L'Equipe report that the holdup with PSG taking Ndombele off our hands is the sluggishness of getting players out the door But remember, it's only Spurs who have this problem...
I agree, but, every now and then they help each other out… Giroud. Diarra. Cech. Willian. Luiz. Gallas. Torres. Cole. Sanchez. Mkhitiaryan. Welbeck. Just a few examples of players making the switch to other top rivals directly. Doesn't happen so much with Tottenham. Liverpool and Man U stay separate for the most part but they will help other top clubs out, just not usually us, unless they are taking.
we definitely were not attempting to help Chelsea when we sold them Torres rather had no choice due to the players attitude .
He was ****ing awful for them, too. Had some standout performances where he was the worst player on the pitch by a mile.
The transfer fees and/or player wage demands for all the above could not have been met by Spurs, so the point is somewhat moot (though to have had a Torres in the 2011 and 2012 seasons somewhere near his peak would have done wonders for Spurs) .
Like others have said, losing Diaz to Liverpool isn’t Levy’s fault or anyone else’s fault at the club. But to leave it late to sign him and then it fall through means hardly any time to work on an alternative. That’s the main issue with Spurs. They seem to leave things so late that there is no margin for error. Plus signing players earlier in the window means they could have had an impact on games lost this month.
Couldn't it just be that they don't want to deal with Levy? He makes every transaction a war of attrition. It's costly, time consuming and likely to end in failure...why would anyone seek that out?
Levy’s reputation is good when it comes to sales. Teams know he won’t blink even when the deadline is coming and he also won’t mind keeping a player that has made it clear they want to leave. But buying players is where he needs to not be involved at all. By all means he can set the budget, but then he should leave the rest to Paratici
People had to pay through their noses for them (something levy wouldn't do) and they were crap. Willian, Cech were because they went on frees and wanted to stay in london and arsenal were willing to pay stupid wages to willian (to their detriment) Gallas also went to you your team, as did the likes of bentley, frazier campbell, poyet, adebayor
What a bloke too. Never thought I could’ve warmed to a player that played for Chelsea and Arsenal but he was unreal in his first season, proper played for the badge, loved it. Welcome back any time in my opinion.
think it was great for levy in the 2010s when you made a packet on all your great players. Bale, Berba, Carrick and even some fringe players. Lately, it's been horrendous, you aren't shifting deadwood, you paid for Aurier to leave, Eriksen was sold for a tenth of his peak, Alli is stealing a wage and so is ndombele, toby left for a pittance, Jan left on a free, Dembele, went cheap, Wanyama left on a free, Rose left on a free, Trips went pretty cheaply
Plenty of high level journos have started piling in on Paratici. While I am certainly in agreement that his impact has been somewhat underwhelming, it is important to remember that we only have a manager of Conte's stature thanks to him. It is also important to remember the patterns we've seen unfolding in this window are an exact match to the patterns we've seen in almost every one of the 23 windows since we signed Van der Vaart. It hasn't suddenly started happening since Paratici arrived.
Liverpool in for Diaz, it's so ****ing hard supporting this club at times I had a maiden aunt years ago who was absolutely minted , come Christmas and Birthdays she would send the cheapest meanest presents, she died and left most of her estate to cat and dog charities, starting to have flashbacks here
I haven't seen enough of Diaz to judge, but he's highly rated. Does make me wonder if Mane is on the way out, though.
Tripps left for £20m+ and we only paid £3m for him so that was decent business, Jan leaving on a free was down to age more so than anything (albeit many would've happily kept him), likewise Toby moving for a small fee but in general I agree, our business the last 5 years especially, ins and outs, has been ****ing woeful. It seems Levy's struggled adapting to Spurs' change to being a big club, as well as the market's inflation. Levy excelled when Spurs were mid-table fodder. The buy low, sell high policy worked wonders for us because we were nabbing a lot of top young players in which many would become top tier Prem players, we then also nabbed the best players from smaller clubs (Malbranque, Chimbonda etc) and it was all done on a small budget as well as there being a large scope for negotiating, as smaller clubs especially could be exploited far more easily as they were ****ed financially (even if that's a harsh thing to do) Nowadays you can't go to Palace and take Zaha for £10m, or Lamptey from Brighton for £5m plus addons. Likewise you won't find any Aaron Lennon's for £1m or a Gareth Bale for £7m. He's then gone Everton-esque on some signings by paying world class fees for non-world class players and seemingly expected them to be world class, hindsight probably aids this point but in reality we were paying insane figures for the likes of Sanchez/ Ndombele/ Lo Celso when none of them truly justified such a fee.
