Who would Harry have bought??

[yanno]

Of the players we did sign, I suspect:

Vlad - No, £9 million on a largely unknown Romanian, when he had the known quantities of Gallas, Caulker and Dawson as the squad CBs

Capoue - probably not, would depend on Broomfield or other scouting recommendations, & definitely would have kept Parker

Paulinho - I suspect not 'Arry's idea of a Brazlian, and it seemed to take him forever to be convinced that Sandro could play in English football

Chadli - very good price given his form in Holland, but Redknapp still doubtless has flashbacks over Marco Boogers

Eriksen - Yes, Redknapp's idea of a creative, passing, player and cheaper than I expected

Soldado - this was such an un-Levy-like signing that I wonder whether it only happened because AVB persuaded him to spend the money and effectively forget about resale value. Redknapp wasn't prepared to pay north of £25 million for Suarez (wrongly) or Andy Carroll (correctly). Would this have happened under Redknapp? I simply don't know.

Lamela - the crown jewel of River Plate's academy, a good season in Serie A, world class potential. Big fee. Redknapp lkes to play his creative types wide - he turned D'Alessandro and Kranjcar into LMs cutting inside, and Modric was used mainly as a LM in the first couple of seasons. Lamela is a Number 10 who has already proven he can play wide, so with Baldini to vouch for the player's ability and temperament, Redknapp probably would have signed him.

The thought of Downing and Ashley Young wide, and our paying Joe Cole and Rio Ferdinand's pensions, gives me cold sweats...

 

[Blake Griffin]

Blame it on the scouts Harry's a big boy, I'm sure he could work out whether or not he wanted a player himself.

I'm not convinced that Harry was working on a tighter budget. We spent more, net, under Harry than AVB. Much more.

only the first window where we signed palacios, defoe and keane for £39m. the three seasons following that we made a net profit of £11m on transfers. so yes, technically he did spnd more(net) but we were 20th when he took over, rather than 4th(when avb took over).

 

[Rout-Ledge]

only the first window where we signed palacios, defoe and keane for £39m. the three seasons following that we made a net profit of £11m on transfers. so yes, technically he did spnd more(net) but we were 20th when he took over, rather than 4th(when avb took over).

Interesting to look at our transfer dealings over the last few years:

http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premiership-transfers/tottenham-hotspur-transfers.html

We've made a profit in ever window since 2009 (when we announced our stadium plans) bar the summer got into the champions league (so if you factor in that money we'd still have made a profit).

Makes me think our net spend this summer was no accident.

We're saving for the stadium, and have been for 4 years. Makes the improvement in quality in our squad since then seem all the more impressive.

 

[nferno]

Erik Lamela? Never 'eard of 'im m8. Now that Eric Djemba-Djemba? What a fackin' wheeling dealing crackin' signing that would 'ave been. Bring back Crouchy and the rest of the lad's and we'd all be in for a triffic time. That Badinin bloke though, y'kno? the joker with that suave velvet blazer? He don't 'alf go on about 'em bloody foreign blokes though don't he?



To be fair I think Cap was already on Redknapp's radar when he was with us and he did sign Sandro in his time here straight from Brazil akin to Paulinho. Apart from that I'd be seriously shitting myself if we gave him £100m to spend.

 

[blobster]

** Disclaimer: This is meant just as a bit of fun and is in no way meant to stoke any fires between the old pro and anti Harry teams **

Doomed to fail....

 

[Montasura]

Erik Lamela? Never 'eard of 'im m8. Now that Eric Djemba-Djemba? What a fackin' wheeling dealing crackin' signing that would 'ave been. Bring back Crouchy and the rest of the lad's and we'd all be in for a triffic time. That Badinin bloke though, y'kno? the joker with that suave velvet blazer? He don't 'alf go on about 'em bloody foreign blokes though don't he?



To be fair I think Cap was already on Redknapp's radar when he was with us and he did sign Sandro in his time here straight from Brazil akin to Paulinho. Apart from that I'd be seriously shitting myself if we gave him £100m to spend.

That clip never gets old!! "I'm a fackin football managa"

 

[Mullers]

To be fair to Harry he wanted Tevez and Cahill, was told no to those so got Nelson and Saha instead.

 

[UncleBuck]

If baldini would have come in whilst hr was with us he'd have walked!

 

[BPR_U16]

To be fair Harry would never have been given the £100m to spend - DL is not stupid!

 

[Rout-Ledge]

To be fair to Harry he wanted Tevez and Cahill, was told no to those so got Nelson and Saha instead.

He knows a good player when he sees one but if he was more inventive with his targets there might've been someone in between Tevez and Saha.

 

[ThorntonSpur]

harry would have got modric as part of the bale deal. signed tevez and gazumped west ham for carroll. probably of players signed would have got Erickson.

harrys team
lloris
walker kaboul verts bae
Erickson sandro parker modric
carroll tevez

 

[DEFchenkOE]

He would have tempted Owen out of retirement.

 

[Tott66]

Barry,carroll,fer,remy,MacArthy auderweild

 

[Strikeb4ck]

Think with Harry we would be looking at a squad of:

Benteke/Adebayor/Defoe/Kane
Lennon/Townsend/Sinclair/AdamJohnson/Milner/Holtby/Cabaye/Dembele/Barry/Carroll/Sandro
Rose/BAE/Walker/Naughton/Vertonghen/Dawson/Kaboul/Caulker
Lloris/Friedel/Archer

So basically none of the current signings, instead:
Benteke, Sinclair, A. Johnson, Milner, Cabaye, Barry

Which to be honest I wouldn't be disappointed with.

 

[parklane1]

He may have asked but I don't think any of those players would jump at the chance to play for Redknapp.

What they would have said is "who"

Joe Cole, Samba, Remy,Downing, Neville, etc.

 

[parklane1]

To be fair Harry would never have been given the £100m to spend - DL is not stupid!

The winner.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Julian Dicks, Marco Boogers, Floran Radichou, etc etc

 

[IamCelestial]

Andy carrol

 

[Gbspurs]

Andy carrol

Just came here to post this. Definitely.

 

[Misfit]

To be fair Harry would never have been given the £100m to spend - DL is not stupid!

Agreed. Certainly not to spend it as the foundation of the club going forward. He very nearly got that much in his first couple of windows though, when drafted in to sort out the clusterfuck of DC and Ramos.