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Levy will tear up scouting plans after squandering £86m from sale of Bale to Real Madrid

mawspurs

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Daniel Levy will begin a major restructuring of Tottenham’s scouting and recruitment procedures after their poor start to the Barclays Premier League season.

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slartibartfast

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Hmmm. Not sure if theres anything to this but I think its unfair to say we squandered all of the Bale money.
Chadli, Erikson, Capoue were about the right price. Vlad little bit steep based on recent performances but he started ok so Jurys still out imo.
As always with Spurs its the more expensive players where we pissed it up the wall.
Paulinho. Not value for money. Shown up by our youth players.
Soldado. Same again although I just wish he'd keep being played until he scores because he may turn it around but 26m??? Jeez.
And finally Lamela. Never, ever, ever in any f in parallel universe worth 30m. May one day come good we hope in epl and be worth 20m but we ain't getting our money back on that one imo.
I keep meaning to look up our most expensive buys. Have we EVER had a good one?
Im thinking Rebrov, Bent, Bentley and the above.
We seem to blow it every time. And one thing all of the above have in common is they are either the wrong type of player for the way we were playing or we didnt need that position filling in the first place. All good players but didn't fit. That is where we go wrong imo. You cant just buy a load of players (Santos) and sling them together.
I think this is why we were successful when the manager decided who comes and who goes. The right type of players for the style he wants to play.
You can see why Levy is normally so careful (normally) with a track record like that.
Edit- top up the cost of Rebrov Bent Bentley Paulinho Soldado and Lamela.
Thats an embarrassing waste of money.
Apologies for length of post.
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chico

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None of this summers signings are really looking worth a Prem start.

Surely the buck stops with Baldini?

Start by sacking him
 
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sacking redknapp will eventually be the end of levy
levy has sold all our best players and replaced them with average
ones can't put the blame solely on baldini
poch wanted schnederlin and maschuchio and got stambouli and fazio
redknapp wanted cahill and tevez and got saha and nelsen
don't forget the way the club sacked martin jol during half time versus getafe
levy can't wait for the agm
 
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