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SuperJackWilshere10 said:
This has not been mentioned much, but I think the failure to get Moutinho was more significant in hindsight. João Moutinho was AVB's general on the pitch for Porto and he wanted him to be that same sort of leader for Spurs, but despite getting close to signing him, you failed to land AVB's number one target. He would have also been the perfect replacement for Modric, a player that you have failed to replace.
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redwhiteandermblue said:
I guess I'm off on my own island about seeing this as a more or less total disaster.

To me, Levy failed to get either the key player his new coach needed or any suitable alternative because he ran out of time. This is clear because there's money left which he clearly had to spend. While there may be other explanations, the only one I can see is incompetence, for which Levy should be fired if we don't finish fourth. If we'd gotten Moutinho, I feel pretty confident we'd have gotten fourth and the 50 million or so that goes with it, since our fourth place rivals just don't look that impressive. To complete the cycle, simply not firing Harry and getting a suitable replacement for Modric would have been a better idea to begin with. As it is, thanks to Levy's bad decision and sheer incompetence, we'll be lucky to get fifth, I think, and sixth or lower is a possibility.

Don't get me wrong. I really like Dembele and Lloris. And I've been a fan of Dempsey. But quite frankly giving dos Santos a good runout would have had a better chance of success, not to mention having some future to it. Dempsey's a good player, but he's old and even at his best not more than a sub level player for Spurs. He scored a ton last year because Dembele is very good and had no better target. Now that Dembele's got about four or five better ones, I'd be very surprised if Dempsey scores as much as VDV does. And he's three years (or so) older--wrong!--see below.

We've lost our two most creative players and gotten a significant downgrade for both, good as Dembele is. We threw away a brilliant chance for fourth, not thanks to some last second piece of bad luck from outside, but from one we managed to manufacture for ourselves. I am really angry, in case that isn't clear.

Having said all that, I'll continue to support the team and hope for the best. We should have CL last year and didn't. We shouldn't this year, so who knows, maybe we can.
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It seemed pretty clear at the time, I thought.
 
Somebody mentioned it elsewhere, but the sole reason we gave Sherwood an 18-month contract is so there is a pretense he will be in charge beyond the end of the season - although come the summer, we'll be getting a full-time replacement and Sherwood will be back with the academy.

The problem with this is whether the players will believe this obvious ruse, or go along with it.
 
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