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Fair play to you LP, you're trying to promote a healthy and polite debate in this forum. I've got to respect that, because there are so many emotionally driven and even vitriolic posters in here, so what you're trying to do is a good thing.
Added to that, you make some individually valid points, but overall your post isn't as coherent as it could be and doesn't address the key question that was raised:
Is it to be assumed that entering the transfer market every summer, is better than not entering the transfer market every summer?
You've mentioned why fans get a thrill from transfers.
You've mentioned other factors in the creation and maintenance of a successful football squad.
You've mentioned luck.
You've mentioned a club has to sign 'the right players'.
You've mentioned 'the right price'.
You've mentioned wages.
All good and important things.
But you haven't answered the question.
I think what you're trying to say is that (i) fans just wanting any old signings, or (ii) clubs taking a scatter-gun approach to signings, are self-defeating actions.
If that it what you're saying, then I'd agree with you, but I'd also call it a straw-man argument, because I don't think anyone is actually suggesting that these 2 things are positive in anyway.
And finally, what I stated was that footballing professionals decide to take a punt in the transfer market every season, which heavily suggests that strategy has some sort of merit in one or more of the short, medium and long-term.
Thank you for your kind comments and your thoughtful response. In amongst the noise I am impressed by the intelligence and good humour of many of the posters here !
Entering the transfer market is valuable if and only if we can find players who are a good fit on a mental, emotional, technical and tactical level AND who represent good value. All of those criteria rely on a subjective judgement. However I believe we have a competent team of people at the club to make that assessment.
In the event that such players cannot be found it is my view, and Pochettino’s view, that it is better not to buy. Use the academy.
Some further comments on the difficulties we are now experiencing can be found here: http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/ind...-thread-31st-july.133805/page-20#post-5981282
So my response is two fold -
First it is wrong to assert that football professionals believe it is better to buy something rather than nothing. Pertinently, our manager and many coaches do not believe that this is the case.
Second, if you want appropriate signings then acknowledge how difficult that is for us at the moment given our relative financial weakness compared to the clubs we are directly competing against for players.
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