Luton are borderline championship, i think he's about the right level to look good in their team
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Luton are borderline championship, i think he's about the right level to look good in their team
You’re point on selling all them players at the end of Pochettino’s second season may seem valid on first glance, however, a couple of things…
1) wasn’t it highly reported that window that it was Franco Baldini that was tasked with trimming the squad, an excellent negotiator and a man that was very highly respected throughout the football world?
2) many of the players you listed there were players we had recently signed that, rightly, needed another chance before being sold. The players we are trying to ship out this year are players that have been stinking the place out for almost 10(!) years in some cases and have failed under 4/5 managers.
They are completely and utterly different scenarios and it is not an excuse that stands up to scrutiny.
I think regardless of which way it goes, a year long loan to another PL team is the right call.
If he's terrible, we know what we have. If he's good, then all the better for us.
Truly we won't know what we have until he gets an extended run of games in the top flight.
The Luton Town loan is the best option.
As i joked about a year or so back. That Lewis and Levy are actually Woolwich, and bought us to milk money and fuck us over!
Maybe wasn't to far fetched!
"We've purposefully gone a bit younger because we want to build a team here. It's not about putting the finishing touches on something we're building something here. So that's the mind of profiles we're looking at."
This is blatantly the equivalent of Poch season #1....... Perhaps one or two players get a reprieve that we fans don't think they deserve (Kaboul, Lennon, Capoe), but the axe will still fall eventually....... Get with the program peeps.
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The same was said under Conte who preached about patience but I said from the start our fans are and it would be him who would need to find the patience.
Levy’s worst mistake is that he never learns from them.
yeh I like the comments and it hopefully puts to bed those links with that pensioner from Porto.
Despite that not being what that quote suggests..... Will you be "disappointed" if we finish 4th this season?
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Barman says: "How will you pay?"
Duck says: "Can you put it on my bill?"
But they’ll be playing against premier league teams who’ll batter them most weeks away from kenilworth road. He might look good when they are playing sheff wed or Cardiff but he’s a poor defender at this level.
Exactly. Exactly.
Peak Poch success was buoyed by the fact that in the mid 2010s football management was nowhere near as advanced as it is even 8 years later, and Poch’s high pressing system was a rarity and a black swan in England (yes seriously). We got first mover advantage in a way before the Klopps Peps De Zerbis etc showed up.
But importantly, our success also relied upon ludicrous outperformance of transfer fees by literally every single one of the starting XI:
Lloris - £12m (considering he was an established international keeper and only 25, a literal steal that could never happen today)
Walker - £2m from Sheffield
Vertonghen - £15m from Ajax
Toby - £12m from Atletico (dodgy Southampton deal iirc)
Rose - £1m from Leeds
Dembele - £15m from Fulham
Dier - £3m from Sporting
Dele - £5m from MK Dons
Eriksen - £13m from Ajax
Son - £23m from Leverkusen
Kane - free.99
Again, every single player outperformed their fee by astounding amounts. I’d estimate that every single player I just listed was performing like a £40-50m player at bare minimum by 2016-17.
The thing is that this just isn’t possible anymore. Orban would be the most expensive player on this list and he’s a 21 year old with 30 matches of European football. Veliz cost as much as Eriksen and Dembele did.
It just isn’t at all feasible or financially realistic to build a title contender that way anymore. The only way to do so would be with a world class academy but when you look at the allocation of resources at Spurs Academy and the state of the coaching it’s obviously miles and miles off.
I've heard rumours we are signing Kan-Ga Roo!
What is it with you; you always have to ramp shit up........
- Why the comment about Solomon's height?
- Kane is Kane regardless of your 50 years rhetoric.
I remember you said to me at the beginning of the summer in a real humble, forthright ppost...... "I'm not a partisan, over-emoted poster, prone to exaggeration or bunkering down over ENIC etc." [paraphrase]......
That's not really true is it....?
Ah well.......
I'd rather we didn't stomp around in a state of "urgency".
Vent out the window, then come on here and have a laugh with the rest of us.
Life is too short to spend it on a downer over Football. It's not like the majority of us don't feel the same way, it's just that the many of us don't let the fortunes of the team dictate our mood.
The problem here is that there are posters who use it as an excuse to wind up other posters who don't feel the same way, their focus is on character assassination, and that's on both sides of the "argument."
Spurs were always a joy for me. Watching them, talking about them, sharing opinions and arguing differences. That hasn't changed and I'll always want to either have a giggle or a grown up debate with like minded people. That's fun.
You don't have to change your opinion about the management, because you're not wrong for much of it. I guess I'm just saying that the forum is here for enjoyment. Too many have lost sight of that.
Not a chance...
Hardly surprising when they've just got Noo Far Kin Moo-Nay
Dude.... Maddison was previously living in Leicester....... Not Milan.
If football is about 'avin a laugh, why can't posting on a message board be the same?
The tone police are all on one side of this debate.