With just days remaining before the close of this summer’s window, on the surface, there is very little to encourage confidence. The ITKs in places beyond this one are busy prefacing their pearls of wisdom with language like, ‘We are still interested in…’ which is somewhat like a man in a burning building having an interest in a fire engine.
Tottenham’s options are rapidly ebbing away, and at the risk of having found a whipping boy, one cannot help but wonder what Steve Hitchen has actually been doing, since the last window closed. Hitchen’s interview on All or Nothing was brief, yet I’ve seen more signs life in a tramp’s vest. The void is filled with the standard issue fare, with Gareth Bale now being available on a half price salary. Which is still £100,000 more per week than we are currently paying Harry Kane.
I’m fascinated to know where the optimism that fuels this fairytale comes from. The financial walls are closing in on Spurs, more so than any other Premier League side. Ballpark a billion pound’s worth of debt, a stadium which has little to no hope of being full for perhaps another 6 months, and the very real threat of commercial deals being slashed in value.
Just when it couldn’t be any worse, the old Zaha to Spurs rumour rears its tired and hideous head again. We’ve been linked with this guy since 2016. Thanks, but no, thanks.
But then, to quote Mr Levy, “…fans generally have no comprehension of how hard physically do a transfer”.
He forgot to add, ‘…at Tottenham”.
Zaha is now a star at 70 million odd.. He is palace best player… Levy says himself though he doesn’t sign superstars. He makes them…. Striker and left back needed.
I see where you’re coming from, with that money you could get two top draw 25 year olds.
Sessegnon looks nowhere near ready to play left back at the top level yet, needs a loan or two out. Clarke I have no opinion on, he’s a kid.
This is my main point about Levy, all the transfers are about potential profit 5 seasons on and nothing to do with improving the team in the present.
Poch wanted (and deserved) to get Dybala, Fernandez and Coutinhio on loan. Would they have improved us? Without doubt they would.
In the ‘Atrocious Reality TV Show’ Levy has the bare faced cheek to say that he’s “extremely frustrated if the team isn’t improved at by end of the transfer window”.
Listen mate, if you’re going to sign two kids under 20 from the Championship and another two under 22 from overseas, why the f**ck would you expect that window to improve the team?
When you also go a WHOLE CALENDAR YEAR without making a single signing then ‘frustration’ doesn’t come into it. You either aren’t very good at your job and/or you’re a lying f**cking toad who assumes the fan base are thick as sh*t.
Bit of both I reckon…
I’d get a good “patcher upper” in, and lock off the back more with the money. Get a top young striker in next summer. (Save up a bit more dough)
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NO BALE ! No ZAHA! No DEENEY! please! If we must buy a striker (and with Kane wasting his time playing for England, We must.) let’s get someone with a future that is not on the downside of his football career. It’s just a matter of time until Southgate uses him up and he is injured or goes off form.
The first game I saw was there against Bristol Rovers.
£130m invested in those four I wish we had it to spend now.
Gio and Tanguy are both very talented midfielders, Gio has more balls than Tanguy. Argie players are often hard as nails with good technique.
Tanguy needs a bit of work still, not quite mastered the role we need him for yet. Mind you, if you keep signing players only under 23 you’re gonna come unstuck eventually and have a repair job on your hands…
Looks like a Jose move, nowt to do with the bald supremo! 😂
😂
When it comes to transfers, Levy isn’t actually very shrewd at all. It’s a myth peddled by the club’s PR department.
Bale bleeding them dry” good😂
🎼he’s bleeding you dry
He’s bleeding dry
Our boy Gareth
Is bleeding you dry🎵 Would love to sing that to them🌚
BULL $H!T
According to who? Anyone who knows him personally? Nuttun wrong with the young Breda man. Wilf kool. “He’s toxic” fk sake!
They first suggested Meunier on a free,then it was Castagne around£20m,when we landed Doherty for £12m plus I couldn’t believe it.My only concern is he played wingback not fullback. Wolves played with 3 centrehalf’s.
He’s a toxic, entitled, whiner. I don’t care if he’s Messi reincarnate, he’s got a terrible attitude.
It does, but setting all that aside, Doherty’s probably still the best signing we could have made in that position without spending insane amounts of money. Very, very good business there.
Nobody wants to come to a club where they are guaranteed to be the second choice and struggle to get minutes (nobody besides washed up mediocre dreck like Joe Hart…3rd choice at best, only signed for being cheap and english)
Nobody wants to come to a club where they are guaranteed to be the second choice and struggle to get minutes (nobody besides washed up mediocre dreck like Joe Hart…3rd choice at best, only signed for being cheap and english)
Expect Diallo as the last incoming player. The Milik deal is too complicated – all depends on whether Roma sell Dzeko to Juve.
