Very different to the story doing the rounds earlier, that he has rejected us because he wants to play for Liverpool
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Transfers January 2019 transfer thread
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Very different to the story doing the rounds earlier, that he has rejected us because he wants to play for Liverpool
Thanks, thankfully my google translate skills are top notch -
Véronique Rabiot, mother and agent of Adrien #Rabiot, denies categorically refusing an offer from Tottenham or any other club. The Rabiot family, affected by two successive bereavements, is in the time of meditation and has not engaged any discussion on the future of the player.
Nothing to do with this then?
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Are we pretending that Liverpool aren’t one of the most famous and biggest clubs in the world now, and that all their players live in Toxteth but put up with it because of the wages.
Harry Kane is on the same as Salah by the way
It's truly not any more complicated than this. All the stuff people used to talk about regarding players wanting Champions League football was nonsense.
That doesn't mean we SHOULD outbid everyone on wages, but if we did, we'd get whatever players we set our sights on. Our erstwhile "wage structure" sharply limited the pool of potential transfer targets.
We used to be
A poor decade in the 90s and even our own fans don't recognise the glamour and pulling power a club like Tottenham Hotspur should hold.
To Dare Is To Do
Never has our famous motto been so abused as it is by our current ownership.
*shows three photos from the 90s*
Have you really just used a 7 year old article to make a point about current day desirability?
Despite the 90s being shite we did win an FA Cup and a League cup.*shows three photos from the 90s*
That's double what we've won over the course of close to 11 years now.
And the way we act, or rather don't act in the transfer market fuels this so called media objection even more.
If we act like a club standing still with no ambition the media will quite rightly pick up on it. And so will potential signings
#standingstill
That’s what I just said. Only I think the media are scum for how they treat us.
One second you call us a massive club, and the next you say the belitting and undermining from the media is justified
#standingstill
Next they’ll be looking at Brady and the Dildos as a model we should look up to.
“They were astute enough to get theirs for free!!”
So people would be happier if we’d won the FA Cup in 2010, and had finished between 12th and 17th ever since?
That's a very good point tbf mate.
Yet one paltry league cup in the subsequent 2 decades of Levy/ ENIC and apparently we've never had it so good.
How many times we play Real Madrid, Juventus and Barcelona in that time?
So you agree we we're more desirable than Liverpool 7 years ago but not so today.
Progress.....#doingthingstherightway
and wage structureGylfi is obviously the 1 in 10 that I was referring to
Also, anyone who genuinely thinks we are as big a club as Liverpool really needs to take their tinted spectacles off. I say is as I see it, Liverpool & Manchester United are traditionally the two biggest teams in the Country & whilst we are an attractive proposition, we still have the likes of Chelsea & Woolwich to content with based on our geographical pull.
Baby steps and all of that but we are getting there
So you base success on teams we play.
Fair enough. Each to their own like.
Where have you got that idea from?
The compulsion is getting the better of you, John.
I just find it funny that the only evidence you can find to back up your point that Spurs are more desirable than Liverpool currently is a single example, 7 years ago.
I mean, talk about scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Got anything more recent?
Yep, in the highest standard competition in the world.
You base it on winning cups that we play Tranmere in.