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Good luck at Angers, mate
What a waste of fucking talent though from those players. Still amazing to think of.
1 Dele was rated as a £80-100m during peak Pochettino years
2 Ndombele was in the French and Champions League team of the season, outstanding for Lyon and France
3 Lo Celso doing great for Real Betis
I don’t care who you are but 2-3 year ago you would never have thought all 3 would fail. Sod’s law.
Well done for admitting it in the very first line. Lots refuse to admit there love of him despite the evidence.
Who will be the next to proclaim their love for levy…..
The barriers have been torn down!
‘We are In a position to do well’ is all I hear every season. Then it’s the same mistakes from levy & lack of backing/desire from enic & him to succeed. Obviously I totally disagree with you on your arguments. Leicester, city, Chelsea, Liverpool owners/chairman have done better in football terms which is what appeals to me the most. I think that’s the main difference why we see it differently. Some are in to the football side & get a kick out of that. The lovers are more in to the financial side & get a kick out of savings like the delight around the wage reduction yesterday.
Also they love the financial side but ignore the massive amounts of money levy has lost us. He has blown a fortune whilst also missing out on more income because of him. He’s crap on the financial side too as well as the football side. So suddenly the financial side isn’t as important when he is blowing it.
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I think we will just say the same thing “no more excuses” if what you says happens again. Rather than “that’s it, time to go”
Outstanding for France? He’s had 7 caps since 2018
Really? Better than you expected?
I mean we got 2 substitution players from last decade weakest Juventus side.
Did you expect no deals at all then?
I'd say it was 4,5/10.
Good -
- got rid of smell of shit in dressing room by shifting out Alli, Lo Celso and Ndombele
- best news obviously Lloris extention
- at least got some attacking threat in to replace the supposedly attacking-minded trio
Bad -
- no solution for the RWB situation
- no solution for Kane's workload in situation where he is gone in few months time - perfect time to even buy someone opportunistic, cause if it does not work then we still have Kane until summer
- purchased players with questionable quality
- addition to midfield is not enough as things stand - we still don't have enough progressive ability there
I mean I don't expect that we would have signed Rudiger, Mbappe and Kimmich. There were options going around for very attainable terms and clubs - to name some - Trippier, Eriksen, Weghorst, Guimares, Gosens, Zakaria, also many players with contracts ending that could helped us like Ginter, Kessie, Mazraoui etc.
If we look at our window and we would have added named Trippier and Weghorst into the equasion, I would have neem happy for example. Now we did something, but not enough considering the state of current squad.
So true. They will just keep making excuses for him no matter how many more bad mistakes he makes that costs us. They love the guy.
But Tanguy and Celso will be back in july and we will have to hope they have done well enough for someone to bid for them. It may be that we take 25m for each . We are not getting anywhere near 50 for T@nguy.
On the books, with amortisation, Tanguy is valued at around 27m.
Yes and played well in those games well, at least the 2-3 I saw.
Well he’s barely been in the squad since so to say he was outstanding is probably an exaggeration
Report I read on the BBC last week said we had offered £38m with £10-15m in add on's, Liverpool offered £37.5m with £15m in add on's but they also had to give and £8m inital payment to make it work.
They had been monitoring the payer and expected to make a move in the summer but then we came and seriously looked like we could get him so they had to buy earlier than expected.
The player preferred Liverpool. Shit happens.
Its not like buying a packet of rice or loaf of bread from the supermarket where its a fixed price. Its like anything expensive in life - for us normal people, cars and houses. You see the price, put a lower offer in as you don't know what the seller really wants, they say no, you offer more until you reach an agreement or walk away.
In 2022, one gets results and one gets sacked.
It feels like they spent an inordinate amount of time getting us from WHL to the new stadium. And when we got there, the wheels fell of with Poch. But to be fair, we were probably ahead of plan being in a CL final before we'd even moved in to the new stadium
And then we moved in it and got set back an entire year immediately.
This is why I say - let's see what they do in the summer. To say its last chance saloon is an understatement.
Maybe that is a strong word but when we signed him he had come off a great season. Other fans from other clubs where very jealous we got him and always everyone on this board couldn’t believe we got him. That he decided to use his contract to be lazy and had terrible attitude well that is unfortunate. I guess that is why the likes of Osumne Dembele would not be good for us with his attitude as well.
Yea, I think that for the team morale it is positive shift.
But would have really preferred if we would have got more promising alternatives in as well.
This Bentacur+Kulusevski deal felt very much like shopping in the outlet store when current selection has been out for days already. It's not that we scouted, analyzed and chose those players as our first picks. Its more that they were offered and available and we took them from very willing seller for terms that is more benefitial for seller rather than the buyer.
And this has been the story with Spurs transfers for a long long time. No proactive planning. Not going after priority players. Negotiating to very max level for every player, regardless of their importance and value. Not planning for the future.
This was my problem with Diaz is it was not that I did not want him I did but it felt like there was no planning when it came to targeting him. Even in the summer transfer window there seemed to be very little planning when it came to a lot of the signings. With Emerson I felt like Paratici went to Barcelona to sign a player any player it did not matter who that was why we tried to sign Illax Moriba first.
Yea, 100% agreed with this.
That he went to Barca, asked for Moriba, he decided to go somewhere else, and then Paratici was like: "Well, but are there any other players that are useless for you and that we could maybe buy for high price? Ah, lad who has not even played 5 games for you. And you want 25 mil for him. I think that sounds like sweet deal. We'll take him!"
Yeah our strategy still needs a lot of work, people wanted us just to spend willy nily but I really don't trust the club to buy the right players at the moment, like for example you just know that anyone who is linked or brought by Liverpool, City or Leicester, you just know they're gonna be a hit because they all know what they're doing, with us there's always a question mark this needs to be worked on from now until Summer because it's imperative we sort hsis shit out, it's gone on for far too long.
I’ve said this numerous times this window. It’s because we don’t scout. Those clubs do. Liverpool used to just use agents like us to identify and buy players but under Michael Edwards they stopped. We need to be clever, not just buy players off mates who are agents. Until that changes nothing will.