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We never got a 250m warchest when we won all those trophies. We sold our best player for 145m and reinvested that in 3 or 4 players.
Looks like you will need to do the same now.
comment by Mellor, Lovely Cushioned Header, FOR GERRARD, OOOOOOHHHHHH YAAAAAAA BEEEAAAUUUTTTYYYYY!!!!!!!!! (U1859)
posted 58 seconds ago
We never got a 250m warchest when we won all those trophies. We sold our best player for 145m and reinvested that in 3 or 4 players.
Looks like you will need to do the same now.
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issue is
1. spurs in the transfer market
2. not sure anyone will pay 145m+ for Kane
Also, I think if you are given 100 bits of info from Hercules and find none of them come true, is it not normal to maybe question his validity a little? If you have to say take it with a pinch of salt, or have to caveat every statement with "this probably won't happen" then I can say that I've heard through the grapevine that, with absolutely no verified knowledge, we're signing Messi, Ronaldo, Pele and George Best and you're not allowed to question it.
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 50 minutes ago
I am sure you can trawl through Don's history and find him moaning about ticket prices, about not putting any more money in to the club....and now he's promoting £250m spend after the club have sustained £150m losses from the pandemic.
Its all about spending money but where this money comes from in Don's mind can only be the owners pockets......why in 20 years of ENIC has itnot sunk in that they are an investment company and that really there are only a tiny handful of clubs whose billionaire owners stump up anything of their own money. The Mansors and the Abramovich's of this world are the exception.
Spurs like the 95% of the rest of clubs out there and are run as a business.
Since the stadium build we have spent. The disruption through that process obviously hit hard and at a bad time considering we were on the up.
And actually when you look at it, 4th place, UCL final and then a summer and January window where we spent £160m, one would expect us to be much better placed than where we are. Many were excited by our signings and even last summer we seemed to address many of the deficiencies.
It is not the total shiiit show that some are painting it but the situation does highlight that some areas of our club need looking at, in terms of player identification, recruitment, squad management. Levy probably does have too much sway in these areas which are not his forte. I think we need to return to a proper DoF because it has been clear for a long time that the signings are not always (sometimes not at all) the managers decision, so the decision maker needs to be highly knowledgeable.
But enough with the net spend BS. Surely we've move on from that and have outspent most clubs in the last 2 years.
To me it seems like some have completely lost the ability to enjoy some of the simple pleasures of watching football. Spurs have been underachieving for decades. This is not a new phenomenon. We have virtually no right to demand success, but now the demand for success, to spend £250m to compete is just the vulgar whinging of modern day fans. Go watch your local team if you cannot grasp the realities of premier league football. Get in touch with why you love football, why you'd play for free for Spurs, why if you walked through the park and someones playing footy it always grabs your attention, if the ball rolled your way, how you'd ping it back to them thinking you're Hoddle. Just fecking enjoy something instead of moaning about every aspect of the clubs and their ownership.....an ownership that had delivered much more consistent progress and achievement than any other comparable club over ENICs tenure
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I just don`t get what supporters get out of moaning all the time.
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 29 minutes ago
Lamela joining Napoli in the summer
Coco
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I will miss him, if only for his Rabona`s once every five years.
comment by Everywhere you go always take Lamela with you. (U7905)
posted 19 minutes ago
I started following that spurs community site a year or two ago. It's a very odd site. The majority of them rated Mourinho and still wanted him to stay in Jan/Feb
=====================
Is it run by Sandy by any chance
ITK my ****!
None of the anymore than someone like A Gold.
The rest are speculators and rumour mongerers.
I use some of the, for bit of info but only A Gold I trust.
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 4 minutes ago
I am sure you can trawl through Don's history and find him moaning about ticket prices, about not putting any more money in to the club....and now he's promoting £250m spend after the club have sustained £150m losses from the pandemic.
Its all about spending money but where this money comes from in Don's mind can only be the owners pockets......why in 20 years of ENIC has itnot sunk in that they are an investment company and that really there are only a tiny handful of clubs whose billionaire owners stump up anything of their own money. The Mansors and the Abramovich's of this world are the exception.
