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Extremely highly rated.

Glad we’ve reverted back to signing young talent after our hiatus. We can’t compete for world stars and proven clogger types never seem to do a job for us.

Him, Gill are the kind of signings we need to be making in order to get us back on the map.
 
Extremely highly rated.

Glad we’ve reverted back to signing young talent after our hiatus. We can’t compete for world stars and proven clogger types never seem to do a job for us.

Him, Gill are the kind of signings we need to be making in order to get us back on the map.

Signing them is only half the job though. The difficult thing is making sure they are developed to their full potential and we don’t have a great recent track record at that (Foyth,Clarke, Sessegnon etc)
 
Kane, Eriksen, Bale...

For every bust there's a winner
Dele, Dier, Rose, Walker. All bought as kids under 20 for less than £5m a pop. All made over 200 appearances for the club in top sides, even if Dier and Dele aren’t at peak form anymore.
 
Extremely highly rated.

Glad we’ve reverted back to signing young talent after our hiatus. We can’t compete for world stars and proven clogger types never seem to do a job for us.

Him, Gill are the kind of signings we need to be making in order to get us back on the map.
Yep. Honestly these players are on low wages and their agents aren’t as likely to seek 10M signing bonus so a 20M young un costs half of what a 20M Aurier does (fully loaded)
 
Dele, Dier, Rose, Walker. All bought as kids under 20 for less than £5m a pop. All made over 200 appearances for the club in top sides, even if Dier and Dele aren’t at peak form anymore.
Dier and Dele could have been flipped for 130M a few years ago…. We’ve had such success with hoovering up young lads, no idea why we’ve stopped. Bale, Lennon, Dawson before

missed out on a 1/4 of the Eng squad who came through the championship
 
Kane, Eriksen, Bale...

For every bust there's a winner
The players you flagged up are not particularly recent are they?
And anyway Bale was clearly physically gifted and an exceptional talent and was always going to be a star. Eriksen was already on the way to being a good player and had played over 160 times for Ajax helping them to win their first Dutch title in 7 years with Eriksen winning their player of the year 2 years prior to joining Spurs. He had played approximately 40 times for Denmark prior to joining us. Therefore I think it is hard to draw comparisons though I do agree we developed Kane from scratch.
 
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