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comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 39 seconds ago
I said this in another article a while back, why aren't we looking at South American players? 4 of the best 5 current players in the league are South American, and our manager is South American which should give us an added benefit, no?
Just because Paulinho was a failure, and Lamela hasn't been the success we'd have hoped, doesn't mean others won't be, especially if they aren't coming from poor leagues.
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There's players all over the place, we're just either incapable of finding them or just too reluctant to move for them. If we're going to go for the youth route then surely we should be trying to find the best out there - affordability coming into play obviously?
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There are but you'd think having an Argentinian, Spanish-speaking manager it might open the door up for us in terms of overseas players and really it's not been like that at all in the almost 3 years he's been here.
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
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Yep. More hits than failures there.
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 36 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
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Yep. More hits than failures there.
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Although Dembele only had 1 very good season for us
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comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 23 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 36 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
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Yep. More hits than failures there.
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Although Dembele only had 1 very good season for us
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Same as Adebayor who all Spurs fans deride.
Interesting.
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 7 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
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Yep. More hits than failures there.
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Hmmmmm
Most we didnt know what to do with properly............Siggs....Demps....Holtby certainly.......as for Adebayor...whatever caant sanctioned that should have been put down
Lloris defo
Verts & Dembers have taken 2/3 years to come good
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Siggs was good, we just didn't play to his best strengths.
Dempsey was a decent squad player I guess.
Adebayor was rubbish but can be forgiven for signing after a successful loan spell. Mistake was not getting rid sooner.
Only real failures there are Holtby and Adebayor.
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comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
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Hmmmmm
Most we didnt know what to do with properly............Siggs....Demps....Holtby certainly.......as for Adebayor...whatever caant sanctioned that should have been put down
Lloris defo
Verts & Dembers have taken 2/3 years to come good
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Verts came good straight away... was in team of the year his first season
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comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmmmmm
Most we didnt know what to do with properly............Siggs....Demps....Holtby certainly.......as for Adebayor...whatever caant sanctioned that should have been put down
Lloris defo
Verts & Dembers have taken 2/3 years to come good
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Verts came good straight away... was in team of the year his first season
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Fair point.....lost in the midsts of time.........he did turn into a strutting ponce after that tho
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Yea season 2 & 3 weren't great
Tbh only got team of the season due to the goals he scored
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 20 minutes ago
How do we define failure though?
Considering we identified those players as targets and didn't utilise them effectively.
I would argue only 2/3 of those were 'successful'.
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Many of us wished we had still hung on to Siggy. Nobody is saying the same for Holtby and Adebayor.
I'm going for that definition of success/failure for now.
Yesterday afternoon I dropped my 5 year old son and his mother off at a kids party and settled down to watch the match. Half way through the 2nd half safe in the knowledge that we weren't going to score I went back to get him (early) as the prospect of watching him terrorising other children on the bouncy castle was better than watching another minute of the boring tedious dross we are currently dishing up.
Mind you, you'd have to remember Holtby first.
This season I think our squad is poo.
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but its virtually the same squad as last season - with some additions...
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I thought Sissoko did ok yesterday, we carried more threat with him than without.
comment by Harrys accountant (U1141)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
I thought Sissoko did ok yesterday, we carried more threat with him than without.
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posted on 12/12/16
comment by Ledders The King - Football Manager Icon (U20121)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 39 seconds ago
I said this in another article a while back, why aren't we looking at South American players? 4 of the best 5 current players in the league are South American, and our manager is South American which should give us an added benefit, no?
Just because Paulinho was a failure, and Lamela hasn't been the success we'd have hoped, doesn't mean others won't be, especially if they aren't coming from poor leagues.
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There's players all over the place, we're just either incapable of finding them or just too reluctant to move for them. If we're going to go for the youth route then surely we should be trying to find the best out there - affordability coming into play obviously?
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There are but you'd think having an Argentinian, Spanish-speaking manager it might open the door up for us in terms of overseas players and really it's not been like that at all in the almost 3 years he's been here.
posted on 12/12/16
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
posted on 12/12/16
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
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12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
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Yep. More hits than failures there.
posted on 12/12/16
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 36 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Although Dembele only had 1 very good season for us
posted on 12/12/16
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posted on 12/12/16
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 23 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 36 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Although Dembele only had 1 very good season for us
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Same as Adebayor who all Spurs fans deride.
Interesting.
posted on 12/12/16
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 7 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmmmmm
Most we didnt know what to do with properly............Siggs....Demps....Holtby certainly.......as for Adebayor...whatever caant sanctioned that should have been put down
Lloris defo
Verts & Dembers have taken 2/3 years to come good
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Siggs was good, we just didn't play to his best strengths.
Dempsey was a decent squad player I guess.
Adebayor was rubbish but can be forgiven for signing after a successful loan spell. Mistake was not getting rid sooner.
Only real failures there are Holtby and Adebayor.
posted on 12/12/16
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posted on 12/12/16
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmmmmm
Most we didnt know what to do with properly............Siggs....Demps....Holtby certainly.......as for Adebayor...whatever caant sanctioned that should have been put down
Lloris defo
Verts & Dembers have taken 2/3 years to come good
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Verts came good straight away... was in team of the year his first season
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posted on 12/12/16
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 48 seconds ago
comment by Hengy (U9129)
posted 55 seconds ago
comment by Spurtle2 (U1608)
posted 1 minute ago
Did we sign Vertonghen and Lloris in the same transfer window?
----------------------------------------------------------------------
12/13 was pretty decent
Verts
Lloris
Dembele
Adebayor
Siggs
Dempsey
Holtby
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. More hits than failures there.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hmmmmm
Most we didnt know what to do with properly............Siggs....Demps....Holtby certainly.......as for Adebayor...whatever caant sanctioned that should have been put down
Lloris defo
Verts & Dembers have taken 2/3 years to come good
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Verts came good straight away... was in team of the year his first season
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Fair point.....lost in the midsts of time.........he did turn into a strutting ponce after that tho
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Yea season 2 & 3 weren't great
Tbh only got team of the season due to the goals he scored
posted on 12/12/16
comment by Galvz (U10415)
posted 20 minutes ago
How do we define failure though?
Considering we identified those players as targets and didn't utilise them effectively.
I would argue only 2/3 of those were 'successful'.
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Many of us wished we had still hung on to Siggy. Nobody is saying the same for Holtby and Adebayor.
I'm going for that definition of success/failure for now.
posted on 12/12/16
Yesterday afternoon I dropped my 5 year old son and his mother off at a kids party and settled down to watch the match. Half way through the 2nd half safe in the knowledge that we weren't going to score I went back to get him (early) as the prospect of watching him terrorising other children on the bouncy castle was better than watching another minute of the boring tedious dross we are currently dishing up.
posted on 12/12/16
Mind you, you'd have to remember Holtby first.
posted on 12/12/16
This season I think our squad is poo.
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but its virtually the same squad as last season - with some additions...
posted on 12/12/16
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posted on 12/12/16
I thought Sissoko did ok yesterday, we carried more threat with him than without.
posted on 12/12/16
comment by Harrys accountant (U1141)
posted 3 hours, 11 minutes ago
I thought Sissoko did ok yesterday, we carried more threat with him than without.
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He offers pace and power. Basic attributes for a footballer.
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