The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - DEADLINE DAY

[Sandros Shiny Head]

I miss last season

 

[Daredevil]

The Benny loan makes sense to me.

AVB clearly didn't see him in his first team plans and he reportedly couldn't pass a medical elsewhere. We also may have realised we weren't going to bring in a new LB that we wanted so if worse comes to worse we can always recall Benny between now and January.

In the meantime we've got at least a chunk of his wages off the books and Tom has another familiar face to help him bed in at QPR.

Plus, if we'd have signed Lamela, Eriksen and Chiriches all today instead of last week I think most people would be thrilled.

I still am.

 

[King of Otters]

By giving us a record fee for a player who is, in no way, worth more than Cristiano Ronaldo?

The bastards.

Madrid can't make players come to us. It seems many forget that there are actually players who are people with their own will who are the subject of these million pound deals. Not a random asset. A person who has a say.

Still, it must go down as a slight breach of form that they choose to recoup half of that fee by directly strengthening our closest rivals, old sport.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

When do we close this then ?

Not quite yet. There will be a Post Mortem thread tomorrow and after that it'll stay up for a few days until we take it down ready to start again in December.

 

[bryanabutler]

Now that my head is clear, my hope is that we are saving our additional funds for the January transfer window. Lets play out the three months, let the newcomers gel (including Rose and Townsend), and reevaluate the squad at that time. A guy like Coentrao, who was reluctant to move down a class in clubs, might be a little more disillusioned at Real after playing the first few months w/ little first team opportunities in a World Cup year. I think you will have quite a few unhappy players at big clubs come January where we can get some good value for our money.

We should be able to cope at LB w/o BAE. Rose first team, Verts/Fryers/Naughton to cover. Not ideal, but no worse than our situation last year and something we can manage for a few weeks.

IMO.There was talk that Coentrao, went to UTD on loan

 

[dovahkiin]

those 2 qpr deals are strange, for different reasons

 

[faulks]

Perez wins over Levy!

We sell our best player to them but fiddle around too much.
He sells a world-class midfielder to NL rivals- knowing the effects of that
Stitches up over FC- our main LB target

You are making the assumption that FC would even want to come to us.

 

[Shadydan]

Yes but they've also strengthened our main rivals This partnership is clearly bollox which is frustrating. I guess we wanted the perfect window which it nearly was!

Oh come on, you can't not expect them to turn down multi million pound moves just like that

As if they're gonna turn down a £42m offer just because it's one of our rivals, do you know how stupid that sounds

 

[Graysonti]

So now that it's all over, what was our net transfer spend?

£86m for Bale plus another £23m for Caulker, Huddlestone, Dempsey & Parker less £109m spent = nil...

So what happened to the £40m war chest and the £50m loan from Joe Lewis?

Just asking...

Maybe we will spend it January ?

 

[M.I.B.]

So many dicks on a deadline day. We done great business. Seven players with a zero net spend, wtf is there to complain about because we didn't sign a LB and another forward and because they signed Ozil. Name me one club who had a perfect window?

Real Madrid?

 

[Spurger King]

Just imagine being a Newcastle fan right now.

I wouldn't. I tried it once and within minutes gained 3 stone and started shouting in a mock-Scottish accent at traffic.

 

[Gedson100]

Benny gone and not replaced. No striker signed WTF. Best player gone too. AVB do you know what you are doing?

Lost yesterday because no one understands the game is about PASSION.

RIP Spurs

As Benny would say himself: LOL.

 

[Stoof]

Yeah, nevermind the world record fee we pulled out of them.

They would never sign an agreement saying player x can't go to a certain club if they were to buy Bale. If it was roles reversed we'd be laughing in their faces for suggesting the notion.

End of the day it is all business.

Would be anti-competitive and against an awful lot of European Competition Law. Think price fixing etc.

 

[paige09]

Hopefully we will find our weakness by January and target that with money we didn't spend today. We signed 7 new players, 5 new starters. Got to let them gel before identifying a weakness and attacking it.

New Striker - check / Soldado
10 - check and backup / Eriksen Lamela
Winger - Check check check Chadli Lamela and the emergence of Townsend. While retaining Lennon and Siggy
Midfield - Check Check with Paulinho / Capoue and Sandros return
LB - Negative but I don't think playing Vert out of position at times will decimate us.
CB - Kaboul coming back is as good as a new signing and Chiriches

5/6 isn't is not bad. We actually have a squad now rather than a starting xi.

 

[King of Otters]

I miss last season

What, when we thought we signed Moutinho, the answer to all our wet dream and just....didn't?

Yeah, that was coooool.

 

[lukadownthelane]

Ade better want it if we're gonna do something this year

 

[SlunkSoma]

I think some frustration on here is born by the fact that we were 'expecting' a big name players. That's not the case, there were evidently big players on the move (Mata, Ozil) and we are flush so understandable we'd have a go. No where near nailed on, and I for one am glad we haven't needed to resort to a Daniel Levy special, as they often turned out to be wank. We did our business early, and pushed back one of the power houses in football in order to disrupt arsenals deals. Yes they signed Ozil, but I think we gave them only enough time to sign one big money player, rather than 3 or 4.

I love a good deadline day excitement, well I do when we sign van der Vaart and not Charlie Adam, but its all a bit of nonsense really. I think we have a balanced squad - some weaknesses fine but there has to be a balance in bringing in new players to retaining incumbents otherwise you are leaving yourself open to the dangers of players not settling.

All in all, excellent work Mr Levy and Mr Baldini. Over to you Andre.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Good day for Danny Rose though.

He will sleep well tonight, so long as he hasn't watched any highlights of the Scum game that is.

 

[venablesphil]

Cheers for all the information and discussion everyone, it's been a great window on here, thoroughly enjoyable - pretty sure I've never said that about a Spurs window before!
Some brilliant business done by the club, and done relatively early too.
Would have liked a left-back, and sincerely hope it doesn't result in Vertonghen playing 20-odd games at left-back this season, as in my opinion he's wasted there.
Pleased Lennon hasn't gone, and hope he'll be involved in the plans, as from what I've seen so far we lack a bit of pace and invention, and I suspect Lamela may take a while to adjust to the Premier League and may even need to bulk up a little, as Bale did before becoming such a force.
Think we've got good adaptable options all over the pitch, and once we've established our best team and they've got used to playing together we'll be a force.
The league should be fascinating this year - I expect Chelsea and City to be strong, can't believe United haven't done more business; Ozil is one hell of a signing for Arsenal, truly jealous of that, but they're still short in several areas; and Liverpool have signed some good players and should be a dynamic attacking force this season. The top 6 is going to be one hell of a bun fight, but we must be in with a very good shout of the top four with the business we've done.
Thumbs up to all concerned, thanks to A&C and the mods, and ta ta and thanks for the memories JJ.
Now, who said I was a negative little ****?

I did, and you are (most of the time) but we love you for it. Here's to an exciting season!

 

[spurs9]

Really disappointed Carroll has gone to QPR. He needs to be around Premier League quality players not only so he can learn but also so our staff can see how good he really is. Being one of the best midfielders in the Championship isn't going to say a lot.

Disagree. Kyle Walker went to QPR when they were in the Championship, then in the Jan window, we recalled him and he went to Villa, when he returned from that loan, he was our first choice RB. Could be a good move for him.