Stick or twist?

[t7ny]

All this transfer talk is making me wonder all the time, and the funny thing is that the merry-go-round hasn't even got into second gear yet.

We as usual, are being linked with everyone who's kicked a ball or w**ked with their eyes open, some of the targets are realistic, some are not, some would be welcome, and others again, not....

But what's bugging me at the moment is who can we honestly attract? We don't pay Citeh wages, we can't offer European football, (that is if the Europa League even has any appeal??)

There's talk of getting rid of Keane, Pav and Bent, but can we honestly better them in the market? I think not.. I think we should just stick with what we have, I seriously doubt we are going to attract anyone better this season, especially with all the Mickey Mouse clubs coming into gazzilions of $'s, how can we honestly compete to win anything anymore, even the domestic cups will be a reach too far.

I'm not one of these dreamers who want to win the EPL, it's not gonna happen in my lifetime and I'm only 34! I just want to go out there on a Sunday and hold our own.

 

[midoNdefoe]

we have a fair amount of money ourselves, and a reasonably good brand of footy. We can always compete in the transfer market, and you are way too downbeat.

 

[Rupstoh]

As I said yesterday, our salary bill is half of Arsenal's and Wenger has maintained a stance on increasing salaries.

Sadly, if we are going to compete, this needs to be addressed.

 

[gibbs131]

We should keep the players we have. We will be great next season. Trust me.

 

[spurs mental]

Once we don't sell Keane this window I'll be a happy man.

 

[t7ny]

We should keep the players we have. We will be great next season. Trust me.

This is what I mean, the players we have are good. They proved that towards the end of the season when we picked up a good points total. I say keep what we have, we aren't going to attract better players.

 

[theburtonshelf]

Its a point ive been making for a while. The players we have on the whole, are good players, including bentley, bent and all the other scape goats. Unless the the guys we bring in are on a whole other level, and tbh, the madrid lot and young would qualify, I honestly think the benfits of a settled squad would outweigh the benefit of marginal improvements.

Obviously the squad needs trimming and every1 will have their opinions on who should be trimmed but the wholesale changes of the past 2 summers are to my mind counter productive.

 

[striebs]

It's gone from stupid to ridiculous already and I'm starting to get turned off by it all .

Clubs foolish enough to try matching City are going to come unstuck when the EPL bubble bursts .

We've got enough to comfortably avoid relegation , could do worse than run the squad we've got into the ground and plough any surplus into the stadium .

 

[Alec_spur]

This is what I mean, the players we have are good. They proved that towards the end of the season when we picked up a good points total. I say keep what we have, we aren't going to attract better players.

So basically your saying.. were at our peak and cant get any better so theres no point trying? just cling to wat we have.. n hope to survive..

I dont like the way u think

 

[t7ny]

So basically your saying.. were at our peak and cant get any better so theres no point trying? just cling to wat we have.. n hope to survive..

I dont like the way u think

I think we're at our peak based on our last league finish and lack of player attracting qualities right now. If this coming season the team performed as they can and we finish a respectable 5th or 6th (realistic target) then I see no reason to try and attract better players.

But, we scraped a top ten finish, underperformed miserably the first half of last season and sacked two managers in six months.

Would you come and work for us if you thought of yourself as a CL player, which is the only type of player that could improve our current squad.

 

[Alec_spur]

I think we're at our peak based on our last league finish and lack of player attracting qualities right now. If this coming season the team performed as they can and we finish a respectable 5th or 6th (realistic target) then I see no reason to try and attract better players.

But, we scraped a top ten finish, underperformed miserably the first half of last season and sacked two managers in six months.

Would you come and work for us if you thought of yourself as a CL player, which is the only type of player that could improve our current squad.

This depends on what you mean by CL player.. im sure Garreth Barry thinks of himself as a CL quality player yet he didnt go to a CL side..

Me personally yes i would but im a die hard spurs fan..

