taconinja said:
I would be more impressed with Spurs supposed frugality if they didn't rely on a few big sales to cover them. You have one piece left you can sell for any great amount of money. Sorry, bud, everyone's on to your con artist manager now. Why do you think he looked like a flailing ninny this past January? Everyone knows. He wants to rip you off and he wants to give a wink-and-nod tap-up in the press to unsettle players.
Want to know how much I hate your manager and your little team? I felt as gleeful when Blackpool screwed you over on Charlie Adam as I would have us beating the rags.
So the question becomes since now you have only one player you can sell for a lot of money (Bale) will you sell him to finance all of 'Arry's wheeling and dealing? Or are you going to spend like a proper club and live with it? Or is your owner going to sit on his pile of cash and refuse?
Firstly, Gareth Bale is going nowhere.
Well let's have a little look at Harry's "wheeling and dealing" since he joined Spurs.
INCOMING TRANSFERS
Bongani Khumalo SuperSport United Jan-11 £1,500,000
Rafael Van der Vaart Real Madrid Aug-10 £8,000,000
Stipe Pletikosa Spartak Moscow Aug-10 Season loan
William Gallas Arsenal Aug-10 £0
Sandro Internacional (Brazil) Mar-10 £6,000,000
Eidur Gudjohnsen AS Monaco Jan-10 Loan
Younes Kaboul Portsmouth Jan-10 £4,000,000
Jimmy Walker West Ham United Sep-09 £0
Niko Kranjcar Portsmouth Sep-09 £2,000,000
Sebastien Bassong Newcastle United Aug-09 £8,000,000
Peter Crouch Portsmouth Jly-09 £9,000,000
Kyle Naughton Sheffield United Jly-09 £5,000,000
Kyle Walker Sheffield United Jly-09 £5,000,000
Anton Blackwood Arsenal Jly-09 Free
Robbie Keane Liverpool Jan-09 £12,000,000
Pascal Chimbonda Sunderland Jan-09 £3,000,000
Carlo Cudicini Chelsea Jan-09 £0
Wilson Palacios Wigan Athletic Jan-09 £12,000,000
Jermain Defoe Portsmouth Jan-09 £15,000,000
TOTAL INCOMING £90,500,000
OUTGOING TRANSFERS
Jimmy Walker Released Aug-10 £0
Adel Taarabt Queens Park Rangers Aug-10 £1,000,000
Leigh Mills Winchester City Aug-10 Free
Dorian Dervite Villarreal Jly-10 £0
Eidur Gudjohnsen AS Monaco May-10 Loan Expired
Troy Archibald-Henville Exeter City Jan-10 £?
Pascal Chimbonda Blackburn Rovers Aug-09 £2,000,000
Kevin-Prince Boateng Portsmouth Aug-09 £4,000,000
Darren Bent Sunderland Aug-09 £16,500,000
Yuri Berchiche Valladolid Aug-09 £0?
Gilberto de Silva Melo Released Jly-09 £0
Chris Gunter Nottingham Forest Jly-09 £1,750,000
Simon Dawkins Released Jly-09 £0
Ricardo Rocha Released Jly-09 £0
Didier Zokora Sevilla Jly-09 £8,620,000
Charlie Daniels Leyton Orient Jan-09 £?
Cesar Sanchez Valencia Jan-09 £?
Andy Barcham Gillingham Jan-09 £0?
Hossam Ghaly Al Nasr Jan-09 £1,400,000
TOTAL OUTGOING £35,270,000
NET SPEND UNDER HARRY: £55,230,000
A little over £55 million spent (a tad more than a Cristiano Ronaldo) has transformed Spurs from a club struggling at the bottom of the Premier League to one which is taking Europe by storm in the Champions League.