Spurs like the 95% of the rest of clubs out there and are run as a business.
Since the stadium build we have spent. The disruption through that process obviously hit hard and at a bad time considering we were on the up.
And actually when you look at it, 4th place, UCL final and then a summer and January window where we spent £160m, one would expect us to be much better placed than where we are. Many were excited by our signings and even last summer we seemed to address many of the deficiencies.
It is not the total shiiit show that some are painting it but the situation does highlight that some areas of our club need looking at, in terms of player identification, recruitment, squad management. Levy probably does have too much sway in these areas which are not his forte. I think we need to return to a proper DoF because it has been clear for a long time that the signings are not always (sometimes not at all) the managers decision, so the decision maker needs to be highly knowledgeable.
But enough with the net spend BS. Surely we've move on from that and have outspent most clubs in the last 2 years.
To me it seems like some have completely lost the ability to enjoy some of the simple pleasures of watching football. Spurs have been underachieving for decades. This is not a new phenomenon. We have virtually no right to demand success, but now the demand for success, to spend £250m to compete is just the vulgar whinging of modern day fans. Go watch your local team if you cannot grasp the realities of premier league football. Get in touch with why you love football, why you'd play for free for Spurs, why if you walked through the park and someones playing footy it always grabs your attention, if the ball rolled your way, how you'd ping it back to them thinking you're Hoddle. Just fecking enjoy something instead of moaning about every aspect of the clubs and their ownership.....an ownership that had delivered much more consistent progress and achievement than any other comparable club over ENICs tenure
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And what have we achieved under this lot ? You seem to spend your whole existence on here trying to defend Levy and the board, yet you never come up with anything remotely convincing apart “well they done great to get us a stadium “ etc. Look at Leicester’s owners who have managed to spearhead a club to rise from literally nothing to winning trophies. Our sorry lot have 1 league dip in over 20 years And you got the cheek to question my support ? Bore off mate. I’m certainly not in the minority here. You might enjoy losing every cup semi final and final we participate in, but I don’t. It’s incredibly frustrating supporting Spurs when you have owners that make out were some sort of elite super power, yet fail to provide the appropriate funds to challenge the others.
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We have undoubtedly underperformed. Not all of that can be layed at the door of the Chairman.....how did Redknapp fail to get us to a final let alone win anything with the riches of prime Modric Bale VVD King et al is beyond me. Losing to Pompey in the SF FFS!
In later years the ability to win stuff is harder than ever before. City have won 2 of 3 trophies on offer for 4 seasons.
There is no good reason why Spurs have not been able to do what Leicester and Arsneal have done. Neither club are stronger than us....so again this comes down to more than just the ownership. Poch can get us to a UCL final but not passed Palace in the FA Cup? HE couldnt get us passed Utd in the FA Cup SF when we were the stronger team and this has nothing to do with ownership.
Levy & Co. are not perfect, far from it. His micromanagement of everything can be an asset but holds us back in many areas, he needs better, stronger people around him in teh key football areas of the club.
As for our progress, there is no excuse for winning so little. It has been the bigger clubs dominating everything for years - City, Utd, Chelsea, with the occasional exception of Wigan, Pompey and Leicester - be we really should be in the mix with the quality we have had at times.
The progress i see comes from an understanding of our place in the food chain. We have always been bigger than bobbing around mid table which we did for years, and ENICs ownership has elevated us to much much higher status, consistent with and some times exceeding our position in teh food chain. If you compare to the Villas, Leeds, Evertons of the league, who we are comparable to, then we have consistently raised our standards and maintained them to top 6. Top 6 this year = 15 times in 16 years.
We are on the fringe of the elite, and have knocked hard at times, but their advantage is so great. That gap has been closed. The stadium has closed the revenue gap between us and Chelsea/Arsenal to nothing, and narrowed it to the ones above and we have seen in 2 years since its opening unprecedented Spurs spending...the sort of spending that in the past was funded by sales, now out of the cash we make.
