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if thus is true, ridiculous!
We know it's not true. Poch wanted Lo Celso over Fernandes, Villa got taken over and pulled the plug on Grealish leaving, Dybala was about image rights but dunno about Ward Prowse.
if thus is true, ridiculous!
‘At different times, Hitchen negotiated deals for Bruno Fernandes, Paulo Dybala, Jack Grealish and James Ward-Prowse only for the club to back out of completing the transfers over financial issues.’
Matt Law
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Nonsense.
Not doubting you Trix and I think we have seen many snippets from you rating him very highly. I mean he can be very well-regarded, being good in his skill sets and well-liked, but the matter of fact is he still has to convince his boss(es)/coaches and work on ways to be deemed important and to be heard for others to use him the way he wants and not overruled. He is definitely empowered to do so but it just feels to me he's ok to live by this until Paratici came.Sad but it was coming. He's far better than he's both given credit for, and also than we've used him.
He is good. Never really had the power to do things he should have had. Often over ruled financially by Levy or ignored by Poch etc. He was basically bumped down the pecking order too when FP came in. Good luck to him, but I expect he already has something in the pipeline though knowing Steve.
Yeah well I don't get Matt Law too wrong with the players he's mentioned being pushed for by Hitchen. Also the likes of Teilemens as an alternative for Poch.Anyone 'In The'Know' thinks very highly of him. hope we get our scouting sorted out quickly
If you stick to buying EFL players for small fees you don’t get much criticism. You get the odd success and are praised accordingly. Hitchen was supposedly an expert in the French market. Tanguy has put paid to that, never mind Njie and Nkoudou.Lol that’s ludicrous that he’s used that to slate the club. What a complete wanker Law is.
As for Hitchen, I was surprised he didn’t leave when Paratici came in. That was never going to work having two directors of football, and you could see there was a bit of political leaking going on to the press over the last couple of weeks.
He has made some awful signings in his time here too, so it’ll be interesting to see how he gets on at Everton, which is a step down. You’d imagine he might get some more successes when he’s fighting a lower level of clubs for signatures.
Yep definitely a good thing he's going. Hitchens time here has been characterized by failure.I think this has to be seen as a good thing for Spurs.
Hitchen was here for five years, spent hundreds of millions in that time, and we’ve seen pretty poor return on investment. While we’ve got in a handful of good players who start regularly - Sanchez, Lucas, Hojbjerg, Reguilon - we haven’t had a true transfer ‘hit’ since Hitchen came in. Whereas in the years before, Dier, Dele, Alderweireld, Son, and Wanyama were all hits.
When Hitchen has spent big, it’s backfired. Lo Celso and Ndombele have fallen far short of expectations, while Sessegnon and Bergwijn haven’t come close to justifying a ~£55m outlay on the pair of them.
I’ve seen a few in this thread saying that we’ll miss his ability to identify young English talents, but again, I can’t agree. £52m has been spent across Sessegnon, Clarke, and Rodon - Sessegnon and Clarke have gone backwards over the last three years, while Rodon hasn’t played and clearly isn’t rated by Conte.
Our signings since 2017. Have any been great business View attachment 105020
Pretty short statement, no mention of him scouting for over 100 years for us.Club statement – Steve Hitchen | Tottenham Hotspur
We can confirm that Technical Performance Director Steve Hitchen has left the Club.www.tottenhamhotspur.com
40 odd words after 10+ years of service. We're becoming experts at the brief outro hahaClub statement – Steve Hitchen | Tottenham Hotspur
We can confirm that Technical Performance Director Steve Hitchen has left the Club.www.tottenhamhotspur.com