Levy's Worst Player Deal

[Col_M]

That talk of Adebayor loan made me wonder which player deal is his worst Since taking the helm.

I have discounted the bad buys because they would be a joint decision when players were selected. There are TWO standout deals and I can't think which is worse.

Robie Keane - great deal selling him to Pool but he flopped and we bought him back for a shocking price and he was awful for us.

Emanuel Adebayor - had him on loan for peanuts, but despite having seen him at first hand Levy thought he'd outsmarted City. We are now lumbered with a huge wage and zero return.

Which is the worst? Or have I missed anyone worse than these two?

 

[mill]

Berbatov replaced by Campbell

 

[Col_M]

Berbatov replaced by Campbell

I disagree. He had little choice but to sell and he got a great price. FC was a make weight as we'd have been left with no cover.

 

[Gbspurs]

That talk of Adebayor loan made me wonder which player deal is his worst Since taking the helm.

I have discounted the bad buys because they would be a joint decision when players were selected. There are TWO standout deals and I can't think which is worse.

Robie Keane - great deal selling him to Pool but he flopped and we bought him back for a shocking price and he was awful for us.

Emanuel Adebayor - had him on loan for peanuts, but despite having seen him at first hand Levy thought he'd outsmarted City. We are now lumbered with a huge wage and zero return.

Which is the worst? Or have I missed anyone worse than these two?

Keano wasn't the same when he came back but he wasn't that bad. Still managed to get another hat trick I believe.

Adebayor blows hot and cold but again I wouldn't say he is that bad.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Bent and Bently. Both overpriced but worse, neither fitted the type of football we played. Completely illogical wastes of money

 

[Col_M]

Bent and Bently. Both overpriced but worse, neither fitted the type of football we played. Completely illogical wastes of money

But they would have been recommendations from he's scouting team so he's not so let responsible for them

 

[Capocrimini]

Buying Saha and Nelsen when we were 3rd in Jan few years back, with what a 12 point lead over the Gooners?

 

[mill]

I disagree. He had little choice but to sell and he got a great price. FC was a make weight as we'd have been left with no cover.

Yet you cite Keane 's return as 1 of yours, if we hadn't signed Keane we'd of had no cover and at least he contributed.

Why weren't we prepared for Berbatov to leave if we had little choice? Also if we'd have brought a proper replacement in we'd more likely than not signed Keane.

The January that followed, including the signing of Keane, could in part be traced back to the failure to replace Berbatov

 

[Bus-Conductor]

But they would have been recommendations from he's scouting team so he's not so let responsible for them

But the same goes for all of our signings I imagine.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

That talk of Adebayor loan made me wonder which player deal is his worst Since taking the helm.

I have discounted the bad buys because they would be a joint decision when players were selected. There are TWO standout deals and I can't think which is worse.

Robie Keane - great deal selling him to Pool but he flopped and we bought him back for a shocking price and he was awful for us.

Emanuel Adebayor - had him on loan for peanuts, but despite having seen him at first hand Levy thought he'd outsmarted City. We are now lumbered with a huge wage and zero return.

Which is the worst? Or have I missed anyone worse than these two?

I agree with the Keane deal as well. Brilliant business to sell him, catastrophic bringing him back.

Edit

In fact, selling him for 21m to Liverpool after 5/6 years of good service, with him vein very much on the down slide and irritating fans enormously with his bottling, having bought him for 7m was one of the best deals we ever did. Which is what made buying him back for 16m so bad.

 

[Col_M]

But the same hoes for all of our signings I imagine.

yeah you are probably right, I guess the "bargaining" for Keane and Ade when we KNEW what we were getting is what winds me up

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

Buying Saha and Nelsen when we were 3rd in Jan few years back, with what a 12 point lead over the Gooners?

Very typical redknapp signings

 

[Mustard]

Dear Ade.

Worst signing in the history of Spurs let alone in Teflon Dans tenure.

 

[Shea]

Bent, Bentley, Ade, Resigning Keane, Soldado, Paulinho, Lamela

I'd say Bent was at least sold for a decent amount so rule him out

Bentley really stands out as all we got back was a couple of loan fees, Keane is one of the most frustrating because we mugged Liverpool off with his fee then really let them off the hook but it was just writing debts off rather than spending money and to be fair he played a role in our pulling away from relegation at the time

Ade I agree, Levy was being smart and thinking he outsmarted Man City like he thought he outsmarted Chelsea with AVB - expected different results and didn't get them

Soldado could well be up there - depends on whether we have to pay the full £26m and how much we can get back for him

Lamela and Paulinho have both been pretty poor for the money paid so far but hopefully they will hold some resale value and not be as bad as the likes of Ade and Bentley

 

[parklane1]

Bentley.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

yeah you are probably right, I guess the "bargaining" for Keane and Ade when we KNEW what we were getting is what winds me up

I can fully understand the logic of gambling on Adebayor. On his day he's one of the best uber strikers in the EPL, Europe even. Has everything in his locker, strength, speed, power, technique, goals, assists. Which is why he'd played for some of the best clubs in Europe. He was fantastic for us that first season, one of the best combined goal/assist tallies in Europe.

We didn't pay a fee, and I think agreed to pay 80k per week of hits wages for three years with ManC bunging him a leaving fee to cover the rest. So he cost us about 12m.

I can understand the gamble completely, even knowing his history. Worth taking IMO.

 

[Capocrimini]

Also a strong argument would be about Baldini and the signings that we made during that summer we sold Bale. Other then Eriksen and Chadli the rest haven't been a success yet, a missed opportunity?

 

[Mustard]

I can fully understand the logic of gambling on Adebayor. On his day he's one of the best uber strikers in the EPL, Europe even. Has everything in his locker, strength, speed, power, technique, goals, assists. Which is why he'd played for some of the best clubs in Europe. He was fantastic for us that first season, one of the best combined goal/assist tallies in Europe.

We didn't pay a fee, and I think agreed to pay 80k per week of hits wages for three years with ManC bunging him a leaving fee to cover the rest. So he cost us about 12m.

I can understand the gamble completely, even knowing his history. Worth taking IMO.

I'm pretty sure we paid City around 6m in transfer fees and didn't they only cover one year?

 

[cornelius knob]

I disagree. He had little choice but to sell and he got a great price. FC was a make weight as we'd have been left with no cover.

Of course he had a choice. Berbatov was under contract, As was Bale, Modric, Carrick, etc.... It`s up to the chairman to show some mettle. Instead of cocentrating only on getting the highest fee.

 

[Spurger King]

Berbatov replaced by Campbell

This.

Lost our best player, and the lateness of the deal effectively forced us to be a testing ground for one of United's prospects (with no option to buy if he happened to be any good). An awful piece of business. Wasn't that the season where we got 2 points from our first 8 games? Levy well and truly fucked up with that one.