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Roo said:
Was he?! Really?

IIRC, I thought that we'd never been linked to him until about 2 weeks before we signed him....

If I'm wrong, I'll take that back. But I could have sworn we'd been linked to many other names before Soldado was even thrown in.
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Negredo was certainly linked with us...before £10m got bolted onto his transfer fee when Man City started sniffing around.
 
PowerSpurs said:
There are three squads which cost nearly twice ours and two others which cost about the same. So if you are sure we've got a top 4 squad you must rate AVB as he has signed half of the players.
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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. :confused:
 
Roo said:
Part of me thinks that Soldado was "the best of the rest" in our striker pursuit.

I wouldn't beat at all surprised if we had others we were interested in, but levy was quoted £25m for those strikers. At which point he stuck 2 fingers up to those clubs.

....But then later realised that we would have to pay that sort of money. - Only problem being that by this point, those strikers had moved elsewhere or had signed new contracts.

So as a result, we ended up with Soldado who was probably on our list, but about 5-6th on it. - Not only that, but we ended up getting our pants completely pulled down over the fee, as it was known across the world that "spurs need a striker". - We'd wasted so much time in getting one, Valencia knew we'd pay up as we were running out of options and time.

(just my theory)

That's not to say Soldado isn't a good striker. His record proves that. But I'm just saying I don't think he was top of our list when it came to realistic targets. Hopefully his fortunes will change, but I feel he's going to struggle unless things change around him on the pitch. best of luck to him.

On a more positive note, Chiriches has really impressed me. He looks top drawer. <ok>
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IMO the best of the rest is Remy,and we were linked with him,did Levy think he was to expensive!
 
BajanSpur said:
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. :confused:
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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
 
totsfan said:
IMO the best of the rest is Remy,and we were linked with him,did Levy think he was to expensive!
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Redknapp wanted him, along with carzola.

Too risky for Levy.

Bit rich coming from a chairman who signed David Bentley and Darren Bent.
 
totsfan said:
IMO the best of the rest is Remy,and we were linked with him,did Levy think he was to expensive!
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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
 
remembercolinlee said:
In my opinion the players we have are not the issue ... it is how they are used or in the case of lamela not used.
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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.
 
Boss said:
Splitting hairs there my friend! Levy still rubber stamped any deals when Commoli was here.
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To quote a piece from WSC published after Jol was fired...

Suspicion also lingers that Levy&#8217;s version of the DoF structure functions to protect the board with a two-tiered buffer, making the head coach or DoF accountable when things go wrong.
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PowerSpurs said:
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
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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.
 
 
PowerSpurs said:
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
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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.
 
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