Redknapp wants 'bold' transfers

[Scott Spur]

The problem we have at the moment is wages. Transfer fees seem to be be becoming secondary to personal terms, with clubs allowing players to speak to prospective clubs even before a fee is agreed, such is the amount players demand.
Thankfully we have quite few coming off the payroll this summer, which should free up some funds but even average players are demanding top dollar.
I for one am glad we have DL at the helm, financial stability is never sacrificed for short term gain, however hard it is to take.

Roll on new stadium......

 

[Locotoro]

Or get someone in to handle transfers (provided it's someone who can work well with Harry) and let Harry concentrate on managing the team.

I don't think Harry would go for that. He wouldn't like someone stealing any of the credit that only he is due!

 

[AngerManagement]

Considering we can only have a 25 man squad and if you look at the season as a whole not just blinded by the slump of the last season our squad is actually already very stacked with quality and doesn't need a lot of player upgrades in my opinion.

Gomes out new keeper in (hopefully first teamer with Big Brad fighting for his place )

CB, well with Caulker coming back we will have Dawson/Kaboul and probably one of Gallas/King still so its not a major priority but if we can get a first teamer in it would be nice to have a leader with kaboul, Dawson and Caulker as back up and gallas on the sides (probably with King retiring and Nelson being shipped off)

Bring Naughton back to cover both full backs

In modric, Sandro, parker, huddlestone, livermore we probbaly have enough CM's so no one to come in unless someone is leaving or a special talent is available

Wingers, well in bale and Lennon we have two of the best in the league in my eyes but they're not always on form and it would be nice to have some cover or an upgrade. Hazard for example would be a great signing but that looks unlikely, still I agree we should try to bring someone in there although I wouldn't say we need two wingers just one

Strikers must be our main focus, its criminal how long we have been shit in this area. The last time you really felt strong up top was Berba and Keane....money wasted on Defoe, Keane, Bent, Crouch and Pav just seems shocking to me. Defoe and Saha should both be moved on in my eyes although I suspect one will be kept.

If Adebayor can come in full time great, if not we need someone who offers what he does as well as a more clinical goal scoring type.

 

[ItsBoris]

I'm not sure if we have the money, but there are a few players I think we should bring in this summer. Remy, Llorente, Vertonghen, Dembele, and Rene Adler. That gives us 2 new strikers, 1 new winger, new CB, cover/replacement for Modric, and a new first choice goalkeeper. That would cost us around £50 million. If we don't get Hazard we should definitely do that business without selling.

Hopefully in addition we could get Hazard because the owners should see it as an investment.

 

[Hot-Spur]

Why Bold? and not Daz or Persil?

Ok I know it was bad

 

[StartingPrice]

Why Bold? and not Daz or Persil?

Ok I know it was bad

And not even the first wsahing powder related response

 

[King of the Lane]

I'm not sure if we have the money, but there are a few players I think we should bring in this summer. Remy, Llorente, Vertonghen, Dembele, and Rene Adler. That gives us 2 new strikers, 1 new winger, new CB, cover/replacement for Modric, and a new first choice goalkeeper. That would cost us around £50 million. If we don't get Hazard we should definitely do that business without selling.

Hopefully in addition we could get Hazard because the owners should see it as an investment.

That would cost us £50 mill??? Where are you getting those figures?

We bid £18 mill for Remy in Jan, so I would expect him to cost around that now. Llorente's price tag has been rumoured to be about £30 mill. Vertonghen is being touted about for 7-10 mill, Dembele probably between 8-10 mill and Adler has agreed to join another club already. I highly doubt we will spend anywhere near 68 mill on players.

 

[AngerManagement]

I'm not sure if we have the money, but there are a few players I think we should bring in this summer. Remy, Llorente, Vertonghen, Dembele, and Rene Adler. That gives us 2 new strikers, 1 new winger, new CB, cover/replacement for Modric, and a new first choice goalkeeper. That would cost us around £50 million. If we don't get Hazard we should definitely do that business without selling.

Hopefully in addition we could get Hazard because the owners should see it as an investment.

Llorente would be out of our reach I feel, Adler is great but seems quite well known as a top keeper and we could struggle to sign him also I think.

Dembele has looked good whenever I see him but I am not sure Fulham would sell cheap and I am not sure his game would transfer to our team and still look as outstanding as he does for Fulham.

Remy I feel is now over priced and if he has a good Euro's will be even more so and Marseille seem hell bent on keeping him so it would take in excess of £20m (not sure its worth the gamble at that cost)

I'd probably prefer us to make some Newcastle esq signings of players on smaller wages for lesser fees with the potential to be top players rather than the likes you suggest he would maybe be out of our reach or at least cost us an arm and a leg without guaranteeing success either

 

[HappySpur]

L Adler is great but seems quite well known as a top keeper and
we could struggle to sign him also I think.

