Another Sporting Director?

[Mullers]

He was part of the negotiations yes, but if Villa decides he wants to stay in Spain to give him the best chance to stay in the Spain side there is not much anyone could do. Who else did we not get taking into account we don't have a bottomless pit of money to call on.?

Spain striker Villa - Spurs manager Andre Villas-Boas' top target - left the north Londoners stunned last week when he completed a move from Barcelona to La Liga rivals Atletico Madrid... after agreeing to go to White Hart Lane.

To rub salt in Tottenham's wound, the transfer fee was just £4.4million - less than the amount they had offered Barca.

Villa has claimed his u-turn came about because Atletico were far more decisive over closing out the deal to sign him.

The former Valencia marksman said: "It is true the idea was for me to go to the Premier League, because the biggest offers came from there.

"But then Atletico Madrid showed up and they did more in three days than others did in months."

Villa's comments come with Aston Villa still waiting for Spurs to make a formal straight-cash bid for their striker, Christian Benteke.

The Birmingham club want £25m for Belgium international Benteke, who handed in a transfer request last week.

A part-exchange deal involving players moving in the opposite direction has been mooted, but Villa want only cash.

Villas-Boas is understood to have telephoned 31-year-old Villa personally to persuade him to move to north London.

Not only that but Barca, where Villa had become surplus to requirements, were desperate to sell as they did not want to commit to paying his huge wages for the final year of his contract.

But Levy is understood to have baulked at paying agents' fees, and his
hesitation allowed Atletico to steal in.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/tottenhams-transfer-market-go-slow-blamed-david-2057470

 

[Mullers]

No, he and Vlad were both very much players Baldini wanted, but considering we got our money back for Vlad and Lamela is a first XI player still, I think my point stands that he never wasted any of the Bale money. Let's not forget he is the reason we have Dier aswell.

I'm not saying he wasn't involved in player purchases just that he is far from responsible for the ones that haven't worked out. Soldado, Capoue and Paulinho were all players that AVB pushed for and they were the ones that cost us the most.

“The chairman proposed a challenge to increase Tottenham’s competitive level, but immediately Modric left and we didn’t get any of the targets I had identified, such as João Moutinho, Willian, Oscar or Leandro Damião,” Villas-Boas told Portuguese television.
“These were promises that were not kept. I had a group of players I had not chosen. In two years I lost [Rafael] Van der Vaart, [Luka] Modric, Bale, and all the promises made were unfulfilled.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-bosses-with-stinging-attack-on-the-club.html

We were linked with Soldado as far back as 2011
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/oct/20/football-transfer-rumours

We also failed with a bid in 2012
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2896...bid-for-soldado-rejected-by-valencia-confirms

I would suggest that AVB didn't have to push too hard for those players at all, we had 100 million to spend and having missed out on several targets and not got rid of Adebayor there had to be some level of appeasement, I they were players that Levy was confident of getting especially in the case of Soldado. It wouldn't surprise if Levy said to AVB that he could get Soldado in the same way he said to Poch he could get Charlie Austin.

 

[spursfan77]

Carrick was happy to stay.
A DoF fucked that up.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/aug/26/newsstory.tottenhamhotspur

First time I've ever heard that. Interesting.