To be fair, if injuries didn't plague the squad we'd be in a better position to judge.
We'll never know.
We did ok to get Solanke and Richarlison, despite being overcharged. If both were fit more often we'd have done much better over the last two seasons. I'm not sure who else we could have got instead. You tell me. I don't see many PL teams above us with wildly better strikers if all are fit.
Muani as a third striker on loan was not a bad idea on paper, but he simply hasn't been good enough.
Which of these players have come in since Son left?
When I say replacing goals the main crime was about Son and Johnson. LW & RW.
Tel is developing and needs a stronger left winger alongside him. I wish we had gone all out on Semenyo when Ange first had the desire for the player. Tel and Semenyo would have been a solid LW department. I think Tel will improve.
We should have bolstered the LW and not relied on Tel to be the number one in that position in the absence of Son.
Odobert has obviously been hampered with injuries, so I think it's unfair to judge him.
Kudus, great signing, but again needed another fit backup. Kudus and Kulusevski both great signings hampered by injuries. We got rid of Johnson, because he isn't good enough apparently despite bailing us out of many a game and scoring the winning goal in the EL final, but we were left with Muani as the only fit RW and we saw how that worked out.
We should have bolstered the RW and not relied on Kudus to be fit the whole time.
I'm glad we got Simons in the absence of MGW, without him we'd definitely be relegated considering Madison's injury. I believe there is still a place in the squad for MGW as Simons is injured and he can do a job at RW too. Plus, we don't know when Kulu will return. I'd have had Rodgers, but he was never coming.
Haaland transfered for £51.2m. Semenyo was £62.5.
By your logic it would have been wise to not any of Tel, Odobert, Simons etc. and get £80m players instead.
Which £80m+ players are you thinking of that we should have signed? Instead of whom?
You are justified in asking that question but I don't think it's fair to demand an answer from me, firstly because as I've said - right now we aren't an attractive enough proposal for that calibre of player, but for a broader reason too:
I don't know because we've literally never tried it.
I think back to Semenyo in the summer, and Frank's pathetic little 'we tried so we are ambitious after all' speech in January.
If we'd waved £90m at Bmouth and made him our highest earner, would that have worked? CL football and the chance to step into and fill Son's shoes. I imagine he might have been tempted.
But we'll never know because we refused to go above £70m and also didn't match City's wage offer.
Spurs have had three very obvious chances to really push on and approach that bracket of player:
1) At our peak under Poch
2) When Jose was manager
3) When Conte was manager
All three of those are massive pulls for ambitious players in that top tier, but on each occasion we as usual went for quantity over quality.
Under Jose we spent £70m on Rodon, Hojbjerg, Reguilon and Doherty. Why? Would it have been any worse to just consolidate that into £70m on one truly class player and let academy products fill those other roles? Our best signing that window was an ageing Bale on loan.
Under Conte we spent £85m on Richarlison, Spence and Udogie. Same question.
We don't know who we could realistically get in because we're apparently too scared to properly try.
The alternative is to carry on spending £40-60m on players worth no more than half that, simply because the selling team knows that we have more than enough money to pay.
