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Transfers Summer 2017 transfer window or, waiting for Godot
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Cup runs are a matter of luck. Our current squad is better then the one of 2010/2011 when we got to the quarter finals.
We got to a final of a cup a few years back and the semi final of one yesterday. Once again, no idea why not.
When everyone's fit, our depth isn't bad at all. Lamela, Davies, Dier, Janssen, Vorm and perhaps a youngster would make up our bench. Get a signing in there like a Barkley, and it's even greater.
Barkley is the key I reckon!
Depends on who we get but it's unlikely Napoli and Sevilla both fail to make the group stage so from Pot 3 a hard Group awaits. Safe bet would be to say no to this question, unfortunately.
Love that this thread is helping everyone get the cunt-offs out their system ready for the start of the new season and the respectful, thoughtful dialogue we'll share over match threads from them on.
The key to what? The wrong fucking door?
The coaching group obviously see something in him and if he wants to come to Spurs to improve as he says under Poch then why not! He is a full England International for fucks sake!
Cup runs aren't just luck though and the league cup is often won by the team with the strongest B team.
If we stay in the CL beyond the groups I cant see us playing a team of much strength in the cups
Janssen isn't doing it for me. Soon as one attacking mid is injured we are back where we were last year- needing N'Koudou to make an impact.
On the CL:
No, we need to buy a couple players that can challenge the starting XI to get the depth we need to make it past the quarterfinals of the CL. Don't think we will buy one that will be slotted in as we do have a strong starting XI and given the current fees I doubt Levy would spend the money on the transfer or wages, or that Poch would sign off for that matter. I think Lamela coming back will be huge though, so we probably only need another 1-2 signings that are focused on making the first team. I'd like to see some more cheap youth signings, though.
As for cups, uh, why not? We were in the semis of the FA cup last year with the same squad, and the league cup tie against Liverpool came at a bad time for us. There is a great amount of draw luck in cups, but to act like we can't win a domestic cup with this squad is a bit much. You don't think we would have beat United in the league cup final last year?
Think it'll be nearer £30 million personally.
I simply do not get the lack of support of our current policy, one that you agree has moved our club forward (and for the majority moved it further forward than they ever thought possible). When you find something that has delivered significant improvement you stick to it, you bottle it up and you do more of it and repeat it and repeat it some more. I see absolutely no logic whatsoever in abandoning it, ignoring it and going after a different policy. Only when a policy fails should reevaluate it, understand what happen and then fix it, tweak it or ditch it.
Such lack of belief and faith in the policy that has gotten us to where we are is truly mind boggling. But each to their own.
I just don't think we have the squad to juggle competitions as things stand.
Realistically our league cup team will be very young an inexperienced and not good enough to reach a final.
If we are playing a strong team in the fa cup it will be because we are out of europe.
I think we will sign one or two players on deadline day but they'll be playing fitness / 'philosophy' catch up all season.
It will be an "undisclosed fee"- to avoid Everton having to publicly admit that Levy pulled their pants down.
Do Leicester have better depth then us? They also got to the quarter finals.
Our starting eleven is good enough to get us far in the competition. The myth of struggling after CL midweek games has been debunked so shouldn't matter.
Champions League gives us alot more money then the cups. FA Cup is played on a week the league is rested so rotation isn't key.
Poch knows the squad better then anyone.
He did, the implication of his statement is still very clear though is it not? with or without the word "if", there is no other alternative offered other than the one put forward.
It's very rare to get an elite level youth team player come through. Our level is now more elite than ever. A very successful youth product is of the Townsend/ Mason / Livermore level- ie mid prem level.
It's a huge ask to ask expect them to replace transferred in experiences pros like we could be signing.
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League and FA cup runs you can get some luck. When we got to the final 2 years ago we'd played Sheffield United in the semis and some dross to get to that point. Poch imo made a ricket of the final by playing a strong team 2 days before away in Europe. We had no energy left against a team we'd beaten 5-3 a few weeks earlier.
To win those trophies its 6 matches, and with a bit of luck some against non-PL oppo
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