Spurs are playing a different transfer game to the rest

[teok]

Matt Stead on transfer strategy.

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[onthetwo]

id have gone with 'Confirmation that most footballers are a bit thick/delusional' as my title on this one as all 3 of the players mentioned would probably have been better served by admitting that their fitness levels werent where they should have been when they arrived rather than bleating about a lack of playing time.

 

[bigspurs]

'Tottenham are one of three sides yet to sign anyone in this transfer window'.

Maybe we don't need to sign anyone decent, but it just seems as though the competing teams around us are getting stronger and stronger and we're just stagnating and missing out in some way.

 

[Gassin's finest]

I think it's more a case of us having a fucking excellent first team that it's very difficult to improve on without an already established world class player. You come here, you've got to be at your best all the time to get into MoPo's team.

What in the fuck made a player who just got relegated to the championship think he could walk into a title contending side, I'll never know.

 

[Jadon Benjamin]

'Tottenham are one of three sides yet to sign anyone in this transfer window'.

Maybe we don't need to sign anyone decent, but it just seems as though the competing teams around us are getting stronger and stronger and we're just stagnating and missing out in some way.

There is strength in consistency and familiarity. We have a young cohesive unit that know each other well. There's nothing to be worried about. Our defence won't all of a sudden starting leaking in goals and Son, Alli, Kane and Eriksen won't all of a sudden hit a drought. We're in a good space. Relax.

 

[jamesinashby]

I have to say that over the last few years, that to suggest there is a Tottenham strategy when it comes to buying player it s stretching it a bit. The only sensible reasoning I have ever seen about who we should and shouldn't buy is on here written by the fans. I struggle to remember of advance news emanating from someone in the club. I do remember many times the fans on here querying the wisdom of some of the purchases.

I may be wrong, but this window seems no different to any of the last few. If there is a strategy, it is that Mr Levy and MP keep their cards close to their chests and do things secretly _ often at the last minute.

The richer clubs openly go for players and seem to pay out big bucks for them. Therefore, although some players may be missed, perhaps the way we have gone about things may have some merit in that we don't get screwed too often and sometimes pick up some great bargains. Sadly it doesn't prevent us from the clangers of finishing up with the wrong choice.

COYS

 

[jamesinashby]

Whatever Spurs strategy is or isn't, I wish they would settle my nerves by announcing 1 or 2 exciting buys. All the other top teams who will be challenging for the EPL title seem to be significantly steadily strengthening their squads. Yes we easily held our own and better at the end of last season. However if the opposition has improved, surely so must we. With the additional challenges of the EC, the need for strength in depth increases. Please please Mr Levy calm our nerves by indicating that we will definitely be getting a couple of already proven players capable of covering our top regular first team players.

COYS

 

[Chedozie]

Poch is committed to giving youth players opportunitys, because of this, we have Jon McDermott, an outstanding youth development manager, but this means we have less players coming into the club, this is a good thing during the season, but makes for a boring transfer window.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

...the competing teams around us are getting stronger and stronger and we're just stagnating and missing out in some way.

...All the other top teams who will be challenging for the EPL title seem to be significantly steadily strengthening their squads...

They're buying new players. That's not "strengthening", it's ... buying new players.

I'm not clear how, in one breath, people can rightfully point out that some of our signings turn out to be great and some turn out to be inadequate, then in the next breath, assume that other clubs who buy new players are "strengthening". They could just as easily be "weakening", if their signings turn out to be Roberto Soldado instead of Dele Alli.

The other clubs, Chelsea excepted, are buying players because they were worse than we were last season and they want to catch up. Just as we were buying players when we usually finished 5th or 6th and wanted to catch up to the top 4. And just as it was with us, sometimes those new players will improve the squad and sometimes they won't.

When there's a player in the market who (a) will bring us a skill where we could use some improvement (pace on the flanks springs to mind), (b) isn't insanely expensive, (c) has proven himself in Premiership football or looks like he has the right qualities for success here and (d) fits Pochettino's profile of character, fitness, physicality, hard work and skill, then I expect we'll try to sign him.

Otherwise, it will just be youthful players with potential. We always sign those.

 

[tototoner]

I think the fans would be a tad more frustrated if our top players start leaving.

Yes I want us to improve the squad and 1st team if we can but finding players within our means to do that is difficult and I don't want us to sign players just to give certain fans a transfer fix.

As for the other teams around us, those players will take time to settle while we with a settled 1st XI should hit the ground running.

 

[mawspurs]

I think there's definitely strength in consistency. however its also useful to add a player or two to freshen things up.

Our problem is that Levy's last minute policy means any purchase is lagging behind fitness wise so is almost certain to have a slow start to the season.

