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The Summer Transfer Window POST MORTEM THREAD

punky

Gone
Sep 23, 2008
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A billionaire American owner who loves the NFL.

A tried and tested recipe for success... :cautious::ROFLMAO:

Says it all really, when we have fans who want random billionnaire US businessmen rather than someone who has been a lifelong fan and season ticket holder of the club.

Or better yet, a despotic foreign leader or middle eastern royal family member whose regime likes a bit of torture on the side.
 

tooey

60% banana
Apr 22, 2005
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Hey Spammers, dislikers, d’ohers, disagreers and smiley facers...

Never forget??

Hopefully wrong on Alderweireld though??

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On the window as a whole....
Extremely disappointed, but not surprised in the slightest. Unfortunately, this is what these owners are all about. Doubt they will ever change and will always have an excuse about something.
I think the main problem is expectations. We all expected, like most teams, to try and improve our first team. It became obvious a long time ago we never intended to spend this summer.
Was going to have a major rant, but I’m so drained from this window that just can’t be fucked anymore. What I will say is these owners are not the right people to take us to where we want to go.
Trying to get positive... On reflection, and as long as Toby, Dembele and Rose stay, I still feel confident we can still make it into the top four.

COYS

Well done mate, you were right all along, you really showed those upbeat positive prats what for. Never stop being pessamistic and then quoting yourself. People love folk who say "told you so".
 

Styopa

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Jan 19, 2014
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Just two quality signings could have made the world of difference. Just two. The whole mood going into the new season would be totally different. It would have given everyone a lift. As things stand it feels like we’re starting the season under a cloud. I only hope Pochettino can use this to galvanise the squad into kind of siege mentality.
 

Johnny J

Not the Kiwi you need but the one you deserve
Aug 18, 2012
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You can't buy people for just 'at the moment' though can you.

Thing is, anyway you spin it we still have 5 CMS ranging from competent to very good who will all expect significant game time when fit. We may not like the players there, but we have more than enough depth, and whatever you think of Dier, Pochettino clearly sees him as one of our best players.
I know your whole schtick is to be relentlessly positive (and I respect that) but Sissoko is objectively not a competent CM. The fact that we'll need to play him there means we don't have sufficient quality or depth.

And I didn't say we should buy "just for the moment". We should buy for the long term and then flog players like Sissoko abroad. A quality CM would make the world of difference.
 

ikky

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Dec 6, 2006
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mark87

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Nov 29, 2004
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One thing that is of utmost importance, anyone going to the home games, we absolutely cannot boo. It's not the players fault we didn't sign anyone, if you boo they wont like it, even if it is aimed at levy, the players will think it's at them and we cannot have that. The players need our support more than ever, back the players, back the team, back poch and back the club. COYS.
 

geordiespur

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Aug 23, 2010
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Levy won’t ever change. It’s clear he is a control freak, who maybe believes his own hype. The scary thing is he needs to learn to delegate stuff away to well qualified, capable individuals and just oversee progress as a chairman should. Will that happen? Probably not and the cycle will just repeat and repeat until Poch goes because of it and the fan backlash will be unprecedented or ENIC sell up
 

S17PUR

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Aug 31, 2006
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I actually feel that the club has let down the supporters massively this summer in more ways than one.

The new stadium should have been an opportunity to further the relationship with the fans, but the massive ticket price increases and introduction of premium tickets within the single-tier stand left an incredibly sour taste. I renewed my ticket for the 13th season (despite the 450 mile round trip every fortnight) but had to accept moving to a corner as I couldn't afford an equivalent seat to mine at White Hart Lane.

I make big sacrifices in terms of my time, social and family life to follow Spurs, and it's also a big financial commitment. I feel that I'm well within my rights to expect that the club makes financial commitments to improving the squad too.

Yes, we've invested in the new stadium and I'm sure it'll be wonderful, but I support the team. I'd sit on the floor in a wooden stand if I had to, and I'd honestly sooner we'd stayed at White Hart Lane and invested in the team if it was a choice between one or the other. The thing is that we were told it wasn't. We were explicitly told that transfer funds would be available. So why haven't we bought anyone?

I've not seen one good enough reason to explain why we've not signed a single player to improve our squad. We're not Manchester City having just stormed the league. We scraped a third place that realistically Liverpool should have taken had they not been involved in the Champions League Final. There are plenty of areas in our squad that could be improved fairly easily in terms of identifying the necessary personnel.

It looks like we're struggling to sell tickets to the Fulham game and I hope that this sends a message to the club that the fans aren't happy. My personal protest at the club's lack of business will be to not buy the new shirt for the first time in 13 years. I feel like the club treats me as a customer, and I actually resent giving them money when they won't spend it themselves, as petty as that sounds.

I was already thinking that this season might be my last as a season ticket holder (the travel is a fucking nightmare), but the lack of investment combined with the ticket prices may just tip me over the edge.
 