Zaha has a bad attitude, even if he cost 30M I wouldn’t want him in the squad. A petulant moaner, the expression on his face is almost always that of a whining brat. Don’t want that toxic clown anywhere near our squad.
Nope.
Fair points all of them. I nearly forgot what about our” special relationship” or does that just work one way,they buy all our best players? Man Utd are keeping their powder dry to sign Sancho.
As much as I would like to believe Reguilon would come to Spurs, I doubt we can compete on salary and we have no CL.And although OGS probably isn’t a big draw card the other two factors are. Plus RM will want as much as they can get for him, what with Bale bleeding them dry.
We are trying to replace Rose with Reguilon who Jose apparently has contacted to convince him to come to Spurs instead of Utd,he would be a starter with Davies as back up. Best Leftback in la liga last year as well as winning the Europa league with Seville.
Exactly, we now no longer need to rely on Aurier. We also need to get someone in to replace Rose. Is is too ambitious to try and address the squad issues in one window? Ideally we need to be shot of both Rose and Aurier this window to remove any toxicity from the dressing room.
We are in a better position having signed Doherty,we can either keep Aurier as back up or if Levy gets his price buy someone else.
Ask Steve Hitchen – it’s his job to figure that out. Probably on his To Do list, right after learning how to tie his shoe laces.
If we sell Aurier who are we going to replace him with,we need two players for each position.If he lets him go he must have someone else to come in.
Funny thing, well not so funny really, is that Levy is in the same position with the likes of Aurier and Rose – he needs to shift them and everybody knows it. Tick tock, tick tock. Time waits for no man.
Zaha-ha-ha-ha-ha? You cannot be serious? That ship sailed, or was it sank, a couple of years ago.
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Harts been playing so well but I couldn’t bring myself to name him. All I got him doing was focusing on his left side
I see a weak link no keeper 👀
Atal japh toby Grimaldo
Celly hojberg ndom
Zaha Kane son. Boooooom! Bring any fkin team
How very nicely would Alex grimaldo do. Much nicelys. Imagine him and yousef atal in the team.
Jose has apparently phoned Reguilon to try and convince him to join Spurs instead of Utd.
Left back is also a fiasco. Rose should be replaced to give Davies competition.. Relying on Davies with no backup is suicide yet again. Same as last season if Ben gets injured there will be noone. One player in any position is not good enough..
He loves Tottenham (hardly been to anfield) been to the lane nuff. I had him till klopp got them playing.
Buy him the new kit and bribe him to change
So does my grandson. His dads a pool fan. I nearly had him. 😔
My nephew supports two teams,but he’s only nine years old there’s an excuse for him.
Leeds fkd him off. They don’t do “weak.
Sure you are a parallel supporter Leeds & Spurs 😂
They made enquires months ago about Moura and his availability they are valued around the same price.Swap?
And a very nice place it is too. Invitation only.
I don’t know about Star Wars but you’re living in a parallel universe.
Pay as you play? Cash?
two birds, one stone. hell, they can have aurier too. left and right back for a striker
Not bad but I’m only 5’8″ so not the tallest.
I’d worry a contract could impact my pension payments though.
Swap for Rose should do the trick
Why do you think he said that? Think about it
keen. only one year left on his contract apparently. maybe they want a left back as part of the deal
I seem to remember when the last January window arrived,and he’d only been with us two months,he was quoted as saying he was happy with the squad and it wasn’t absolutely necessary to buy anybody.
Patience young Jedi.
Is Milik still available? Perhaps we’re waiting for Napoli to accept our price got him…
Not even any rumblings of striker news in the last few days. In fact the only relevant news is that ones we were possibly interested in have now been bought by other teams – Wilson and Watkins.
The start of the season is approaching fast and I have no idea how we will navigate our crazy schedule with only Kane. Literally anyone would be better than nothing right now! I can’t believe we will go through another season like this. Even Levy must realise this is football suicide.
Compare his thoughts on needing a striker at the beginning of the January window with what he said after it closed.
You know you will get the truth from Jose. There’ll be none of this I am berry happy with my squad toeing the line drivel.
Just from a player welfare stance this is pathetic. Harry is the clubs biggest most bankable asset. You protect your assets you don’t run them into the ground.
When it comes to selling him and every club looks for a big discount because of his injury record then you have nobody to blame but yourself.
