prospective new players and their agents see Spurs under Levy as a club who play disorganized all out attacking football that’s fighting relegation, who run you into the ground and pay mid table wages.
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 24/25
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Agree .... But you seemed quite convinced you that did a couple of posts ago.
Look what Daniel has done to us...
Sadly most transfer windows have a lot of time where nothing happens - only exception I can remember was when Frank Arnesen brought in about 2 dozen players, half for a development squad and half for first team
Frankie's 'funday' Fridays were well named - except some player arrived on other days of the week.
Trying to keep up with the flow of players in and trying to work out what kind of team we might field was a full time job ..... and even then I don't think anyone got the team even half right ! And even the manager changed within 2 months .... but enter Martin Jol who still has the biggest increase in points season upon season of any recent manager after fitting together a decent team from the long list of new players, got us to 5th place twice (our highest position for 20 years - and could have been 4th place but for Lasagnegate) as well as back into europe.
Here’s what I fucking know is true:
We cut our wages by 35m selling senior players for youngsters who needed to be bedded in slowly.
We stayed in 4 competitions and the load on the squad meant we ended up short, tired, and eventually injured.
Those injuries compounded as we stayed in 4 competitions because the fans want trophies.
We’ve had an injury crisis since November but instead of acting early in the window, we acted like a club in financial troubles and scrambled around until the last days of the window looking for bargains.
Now we’re in the position the media are eating their fill on every failed transfer and every new crisis that comes our way.
This is self inflicted
I am currently re-reading Legend by David Gemmell. It's a clunky but fun book and the clunkiness can be explained by the fact that it was his debut and he wrote it in like 3 months after he got a false terminal cancer diagnosis.
Notts Forest crushing Brighton 7-0 is quite something
I think I've gone off the idea of buying Brighton players though .....
Levy considering abandoning our “data led” approach for the Forest style.
Only he’s not a corrupt gangster like the Forest owner so has no clue how to do the money laundering part of it.
Wait a minute, we employed Lange but we are acting exactly like we have for the last 20 years in the transfer market. Yeah I’m sure it’s his fault!
Chris Wood, £50m?Notts Forest crushing Brighton 7-0 is quite something
I think I've gone off the idea of buying Brighton players though .....
Notts Forest crushing Brighton 7-0 is quite something
I think I've gone off the idea of buying Brighton players though .....
That managers not quite proving worthy of the early hype either.
No player in their right mind would join us this window on a permanent deal. Our manager could be sacked in two weeks. And we could be relegated. The obvious deals were loan deals with no option/obligation for players who were not in their current clubs plans. A chance for them to showcase their skills ahead of a summer mover. Tel may have come on that sort of deal but we insisted an a permanent move. If Levy was backing Ange he’d have given him a new contract and told the world he is the manager. But he hasn’t. We’re in a state of purgatory, so no wonder no one wants to join. Sack him or back him.
2nd problem … We have bought lots of players with potential, now we need experienced, peak year players to improve us and provide a solid base for the likes of Gray, Bergvall, Moore, Vuskovic, etc. to learn from. But we’re still chasing unproven youngsters. It’s a car crash of a strategy. You need a good mix.
3rd problem - linked to #2 above - wages. Pay peanuts, get monkeys. We are way too risk averse to be competitive over a full season. Buy 3 proper leaders for the spine of our team. Players that command £250-300k per week. We’d still be under 50% revenue to wages ratio, but we’re might actually have a chance of competing.
2nd problem … We have bought lots of players with potential, now we need experienced, peak year players to improve us and provide a solid base for the likes of Gray, Bergvall, Moore, Vuskovic, etc. to learn from. But we’re still chasing unproven youngsters. It’s a car crash of a strategy. You need a good mix.
3rd problem - linked to #2 above - wages. Pay peanuts, get monkeys. We are way too risk averse to be competitive over a full season. Buy 3 proper leaders for the spine of our team. Players that command £250-300k per week. We’d still be under 50% revenue to wages ratio, but we’re might actually have a chance of competing.
Levy has been well and truly found out, no one wants to play for Spurs, it's a fucking shambles.
Rashford off to Villa, the first domino to fall...
Ok so actually Duran was the first domino but here is the chain reaction which results in Spurs signing
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It was a fair observation on my part.... No point getting angry about it.
Why ask me that question about Tomori if you're just gonna concur that it wasn't factual afterall?
IMO he looks quite striking hereLevy "watch"
I wasn’t angry.
Notice you didn’t dispute any points made afterwards
Amen, brother
I didn't think it appropriate.
You previously asked me a question... I answered it..... You concurred you didn't know what was happening afterall. We were done.
[ You laugh, but you found it awfully convenient no ignore much of what I wrote cos presumably it rang true and you had no retort.... Should I be held to different 'rules' to you or sumthin? ]
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He's a very shit Younes Kaboul