Poll - Most Damaging Player Sale

[am_yisrael_chai]

I'm not going to go all the way back to sales of players like Waddle or Gazza. In the last 10 years which departure has been the most damaging to our development. My vote goes to Carrick, we never replaced him, hilarious that Comolli thought Zokora was the answer. He has proved in his last 3 games that even at 33 he can still dominate the tempo of games.

 

[DaSpurs]

Modric. His loss and our failure to appropriately replace him has affected our play insurmountably. Bale was the toughest emotional loss for me, but he was papering the cracks in 2012/13 after Modric left.

 

[Spurger King]

Modric, coupled with not replacing him with Moutinho when the latter said he was open to joining up with AVB.

Our midfield has been distinctly average ever since. We've got nobody pulling the strings in the heart of the team.

 

[lukespurs7]

Carrick for me. He was the hub of our team and someone we could build around, him and Modric together would've been delightful.

 

[faze_coys]

Modric by far, still haven't replaced him and i dont think we will ever manage to buy another cm as good as him.

 

[josedominguezspurslegend]

Bale for me - not sure how many times in my lifetime we'll have a player good enough to command a world record fee, but can't imagine it'll be many! Watching his performance for Wales the other night brought back just how much excitement and skill he brought to White Hart Lane. If I could pick 1 player to bring back and make a difference to our current team it'd be him.

 

[mpickard2087]

Modric, and by some distance.

 

[spurs9]

Modric, coupled with not replacing him with Moutinho when the latter said he was open to joining up with AVB.

Our midfield has been distinctly average ever since. We've got nobody pulling the strings in the heart of the team.

Mountinho has said he struggles with the physicality of the French league, so I think we dodged a bullet there TBH. I actually think if we had signed Moutinho instead of Dembele, our fans would be saying "why didn't we get Dembele, he was proven in the PL and look how he dominates the Man Utd midfield, instead we get an expensive flop who isn't cut out for the PL and needs to much time on the ball".

 

[DaSpurs]

Mountinho has said he struggles with the physicality of the French league, so I think we dodged a bullet there TBH. I actually think if we had signed Moutinho instead of Dembele, our fans would be saying "why didn't we get Dembele, he was proven in the PL and look how he dominates the Man Utd midfield, instead we get an expensive flop who isn't cut out for the PL and needs to much time on the ball".

Possible, but conversely we could also have seen his degradation in pace/agility with his hip issues and coupled it with his lack of production, and also said we dodged a bullet there.

 

[spurs9]

Possible, but conversely we could also have seen his degradation in pace/agility with his hip issues and coupled it with his lack of production, and also said we dodged a bullet there.

Isn't his hip issue a result from an injury he had with us? If so, he may have never got that issue. I'm sure us fans would have put his lack of production down to playing for shitty Fulham.

 

[stemark44]

i would have to say Carrick even though we might only have been able to hold on to him for one more season anyway.
The rest all demanded to leave and did/would have gone on strike to get their move.Not much more we could do with them.
Somebody having an April Fool laugh putting Keane on that list

 

[Shadydan]

Zokora

 

[parklane1]

Modric without a doubt.

 

[eViL]

Berbatov.

Took us until this season to replace him like for like.

 

[DaSpurs]

Isn't his hip issue a result from an injury he had with us? If so, he may have never got that issue. I'm sure us fans would have put his lack of production down to playing for shitty Fulham.

Iirc, it's an issue that affects him sporadically and has since his Fulham days. That is pathognomonic for hip ligament inflammation, and so it may not have even been one specific injury which caused it.

Fair point though about the lack of production while at Fulham, that is very true.

 

[JohannTHFC]

Modric, and the fact that we didn't bother trying to replace him the Summer we lost him or even any of the following transfer windows after that made it even more frustrating. Stockpiling average, bulky, slow, defensive/box to box players does not replace a quick, skillfull playmaker with amazing vision. Hope we've learned that by now.

 

[Blake Griffin]

i don't know but what strikes me about that list is that whilst they all hurt short-term, the club has done a pretty good of moving on without them.

 

[Bus-Conductor]

Modric was by far the most influential player we sold on that list but by far the most damaging was Berbatov, in terms of how he left, when he left, who he went to and the impact it had on our season.

 

[newbie]

I'm not going to go all the way back to sales of players like Waddle or Gazza. In the last 10 years which departure has been the most damaging to our development. My vote goes to Carrick, we never replaced him, hilarious that Comolli thought Zokora was the answer. He has proved in his last 3 games that even at 33 he can still dominate the tempo of games.

I agree if we could have kept him and signed berbwtov we were building something, modric was a huge loss quality wise and was out heart beat but I am going Carrick due to the time and he was the first.

 

[DaSpurs]

Modric, and the fact that we didn't bother trying to replace him the Summer we lost him or even any of the following transfer windows after that made it even more frustrating. Stockpiling average, bulky, slow, defensive/box to box players does not replace a quick, skillfull playmaker with amazing vision. Hope we've learned that by now.

Times when there should be an "a-fucking-men" rating.