Spurs and our record signings

[rsmith]

With DS and TN offski for peanuts, it got me thinking about our record signings through the years and I'm struggling to think of any that were successful enough to warrant the price we paid. Was Rebrov a record signing, or Pav, Soldado, Bent, ? Anybody with better memory than me remember who they've been over the years and why they tend to fail so miserably?

 

[Gassin's finest]

I believe Gazza was a record signing? He was alright.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Was Klinsmann perhaps? Or Les Ferdinand or Robbie Keane?
Dean Richards?
But yes mostly our record signings at the time have almost all worked out terribly.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Darren Bent...

 

[yido_number1]

Postiga

 

[Thenewcat]

List is in the article below. TLDR: it’s a disaster since Gazza. Armstrong, Ferdinand, Rebrov, Bent, Paulinho, soldado, Lamela, Sissoko, Sanchez, Ndombele. Says something when Sissoko is comfortably the best of the bunch

Tottenham's record signings and what happened next

A closer look at Tottenham Hotspur's club record signings in the Premier League era, with some enjoying far more success than others

www.football.london

 

[wrd]

So we're due a good one guys, let's get the cheque book out!

 

[Led's Zeppelin]

Jimmy Greaves

 

[Tucker]

We don’t have much luck with record signings.

 

[JSpurs1]

Has anyone had luck with record signings really?

Pepe, Pogba, Haller, Antony, Maguire, Sancho, Nunez, Havertz, Kepa, Di Maria.

It’s not just us

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

List is in the article below. TLDR: it’s a disaster since Gazza. Armstrong, Ferdinand, Rebrov, Bent, Paulinho, soldado, Lamela, Sissoko, Sanchez, Ndombele. Says something when Sissoko is comfortably the best of the bunch

Tottenham's record signings and what happened next

A closer look at Tottenham Hotspur's club record signings in the Premier League era, with some enjoying far more success than others

www.football.london

I’d rank them something like:
1. Gazza
2. Sissoko
3. Ferdinand
4. Armstrong
5. Sanchez
6. Lamela
7. Bent
8. Soldado
9. Rebrov
10. Pauliniho
11. Ndombele

That is a quite incredible list. Gazza aside pretty much none of them were worth the money, only Ferdinand, Sissoko, Armstrong and Sanchez were half decent and that’s being kind considering they were our record signings at the time, the rest of the list were an incredible waste of money.

I think the article misses out Dean Richards god rest his soul who for a while looked pretty decent in a very poor spurs side.

But yea absolutely incredible how bad our ‘record’ signings have been, especially considering some of the incredible players we’ve bought for fractions of the prices.

Just shows spending big isn’t everything but spending big this wrong so often is also someone’s fault…

 

[Thenewcat]

I’d rank them something like:
1. Gazza
2. Sissoko
3. Ferdinand
4. Armstrong
5. Sanchez
6. Lamela
7. Bent
8. Soldado
9. Rebrov
10. Pauliniho
11. Ndombele

That is a quite incredible list. Gazza aside pretty much none of them were worth the money, only Ferdinand, Sissoko, Armstrong and Sanchez were half decent and that’s being kind considering they were our record signings at the time, the rest of the list were an incredible waste of money.

I think the article misses out Dean Richards god rest his soul who for a while looked pretty decent in a very poor spurs side.

But yea absolutely incredible how bad our ‘record’ signings have been, especially considering some of the incredible players we’ve bought for fractions of the prices.

Just shows spending big isn’t everything but spending big this wrong so often is also someone’s fault…

I think Ferdinand is way too high (33 league goals in 6 seasons, never more than 10) - Darren Bent had a better record. And then Coco is way too low - 177 games for spurs, including being an important part of Poch’s early breakthrough side. Otherwise would agree so Lamela up to 3 and Ferdinand down to 7

 

[Fergus]

Here's a few record signings who did OK

Danny Blanchflower, December 1954, £30,000 from Aston Villa
Cliff Jones, February 1958, £35,000 from Swansea City
Jimmy Greaves, December 1961, £99,999 from AC Milan
Martin Chivers, Kanuary 1968, £125,000 from Southampton
Martin Peters, March 1970, £200,000 from West Ham
Ricardo Villa, June 1978, £375,000 from Racing Club
Steve Archibald, May 1980, £800,000 from Aberdeen
Paul Stewart, June 1988, £1,200,000 from Manchester City
Paul Gascoigne, July 1988, £2,000,000 from Newcastle United
Teddy Sheringham, August 1992, £2,100,000 from Nottingham Forest

Atter that, it's all downhill until

Les Ferdinand, August 1997, £6,000,000 from Newcastle United

After that, it's all downhill again unless you think Darren bent was worth £16,500,000 in 2007 money.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Big Les was class, what's going on here?

