Not sure why everyone is shocked by the lack of activity in the window,
This transfer window, with all the cash being spent, was already Levy's worst nightmare with the stadium costs hanging over him. The Neymar deal has now made the situation even worse. Not only are the likes are Barca gonna be running around with huge amounts of cash (Kane ??) but if they sign coutinho, would Liverpool for example make a massive offer/huge wages for Dele (a player they almost signed before we stepped in ??? What the Neymar deal illustrates again is how grossly we are underpaying our best players. I fear the days of last minute deals are long gone, Look at Arsenal for example, wanting to keep their best players through contract expiration because its better to try and win while they have them that sell to rival where the funds don't actually buy you very much.......Time for Spurs to wake up on a number of levels and get with the program, otherwise the progress of the last 2 years will have all been in vain. Whether we buy new players or secure our best ones on more lucrative deals, we need to do something, relying on our academy is naive & based on the events of the past couple of months has become quickly outdated. While we appear to be winning the moral argument re young players & getting plaudits for it, the landscape is changing faster than anyone could have ever imagined & the game is in the hands of players & agents like never before...... scary times for us
I could quite easily see Chelsea/City/Arsenal/United paying 35-40mln for Barkley days before window closes as they understand the need for squad depth and need to get their quota's of English players up....... all while Levy will be waiting checkbook in hand for the last hour with a 15mln bid
I'm struggling to care either way with Barkley (especially for the money they want) but wherever he ends up he will want a regular start. Can any of the top 6 offer him that?
diamondlights..........................................its not that we are not paying our players enough, it is that the market has gone mad and even average players are going for ridiculous amounts of money. I mean, Siggy, £50m.............................
He is a good player, but £50m???? I was amazed we got £50m for Walker to be honest.
Something is going to happen soon in football, certain clubs are spending far more than they are earning, in fact I did hear some clubs are have already spent this coming seasons TV money in advance. Absolute madness.
Yes I would like two or three players to come in to bolster the squad, however we have a VERY STRONG first eleven and I guess some players would want a guarantee of a game every week, which is not really possible. This may be the major stumbling block to signing the right quality for us.
It is easy to be frustrated, but it is what it is.
I don't think Barkley's demands are of interest to anyone. He has played his hand badly. He should have signed the deal on offer at Everton, knuckled down and impressed Koeman.. His career is over there now
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 5 minutes ago
I don't think Barkley's demands are of interest to anyone. He has played his hand badly. He should have signed the deal on offer at Everton, knuckled down and impressed Koeman.. His career is over there now
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Why would he do that if he wanted out?
In March I posted that I'd like to see Bertrand, Drinkwater, Redmond and another striker brought in. We'll now the media are spouting chelsea might be after drinkwater. I must really know my stuff as everyone else laughed at the suggestion of drinkwater. I think he is an alternative to both dier and wanyama. Think they'd all eagerly join the club too. And be OK with squad rotation.
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 16 seconds ago
In March I posted that I'd like to see Bertrand, Drinkwater, Redmond and another striker brought in. We'll now the media are spouting chelsea might be after drinkwater. I must really know my stuff as everyone else laughed at the suggestion of drinkwater. I think he is an alternative to both dier and wanyama. Think they'd all eagerly join the club too. And be OK with squad rotation.
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Surely having Dier & Waynama we don't need a alternative. Its Dembele that we ( might ) need a alternative although i suspect that's Winks.
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
In March I posted that I'd like to see Bertrand, Drinkwater, Redmond and another striker brought in. We'll now the media are spouting chelsea might be after drinkwater. I must really know my stuff as everyone else laughed at the suggestion of drinkwater. I think he is an alternative to both dier and wanyama. Think they'd all eagerly join the club too. And be OK with squad rotation.
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Everyone did laugh and quite rightly, he's bang average and Chelsea are in need of some homegrown players having lost Terry, Ake and Begovic. No different to when they wanted to buy Ruddy a few years ago or when City bought Rodwell and Sinclair as well as keeping Richard Wright on the books for 4 years.
