Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

It’s embarrassing offering Kane all these bells and whistles to keep him for another year because we couldnt build a team around one of the most decorated strikers.

Levy prefers begging and lying instead

then next season he will tell everyone he tried his best to keep him and the Levystas will buy it hook line n sinker when the truth is Levy didn’t know what he was doing when we had Kane fully committed for a good period of years.

but he got the go karting deal over the line so all is good

 

So you think spending 50 million N,dombelle and 60 milliln on Richarly,s son is being tight?

 

Sort out your fat fingers mate

 

I reckon Levy doesn’t know how to build a team

no one questioned his ability to blow money

 

Probably why he employs DoF

 

He literally built one of the best Spurs teams of all time. It isn't his fault that we couldn't rebuild it against three competitors who have always massively outperformed us and two more financed by dodgy money.

 

Like 18 other Premier League chairmen, he's never tried to

Todd Bollo, on the other hand...

 

I just think selling him, unless for a truly eye-watering figure (i.e. well in excess of £100m) would be one of the daftest things we can do as we enter a summer already set to be one of almost unprecedentedly high transition.

New manager.
(Probably) new DoF. Scott Munn's appointment confirms that we are at least preparing for this eventuality.
New GK.
Two new CBs.
New LWB to integrate (Udogie) and probably sign one more as first choice.
New creative midfielder.

I make that 4-5 new first team players to sign and integrate. Adding a sixth player to that list would be bonkers enough even without the fact that he is by far our best player.

We stand to gain far more by turning round to Kane and say 'Please see out your contract with us, then you are free to go wherever you want at the end of the season.'

Our summer and January windows did far too little to lay the groundwork in rebuilding the first team. The summer furnished the wider squad but with far too many short-term (Lenglet, Forster, Perisic) or unnecessary (Richarlison, Bissouma) options. Then January brought a niche player for a niche system for a manager who most of us were correctly predicting wouldn't last the season. As a result, we are a year behind schedule in bringing the first team back to an acceptable level and in the interim, the likes of Hugo and Son have declined rapidly.

Talking of which, if an acceptable offer came in I would sell the latter. Sentimentality is a valuable commodity but often stands in the way of success. If I believed selling Kane at this point would increase our chances of success, I would put sentiment to one side and support that sale. But, as explained, I don't see how it makes anything more likely other than increased disruption and failure.

 

That team won nothing, so it wasn`t "one of the best Spurs teams of all time" at all. It is absolutely Levy`s fault the team hasn`t been rebuilt, he should have either employed people who know what they are doing in the transfer market, spent more money to acquire the right players or sold the club to somebody capable of making it happen. You don`t half go to some ridiculous lengths to stick up for ENIC & Levy, you really must like achieving fack all, it`s all very strange.

 

Crystal Palace are looking at Sunderland's English winger Jack Clarke, 22, as a potential replacement for Wilfried Zaha. (Sun on Sunday)

 

And your opinion on the 1974 Dutch team is...?

 

The fact a section of our fanbase not only shat on Clarke at the time we signed him four years ago, but continue ****ting on him eighteen months after we sold him, continues to confuse and irritate me in equal measure

And I have to wonder if that complete overreaction is what is causing us to err when the likes of Eberechi Eze are open to a move, so instead of low cost/high potential signings we're betting big a hell of a lot and, to the surprise of nobody given our track record, it's working about as well as a capybara teaching nuclear physics

 

Clemence, Hughton, Mabbutt, Gough, Thomas, Allen, Ardiles, Hoddle, Hodge, Waddle & Allen was a fantastic side that also won nothing but it was a better side than Walker, Carr, Campbell, Vega, Edinburgh, Nielsen, Freund, Anderton, Ginola, Iversen and Ferdinand who did win the league cup.

When we were known for being 'cup' team Tv pundits and serious broadsheet journalists would always tell you that anyone can win a cup its just 6 matches (and in my lifetime) from the 60s to the 90s that was true with the cups being well shared out including wins for Spurs. But the journalists said that the good sides were consistent in the league and there can be no argument that our league performance has never been more consistent than it has for the last 15 seasons or so. We would all like to win trophies, but in the 21st century that has been more more difficult for 'weaker' sides financially than it was in the last century.

 

In terms of league performance, the period from 2009-10
to now has been the best in my living memory
(the best before that was 1981-92 to 1989-80) .

In terms of domestic/UEFA cup success, very dire indeed.

 

I think that’s pretty harsh.

Yes it won nothing but in the years of 2015-2018 under Poch I loved almost every minute of it. I credit Poch more so than Levy for that but regardless of who you praise or not, that was a genuinely enjoyable football team to watch, didn’t we hit points tallies that in certain other seasons would’ve been good enough to win the Prem? I loved going WHL during those years, I agree to the point it was a travesty we never won anything and for that you can perhaps criticise some individuals but other than that there’s nothing I can fault that era for. It’s gotta be within the top five sides the club has ever had I’d imagine.

 

I would like to win a trophy as much as you but I have actually noticed that the standard of the competition is entirely different from previously. Football clubs' success is eventually measured by trophies but we were not close to being competitive in the League prior to ENIC and indeed rarely have been in history. The days when the fifth best team (which is about our historical peak except from 1960 to 1965) will win trophies regularly are long gone.
There are literally no owners not backed by dodgy money who have done better than ENIC. You are on record as not caring about how dodgy the money is. I do.

 

Would you say Fenway have done better at Liverpool than ENIC at Spurs?

 

Liverpool have had more revenue than us for about 50 years. So it shouldn't be surprising if they outperform us. In looking more closely at the data I don't think anyone is statistically significantly better or worse than what you would expect.

 

Frankfurt have confirmed Kamada will leave on a free in the summer.

Not a bad freebie to pick up for any team looking for an attacking midfielder…

 

Reportedly Dortmund-bound

On the subject of AMs, Sporting's Pedro Goncalves is being linked with is us. Yes, the same Pedro Goncalves who did a Nayim tribute a few weeks ago