I was so excited when we signed all those players in the summer and genuinely believed we had done good business. Well 12 Premier Games in and only Chriches and Capoue have looked decent players. I had high hopes for Paulinho but he looks very average if I am honest. Soldado just looks awful, yes he has had poor service but still he offers nothing. Did we sign too many new players and try and change the team to much in one go, or did we buy a bunch of expensive flops. Lamela I will give the benefit of the doubt as he is only 21yo, but for the money paid you would think he would hit the ground money, clearly we overpaid but he may come good.
Maybe it’s AVB and he is just not a good manager, how did we ever lose at home to West Ham. The season before AVB Adebayor scored 17 goals and 12 assists, then AVB arrives and Adebayor is rubbish and is now frozen out. He don’t seem to be a good man manager and player do not seem to like him
Poor Business/Poor Manager
posted on 25/11/13
summat to do with being offensive to one of the boards/directors daughters....
called her a brass/stripper or summat....its also rumoured that ade being marginalized and benny being loaned out is also for discipline breaches.....
posted on 25/11/13
This is what Baldini did at Roma by the way. It's nothing new. He bought a lot of duds. The Lamela buy worked at the time but it's clearly not working this time around. The whole DOF thing just doesn't make sense to me anyway. It's convenient for the chairman to not have to get involved but you'd hope that these were the manager's purchases rather than the DOFs but they're clearly not. The Lamela buy is just too coincidental.
posted on 25/11/13
refusing to catch the bus from the training ground for home games
posted on 25/11/13
I have said many, many times until Spurs get the defence sorted they will never ever improve. A few clean sheets this season have masked the obvious. Our best central defender is playing at left back, and our worse is is still the captain and playing. Until AVB gets the back sorted, it will be win one, lose one (sometimes heavily) as yesterday.
posted on 25/11/13
I have said many, many times until Spurs get the defence sorted they will never ever improve.
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our defence looked SUPERB against everton. about as solid as ive seen it. ever since it has been terrible. what on earth happened ?
posted on 25/11/13
Ade I can understand as he's never had the best attitude. Shame if true about the others.
posted on 25/11/13
Yeah caulker was sold in under 48 hours after making a disparaging remark to joe lewis daughter well about her not to her.
benny and ade are sidelined for disciplinary breaches and nothing to do with avb. The issues with the three players are above him.
avb just manages the players (has little say in the transfers)
Baldini/sherwood can negotiate deals. And is the link before...levy, collecott or cullen sign the transfer paperwork.
our transfers are discussed almost by commitee. Baldini,sherwood,scouts,advisors levy.
we did go through last season with just a handful of scouts which was very amusing considering league one sides would of had more.
all the tranfers are good ones apart from bale and modric . With them we would be title contenders. Just poor tactics applied.
posted on 25/11/13
You are one of the best teams in the Europa league, maybe another good win there will bring back some balance in the team. Good luck.
posted on 25/11/13
These are very good players who are maybe taking time to fully adjust to the PL, but also do not appear to be suited to the formations / tactics being employed.
Soldado for example is a clinical box finisher (think Lineker?), and is being totally wasted with this 4231 formation, he simply is too isolated and has no service.
AVB better scrap this formation that is clearly not working with these players and find one that does, or he will find himself with the sack sooner or later.
posted on 25/11/13
Wldnt of worked sheriff.....those players wldnt have come anyway......
We spent too much too quickly......unfortunately......unless you are a well established elite CL team....
Or can afford to out bid ur rivals fee and salary wise.....the top top marque players will still be out of reach....
We have overspent on unproven AND untested in the prem youngsters and overseas players.....!!!!