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“Time will tell if they should have signed a striker” Tottenham might regret not signing a new striker claims Hutton

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Alan Hutton suggests that Tottenham should have signed another striker in the last transfer window as they struggle for goals now, although he concedes that almost no striker will want to join the club on a big-money transfer to become the second choice.

Spurs had been tipped to sell Harry Kane in the last transfer window with the Lilywhites receiving bids from Manchester City.

However, they wanted to keep him and they managed to achieve that objective.

Kane remains committed to them at least for this campaign, but he hasn’t found top form just yet.

They could have signed a backup striker for him as they did with the loan signing of Carlos Vinicius last summer, but they never did and as they struggle for goals, Hutton says time will tell if they should have added another attacker to their squad.

“Time will tell if they should have signed a striker,” he told Football Insider.

“I think it was probably difficult to go out and spend £50million after knowing that Kane was staying.

“Who wants to come in for that price and be second choice?

“I think what was realised at the weekend is just how much of a miss Son is to the team.

“It was a whole different set-up. Without him, Kane looked so isolated.

“Usually, they’re bouncing off each other.

“The club will be desperate for Son to return.”

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East Stand
East Stand
2 years ago
Reply to  James McKevitt

Levy wants some kind of ‘blue chip’ brand association, but done on the cheap. The penny doesn’t seem to have dropped that it can’t be done at spending levels 8x lower than those you’re meant to be competing with. Which is why Levy was pinning so much on the Super League, a way to associate with the ELITE branding without ever being asked to cough up.

So ENIC stick the stadium and training ground front and centre to feign ambition and as some way of pretending it’s being done on a ‘sustainable’ basis. How so when it’s all being done on borrowed money?

The humongous debt on the stadium doesn’t fall under the jurisdiction of FFP. So what if we’re being supposedly ‘prudent’ on our net spend on the team when we have these debt levels on the physical infrastructure?

Double standards, debt is debt regardless of it’s been spent on players or stadiums. It’s all a fix…

James McKevitt
James McKevitt
2 years ago

😜😊😁

Bertoliver
Bertoliver
2 years ago
Reply to  Dino

Like the offer we made to Birmingham of 1million for Bellingham before he went to Dortmund 12 months later for 30 million

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
2 years ago

This season is already going predictably Pete Tong. They always say that the definition of madness is making the same mistake over and over again. Should Levy be declared certifiably insane? I have neither the time or the patience to analyse Levy’s utterly disastrous twenty two year reign as our much beloved chairman and I am sure nobody would have the patience to read it but the recent failure emanates from not backing in Poch in the transfer market. He realised well before the ECL final that the squad needed substantial reinforcements and asked the board “to be brave”. The board as we all know is a neutered eunuch with absolutely no power. Everything is micro managed by our megalomaniac chairman. So Poch was ignored and we went two windows without buying anyone. An unheard of event in modern football. Some of our gullible fans will claim that Levy did offer Poch players which he turned down but if that was true, we all know the quality of those recruits would have the hit and miss buys that Levy has been guilty of for many years, more misses than hits, and that was not what Poch was referring to when he asked the club “to be brave”. We realists understood that he wanted to take Spurs to the next level but Levy ignored him, a certifiable dereliction of duty which has led to our decline since Poch was sacked.
Without going over too much old ground there was over £350 mill on our balance sheet, as a result of our success as a football club not as a property company. Since that time, he went double over budget and was a year late in delivering the new stadium. He even had the cheek to award himself a £2 mill bonus for this feat of failure, another example of the fans being rinsed by the club’s owners. Many fans lauded Levy for standing up to City and refusing to sell Kane. I said at the time that this was a strategic mistake and was bad business for the club but as usual Levy apologists wouldn’t have it. We now have a clearly unhappy player with diminishing value and yet there are still naive and frankly stupid commentators who continuously burnish Levy’s credentials as an astute businessman. the conclusion that I reluctantly come to is that Nuno will be sacked before the end of the season and the chances of us being in the top six are remote. I hope that all commentators in the MM and the utterly banal utterances from a plethora of brain dead former players start inwardly reflecting and adopt a lengthy period of silence. I also hope that I never have the painful experience of reading a quote on this site in defence of Enic and Levy and sadly, our host will never receive the plaudits he deserves for exposing and being single minded in calling out Enic for many years.

Limerick AL
Limerick AL
2 years ago

We are looking at The Shambles that has ENIC written all over it. Too many Yes Men and Levy apologists and not a pair of balls between them.

Lilywhite without the II
Lilywhite without the II
2 years ago
Reply to  James McKevitt

Levy should attend gamblers anonymous – the bloke needs help….

James McKevitt
James McKevitt
2 years ago

The utter ridiculousness of a Premier League club with ambitions to be in the Champions League having one striker is not up for discussion.

You’re gambling that Kane will have a season without injury or loss of form and that if those things happen those other midfielders and wingers who have never managed double figures in goals are going to step up.

That’s a big gamble for a club with ambitions to be back in the top four and to win trophies.

East Stand
East Stand
2 years ago

ENIC at Spurs = 22 years, one minor cup and endemic mediocrity.

“They’re such great owners though, no chance of US ‘doing a Leeds’ mate”.

Dino
Dino
2 years ago

A much bigger regret will be the decision not to sell Harry Kane, it will be right up there with the amount we offered for Grealish..when it comes to Spurs transfer policy over the past 5-6 years for every PEH, we have 4-5 Doherty/Lo Celso’s….

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