 

[Sweetsman]

Lukaku joins ManU over Chelsea. I'm thinking Willian and Karma.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Our problem is that Levy's last minute policy means any purchase is lagging behind fitness wise so is almost certain to have a slow start to the season.

Myth-busting time .

Players signed in July or before: Huddlestone, Lennon, Berbatov, Kaboul, Boateng, Bentley, Gomes, Modric, Crouch, Naughton, Walker, Friedel, Sigurdsson, Vertonghen, Paulinho, Chadli, Davies, Vorm, Dier, Wanyama (June), Janssen, Wimmer (May), Trippier (June), Alderweireld. Total = 24.

Players signed in August or after: Jenas, Rose, Pavlyuchenko, Corluka (Sept), Bassong, Kranjcar (Sept), Gallas, Sandro, van der Vaart, Parker, Adebayor, Dembélé, Lloris, Dempsey, Soldado, Capoue, Chiriches, Lamela, Eriksen, Yedlin, Fazio, Stambouli (Sept), N'Jie, Son, N'koudou, Sissoko. Total = 26.

Players still in the squad are shown in bold. January transfers omitted. Start date summer 2005.

That's a lot of highly-influential players signed very early in the window, including several of the best Spurs players of their generation: Modric, Berbatov, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Wanyama.

 

[parj]

Just wait for the others to do their main shop then buy the players we want with no pressure to increase offer

 

[sebo_sek]

Myth-busting time .

Players signed in July or before: Huddlestone, Lennon, Berbatov, Kaboul, Boateng, Bentley, Gomes, Modric, Palacios, Crouch, Naughton, Walker, Friedel, Sigurdsson, Vertonghen, Paulinho, Chadli, Davies, Vorm, Dier, Wanyama (June), Janssen, Wimmer (May), Trippier (June), Alderweireld. Total = 25.

Players signed in August or after: Jenas, Rose, Pavlyuchenko, Corluka (Sept), Bassong, Kranjcar (Sept), Gallas, Sandro, van der Vaart, Parker, Adebayor, Dembélé, Lloris, Dempsey, Soldado, Capoue, Chiriches, Lamela, Eriksen, Yedlin, Fazio, Stambouli (Sept), N'Jie, Son, N'koudou, Sissoko. Total = 26.

Players still in the squad are shown in bold. January transfers omitted. Start date summer 2005.

That's a lot of highly-influential players signed very early in the window, including several of the best Spurs players of their generation: Modric, Berbatov, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Wanyama.

Sir, you've missed Rasiak. Unforgiveable in my eyes.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Sir, you've missed Rasiak. Unforgiveable in my eyes.

You are correct. Signed 31/8/05. I have amended my spreadsheet.

Thank you for unearthing that precious memory.

 

[kungfugrip]

Myth-busting time .

Players signed in July or before: Huddlestone, Lennon, Berbatov, Kaboul, Boateng, Bentley, Gomes, Modric, Palacios, Crouch, Naughton, Walker, Friedel, Sigurdsson, Vertonghen, Paulinho, Chadli, Davies, Vorm, Dier, Wanyama (June), Janssen, Wimmer (May), Trippier (June), Alderweireld. Total = 25.

Players signed in August or after: Jenas, Rose, Pavlyuchenko, Corluka (Sept), Bassong, Kranjcar (Sept), Gallas, Sandro, van der Vaart, Parker, Adebayor, Dembélé, Lloris, Dempsey, Soldado, Capoue, Chiriches, Lamela, Eriksen, Yedlin, Fazio, Stambouli (Sept), N'Jie, Son, N'koudou, Sissoko. Total = 26.

Players still in the squad are shown in bold. January transfers omitted. Start date summer 2005.

That's a lot of highly-influential players signed very early in the window, including several of the best Spurs players of their generation: Modric, Berbatov, Vertonghen, Alderweireld, Wanyama.

Palacios was a January transfer so that makes me wonder about the accuracy of the rest of your list.....

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Palacios was a January transfer...

I also have Palacios down as arriving in Jan 2009, so I'm not sure how he crept into that list. I'll blame my dodgy vision. They're all in chronological order, separated into lists depending on who was the Director of Football at the time. I just read through it, writing down the ones that weren't January.

 

[Indacupfortottenham]

Some fans need to realise that transfers windows are not Christmas and instead of worrying about the kid next doors shiny new racer, go out enjoy your own bmx

 

[Indacupfortottenham]

Some fans need to realise that transfers windows are not Christmas and instead of worrying about the kid next doors shiny new racer, go out enjoy your own bmx

Wow I'm old and shit at analogies!