Well done Levy and co.

[yiddo]

if you did you will understand we have to do our business at the end of the window. we tried to get players in early but goalpost where moved to an area of 20m extra so how do you want the club to go?

if that 20m extra means we lose out on a more important target what do you suggest we do?

not sure how much info is in here, but due to PL and CL rules we need to get rid of some non HG, and recruit 1 or 2 more. unfortunately no one is trying to buy our "wanted out's" what do you suggest? give them away? yet again it will effect our budget.

we are not Man C, Man U (who haven't strengthened yet), Chelsea (who haven't strengthened yet, and could soon be worse off), who can just go buy players and afford to pay stupid agent fees on top, in fact put your 2nd favourite team in that too, Liverpool (and most probably you and a few others are even more unhappy). please tell me how you see their signings as a guarantee they will finish above us

So at what point do you consider it to be the end of the window.... deadline day??

I accept that we cant pay 20m extra for every player we go for but when you haven't successfully been able to make any moves in the market, blaming all the other teams or indeed the market itself is really just a lame excuse for failing.

Its not just this window, if we take Sanchez as the replacement for Toby (which many have indicated is the case) we haven't upgraded the 1st XI for 2 years.
Poch has done incredible things with this squad but if you believe that rate of improvement will just continue on with the same players... you are kiddin yourself.

Every other team is making moves to strengthen, some significantly, granted that is no guarantee of success but its as close as you are going to get.

 

[Lilbaz]

So at what point do you consider it to be the end of the window.... deadline day??

I accept that we cant pay 20m extra for every player we go for but when you haven't successfully been able to make any moves in the market, blaming all the other teams or indeed the market itself is really just a lame excuse for failing.

Its not just this window, if we take Sanchez as the replacement for Toby (which many have indicated is the case) we haven't upgraded the 1st XI for 2 years.
Poch has done incredible things with this squad but if you believe that rate of improvement will just continue on with the same players... you are kiddin yourself.

Every other team is making moves to strengthen, some significantly, granted that is no guarantee of success but its as close as you are going to get.

Not being funny but i think everyone considers the end of the window deadline day?

 

[yiddo]

Not being funny but i think everyone considers the end of the window transfer day?

Im sure not even Lighty64 thinks that we have to do all our business on transfer deadline day....

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

I think it's best we lock this thread until around November.

If by then we've brought in what we need, got rid of what we don't, are up and around the top of the table again, we can pat Levy on the back.

If we didn't do any sensible business in the window, are toiling in 13th and Poch has downed tools, we can pat Levy on the back (push him off a bridge)

 

[Gassin's finest]

I agree, we had a cracking season last time with getting 3rd with Wembley and the start we had

Yes we lost the SF but that is becoming the norm for us, hopefully we can go a couple of steps further this year and win something.

I am worried though about this year, no signings and injuries mounting up already whilst also having to settle in a new home, I think we will fall out top 4 which will be a real shame and for me this is why I am so angry with Levy for not backing his manager again so far.

If I was Newcastle & Fulham I would be loving the fact they are playing us so early with the world cup players just returning, injuries and any fresh blood we do sign will not be settled yet - we know how Poch works.

Yer, the team who just got promoted will be well happy about playing the exact same team that just finished 3rd, with the WC winning goalkeeper and Golden Boot winner; regardless of WC fatigue...

 

[ebzrascal]

I think I'd describe our club in the transfer market as dithering we don't have a clear picture of what we want or the determination to see things through. So Liverpool miss a target in the summer window they go hard again in the winter window and get them. We miss a target in one window we move on and for get about them in the next window and the cycle stars again. It's not professional and gives no one any confidence that people making the transfer decisions actually know what they are doing. This nonsense about waiting for the top clubs to finish their business because we can't complete is an example of an inferiority complex that must get into the minds of of the playing squad. I really thought the new stadium would signal a change of go early and hard like we did when we got Modric in 2008. Now we look to be going into a £billion stadium low fan excitement and enthusiasm. Personally I feel flat about the new season.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

I think I'd describe our club in the transfer market as dithering we don't have a clear picture of what we want or the determination to see things through. So Liverpool miss a target in the summer window they go hard again in the winter window and get them. We miss a target in one window we move on and for get about them in the next window and the cycle stars again. It's not professional and gives no one any confidence that people making the transfer decisions actually know what they are doing. This nonsense about waiting for the top clubs to finish their business because we can't complete is an example of an inferiority complex that must get into the minds of of the playing squad. I really thought the new stadium would signal a change of go early and hard like we did when we got Modric in 2008. Now we look to be going into a £billion stadium low fan excitement and enthusiasm. Personally I feel flat about the new season.

You feel flat because of the lack of transfer dealings?

I can't wait for this season to start, watching the team I love playing football again and hopefully see them this side of the new year in a brand spanking state of the art new stadium ...

Some people are far to bothered/enamoured with what happens at boardroom level sometimes.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

You feel flat because of the lack of transfer dealings?

I can't wait for this season to start, watching the team I love playing football again and hopefully see them this side of the new year in a brand spanking state of the art new stadium ...

Some people are far to bothered/enamoured with what happens at boardroom level sometimes.