Well how about you suggest someone who would be happy to rotate in and out of the first team. Also, Drinkwater did alright as part of the team that won the league. Bang average player who has been called up to England team and won the Prem. Yeah, laughable.
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 3 seconds ago
Well how about you suggest someone who would be happy to rotate in and out of the first team. Also, Drinkwater did alright as part of the team that won the league. Bang average player who has been called up to England team and won the Prem. Yeah, laughable.
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He also did awful a year later where his team finished 12th and then dropped from England side
So how many games do you think Drinkwater will start at Chelsea?
He is a good player but not top notch, cannot see him anywhere else but the bench or the occasional game in the Carabao or whatever it is now called cup!
Drinwkater is a good player, but he won't get in the Chelsea first team, that's for sure.
He'd be a good option for us, but a squad player. We need to be adding competition and improving the first 11 and I'm not quite sure he'd do that.
Not laughing at the suggestion though! (And I would take Vardy).
Both Harry Redknapp & Damien Commolli have said in the last few days that trying to improve the team is an extremely difficult task.
Damien Comolli has defended Tottenham's lack of signings this summer, telling talkSPORT it’s ‘an almost impossible task’ to improve their young and talented first XI.
Last season’s Premier League runners-up are yet to spend a penny in the summer transfer window, while all their closest rivals have strengthened.
Many have questioned why Spurs have been so slow in building on their impressive squad this summer, while many fans have voiced their frustrations as other clubs have spent millions in the market.
But former director of football Comolli believes manager Mauricio Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy deserve a lot of credit for building such a special squad and that it was always going to an extremely difficult task to make them better.
“I think Tottenham deserve so much respect for what they’ve achieved,” the Frenchman told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino are working with less money than everybody else and working on a lot smaller wage bill than any of the Premier League’s top five - we need to give them some credit.
“I’m sure they know exactly where they’re going [in the transfer market].
“The thing with Spurs which is extremely difficult for them to deal with and is probably very frustrating, is that if you take that first XI, it’s so difficult to make it better because every player is fantastic, every player is young…
“There’s was the second youngest team in Europe among the top five teams last season and yet they finished second in the Premier League which is the most competitive league.
“So to reinforce that team with players who are as good or better than those players, and as young too, it’s almost an impossible task.
“They’re probably looking for young and up-and-coming players to come an compliment that team, probably two or three and I’m sure they’ll achieve that in the end.
“It must be so difficult to find reinforcements for that team.
“Pound-for-pound, every player could play for almost every club in the world, that’s how good that starting XI is.”
Harry Redknapp claims Tottenham are struggling to make new signings as there is nobody out there who can improve their team.
The former Spurs boss believes Mauricio Pochettino’s starting XI is the best in the country and he reckons any potential recruits know they are likely to be back-up players.
Pochettino is the only Premier League boss yet to add to his squad this summer and Redknapp has told talkSPORT: “The problem for Tottenham is finding anybody better.
“Poch said the other day he tried to sign [Alvaro] Morata and he said: ‘well, where am I going to play? You have got Harry Kane’.
“It is a difficult team to get into. They are looking for some reserve players really.
“Their starting 11 is the best in the country. I still wouldn’t swap them for anyone else.”
Barkley cannot pass a medical at the moment , he has only just had a groin op and will not be fit to train foe at least 2 weeks
If people thinks we should buy players then who can we buy who is happy to be a bench warmer because I do not think wee can buy a player with our resources that would get in our first eleven
Afternoon Genius
I didn't read your last comment before I posted mine , I heard Redknapp on the radio today but I hadn't heard Comoli
Btw we could up grade on Trippier imo but having a great first X1 doesn't mean you shouldn't sign players.
Barkley is the one for me for us to sign anyone else is a bonus
Hengy
What sort of training , would he be able to pass a medical...............
comment by squid ..Glass half FULL.. (U1125)
posted 43 seconds ago
Hengy
What sort of training , would he be able to pass a medical...............
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Not overly sure just see a report saying he's back. Probably some light sessions I'd imagine.
