Negredo was certainly linked with us...before £10m got bolted onto his transfer fee when Man City started sniffing around.
Being involved in the scouting and the transfer of top football players doesn't necessarily mean you can manage them correctly. Come on PowerSpurs even you should realize that.
I probably wrote that a bit back to front. Personnally I think we had the 6th best squad last year and we might be 5th best this year so I don't understand why AVB is considered a failure at all
Redknapp wanted him, along with carzola. Too risky for Levy. Bit rich coming from a chairman who signed David Bentley and Darren Bent.
He scored a good goal yesterday when put through one on one but otherwise he looks barely better than Defoe to me. There's a reason that none of the big clubs want him I expect
I agree. The three buys which look like good ones ATM are Chiriches, Capoue (though he's hardly played) and Paulinho--a defender, DM and box to box midfielder who can flourish in our defense-first system. The fact that all our forwards have failed to impress, or impress much, seems a result of waiting until the other team gets its entire team into the box before trying to do anything. Any combination of them may turn out to be poor, but I wouldn't say they are until they get to play to their strengths.
AVB has been given a clear mandate. He has not completely failed in the expectation yet. but some of us are witnessing evidence of pending disaster. However we are Spurs and I sincerely hope he can pull of a Chameleon type transformation., for all our sakes.
Can we not have instances of Redknapp wanted X as part of this discussion? That'd be a very, very long list of players, 90% of which he wouldn't have used.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2148596/Tottenham-leading-race-Jonas-Olsson.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/tottenham-eye-jonas-olsson-the-west-879795 http://talksport.com/sports-news/fo...est-brom-hold-preliminary-talks-over-defender http://www.not606.com/showthread.ph...nsfer-window?p=2887929&viewfull=1#post2887929
Have talksport, daily mirror and daily fail become trusted sources of transfer gossip, ill remember that for future links!
I'm just grateful for any glass half-full comment at this point. I thought AVB did very well, all things considered, last year, but the last home games have been alarming. I'm hoping we'll start playing like we did in the second half against Newcastle, at least at home/against weaker teams. We'll see. But in any case, I'd rather focus on whatever bright spots there are in the team, and even more so if this year turns into a total disaster.
