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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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They were affected by AFCON for moments in Jan, which is why they pretended to have 5 injuries to avoid the NLD in one of the most embarrassing bottle jobs in recent history.
However, from Feb they will have a far better squad than us.
The 4 players at AFCON

Auba - He's been shunned and given the Ndombele treatment.
Elneny - Has played 176 minutes in the PL this season.
Pepe - Has played 505 minutes in the PL (less than 33%). 0 goals.
Partey - Full time starter.

Yes, those 4 additions will just change their squad entirely.
 

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Woolwich have shipped out Auba, AMN, Chambers, Mari, Bolagun, and Kolasinac while bringing in no one. They have only Laca and Nkethiah (who is worse than Scarlett) up top. And in the midfield it’s Xhaka and Partey backed up by El Neny and that Belgian kid they bought who is very green.

United have sent out Martial, Van de Beek, and Greenwood certainly won’t be playing.

Could we have done more? Probably. But we’re in a better position vis a vis our top 4 rivals than at the start of the window. And I can literally never remember a time that happened.
How dare you not be a drama queen and fail to see that we're the only one in our little league group that has added anyone to the squad
 
If we do get top 4 it's reliant on superior squads flopping.
We should have ensured we had a top 4 level squad in this Jan window. It would have been worth the cash, as CL football itself brings in money.
There's nothing garanteed when you spend spend spend...you don't ensure you get top 4 by just merely filling the squad out with risks, you just have to assume that Conte is happy and that he can work with the players he has now.

We are 4th in the form table btw in the league, this despite being 3 matches behind everyone else, I don't know where all the doom and gloom is coming from.
 
Do you have net spend numbers dating back the last several windows instead of nitpicking certain teams in certain windows? It's good information but just not complete unless looking at all windows.

And I'm sure you are looking at us to spend similar to Woolwich (aside from just looking at one window) or maybe close to Liverpool because we aren't going to be similar to Chelsea, United and City.

21/22 Spurs net spend: 55m, Woolwich's was 120m
20/21 Spurs net spend: 87m, Woolwich's was 77m
19/20 Spurs net spend: 75m, Woolwich's was 100m
18/19 Spurs net spend: -5m, Woolwich's was 63m


We've been very much outspent by them, both in terms of transfers & wages. And their own fanbase has been unhappy with the level of investment in the squad. They've also had, let's face it, superior academy prospects filling spots - guys like Saka, ESR, Martinelli.
 


We didn’t want you anyway!


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21/22 Spurs net spend: 55m, Woolwich's was 120m
20/21 Spurs net spend: 87m, Woolwich's was 77m
19/20 Spurs net spend: 75m, Woolwich's was 100m
18/19 Spurs net spend: -5m, Woolwich's was 63m


We've been very much outspent by them, both in terms of transfers & wages. And their own fanbase has been unhappy with the level of investment in the squad. They've also had, let's face it, superior academy prospects filling spots - guys like Saka, ESR, Martinelli.
That's fair. Woolwich clearly have a few academy guys doing well but what the fuck did they spend all that money on?
 
The 4 players at AFCON

Auba - He's been shunned and given the Ndombele treatment.
Elneny - Has played 176 minutes in the PL this season.
Pepe - Has played 505 minutes in the PL (less than 33%). 0 goals.
Partey - Full time starter.

Yes, those 4 additions will just change their squad entirely.
But your point was that their bench was weak and had players we had never heard of. Elneny and Pepe are mediocre, they'd be sitting on the bench anyway.

Let's be frank- Woolwich have a significantly better team than us- we are lucky to have Conte who is world class and thus evens it up.
Saka Martinelli Smith Rowe Odegaard Partey Xhaka Tomiyasu White Gabriel Tierney Ramsdale

Apart from Xhaka, that's decent; has more goalscorers than our team and more creativity.
 
21/22 Spurs net spend: 55m, Woolwich's was 120m
20/21 Spurs net spend: 87m, Woolwich's was 77m
19/20 Spurs net spend: 75m, Woolwich's was 100m
18/19 Spurs net spend: -5m, Woolwich's was 63m


We've been very much outspent by them, both in terms of transfers & wages. And their own fanbase has been unhappy with the level of investment in the squad. They've also had, let's face it, superior academy prospects filling spots - guys like Saka, ESR, Martinelli.

N’et spend
:sonpoint:
 
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