I'm sure he'd pass a medical with the acknowledgement of the surgery being successful
Hengy I do agree with you and I do believe we will sign players its just that I have no idea who they will be but I do think Barkley is firmly on the radar
Hi squid...........................................How are you doing?
Hengy.............................No one is saying don't buy players. What they are saying is that it is difficult. Better players want to play and if they think they can't at Spurs, then do we want them anyway?
What would be nice is a player who says something like, I might start off as a squad player, but I will work hard to make it very difficult not to select me!
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 39 minutes ago
Well how about you suggest someone who would be happy to rotate in and out of the first team. Also, Drinkwater did alright as part of the team that won the league. Bang average player who has been called up to England team and won the Prem. Yeah, laughable.
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Ok,
Tielemans... oh wait, we were snoozing and someone else signed him.
Dahoud.... oh wait, we were snoozing and someone else bought him.
Goretzka... oh wait, he's got a year left on his Schalke deal and we're snoozing instead of bidding for him.
The likes of Livermore, Shelvey and Delph have won England caps recently which tell me it's not the hardest of tasks. As for being part of a winning team and getting capped, Cleverly did that too, would you take him?
Ha ha
comment by GeniusGreaves Optimist Supreme (U1302)
posted 18 minutes ago
Both Harry Redknapp & Damien Commolli have said in the last few days that trying to improve the team is an extremely difficult task.
Damien Comolli has defended Tottenham's lack of signings this summer, telling talkSPORT it’s ‘an almost impossible task’ to improve their young and talented first XI.
Last season’s Premier League runners-up are yet to spend a penny in the summer transfer window, while all their closest rivals have strengthened.
Many have questioned why Spurs have been so slow in building on their impressive squad this summer, while many fans have voiced their frustrations as other clubs have spent millions in the market.
But former director of football Comolli believes manager Mauricio Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy deserve a lot of credit for building such a special squad and that it was always going to an extremely difficult task to make them better.
“I think Tottenham deserve so much respect for what they’ve achieved,” the Frenchman told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino are working with less money than everybody else and working on a lot smaller wage bill than any of the Premier League’s top five - we need to give them some credit.
“I’m sure they know exactly where they’re going [in the transfer market].
“The thing with Spurs which is extremely difficult for them to deal with and is probably very frustrating, is that if you take that first XI, it’s so difficult to make it better because every player is fantastic, every player is young…
“There’s was the second youngest team in Europe among the top five teams last season and yet they finished second in the Premier League which is the most competitive league.
“So to reinforce that team with players who are as good or better than those players, and as young too, it’s almost an impossible task.
“They’re probably looking for young and up-and-coming players to come an compliment that team, probably two or three and I’m sure they’ll achieve that in the end.
“It must be so difficult to find reinforcements for that team.
“Pound-for-pound, every player could play for almost every club in the world, that’s how good that starting XI is.”
Harry Redknapp claims Tottenham are struggling to make new signings as there is nobody out there who can improve their team.
The former Spurs boss believes Mauricio Pochettino’s starting XI is the best in the country and he reckons any potential recruits know they are likely to be back-up players.
Pochettino is the only Premier League boss yet to add to his squad this summer and Redknapp has told talkSPORT: “The problem for Tottenham is finding anybody better.
“Poch said the other day he tried to sign [Alvaro] Morata and he said: ‘well, where am I going to play? You have got Harry Kane’.
“It is a difficult team to get into. They are looking for some reserve players really.
“Their starting 11 is the best in the country. I still wouldn’t swap them for anyone else.”
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Football is a squad game, only have to look at Barca and Real Madrid last season for a clear example of the difference.
