H), Liverpool (H) and Stoke (A). In summary he has scored some important goals, but is missing in action against the bigger clubs. Not a single goal against Man United, Man City, Arsenal, Tottenham or Chelsea. Infact he was poor in literally every game against a major league side.

7. He has power and speed, but uses physical aggression rather than skill, and is very one dimensional with one foot.

The truth is Benteke is improving and may turn out to be a reasonable player, but his style is not suited to the playing the non aggressive style of football at Spurs.

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09 Apr 2013 23:55:46
Any chance of a Hulk transfer? Rumored he's really not happy in Russia and he seems to share a good relationship with AVB? Why wouldn't he want to join us if we qualify for CL football?

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Do you think Levy will pay £35 million for him? No? Okay then.

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Hopefully not, hugely overpriced and hugely overhyped in my opinion

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10 Apr 2013 12:20:23
hulk is extremely talented most of the time but seriously we don't need another winger 35mil no way 15mil more like it

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10 Apr 2013 13:00:23
No way 35 m more like 15?
Before you make yourself sound completly garbage the easiest thing for you to do is google HULK and you will find out He moved to Zenit for around £ 40 million!

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Hulk doesn't need spurs he actually wants chelski or city even more reason to try to buy Aguero if hulk goes to city

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Doesnt mean he is worth it zenit paid way way over the odds for a better than average player. for 15 million yes 35 million no there are better out there for less money and levy knows it

derbyshire dave

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10 Apr 2013 21:00:02
Deluded much? Spurs buy aguero! Ahaahaha, I am still laughing! But seriously though! You know he is on 200 000 a week? And costs around £40 million? And would never in a million years join spurs? If he leaves its off to Real Madrid or Barcelona! You deluded plank! More chance of city signing bale than you signing aguero;)

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