The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - THE LAST DAY! 1st September 2014

[paulcumpstone]

been less ITK on here today than signings, sad times

 

[ThroughTheEther]

there's so much emphasis placed on transfer deadline day that it's easy to forget that it's a good thing to not have to be overly active on the final day.

 

[MyNameIsNicolaBerti]

Don't know much about him but looked at his record and its about 90 goals in 110 appearances. Can't knock that so at 9.5 mill he could be a top signing. Whereas Soldado.......

....whereas Soldado had a similar scoring record before we signed him and this time last year, if asked, you'd say the same thing you're saying about Hernandez.

 

[JerryGarcia]

https://vine.co/v/OBUpV5MYZbA

That's possibly one of the funniest things I've seen

 

[Speaker]

I'm glad Welbeck has gone to Arsenal. We have enough strikers who can't score on a regular basis as is.

 

[monkeynick]

Waheeey.a KJH rumour has surfaced!

Albeit to arsenal but I think that makes deadline day complete

 

[Trees]

The cynic in me thinks that we will be linked with someone else b4 the window ends. Unfortunately not enough time to do the deal blah blah blah

 

[Donki]

So Souleymane Coulibaly sold? He didn't last long lol.

 

[dimiSpur]

there's so much emphasis placed on transfer deadline day that it's easy to forget that it's a good thing to not have to be overly active on the final day.

Fuck off Levy.

 

[EruditeWoman]

Our attacking options look woeful

 

[neilp]

Have we made money again this window ? Does anyone have our net spend from last 3 years on transfer dealings ?

I really miss the funny rating

 

[mrlilywhite]

That's also a tad unfair though. One player got us 86m last year, we spent around 100 MILLION. What did people expect, 150m spend?

We just reinvested the money and I think overall we had a net spend of a few £m. No one expects us to spend that much, that is being naive on your part.

 

[Ledleys Knee]

Have we made money again this window ? Does anyone have our net spend from last 3 years on transfer dealings ?

We are zero net spend over the past 6-7 years. Definitely bottom of the EPL spend table for the last 5 years. That's probably a good 1/2 - 2/3 of the stadium build saved up though.

 

[Good Doctor M]

So are Spurs the only team that have to pay wages? Because there's not many teams who've spent as little on transfer fees in recent years

No, but we're building a stadium and just finished a training ground many describe as the best in world football. We are NOT Liverpool, Man Utd, Chelsea or Man City. We don't have their spending power. If we want nice things we have to choose what they are. We can't have our cake and eat it like the clubs I mentioned. We're a small club by comparison, globally and financially. The sooner fans like yourself realise this and come to terms with that, the happier and less pissed off you'll be.

You see Everton? We're Everton. Now imagine Everton were to build a brand new 55,000 seater, state of the art stadium. Now imagine they built a stadium and then in the years while the work took place they spent as much money as Liverpool or Man Utd do on transfers and expensive players with huge wage demands. Do you know what would happen? They'd not be Everton anymore. They'd be Leeds. We'd be Leeds. It's that simple.

 

[kitchen]

We need a pacy front man who makes runs in behind and can finish. That is all.

 

[Jospur]

You're an idiot.

If you want to spend big money then you need something to generate the money from somewhere, that's why if you ever went to the Lane you'd see a massive site cleared where we're spending more money than your entire bloodline has ever earned.

You want Levy to pull out his black amex and spend money we don't have on the squad on the off chance that we'll qualify for the CL. Levy is investing Spurs money in the club, so that we can actually fight on an equal financial footing with bigger clubs.

Don't call me an idiot. It's quite clear that Levy's management model involves the Club investing in players that don't play in the hopes of a big pay-off on one or two of them. That means a bloated squad with half-decent players that won't even make it to the game-day squad. They won't even have a chance to play. That's wages sitting on the sidelines and not contributing. Perhaps you don't see that. But then again I don't really know if you're bright enough to understand basic economics. Quality is what's needed - not quantity.

How many times has the Club lost out on Champions League football by the slimmest of margins because Levy left it too late in the Transfer Window or penny-pinched instead of investing in the first team. Making it into the Champions League is a cash cow. Levy's approach has been a disappointment.

Grow up, Bobby. Try to see what's right before your eyes. Look back over the past few years and understand what might have been with a more committed approach.

 

[tototoner]

BREAKING: Klaas Jan Huntelaar is on his way to London to undergo a medical with Arsenal. [De Stentor]

http://twitter.com/TransferRelated/status/506526035132055552

 

[C0YS]

I think people keep forgetting that for the next two seasons, we will be playing at an even smaller stadium than WHL - if ever there was a time to over-spend a little it was this summer, because revenues are going to be even tighter in the next two summer transfer windows...

If anything that is a sign that we ought to save now we have the chance.

 

[Chezaspur]

Wellbeck to Arsenal would be a shit end to a shit day

 

[Drexl]

Gards hinting arsenal have signed both Welbeck and Huntelaar, and we couldn't even close 1 striker deal today

 

[Harry Barber]

We are zero net spend over the past 6-7 years. Definitely bottom of the EPL spend table for the last 5 years. That's probably a good 1/2 - 2/3 of the stadium build saved up though.

What stadium?

 

[Mr Pink]

Welbeck was my last hope - what a joke.