Poor decision not to spend big last season.

[Jay The Yid]

Forget about us not spending big this transfer window.

As a non Champions League club it was always going to be difficult to attract top players to the club. We shouldnt be surprised that we have done very little in the transfer market this summer because as it stands we have a decent enough squad where to improve it with better players is a massive challenge because there arent many out there!!!!

I said it so many times last summer and to an extent even more in January. "We need to improve now". We all knew we needed a striker and when Crouch scored the winner at Eastlands 99% of Spurs fans believed that we would build on this success. We didnt.

It must be one of the poorest decisions in Spurs history not to buy last season and improve our team and squad whilst we were a Champions League Side.

In January we had just come off the back of beating the European Champions, playing superb football and I dont think it is an understatement to say the whole of Europe was talking about us. THIS WAS THE TIME TO IMPROVE. the calibre of player we could of attracted was much higher going back 8 months.

Pathetic management and decision making by Harry and Levy.

Why the hell didnt we improve??!!

 

[Reado]

Absolutely, a chance missed. Yeah, we got Van Der Vaart in the summer, but January was a massive time to buy, baring in mind who we'd beaten in the Champions League.

We should have been prepared to maybe pay a bit more for that top quality player in January, there was the attraction of 2-legged match against AC Milan, I believe we were in 4th at that time too, above Chelsea (I think we were at the turn of the year?). Who know's, with that top quality player we could be in the Champions League again this year.

We definitely won't get a better chance for a while to attract the sort of players we could have done then.

 

[jj87]

Last season was a huge missed opportunity in many respects. The fact that Redknapp mocked the fans who saw it as a failure just illustrates how his and the fan's vision for the club are quite different.

Cant help but feel the moment has passed us now. Europa League qualification or thereabouts for the next few years.

 

[brett.spurs]

Spot on, just said this on another board. The 5 year plan to turn us into a CL club, unfortunately we never planned on how to stay there and push on. Bottled it massively.

 

[BPR_U16]

Think we all know that, and many of us actually said it at the time.

But that was then, this is now get on with it.....

To attarct the top players we have to sell them our dream, which is getting harder to fulfill without the lure of CL or a new stadium.

 

[Jay The Yid]

Think we all know that, and many of us actually said it at the time.

But that was then, this is now get on with it.....

To attarct the top players we have to sell them our dream, which is getting harder to fulfill without the lure of CL or a new stadium.

I agree we need to move on. Just makes me really angry when it was so bloody obvious!!!! and the only people it seemed that didnt see it were the key men involved at our club.

 

[piedpiper]

after we qualified for the CL i really thought we would go out and buy some quality players only because i believed the club were ambitious and they understood what was needed to compete in the CL and also to try again for fourth in the premiership.

i was amazed that none of this materialized and it showed our ambition contrast the fact that Man U have just won the title BUT they have again re-invested this season. Spurs on the other hand i believe have no intentions of trying for CL again. it is as if Levy is stuck between making the next step, building a new staduim or just selling up.

 

[RichSpur58]

and we are doing our best to make a pigs ear of this season too.

 

[johno]

completely agree

last summer was the chance to establish ourselves as a top 4 club

we finished 9pts off second last season - all we had to do was a buy a fucking striker and we could actually have challenged for the title

12 months on and it's 5 at the very best

Levy and Arry fucked up massively. The other thing that pisses me off is that our success would have been at the expense of the scum

 

[faze_coys]

*waits for the fools to say we didn't need a striker in the last window*

 

[Adam456]

Think we all knew it and I agree

I'm a tad surprised that nobody has repeated the argument often made then that trying to attract top players (and striker was #1 priority) is difficult in the Jan window because they've more often than not already played in Europe for their current team and/or are heavily involved in CL or other competitions

Suarez would have been my choice. Was Aguero available then ? Hulk ? Lukaku ?How much would we have needed to pay to prise them away but then have them sit out the rest of the CL ?

