Ok ... lets ignore 1) Sheffield Wednesday 2000 2) Bradford 2002 3) Leeds 2003 what about instead talk about 1) Wimbledon 2004 ish 2) Coventry 2002 ish 3) Charlton 2007 4) Leicester 2005 ish 5) Southampton 2005 ish 6) Middlesbrough 2009 ish 7) Portsmouth 2010 8) Bolton 2011 ish 9) Wigan 2013 10) Villa 2014 these are all off the top of my head...only Southampton and Leicester have recovered by being financially sound and not deviating from that principle.
I think it’s easy in hindsight to say we should’ve signed someone else rather than those three. It’s impossible to tell whether one big money signing would’ve proved any better than those as well. New signings are always a risk, those ones just didn’t pay off unfortunately. I’m sure most fans don’t regret the fact we took risks on Dele and Dier though, they even had lesser reputations than Jansssn and GK at the time of their signings.
https://www.not606.com/threads/transfer-thread-fact-and-fiction.343033/page-385#post-12001883 Technically he has a stay of execution until Sept 1. < legal loophole >
no-one complained about Janssen or GKN at the time...bizarrely enough the one we all complained about has been the biggest success ... which kind of shows how difficult it is to sign players that will be successful and that we can afford
RCL makes the point and I would endorse it. Tweaking a good strategy is when it becomes a bad one. I think Levy has proved he is the best chairman in the PL by a country mile and we are very lucky to have him. He has ridden the horses of spending big and generating funds. I've said it before but it's worth repeating. A squad that competes with the worlds best teams, a state of the art training ground/complex, a state of the art stadium, a manager who every team in the division would be happy to have. All this without being under financial pressure. Amazing performance and on top of this we really support the English game and the England team like no other of our rivals. This is why I don't take criticism of Levy seriously, it's just not warranted.
Critique of ENIC as a whole, and Levy in particular, is justifiable. You just need to understand when tis that kind of critique, rather than the bleating of morons who before the Internet age had an audience for their opinions comprising the reflection in the mirror before them.
Most of the criticism is with the benefit of hindsight and without the mighty responsibility of actually running Spurs. This is the age of 'everybody's opinions' I'd rather have some facts.
While I'd largely agree with you, I do think that we need to do some business in this transfer window and we should be able to. We've got a fair bit of dead wood to shift and though it'll be possible to do that after it shuts, it'll put us in a weaker negotiating position. There are also areas of the squad that need to be addressed and a total lack of transfers would leave us poorer. The Premier League is incredibly competitive. You move forward or you die.
PNP I agree but we haven't seen the end of business yet and as usual we have no idea what is really happening and what problems there are. On the basis of Levy's performance overall I am prepared to give him some slack because I know he does a better job than I could do.
I remember a few posters suggesting GKN was the exact sort of player we needed to feed Janssen, as the various compilations showed he had a pretty good cross on him Genuine question, though: can anyone remember a single time GKN has chosen to cross, rather than cutting into the area and usually tripping over the ball or running into the first defender?
No one??? I made the point at the time that if we had that sort of money to spend on 2 unknowns and one sh*t player then it wasn't down to a lack of money that we didn't sign anyone decent. And this after getting our fingers burnt with N'Jie
We are what? 10th or 11th in the pecking order in Europe we are after the same players as Madrid, Barca, Bayern, United, City, PSG and so on. We are up against it always I think the main point of the new stadium is to raise us up that pecking order. It's carts & horses so we have to be cute in buying players either get them early in their careers before they are fully developed or late when the bigger teams are happy to off load. This is biggest problem in transfers for Spurs as I see it. I think the good news is that we are creeping up that pecking order and keeping our best players (or most of them) is just as important as getting new ones, perhaps even more important.
We've got a squad worth the best part of a billion for an almost zero net spend. No other club is anywhere near that and still people whine about the failures.
fair enough re no-one but in all honesty I do not remember reading a single complaint anywhere when Janssen was signed.