Bad decisions continue to be made. Not all by the Board. In a time of limited spending Poch chose to buy no one. There were options there he did not want to take. At the time his sacking made some sense but we all look back now and think what might have been if we had stuck with him, would we have come out the other end of prolonged bad form? Jose's appointment made some sense but this demise was inevitable and exactly how most people imagined it.
The stadium is the only way we were ever going to gain more revenue. Fans were already paying top dollar and our commercial operations were maxed out. Its raised the glass ceiling and we can get bigger and better, but we need to starr rebuilding.
Being Spurs this will be an organic thing. Accept it! But it will be fuelled by some of the biggest revenues in global football, which was not the case when ENIC came to Spurs. We can hope to elevate ourselves further, we can hope to win stuff and challenge the super powers, but we are not a super power, so this hope needs some realism. A £250m splurge in these times is not realistic, unless Kane goes.
Stuff organic approach mate!
Sometimes, to make that jump you need to be ballsy and spend that much more!
Be ballsy and do what is right for the club!
The issue I have with Spurs is that we sold Bale, and spent the money getting 7 players who were absolute average most!
The recruitment process at Spurs is ridiculous and Hitchens is out of his depth. He thinks ducking and diving is how you get players, and the cheaper the better.
How we have wasted Bale money, it's laughable and painful because it is our club.
Now, if we need to sell Kane to keep up with the Joneses, then so be it
But don't go shopping in Aldi with Kane money!
comment by Phenom - you're a wizard Graham (U20037)
posted 40 minutes ago
LINK H?
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Corriieie dello sport
comment by MKspur ツ - EdinPotter fan club (U9129)
posted 22 minutes ago
Nope I’m on SC still.
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Nice
comment by LukaBrasi Ryan's mate #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by MKspur ツ - EdinPotter fan club (U9129)
posted 22 minutes ago
Nope I’m on SC still.
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Nice
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Just banned from the transfer section
comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 1 minute ago
Stuff organic approach mate!
Sometimes, to make that jump you need to be ballsy and spend that much more!
Be ballsy and do what is right for the club!
The issue I have with Spurs is that we sold Bale, and spent the money getting 7 players who were absolute average most!
The recruitment process at Spurs is ridiculous and Hitchens is out of his depth. He thinks ducking and diving is how you get players, and the cheaper the better.
How we have wasted Bale money, it's laughable and painful because it is our club.
Now, if we need to sell Kane to keep up with the Joneses, then so be it
But don't go shopping in Aldi with Kane money!
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You have to have some perspective in this.
When we sold Bale we were a Top 4-6th place team.
We bought Soldado who had scored more goals in La Liga than anyone over 2 season., Lamela was tearing it up at Roma scoring 19 goals in his season. Some of the others like Chadli were cheaper but they served their purpose and were sold when we out grew them.
Its lovely in hindsight saying these players were average but that is the risk of transfers. At the time they were not average, they were top prospects in Europe.
There are many many other transfer we have made that have made us better. Our best days under Poch were built on prime Toby/Vertonghen/Dembele/Alli/Dier all players who came for little money. Even SOn cost just £22m.
These great successes in teh market are what underpinned our progress under poch but are conveniently forgotten. The cry is to spend big but some of out most costly players have been teh biggest flops.
There needs to be balance in the way THFC is assessed, not just cherry picking of the bad decisions/transfers and cliches about net spend trophies.
The cry is to spend big but some of out most costly players have been teh biggest flops.
=======================
We need a DoF who will deal with transfers, understand the brand of football we want at the club and gets the relevant players who are young, hungry and can be moulded to suit our playing style.
Instead we go and get Jose, on a whim and a desire, and we regress even further!
Who made that decision to do away with the club traditions of encouraging the young players and play with flair, and get a "pragmatic" manager?
It is Levy's decision that Poch got sacked and Jose got appointed and we have regressed ever since.
If we do sell Kane, then Levy better invest that money in procuring a top, top class striker and not just someone who is tearing it in their own league, but someone with proven record of having played outside their own league and done it!
I have no doubt that Levy has the club in his heart. He is also a fan, but sometimes, he makes critical decisions through his business eyes and makes mistakes. This is football, and logic doesn't come into it.
Can`t argue with any that Don.
