Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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That's the only time there's 'value in the market' (where've I heard that before?). There's some lovely players to be had from L1 and L2, not to mention non-league for that kind of money!!
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Daniel Levy Whinging Hypocrite
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That's the only time there's 'value in the market' (where've I heard that before?). There's some lovely players to be had from L1 and L2, not to mention non-league for that kind of money!!
Dave Ewing's Back 'eader
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D.L.I.A.C.
Yer missed out the F! DLIAFC.
dadnlad
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it doesn't sit easy with me but growing up watching them smash the transfer record year on year with no competition because they could i now find it funny now the shoes on the other foot
Yup, a grade one F.C. the thing is with Levy is that if 6 months ago the Chinese had have come in and bid 80 million each for 10 of his team and 120 million for Kane the entire Spurs team would now be learning Mandarin and doing double training sessions along the Great Wall and he wouldn't have even blinked about it, what a cknutYer missed out the F! DLIAFC.
The-Dogs-Pollocks
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Not sure he's said much wrong. Think most are overreacting and getting their knickers in a twist due to the general media narrative that 'city are ruining football'.
He doesn't mention city and its obvious that when / if the tv money drops then transfer fees will also come down. They are hyper-inflated this season '45mil quoted for Siggurdsson!'.
I think his point about bringing through academy players is valid. Spurs have a good record of signing promising lower league players and turning them into prem stars. Something I am sure we aspire to - in a few years time our investment in the academy will start to pay off - fingers crossed - and wont be in a situation of replacing all four full backs in one window.
The goal is surely to have a core of homegrown players and the financial muscle to pursue truly world class superstars when / if they are available.
He doesn't mention city and its obvious that when / if the tv money drops then transfer fees will also come down. They are hyper-inflated this season '45mil quoted for Siggurdsson!'.
I think his point about bringing through academy players is valid. Spurs have a good record of signing promising lower league players and turning them into prem stars. Something I am sure we aspire to - in a few years time our investment in the academy will start to pay off - fingers crossed - and wont be in a situation of replacing all four full backs in one window.
The goal is surely to have a core of homegrown players and the financial muscle to pursue truly world class superstars when / if they are available.
Blue Til Death
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Regardless of what teams are mentioned when it comes to people moaning about spending getting out of control, ruining football and bizarrely, cheating as one daft spud accused us of ;-)
They are all referring to Manchester City, that's a simple fact... I am loving it and long may it continue, every City victory is that much sweeter these days for me, with the bile and utter bias against our club...!
They are all referring to Manchester City, that's a simple fact... I am loving it and long may it continue, every City victory is that much sweeter these days for me, with the bile and utter bias against our club...!
This is the case, when they say teams spending is getting out of hand they really mean City and they are barely disguising it, hope we bid over £100 mil for either Mbappe, Sanchez or even Kane now that would make me grin and the gnashing of teeth from the Surrey rags and the North London ponces would increase tenfold, Brazil would have a thrombo so it's not all badRegardless of what teams are mentioned when it comes to people moaning about spending getting out of control, ruining football and bizarrely, cheating as one daft spud accused us of ;-)
They are all referring to Manchester City, that's a simple fact... I am loving it and long may it continue, every City victory is that much sweeter these days for me, with the bile and utter bias against our club...!
M18CTID
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Spurs have been operating on more or less a zero net spend for 6-7 years - long before construction of the stadium started. My guess is that that will continue this summer. So Levy is being perfectly straight when he claims that the stadium will not effect Spurs' transfer spend.
For what it's worth, I'm no fan of FFP and was sorry to see Spurs among those who supported it. But I don't see how the decision has "backfired", exactly. Spurs are no worse off as a consequence.
As to Walker, I'm sorry to see him go. Popular player. Incredible athlete. Has a few weaknesses in his game yet still the best right back in the PL last season. But unfortunately, for whatever reason, he fell out with Poch last season and there was no coming back from that. Good luck to him. He'll get a great reception back at the Lane......err Wembley!
At this rate, and if this transfer window is anything to go by, you'll be operating on a minus £70 million net spend at a time when the lucrative new TV deal enables the likes of clubs the size of Bournemouth (who are tiny in comparison to Spurs) to go out and splash £20 million on a single player. Even accounting for the tight ship Levy runs at Tottenham, that surely can't sit well with many Spurs fans mate. For the record, I don't think his comments were necessarily a pop at City or any other club spending big money - IMO he was getting his excuses in with the Spurs fans for not spending much money on players this summer.
ell
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You'd never see him spunking a big fee on someone like Sissoko on the back of a disaster of a season at Newcastle and a couple of good games at the euros.