I think he's available on a free and is rumored to be going to Hamburg. But his back is bad.

 

[Paolo10]

My personal opinion about the Jan transfer window is that Levy didn't want to back Harry in it.

I think he took the gamble that we had already done enough to secure CL football and the money would be better saved and spent in the summer (when we would know who would be in charge for the following season and when better players may be available)

I think he probably thought there was enough uncertainty surrounding Harry's future and we were secure enough in our battle for a CL spot that there was no need to spend big and saving the money could be more useful in the summer and if there was a new man in charge it would be better to let him select his own targets with that money.

I don't think Harry would have not wanted to spend money, why? he probably thought he would going England and would loved to have spent cash to finish strong and increase his chances of gettting that job with no regard for the long term future of this club (like he spent at Pompey)

I think Levy probably made the smart decision at the time, its only hindsight that makes it look like an almighty fuck up....let's be honest we all thought third was a shoe in (well except for my dad who is always so pessimistic about Spurs and now thinks himself Nostradamus for predicting our slide *sarcastic thumbs up dad*)

Right now I just hope we beat Fulham and secure fourth.....from there we hope we get CL football via help from elsewhere (be that WBA taking points off Arsenal or Bayern lifting the CL)

Then we will hopefully spend the funds I assume we had set aside for the summer after deciding not to make moves in the winter window*



*non of this is ITK of course, just my take on events based on what I think is probable

From what I've read this was pretty much the scenario. Nailed it.

This is a groundhog argument by the way, happened at the end of the last two windows. I'll believe we have this spending power when I see it.

I see there's still the clear bias dripping from some of the predictable posts from the same predictable names too. Carry on.

 

[AngerManagement]

From what I've read this was pretty much the scenario. Nailed it.

This is a groundhog argument by the way, happened at the end of the last two windows. I'll believe we have this spending power when I see it.

I see there's still the clear bias dripping from some of the predictable posts from the same predictable names too. Carry on.

Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

 

[ItsBoris]

That would cost us £50 mill??? Where are you getting those figures?

We bid £18 mill for Remy in Jan, so I would expect him to cost around that now. Llorente's price tag has been rumoured to be about £30 mill. Vertonghen is being touted about for 7-10 mill, Dembele probably between 8-10 mill and Adler has agreed to join another club already. I highly doubt we will spend anywhere near 68 mill on players.

Didn't hear about this, who did he agree to go to? Llorente would be much cheaper with the length of time on his contract imo.

Plus we don't have a choice this summer because we only have 1 first team striker who we actually own. We have to spend money because we are threadbare at the moment. We already have issues with rotation.

 

[Ionman34]

Can I just say that POTL is one of the very few who knows his onions, he's put his rep on the line more than once and got it right. We know he's connected.

On the other hand there was a load of stuff and nonsense on here regards his Blue and Yellow, which even Mods were joining in with. It was a bit embarrassing at times tbh. Basically there's a whole constituency who seem to think these guys offer information simply for the kudos of being ITK. Indeed there's weird sub-category of people who like to come on places like this and pretend they're ITK. The truth is, if you are ITK, and you're working for the club, you probably shouldn't be posting on fan sites, and if you're doing so without due caution you could be fucking up deals in the pipe-line. So when POTL gives that Blue and Yellow spiel, it's not so he can look big and clever, or whatever juvenile reason people ascribe to him, it's so we fucking well know there's something in the pipe-line, but there's no way anyone can work out what it is.

He has not come along trying to make stuff up after the event to seem cool.

On the Harry thing. He was not in any way shape or form suggesting that Harry was going to be sacked. He was saying that if the job was offered Harry would take it. Given everyone thought he was going to get, even Harry according to RT, who had been in discussion with the FA, that was good info. If people can't read between the lines that is their problem.

Last thing, this site makes me mad sometimes, the way people who know shit and make stuff up have their every word hung upon, and yet when you've a genuinely connected guy, offering information, everyone decides he's a bull-shitter and treated with contempt.

Firstly, Sloth, I qualified that he hasn't been too smoking hot 'in my time as a member here' which is quite simply the truth. He may well have been shit hot before then but I cannot comment on that.
Secondly, I haven't lambasted POTL, rather expresses reservation based on my own experience of his ITK.
Thirdly, I have NEVER hung on anyone's word as being gospel. Feel free to dig up any post of mine where I have done so. Don't hold your breath though.
Lastly, the POTL ITK on Aitch, as I remember it, was that, England or no, he was off in the Summer. If I remember that wrong then I apologise.
It seems you feel I am ITK 'knocking.' I'm not, merely expressing a reservation wrt HR's tenure or termination of it.

