If we didn't get Bissouma's brother and Rich stayed fit it would have been fine.
Lenglet and Perisic have been good first team upgrades.
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Transfers January 2023 Transfer Thread. The Big One
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Lenglet and Perisic have been good first team upgrades.
They where good but not enough in the context of our prior shit windows. Last summer is basically how we should be doing each summer, 2-4 good players in but ideally we needed 6 or so due to the state of the team.
I know, but if every window under Paratici is as good as the last 2 I'll be very happy most of the time.
We brought in some good players but it’s crazy that our cb and rwb situation wasn’t adequately addressed.
I think we'll get 2 or 3 players. They might be a lot of things but they're not that stupid, Sign no one and its truly game over for them and the manager. Its just at what standard those players are. Most of the names to date arent particulaly exiting but we'll see.
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We got 6 (+1)...... Not a fan of Lenglet though and the Spence saga is pants, but the rest are upgrades on those whom they replaced.
There's definitely an improvement under Paratici.
Emerson and Gil the two duds but I think the rest have been good.
We haven't sold all the dross but at least got them away on loan and hopefully can shift them in summer.
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I know it's blasphemy coming from me, but I feel like Kane, Dier, Lloris, Davies and a few others are roadblocks to real leadership in the team.
They are all very senior both in age and tenure at Spurs so the likes of Kulu, Benta etc. have limited scope to assert themselves. No one can tell Kane to gtfo of free kicks, never mind giving him a bollocking for being lazy. Who's gonna hold Son accountable?
You can't make certain players available when they're not for sale.
...I don't disagree those were the weak areas of that window though.
I Should have been clearer. Of the Perisic level, we got Perisic, Bissouma, Richarlison but probably needed top draw CB, RWB and AM. It’s Conte so it’s more a race against time with him as manager.
Bentancur, Kulusevski, Perisic, Bissouma, Richarlison, Lenglet, Spence, Forster ... all addressed weaknesses we had and made our squad a lot better. The first three made the first XI significantly better too. You don't need to be Levy to like that. I'd take two more like Kulu and Bentancur this window and another 3 first team upgrades in the summer. If only eh?
Kane FKs: Nggggggghhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
We've seen both Hugo & Kane give Son a bollocking at different times in recent seasons.
I don't know why Davies always seems to get shoe-horned into every shit-list whatever the discussion tho............ Seniority isn't always just about length of service; it's about standing in the perceived pecking order. He's not the type to bawl people out, but he's low-key been one of our most consistent players under Conte... He just keeps his head down and gets on with his job. Top pro.
That's a bit disingenuous to suggest they have failed to do it over 20 years. Through clever player trading, and taking gambles on talents like Modric, Bale et al, ENIC have done exactly what you have suggested they haven't, grown organically.
The hardest part was always going to be the final hurdle. Before we were competing with clubs that were in the same financial position as us, and we outstripped every single one of them, to the point where we are now competing with the elite, both from a financial and an on field success perspective.
You also have to factor in the fact that this bracket we're competing in is populated by the most financially doped clubs on Earth, barring PSG, along with 3 other clubs that have had 2 decades of success, with the finances that brings, at a time when we were still in the process of picking ourselves up off the floor where Scholar left us.
It's also disingenuous to suggest that we only buy cheap to sell high. The last "prized assets" we sold were Modric, Bale and Walker, all of whom WANTED to leave when a bigger club came calling. We didn't tout them out. If, as you suggest, we only buy low to sell high, Son would have been hocked out 3-4 seasons ago, City would have signed Kane etc, etc.
We spent record sums on Ndombele and Lo Celso, Sanchez and Romero, even Soldado was a considerable amount for the time for a club with the limited resources we had.
Now we're seeing the landscape go pear shaped again. £127M for a 21 year old playing in Portugal, off the back of a good WC performance?
Need I mention Darwin Nunez?
9 figure sums for kids? FML!
We've definitely had some proper rickets in the transfer market over the years, but despite the failures, they still put the lie to your "buy low sell high" assertion.
We've been down this road before, where we've taken one step forward only to take two steps back, but we're only just starting to see the income from the stadium come to fruition, which is why I'm keeping my powder dry at the moment.
However, the last 2 windows were barely sufficient to appease. I felt that the Summer was the crunch window for ENIC and, if I'm honest, I'd rate it as a C+. If they fail to get in what is glaringly obvious we need over this window and the next, then yes, they'll need to move on as we'll fall even further behind, and what they save in fees and wages will pale in comparison to what they'll lose in on field income and overall value of the club should they sell.
It was nowhere near enough. Didn't bring in the quality we needed in the areas it was required.
Failure of a window. Again.
Including Spence in there is a stretch. Biss hasn't delivered yet but I think he will.
Yep we had a real chance to kick on during the summer window but after a bright start it really fizzled out
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Don't get me wrong, I like Davies, him being low key is not a problem in and of itself.
The issue is that he does have a high standing in the team, younger players can't come in and start telling him what to do. So it falls on him and the other senior players to be more vocal. Instead they're all meek or really shit, and shit players have no credibility when telling others to shape up.
Think back to the (supposed) row in the dressing room row early in Poch's tenure, where the young players like Kane called out senior players who were not up to snuff, and with Poch's backing they ushered in a new generation.
Can that happen now with Kane and Son's stature, with Conte at the helm?