IMO Spurs just spent in the wrong areas. It baffled me. They managed to have about 12 good midfielders and no decent centre halves or strikers.
It was a bizarre attempt at squad-building.
Six more signings and 135 million War Chest?
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IMO Spurs just spent in the wrong areas. It baffled me. They managed to have about 12 good midfielders and no decent centre halves or strikers.
It was a bizarre attempt at squad-building.
It was, but it also wasn't particularly unsuccessful either - they took a sideways step thanks to Bale's performances papering over those other cracks.
But under the right circumstances, with a couple of squad additions in the right area, their squad has a lot of potential under Potechinno and their rebuilding could begin to look like much better business.
Yeah, I think that was the main issue, they overstocked on the midfield, overspent on a slow striker and ignored their piss-poor backline.
I'd hope the club does indeed take the Spurs example seriously. It's a Gibbonesque lesson. We need a striker. We're really thin at every level in that sense. But otherwise, given the recent and imminent signings, I'd rather see us hold something back for the January window than go too mad now. Yes, the January market tends to be erratic and over-priced, but in a world cup summer so is this window, and we might need to change something in a few months time. Spurs couldn't even do that. I think it will take at least a couple of windows to sort the wheat from the chaff as far as our defence is concerned. We've got about four right backs, five centre backs and two or three left backs if you include the youngsters. It's high time there's some cleaning out the clutter there.
Yes, the way seemingly secured every single target they went after and insisted on doing all their business before announcing Bale's departure was certainly well handled.
I think it's obvious what people are saying, regardless of what it did for them in the longterm. There's a fair point to be made in that they could have invested in areas more wisely. They sold Bale and spent £100m plus to step sideways, it's hardly a resounding success story.
Dunno....Lamela could still turn out to be a good player. He is a young player. Bale took the better part of two seasons to get settled in the team.
Absolutely, that point is an obvious one but it needs some perspective - it was a sideways step not a backwards step for whatever reason. They did their business quick, they replaced Bale and they maintained their level through a managerial change. Could they have done better? Yes. Did they capitulate as is painted? No.
Let's not forget they were never going to address all their problems in one window, so I'm not surprised that they focussed on attempting to replace Bale's attacking threat.
I'm starting to sound like a Spurs fan now!
Still hard to believe Bale was a struggling full back at Spurs, and as far as I recall whenever he played Spurs never won. He came close to being sold to QPR or Birmingham or some shit like that.
And he's now the most expensive player of all time.
And he's now the most expensive player of all time.
I hope we don't feel pressured into spending all this money. Someone (maybe Macca) said that we should hold back some funds for January or even next summer and I think that's a really good idea. We've got a lot of question marks in the squad right now and it'd be prudent to save some money in case some of those need answering by dipping into the transfer market again.
But we cannot afford to wait a season for our equivalent to deliver
i'm obviously pretty gutted about the signings we seem to be making. it is almost identical to the spurs situation.
When are we sacking Brendan and getting Tim Sherwood in then?
Depends what our objectives are.
Now that Suarez is gone we don't have anyone left really at the peak of their powers who we need to make the most of. It's a young team that have got a good few years ahead of them as a group.
Problem with that is footballers are highly inflationary assets. I think there's probably more to lose by not shopping now.
"war chest"
It's more annoying than a best xi is to Ryan
Anyway generally we seem to sign youngish players with a lot of scope to improve and the odd experienced player
We'll sign a young english keeper, a CB, a LB, two strikers and a winger
It's more annoying than a best xi is to Ryan
Anyway generally we seem to sign youngish players with a lot of scope to improve and the odd experienced player
We'll sign a young english keeper, a CB, a LB, two strikers and a winger
Prices go up, so money buys a bit less.
You forego any benefit you'd get this season from any player you buy now. This season is set to be a very tight race for the CL. Next season the tv money is about £50m. So in order to be able to spend say £20m a bit more judiciously - let's call that a £10m benefit at the maximum, we might have to sacrifice £50m of income.
You forego any benefit you'd get this season from any player you buy now. This season is set to be a very tight race for the CL. Next season the tv money is about £50m. So in order to be able to spend say £20m a bit more judiciously - let's call that a £10m benefit at the maximum, we might have to sacrifice £50m of income.
Jeez. I did this before in another thread a week or so ago and it came to £135m exactly. It's not like there is suddenly an extra £50m that hasn't been allocated so no need to get excited (I wonder if that journo has been reading my posts) ?
Can £10m (done)
Origi £10m
Lallana £16m (rising to £25m)(done)
Lambert £4m (done)
Markovic £20m (done).
Lovren £20m (if bid accepted)
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Total to date £89m
(assuming all completed)
We know there is another £16m in the tank for Moreno as the bid has been lodged (though Davies @ £10m is being reported as a target) and there was £30m for Sanchez (certain to be diverted to alternative target) so : Total Potential Spend up to £135m
Can £10m (done)
Origi £10m
Lallana £16m (rising to £25m)(done)
Lambert £4m (done)
Markovic £20m (done).
Lovren £20m (if bid accepted)
___________
Total to date £89m
(assuming all completed)
We know there is another £16m in the tank for Moreno as the bid has been lodged (though Davies @ £10m is being reported as a target) and there was £30m for Sanchez (certain to be diverted to alternative target) so : Total Potential Spend up to £135m
The number of times you have been gutted about the signings we have made and still come back alive makes you a messiah of Jesus like proportions.
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