Reasons to stay * Had us playing some superb stuff and winning for 2/3 of the season * Continuity Reasons to go * Destabilising our team by fluttering his eyelashes to the FA for the last two months * Destabilising the team with comments to the press (i.e today's comment about expecting Modric to leave) * Failure to rotate the squad effectively for two straight seasons * Bizarre tactics in the last 1/3 of the season * Baffling transfer activity in January * Inability to manage the squad
I would attribute that to Levy not wanting to spend money on Redknapp's signings with his future situation unknown due to the England stuff. You don't want Redknapp spending £50m on players building his version of Tottenham, then he goes and a new manager comes in who can't work with them for whatever reason.
It's not so much the players coming in, as the ones going out - Pienaar, Bassong, Corluka and Townsend all could've done a job for us in the last half dozen games, but they were all loaned out too soon.
Human,didn't you get peed off with the Modric saga at the start of the season? I certainly did and now here we go again. We found Modric so we can find another playmaker can't we? We found Bale and Berbatov so we can find good players in the future to replace them.
yes, but if/when we find the next Modric, Berba and Bale it will just be the same story, good 1st/2nd season and then the top champions league clubs, come sniffing! The only way we can stop this happening, is to keep the current squad, strengthen it and build for real success.
Boss,with the salaries the others pay compared to us the players would be off like a shot,excuse the pun.
Until the new ground is built we will have operate like this. Levy will not put the club in financial jeopardy. If we get involved in a spending race we will lose. We have to think laterally.
Last summer wasn't preceded by the following excerpt from a press conference with our own manager. We can find another playmaker, be it giving more games to Huddlestone next season, deploying Kranjcar or Van der Vaart in that role if we have to, or bringing in anyone we've been linked to from Ever Banega to Hernanes to Ganso, or just go for the next Croatian playmaker off the Dinamo Zagreb production line (we have a choice of Milan Badelj or Mateo Kovacic) - but we need to keep hold of key players that we have been building a team around, and continue to use them as the focal point of the team as players are added or removed based on how they link up and play off each other. In our 25 man squad, there are players we need to keep hold of - Walker, Kaboul, Parker, Modric, Bale, van Der Vaart, Sandro and Lennon being the ones we need to keep hold of the most - and build the squad around them, be it players to go around them or understudies should the unthinkable happen.
Bale and modric if sold would bring in a very good amount of money for us and if that was spent wisely we could still push on IMO. I have little worries about anyone else leaving even if we don't make the cl And if players do want to leave we need to get them out and replaced quick - none of this start of the season drama or panic buying As for harry - I have lost some faith in him that he has made the same mistakes two years in a row and playing players out of position and using stupid formations that don't work is a joke tbh. I think the fans and even the club were resigned to him leaving so bit of an awkward situation now if Roy does get appointed
I said before that if arry says i won't be gutted but nor will be excited, reason is that arry is the manager i have wanted to be a success with spurs more then any since venables but the manner in which we fail to perform in big games, our away form, lack of squad rotations, bizzare formations leads me to believe that if arry stays we can look forward to much of the same each year. ....Which is loads of promise, some great football but in the end just not good enough. He is a great man manager when a team needs to be galvanized but this is now arrys teams, this is his squad and now his job is to keep the squad together, get the best out of the players, play to the players strengths and make sure next season we don't miss out on our targets due to falling away at the end of the season.
Who realistically is out there, who is better and more importantly, attainable and available?...no-one. Harry has made mistakes, isn't perfect, but if he gets our club CL 2 out of 3 seasons with all thats gone on, are we really serious about getting rid? He handled our CL campaign better than most on their 1st attempt, the league suffered, but we're Spurs, not United, and if we do get it again, keep our best players that are on contract, get some better players in, and not have so many plan B players injured, we can do well again. There are better managers about clearly, but until one shows the remotest interest in our club, better the devil you know.
It's all very well getting a very large amount of money in, but to state the obvious, you can only fit 11 players on the pitch. So you had better be sure that any replacements you get are just as good, which I fear they won't be. They only way round the marquee individuals thing is putting a proper "team" together under a great manager... and that's even harder than buying a couple of superb individuals.
I would be surpsied if Levy or anyone at the club would even think about getting rid of arry, if anything they will want him to succeed but it all depends on what arry feels he needs to push us forward and will Levy offer him this.
