Tottenham tell Pochettino to work transfer miracles again on smaller budget than rivals

[mawspurs]

Mauricio Pochettino is expected to be asked to work miracles with his Tottenham Hotspur squad again next season, with a number of their Premier League rivals preparing to outspend them.

Source: Telegraph

 

[Khilari]

Well there's a surprise.

Though most seems speculation due to a lack of information on signings rather than actual facts.

 

[kaz Hirai]

 

[greywizard2020]

Never entirely sure why it is that we have to spend £80 million on each player in order for them to be considered 'good buys.' I'd rather have the proper research be carried out on each player & sign them for relatively little. Unearthing gems will have to be the way forward for us until a King decides to take us over.

 

[slartibartfast]

Tottenham not to compete financially with Man City, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool or Arsenal shock.
Who knew?

We dont expect to.
What we expect is to offload players that contribute nothing to the team (for whatever reason) and replace them with promising talent or reasonabley priced talent.
There are plenty that would improve our squad. We dont have to break the bank.
What we cant accept is doing absolutely fuck all and being told we are as good as it gets which is of course nonsense.

 

[shelfboy68]

Bit of a nothing news item where player spending is concerned do any of us expect poch to be given any decent wedge to improve the side.
He probably will get circa 50m which will hardly touch the sides plus player sales which will generate a few Bob as well, the summer should be an exciting time with the club waiting until the last week to bring 2/3 in.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Honestly ours is the easiest top6 squad to improve on a shoestring this summer, even I could do it. But it would presuppose a willingness to offload a few players almost no matter the transfer fee.

 

[Dougal]

If we spent £5m it would feel extravagant after the last couple of years. Who cares if teams outspend us? Their stadiums will still be shit. It’s short term thinking.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

If we spent £5m it would feel extravagant after the last couple of years. Who cares if teams outspend us? Their stadiums will still be shit. It’s short term thinking.

As will our trophy cabinet.

 

[vuzp]

lets face it, compared to our other rivals we don't pay top wages or fees, so the De Jong or whoever don't seem too keen on us and can get better deals elsewhere, we also seem to want to find the bargain deals and with Grealish last summer we couldn't even do that.
after the last couple of transfer windows I think I will just wait and see what happens instead of expecting something to happen.

 

[hughy]

The core of our squad is fine. A right back, a creative CM, a winger, and a back-up striker won't cost us the Earth.

 

[JonnySpurs]

There's really nothing new in this article. Every man and his dog knows that we can't yet compete with the other top 6 clubs in terms of spending power but that doesn't mean that we're not going to buy.

Based on the article if we were to add the following players then I'd be mostly happy:

LB/LWB - Ryan Sessegnon
RB/RWB - Youcef Atal
CM - Andre Gomes
CAM - Jack Grealish

I'd personally hope for one more CM but Sissoko has now become far more vital than he was before and if Winks surgery goes well and he can stay fit then I'd be happy enough.

CAM - Christian Eriksen, Dele Alli, Jack Grealish
CM - Harry Winks, Moussa Sissoko, Andre Gomes
CDM - Eric Dier, Victor Wanyama, Oliver Skipp

 

[minesadouble]

Mash up article unworthy of the Telegraph’s generally good coverage. Bits and bobs, rumours and old news, knitted together into a clickbait headline. Don’t bother.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

City, Chelsea and United as the benchmark, no fucking shit.

More fucking click bait by Matt Law and a broadsheet.

I'm off to twitter to get a balanced view on this subject, brb.

 

[dagraham]

The core of our squad is fine. A right back, a creative CM, a winger, and a back-up striker won't cost us the Earth.

It will cost us plenty in today’s football climate.

 

[Japhet]

lets face it, compared to our other rivals we don't pay top wages or fees, so the De Jong or whoever don't seem too keen on us and can get better deals elsewhere, we also seem to want to find the bargain deals and with Grealish last summer we couldn't even do that.
after the last couple of transfer windows I think I will just wait and see what happens instead of expecting something to happen.

I think we were much closer to deJong than you give us credit for. As soon as Barca chuck their hat in the ring he's gone, but up until that point it would seem he was interested.

 

[Col_M]

This is because of a Huawei link isn’t it?

 

[hughy]

It will cost us plenty in today’s football climate.

Don't get me wrong, I'd imagine we're looking at around £150m minimum for just those 4. However we will be selling this window too.


That's the absolute minimum we require. Possibly more if Toby and/or Eriksen leave.

 

[JCRD]

I think we will spend big. Fuck this downer of an article.

Yes we wi spend less than our rivals but we will spend significant amounts.

I'd imagine five or six players.

 

[Spurs' Pipe Dreams]

Water is wet