My serious answer is no. I think his body has just let him down. He might need an even slower league. He was never exactly super fit at Chelsea either.
My non serious answer is yes, because then he’ll be exposed as an even bigger fraud.
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Spurs want £25m for Winks
Tottenham have slapped a £25million price tag on midfielder Harry Winks , reports the Daily Mail.
England international Winks has found himself on the fringes of Antonio Conte’s first team this season and could pursue pastures news.
Newcastle United and Southampton have been linked with the 26-year-old but will have to match Tottenham’s valuation.
Spurs fans think he’s awful. I guarantee they get the £25m for him too lol
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Funniest is a club pays £25M for Winks and our fans baulk at a £25M investment in Nketiah
I don’t really see the two as being connected?
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It will be interesting to see what Spurs can get for Winks. On the one hand, a sale at a big fee only requires one other dumb club to be out there. On the other hand, a lot of the mid-to-lower table clubs seem to be getting smarter in terms of scouting abroad and realizing that they can take the top talent out of the Championship.
A club like Palace used to pay big fees for players like Benteke and Sakho, whose primary appeal was just that they had played for a big club and therefore must be good. Now they’re buying players like Eze, Guehi, Andersen, Eduoard, and Olise. Brighton uses the same model, Brentford is definitely too smart (and cheap) to pay a big fee for someone like Winks, Newcastle has been pretty savvy so far since the Saudi takeover, Villa is throwing money around like crazy but generally on players with better reputations, etc. He isn’t Portuguese enough for Wolves.
Everton are possibly still dumb enough to buy winks for 25m but it seems like they are still in the shit with FFP and central midfield isn’t a massive need area in terms of numbers at least with Allan, Doucore, Gomes, and Davies. Maybe Leeds if they sell Phillips. I could see Southampton being interested if they lose Ward-Prowse but not at 25m, which would be a huge fee by their standards.
He’s trash
Forster and Perisic done! Blimey, who’s next?
Eriksen? Diego Costa? Umtiti?
Back up goalkeeper who’s homegrown signed and an experienced winger / wing back who’s offers versatility and immediate quality.
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Not as bad as what Everton gave us for Iwobi and Walcott 
It’s a team being built for next season rather than the future.
Interesting and already with the 4th spot, things feel different around them
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They’re not bad moves but certainly not inspiring either. Seeing the reactions with some of the players we’re linked, I think people would be fuming if the roles were reversed.
I think they’re missing a trick not getting a successor to Lloris. Not sure he’ll be on superman mode next season as well.
With how tight the schedule is next season they need to make sure they have the right cover in place. We’ll see what their next moves are but in my mind they haven’t started well.
All due respect to Perisic who has been a really good player for a long time in Germany and Italy, I wouldn’t want anything to do with giving him a two year deal on the reported ~150k per week to play in the PL as a 33-34 year old.
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Some serious FOMO when it comes to spurs signings.
Had we bought those two, we’d have a two hundred post thread about how we’re not signing players that are good enough
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I’d have loved Perisic a few seasons back but at 33 you have to wonder how he’ll adapt to the EPL
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Yeah 34 year old perisic reeks of Lichsteiner at 36 lol
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There are just very few field players who do well in the PL at those ages and they tend to be guys who can be influential without running too much (Thiago Silva or Ronaldo) or guys who play very few minutes (Milner or Fernandinho).
There’s also a strong survivorship bias dynamic in which you look at a few older players succeeding in PL and think “why not” but you don’t see the literally hundreds of other PL players who either retired, moved to a physically easier league, or faded into obscurity before they got to 34.
But it’s the beginning of the window it’s not substantial first team improvements it’s just adding names to the squad that’ll add an immediate injection of experience when called upon.
Anybody who thinks Perisic won’t adapt at 34 hasn’t watched the guy. He couldn’t be further from 33 year old Lichsteiner who’d been dropped at Juventus and was on the transfer list for a while before his contract ran out.
Perisic was probably Inter’s best performer against Liverpool he absolutely loves getting up and down the flank and he’s the epitome of a Conte man.
Anybody who knows me will know I back experienced signings like this one. It’s not a game changer for Spurs but it’s a reliable face for Conte to call upon when he needs something different.
Perisic is still good. He might not be the Perisic of 4-5 years ago but he’s absolutey still got enough in the tank to be a bench player and get 15-20 games in a season for spurs.
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So obviously this is just the start but you agree that the next couple of moves should be more ambitious right?
I say this with the bet you’re willing to make in mind for Spurs getting 2nd/3rd next season if Conte is still with them.
Let’s just say I’m glad that they’re taking the chance on him and not us.