Thoughts on the transfer window


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  1. Mixed feelings really, i'm happy we have addressed the defensive area but after watching the Liverpool game it was clear we are still lacking in some area's still-a top striker, a creative midfielder general that can put creative passes forward and a decent right winger as Lennon and Townsend always fail to deliver in the final 3rd, we are always after bargain basement players and that's why we fail to get into the top 4 season after season.
    1. We fail to get into the top 4 every season because there are at least 4 other teams out there who can pay higher transfer fees to other clubs, and higher wages to the players they want to buy. It's not some sort of conspiracy - it's quite openly how the league works. If you think _we_ buy bargain basement players, go look at how the bottom half teams in the premier league spend their money. We do pretty well, for a club of our size and finances. We're now at the point where the top clubs are going and buying not just one but several top strikers (Eg. Chelsea buying and benching Ba for a season and now doing the same with Remy).
  2. Excellent article. Agree with pretty much all of it. Will miss Sandro, would have probably given him till January to prove fitness and quality, Especially with the amount of games round the festive period. Perhaps Spurs know something the rest of us don't. Too early on and I am not sufficiently qualified to make any judgement on Dier, Fazio, Stamblouli or Yedlin but I think on face value they look solid if not spectacular. Dier looks like one for the future certainly and the others look like they can fit with his system and philosophy. No idea how Naughton, Lennon or Townsend are still at the club and agree that we could have done with a flying wing forward, perhaps the Strasbourg guy, Mane would have been brought in had Lennon left, he seems intent to grimly hold on. Only addition to your thoughts would have been a striker but I think both the wing forward/striker issue will be solved by Rodriguez coming on-board in January which I fully expect to happen. I guess he will monitor Kane's development and Soldado before this point. Not overwhelmed but it wasn't a bad window either.
  3. What a decent article wiv u all the way the levy haters do my head in embarrassment 2the club they 4get b4 him we were midtable dross n wiv u all the way trust in poch coys
    1. In English please..
      1. He'll flip ya for real!
  4. Think we got rid of a few who clearly were never going to make the grade in Fryers, Obika Falque. Holtby, Dawson, Livermore and Sandro all willing but not really able to command a place in the side. Siggurdson clearly needs to be the fulcrum and is doing brilliantly at Swansea - problem was he kept on being shunted out to the wing for us. The lack of signings in some positions do give the chance to players like Kane, Bentaleb and Veljkovic. It's a huge season for Townsend (or maybe he'll only last tip January) as I think he would have been the one to make room for JRod or Wellbeck.
  5. Admit it Windy, you're happy we kept Vlad, so that your song for him - strolling up the pitch, its super Vlad Chiriches - can gets sung more often. Agreed that it was a good window by and large. I wonder whatnthe true net number was incoming vs out going. It looks like we got some very good players for very little real outlay.
    1. Seems we spent just over £34 million on new players and took in just over £40 million in sales, leaving us with a tidy profit of £6 million which Levy no doubt will bag towards the new stadium costs. Expect more of the same.
      1. @Spurs61 Thanks for the numbers.
  6. Any comment I had to make about the transfer window was more than adequately stated by Stevo in an earlier post. Just one point to make really, I cannot understand why Naughton and Kaboul are still at the Lane.But then,we all have our own opinions about these things.
  7. I agree with all of that Windy I'm satisfied with the players that left and can see the rationale behind the ones we bought in or are waiting to bring in My only concern is that we wont score enough goals over th ecourse of the season from a combination of the front 4 to truly compete
  8. I still don't understand how Kaboul is at the club - A total Liability. He was at fault for two of the three goals against liverpool. I would have sold him and gotten in a genuine winger like Konoplyanka (really rate him high - Very cheap)
  9. Great article, thanks. My only disappointment with the window was at Left back. As you rightly say Davies is a steady Eddy left back and good cover and whilst Rose has potential to develop under Poch he's clearly not good enough to move us forward now. We paid £8-10mill (roughly being quoted) on Davies (ok Siggi and Vorm would have offset that) but if you look at Liverpool signing Moreno for £16mill or Utd signing Blind at £13mill i feel like we've really missed a trick here. There were 5 or 6 very good left backs available this summer (Rodriguez, Kolašinac & Criscito to name a few)but i feel that we are now stuck with 2 average left backs when we clearly could have spent an extra 5-10mill to bring in a realist quality player without breaking the bank.
