Spurs head of recruitment Steve Hitchens resigned last Wednesday with a list of clubs queueing up to make him Director of Football. Contrary to popular belief Hitchens is good at his job. Spurs fans went mad when Amazon showed Hitchen saying he hated the January transfer window. I think it is a bit lousy that Spurs fans went after him after this thinking that the head of recruitment shouldn't hate any window. It's his job. But I think it was taken a bit out of context here and Amazon did him the dirty.
But he bought Ndombele and Los Celso you say? Well he was instructed to Poch. He was the key man that purchased Lucas and a successful capture of players such as Luka Modric.
Lucas probably gave Spurs fans the best night in decades scoring that hat - trick against Ajax.
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Not many people know this but he worked at Liverpool and was the guy who was instrumental in the Luis Suarez transfer.
So he has a stellar record bringing in players for recruitment.
The Spurs 2019 transfer window where we bought in Ndombele , Los Celso and Sessegnon. You can say 2 failed miserably and 1 still have to come good.
Last year Spurs hired Paradici as Director of Football and Hitchens was demoted. Paradici went to work and it kind of brushed Steve aside. He even took holidays after Christmas this year and he rarely takes holidays. He is good friends with Paradici but the writing was on the wall. Some say he should have left with Poch but he helped Jose bring in his own players.
But all the players liked the guy and so did all the managers. Even Conte said he is sorry to see him go so he was a popular guy around the place.
Newcastle and Everton are in the running for his services. So are Marseille as he is an expert in the French league. Spurs lose a good guy here but it is time to move on. The summer transfer window will be the most important in years for Spurs in order to keep Conte. Even in his presser today Conte did say that past transfer windows were a failure if we had to loan out 3 of our players and sell 1. I don't know how I feel around this statement. I know Dele is gone off the boil but he did give us some great moments under Poch. The others he is right about it. Gil looks like he is not physical enough for the premiership but he played out of his skin for Valencia the other night in the cup. So maybe Gil has a future. With. Son, Romero (who feels like a new signing ) and the two other new signings going to feature in the coming week , it will be interesting to see how they gel. Conte mentioned today that Kulusevski could be a right wing back. I did not see that one coming but Kulu is a runner and it just might work out. I did think he might try to put Lucas as a right wing back but I don't think he can defend so Kulusevski may be the man until Emerson Royal comes good :-/.
Top 4 is the target now and with Utd knocked out by Middlesborough in the FA cup and we can all say it at this stage that they won't be long in the champions league so more time to get ready for premiership games on Saturdays. Conte did say he is now covered in more positions now even though he lost more players than he took in. The bad trainers are now gone so the team will gel better. Roll on the weekend and let us never speed of this Spring break again.
Is this America?? I thought this was America.
