The most painful transfers out of THFC

[GetKaned]

I cried like a baby when Dele left. It was a surprise even for me how much I liked him. He was just days younger than me and it was so damn good to follow his progress in the club simultaneously while I started my own work. He was like a brother for me. And also the poster boy for the new Tottenham under Pochettino.. It was so damn hard.

 

[Terry & Terry]

Jennings to Arsenal when we were relegated. Just couldn’t believe it. He was forced out by the chairman of course.

 

[nipponyid]

Jennings to Arsenal when we were relegated. Just couldn’t believe it. He was forced out by the chairman of course.

Think you'll find it was Burkinshaw who thought he was past his best! Awful treatment by the club as Pat himself has alluded to.

 

[tooey]

Totally random but Vertonghen going stung a bit. He was definitely on the decline and it made sense but I just loved the guy.

 

[Terry & Terry]

Think you'll find it was Burkinshaw who thought he was past his best! Awful treatment by the club as Pat himself has alluded to.

You may be right but when I asked Pat he said it was the chairman who forced him out. I guess the chairman dealt with transfers in those days.

 

[RuskyM]

Poch, Dele, Keano, Berbatov, Modric & Bale for obvious reasons, but seeing Danny Rose & SuperJan go without a goodbye made me really sad.

 

[wrd]

Bale was the most gutting for me

 

[cider spurs]

Ginola.

He actually wanted to stay at Spurs. Players player of the season, and Graham wanted him gone.

 

[Worthy]

Waddle for me as well. Transfers were so different then. Didn't know anything about it until I saw it on the breakfast news while I was getting ready for school. There's been a few since, but that was the first and most painful

 

[daveduvet]

Waddle.

Broke my heart. Was looking forward to him, Gazza and Lineker playing together.

£4.5 million to Marseille was the back page of the Sun, I seem to recall?

 

[Teemu]

Teemu

I’m still here mate

 

[CantSmileWithoutYou]

Waddle. Just signed Lineker and Nayim-from-the-halfway-line. Add them to Gazza and Waddle, it would've been magic...

Then waddle was off to marseille for a then third biggest transfer fee of all time... £4.2m

 

[easley91]

Rafa, Bale, Keane, Berbatov, Defoe, Dawson, Vertonghen, Toby

 

[archiewasking]

Archibald to Barcelona. Never been so gutted. He was and still is my hero.

 

[rossdapep]

Sheringham.

Simply for the fact that I went to bed and all was right with the world only to wake up with him splashed across the newspapers with a United shirt at Old Trafford. Plus I was about 14 so it hits harder when you are young.


I was disappointed when Berbatov, Bale and Modric left but they were always on the cards and Campbell can get fucked.

 

[cookiemonster]

Chris Waddle after signing Gary Lineker

Jurgen Klinsmann

 

[Bulletspur]

Lamela

 

[C0YS]

Berbatov and Keane hurt a lot, particularly as it was the same transfer window and we ended up with us loaning Frazier Campbell to make up the numbers, they wouldn't even let us sign him. Pretty humiliating. Keane was hard because not only had he had a brilliant season but it was just unexpected that he would leave, at least with Berbatov he had tried to leave before.

With age they got easier to handle. Bale was a little hard but like Modric, it was somewhat softened by them not going to a direct rival. In the case of Bale it also helped that we reinvested that money the same window.

Ultimately, experience has told me these things go in circles and players leave and the club isn't instantly doomed by their departure. Kane wanting to leave didn't cause me much grief, ultimately players are not the club and you move on.

 

[SonicSarr]

Gazza to Lazio

 

[dontcallme]

Campbell for me.

Every other transfer, I could rationise - Bale went to Madrid for a world record fee, Carrick, Berbatov went to the (at the time) biggest club in the country, Modric went to one of the best clubs in the world etc etc.

But, Campbell....After everything he said, going to those fucks for free......I'm getting angry just thinking about it again. Easily the most painful and still raw.

Fraser's loan had ended and we chose not to buy permanently. I wish him well.