Even the stadium progress (on camera) has halted in the last week.
The entire club seems in a state of suspension.

 

[wrd]

Personally now see it as Levy sees himself as a custodian of the club and that means preserving it rather than taking a risk and this current golden period will forever be known as the time in which spurs were always 2 players short.

 

[dontcallme]

Personally now see it as Levy sees himself as a custodian of the club and that means preserving it rather than taking a risk and this current golden period will forever be known as the time in which spurs were always 2 players short.

Which is better than when he took over and we were always 9 players short.

 

[wrd]

Which is better than when he took over and we were always 9 players short.

I don't see why that means we shouldn't take the next step. Because we are doing better than we were a decade ago we should be happy at this current ceiling?

 

[dontcallme]

I don't see why that means we shouldn't take the next step. Because we are doing better than we were a decade ago we should be happy at this current ceiling?

Not saying we shouldn’t strive to be better but it feels like many seem to think these are bad times for us.

I have never seen us play so consistently well in my life.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Even the stadium progress (on camera) has halted in the last week.
The entire club seems in a state of suspension.

Oh shit really? Do you think we will ever complete the stadium? You have me worried now.

 

[shelfboy68]

Personally now see it as Levy sees himself as a custodian of the club and that means preserving it rather than taking a risk and this current golden period will forever be known as the time in which spurs were always 2 players short.

As chairman he is responsible not only for buying the best possible players he can bring to the club but also ensuring the health and longevity of it also,I don't think anyone can deny he has brought us on since he has been in charge from mid table side to now top four and new stadium plus training ground.
What is irking everyone or mostly everyone is the perception that he is risk adverse and holds the club back but not taking a gamble like other clubs do, for me I will still give him the benefit of the doubt until after the window shuts which is the time to judge how successful he has been and whether he has played a blinder.
I agree there are a few twitchy sphincters with less than 2 weeks to go but I'm sure he knows he has to deliver for his manager otherwise his manager may not stick around too long.

 

[wrd]

Not saying we shouldn’t strive to be better but it feels like many seem to think these are bad times for us.

I have never seen us play so consistently well in my life.

I agree with you there, the overall times are the best in my lifetime for sure and I appreciate that. I'm a firm believer in that everything isn't all bad or all good and right now it's incredibly frustrating seeing our current crop of players just lacking that 1 or 2 players to take us over the edge. I don't want to see the likes of Kane wasted because we always just needed to get that 1 more over the line.

We saw that happen with the VDV, Bale, Modric, King era. one or two players there and we would have been in that title race and top4 a dead cert, instead we sign Saha and Nelson.

I don't want us to be nearly men but I feel because of how Levy perceives his role which is that of preserving spurs as a custodian and leaving it better than it was in a business sense that will lead to us being what I fear.

 

[wrd]

As chairman he is responsible not only for buying the best possible players he can bring to the club but also ensuring the health and longevity of it also,I don't think anyone can deny he has brought us on since he has been in charge from mid table side to now top four and new stadium plus training ground.
What is irking everyone or mostly everyone is the perception that he is risk adverse and holds the club back but not taking a gamble like other clubs do, for me I will still give him the benefit of the doubt until after the window shuts which is the time to judge how successful he has been and whether he has played a blinder.
I agree there are a few twitchy sphincters with less than 2 weeks to go but I'm sure he knows he has to deliver for his manager otherwise his manager may not stick around too long.

I agree, I posted and then saw your post though haha.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Oh shit really? Do you think we will ever complete the stadium? You have me worried now.

Nah, I think we've run out of cash and will have to go back to playing at the old stadium.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Not saying we shouldn’t strive to be better but it feels like many seem to think these are bad times for us.

I have never seen us play so consistently well in my life.

No one is unhappy with where we are.
It's where we're going next that scares the living shit out of me. We're at a fork in the road where we push on to the end, or we go the other way, which will almost certainly see it come crumbling down.

We have a manager and an entire squad that are very close. Upset him and he leaves. He leaves, most of the them will either follow or leave out of protest. It's a perfect little ecosystem while it's working, but anything goes wrong and it all goes belly up.

 

[tiger666]

We have a manager and an entire squad that are very close. Upset him and he leaves. He leaves, most of the them will either follow or leave out of protest. It's a perfect little ecosystem while it's working, but anything goes wrong and it all goes belly up.

Again, the mass exodus. This gets brought up every transfer window. Literally every single year we have posters saying our manager and all our players will leave yet it still hasn't happened to us or any other club that I'm aware of.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I think we are in a kind of a catch 22. We've bought the players we could get our hands on previously, largely from abroad, in a bid to broaden squad depth. It has largely backfired. Here; I'm not saying that all signings have backfired, but that signings which specifically were meant to expand the depth have not contributed to said depth. Now, we are left with specific needs of upgrade to solidify the squad further. I believe everybody on the club inside agrees to that. But, we have too many foreign players so there is no sense in signing more of those. We can't attract home-grown players who are solid enough to make a difference, and we can't seem to be able to sell foreign players who are disposable from the group of squad players that we didn't really need. Until one part of that loop is broken, or until Levy panics and does something foolish in the last 24 hours of the window, we are not going to sign anybody.
And that will become the achilles heal of the entire season.