Players who "got away"...

[Dharmabum]

Yes, retrospection is a wonderful thing and make many a person look wise. And predicting how a player will do it a bit like doing the weather forecast: no matter how much data one have it's hard to get it right each time.
But, in some cases, I do feel a club of the magnitude of Spurs (with all the scouting/inside info a club of such stature posses), should have done better in certain cases.
These players comes to mind.

Cavani - just the type of players Spurs had needed (a strong, hard working, big, skilful CF) and was available on the "cheap" just after the WC 2010. Instead all the attention was on Forlan.

Suarez - yes, it's well known, Harry blame his scouts for telling him Suarez was not the right man to lead Spurs' attack. I bet Comolli felt "good" having pinched him from Spurs.

Pogba - if Spurs are willing to take a chance on Fryers, who not on Pogba too...

Eden Hazard - Spurs should simply have paid the price a year before Chelski came in for him. He even expressed, at one time, that Spurs was his favoured club... but once the big clubs started sniffing around he was lost for Spurs.

Vidic - yes, him. Spurs at that time (2005) was in need of a solid CB and Vidic was "affordable" back then and was on the radar before ManU showed keen interest for him.


PS! Sandro was a scoop indeed.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

1. Messi - can't believe we didn't get him given the Ossie / Ricky connection, staggering incompetence by our scouts

2. Bale - if only we'd signed a player like him, oh wait......

 

[Dharmabum]

1. Messi - can't believe we didn't get him given the Ossie / Ricky connection, staggering incompetence by our scouts

2. Bale - if only we'd signed a player like him, oh wait......

Thanks for your input. You forgot to mention Ronaldo by the way. Both of them.

 

[nferno]

The cavani one was pretty funny, I remember the news on SSN that we supposedly signed him and simon kjaer but people were more happy with the prospect of the latter. Cavani is the best player on that list for what we've always needed too, if we did almost sign him and the chairman wasnt winding other bidders up... we dropped the worst clanger of our modern day transfer dealings tbh.

 

[jezz]

Havent we done this now though?
Lamela
Chirches
Eriksen
Capoue
All these players look like in a season or two will become or vidic, pogba, messi and so forth.

 

[Dharmabum]

Havent we done this now though?
Lamela
Chirches
Eriksen
Capoue
All these players look like in a season or two will become or vidic, pogba, messi and so forth.

Lamela is not a "scoop", he cost Spurs £26M.
Chiriches and Capoue, yes. Same with Jan, Lennon, Modric, Bale etc.

 

[jezz]

Lamela is not a "scoop", he cost Spurs £26M.
Chiriches and Capoue, yes. Same with Jan, Lennon, Modric, Bale etc.

Fair enough 26 mill is alot.
Depends on how well he progresses and how much levy would ask if we ever sell him

 

[rocklink]

Coutinho !!

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

I think almost every club in the world could offer up a similarly populated list.

 

[dontcallme]

Isco was struggling at one point and very much available around 2 seasons before making a big money move to Madrid.

On a lesser scale Bellamy. Redknapp made it publicly clear he wanted him in his 1st January window. Most on here were against it. Certainly would have been a better signing than Crouch and Keane.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Aguero

 

[Gbspurs]

Whilst I don't agree with this sort of thread, Isco stands out to me. If rumours are to be believed he was one we looked closely at and missed the opportunity by being slow.

 

[HailKingLevy]

KPB

 

[mattyspurs]

Whilst I don't agree with this sort of thread, Isco stands out to me. If rumours are to be believed he was one we looked closely at and missed the opportunity by being slow.

No it's not because we were slow. It was because Malaga made the CL, if they had not done, we were his favoured destination. Nothing to do with being slow.

As with Hazard, it was not down to not paying the fee, when he spoke about us it was in the Jan window. He was never going to move then as he saod himself. Then he just played up to the highest bidder in wages, again, we would never have got him.

You win some you lose some. I'm sure Man U and Newcastle have had threads like this about Bale and Modric

 

[Holtby City]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...2617984/Tottenham-line-up-bid-for-Falcao.html

 

[dagraham]

Negredo. Linked countless times, at periods when signing a top striker would have cemented our place above the gooners.

Also, for considerably less than Man City eventually paid for him. According to some, he wasn't good enough for us either. Pretty funny really.

 

[TottenhamLegend]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...2617984/Tottenham-line-up-bid-for-Falcao.html

Falcao is a scheming deep striker very much in the mould of Keane and would be a straight replacement

 

[GLUESODA]

Huntelaar - I think if we pushed hard enough he would have come. Would have been the right fit for our style under Redknapp

Was for a long time realistic target and far better than any striker we've had since Berbatov

 

[mpickard2087]

No it's not because we were slow. It was because Malaga made the CL, if they had not done, we were his favoured destination. Nothing to do with being slow.

As with Hazard, it was not down to not paying the fee, when he spoke about us it was in the Jan window. He was never going to move then as he saod himself. Then he just played up to the highest bidder in wages, again, we would never have got him.

You win some you lose some. I'm sure Man U and Newcastle have had threads like this about Bale and Modric

Don't agree with this, Malaga were in trouble financially in the early part of Summer 2012 and had to sell Cazorla and Rondon to raise funds. We were interested in Isco at this time, they had to sell and I don't think a deal would have been impossible if we had been decisive. Levy and his stats minions decided to buy Sigurdsson instead.

Edit: I guess we were decisive though actually, the decision just was to get Sigurdsson. IIRC we then went back for Isco towards the end of the window (when Sherwood went on a further scouting trip), presumably because they knew VDV was leaving, but by then Malaga had sold players and qualified for CL.

 

[dagraham]

Don't agree with this, Malaga were in trouble financially in the early part of Summer 2012 and had to sell Cazorla and Rondon to raise funds. We were interested in Isco at this time, they had to sell and I don't think a deal would have been impossible if we had been decisive. Levy and his stats minions decided to buy Sigurdsson instead.

Yep. We do have a tendency to procrastinate when it comes to the transfer market.

Sometimes I can understand due to limited resources but we too often fail to grasp opportunities or take calculated risks on players imo. Which is surprising, considering the amount of money we've written off paying compensation for various managers/coaching staff and the millions wasted on the Olympic Stadium episode etc.