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Arthur Hucksake

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Hi guys,

Just wondered what you thought of our potential targets so far.

Names banded about which seem to be getting a lot of traction are...

Cambiasso
Ben Davies
Bony
Lovren

Would that improve us much?
 

dontcallme

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Mar 18, 2005
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Not really convinced by Ben Davies. He'd be a decent signing but nothing special.

Lovren would be a really good signing, especially if Kaboul doesn't comeback to his previous level.

Adebayor is better than Bony. The key is getting Ade to play, Bony would be a decent replacement if we can't get Ade playing.

Don't know about Cambiasso at this stage of his career. Haven't seen him in the last couple of years.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Worth mentioning is the lack of news/reports regarding players who could leave. Key this summer is to keep all the players we'd want to keep.

I'd love Bony, and would have real faith in him if he signed.

Otherwise I agree with dontcallme.
 

rabbikeane

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Mar 29, 2005
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Left back, centre back and striker links are sober but needed targets
Nothing earth shattering, but players that will fill into positions we're lacking.
Not lift our talent level, but make us more solid and reliable.
I'm happy enough with it to be honest, think we have a lot of talent that can take off if given the opportunity (Lamela, Holtby, Pritchard, Kane, Bentaleb, Chiriches)
 

Flashspur

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the thought of Wayne Rooney's infamous 48-year-old grandmother ho known as ‘Auld Slapper’ would make me more excited at this point...meh
 

robin09

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I think we'll be targeting players with PL experience, after getting our fingers burnt last summer going the other way. While also possibly a couple of south americans due to the Pochettino effect.

We can't compete financially with the other big clubs, so we have to take whoever is left over until the bloody stadium is built.
 

Borks

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To those that aren't happy with the potential targets, who would you prefer?

I see this a lot in football, Naughton is a good example. He plays back-up to Walker, he's probably fully aware that he won't be a first choice RB but he's happy to play second fiddle and also fill in at LB when asked to. We all know he's not world class but he's adequate cover for both positions. However, a lot of Spurs fans love going on about how useless he is and how we need to replace him with someone a lot better, someone who is more top 4 than bottom half PL status. Well you find me a player who is happy to play second choice RB and LB that is good enough for what you class as top 4. You can't get the best of both worlds, especially at a club that aren't top 4.

Sorry to take the thread off on a tangent but it's a similar principle. Spurs can only attract a certain calibre of player due to our finances, size of the club, finishing positions in recent seasons etc. We can't expect to sign world class players in every position, it's simply deluded to think the very best players will choose us over the moneybags clubs. For us, it's about finding good, motivated players that aren't going to cost the world and that ain't easy.
 
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teok

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I'm hoping this time round all our transfer targets are poch's. If any thing not having the crazy bale money means we are given more realistic targets and it's less about having to bring the "Beatles" in and more just good players.

Lukaku is a complete no brainer if we can deal with chlesea. Davies looks promising and I'd be happy with him. I'm not sure who else is a concrete target but so far so good.
 

Archibald&Crooks

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Ah, fer Fucks Sake ;)

Opinions on 'potential' targets is why there's
A: The Transfer Rumours forum
and
B: Threads on aformentioned targets

This is all already VERY well catered for =
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