Which signing got you most excited?

[Roy's Racers]

Moussa Dembele for me! I remember we played Fulham at thier place in the FA Cup and we got mullered. Dembele was dribbling from their box to ours and our players were bouncing off him like a rodeo bull. Remember thinking why don't we sign players like him? Amazing player. Honourable mentions to Edgar Davids, Rafael VDV and Ndomble.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Gary Lineker was my hero as a 12 year old so it’s probably him.

 

[topper]

Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa in 1978

Argentina had just won the world cup, then these two dropped in after we were promoted back to Div 1.

Those two were real statement signings. Ossie, at that time, was probably the highest profile signing Div 1 had seen.

Yep, by a distance. You have to remember we were a newly promoted club (albeit with some history!) and had been through the glamour and occasion of a World Cup so to see two stars of the World Cup winning side rock up at WHL was unbelievable.

 

[Metalhead]

Simple question, and regardless of their success with us (as I’m sure we’ve all got excited about a few flops), which Spurs signings got you most excited?

In my youth, I think it must’ve been Klinsmann for his second stint. I was 12 and one of my earliest memories of football was his initial departure, so to see him returning in the midst of our absolute dreadful season was pulsating.

A few years in, Robbie Keane. Championship Manager legend who you’d always sign from Wolves at 17, and had just had an amazing World Cup too. Really felt that him coming in would signal the beginning of a new Dawn under Hoddle. Little did we know…

Edgar Davids a few years later. A bit past it perhaps, but the first time we’d signed a bona fida world superstar since Klinsmann. That summer on SC was hilarious too.

Soldado, I really believed he was going to bring us that spark that we’d been missing up front, and that with the rest of the Bale money signings we’d be set to play good football filled with goals. I watched La Liga more than this league at the time and really felt we were getting 20 goals a season with him. Oh how wrong I was.

Which players excited you most when they signed and why?

All the ones you mentioned plus Ginola.

 

[Col_M]

Four/Seven for me

Ardiles/Villa. That ‘78 World Cup had such an impact on 12yo me, the goals tbe ticker tape, Mario Kempes. A few days later the sun popped through the letter box. I went to fetch it for my dad and as always peaked at page 3 before going to the back page. What a pair!!!

Klinnsman//Dumitresu/Popescu. On the back of the USA’94 World Cup. Klinnsman was diving like one of those blow up waves arm things you see outside car show rooms. He particularly disgusted me diving for a penalty to beat plucky South Korea who were huge underdogs at the time. I LOATHED him.

Meanwhile Romania were outstanding, some fantastic football and magic goals. Orchestrated by Georghie Hagi who was probably the best player in that tournament.

I was driving on the M27 eastbound when the news came on, then the sport’s and they announced Klinnsman. I was raging. I soon changed my mind.

Gazza - an obvious talent with a streak of genius mixed with madness. How we persuaded him to come to us over Ferguson’s United still baffles me

Rebrov. - he was the strike partner for Shevchenko at Dynamo Kiev and for the Ukraine national side. Both prolific but we al knew that Rebrov was the brains of the operation. Didn’t we? Well, we were all wrong. Remembered as a CB radio enthusiast because he didn’t have any friends.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Four/Five for me

Ardiles/Villa. That ‘78 World Cup had such an impact on 12yo me, the goals tbe ticker tape, Mario Kempes. A few days later the sun popped through the letter box. I went to fetch it for my dad and as always peaked at page 3 before going to the back page. What a pair!!!

Klinnsman//Dumitresu/Popescu. On the back of the USA’94 World Cup. Klinnsman was diving like one of those blow up waves arm things you see outside car show rooms. He particularly disgusted me diving for a penalty to beat plucky South Korea who were huge underdogs at the time. I LOATHED him.

Meanwhile Romania were outstanding, some fantastic football and magic goals. Orchestrated by Georghie Hagi who was probably the best player in that tournament.

I was driving on the M27 eastbound when the news came on, then the sport’s and they announced Klinnsman. I was raging. I soon changed my mind.

Gazza - an obvious talent with a streak of genius mixed with madness. How we persuaded him to come to us over Ferguson’s United still baffles me

Rebrov. - he was the strike partner for Shevchenko at Dynamo Kiev and for the Ukraine national side. Both prolific but we al knew that Rebrov was the brains of the operation. Didn’t we? Well, we were all wrong. Remembered as a CB radio enthusiast because he didn’t have any friends.

I don't think we were... other than we were the wrong team for him. He was lightyears better than the rest of the squad, and neither Graham nor Hoddle knew how to utilise him. Highest profile example I can think of Spurs regressing a world class talent.

