Not about spending big unless absolutely necessary but about being smart and decisive.
No matter what there are always those who can justify the club's stance.
We are a small club in how we do our transfers.
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Not about spending big unless absolutely necessary but about being smart and decisive.
No matter what there are always those who can justify the club's stance.
We are a small club in how we do our transfers.
Never mind all of that, you're an idiot.
So are we saying we're not smart or decisive. Little or no noise about us signing Wanyama? No haggling the deal was done. We've apparently made one bid for Janssen (unknown for how much), which has been rebuffed, we are told they want €20m, shall we wait and see if a second bid is lodged? AZ let us speak to Janssen remember? He came to London. His value will have changed with the fluctuation of £ against €. We don't have a bottomless pot of Oligarch or middle eastern oil money. We are a well run business and moderately successful football club. We have a new stadium on the horizon which hopefully will increase our revenue. As yet we have to be financially sensible whilst pay for increased building costs.
But but.... but we've got Harry Kane!
+ Ibrahimovic didn't wanna come!
I understand the arguments for spending sensibly and I'm not saying go spunk £30 mil on any cunt.
But lets face it, in order to sign someone who is going to come directly into the first-team or be an upgrade on the likes of Son, Chadli and N'Jie from the bench, we will need to spend big.
Using the post-Gareth Bale splurge as reason why we shouldn't spend big is also disingenuous. We didn't have Paul Mitchel back then, we didn't have Pochettino and we didn't have the same cohesion ross the club.
I trust the new transfer set up to identify the right targets and I just don't see there being the possibility of another Soldado signing.
The reason I'm so desperate to strengthen and strengthen big is because we massively overachieved last season while most of the big boys massively underachieved. They will do everything they can to change that this summer and they are well under way in the process.
Should we exit the Champions League at the group stages next season and finish 5th then the likes of Dier, Alli, Lloris and Alderweireld will all have their heads turned.
Players can give it large about staying for the project and wanting to stay for the new stadium but that's a couple years away and if we fail to compete for the league or qualify for the Champions League, our biggest stars will likely leave.
We're once again at a watershed moment. Do we back the manager and give him the finances to take this team to another level or do we aim low and hope he produces another miracle season.
But lets face it, in order to sign someone who is going to come directly into the first-team or be an upgrade on the likes of Son, Chadli and N'Jie from the bench, we will need to spend big.
Using the post-Gareth Bale splurge as reason why we shouldn't spend big is also disingenuous. We didn't have Paul Mitchel back then, we didn't have Pochettino and we didn't have the same cohesion ross the club.
I trust the new transfer set up to identify the right targets and I just don't see there being the possibility of another Soldado signing.
The reason I'm so desperate to strengthen and strengthen big is because we massively overachieved last season while most of the big boys massively underachieved. They will do everything they can to change that this summer and they are well under way in the process.
Should we exit the Champions League at the group stages next season and finish 5th then the likes of Dier, Alli, Lloris and Alderweireld will all have their heads turned.
Players can give it large about staying for the project and wanting to stay for the new stadium but that's a couple years away and if we fail to compete for the league or qualify for the Champions League, our biggest stars will likely leave.
We're once again at a watershed moment. Do we back the manager and give him the finances to take this team to another level or do we aim low and hope he produces another miracle season.
That still won't make anyone happy. Unless we sign a 60million+ player it will never make anyone happy.
I just want us to sign the right players really. I don't think Wanyama and Jansen would be a terrible summer simply because I know that none of our players are even at their peak yet. People seem to think we will only progress by signing, but I believe we will make progress regardless with the bunch we already have. I believe in this current crop of spurs players, a team all playing for the badge. Its a real shame that so many fans would rather just slag off our own players and say they aren't good enough, just so we can replace them with more players they can say aren't good enough.
Wrong, only if we sign a 15m player for 60 plus million will some be happy.
Sort of. We seem to be more interested in buying direct from the farm, and spend a lot of time negotiating with the farmers.
But it does mean that all of our stuff is serious quality when it does show up.
Right. "but...but...if Palace and other midtable shit teams can overspend on a player, why are we just dicking around!?!?"
Makes Levy feel like he is a strong 5'5" I suppose. Makes him feel like a big man. An important man!
No. West Ham and QPR throwing money around without a sustainable plan is a small club mentality. Building a very competitive squad in a cost effective way is the best thing we could be doing right now, and i'm happy that we are doing just that.
People would still complain. And call for Levy's, Poch's and the 60M player's heads if he didn't score a hattrick every week.
Upgrades in attack? Over who?
Let's be really clear about some of this stuff before a whole bunch of false narratives take over.
Our attack last year was one of the 3 best in the league. Arguably the best, depending on how you want to measure it.
Exactly who the blistering fuck do you intend to find who is going to sign for us, within our wage structure, for 30 million pounds or less, and who is an automatic upgrade on one of Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, Erik Lamela, or Harry Kane?
There is literally no one in Europe who is better than one of those four players who are also not more expensive than 30 million pounds. And that's not taking into account the fact that unlike everyone (literally) with better attacking output than them, they're not over the age of 25. All of our ideal front four are still developing talents, and have not yet entered their peak seasons (Alli and Kane in particular). Sure, you could find someone who scored one or two more goals, but they're all 27 or so, with a shorter future and little to no potential for growth.
Adding to that Son, N'Jie, and hopefully Janssen with similar profiles and we have one of the strongest attacking squads in England. Don't judge Son and N'Jie on injury hit first years, judge them on what we signed them for, their last years in Germany and France. Our weak points are Nacer Chadli, Ryan Mason and Tom Carroll. None of whom are bad players. They might not be superstars, but they're not stealing a living, by any stretch.
Who is going to be an upgrade? There are a few guys we could add who would be excellent additions and who could maybe match our current players, but to do better you need to find a legitimate Champion's League superstar. Like Mkhitaryan, for example. Who isn't going to cost 30 million pounds.
People need to get their fucking noses out of the red tops, and stop with the sky-is-falling hyperbole.
This is our best team in a long time, (best I can think of since at least the mid-80s) and we need to stop slagging ourselves off because we're not transfer pundit darlings.
People need to start accepting the fact that Spurs, right now, are genuinely a good team, and on talent, aren't some plucky underdogs relying on luck.
This deserves to be QFT (quoted for truth)
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Is that pronounced like Queffed?