ENIC`s organic approach simply does not work, they have proved that over 20 years.
ENIC need to go, what is the point of just taking part every season but ultimately achieving nothing, there is no point.
comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 15 minutes ago
The cry is to spend big but some of out most costly players have been teh biggest flops.
=======================
We need a DoF who will deal with transfers, understand the brand of football we want at the club and gets the relevant players who are young, hungry and can be moulded to suit our playing style.
Instead we go and get Jose, on a whim and a desire, and we regress even further!
Who made that decision to do away with the club traditions of encouraging the young players and play with flair, and get a "pragmatic" manager?
It is Levy's decision that Poch got sacked and Jose got appointed and we have regressed ever since.
If we do sell Kane, then Levy better invest that money in procuring a top, top class striker and not just someone who is tearing it in their own league, but someone with proven record of having played outside their own league and done it!
I have no doubt that Levy has the club in his heart. He is also a fan, but sometimes, he makes critical decisions through his business eyes and makes mistakes. This is football, and logic doesn't come into it.
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Mate we were regressing under Poch. 14th when Jose took over. 7 wins in 24 league games, not away wins in 10 months. There were issues and some were caused by players form, some by the manager some by the owners.
We have often had quality, and when you look at it over the last 15 years you wonder wtf we have not won more. It has now become such a big thing that its holding us back. The Jose choice made sense because what we had lacked for so long, despite having great squads at times, was getting over the line. He offered that, even in his messy time at United they won the FA Cup and Europa League. There was logic to it when so many were crying out for trophies. It didnt work out and there is nothing to say Poch would have achieved anything more .We'd all be guessing.
Next coach is vital. We will move in to a time when we have serious money at our disposal and i think the one thing we can trust Levy to do is hang on to Kane and if he cannot, extract top value for him.
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posted on 19/5/21
We never got a 250m warchest when we won all those trophies. We sold our best player for 145m and reinvested that in 3 or 4 players.
Looks like you will need to do the same now.
posted on 19/5/21
comment by Mellor, Lovely Cushioned Header, FOR GERRARD, OOOOOOHHHHHH YAAAAAAA BEEEAAAUUUTTTYYYYY!!!!!!!!! (U1859)
posted 58 seconds ago
We never got a 250m warchest when we won all those trophies. We sold our best player for 145m and reinvested that in 3 or 4 players.
Looks like you will need to do the same now.
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issue is
1. spurs in the transfer market
2. not sure anyone will pay 145m+ for Kane
posted on 19/5/21
Also, I think if you are given 100 bits of info from Hercules and find none of them come true, is it not normal to maybe question his validity a little? If you have to say take it with a pinch of salt, or have to caveat every statement with "this probably won't happen" then I can say that I've heard through the grapevine that, with absolutely no verified knowledge, we're signing Messi, Ronaldo, Pele and George Best and you're not allowed to question it.
posted on 19/5/21
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 50 minutes ago
I am sure you can trawl through Don's history and find him moaning about ticket prices, about not putting any more money in to the club....and now he's promoting £250m spend after the club have sustained £150m losses from the pandemic.
Its all about spending money but where this money comes from in Don's mind can only be the owners pockets......why in 20 years of ENIC has itnot sunk in that they are an investment company and that really there are only a tiny handful of clubs whose billionaire owners stump up anything of their own money. The Mansors and the Abramovich's of this world are the exception.
Spurs like the 95% of the rest of clubs out there and are run as a business.
Since the stadium build we have spent. The disruption through that process obviously hit hard and at a bad time considering we were on the up.
And actually when you look at it, 4th place, UCL final and then a summer and January window where we spent £160m, one would expect us to be much better placed than where we are. Many were excited by our signings and even last summer we seemed to address many of the deficiencies.
It is not the total shiiit show that some are painting it but the situation does highlight that some areas of our club need looking at, in terms of player identification, recruitment, squad management. Levy probably does have too much sway in these areas which are not his forte. I think we need to return to a proper DoF because it has been clear for a long time that the signings are not always (sometimes not at all) the managers decision, so the decision maker needs to be highly knowledgeable.
