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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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Gazzapen said:
Some will never get it. I can tell you what comes next. You going to be told you don't know what you talking about. Then some Arsephobe will accuse you of supporting Woolwich.... For me it's Great to see other people who actually want a truely Great squad to compliment the Great Manager.

For those who buy the Spurs Shirt for 70-80 pounds and spend a few Hundred quid to watch a game, while being Happy watching Doherty and Royal, you have to have your head read.
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You thinking you're in some way enlightened is pure comedy gold.....


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CerealMaterial said:
There is a difference between striving for the best and being unrealistic. Thinking Spurs have any shot at winning the league this year, even if we had filled in the gaps that we needed to is sheer lunacy. No wonder you’re so down on Spurs if that’s the target you’re setting and refuse to accept anything less.

How am I, or anyone else for that matter blindly supporting the club when it’s been called out numerous times how perplexing it is that none of our areas of concern were addressed, or more concerning there weren’t any major links to any of those positions. It still doesn’t take away from the fact that we did sign two player who we may not have needed, but may still improve the squad.
How is it that even though I called out those concerns I’m still considered to be blindly supporting the decisions of the club.
Is the scale for “blindly supporting spurs” just binary, where only saying “FUCK LEVY THE CUNT, ENIC OUT” is considered blind support? It can’t be because I’ve seen you argue about the state of this window with members who are firmly in the ENIC OUT camp.

I do hope that seeing as you feel so strongly about these issues that you were at the protest on Monday. If you were then massive respect, and I genuinely do mean it. But if on the other hand all you do is piss and moan about how unhappy you are about the club then your mentality is just as much to blame as mine
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Im slightly to far to attend protests. May a few thousand miles to be precise.

We have a new definition for Oxymoron:

We improved on our squad. We let go of all remotely creative players, bought two players that warmed the bench of the club we bought from. We lost players to clubs because of Haggling. But we had a Good transfer window.
 
Gazzapen said:
Im slightly to far to attend protests. May a few thousand miles to be precise.

We have a new definition for Oxymoron:

We improved on our squad. We let go of all remotely creative players, bought two players that warmed the bench of the club we bought from. We lost players to clubs because of Haggling. But we had a Good transfer window.
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.......Oh, the loss of it all. :llorishuh:
 
Jaynola said:
I don't know if you've watched Humanity from good ol' Ricky Gervais, but he talks about how now it is all about being right, about how unknown people will stop at nothing to be right on a public platform like Twitter...even if that means taking their opinion as Gospel, though it may be totally factually incorrect. Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story etc.

Love how he also uses that example of a guitar teacher having a big ad board in town, with people ringing him to tell him they don't want fucking guitar lessons. If you see something and you don't like/agree with it, just move on.

Though, admittedly, when you see someone spouting some serious garbage, especially repeatedly...it's very tempting to tell them to shut the eff up and also prove how silly they are
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Has Jaynola Jaynola been on the forum long? I ask because he seems sweetly unaware of who he is earnestly aiming his comment at. Its so pure I welled up......😐
 
JimothySE23 said:
1: We can't win the league this year, don't be abursd. You can argue that almost 3 years on from the CL final that we should have gotten ourselves in a position to be a genuine contender, yes. That's on Levy and ENIC. 100%. No argument from me, it's frustrating how far we've fallen off. But there was no sense whatsoever in expecting the January window to provide a title-challenging overhaul when we're so far behind.

2: It's all relative. 6/10 is a better window than all our Top 4 rivals. All of them. It's not good enough in a vacuum, but in context, it's been fine.

I am frustrated how far we've fallen. I'm frustrated we did poor business in the summer and wasted time hiring and persisting with Nuno. Who knows how much better things would have been if we just appointed Conte to begin with? We don't know. There's little point getting hung up on it now.

There were multiple objectives this January: get out the deadwood, bring in players Conte specifically can work with. Getting deals for Lo Celso, Ndomele and Dele would have been time consuming. Getting the two players we got in would have been time consuing. We were a whisker away from Diaz, but for once it failed because of external factors (that external factor being Liverpool). Traore went to Barca because he wanted to. This is all squeezed into a window which is difficult for everyone.

Going into the summer is when crunchtime is. Conte and Paratici working together with a proper preseason and full summer window for the first time. You could say the Paratici signs are worrying because last summer the players he got in have either not performed or aren't ready for the Premier League. But I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt for now because now he's working with a genuine top class coach in Conte. We should also be able to clear the decks further with Lo Celso and Ndombele finding permanent moves which makes more space for better replacements.

I'd love Joe Lewis\ENIC to decide to go mental and throw buckets of their own cash in, but that's not how they operate. I'd love Levy to go a bit more risky and splash the cash but that would be against his nature as he's built the club up to only spend what it brings in. I personally think a small amount of speculate to accumalate is in order given the amount of cash CL football will bring in, but again it's not how he operates. He's seen how Leeds did that and ended up outside the PL for years. Maybe he's too cautious, I can't change this though. Me complaining on a forum won't change diddly squat. Spurs haven't dropped down the league because of fans, if you really really blame ENIC and Levy then you're letting them off the hook by putting the blame on fans who put their cash in.

Maybe new ownership is the change we need, maybe we need someone in to drag us over that line, but again they're not going to sell cheap because some guys on TFC are kicking off. Someone needs to want to buy Spurs. And we're not Newcastle, someone can't come in withg a piddly £250m and buy us, we're on a different level to Newcastle, there are very few people or companies who could step in.

So yeah, I'm frustrated we keep getting so close while other teams around us get to celebrate trophies. I'm irritated pissy little clubs like Man City win so many trophies now when they were a joke when I was growing up. But there are things I accept I cannot change. This doesn't make me believe Levy is the greatest chairman in the world or an ENIC lover or any other purile insult you wish to throw at me. I'm just a season ticket holder with the power to change very little. I could refuse to renew next season, but no. I won't. I never thought I'd be in a position to be a ST holder at Spurs. I refuse to give that up.

Some things are shit. Some things are ok. I'm Spurs and I'm here for the ride.
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Acceptance of Mediocre, is exactly that, acceptance. Why should one be happy with the way business has been done? ENIC and Levy are smiling all the way to the bank. Boycott games for 1 month and see what will happen
 
Go on son said:
But weve lost our creative players!! Lot of people need to give their head a wobble.
Anyone crying when poch got rid of deadwood to get his own players in 🤔
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I'm happy to place a £20 charity bet that Kulu matches or betters the collective output of all THREE of those players by the end of the season.

.........If he does this it will have been proved that the squad hadn't been "weakened".



Any melts wanna take me up on this bet?

Gazzapen Gazzapen - Pony up time!
 
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Dudski said:
When I was young (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) everyone read the local newspaper and there were always two or three cranks who would write an angry letter to the editor once a month (or whatever the limit was). It was good for a laugh and nobody thought much of it. Now that person has a computer and instead of once a month it's a bunch of angry posts every day. Probably not doing their mental health any good and it sure doesn't make the world a better place.
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This is a great post.

The Outsider The Outsider , take note, mate
 
Raumdeuterz said:
This is fair. I think it's also fair to say we're just fans, and that's a pretty good example of why we shouldn't be in control of transfers. It's strange that such a cautious club when it comes to transfers was prepared to pay a record fee and offer an incredible wage for a player with these question marks over his head. We've been hesitant with so many other players.
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And 18 months earlier in Poch's book, it detailed it as something that they'd never do. Quite amazing how they went back on their previous ethos. They got carried away.
 
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