I agree we should have done it in the last window, but now more than ever I think it's a must. We are the only team from the top that has not made a serious signing yet. We all know what our weakness was last year (that we couldn't ****ing score for love nor money). How many other teams can have 20 odd shots on goal and still come out with a draw? I have this horrible feeling that it is going to come down to the last day again, where we are scrambling for last minute deals. Sort it out now for **** sake.
We should bear in mind that the window stays open till the end of August. I would rather they worked carefully to get the right people in, than just tried to sign any decent player that's available. They ballsed up last January, but we should trust them that they are doing it correctly this time. If nothing happens by 1/9/11 then LEVY OUT!!!!
Or 23 and lose (Blackpool Away!) If we're still scrabbling on the last day, I fear for us I really do. I just don't understand how a team thats performed as well as we have in recent times can't attract players of the right quality? (NO WUM replies please) Its not just been thuis far this window, but a recurring theme of recent times.
I'm afraid, DB, that the answer to your question, in this ever increasingly mercenary market, is one word - Money!
I know comparitively, due to stadium size mostly, that our budget is not that of our competitors, and that we have a lower wage structure - but is that it? Ambition and the chance to play for one of the teams of the moment hold no sway, they prefer the Yankee dollar? ITs a sad state of affairs when the likes of 'Pool, out of Europe and having had two seasons in the mire, have three top transfer targets at the start of the window and wrap them all up by mid July whilst we star in Europe in the CL, miss out but still end up in European competition this season, and can only sign a free keeper and two 'maybe they might turn out ok, but will probably be loaned out then disappear off the radar' players in the same timeframe????
For the last 2 seasons we have finished about the pool, yet none of their players (i.e Maxi, Suarez,) have been tapped up as bad as ours. Modric is key to our team and the progression of our amazing club. Maxi scored 7 goals in 3 games, why is he not the focus of the media saying that he is desperate to leave the club, or that the "top 4" are going to make an offer for him?
Whether the media have an agenda or not, we're still the ones shuffling our feet in the transfer market
Chelsea are in need of players because they will do nothing with their present squad so we must resist all advances from them. They might just open the door for somebody else to top 4 as somebody else posted yesterday or the day before. If he goes it must not be to them or City and he isn't an Arsenal type of player. Utd I would say are too big for him and I don't see him in a red shirt. I think with a pay rise he's at the right club already and we can get back into the CL with his help and 2 strikers. With King back we have a good defence and our midfield is sound. I hope the Spurs board stays strong and resists financial pressure because he would not be easy to replace in the short term. I feel we should search the east of Europe for replacements.
Harry, himself, stated some weeks ago that Levy was sticking ti his "sell to buy" policy. IMO, that would be fine if Levy were prepared to accept reasonable bids for the Bentleys, keanes etc that we are trying to sell. However, it looks to me like, once again, he is trying to hold out for top money. I don't know if he sees it as some sort of game of brinkmanship, or what. But, it's dangerous policy, that appears to have blown up in his face before, and may well do so, again.
Sometimes I do wonder about Levy and the decisions he makes, yeah I get that the way he runs Spurs as a business means we're finanacially stable and a sound club, no FFP worries for us but honestly, the Berbatov, Carrick & now Modric sagas, the bollix over the Olympiss stadia and all this court case clap-trap, the Jol to Ramos fiasco I mean jesus wept he does some daft ****. Lets be honest, if it was a foreign owner he'd be slaughtered in the press for some of these things.
Rauuuuullll.....it was nothing like this really. you cannot compare the 2. Torres was on **** form and clearly not happy. Modric has been outstanding for us and didn't mention anything about leaving the club until the ****s in west london decided that we shouldn't have him
Thanks Ensil, that made me chuckle. Modric doesn't seem to understand 'no' and the more he tries to push for a move the more Levy will be determined not to let him go. If he didn't keep running to the media and if Chelsea didn't keep leaking their bids then there might have been a transfer.