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posted on 3/8/17
Not sure why everyone is shocked by the lack of activity in the window,
posted on 3/8/17
This transfer window, with all the cash being spent, was already Levy's worst nightmare with the stadium costs hanging over him. The Neymar deal has now made the situation even worse. Not only are the likes are Barca gonna be running around with huge amounts of cash (Kane ??) but if they sign coutinho, would Liverpool for example make a massive offer/huge wages for Dele (a player they almost signed before we stepped in ??? What the Neymar deal illustrates again is how grossly we are underpaying our best players. I fear the days of last minute deals are long gone, Look at Arsenal for example, wanting to keep their best players through contract expiration because its better to try and win while they have them that sell to rival where the funds don't actually buy you very much.......Time for Spurs to wake up on a number of levels and get with the program, otherwise the progress of the last 2 years will have all been in vain. Whether we buy new players or secure our best ones on more lucrative deals, we need to do something, relying on our academy is naive & based on the events of the past couple of months has become quickly outdated. While we appear to be winning the moral argument re young players & getting plaudits for it, the landscape is changing faster than anyone could have ever imagined & the game is in the hands of players & agents like never before...... scary times for us
posted on 3/8/17
I could quite easily see Chelsea/City/Arsenal/United paying 35-40mln for Barkley days before window closes as they understand the need for squad depth and need to get their quota's of English players up....... all while Levy will be waiting checkbook in hand for the last hour with a 15mln bid
posted on 3/8/17
I'm struggling to care either way with Barkley (especially for the money they want) but wherever he ends up he will want a regular start. Can any of the top 6 offer him that?
posted on 3/8/17
diamondlights..........................................its not that we are not paying our players enough, it is that the market has gone mad and even average players are going for ridiculous amounts of money. I mean, Siggy, £50m.............................
He is a good player, but £50m???? I was amazed we got £50m for Walker to be honest.
Something is going to happen soon in football, certain clubs are spending far more than they are earning, in fact I did hear some clubs are have already spent this coming seasons TV money in advance. Absolute madness.
Yes I would like two or three players to come in to bolster the squad, however we have a VERY STRONG first eleven and I guess some players would want a guarantee of a game every week, which is not really possible. This may be the major stumbling block to signing the right quality for us.
It is easy to be frustrated, but it is what it is.
posted on 3/8/17
I don't think Barkley's demands are of interest to anyone. He has played his hand badly. He should have signed the deal on offer at Everton, knuckled down and impressed Koeman.. His career is over there now
posted on 3/8/17
comment by Diamondlights (U20501)
posted 5 minutes ago
I don't think Barkley's demands are of interest to anyone. He has played his hand badly. He should have signed the deal on offer at Everton, knuckled down and impressed Koeman.. His career is over there now
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Why would he do that if he wanted out?
posted on 3/8/17
In March I posted that I'd like to see Bertrand, Drinkwater, Redmond and another striker brought in. We'll now the media are spouting chelsea might be after drinkwater. I must really know my stuff as everyone else laughed at the suggestion of drinkwater. I think he is an alternative to both dier and wanyama. Think they'd all eagerly join the club too. And be OK with squad rotation.
posted on 3/8/17
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 16 seconds ago
In March I posted that I'd like to see Bertrand, Drinkwater, Redmond and another striker brought in. We'll now the media are spouting chelsea might be after drinkwater. I must really know my stuff as everyone else laughed at the suggestion of drinkwater. I think he is an alternative to both dier and wanyama. Think they'd all eagerly join the club too. And be OK with squad rotation.
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Surely having Dier & Waynama we don't need a alternative. Its Dembele that we ( might ) need a alternative although i suspect that's Winks.
posted on 3/8/17
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 1 hour, 35 minutes ago
In March I posted that I'd like to see Bertrand, Drinkwater, Redmond and another striker brought in. We'll now the media are spouting chelsea might be after drinkwater. I must really know my stuff as everyone else laughed at the suggestion of drinkwater. I think he is an alternative to both dier and wanyama. Think they'd all eagerly join the club too. And be OK with squad rotation.
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Everyone did laugh and quite rightly, he's bang average and Chelsea are in need of some homegrown players having lost Terry, Ake and Begovic. No different to when they wanted to buy Ruddy a few years ago or when City bought Rodwell and Sinclair as well as keeping Richard Wright on the books for 4 years.
posted on 3/8/17
Well how about you suggest someone who would be happy to rotate in and out of the first team. Also, Drinkwater did alright as part of the team that won the league. Bang average player who has been called up to England team and won the Prem. Yeah, laughable.
posted on 3/8/17
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 3 seconds ago
Well how about you suggest someone who would be happy to rotate in and out of the first team. Also, Drinkwater did alright as part of the team that won the league. Bang average player who has been called up to England team and won the Prem. Yeah, laughable.
