samsonlevi
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Zero net spend. Same every year. 
The Daily ITK Discussion Thread DEADLINE DAY!
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lukadownthelane
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Seri?
BringBack_leGin
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Our manager and players can't be that class if we are so fucked now that we haven't made any signings. You can't have it both ways.
Much appreciated, and this one post alone makes it all worthwhile
Also, I'm the hero Spurscommunity deserves, but not the one it needs right now, so they'll hunt me. Because I can take it, because I am not a hero.
I would get at least 30 spam ratings if I posted the same, so I'm glad you did
Thanks for posting this! ValY was accused of being a mouthpiece by some recently banned member earlier, I wonder if anyone will repeat the trick with JJ, an ITK who has often been happy to have his say when he's been unimpressed with Levy. Unless his lack of damnation for Levy means he's no longer everyone's most trusted? I, for one, am happy for everything posted by @JJetset , @ValenciaYid , @Hercules , @Trix , @Grey Fox and @Breezer . They offer different insights from different angles and this window would not be the same without them, so thank you all.
In what universe are we greater stature than those three clubs? Or did you not read my post correctly and think I was talking about league standings (you don't need to answer
)I agree with this, and you've managed to say it in a constructive way. We should have strengthened this window, we should have done far better. But, we didn't, and it's okay because thankfully we weren't in dire straits to start with and there is still much to be optimistic about. That sad, you are right, we may well have missed a bit of a trick, but the reasons for that are far more complex than 'Levy is stingy', 'Levy has no ambition' or 'Levy is a slaphead midget ****'.
etchedchaos
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JJ's comments also make me feel that maybe Poch and Toby truly have buried the hatchet.
Saoirse
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This isn't Football Manager. The top players who would walk into our side despite us being among the world's top 10 teams would be offered more money by anyone in the top 20, would be very difficult and expensive to prise away from their clubs, and in most cases already play for one of those top 20 teams and wouldn't see much reason to move to us. We've done the first part - stop spending money on rubbish/average squad options, we're past that stage as a club. Now it's on to the second, but that involves watching and waiting for the odd occasion when the right player becomes available and we can swoop in for him without any of the more moneyed clubs taking an interest.
There's also the fact that in recent years our transfer budget has been zero. What we bring in is funded by what we sell. There's no reason to think that's different, and we'd already spent on Lucas without funding it. Add a big name on top and you're talking £100m total. If we don't want to sell our big names and can't sell the squad, that's the situation.
As for naming rights, it's not just us struggling on that. There's very little appetite for such deals in Britain right now, we're not the only ones struggling on it. For obvious reasons there's a lot of long-term economic uncertainty and a risk to the country's "soft power" or cultural value too. There is nothing Tottenham can do about that. The choice was likely to take a sub-par deal this year, or hope for a better one next year - particularly if we're confident the NFL etc will be a success and assure the sponsor of a large audience outside anything to do with Britain. If we've chosen the latter I'd trust our judgement on it.
I have no issue with not making signings if there were none of sufficient quality. I just wish we signed up some more promising 19/20 year olds in positions we know we will need soon and try to bring them through. They are likely not to expect immediate game time and can play in the u-23 but be fast tracked to the squad where possible. If we can’t shop with the big clubs - this should be the ideal market for us rather than waiting for them to make a name for themselves.
freeeki
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I'm gay mate, we do things in a different order.
We'll climb anything but things like dinner, swapping numbers and remembering each others' name is only for special cases.
Ghost Hardware
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So we will be the first team to have not signed a single player in the summer transfer window since it was introduced in 2003 apparently.
BringBack_leGin
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Seri is very good to people who have barely watched Seri. If he was as good as people here think he is, he'd have ended up somewhere far better than Fulham
Teddy Klinsmann
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We obviously had no strategy. Making a few stupid offers for Martial, Zaha etc doesn’t constitute proper effort. Under Levy and co you struggle to see us signing any player that other top 6 teams have an interest in in. We are not even at the table by all accounts.
Its like spoilt children. A god given right to continually spend cash while expecting the latest stadiums and training grounds. I would have liked some new players in to plug some wholes in the squad, but what we didn't need was another £30million panic buy like sissoko
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Which ever inclination of 'brave' you want to use, this is right up there ...
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Well, actually. We probably got a couple hundred thousand from Gladbach for BennettsZero net spend. Same every year.
vegassd
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I believe he was replying to a poster that was saying that the clubs below us were better at transfers than us because they all added at least one player. BBLG was basically saying that yeah, those clubs did make transfers but are any of those transfers the sort of quality that we would want.
So I agree that it's irrelevant, but it's the original poster whose statement was irrelevant.
Saoirse
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That's one possibility. The other altogether more likely one is that Bats got offered far more more money by Chelsea, possibly an amount that put him on more even than our star players at the time. As for Zaha we've had a lot of ITK saying it was never on and we've had zero interest in him.
robertgoulet
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We've found the cure for yankspurs. That cure is JJ.
codspur
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And Portsmouth for Walkes
I think you misunderstood. I'll still go to games and bought a ticket for Fulham game but just don't see another way to make my voice heard so cancelling the monthly subscription is my way!
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