Players who "got away"...

[Teemu]

Charlie Adam. Top bloke. Great teeth too.

 

[nferno]

I thought he said in an interview he wasn't a Spurs fan? Just a Hoddle fan. /sorry for going OT

He said that but it's very obvious he chose his words carefully. He was playing devil's advocate in that interview and in general. Can you imagine the amount of stick he, an Arse legend, would get if he admitted he was a Spurs fan? He keeps it a secret.

 

[gushayes11]

Wasn't there a shit hot Brazilian defender (santos?) who agreed to join us after 94 World Cup only for Fiorentina to swoop in at the last minute?

 

[spurs9]

Wasn't there a shit hot Brazilian defender (santos?) who agreed to join us after 94 World Cup only for Fiorentina to swoop in at the last minute?

Márcio Santos.

 

[gushayes11]

Márcio Santos.

Yeah that's the one. Think they offered him a date with Sharon Stone cause the owner knew her.

 

[Shea]

Ask Harry, it was his preferred choice over Suarez and Cavani even though both of them together would have cost the same as Carroll...

I agree

But seeing as Liverpool beat us to signing Carroll and had previously beat us to Cole I really can't see any reason to believe we would have won the race to sign Suarez against them at that time even had Harry and his scouts made him the priority


This is probably the worst miss of recent times if true
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...p-Palermo-duo-Simon-Kjaer-Edinson-Cavani.html

The reports if us being advised to sign Lewandowski and Michu respectively for next to nothing before they blew up are pretty hard to hear too - knowing how badly we've needed a striker for in recent years

 

[spurs9]

I agree

But seeing as Liverpool beat us to signing Carroll and had previously beat us to Cole I really can't see any reason to believe we would have won the race to sign Suarez against them at that time even had Harry and his scouts made him the priority

I believe we had already past on him before Liverpool were an option (before Chelsea bid for Torres).

 

[beats1]

Leandro Damiao in January 2011
Leandro Damiao in August 2011
Leandro Damiao in January 2012
Leandro Damiao in August 2012
Leandro Damiao in January 2013
Leandro Damiao in August 2013

 

[spurs9]

I agree

But seeing as Liverpool beat us to signing Carroll and had previously beat us to Cole I really can't see any reason to believe we would have won the race to sign Suarez against them at that time even had Harry and his scouts made him the priority

Also, Carroll didn't chose Liverpool over us, we had a bid rejected, they bed 10m more and was accepted.

 

[spurs9]

Yeah that's the one. Think they offered him a date with Sharon Stone cause the owner knew her.

Lol, I thought I had heard them all.

 

[Shea]

Also, Carroll didn't chose Liverpool over us, we had a bid rejected, they bed 10m more and was accepted.

They beat us to signing him because they were prepared to pay more and the 100k a week they put it on suggests to me that even had Carroll had to choose between us directly he'd have made the same choice as Cole

As for Suarez, I remember him being talked about by Liverpool fans long before they signed him or sold Torres because of their own ITK and whatever fan forum talk (same as ours) at the same time we were being linked to Him.

It makes me think they were monitoring him same as we were at them times and even if we hadn't passed on him and made the bid Liverpool would have competed with us and as with Cole and Carroll I think we'd have lost

I really don't think we'd have been able to sign Suarez even if we'd made a bid - Liverpool were always over spending at that time even before they were flush from Torres's sale

 

[spurs9]

They beat us to signing him because they were prepared to pay more and the 100k a week they put it on suggests to me that even had Carroll had to choose between us directly he'd have made the same choice as Cole

As for Suarez, I remember him being talked about by Liverpool fans long before they signed him or sold Torres because of their own ITK and whatever fan forum talk (same as ours) at the same time we were being linked to Him.

It makes me think they were monitoring him same as we were at them times and even if we hadn't passed on him and made the bid Liverpool would have competed with us and as with Cole and Carroll I think we'd have lost

I really don't think we'd have been able to sign Suarez even if we'd made a bid - Liverpool were always over spending at that time even before they were flush from Torres's sale

Carroll was on 80k at Liverpool not over 100k. He may have chose them over us, but I feel the amount of wages we would have offered for him & Suarez would have been the same or very similar and the directions the 2 clubs were going at that time, as well as the players both clubs have, I'm confident he & Suarez would have chosen us over Liverpool. Cole only chose Liverpool over us due to our rivalry with Chelsea & West Ham. I decision which he admits he regrets.

Also, I remember that ITK & media reports linking us with Suarez had fizzeled out before Liverpool became serious. The way I remember, we were linked heavily in the summer, then again at the start of Jan, the Liverpool were linked, the stories of us being linked were re-hashed (with Liverpool fans claiming we always go after their targets and have no scouts of our own) then Liverpool were linked again and signed him.

 

[mano-obe]

Kenwyne Jones. Roy Keane said he's worth 40m, Niall Quinn said we bid 20m, he's now worth 100m

 

[mano-obe]

Missing out on Suarez and Hazard in recent times has been a bit gutting. With Suarez, Bale and Hazard we could have done a lot of damage

 

[ItsBoris]

Just about every striker we could have signed ever.

How is it our luck that we were a whisker away from signing each of Falcao, Suarez, Cavani, etc, and then end up with Pav, Crouch, Defoe, etc?

 

[ItsBoris]

I believe we had already past on him before Liverpool were an option (before Chelsea bid for Torres).

We did, Harry said he couldn't play up front on his own.

Fuck could you imagine if we hadn't been fucking idiots and we signed Suarez for 25 million.

---Sandro--Modric
Lennon--VDV--Bale
--------Suarez

We would have been playing in the CL every damn season.

 

[spurs9]

We did, Harry said he couldn't play up front on his own.

Fuck could you imagine if we hadn't been fucking idiots and we signed Suarez for 25 million.

---Sandro--Modric
Lennon--VDV--Bale
--------Suarez

We would have been playing in the CL every damn season.

CL? We would have challenged for the title with that team.

 

[Dharmabum]

We did, Harry said he couldn't play up front on his own.

Fuck could you imagine if we hadn't been fucking idiots and we signed Suarez for 25 million.

---Sandro--Modric
Lennon--VDV--Bale
--------Suarez

We would have been playing in the CL every damn season.

Or...

Sandro, Modric
Hazard
Suarez, Cavani, Bale

 

[eddiev14]

Wasn't Sugar offered the chance of signing Zidane?

 

[Joeyboey]

Stewart Downing

 

[ItsBoris]

Or...

Sandro, Modric
Hazard
Suarez, Cavani, Bale

We would have been taking a punt on Cavani though. Everyone could see Suarez' talent, in January 2011 so many of us were saying that we should sign Suarez and that he was top class. It was clear as daylight.

Then when we made CL we could have signed Hazard -

----Sandro--Modric---
Hazard---VDV--Bale--
--------Suarez-------

Thanks Spurs! If only Harry wasn't clueless and Levy wasn't stingy.