By falsely claiming there was no concerted, reasonable effort to replace Bale, VDV & Eriksen?
Like I said it's not my point to deny you the right to predict X or Y.
Like you said... We'll soon see.
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Transfers Summer 2021 - Transfer Thread
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By falsely claiming there was no concerted, reasonable effort to replace Bale, VDV & Eriksen?
Like I said it's not my point to deny you the right to predict X or Y.
Like you said... We'll soon see.
Agree. Very difficult to judge against different eras and positions but off the top of my head Mackay, Greaves, Jennings and Hoddle at the very least all above Kane.
Think of it another way.
If Kane goes we no longer need a back up for Kane.
If Kane goes we no longer need a back up for Kane.
Professionals innit. Linked with big moves away but continue to train and play for their current club
Do you think we adequately replaced any of them? Do you think we made a serious attempt to replace players like Berbatov and Carrick?
The one time I felt that we did a great job of replacing a player was bringing in Dembele for Modric, and even that took a while to become apparent.
Obviously I hope I'm wrong and somehow we improve as a team after selling Kane, but I really don't think we will bring in even a half-decent striker.
We don't dish out 200k contracts like the Chelseas when they have non-CL football though. That's the big difference.
Probably because they are not going to be our players
You need to make your mind up:
Are we:
- Talking about how well the signings panned out?
- Where they were last minute 'trolly-dashes'?
- Whether you rate the player?
- ...Or whether we tried to replace X or Y?
I countered your comments as per how they were originally stated.
If this is just gonna zoom out into a general "Spurs are shit at transfers" bash up; I'll bow out now, cos it's a never ending argument with lots of hits and misses over the last 20 years.
How'd we do replacing Gazza? Linekar? (Joking.... Let's not go there either)
Well given the least minute raid Fergie & Berba conspired to pull we weren't really left with much time do anything; but no we fell short of replacing him.
Can't recall the circumstances/incomings that summer tbh. Fill me in if you wish.
I guess the general counter point here (Berba, Bale.... Kane?) is that only certain clubs have the appeal to replace one superstar with another straight off the rack; regardless of whether they pull in a fat fee for the outgoing player. The rest of the food-chain are forced to try and 'rebuild' and replace their output in other ways (Even with Modric > Dembele - As you go on to mention; that takes time to bear fruit).
Touche.... This kinda feeds into a fair defense of the Bale situ tho'..... No, the 7 didn't immediately flourish, but Eriksen was part catalyst for getting back into the CL(*)... Alongside excellent purchases of long term contributors such as Hugo, Jan & Moussa.
(*Fair to say Lamela had his fans... As did Chadli too. It certainly didn't rank as a last minute troly dash either.)
Regardless of Kane.... If we don't buy an ST2 then would justify criticism.
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dusan scored aswell we should be all over him. i got a feeling if we dont get him this summer then hes beyond our reach
Well there’s an argument to be had disagree if you must but he’s not far off from Sir Greaves in terms of numbers
There's a lot more to football then just 'numbers' or stats.
There is no argument to be had, he is not even top 5 of our best ever players.
Report: Spurs tracking Premier League striker from another London club
Tottenham Hotspur are now tracking Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham, Duncan Castle has claimed on the Transfer Window Podcast. The journalist has claimed that Abraham is...
"He was on the six player shortlist for PL POY just two seasons ago. He’s a rolls Royce player, we need creativity. Won the league 5 of the last 7 season in Portugal, France, and England"
I bet he can't wait to board his Learjet and land at the gin palace.
You are wrong about the first part but then right about the 2nd part.
He is the best no doubt, no argument.
No.... He told them "not for sale"..... Must you repeat yourself over and over again.
Next we'll be back to the $5 Rolex shit all over again.
It seems Romans loans are still coming in, with no sign of ever being paid back, so ARE doped is a fair statement.
That aside, if you think that because a team is in the CL now they will be in perpetuity then it's not just me in lala land...
And accepting they will likely miss out at some point - where is it the huge disparity in income in their favour?
Bearing in mind we've set ourselves up to make money hand over fist and they're in a much smaller prehistoric stadium...
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