Is that so unreasonable?

 

[Paolo10]

Wait for the window to open!

We do need to be bold, it's now or never with the way the league is going...to be honest I think Levy is afraid to gamble because of the players he had to get rid of already from Comolli. Bale, Modric and Ekotto have all gained value, but pretty much all the rest haven't and there are still some we still have at the club for whatever reason.

Gds, Bentley, Corluka, Gomes are all still about and until we sell them for whatever DL deems enough, we're wasting squad places and money.

Really hope we qualify for CL as I think it will play a part this time around, although I thought that the 1st time and was severely let down by the ambition we showed.

 

[sloth]

Firstly, Sloth, I qualified that he hasn't been too smoking hot 'in my time as a member here' which is quite simply the truth. He may well have been shit hot before then but I cannot comment on that.
Secondly, I haven't lambasted POTL, rather expresses reservation based on my own experience of his ITK.
Thirdly, I have NEVER hung on anyone's word as being gospel. Feel free to dig up any post of mine where I have done so. Don't hold your breath though.
Lastly, the POTL ITK on Aitch, as I remember it, was that, England or no, he was off in the Summer. If I remember that wrong then I apologise.
It seems you feel I am ITK 'knocking.' I'm not, merely expressing a reservation wrt HR's tenure or termination of it.

Is that so unreasonable?

Sorry mate, if that felt overly directed at you (not sure if I quoted your post?), it was more an APB of a post than meant to specifically criticise any individual post.

The funny thing is I'm on a perma-ban from the ITK rumour part of the site (read only for me), for involuntary/tourettes-like criticism of ITK, so I should be the last person to be throwing stones.

Which is also partly why I posted then, because I read all the posts over the various windows, have my thoughts, but can't actually post them, so they store up, and come out from time to time in Spurs Chat in vaguely relevant threads like this one.

 

[raymundo-iow]

If bold transfers are what Arry wants then how about cavani.

After watching him quite a lot this season he seams a lot more dynamic and direct than Ade plus seems to give 100% every game rather than when Ade feels like putting in a shift

We all heard the stories of a few years back about the cavani and Kjaer deal that when u look back is an absolute steal. Levy needs to recognise and accept we dropped a b#*llock by not signing him then and go back in for him again.

If we're going for someone of these wages and transfer price I'd like to see a player that will give his all for the team

 

[spurnut]

I think he's available on a free and is rumored to be going to Hamburg. But his back is bad.

Really? When I signed him in fifa 12 he passed the medical no prob and is currently the top rated keeper in the prem with most clean sheets

 

[Mr Pink]

Can we not give Sloth a second chance for the ITK section? Most hard core criminals get second chances these days, trust me,

 

[Ionman34]

Sorry mate, if that felt overly directed at you (not sure if I quoted your post?), it was more an APB of a post than meant to specifically criticise any individual post.

The funny thing is I'm on a perma-ban from the ITK rumour part of the site (read only for me), for involuntary/tourettes-like criticism of ITK, so I should be the last person to be throwing stones.

Which is also partly why I posted then, because I read all the posts over the various windows, have my thoughts, but can't actually post them, so they store up, and come out from time to time in Spurs Chat in vaguely relevant threads like this one.

LOL, no offence taken Sloth.

I got caught up in the ITK 'shenanigans' pre season but managed to hold my tongue throughout. I've been a Spurs fan for too long to jump the gun there, even if I do still remember us being one of the more desirable teams to play for. FFS, we were able to attract players of the calibre of Waddle, Gascoigne, Ginola and Lineker in the not so distant past.
But the last 2 decades has taught me to celebrate when the player is holding the shirt at the Lodge or WHL first.
The years watching & playing have also taught me that it is not necessarily who you have playing but how you play. Probably why I'd have been made up if we got Brendan Rodgers, he will create a dynasty somewhere, IMHO, and I would love for it to be with us.
I don't necessarily want Aitch gone, but neither will I be overly gutted if/when he does as I really believe he doesn't get the best out of what he has available. But I don't want to reopen that debate again!
An intelligent manager is a far bigger asset than a talented player and, whilst I think HR is intelligent, I don't think he's intelligent enough to take us where we want to go.
Maybe I'm being harsh but that is as I see it.

 

[kungfugrip]

Would be nice to spend big for a change. I know we forked out quite a lot for Defoe , Keane and Crouch in recent seasons but ex-players don't really count in terms of excitement. VDV is the only one I can think of for a while now. Suppose young players coming good like Walker/Bale and oldies on a free - Friedel/Gallas have reduced the need slightly.