Ndombélé and transfer problems
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Transfer Talk - Tanguy Ndombélé
L'Equipe report that Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon) have changed their minds and are now going to exercise their option to buy central midfielder Tanguy Ndombélé permanently from Amiens, from whom they had him on loan this season.They go on to say that Tottenham Hotspur are the only club to have shown an interest in the 21-year-old (22 in December), despite the fact he has been tracked by clubs across Europe. He had a stand-out season which alerted us but if this report is true then we'll have to look elsewhere.
Having said that Real Madrid exercised their buyback option and bought Alvaro Morata back from Juventus. They then promptly sold him to Chelsea in the same window. Lyon could buy Ndombélé therefore and sell him to us for a profit. Unlikely, but it is an option if we want him that much.
Spurs need to buy a couple of central midfielders and if Grealish is to be a homegrown option for the club, that still leaves another to be signed.
Will it be Barrios or are we also making moves for another?
My information is that a deal IS in place to sign Barrios if we choose to exercise it. Whether he is our first choice or not I do not know. It is possible he is a fall back option, he could be our number one target. Spurs play their cards very close to their chest these days.
Transfer Problems
We certainly have plenty of irons in the fire, you have to. Signing a player is about knowing who is available, who is proposing to move where and why, it's about dismissing those players you'd like to get but have made up their minds to go elsewhere and looking at the financial package the club wants, including how they want the money paid, and what the players financial package is and how they want that paid.There are a hundred and one reasons a player does not sign for a club, it isn't simply because not enough money was thrown at them. The primary reason today is UEFA Champions League football, it is easier to acquire it in Germany, France, Spain and Italy than it is via the Premier League, thus clubs like Roma, Monaco or Borussia Dortmund can have a greater pull than the Premier League where competition is between 6 sides.
It's a constant battle which doesn't make signing a player easy, especially if they want to wait and see if an easier option comes up during a window.
Tottenham also have to keep in mind future UEFA rules, they are planning to limit the number of over 21 players in a squad to 25 plus introducing a cap on the amount of losses you can make on transfer dealings to £90 million.
Under current Financial Fair Play rules, clubs are only allowed to lose £26 million when wages, transfer fees and income are balanced over a three-year period.
Investments on stadiums, training facilities, youth development and women’s football are discounted from costs at the moment, but under the new regulations that would end and apply only to transfer spending each season.
Then there is the homegrown issue, you can only have 17 players in a 25 man Premier League squad who are not homegrown players. If you have more, you can not name them to the Premier League and they can not play, unless they fall into the Under-21 category.
Signing a player is a juggling act, you can't just say we want him and him, you may have to sell non-homegrown players first before you can bring any more in and that delays incomings before you have sorted outgoings, hence transfers later in the window than the beginning. We are in that situation now.
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