Im sure theres plenty of players playing around Europe who dont play in the Champions league who would love to play in the EPL and push for that position in the Top 4 with a club like spurs..

 

[Dr Know]

I'm not one of these dreamers who want to win the EPL, it's not gonna happen in my lifetime and I'm only 34! I just want to go out there on a Sunday and hold our own.

I've been a deluded fool all these years then mg:

I thought thats what it was all about! supporting Spurs just for the sake of avoiding relegation don't work for me. I'm one of those dreamers who feel its not imposible to win the PL. Villa is a good example, look at where they were on on the table for what seemed like a long time and if they had a bit more depth who knows what they could have achieved.
I've made my views clear on the team, I would be very happy to keep all our players and just add a few backups. We need quality players but we need stability first and the quality will follow

 

[14/04/91]

The City situation could be a blessing in disguise in that we might not be able to sign too many players. I think most of us agree fine tuning is needed rather than major surgery.
I'd be happy with selling a few (Bentley, Bent or Pav, Zokora, Chimbonda) and buying quality replacements.

 

[Alec_spur]

The City situation could be a blessing in disguise in that we might not be able to sign too many players. I think most of us agree fine tuning is needed rather than major surgery.
I'd be happy with selling a few (Bentley, Bent or Pav, Zokora, Chimbonda) and buying quality replacements.

Losing 5 and bringing in 5 is abit of surgery mate

 

[14/04/91]

Losing 5 and bringing in 5 is abit of surgery mate

Only 4 on my list. And I wouldn't replace Chimbonda so only 3 in.
Still better than last year, about 9 out and 6 in!!

 

[dontcallme]

I aprtly agree with the original thread. We are not going to buy highly wanted top class players, but this doesn't mean there isn't opportunity to improve the squad.

Selling one or two players, buying a couple to fill the gaps and try to start introducing our young starlets into the squad more is the way forward. If we put all our eggs in one basket we might be able to have a better league position than some think possible.

 

[striebs]

So basically your saying.. were at our peak and cant get any better so theres no point trying? just cling to wat we have.. n hope to survive..

I dont like the way u think

If it takes X million revenue to get 6th place and 2 times X million to get 5th then where is the return to justify the expenditure of the extra X million ?


The City money and Chelsea's re-awakened spending has prompted the Prem elite to raise the ante from last season .

A poster postulated that Spurs were the new Portsmouth .... well in a way we have to be because that is the only way we can finish top 7 now .

Even Arsenal can't compete and Wenger has decided not to try .

 

[SpurSince57]

If the current squad was capable of top four-challenging form over the last third of the season, common sense suggests that it doesn't need too much tweaking—maybe two or three players, as Harry said (and why not take him at his word?). Surely the most important thing is to get us playing at that level consistently over the whole season?

 

[DogsOfWar]

I've felt we should stick ever since the City money came in.

We have a very good, young side, as well as some pretty decent prospects coming through. Once we signed Palacios we produced top four form until the end of the season and because of the age of our squad we are only going to improve.

Yes, we still need a big man up front and, arguably, a left winger/midfielder but the players who we trim from the squad would more than make up for any expenditure.

We should use our resources over the next 3 or 4 years to develop the infrastructure of the club, developing the world class training facilities and stadium which would increase our status accordingly.
Then we will find ourselves in a position where we can compete financially and in terms of prestige but in a long term capacity, not with a short term billionaire fix.

 

[SpurSince57]

To be honest, I can see City having serious problems keeping all these players happy, particularly the midfielders, and Hughes still has to get them to gel—something he didn't really do last season. The only genuinely world-class player they've got is Robinho, and he's away with the fairies and tends to turn up when he feels like it. As for the rest, there's very little in it; our defence is certainly better, and I'd say we're a superior team.

We showed last season that we can hold our own against the Sky Four, only a chronic lack of self-belief letting us down on a couple of occasions, so why get our knickers in a twist over this lot?