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Christian Eriksen claims Tottenham don't need to spend big like their rivals

tototoner

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...sen-believes-stability-benefit-Tottenham.html

Christian Eriksen is happy Tottenham are ignoring the Premier League's obsession with gargantuan transfer fees.

Mauricio Pochettino has not yet brought in any new faces this summer as their rivals spend big, with Eriksen believing the club learnt lessons after misusing a world-record fee for Gareth Bale in 2013.

Of the seven players signed that summer on the back of Bale's switch to Real Madrid, only Eriksen and Erik Lamela remain on Tottenham's books

For the Dane, those mistakes serves as proof that huge summer outlays can be detrimental.

'It's an English thing, isn't it?' Eriksen said. 'It's an English thing where you have to spend money to win something apparently.

'When I came here there were seven new players at the same time and you saw how that ended. The last few seasons we haven't bought as many players and it's changed around. Of course you have to have a philosophy, a plan and it looks like we have one.

'If you buy a lot of players everyone needs to know what is going on straight away and be a bit lucky. We are lucky at Spurs at the moment. Everybody knows what's going on and what needs to be done.'

Eriksen, speaking after holding a Q&A with 20 Special Olympics athletes in Orlando, stressed that Tottenham cannot look at relocating to Wembley as a potential excuse.

'You take one season at a time but everyone knows we have been very close the last two seasons,' he added.

'In that time something has been brewing and now this is the third season with the manager to become even better than we were.'
 

JohanTheYid

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Genuine thoughts or prepped for inevitable transfer questions by club PR advisor. Hopefully the former
 

tototoner

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Eriksen does come across as a lot more intelligent than your average footballer
 
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panoma

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Probably the most underrated player there is. Would walk straight into any side in the world, yet most supporters think a 1 in 4 player like Coutinho is much better.

Hopefully he continue to keep a low profile and being underrated so we can keep him for many more years!
 

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Last seasons most regular first xi, delivering our highest finish since the 60s:

Lloris £9m
Alderweireld £11.5
Dier £4m
Vertonghen £10.5m
Walker £5m
Wanyama £12m
Dembele £15m
Rose £1m
Alli £5m
Eriksen £11m
Kane free

Total cost: £84m, so under £8m per player.

Even if you add in the squad players who cost anything, I.e. Vorm, Wimmer, Trippier, Davies, Nkoudou, Sissoko, Lamela, Son, Janssen is roughly another £140m, bringing a 22 man squad (when you include Winks and CCV too) to an average of just over £20m per head on average.

Our four most expensive current players are not in our first team, only Son realistically is and that's if we play with a 4231
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Last seasons most regular first xi, delivering our highest finish since the 60s:

Lloris £9m
Alderweireld £11.5
Dier £4m
Vertonghen £10.5m
Walker £5m
Wanyama £12m
Dembele £15m
Rose £1m
Alli £5m
Eriksen £11m
Kane free

Total cost: £84m, so under £8m per player.

Even if you add in the squad players who cost anything, I.e. Vorm, Wimmer, Trippier, Davies, Nkoudou, Sissoko, Lamela, Son, Janssen is roughly another £140m, bringing a 22 man squad (when you include Winks and CCV too) to an average of just over £20m per head on average.

Our four most expensive current players are not in our first team, only Son realistically is and that's if we play with a 4231

It's laughable that even after taking the most points in the last two years, people still think marquee signings are the be all and end all.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Let's look back at big money signings shall we?

Andy Carroll to Lolerpool.
Fernando Torres to chavski
Andre Shevcenko to Chavski
Juan Sebastian Veron to Manure
Paul Pogba to Manure
Roberto Soldado
Moussa Sissoko
John Stones to Shitty
In fact, about £250m of signings at Shitty

In fact, I think massive money signings rarely become great players.
 

mill

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Let's look back at big money signings shall we?

Andy Carroll to Lolerpool.
Fernando Torres to chavski
Andre Shevcenko to Chavski
Juan Sebastian Veron to Manure
Paul Pogba to Manure
Roberto Soldado
Moussa Sissoko
John Stones to Shitty
In fact, about £250m of signings at Shitty

In fact, I think massive money signings rarely become great players.

If you wanna look at it from one slant yeah, but there's plenty of players that counter that, as with all signings it's hit and miss

Seeing you mentioned city aguero, de bruyne, David silva and yaya are a few examples of expensive signing that worked out well
 

Japhet

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Love the mentality of players like Eriksen and Gylfi. Must be a Scandanavian thing.
 

Shadydan

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He's not far off though.

There's nothing smug about the being sensible and showing patience. The article is just unecessary filler and absolute bollocks, does he not realise that teams are spending big because they absolutely NEED to as they have holes in their first team, we don't.
 
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