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Morning all! Welcome to the TRANSFER WINDOW POST MORTEM THREAD!

Yet again, it went down to the wire, who can really say they are surprised? The Press in Portugal are reporting that we failed by FOUR MINUTES. If that is true then it's a disgrace.

I don't see how we can do anything else but stop having Akqayid's info posted in this thread. But we'll deal with that in December when ITK utterings start picking up again.

The Goat's "Plan D" cryptic was Dembele and Dempsey.

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SydneySpur

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That has to be crap we missed out by 4 mins. Why not 5 or 3 mins? Who had the stop watch out during the discussions? Did the fax machine run out of paper. Fucking 4 mins..lol..what a joke.
 

Bromavinci

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Oct 7, 2005
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Up and waiting for a cab to the airport. WHL here I come. Fuck this transfer nonsense. COYS!
 

EastLondonYid

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When your dealing with a complicated transfer where a player is 15% owned by a 3rd party, and another club has 25% rights to any fee, common sense tells you that you don't wait all summer to try and finalise it at midnight on deadline day.o_O

I can't believe DL really wanted this one that badly and may be mugging avb off a little,imo...but i don't know i could be wrong and Levy did all he could.

Anyway, if we look back at the window sig,vert,ade,lloris,clint,moussa....can't really complain but only time will tell if they are better than the ones who left..

I personally am fairly happy with where we are...but Moutinho would have been the difference between a good window and a great one.

Dembele will be massive here, top top player.
 

andyp8080

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Jan 30, 2011
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i am off on holiday in an hour to get over what has been a mad week.

overall the signings we have made are good ones and I think Dempsey might do well.....i think we were all just hoping for more.
With Rafa and Luca gone i worry about our creativity......Moussa and Siggy really have to step up to the plate now

If we did miss out by 4 minutes then it is a fail of epic proportions.......but what did we expect? We are Spurs. David Bentley is still our record signing.....and he is still here!!!!
 

Wai

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Aug 19, 2012
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Real Sad to see VDV leave us, no proper farewell fr the fan! Hoping for a pre-season friendly with Hamburg next yr.

Worse, No Moutinho! Dempsey & Lloris are both real great buys, but the joy overshadowed by the no-in of Moutinho!

It seem like overall, we made some decent profit, and I wld have us making less or just breakeven, to pay just a little more for Moutinho. If the roadblock was Moutinho personal term where we have to break our wages limit, then no no, since we might have problem with Ade or Bale asking for more.

But it seem like we failed to conclude the deal due to Porto/3rd party right asking additional 15%, which is ard 3-4 mil more, I wld have expected DL to give in, consider the deadline and the fact that we left till so late to try and seal this deal!

DL is really good in negotiating, and helping Spurs to save a few quid, but considering the circumstances, ffs, shld hv agreed to it!

Frankly...very disappointed!!! Some part inside me still hoping for a surprise, that Moutunhi deal managed to go thru at the very last minute, delay announcement deal to FA taking time to verify all documents, same as when we got VDV...
 

ILOVETHFC

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Aug 31, 2012
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Have we really got just 2 strikers at the club now? Along with no back up to Benny and no back up to our wide players the make up of our squad looks really strange.

On the positive side think Dembele and Lloris will be very good signings, completely underwhelmed by Dempsey.
 

Jamturk

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I'm sure if there are special circumstances then it can be pushed through.

If not, I still expect a good manager to make it work with what we have.

No excuses
 

Shep

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If we did fail by 4 minutes, Levy it is time to go.

Levy, deadline day brinkmanship is like a double ended dildo. You thought you were fucking someone and in reality someone fucked you harder.

Chill, you've fucked this :)

Good luck AVB, I fear for you.
 

andyp8080

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Jan 30, 2011
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i have not seen any quotes from thanking Spurs and their wonderful and saying it was quite a wrench to leave

has anyone else?
 

Wai

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Aug 19, 2012
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Have we really got just 2 strikers at the club now? Along with no back up to Benny and no back up to our wide players the make up of our squad looks really strange.

On the positive side think Dembele and Lloris will be very good signings, completely underwhelmed by Dempsey.

Dempsey can play as strikers if I'm not wrong, while Naughton & Vertonghen can cover as LB...Ver play LB for Belgium, while i remembered Naughton did play LB for 1-2 games for Norwich last season
 

Jamturk

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Aug 13, 2008
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Have we really got just 2 strikers at the club now? Along with no back up to Benny and no back up to our wide players the make up of our squad looks really strange.

On the positive side think Dembele and Lloris will be very good signings, completely underwhelmed by Dempsey.

Dembele and Dempsey can play up top.
 

ShayLaB

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Dec 8, 2006
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By the sounds of it JM was owned by a number of parties, not just Porto. We may have had all Summer but weare a business and if it took until the last minute to get all parties to agree, then so be it...if it was four minutes late I have no doubt it wasn't for the lack of trying. I see a lot of criticism of DL here but nobody here really knows.
 

Wai

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Aug 19, 2012
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i have not seen any quotes from thanking Spurs and their wonderful and saying it was quite a wrench to leave

has anyone else?

Fr VDV twitter

@rafvdvaart: Thanks to the best fans in England for an amazing time!! All your tweets and messages really mean a lot to me!
 
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