Jose sent Parrot on loan so he MUST of been assured he would get a striker….2 days left…..6 games before the 5th Oct, add bedding in so its not the end of the world if he does bring in someone decent at the end of the window
Only time will tell,here’s hoping.
Six out of the seven players you listed would have been bought with the idea of them making the starting eleven.Levy doesn’t want to spend big on a player (striker )to possibly sit on the bench all season behind Kane. I think the message has sunk in and Jose won’t let him get away this transfer window without filling that slot.
For ME. good work.
LoCelso,N’dombele,Sessegnon and Clarke have not lived up to all the hype the jury’s still out and this coming season they are playing for their Tottenhams future,Jose will sell if they don’t impress him.
Signing a striker has been a problem stretching back a number of years now but Levy doesn’t seem to have a problem spending money on other areas of the park. The last 2 windows alone we bought – Ndombele, Lo Celso, Sess, Bergwjin, Clarke, Doherty, Hoijberg. Why is signing a striker such a massive problem for him? Is it purely the Kane factor or is he avoiding spending proper money in the hope that Troy will come good and he won’t need to spend? Levy spouts on about how complex it is getting deals done, how the market is not liquid like he’s talking about the housing sector. Yet every other club seems to be able to get deals done without much fuss which suggests Levy is the one complicating things.
N€w lan€ l€vy doing OK. Celly. Ndom. Sessy. Bergy. Hojbjerg. Gedz. Doherty. Still time for couple more. Fingers crossed
N€w lan€ l€vy doing OK. Celly. Ndom. Sessy. Bergy. Hojbjerg. Gedz. Doherty. Still time for couple more. Fingers crossed
Wolves have shares in Jorge Mendes agency.Jorge & Jose are best friends and fellow countrymen .Doherty’s agent is Jorge Mendes. Starts to make more sense now.
Nothing’s impossible,it will be the way to go.
I didn’t know that,but remember you had followed him with interest.Sounds like they got a bargain.
Villa knew Spurs wanted him and would have lost out in a straight fight if both clubs had offered the same.We could have offered him European football,they will be fighting relegation again. They felt the pressure and went in high hoping to secure him and knowing Levy didn’t want an auction paying £28m with £5m in add on’s.His price is on the high side maybe being English & homegrown is a factor as well
Patrik Schick was a give away. 24 yrs old, he signed for Bayer Leverkusen for €26.5 mill in September. What a great buy he would have been.
Oxford scientists. What we paying you for? Hurry up and come with the ting man.
Oxford scientists. What we paying you for? Hurry up and come with the ting man.
So how have Villa allegedly paid 33M?
So how have Villa allegedly paid 33M?
Sorry, wouldn’t I meant
Sorry, wouldn’t I meant
Problem solved then.
I was led to believe he had an £18m release clause after losing the play off final. I was disappointed we didn’t get him after watching him and thinking he was exactly the type of player we needed.
Would or wouldn’t?
Anyway it’s government procedure.
After yesterday’s announcement there won’t be crowds in the stadia any time soon.
Would or wouldn’t?
Anyway it’s government procedure.
After yesterday’s announcement there won’t be crowds in the stadia any time soon.
Not if they are signed from any of the following countries.
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Australia
Barbados
Bermuda
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
British Antarctic Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Cyprus
Denmark
Dominica
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
French Polynesia
Germany
Not if they are signed from any of the following countries.
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba
Australia
Barbados
Bermuda
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
British Antarctic Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cayman Islands
Cuba
Curaçao
Cyprus
Denmark
Dominica
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
French Polynesia
Germany
True dat.
True dat.
I understand that,but we should have moved much earlier.He would have come to us even if Villa then showed an interest.
Players get tested so often that they would have to wait long to get the all clear.
Players get tested so often that they would have to wait long to get the all clear.
Watkins could have come to Spurs for less money but he chose to play every week for his old boss Dean Smith.
The big problem with that is not getting any pre-season.Also if we signed anyone from overseas wouldn’t they have to quarantine for 14 days,thereby putting their integration into the squad further back.
Right up his street 💯 percent very risky,bum squeaking time,but if he has several options ,it might just work.
🌚 Eddie. What you like in the air?
We had our chance with Watkins but that ship has sailed.In the end Levy would never have gone that high on price,but he was what we should have been looking for.
I would give Eddie a trial first.
The transfer window closes on the 5th October, not in the next few days as has been erroneously stated. I think Levy will leave it very late,(as usual), in the hope that selling clubs finances will deteriorate further and he can negotiate the prices down even more.
I know man, but given the choice were there no other?
We’re not laughing though🌚
No I just have higher hopes that we can do better than either of those two,buying a player for the future and paying for them in instalments.