But enough with the net spend BS. Surely we've move on from that and have outspent most clubs in the last 2 years.
To me it seems like some have completely lost the ability to enjoy some of the simple pleasures of watching football. Spurs have been underachieving for decades. This is not a new phenomenon. We have virtually no right to demand success, but now the demand for success, to spend £250m to compete is just the vulgar whinging of modern day fans. Go watch your local team if you cannot grasp the realities of premier league football. Get in touch with why you love football, why you'd play for free for Spurs, why if you walked through the park and someones playing footy it always grabs your attention, if the ball rolled your way, how you'd ping it back to them thinking you're Hoddle. Just fecking enjoy something instead of moaning about every aspect of the clubs and their ownership.....an ownership that had delivered much more consistent progress and achievement than any other comparable club over ENICs tenure
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I just don`t get what supporters get out of moaning all the time.
posted on 19/5/21
comment by hounslows-finest (U6180)
posted 29 minutes ago
Lamela joining Napoli in the summer
Coco
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I will miss him, if only for his Rabona`s once every five years.
posted on 19/5/21
Nope I’m on SC still.
posted on 19/5/21
comment by Everywhere you go always take Lamela with you. (U7905)
posted 19 minutes ago
I started following that spurs community site a year or two ago. It's a very odd site. The majority of them rated Mourinho and still wanted him to stay in Jan/Feb
=====================
Is it run by Sandy by any chance
ITK my ****!
None of the anymore than someone like A Gold.
The rest are speculators and rumour mongerers.
I use some of the, for bit of info but only A Gold I trust.
posted on 19/5/21
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 28 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 4 minutes ago
I am sure you can trawl through Don's history and find him moaning about ticket prices, about not putting any more money in to the club....and now he's promoting £250m spend after the club have sustained £150m losses from the pandemic.
Its all about spending money but where this money comes from in Don's mind can only be the owners pockets......why in 20 years of ENIC has itnot sunk in that they are an investment company and that really there are only a tiny handful of clubs whose billionaire owners stump up anything of their own money. The Mansors and the Abramovich's of this world are the exception.
Spurs like the 95% of the rest of clubs out there and are run as a business.
Since the stadium build we have spent. The disruption through that process obviously hit hard and at a bad time considering we were on the up.
And actually when you look at it, 4th place, UCL final and then a summer and January window where we spent £160m, one would expect us to be much better placed than where we are. Many were excited by our signings and even last summer we seemed to address many of the deficiencies.
It is not the total shiiit show that some are painting it but the situation does highlight that some areas of our club need looking at, in terms of player identification, recruitment, squad management. Levy probably does have too much sway in these areas which are not his forte. I think we need to return to a proper DoF because it has been clear for a long time that the signings are not always (sometimes not at all) the managers decision, so the decision maker needs to be highly knowledgeable.
But enough with the net spend BS. Surely we've move on from that and have outspent most clubs in the last 2 years.
To me it seems like some have completely lost the ability to enjoy some of the simple pleasures of watching football. Spurs have been underachieving for decades. This is not a new phenomenon. We have virtually no right to demand success, but now the demand for success, to spend £250m to compete is just the vulgar whinging of modern day fans. Go watch your local team if you cannot grasp the realities of premier league football. Get in touch with why you love football, why you'd play for free for Spurs, why if you walked through the park and someones playing footy it always grabs your attention, if the ball rolled your way, how you'd ping it back to them thinking you're Hoddle. Just fecking enjoy something instead of moaning about every aspect of the clubs and their ownership.....an ownership that had delivered much more consistent progress and achievement than any other comparable club over ENICs tenure
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And what have we achieved under this lot ? You seem to spend your whole existence on here trying to defend Levy and the board, yet you never come up with anything remotely convincing apart “well they done great to get us a stadium “ etc. Look at Leicester’s owners who have managed to spearhead a club to rise from literally nothing to winning trophies. Our sorry lot have 1 league dip in over 20 years And you got the cheek to question my support ? Bore off mate. I’m certainly not in the minority here. You might enjoy losing every cup semi final and final we participate in, but I don’t. It’s incredibly frustrating supporting Spurs when you have owners that make out were some sort of elite super power, yet fail to provide the appropriate funds to challenge the others.