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He also did awful a year later where his team finished 12th and then dropped from England side
posted on 3/8/17
So how many games do you think Drinkwater will start at Chelsea?
He is a good player but not top notch, cannot see him anywhere else but the bench or the occasional game in the Carabao or whatever it is now called cup!
posted on 3/8/17
Drinwkater is a good player, but he won't get in the Chelsea first team, that's for sure.
He'd be a good option for us, but a squad player. We need to be adding competition and improving the first 11 and I'm not quite sure he'd do that.
Not laughing at the suggestion though! (And I would take Vardy).
posted on 3/8/17
Both Harry Redknapp & Damien Commolli have said in the last few days that trying to improve the team is an extremely difficult task.
Damien Comolli has defended Tottenham's lack of signings this summer, telling talkSPORT it’s ‘an almost impossible task’ to improve their young and talented first XI.
Last season’s Premier League runners-up are yet to spend a penny in the summer transfer window, while all their closest rivals have strengthened.
Many have questioned why Spurs have been so slow in building on their impressive squad this summer, while many fans have voiced their frustrations as other clubs have spent millions in the market.
But former director of football Comolli believes manager Mauricio Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy deserve a lot of credit for building such a special squad and that it was always going to an extremely difficult task to make them better.
“I think Tottenham deserve so much respect for what they’ve achieved,” the Frenchman told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino are working with less money than everybody else and working on a lot smaller wage bill than any of the Premier League’s top five - we need to give them some credit.
“I’m sure they know exactly where they’re going [in the transfer market].
“The thing with Spurs which is extremely difficult for them to deal with and is probably very frustrating, is that if you take that first XI, it’s so difficult to make it better because every player is fantastic, every player is young…
“There’s was the second youngest team in Europe among the top five teams last season and yet they finished second in the Premier League which is the most competitive league.
“So to reinforce that team with players who are as good or better than those players, and as young too, it’s almost an impossible task.
“They’re probably looking for young and up-and-coming players to come an compliment that team, probably two or three and I’m sure they’ll achieve that in the end.
“It must be so difficult to find reinforcements for that team.
“Pound-for-pound, every player could play for almost every club in the world, that’s how good that starting XI is.”
Harry Redknapp claims Tottenham are struggling to make new signings as there is nobody out there who can improve their team.
The former Spurs boss believes Mauricio Pochettino’s starting XI is the best in the country and he reckons any potential recruits know they are likely to be back-up players.
Pochettino is the only Premier League boss yet to add to his squad this summer and Redknapp has told talkSPORT: “The problem for Tottenham is finding anybody better.
“Poch said the other day he tried to sign [Alvaro] Morata and he said: ‘well, where am I going to play? You have got Harry Kane’.
“It is a difficult team to get into. They are looking for some reserve players really.
“Their starting 11 is the best in the country. I still wouldn’t swap them for anyone else.”
posted on 3/8/17
Barkley cannot pass a medical at the moment , he has only just had a groin op and will not be fit to train foe at least 2 weeks
If people thinks we should buy players then who can we buy who is happy to be a bench warmer because I do not think wee can buy a player with our resources that would get in our first eleven
posted on 3/8/17
Barkley is back training
posted on 3/8/17
Afternoon Genius
I didn't read your last comment before I posted mine , I heard Redknapp on the radio today but I hadn't heard Comoli
posted on 3/8/17
Btw we could up grade on Trippier imo but having a great first X1 doesn't mean you shouldn't sign players.
Barkley is the one for me for us to sign anyone else is a bonus
posted on 3/8/17
Hengy
What sort of training , would he be able to pass a medical...............
posted on 3/8/17
comment by squid ..Glass half FULL.. (U1125)
posted 43 seconds ago
Hengy
What sort of training , would he be able to pass a medical...............
