Selling Club

[Stevenage Spur]

We are now a selling club. No pride, ambition or commitment!
For several years our long suffering fans have endured the sorrow of approaching the doorway to success only to have it slammed firmly shut in our faces. We have sold the players that would have opened that door.

We are now buying supposed potential in the hope that they will bring money into the club. This does not work!

If you want to eat at the top table you have to invest and pay the top dollar prices (whatever the cost) to enjoy the company (CL),

Sadly we have degenerated into the new Wet Spam also rans with no hope of success and always having to sell their best players.

You may say that top draw players want CL football but Chelski and City attracted the quality players long before they attained CL football, bite the bullet ENIC serious invest in Spurs and then and only then you will see return in your investment.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

LOL

 

[SlickMongoose]

Christ this place is miserable when we lose.

 

[mpickard2087]

Right, ok.

 

[Shadydan]

I love how these knee jerkers come out of the woodwork everytime we lose and make the most random threads that don't even make any sense.

 

[beats1]

Who did we sell in the summer that was decent?

 

[Sevens]

We are now a selling club. No pride, ambition or commitment!
For several years our long suffering fans have endured the sorrow of approaching the doorway to success only to have it slammed firmly shut in our faces. We have sold the players that would have opened that door.

We are now buying supposed potential in the hope that they will bring money into the club. This does not work!

If you want to eat at the top table you have to invest and pay the top dollar prices (whatever the cost) to enjoy the company (CL),

Sadly we have degenerated into the new Wet Spam also rans with no hope of success and always having to sell their best players.

You may say that top draw players want CL football but Chelski and City attracted the quality players long before they attained CL football, bite the bullet ENIC serious invest in Spurs and then and only then you will see return in your investment.

I don't think we're a selling club. I think our problem has been we haven't spent the money we've accrued wisely. Last Summer it was like we were playing Football Manager. There seemed to be no "OK, we've lost Bale so we need a like for like Bale replacement. We are also need an upgrade to Player X and Player Y". It was more this player is highly rated and we can buy him. Let's do it!

 

[Sevens]

Who did we sell in the summer that was decent?

Personally I'd have kept Sandro. A fit Sandro is significantly better than Capoue in my opinion. And in Poch's opinion it seems a fit Capoue is significantly superior to Stambouli.

 

[phoenix75]

hasn't really been shown to work unless you scout and buy the right players though, hence our wastage of the bale money. I think that there is no 'one' thing that is wrong with the club. It's a selection of things. Players lack identity with the club, no heart/effort, poor mentality when they go behind and yes, I agree in part. Levy has been a constant in poor selection of players brought, for the wrong reasons and he has, to a degree, thrown his Manager selections under the bus by not supporting them withe players wanted/needed. Whether that is through a genuine lack of finance or an unwillingness to spend, I don't know. I have my opinion though. However, the Manager didn't show anything today - was the first time I have been worried today about Poch's tactics/selections.

 

[Ian Kane]

Now you realise ? Where have you been for the last 20 years ?

 

[lukespurs7]

We are now a selling club. No pride, ambition or commitment!
For several years our long suffering fans have endured the sorrow of approaching the doorway to success only to have it slammed firmly shut in our faces. We have sold the players that would have opened that door.

We are now buying supposed potential in the hope that they will bring money into the club. This does not work!

If you want to eat at the top table you have to invest and pay the top dollar prices (whatever the cost) to enjoy the company (CL),

Sadly we have degenerated into the new Wet Spam also rans with no hope of success and always having to sell their best players.

You may say that top draw players want CL football but Chelski and City attracted the quality players long before they attained CL football, bite the bullet ENIC serious invest in Spurs and then and only then you will see return in your investment.

Pissed off after today but don't agree with this.

Levy has tried to hold onto our best players until we absolutely have to sell them. e.g. Carrick,Berba,Modric,Bale so fair play to him.

What we have done wrong is appointing the wrong managers and signing the wrong players.

 

[Danners9]

Spurs needs to be a selling club this January or summer. Some real shite that needs to go and be replaced by players that actually fit the way the manager wants to play.

 

[Shadydan]

Personally I'd have kept Sandro. A fit Sandro is significantly better than Capoue in my opinion. And in Poch's opinion it seems a fit Capoue is significantly superior to Stambouli.

Does not compute I'm afraid.

 

[dontcallme]

Who did we sell in the summer that we wanted to keep?

I know it's a shit, ill-thought out thread but I'll play along.

I don't believe we are a selling club. We are a club that is trying to think outside the box and find a way to compete within our budget.

Through the 90s we had a high net spend and low wage budget. Buying older players with no sell-on value resulted in wasting our money on players past their prime and while we hit a couple of successes, like Ginola, for the most part it was dull, uninspiring signings that we were never going to succeed.

Levy's plan of bringing in a DOF turned us quickly into the 5th best club in the country and this was done without spending any money. I don't know about most on here but I'd rather we had the likes of Bale, Modric and Berbatov for a few years than the likes of Sinton, Leonhardson etc until the end of their careers.

Of course replacing these players is difficult and I believe the constant changing of managers has hit our continuity hard. Rather than calling us a "selling club" I think we're a club that does too much business.

A good way to improve the defence is by getting a consistent back four playing together and building understanding over a period of time. As we are constantly trying to buy a better player to improve we have not succeeded with this. Sometimes the replacement wasn't better, Hutton for Corluka, and sometimes we stopped our defence getting to play together regularly.

Right now I think our way forward is less transfers than ever before. A small tweak here and there and create an opportunity for a younger player like Kane and Mason to become a squad player.

But how anyone thinks we're a selling club I'm not quite sure.

 

[JerryGarcia]

We are now a selling club. No pride, ambition or commitment!
For several years our long suffering fans have endured the sorrow of approaching the doorway to success only to have it slammed firmly shut in our faces. We have sold the players that would have opened that door.

We are now buying supposed potential in the hope that they will bring money into the club. This does not work!

If you want to eat at the top table you have to invest and pay the top dollar prices (whatever the cost) to enjoy the company (CL),

Sadly we have degenerated into the new Wet Spam also rans with no hope of success and always having to sell their best players.

You may say that top draw players want CL football but Chelski and City attracted the quality players long before they attained CL football, bite the bullet ENIC serious invest in Spurs and then and only then you will see return in your investment.

One of the worst posts I've read, you have put little to no thought into what you're saying.

 

[FinnYid]

Who did we sell in the summer that was decent?

Siggy and Sandro spring to mind, but neither was forced sale.

Someone might have found use for Holtby too in current squad.

 

[phoenix75]

And the turnover in both players and managers has contributed to our club now having no identity to our play. What we do need to do is get rid of the poor players who are happy to pick up the wages every week for very little, get behind our manager and invest in some real quality of the managers choosing. It annoys me how clubs like Everton/Southampton, etc with relatively little resources manage to buy players that fit their managers ethos, work ethic and system. Its not good enough to buy players off a data sheet.

 

[beats1]

Siggy and Sandro spring to mind, but neither was forced sale.

Ok Siggy I give you but then the issue there was we played him out of position and is he better than eriksen

i said at the time, Paulinho was a stupid signing since we already had Siggy who can be a great box to box player in a 3 man midfield. Of course the hype took over

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Christ this place is miserable when we lose.

I swear there are some posters who only ever log on when we lose, so they can vent. What sad lives they must lead.

 

[Bobbins]

I swear there are some posters who only ever log on when we lose, so they can vent. What sad lives they must lead.

Where is jimbo78 anyway?