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We have undoubtedly underperformed. Not all of that can be layed at the door of the Chairman.....how did Redknapp fail to get us to a final let alone win anything with the riches of prime Modric Bale VVD King et al is beyond me. Losing to Pompey in the SF FFS!
In later years the ability to win stuff is harder than ever before. City have won 2 of 3 trophies on offer for 4 seasons.
There is no good reason why Spurs have not been able to do what Leicester and Arsneal have done. Neither club are stronger than us....so again this comes down to more than just the ownership. Poch can get us to a UCL final but not passed Palace in the FA Cup? HE couldnt get us passed Utd in the FA Cup SF when we were the stronger team and this has nothing to do with ownership.
Levy & Co. are not perfect, far from it. His micromanagement of everything can be an asset but holds us back in many areas, he needs better, stronger people around him in teh key football areas of the club.
As for our progress, there is no excuse for winning so little. It has been the bigger clubs dominating everything for years - City, Utd, Chelsea, with the occasional exception of Wigan, Pompey and Leicester - be we really should be in the mix with the quality we have had at times.
The progress i see comes from an understanding of our place in the food chain. We have always been bigger than bobbing around mid table which we did for years, and ENICs ownership has elevated us to much much higher status, consistent with and some times exceeding our position in teh food chain. If you compare to the Villas, Leeds, Evertons of the league, who we are comparable to, then we have consistently raised our standards and maintained them to top 6. Top 6 this year = 15 times in 16 years.
We are on the fringe of the elite, and have knocked hard at times, but their advantage is so great. That gap has been closed. The stadium has closed the revenue gap between us and Chelsea/Arsenal to nothing, and narrowed it to the ones above and we have seen in 2 years since its opening unprecedented Spurs spending...the sort of spending that in the past was funded by sales, now out of the cash we make.
Bad decisions continue to be made. Not all by the Board. In a time of limited spending Poch chose to buy no one. There were options there he did not want to take. At the time his sacking made some sense but we all look back now and think what might have been if we had stuck with him, would we have come out the other end of prolonged bad form? Jose's appointment made some sense but this demise was inevitable and exactly how most people imagined it.
The stadium is the only way we were ever going to gain more revenue. Fans were already paying top dollar and our commercial operations were maxed out. Its raised the glass ceiling and we can get bigger and better, but we need to starr rebuilding.
Being Spurs this will be an organic thing. Accept it! But it will be fuelled by some of the biggest revenues in global football, which was not the case when ENIC came to Spurs. We can hope to elevate ourselves further, we can hope to win stuff and challenge the super powers, but we are not a super power, so this hope needs some realism. A £250m splurge in these times is not realistic, unless Kane goes.
posted on 19/5/21
Stuff organic approach mate!
Sometimes, to make that jump you need to be ballsy and spend that much more!
Be ballsy and do what is right for the club!
The issue I have with Spurs is that we sold Bale, and spent the money getting 7 players who were absolute average most!
The recruitment process at Spurs is ridiculous and Hitchens is out of his depth. He thinks ducking and diving is how you get players, and the cheaper the better.
How we have wasted Bale money, it's laughable and painful because it is our club.
Now, if we need to sell Kane to keep up with the Joneses, then so be it
But don't go shopping in Aldi with Kane money!
posted on 19/5/21
comment by Phenom - you're a wizard Graham (U20037)
posted 40 minutes ago
LINK H?
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Corriieie dello sport
posted on 19/5/21
comment by MKspur ツ - EdinPotter fan club (U9129)
posted 22 minutes ago
Nope I’m on SC still.
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Nice
posted on 19/5/21
comment by LukaBrasi Ryan's mate #FreePalestine (U22178)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by MKspur ツ - EdinPotter fan club (U9129)
posted 22 minutes ago
Nope I’m on SC still.
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Nice
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Just banned from the transfer section
posted on 19/5/21
comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 1 minute ago
Stuff organic approach mate!
Sometimes, to make that jump you need to be ballsy and spend that much more!