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Not overly sure just see a report saying he's back. Probably some light sessions I'd imagine.
I'm sure he'd pass a medical with the acknowledgement of the surgery being successful
posted on 3/8/17
Hengy I do agree with you and I do believe we will sign players its just that I have no idea who they will be but I do think Barkley is firmly on the radar
posted on 3/8/17
Hi squid...........................................How are you doing?
Hengy.............................No one is saying don't buy players. What they are saying is that it is difficult. Better players want to play and if they think they can't at Spurs, then do we want them anyway?
What would be nice is a player who says something like, I might start off as a squad player, but I will work hard to make it very difficult not to select me!
posted on 3/8/17
comment by Realistic_Spurs_Fan (U7921)
posted 39 minutes ago
Well how about you suggest someone who would be happy to rotate in and out of the first team. Also, Drinkwater did alright as part of the team that won the league. Bang average player who has been called up to England team and won the Prem. Yeah, laughable.
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Ok,
Tielemans... oh wait, we were snoozing and someone else signed him.
Dahoud.... oh wait, we were snoozing and someone else bought him.
Goretzka... oh wait, he's got a year left on his Schalke deal and we're snoozing instead of bidding for him.
The likes of Livermore, Shelvey and Delph have won England caps recently which tell me it's not the hardest of tasks. As for being part of a winning team and getting capped, Cleverly did that too, would you take him?
Ha ha
posted on 3/8/17
comment by GeniusGreaves Optimist Supreme (U1302)
posted 18 minutes ago
Both Harry Redknapp & Damien Commolli have said in the last few days that trying to improve the team is an extremely difficult task.
Damien Comolli has defended Tottenham's lack of signings this summer, telling talkSPORT it’s ‘an almost impossible task’ to improve their young and talented first XI.
Last season’s Premier League runners-up are yet to spend a penny in the summer transfer window, while all their closest rivals have strengthened.
Many have questioned why Spurs have been so slow in building on their impressive squad this summer, while many fans have voiced their frustrations as other clubs have spent millions in the market.
But former director of football Comolli believes manager Mauricio Pochettino and chairman Daniel Levy deserve a lot of credit for building such a special squad and that it was always going to an extremely difficult task to make them better.
“I think Tottenham deserve so much respect for what they’ve achieved,” the Frenchman told the Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast.
“Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino are working with less money than everybody else and working on a lot smaller wage bill than any of the Premier League’s top five - we need to give them some credit.
“I’m sure they know exactly where they’re going [in the transfer market].
“The thing with Spurs which is extremely difficult for them to deal with and is probably very frustrating, is that if you take that first XI, it’s so difficult to make it better because every player is fantastic, every player is young…
“There’s was the second youngest team in Europe among the top five teams last season and yet they finished second in the Premier League which is the most competitive league.
“So to reinforce that team with players who are as good or better than those players, and as young too, it’s almost an impossible task.
“They’re probably looking for young and up-and-coming players to come an compliment that team, probably two or three and I’m sure they’ll achieve that in the end.
“It must be so difficult to find reinforcements for that team.
“Pound-for-pound, every player could play for almost every club in the world, that’s how good that starting XI is.”
Harry Redknapp claims Tottenham are struggling to make new signings as there is nobody out there who can improve their team.
The former Spurs boss believes Mauricio Pochettino’s starting XI is the best in the country and he reckons any potential recruits know they are likely to be back-up players.
Pochettino is the only Premier League boss yet to add to his squad this summer and Redknapp has told talkSPORT: “The problem for Tottenham is finding anybody better.
“Poch said the other day he tried to sign [Alvaro] Morata and he said: ‘well, where am I going to play? You have got Harry Kane’.
“It is a difficult team to get into. They are looking for some reserve players really.
“Their starting 11 is the best in the country. I still wouldn’t swap them for anyone else.”
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Football is a squad game, only have to look at Barca and Real Madrid last season for a clear example of the difference.
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