As the January window approaches, there’s been plenty of speculation about which players manager Antonio Conte wants Tottenham Hotspur to pursue. Reports have linked the north London-based club to two players that Conte knows well.
Tottenham is rumored to be in on Inter Milan’s Marcelo Brozovic and Stefan De Vrij, two players who know Conte’s system. However, anyone thinking of penciling them to Tottenham might want to take a step back.
According to Italian football journalist Gianluca Di Marzio, who made an appearance on Sky Sports, stated that neither of the two players are likely to leave Italy for the Premier League club.
Di Marzio says that Conte and Tottenham want top players, but they also want them to be young. Although the two players are of quality, they are too old for Spurs’ project.
Furthermore, the two players are entering the latter stages of the prime, so it seems they want to be at a club that isn’t going through a rebuild and can contend for trophies.
Quite agree!
Jamie Redknapp doesnt even know a decent pair of trainers..clown
The basic tenet of Fenways model , they have other teams in different sorts as Iam sure you know is that sporting success will bring financial success full grounds , big sponsorship etc etc Individual sponsorship for players boosting their income enabling them to stay at FzSG clubs.
Levy on the other hand thinks success irrelevant the fans are mugs and any player he signs is marvellous and he will hang onto them rather than being proved wrong..then again the football is not important it’s the ability to borrow against the club to buy more and more land …he is no good at football because he doesn’t care about football it is merely his vehicle to power and riches…
Sorry Folks we are all sounding like a broken record (although it is mostly correct).
Remember the old adage “You can choose your friends but you cannot choose your football club owners”
THFC have been incredibly unlucky I can remember a few posters (I think from the Chairman’s board) telling us all about ENIC and that there was no good news (some Czech team? & Rangers?) but I do remember the message and it was doom & gloom basically saying “calm down people these leeches are in it for the money”.
Even the spineless freaks who used to quote “We dont want to do a Leeds/I remember the 90s/Grass isnt always greener”.
I remember a lot further back than the 90s but they obviously didnt enjoy watching Jurgen in action,
The Spurs project is the buying of a football club for a nominal amount of money, probably borrowed, keeping the club in the PL, preferably with European qualification whilst taking in Sky Sports income. The club, owned by a billionaire property developer, then proceeds to run a self sustaining football club, unlike all the other successful PL clubs. In order to do this, the club attempts to buy young players on the cheap to flog them off for a profit whilst keeping it’s net transfer spend to a minimum and paying the wages attributable to a mid table club. Although this policy has only worked once with Gareth Bale, the club’s disastrous transfer policy meant that this money was squandered by the then DoF, Franco Baldini, under the watchful eye of a CEO, who was appointed by his godfather to ostensibly run a football club, for which he had no qualifications. In reality, he was put there to increase the NAV of the club’s property assets, instead of focusing on success on the pitch. Once the club had amassed £350 million on it’s balance sheet, it then used this money, earnt by the club, to build an NFL stadium, going twice over budget, leaving the club with a debt of approximately £750 million for which the CEO was paid a £2 million bonus.
The net result of all this is that “the Spurs project” is in reality a total fraud which has successfully greatly enriched two men who pay lip service to their footballing ambitions whilst rinsing the fans and pulling the wool over the media.
Having watched the Liverpool game, which incidentally was a masterful display of football, I kept thinking how FSG managed to get it so right and how we managed to get everything so wrong, apart from making Lewis even richer than he already was and enriching a devious and inept football administrator.
Whilst I accept that Anfield had a bigger capacity than WHL, it appears to me that their plan was to produce a successful football team before contemplating increasing their capacity. they appointed the right manager for the job, unlike us, and then proceeded to back him, again unlike us. Now we can all see our contrasting fortunes whilst we wait for a project which is a failure in every aspect apart from making money for greedy men.
Pathetic, he overspends on the stadium solely because it’s real estate that will increase in value, whilst dramatically underspending on the squad because he knows it’s a risk and “To Dare is Too Dear”.
He doesn’t give a fig about the club’s fans needing success to justify his obscene ticket prices. If Levy had lived in the American West 150 years ago he would have been lynched as a carpetbagger.
As for Hitchen I think these days he’s being trained on pitch maintenance duties.
Which Top Young player is coming to Spurs , Utd will spend , Arsenal will spend a bit , Wolves may get one in..
Mr Byrite ..deadstock clothes sold sold in an Oxford Street Store ..it’s all the Kappelmeister knows..well that and land procurement.
Levy….let’s just look at the young bucks bought in push the club forward…NDembele , LoSellOn, Good Golli Gollini, Bryan Gil, not that sure of Reg as he is inconsistent… making transfer judgement calls on the basis of age is the least of the clubs worries…
What does Steve Hitchenaride do.
Levy is so full of bullsh it. Llorente and Doherty weren’t young players? What he really means is “we want players that are cheap, that nobody else wants because they are crap, are preferably on loan, are from clubs that have chairman willing to put up with my protracted and extremely annoying haggling, ideally to be in a straight swap or part exchange (you pay us) for our superstars such as Dele and Winks who are worth £50m and £25m respectively, if we buy outright then the deals must include just a tiny sum put down (straight from my wallet) and the balance paid weekly whilst the player is still alive”.
Why do I never see this club changing in my lifetime?
To buy cheap kids and hope they turn into Gareth Bale, then flog them for big money. Any idiot can see that this is likely to be as unsuccessful as playing the lottery. In the meantime get a world class manager in who needs class players now and ignore him.
Meanwhile today’s team stagnates and the deadwood continues to smolder. Welcome to Levy land.
Daniel “doesn’t do emotions”… or trophies.
The odds on Conte walking are getting shorter every day.Spurs’ transfer policy sucks.
So the ‘jam-tomorrow’ policy continues. What is the ‘Spurs project’ exactly? Could somebody explain?
We are almost 23 years into it and have one minor trophy to show for it. The ‘Spurs project’ is a project with failure as it’s hallmark…