Be ballsy and do what is right for the club!
The issue I have with Spurs is that we sold Bale, and spent the money getting 7 players who were absolute average most!
The recruitment process at Spurs is ridiculous and Hitchens is out of his depth. He thinks ducking and diving is how you get players, and the cheaper the better.
How we have wasted Bale money, it's laughable and painful because it is our club.
Now, if we need to sell Kane to keep up with the Joneses, then so be it
But don't go shopping in Aldi with Kane money!
----------------------------------------------------------------------
You have to have some perspective in this.
When we sold Bale we were a Top 4-6th place team.
We bought Soldado who had scored more goals in La Liga than anyone over 2 season., Lamela was tearing it up at Roma scoring 19 goals in his season. Some of the others like Chadli were cheaper but they served their purpose and were sold when we out grew them.
Its lovely in hindsight saying these players were average but that is the risk of transfers. At the time they were not average, they were top prospects in Europe.
There are many many other transfer we have made that have made us better. Our best days under Poch were built on prime Toby/Vertonghen/Dembele/Alli/Dier all players who came for little money. Even SOn cost just £22m.
These great successes in teh market are what underpinned our progress under poch but are conveniently forgotten. The cry is to spend big but some of out most costly players have been teh biggest flops.
There needs to be balance in the way THFC is assessed, not just cherry picking of the bad decisions/transfers and cliches about net spend trophies.
posted on 19/5/21
The cry is to spend big but some of out most costly players have been teh biggest flops.
=======================
We need a DoF who will deal with transfers, understand the brand of football we want at the club and gets the relevant players who are young, hungry and can be moulded to suit our playing style.
Instead we go and get Jose, on a whim and a desire, and we regress even further!
Who made that decision to do away with the club traditions of encouraging the young players and play with flair, and get a "pragmatic" manager?
It is Levy's decision that Poch got sacked and Jose got appointed and we have regressed ever since.
If we do sell Kane, then Levy better invest that money in procuring a top, top class striker and not just someone who is tearing it in their own league, but someone with proven record of having played outside their own league and done it!
I have no doubt that Levy has the club in his heart. He is also a fan, but sometimes, he makes critical decisions through his business eyes and makes mistakes. This is football, and logic doesn't come into it.
posted on 19/5/21
Can`t argue with any that Don.
ENIC`s organic approach simply does not work, they have proved that over 20 years.
ENIC need to go, what is the point of just taking part every season but ultimately achieving nothing, there is no point.
posted on 19/5/21
comment by morespurs (U15748)
posted 15 minutes ago
The cry is to spend big but some of out most costly players have been teh biggest flops.
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We need a DoF who will deal with transfers, understand the brand of football we want at the club and gets the relevant players who are young, hungry and can be moulded to suit our playing style.
Instead we go and get Jose, on a whim and a desire, and we regress even further!
Who made that decision to do away with the club traditions of encouraging the young players and play with flair, and get a "pragmatic" manager?
It is Levy's decision that Poch got sacked and Jose got appointed and we have regressed ever since.
If we do sell Kane, then Levy better invest that money in procuring a top, top class striker and not just someone who is tearing it in their own league, but someone with proven record of having played outside their own league and done it!
I have no doubt that Levy has the club in his heart. He is also a fan, but sometimes, he makes critical decisions through his business eyes and makes mistakes. This is football, and logic doesn't come into it.
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Mate we were regressing under Poch. 14th when Jose took over. 7 wins in 24 league games, not away wins in 10 months. There were issues and some were caused by players form, some by the manager some by the owners.
We have often had quality, and when you look at it over the last 15 years you wonder wtf we have not won more. It has now become such a big thing that its holding us back. The Jose choice made sense because what we had lacked for so long, despite having great squads at times, was getting over the line. He offered that, even in his messy time at United they won the FA Cup and Europa League. There was logic to it when so many were crying out for trophies. It didnt work out and there is nothing to say Poch would have achieved anything more .We'd all be guessing.
Next coach is vital. We will move in to a time when we have serious money at our disposal and i think the one thing we can trust Levy to do is hang on to Kane and if he cannot, extract top value for him.
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