i am fed up with our threads about our new signings being populated by Spuds making comments about how all their lame signings will be great next season so i have started a thread for Spuds so that they can post how their new temporary manager will turn their lame signings around. so for a start how will Eric Lame la fare next year ? please Spuds reply telling me how he won't be a waste of £30 million, and that last season when he hardly kicked a fukin ball was a learning curve. i await your insightful comments
Can see Spurs doing ok this year. Certainy challenging for top 4. Think of it this way. Lamela, Soldado can't be any wore than last season, so if they get even a bit better that's an improvement. Eriksen looked good and will improve. Paulinho is a good player who Sherwood never seemed to like but under a new (and better manager) might get the best out of him and a few of the others. 2 good keepers (plus Friedel). Just need to sign some new defenders as they don't have a decent RB, LB or CB.
12 months ago there were many here on this Arsenal forum who would have willingly driven Aaron Ramsey to any other club in the country, and had it not been for his injury last season he would have been challenging Suarez for player of the year. I am not suggesting any of Spurs signings will reach those heights, but it does show that you should not right off players after one disappointing season.
Its allegedly the only set of words in the English language with four different spellings and meanings with the same sound. You can even make a sentence, sort of: Right, wright, write 'rite' I think Chord, cawed, cord, cored is also one, but purists would say not due to the 'r' being pronounced. Eight, ate, Ait and Eyot don't count because the last two are variant spellings of the same word so have the same meaning
To return to the main subject of the thread, it always amazes me how fickle the whole football world is re player performance. Spurs are just outside the top ten clubs in the world so in general will have players who are in the range 20-50 in the world. The difference in skill level between the 20th and the 50th is likely to be around 1% at most and given the combination of skills that make a footballer and the effect of other factors like weather, health, injuries, pitch, opposition and form on performance I reckon you'd have to watch players about 50 times each to have any chance of seeing which is currently better, never mind trying to work out potential. So in short - no-one has any idea yet whether our signings are bad, average or good. But time will tell. If 4 of the seven are better than their price implies that will be a good outcome
Spuds should be ok next season. Pochettino looks like a decent young manager and I think young, talented players like Lamela (laugh all you like but he did the business in Italy) will thrive. They still need some additions but I think they will be far better than last year. Hard to say where they'll end up until you see who is brought in and how well they adapt to the new style of football. I think I'll miss Sherwood next season though
I'm afraid I disagree with you here. Spurs have really lost their way. It is hard to tell what their system is, or how the individual players are doing in playing to it. The new manager may put things right, but last season they were all over the place. I think the problem I have is that Spurs keep buying players with limited upside. The top teams buy players that could be fantastic. They may be flawed in some way, but they have potential. Spurs seem to buy solid players with no real flaws but they never seem to excite, or have that star potential. I think to be top 4 you need that.
I agree Toledo - the amount Spurs have spent on players of similar ability to those they've already got (spending more than Man U for a few seasons during Harry's time) yet not dramatically improving, and only having a few genuine players of quality at the end of the splurge Van Der Vaart, Modric, Bale, Lamela, Adebayor ect - but a bloated squad of around 50 players of similar quality. You also expect when buying a player for an inflated price for them to have an impact in the 1st year, and while some have the potential to really show huge performances - Lamela and Paulinho spring to mind, paying £26m for Soldado if a ridiculous waste of money, for example.
I think the money spent for Soldado was about right considering his goal scoring record/age and what have you. He struggled badly last season but was missing chances he normally would have buried which suggests a lot of it was a confidence issue. Maybe that will be rectified with a new manager and a second year in the league, who knows?! Lamela - urgh. I dunno. My mate at work says he's looking amazing at the moment and the money spent would suggest he has the potential. Maybe he'll come good too. This lad is reet special mind. He's very much in the "this year is our year" Spud camp and never sees the funny side when proven wrong.
I'm not sure - I always thought Soldado was ok, but nothing amazing and I feel if your going to spend the best part of £30m on a striker then he should be pretty special, especially when they already had Adebayor rotting in the reserves who could do a good job of getting 20 goals for them. IMO that money could have been saved until this summer when a better striker was available - instead they can hardly go out and spend another £30m on yet another striker...
Its amazing how one fluke of a strike against arsenal can mean a whole career at spurs no matter how bad you are
We've had a net spend of pretty much exactly zero over the last six seasons. It's very hard to buy the best players when five of your competitors have more money and four of them are in the CL.
