- Jun 28, 2012
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Think it demonstrates really well the importance of Poch. I'm convinced his man management coupled with tactics are key. The system is king. No single player is more important than this.I was at dinner recently with a highly influential person in the world of PL football (not spurs related) and the subject got on to Spurs as it always does when I talk to football people. This guy was very insightful and he said Spurs have a massive problem at the moment, that they have out performed their wage bill for two-three years now and the upward pressure on wages at the club is immense as players and their agents will only out perform their wage levels for 1-2 years max.
So with transfers we are pretty much reduced to buying players under the age of 25 with potential and lower wages otherwise there will be whole sale revolt in the dressing room with everyone wanting more wages.
He used Kane as an example, apparently Kane's wages are circa £100,000 per week when his true value is £200,000 per week in the current market. How long would anyone stick around in their current job if they were getting paid 1/2 their current rate?
The general feeling is Kyle Walker went as he was the first to make noises about earning potential, and as he had only 3-4 years left at the top he needed to move now and Spurs were not prepared to keep him and upset the wage structure and the dressing room.
With all of this in mind, we are shopping for players in the last year of their contract (Wanyama, Barkley etc.) or unproven players with loads of potential with a success rate of lower than 50:50.
This is why our transfer business is so difficult we are in the 'no-mans land' of transfers. Not rich enough to play at the top table, and too good to buy the shit that the other PL teams are buying.
Look at our team! We lucked out with the fact that young players came good (Rose, Kane), astute buys paid off (Wanyama, Alderviewelrd, Son), Old buys started to perform (Dembele, Vertonghen) and a once in a 20 year occurrence of unearthing Dele Alli!
We have had more than our fair share of luck in the transfer market admittedly offset by Sissoko, Njie, Janssen etc. I get the feeling we will bring in 2-3 max with only 1 impacting the first XI. Looking at past years we have not impacted the first XI by more than 1-2 players each window.