Well someone certainly is at Spurs. There starting 11 last season cost less than 100 million and was a lot better than Most sides with much more expensive sides. I know they've had some poor buys, but they have spent incredibly well.
He might make as many bad deals, but certainly makes a lot more good ones than most.
Why on earth are people losing their minds over us 'releasing' our fullbacks?
They were all out of contract. Everyone with any passing interest in football knew they were out of contract.
What exactly was the alternative? Offer them all new deals until we bought replacements? What then? About £15,000,000 in wages for an additional year, on top of the wages of any new signings, that's what.
Maybe we could have just asked them all to keep quiet and pretend they still had a contract with us. I'm sure they all wouldn't have minded hanging around the training ground whilst not getting paid.
That's the difference between a top side and a selling club. Failed in Europe and they don't pay wages at a sufficient level to keep their best players.Well someone certainly is at Spurs. There starting 11 last season cost less than 100 million and was a lot better than Most sides with much more expensive sides. I know they've had some poor buys, but they have spent incredibly well.
He might make as many bad deals, but certainly makes a lot more good ones than most.
They buy a lot of cheap players in the 5-15m range and after years of underperforming (Walker, Rose, Dembele), some have started to deliver under a very good manager.
They also had the likes of Lamela (£30m), Janssen (£25m), Son (£25m) and Sissokho (£30m) on the bench. The fact that the starting XI was cheap only highlights how all their big money signings do awfully.
It's not so much about us releasing our fullbacks, but more a case of the fact that we allowed ourselves to get in a position where we needed to replace them all in the same season. It's pretty poor planning when anyone with half a brain could have told you we've been crying out for fullbacks on both sides for at least 2 or 3 years now. The replacements for Zaba and Clichy should really have been bought while they were still here. Buying from a position of strength is always a better idea. Add to that the fact that we basically end up walking a tightrope every season on the homegrown front, meaning that not only does everyone know that we're desperate for fullbacks, but they also know that we have to buy English.
Wonder what their net spend is each year compared to others.Well someone certainly is at Spurs. There starting 11 last season cost less than 100 million and was a lot better than Most sides with much more expensive sides. I know they've had some poor buys, but they have spent incredibly well.
He might make as many bad deals, but certainly makes a lot more good ones than most.
Thing is they are not midtable in fact taken together last two seasons they have been better than anyone which off his budget kind of implies that his dealings have been better than averageFact is he's not a transfer genius. He's a bang average midtable director .
I totally agree that they've had some flops, but they have also had some spectacular success. Apart from the obvious, lloris was a bargain, dembele is a cracking buy, the list is quite long. However, I agree with many posters that with levy at the helm they will continue to sell their prized assets and never build on their potential.They buy a lot of cheap players in the 5-15m range and after years of underperforming (Walker, Rose, Dembele), some have started to deliver under a very good manager.
They also had the likes of Lamela (£30m), Janssen (£25m), Son (£25m) and Sissokho (£30m) on the bench. The fact that the starting XI was cheap only highlights how all their big money signings do awfully.