Who are you then?? Mystic ****ing Meg?? You scousers crack me up. You had one lucky win against a very poor Arsenal team. Yesterday you beat Bolton - those well known championship contenders; and now, all of a sudden, you're crowing away about how "KingKenny" is going to put you back at the top. Get real mate, you're light years behind the two Manchester teams. We've played them - you haven't. Like I said to your mate, Come back when you've actually achieved something - not after 2-3 games.
Liverpool had £35 million more to spend than they were going to have otherwise. They got the money for a player whose performances had certainly 'tailed off' and isn't exactly setting the world alight now either is he. In other words they got a very large amount of money for a player they weren't getting much from recently (a completely different situation from how the Modric saga is affecting and will affect Spurs, plus they didn't have a summer of speculation from the media trying to sell Tores). All I know is the last time we played, Spurs were comfortable winners. Clearly Liverpool have got better and Spurs are not at the same strength (for many reasons), but we will see.... Liverpool were also prepared to meet the modern wage demands that Levy is not IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN what is the right policy on this. There are many Spurs fans who think we should (literally) break the bank, basically employ players for wages we cannot actually afford (which would involve breaking our wage structure and presumably renegotiating a number of contracts with existing players or suffer massive unrest (making the current unrest over Modric seem like nothing). When Spurs fans complain we haven't bought anyone they are effectively asking for Spurs to become a loss making business, effectively gambling on CL every year for a short term remedy. As for the original question, I really don't know. I do know that a season is 38 matches long but it is sad fact about the modern world that only instant gratification counts - a situation only made worse by the constant attention of the media on a single game. Basically long term opinions are made on short term situations because it is always assumed that the current situation will remain. This results in knee jerk reactions that can be damaging in the long term. It isn't just footie that suffers from this unfortunately.
Right policy, or not. Top players command top wages - simple fact of today's game. It's not just a matter of attracting top talent, we also have to try and keep what we have. What's happening now, with Modric, will be just the tip of the iceberg if we don't do something. Levy is the one who has been telling us how he's going to make the club a regular contender for top honours. Well, how do you think he's going to do that once all our key players have left to double their wages? If Levy meant what he said, then it's time for action - not words. Either we are going to push on and become a top club. Or, we will sink back to a mid-table medium size club competing with the Evertons etc for the occasional Europa league place. Make no mistake, we are at the crossroads now. Which way we go is down to Levy & the major shareholders.
Our wage structure is a joke as lesser teams pay their better players more. Is razor Levy and big boy Joe becoming our Fat Cats?
Dunno why the scousers are in here saying how great they are. Last time I looked niether arsenal or spurs paid £35m for a massive donkey who belongs in the championship
No doubt Spurs results were woeful, but what's needed now is patience. Losing to Man U and Man City is what you'd expect. The big questions are whether Modric will play as well, or nearly as well, as as he did last year, and whether Adebayor will significantly improve the strikers. If the answer to both is yes, Spurs should be in the running for top four. If Modric ends up one way or another as a non-factor, 5th or sixth will be as well as they can do. In answer to your question, Spurs look considerably better than Arsenal.