 

[Metalhead]

Four/Seven for me

Ardiles/Villa. That ‘78 World Cup had such an impact on 12yo me, the goals tbe ticker tape, Mario Kempes. A few days later the sun popped through the letter box. I went to fetch it for my dad and as always peaked at page 3 before going to the back page. What a pair!!!

Klinnsman//Dumitresu/Popescu. On the back of the USA’94 World Cup. Klinnsman was diving like one of those blow up waves arm things you see outside car show rooms. He particularly disgusted me diving for a penalty to beat plucky South Korea who were huge underdogs at the time. I LOATHED him.

Meanwhile Romania were outstanding, some fantastic football and magic goals. Orchestrated by Georghie Hagi who was probably the best player in that tournament.

I was driving on the M27 eastbound when the news came on, then the sport’s and they announced Klinnsman. I was raging. I soon changed my mind.

Gazza - an obvious talent with a streak of genius mixed with madness. How we persuaded him to come to us over Ferguson’s United still baffles me

Rebrov. - he was the strike partner for Shevchenko at Dynamo Kiev and for the Ukraine national side. Both prolific but we al knew that Rebrov was the brains of the operation. Didn’t we? Well, we were all wrong. Remembered as a CB radio enthusiast because he didn’t have any friends.

How could I have forgotten Gazza. I didn't start supporting Spurs until towards the end of 89/90 by which time he'd already established himself in the side but what a signing.

 

[hughy]

I remember running around the house excitedly when my mum told me we had signed Ginola. Despite being a Spurs fan I had a full set of circa 1996/7 Newcastle Corinthian figurines (and Chelsea, but we don't mention that), and for some reason the Ginola one was my favourite.

Van der Vaart was the other one that I remember getting really excited for, although the overnight wait to see if he had been registered in time wasn't particularly enjoyable. I couldn't imagine the meltdown on here had that happened now.

 

[Buggsy61]

Gascoigne. Outrageous talent and an epitome of the fine line between the genius and the insane.
Was the best player I saw play live until I saw Messi efficiently take us apart at Wembley in the CL a few years back.

 

[Col_M]

I don't think we were... other than we were the wrong team for him. He was lightyears better than the rest of the squad, and neither Graham nor Hoddle knew how to utilise him. Highest profile example I can think of Spurs regressing a world class talent.

Maybe, I think we sucked the will to score out of him cos he was never the same again

 

[spids]

Probably Gascoigne. I also remember bizarrely being very excited about Paul Stewart. Probably as I was 14 and very excitable and used to be glued to teletext for hours waiting for goal updates / transfer news etc.

Most devastating sale was Hoddle. I was a newspaper boy and one morning on my delivery route I pulled out a Daily Mirror (or Star) and there it was splashed across the back page Ghod was off to Monaco. I literally stood 2 metres from someones front door at 7am reading their paper with a tear rolling down my cheek whilst they waited patiently for their paper.

 

[Delboy75]

Just actually thinking is the squad starting this season weaker than we ended last season. We’ve lost 3 attacking players in Bale Lamela Vinicius and brought in 1 young promising one. Romero I guess is an upgrade on the version of Toby that left. Gollini obviously is on Hart and Skipp and Sessegnon are back in the fold. I don’t trust Scarlett yet to count on him. We are definitely short an attacking option imo. I do really like all our 3 signings just would have liked another couple done before City game.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Just actually thinking is the squad starting this season weaker than we ended last season. We’ve lost 3 attacking players in Bale Lamela Vinicius and brought in 1 young promising one. Romero I guess is an upgrade on the version of Toby that left. Gollini obviously is on Hart and Skipp and Sessegnon are back in the fold. I don’t trust Scarlett yet to count on him. We are definitely short an attacking option imo. I do really like all our 3 signings just would have liked another couple done before City game.

Erm… not sure you’re in the right thread mate

 

[PLTuck]

Robbie Keane, Aaron Lennon, Tom Huddlestone, Gareth Bale (1st time) - All FM legends at the time

VDV & Davids too, from their already massive RL reputations.

 

[stevensthfc]

Sissoko.

 

[richard_gleeson]

Klinsmann

 

[Spursmatty87]

Klinsmann and VDV really stand out. I really couldn’t believe we’d signed Klinsmann. VDV probably because it didn’t look like we’d be signing anyone else that summer

 

[worcestersauce]

Martin Chivers.

 

[barry]

Zokora…stupidly thought he was going to be our Vieira and subsequent missing piece.

Understandable. He ripped it up in the world cup. Eventhough he never lived up to his WC performances, I thought Zokora was decent for us

 

[GioW]

I remember buzzing with Gio Dos Santos