I thought the sarcasm was clear, never mind.
-
The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...
Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread
- Thread starter Ginolaflair
- Start date
Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports
West Ham is not a good model and they do not have a good plan in place for targets. That said, they finished 19 points behind us last year compared to 35 the year before and 10th compared to 13th. Liverpool went from finishing 2 points behind us to 26 in front. Spending money on our squad is necessary at this point
I've no doubt in my mind that discussions with Ndombele have taken place and we have some form of agreement with him. It's all about reaching agreement with Lyon.
The issue now that will potentially arise is that there is so much noise of us haggling over the fee that a United or Real will sit up and go 'hey, this Ndombele chap is actually quite good, maybe he could be of some use to us', and swoop in, meet the asking price right away and have the whole thing wrapped up within a day.
My heart says we surely won't let this happen again, my head says in inevitably will...
Low spending on transfers and wages yet we still achieved top 4 and got to a final with a squad that secured us record profits based on European prize money.
I suppose the point I was making is that people are irate about what we are doing transfer wise but it would have more justification if we weren't surpassing our targets league wise being the 6th biggest club etc
I
This year seems more obvious and also clearer within our squad
Seems strange .... but last year I genuinely thought there were slim pickings
This year seems more obvious and also clearer within our squad
£100m for jumping from 13th to 10th?? yeah, that proves spending money is what it's all about..
We definitely need to strengthen the squad but it has to be for the right player not just anyone because buying players means success because it doesn't.
Yeah, the prize money for winning the League Cup is £100K, the prize money for getting a draw in a game in the CL group stage is £800K!!!!
Go get your head checked then!
West Ham has a terrible transfer strategy as I said but id spend 100 to pick up 16 points on our rivals next year while getting two pieces who's value has gone up. I'm not for spending just to spend either and don't want us to buy some of the targets we've been linked to, but we do have two targets who are young and would improve our team a ton next year that are going to cost a lot of money and we need to pull the trigger
More losses but also more wins and only a couple of draws.
That with a squad decimated by injuries as we had 10 of our players in last 4 of WC morning they arrived back from their 3 week hold after WC to start season without the pre season which is designed to condition players for the sesson. See
Park Lane Mark Twain
excellent analysis of missed games by the majority of our squad in one of the latest posts on the thread.Only 2 years ago that we had one of he youngest squads, and even now we only have about ,3 or 4 players over 30 so it's not crisis time, although as I have said it makes sense to get in some reinforcements.
I would say I am taking a pragmatic assessment of Spurs financial capabilities - based upon the stuff I post in the Finances thread - and the fact that I've the last 18 years Levy has steadily improved Spurs whether we talk squad orstadium/facilities sometimes taking half a step back to go a full step forward.
I would agree a DoF makes sense but my understanding is Poch is not keen hence the transfer committee of he, Levy , Hitches (chief scout) and McDermott ( head of academy).Different to Liverpool where Klopp is not directly involved in transfers just coaching/management.
Only if they are allowed to field 3 keepersWest Ham has.
I get more a feeling that some try too hard to portray themselves as "better fans".
Ignore the melters
Good post. Some are very quick to criticise the players or managers but if anyone dares to criticise levy/enic they get really moody & angry. Definately think some prefer levy to the players or poch.
Nobody goes in with their highest bid - unless they really do not have the ability to raise it.
Buying players is more difficult that home buying ( more parties involved - player, agent, clubs) but in most lhome purchases the house is given a price and people bid starting at 15% or so below that - unless it's made clear that it's "offers over £x' and it's then a quasi auction to see who bids highest.
Almost guarantee if Spurs bid £ X million the selling club will try to get another club to bid more, providing there is time. That is why Levy's favourite trick used to wait until a week or two before TW closed before bidding - gives selling club little time to react. This time we seem to have made our interest very clear in Ndombele and lo Celso very clear from the start of TW - major change by Spurs