    1. Sure, but would they have wanted to come to Spurs..? No realistic expectation of Champions league, and could we afford the wages? Probably not. Diego Costa was only 32 million! We could have afforded that, right?
      1. Fair point Chris, but i've tried to be as realistic as possible with my examples (whilst not knowing what happens behind closed doors and which plays would def come etc) Criscito plays in Russia, so one would assume with the right offer would want out, Rodriguez isnt playing in Europe at Wolfsburg and Kolasnic is young and only just broken through so cant imagine he is on big wages.
  10. Very good article, Chris. I'm all for Pochettino developing youth and I'm generally happy with our dealings this summer. My only issue is that we didn't bring in a couple of experienced leaders to hold the side together and stop is falling apart against the big sides. People like Cole, Evra, Vidic, Barry, Eto'o were available on frees and would have been invaluable when things got tough.
    1. I know what you mean, I think alot of people are focusing on captaincy rather than leadership from experience when similar topics are mentioned. In the past we brought in Gallas and Gudjonnsen to decent effect. I recall Arnesen, Jol or Santini brought in Naybet, i forget which it was said it was for just this reason. I hear Gudjonssen had his biggest effect in training and just being around everyone, here was a champions league winner who got his head down and trained harder than everyone else and worked for 90 minutes a match, a fair few people got the idea of what it would take to achieve something similar, it got Pav motivated enough that someone would buy him anyway. Unfortunately those above the manager's position don't see a financial benefit to them, and many below, well, ask any Spurs fan about Harry's buying tactics, Nelsen's legacy is perhaps the most well remembered. So while there is a need for the experience there's no way of selling it to season ticket holders, board members or potential sponsors as anything but filling the ranks with has beens. Lastly we get 25 slots to fit our squad into, with the number on our books it would be hard to give one to someone who could easily be injured, third choice and unable to play Europa then league then Cup matches in 7day periods, in the English winter. Personally, I'd just give King his shirt back and tell him i want him on the bus and in the changing room at every match, but hopefully his talents can be better used elsewhere.
  11. Good article as always Chris. I wrote something similar (albeit not as eloquent) earlier as I can't stand the negativity around a supposed bad transfer window for us. Now is the time to make sensible, solid signings and try and steady the ship after a year or turmoil and change. Although not spectacular I think this transfer window has improved key areas without any huge gambles. Hopefully it will mean the team can slowly but surely develop to play the way Poch wants us to and bring to an end the perpetual state of transition that Spurs always seem to find themselves in.
  12. I think after last year this is what was needed, I can't say i have ever liked transfer windows or seen the need for them for any other reason than media hype and prime time advertising slots on transfer eve. They only seem to make big clubs buy players they might need in the future, players who may never play but could have fulfilled the same role in another club the whole season, making it a more competitive league and potentially a bigger pool to pick England players from, but meh. But as Windows go, this one has reinforced where we needed, Danny Rose (still worry about his temper) is a different player now he has a reason to worry about his place in the next match, we won't notice so much, but can be sure that Vorm's arrival will have a similar effect on Lloris, and of course, Vorm himself. All in all the last thing we needed to do was completely overhaul, didnt work for Ramos, didn't work for AVB we can go further back, and even different clubs and get the same result, disarray.
  13. […] we be able to create some space in the squad, we might see a couple of players come in. Hector Moreno was a player that I mentioned in September – having played under Pochettino at Espanyol, Moreno is a player that our coach knows, likes […]

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