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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

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I’m usually one of the optimistic people in here but I can say without hesitation fuck this. We should absolutely be going for players like him. Leicester is going to end up with a superb LB immediately after selling one. And they’ll profit from it. It’s bullshit.
 
Stopspot said:
Of course. I'm not saying that he is perfect. He's made mistakes. But he's getting way more abuse than is deserved. People just seem to hold him to this mythical standard that Walker had, despite Walker also being very prone to mistakes as brainfarts.

Again, not saying that Walker was shit. But he was way more prone to errors than some seem to remember.
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Also Walker has achieved this status since he left with the benefit of hindsight. He was a really good player for us and very well regarded when he was our player but made a lot of mistakes which he usually made up for with his pace and a peak level back 5 to play with.

At the time although many of us didn't want him to go it wasn't seen as the worst deal as we Trippier waiting and ready to play.

What became apparent after Walker left though was how well he fitted our style of play and we never replaced that properly.
 
TomHotspur said:
So you’re going to take one comment from him instead of 5 years of evidence where we constantly played our best team in cup competitions and Pochettino was clearly visibly shattered when we narrowly lost out? The man was ambitious sure and really wanted to win a PL or Champions League, but this narrative that he “disrespected” the cup competitions is just nonsense.
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I'm definitely no Pochettino apologist, but this domestic cup thing is such a totally bogus stick to beat him with. Anyone who doesn't understand why any club like us prioritises top 4 over domestic cups is a fucking ninny. Pochettino only ever said what anyone with common sense understood.

"Again we're going to have the debate whether a trophy will take the club to the next level. I don't agree with it. It only builds your ego. The most important thing for Tottenham right now is to always be in the top four."

What he saying here isn't "I didn't want to win a domestic trophy" he's saying it's nonsense that for us (or any team) winning one will take them to a new level. It won't. Woolwich have proved this time and again in the last few years. He's also just reiterating the simple truth that top 4 will always be our priority - and for fucking good reason.

I have noticed there are some of the same posters complaining that Levy won't spend more money on transfers are the same people criticising the club - and their manager - for not prioritising winning trophies. Which is such a daft contradiction.

And apart from anything else, you cannot play your first choice 11 every game fro 60 games a season. You ave to rotate and use some competitions to give first choice players a rest and other squad players some football.

Doesn't mean I agree with everything Poch did in cup games or domestic cup games, especially the bigger ones, semis etc - but he still got to several semis and a final in domestic cups, hardly someone completely binning them off.
 
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