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Hitchen is a cunt right?All sourced from wikipedia, these are the players we have signed in the past 5 years:
2020-21: Alfie Devine, Pierre-Emile Højbjerg, Joe Hart, Matt Doherty, Keenan Ferguson, Sergio Reguilón, Marcel Lavinier, Tobi Omole, Joe Rodon.
19-20: Kion Etete, Isak Midttun Solberg, Jack Clarke, Tanguy Ndombele, Ryan Sessegnon, Michel Vorm, Giovani Lo Celso, Steven Bergwijn.
18-19: No Signings (!!)
17-18: Davinson Sánchez, Paulo Gazzaniga, Juan Foyth, Serge Aurier, Fernando Llorente, Lucas Moura.
16-17: Victor Wanyama, Vincent Janssen, Juan Pablo Gonzalez Velasco, Georges-Kévin Nkoudou, Moussa Sissoko, Maximus Tainio.
Now, I don't know about you, but I count ONE player in those 5 years who was a player we needed, came in, played well and improved the team unequivocally - Wanyama. ONE proper player in 5 years and millions upon millions spent on players who have performed anywhere from average to total shit (and I will inclide everybody's favourites, Reguilón, Hojbjerg and N'Dombele in the 'average' group).
Think of our best players over those 5 years: Kane, Son, Dele, Eriksen, Dembele, Wanyama, Walker, Rose, Toby, Vertonghen, Lloris...even add the likes of Davies, Dier and Trippier if you like (who all performed well at times under Poch). They all were signed/here more than 5 years ago! Look at some of the absolute shite we have been spending money on.
It doesn't matter who the new manager is, until we can start identifying proper footballers and signing them, we are going nowhere. In my opinion, Levy has put all his focus on the stadium and forgot about the most important thing, the fucking team on the pitch. Now Jose and Poch can share some of the blame for who we have bought (and please nobody try to tell me Hojbjerg can lace Wanyama's boots) but Levy is the main one at fault, especially for the travesty of 2018-19 where no signings at all were made.
Levy has to go back to the DoF system or something close to it, because whoever the cunts are who decide our transfer strategy have failed monumentally in their job these past 5 years. And instead of building on an excellent team we had that finished 2nd to Chelsea in the 2016-17 season, we have let it fall apart.
100% correct.Until last season the person who signed most of those players was Pochettino, equally he turned down plenty of others that have turned out to be good.
The whole recruitment team want sacking at the end of the season - enough is enough. They're completely fucking incompetent. We just chuck money around without any rhyme or reason, no identity, no plan, clueless wankers.
Our scouting is a joke. And you put levy wanting always the bargains all together. And that results in the mess we are in.
Leicester yes but everton have squandered millions and millions and i dont think theyve improved a whole lot. Weve dropped back more soCompare this to Leicester and Everton and you see why they are on the UP whilst we are sliding down the snake !
But did he really want them?100% correct.
Poch was a good coach but in the transfer marking he was absolutely clueless.
Hopefully he stays at PSG and re signs some of the shit he bought at Spurs.
What's even worse is that we did this when we were a top 4 club, with a manager who had a track record of improving players and who many players were desperate to play for. Our draw as a club had never been stronger.Sanchez, Lo Celso & NDombele cost us 150m lol
The thick snake Levy always thinks he saves a bargain buying cheap - but long term this strategy wastes far more on wages and Agent fees
1x proper signing on 120k / week over 5 years
3x shit cunt Njies on 60k / week over 5 years
LMFAO
Exactly - according to Wikipedia (!), Hitchen was appointed the chief scout for Tottenham Hotspur in February 2017 as a replacement for Paul Mitchell - coincidence that the transfer rot sets in then too??It is the Scouts that are the problem led by Hitchen. As with the Manager position, they draw up potential lists and actually go and watch these players and not Levy or the Manager. How is Hitchen still in a job? He was less than impressive in the Amazon film and his recommendations are also less than impressive. I do not dispute Levy may have not bought some good players but based on those we did buy, we paid high fees at times but they have not performed.
It’s easy enough to tell by reading between the lines who Pochettino clearly favoured signing and who he didn’t (and don’t get me wrong there are plenty of duds he did obviously want, Aurier and Sanchez for example) but a lot of the absolute rif raf we signed under his tenure were either spreadsheet signings or backups after failing to get our first or second choices.But did he really want them?
Or was it:
Levy: 'Here's Sissoko... or nothing at all'.
Poch: '...'
Levy: '...'
Poch: 'Okay, I'll do my best with him'.
Bless his heart but Poch does not have a great record as a transfer scout anywhere he's been.It’s easy enough to tell by reading between the lines who Pochettino clearly favoured signing and who he didn’t (and don’t get me wrong there are plenty of duds he did obviously want, Aurier and Sanchez for example) but a lot of the absolute rif raf we signed under his tenure were either spreadsheet signings or backups after failing to get our first or second choices.