ToDarrenIsToDo

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Aug 22, 2017
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By not throwing money around like it's going out of business I think we've done the right thing ensuring we don't get mugged off in the future. Bayern Munich always have wonderful players yet their transfer record is less than ours I believe. Show your hand and what you're willing to pay and teams from all over the world will top up what they'd be prepared to accept by a further £10m-£20m.

If we continue sticking to our guns we may miss out on class but we won't pay over the top for showponies & flash in the pans. In the future when Tottenham come calling teams will know they need to treat us with more respect when negotiating because we value and respect monies worth. Like it or not it is the right thing to do both short, medium and long term under Levy's & ENICS ownership
 

DFF

YOLO, Daniel
May 17, 2005
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I totally understand that, I suspect the difference is that I have never been convinced that one or two new names would take us to this fabled next level and suspect we'd actually get in a couple of make weight types - so I'm relatively pleased.

Obviously if a genuinely special player became available and was willing to sign up to our wage structure - which is improved but still not up there with the big boys as far as I know? I also am concerned about our midfield but I think that Levy and Poch have earned my trust and if they are confident then I have to be too.

Poch seems reasonably calm and happy here


Stockholm Syndrome, you can see it in his eyes
 

SEANSPURS1975

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Sep 21, 2005
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Well done mate, you were right all along, you really showed those upbeat positive prats what for. Never stop being pessamistic and then quoting yourself. People love folk who say "told you so".

Just abit of fun mate?? Oh and thanks for the advice.
 

St José Dominguez

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Jul 15, 2014
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One thing I'm very glad about is we didn't panic buy and buy another absolute turnip who we end up unable to shift in future. Ignoring completely the should we have signed someone/got a deal done thing I really hope we've realised its better to buy no one than just add squad fillers. Let youth players fill out the squad but next year maybe just maybe improve the team.
 
May 17, 2018
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Says it all really, when we have fans who want random billionnaire US businessmen rather than someone who has been a lifelong fan and season ticket holder of the club.

Or better yet, a despotic foreign leader or middle eastern royal family member whose regime likes a bit of torture on the side.

Yes, it's a bit of a sad situation.

Part of me likes the thought of Usmanov getting the ultimate "fuck you" to Kroenke by buying Spurs and annihilating them (arse), but I think I would feel like the club had lost its soul if we became that.

I think Poch has it right by saying that you "have to do it differently", as there are several teams just trying to buy their way to the top, and in recent seasons we've shown a glimpse of that not being the most effective and stable way of improving (we've been the most consistent team of the last 3 seasons). I hope we do find a way to bring through club-grown players successfully and consistently, as it's simply the perfect way of doing things.
 
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Spursmatty87

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Jul 7, 2016
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1.Should we of signed a squad filler? no way rather give a young player a chance.

2. Should we of signed a cm that would improve our starting 11? Absolutely

Not sure we really needed a fw/winger. Would of been a bonus not urgent requirement.
Be easy to blame Levy(rightfully so). But I also think it shows that we aren’t eating at the top table. Players still prefer United, Liverpool and chavs over us. Hopefully this improves over time.
 

Lennon1981

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Jun 30, 2011
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Today has been shit properly shit, I’m not happy that we haven’t improved but you what shit happens we can’t change it now so this is the squad we’ve got.

Season starts in 2 days, move in to the new stadium in a month and a bit!!

Once the season starts this will all be forgotten like it always is. Yeah we’re disappointed but come on the season starts in 2 DAYS!!!!

I’m excited anyway COYS
 

Blackrat1299

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Jan 8, 2006
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So impressed with his interview/presentation. He comes across so articulate and his knowledge comes across quite strongly.
 

trasores

Butterfly chicken
Feb 20, 2006
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everybody saying that they didn't want us to do a "Leeds", but guess what - we did.

First team to spend no money in the transfer window since Leeds Utd (who got Jody Morris on a free)
 

SpartanSpur

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Jan 27, 2011
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By not throwing money around like it's going out of business I think we've done the right thing ensuring we don't get mugged off in the future. Bayern Munich always have wonderful players yet their transfer record is less than ours I believe. Show your hand and what you're willing to pay and teams from all over the world will top up what they'd be prepared to accept by a further £10m-£20m.

If we continue sticking to our guns we may miss out on class but we won't pay over the top for showponies & flash in the pans. In the future when Tottenham come calling teams will know they need to treat us with more respect when negotiating because we value and respect monies worth. Like it or not it is the right thing to do both short, medium and long term under Levy's & ENICS ownership

I appreciate that but if Bayern Munich came in for Eriksen next week you wouldn't want us to give them a discount would you?

We were trying in many cases to buy players that teams didn't want to sell. I don't want to sell my house but if someone offered me 50% more than it's worth (i.e. £65-75m for Zaha) I'd probably take it. Money talks.

I just hope Poch and the lads can deliver top4 and or a trophy this year, to spare Levy's blushes. I don't want this journey with Poch to end yet.
 
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