Competition for Chadli & Lamela needed
The Daily Mirror, among others, has come up with a far more credible story than their last effort I reported this morning, when they relayed a Sunday People story (both owned by the same parent company Trinity Mirror Group) about a goalkeeper we supposed to be watching, but he isn't actually playing any football.
This time it's a safe bet because it's a player we have tried to buy before, as have Liverpool and West Ham United, Dnipro winger Yevhen Konoplyanka. Spurs fans will know him as he played against us in the UEFA Europa League and scored a penalty as well as hitting the post with a volley. He looked a quality player, as he did for Ukraine at Wembley when giving Kyle Walker a hard time.
His contract runs out next summer and his agent, his father, can arrange a summer deal for him in January or his club can sell him for a small fee in January.
Mauricio Pochettino plays with inverted wide men, he has a lone striker with three attacking midfielders behind him who can all interchange. They must all possess a serious goal threat because Pochettino is not going to change his system, but acquire players who can fit into it.
The days of Aaron Lennon look numbered, unless he can learn to be a serious goal threat on the left in 2 months. Hardly likely, but even his departure wouldn't make a place for Konoplyanka, nor would the departure of Townsend. They would create a positional place yes, but they are home grown players and the Ukrainian is a non-home grown player so another non-home grown player would have to leave the squad for him to be brought in.
Townsend is a one-trick pony at the moment and Lennon, it seems, is not deemed good enough in an attacking sense, he gets brought on when we need to defend a lead, like at Arsenal. Our front three behind the striker have no competition and they need it, Konoplyanka would fit the bill.
If Tottenham are indeed to go for the 25-year-old Konoplyanka then which non-home grown player are we looking to offload?
This time it's a safe bet because it's a player we have tried to buy before, as have Liverpool and West Ham United, Dnipro winger Yevhen Konoplyanka. Spurs fans will know him as he played against us in the UEFA Europa League and scored a penalty as well as hitting the post with a volley. He looked a quality player, as he did for Ukraine at Wembley when giving Kyle Walker a hard time.
His contract runs out next summer and his agent, his father, can arrange a summer deal for him in January or his club can sell him for a small fee in January.
Mauricio Pochettino plays with inverted wide men, he has a lone striker with three attacking midfielders behind him who can all interchange. They must all possess a serious goal threat because Pochettino is not going to change his system, but acquire players who can fit into it.
The days of Aaron Lennon look numbered, unless he can learn to be a serious goal threat on the left in 2 months. Hardly likely, but even his departure wouldn't make a place for Konoplyanka, nor would the departure of Townsend. They would create a positional place yes, but they are home grown players and the Ukrainian is a non-home grown player so another non-home grown player would have to leave the squad for him to be brought in.
Townsend is a one-trick pony at the moment and Lennon, it seems, is not deemed good enough in an attacking sense, he gets brought on when we need to defend a lead, like at Arsenal. Our front three behind the striker have no competition and they need it, Konoplyanka would fit the bill.
If Tottenham are indeed to go for the 25-year-old Konoplyanka then which non-home grown player are we looking to offload?
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