I fear that...

[elvis7754]

oh and sandro is siiiiiiiicccckkkkkk

 

[ackie]

One thing i will say - Thanks all. Some of you are really reassuring and I sincerely appreciate it!
I am glad we have fans around the world, that have ambitions as well as comfort.
Reading some of your replies blesses my Soul...COYS

 

[Stavrogin]

Suarez was definately a missed oppurtunity and it show's Harry's limits in spotting players.

Was Suarez really a missed opportunity?

He's done well for Liverpool... but what sort of stuff has he done? I'm pretty confident that his main contribution is essentially the same (in terms of play) as we get from Modric, Van der Vaart, Lennon, Bale and even Kranjcar.

Maybe he'd have looked more like an out and out striker playing for us, but as it is I just don't think he was worth £25 million to us at this moment.

Carroll was definitely needed but £35m? That is genuinely crazy money. What if it didn't work out for one reason or another? It would have been the end of Redknapp.

 

[$hoguN]

Suarez was definately a missed oppurtunity and it show's Harry's limits in spotting players. Much is made of his tactical inabilities and unequal man management. But in reality it seems to be the squad building that raises serious questions. Our best players are pre-Harry and our underperforming ones are mostly post Harry. VDV was not planned. Gallas, IMO, therefore has proven the only really good signing by Redknapp. All this stuff about Charlie Adams on the last day, two windows without a striker. Suarez not being good enough. I really don't know where Harry is at sometimes when it comes to transfers.

Carroll, on the other hand, is a player I am glad we didn't get. No way si he worth the money that was laid out for him and he is still largely unproven. What if he has a good end of season before for the next 3 years proves shit? It won't look like suxh a wise purchase then.

:roll:

Quite simply that is bollox. Suarez looks a good player, but Harry recognized that he would only be getting £20m+ for one striker and he needed one that better compliments VDV, who the team is being built around. January is a shit time to buy, and Liverpool had to buy because of Torres.

Exactly

Don't worry ackie. Liverpool wish they had half of our players too. The fact is unless you are Barcelona you are always going to covet other clubs players.

I'm not sure that many clubs will be able to afford Bale or Modric and I don't think either is desperate to move on. Same can be said for vdv as well. In fact despite the media linking our players left, right and centre I don't think any of them really want to move right now.

We needed a goal scoring striker in January, but how many goals has Suarez actually scored so far (despite playing really well)?

I think IOMLS has hit the nail on the head here Bale, VDV and Modric all are enjoying being here atm so there is little reason to leave. If we re-qualify for the CL or not we have done a hell of alot to raise our profile this season. So lets just wait and see what we can do in the summer in terms of addressing our weaknesses before we all run around screaming that its all gone tits up

 

[$hoguN]

Sandro was most definitely not a Harry signing. Not that i care who signs our players, just as long as we're bringing in the right sort of players.

FFS. Are you genuinally that naive that you believe that a manager like Redknapp would just let Levy run around buying players he did not want, without walking?

 

[luptic]

Suarez isn’t what we needed, someone like Carroll would have been class. For as good as Suarez was yesterday he was equally poor last week against the Hammers. He wasn’t playing against the best defence I’ve seen. I’m sure he would do alright for Liverpool but it’s now what we need at the minute.

 

[brasil_spur]

This is rubbish. He may not have "discovered" him, but nobody joins the club unless he wants them. He appointed Broomfield, and Harry has said in interviews that he persuaded him that Sandro was worth taking on.

It is the same at United - Ferguson hasn't done much training or scouting in the last 5 years, but (Bebe aside!) like all good leaders, he appoints and trusts good people.

FFS. Are you genuinally that naive that you believe that a manager like Redknapp would just let Levy run around buying players he did not want, without walking?

Ok so there must be a mis-communication here in what is and isn't a 'Harry signing'.

For me a Harry signing is a player that Harry has chosen to come to spurs. He's gone out and seen something he likes in someone (either directly or via scouts) and has said: "i want to buy that player"

With Sandro it was very much a case of Harry being told we were looking to sign him and just getting an approval of this from Harry.

Harry didn't sign him, nor did he recommend him, in fact he knew very little about 'the lad' as he himself put it.

But yes of course Harry is in the loop for all player signings and as such 'approves' all of them.

 

[danielneeds]

Ok so there must be a mis-communication here in what is and isn't a 'Harry signing'.

For me a Harry signing is a player that Harry has chosen to come to spurs. He's gone out and seen something he likes in someone (either directly or via scouts) and has said: "i want to buy that player"

With Sandro it was very much a case of Harry being told we were looking to sign him and just getting an approval of this from Harry.

Harry didn't sign him, nor did he recommend him, in fact he knew very little about 'the lad' as he himself put it.