 

[Thenewcat]

Here's a few record signings who did OK

Danny Blanchflower, December 1954, £30,000 from Aston Villa
Cliff Jones, February 1958, £35,000 from Swansea City
Jimmy Greaves, December 1961, £99,999 from AC Milan
Martin Chivers, Kanuary 1968, £125,000 from Southampton
Martin Peters, March 1970, £200,000 from West Ham
Ricardo Villa, June 1978, £375,000 from Racing Club
Steve Archibald, May 1980, £800,000 from Aberdeen
Paul Stewart, June 1988, £1,200,000 from Manchester City
Paul Gascoigne, July 1988, £2,000,000 from Newcastle United
Teddy Sheringham, August 1992, £2,100,000 from Nottingham Forest

Atter that, it's all downhill until

Les Ferdinand, August 1997, £6,000,000 from Newcastle United

After that, it's all downhill again unless you think Darren bent was worth £16,500,000 in 2007 money.

You think Les Ferdinand was worth the money? He was a massive failure, a worse goals per game record than Armstrong or Bent and couldn’t stay fit either

 

[fieryjack]

I still blame Ferdinand for losing to Blackburn in Cardiff.

 

[fecka]

In today's football, record signings have a fairly iffy hit rate in general I believe and I don't think ours has been much worse than for example Utds. However, our transfer business for a majority of the last decade is likely one of the reasons we hit a glass ceiling a few years ago with Poch. We didn't have a good signing for years and looking back at the last decade pre-Paratici is pretty grim.

 

[DogsOfWar]

In today's football, record signings have a fairly iffy hit rate in general I believe and I don't think ours has been much worse than for example Utds. However, our transfer business for a majority of the last decade is likely one of the reasons we hit a glass ceiling a few years ago with Poch. We didn't have a good signing for years and looking back at the last decade pre-Paratici is pretty grim.

It's not quite a decade, more like 5 years (although I'm not defending 5 years), between 2016 and 2021 during Poch's reign.

The entire team, with the exception of Lloris, Kane, and Son, were replaced by sub-par players for reasonable/high fees.

It certainly was a 'painful' re-build....

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

Here's a few record signings who did OK

Danny Blanchflower, December 1954, £30,000 from Aston Villa
Cliff Jones, February 1958, £35,000 from Swansea City
Jimmy Greaves, December 1961, £99,999 from AC Milan
Martin Chivers, Kanuary 1968, £125,000 from Southampton
Martin Peters, March 1970, £200,000 from West Ham
Ricardo Villa, June 1978, £375,000 from Racing Club
Steve Archibald, May 1980, £800,000 from Aberdeen
Paul Stewart, June 1988, £1,200,000 from Manchester City
Paul Gascoigne, July 1988, £2,000,000 from Newcastle United
Teddy Sheringham, August 1992, £2,100,000 from Nottingham Forest

Atter that, it's all downhill until

Les Ferdinand, August 1997, £6,000,000 from Newcastle United

After that, it's all downhill again unless you think Darren bent was worth £16,500,000 in 2007 money.

Ossie?

 

[wrd]

Let's be honest, how often do people who spend large sums of money ever do it for the right reasons?

The vast majority of the time, it is more about the statement it makes, In football and in life. I remember in Moneyball, they have a quote at the end about the wage and it said, it's not about the money, it's about what the money says.

I think if we as fans understood that, we'd see our desire to see large expenditure is built around the idea that we correlate seeing the board spending big money on transfers with the idea that they value the fans. The value isn't about the player to the fans, it's about feeling like the club value us and mean business.

I can imagine how it may be perceived that I'm against Levy this summer, particular around the Kane situation but I truly believe he showed he values the club by choosing infrastructure and that stadium, that was showing true value to the club/fans. My issue's with the board is the approach to risk and the use of the fruits of the tree that he planted. I think true value stems next from the infrastructure of the Scouting structure and the Youth Development. This is where we see the value.

One of these Levy accounts on here, show him I'm worth listening to and I'll act as shaman.