 

[Ron Burgundy]

It's a no brainer this one

There were, admittedly, a lack of options. However, I would have thought Suarez would have preferred us over Liverpool at the time. We should have gone for him.

Hopefully it won't screw us over long term, but we'll never know

 

[NEVILLEB]

Redknapp knows this!!! Stop blaming him.

He said we needed 3-4 top players at the start of last summers transfer window.

He is EXTREMELY frustrated with how this summers transfer window has gone and is on the verge of falling out with Levy permanently.

Go and watch his after match interview from the United game and you will see what he thinks of Levy.

Don't let Redknapp go the way of Jol and Ramos. It can't always be the manager...

 

[mill]

It's a no brainer this one

There were, admittedly, a lack of options. However, I would have thought Suarez would have preferred us over Liverpool at the time. We should have gone for him.

Hopefully it won't screw us over long term, but we'll never know

Think it already has, if we'd invested properly and made the CL again we wouldn't still be desperate for the striker we so blatantly need and could've concentrated this summer on improving the team in other area's such as CB, with the lure of a second year in the CL and looked like a team really going places. Rather than a flash in the pan that'll lose their best players and slip back into mediocracy

 

[Gilzeanking]

This has been done to death a bit . Its only a lunatic establishment fringe who still defend the last year's worth of transfer policy .

I'm just popping in with my broken record response that we didn't just not
improve our forward line after coming 4th..

..we actively depleted it by letting Gudjonssen go .

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Redknapp knows this!!! Stop blaming him.

He said we needed 3-4 top players at the start of last summers transfer window.

He is EXTREMELY frustrated with how this summers transfer window has gone and is on the verge of falling out with Levy permanently.

Go and watch his after match interview from the United game and you will see what he thinks of Levy.

Don't let Redknapp go the way of Jol and Ramos. It can't always be the manager...

I personally believe that to a large extent there's a clash between the kind of players Harry wants to spend big on and the kind of players Levy is willing to spend big on. Harry likes a proven old head, Levy likes young with potential to increase in value.

 

[mill]

I personally believe that to a large extent there's a clash between the kind of players Harry wants to spend big on and the kind of players Levy is willing to spend big on. Harry likes a proven old head, Levy likes young with potential to increase in value.

They need to compromise, we could do with stronger characters in our team definately, but we have to buy potential cos we can't afford the wages of superstars.

harry's the manager with years of experience in football, Levy's experience is in business.

 

[Jay The Yid]

If I made a decision like this in my line of work I would probably be sacked and out of work. Shocking decision to not reinvest in the squad when we could of attracted a much higher quality of player.

There is an old saying in business and it applies to football.......you have to keep improving. THFC in the last year have not. It's almost criminal!! So angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sunnydelight786]

Redknapp knows this!!! Stop blaming him.

He said we needed 3-4 top players at the start of last summers transfer window.

He is EXTREMELY frustrated with how this summers transfer window has gone and is on the verge of falling out with Levy permanently.

Go and watch his after match interview from the United game and you will see what he thinks of Levy.

Don't let Redknapp go the way of Jol and Ramos. It can't always be the manager...

Some of the 2/3 players he wanted, and openly spoke about wanting to bring in, were J.Cole/Parker/Bellamy/P.Neville/A.Carroll (4 month rookie at the time). Now take a deep breath and think were these the quality of players a CL club would sign to help them kick on....? All the above named players would sign for us without CL football anyway let alone with it. Can you really blame Levy for not wanting to push the boat out for them...?

We royally fucked up last summer and when the chance came to redeem ourselves in January we signed Steven fucking Pienaar, we did not even need him!!!

 

[jurgen]

I personally believe that to a large extent there's a clash between the kind of players Harry wants to spend big on and the kind of players Levy is willing to spend big on. Harry likes a proven old head, Levy likes young with potential to increase in value.

This. They obviously both approach player recruitment from different angles, but those Harry haters who are basically calling for DL to act as a director of football when he is but a businessman, and have the temerity to suggest his opinion is more valid than Redknapps who has forgotten more about football than DL will ever know.. well it beggars belief really...