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Management Levy out?
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Sounds like blackmail....
How does "The Amazon Stadium " sound????
Recieved....??? That's received. Your arguments will be more persuasive if you get the spelling correct....
Umm
.....wouldn’t be the worst.....
There isnt one single current Premier League club that hasn't broken their transfer record on multiple occassions since 2015, let alone the turn of the century when ENIC showed up.
Yet unbelievably the cult are now trotting this out as some kind of excuse for all our failings.
It's seriously disturbing stuff.
Valid point. Transfer records will always be smashed the more money comes into the game. It's a part and parcel of how it goes.
I'm definitely behind the bar staff!!!!!
Bottomless money pit. Makes ENIC look like a corner shop.Umm
I agree
It's called inflation or the cost of living. Remember the price of a pint 10 years ago? Or a curry? I do.
Yep. And they got to be so successful by spending more than they have and having three or four staff for every position.
oh wait.....
Maybe I didn't make myself clear
Lo Celso, great player, I know he can play CM but I prefer him a as a AM
Gedson - good prospect - AM
Ndombele - will be great if he can sort his fitness - AM
Clarke - Don't know if he will make it - AM
Sesseegnon - see above - AM
What we've needed for at least 2 years
DM
RB
LB
CF of quality, not a back up or stop gap
I'm happy to have players of this quality come in but we haven't addressed the areas where we are short.
Hopefully we will in the summer.
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Jose had just signed a cuople months before that. He is hardly going to make a big fuss about his employer already. If Levy doesnt put out after Jose wins us something or gets us into the CL, then he will sing a different tune.
Mourinho on Tottenham failure to sign new striker: I cannot lie
Jose Mourinho says it will not be easy to play in three competitions "without a striker" after admitting he does not expect Tottenham to sign cover for Harry Kane before Friday's 11pm transfer deadline.www.standard.co.uk
"There's nobody to blame and say you could didn't do your job well or you could do better than you did. Not at all. Again, we don't want a striker to just help us now. We wants a striker to be good for our future, possible to play with Harry Kane together in the future. And with the difficulties of the market, it was very, very difficult to find [one]."
John Thomas now
Answer the question I asked
John Thomas
as he seems unable to.Do you seriously believe that Levy refused point blank (to 2 managers) to sign a striker, whilst at the same time spending over £200m in 2 windows. Or is it the case that those managers prioritised other areas of the team ?
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I very much doubt Mourinho , even after knowing that Kane is out for the rest of season, and how he likes to play hoofball would not want a replacement striker . He loved big tall lukaku too. He would have suggested to Levy that he wants a striker but not made any demands because of the reason I gave - just signed for us, cant make a fuss yet. Why on earth would he have prioritised Bergwijn when we had Son , Lucas, Alli and even Sess in the squad that can play that role when his plan A needs a tall targetman/striker which he doesnt have .Answer the question I asked
Do you seriously believe that Levy refused point blank (to 2 managers) to sign a striker, whilst at the same time spending over £200m in 2 windows. Or is it the case that those managers prioritised other areas of the team ?
And Poch, who had been there 5 years ?
Did he make demands for a striker and was refused point blank in the summer, whilst signing other players ?
Of course Mourinho can make a fuss. He’s just been given a multi year contract at £15m a year a few weeks before the window. It’s the very best time to make a fuss as there’s no way Levy can risk losing him. Imagine the fallout if Mourinho doesn’t get everything he wants? He walks a couple of months after getting the job, making us the punchline to every joke out there. No way Levy risks pissing him off.
Id say it’s much more likely he wants a quality player that couldn’t be got in the winter window, or maybe could have been at £80m, but we can get him in the summer for £50m. No idea who, just suggesting alternatives to “Levy stared at Mourinho and his bottle crashed”.
And we’ve got a pretty tall targetman / striker. He just happens to be injured. Son would have filled in just nicely, but shit happens. Do you honestly think we should sign a world class striker and tell him he’s benched when Kane is fit? Or we tell Kane he’s now a sub?
The bloke was given £150m to spend on incomings in the summer, didn't use it to sign a striker yet apparently it's all on Levy
And once upon a time Spurs were often the ones who held the highest transfer record. Norman Giller recounts how Spurs in their heyday were similar to Utd and City in theirs.
Those days are long gone. We spend because we have to. Although the fact our record transfer hardly plays is pretty fucking ironic. And our defensive record transfer has been pretty underwhelming too.
But you'd think Tottenham Hotspur didn't exist before the 1990's if you listened to the narrative put out on here.