All puns / jokes aside, this would be a bad move. He was a good keeper in his day but he must be past it now. Also, he really pissed me off with those celebrations at QPR. Frankly, I'd rather have Bob Bolder.
after one point from seven games, if Castillo and John have players who 'are ahead of them' in the pecking order, it sends bad signals about our signing criteria .. what was the point of bringing them in ? .. I repeat, we are too good (or are we nowadays) to be treated as a testing facility for other club's youngsters .. it also indicates that our own academy juniors are nowhere near up to scratch that we have to bring in untried kids from other clubs .. seems our signing and youth selection programmes both need overhauling
What chances are these? The Jan 22 loans, plus issues with other players currently on loan, doesn't convince me that the 5 or 6 loanees Sandgaard is planning to get for the 22/23 Championship push are going to be any better. Did Jackson really want John? Or was John dumped on Jackson? I'm not convinced that Jacko has that much say in player signings despite what others might claim...
We were in a terrible run of games, Jackson’s performance related contract would have been his main concern. If NJ was tearing up trees on the training ground fair enough but circumstances overtook events. Unfortunately for Spurs their player was in the wrong place wrong time, sometimes sh1t happens.
after one point from seven games, if Castillo and John have players who 'are ahead of them' in the pecking order, it sends bad signals about our signing criteria .. what was the point of bringing them in ? .. I repeat, we are too good (or are we nowadays) to be treated as a testing facility for other club's youngsters .. it also indicates that our own academy juniors are nowhere near up to scratch that we have to bring in untried kids from other clubs .. seems our signing and youth selection programmes both need overhauling
I would have to argue the last point, our youngsters seem to be doing very well u18 & u23, they're probably are there or there abouts, just not quite ready to step up.
We don't want to rush our youngsters, although i assume we thought both Nile and John were slightly ahead. Although its crazy when we had a bad streak that we didn't at least give them some minutes to see how they would do.
I am sure Spurs and Chelsea will not be too happy, so could hurt us getting anymore youngsters from either in the future.
We signed John and a few days later signed Fraser, which we couldn't have been certain about. Fans were discussing a top half finish. Then we lost 6 on the trot and couldn't afford to throw in a young loanee, if we didn't think he would definitely be an improvement.
20/30 years ago when you brought a player in on loan they would go straight into your starting eleven. Now clubs just loan players in as squad fillers. John is that example
I’m not surprised he hasn’t been a regular starter considering our need to pick up points, but it is odd that he hasn’t even featured at the end of games.
For the oldies on here, we had someone late 70's(?) who scored a cracker in the covered end against the spanners. Not sure we saw him again. Name anyone?
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Can only harm our chances of getting any young Prem players on loan.
https://www.footballinsider247.com/sources-tottenham-furious-as-nile-john-loan-to-charlton-athletic-turns-sour/
The Jan 22 loans, plus issues with other players currently on loan, doesn't convince me that the 5 or 6 loanees Sandgaard is planning to get for the 22/23 Championship push are going to be any better.
Did Jackson really want John?
Or was John dumped on Jackson?
I'm not convinced that Jacko has that much say in player signings despite what others might claim...
We don't want to rush our youngsters, although i assume we thought both Nile and John were slightly ahead. Although its crazy when we had a bad streak that we didn't at least give them some minutes to see how they would do.
I am sure Spurs and Chelsea will not be too happy, so could hurt us getting anymore youngsters from either in the future.
Fans were discussing a top half finish.
Then we lost 6 on the trot and couldn't afford to throw in a young loanee, if we didn't think he would definitely be an improvement.