But yes of course Harry is in the loop for all player signings and as such 'approves' all of them.

I see what you are saying, but I think you are wrong. All Harry said was that he not able to get out to Brazil to watch him in the flesh - as such their was a certain amount of trust he was placing in Broomfield. All managers prefer to see a player up close to watch them off the ball, body language etc etc, but with out schedule last year this wasn't possible.

I don't understand why people think Levy would make a signing, even if it was from a partner club? What is the point? Harry is in sole charge of everything on the playing side of the club, Sandro IS his signing.

 

[$hoguN]

I get what you are trying to say Brazil, but Harry's cheif scout identified him and watched him several times, but like daniel says above he just never got to watch him play in the flesh. Yes the boy was not a signing like Pienaar who it is clear Harry got to see alot and rated, yet Harry's decision on the lad was final and he choose to back his cheif scout's judgement. I'm just glad we have got him as he looks like he is going to be an absolute beast in years to come

 

[jurgen]

I hear the Tottenham Hotspur PLC Constructive Criticism Department are looking for both a Head of Knee Jerking, and a Hindsight Coordinator, and I can certainly think of one poster in particular who has all the qualities to fill those two roles into one position.

 

[spurs mental]

Liverpool are nowhere near us ackie, and are still a poor team. Alot of yesterday was the fans carrying them through like they did in the CL. They won't be close to us at the end of the season.

We will finish fourth too.

 

[ackie]

Really? Who? Wud like to know...fill us in!

 

[ackie]

Liverpool are nowhere near us ackie, and are still a poor team. Alot of yesterday was the fans carrying them through like they did in the CL. They won't be close to us at the end of the season.

We will finish fourth too.

Ur probably right! Lets hope so...

 

[ackie]

I hear the Tottenham Hotspur PLC Constructive Criticism Department are looking for both a Head of Knee Jerking, and a Hindsight Coordinator, and I can certainly think of one poster in particular who has all the qualities to fill those two roles into one position.

Really? Who? Wud like to know...fill us in!

 

[Mr Pink]

People really do fly off the handle dont they! You would think top 4 was over now, its not - nowhere near it, and it will go right to the wire particulraly if our match with City is put back due to the FA cup.

I really dont think we'll lose any of our star players either.

The only thing I will say is that if we dont make top 4 I would prefer no Europa League football - I mean that. A complete distraction with too many games that would have a major detrimental affect on league peformance.

But it wont come to that, I still think we'll beat City away, particularly if we have King playing.

 

[PYiddy]

Pienaar had 6 months to run on contract so pretty easy to purchase. Kaboul and Defoe came back due to Pompey not making payment installments, so again pretty easy. Palacios and Hutton were over priced and this has been demonstrated by their overall quality. Woodgate was a good buy and granted this was an exception. However, Woodgate was a Ramos / Comolli signing.

So was Hutton

 

[eddiev14]

I'm hoping that the likes of Bale and Modric realise that we are building a team that could be capible of challenging for the title in the next few years, with them being a main part of that. We are getting better all the time, even during the Wolves match at times we are wonderful to watch, but that comes at a price as we are very open and go to win games which some times will leave us exposed at the back.

This.

 

[StartingPrice]

Strangely, we seem to be in the unusual (and very exciting position), of having erstewhile near rivals (like Liverpool, for instance), eagerly chasing our bit part players.
Strangely, I really think we are in a race for 2nd thru 4th.

So I really just don't see where the OP is coming from.

I was one of those that really wanted Suarez, and do believe he would be able to complement VDV effectively. But it is milk that was spilt long, long ago. I am fairly confident that Dan levy WILL get a marquee striker or two in the Summer. So, we should just let it pass now, not bring it up every time he kicks the ball.

I also think that my first pooint will hold true and am confident we will keep our top players even if we don't make 4th.

 

[SelbYido]

Harry said we didn't sign Suarez because he wasn't the kind of striker we needed, not an "out & out" striker as he put it & to be fair plenty of members here said the same. I don't think this is an example of limited thinking in the transfer market, I think it shows that he had a specific type of player in mind (Dzeko was an example he mentioned) & didn't want to spend a huge sum on a player who wouldn't bring the qualities we lack up front. Carroll probably would done that but £35m was clearly over the odds.

 

[DoublePivot]

I'm hoping that the likes of Bale and Modric realise that we are building a team that could be capible of challenging for the title in the next few years, with them being a main part of that. We are getting better all the time, even during the Wolves match at times we are wonderful to watch, but that comes at a price as we are very open and go to win games which some times will leave us exposed at the back.

I'm hoping they don't notice that we haven't made any significant advances in making our club better. We've had more than last January to fix the forward line issue. And we've had since the Jol era to fix the defense. Oh and who would you rather play under? Twitchy the Crook or Pep and Jose?