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30 May 2014 13:31:22
I see the Independent is speculating that we are about to sell Soldado to Atletico for £13m.

That doesn't sound like very good business, but they also report that £13m is all we paid up front to Valencia. The rest was all related to various targets (which presumably haven't been met). If that is so, it means we might be able to recover most of what he actually cost us.

If he goes back to Spain and immediately starts banging in the goals again, of course we will all regret it, but he has had such a tought time since he joined us that it seems unlikely he will suddenly turn it all around next season. This move might be for the best thing for him and for us.

KM

1.) I personally think we need to keep him for another year. We did not play a system to suit him last year along with the influx of new players needing to settle and bed in.

Still woul like Lukaku, Ade and Soldado. What a strike force tht would be.

I believe we require another striker along two maybe three defenders, get rid of the likes of Naughton, Holtby, Dawson, Livermore & Ekotto.


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2.) Soldado great scorer will ram stats down peoples throats next year was managed by idiots and not played too his strengths, I mean what. Chance of you got with Townsend and Lennon come on you guys get off his back and back him soldado will come good under poc he might even be top scorer next year if with us hope its paper malarkey .


3.) Totally agree bobby box, I rate Soldado quite a lot, he like the other acquisitions will be a lot better in their second year. Proven time and time again that players from abroad take time to adapt to the best league in the world!


4.) Soldado reminds me of what Robbie leaned used to be like at spurs, so hopefully he will live upto expectations this season! Also I feel we need someone similar to the style of berbatov rather than adebayor. I think adebayor is a brilliant player but feel he's a bit of a solitary striker and when they both played up front they both were in each other way. I feel well beck would be ideal for us so then we have the front 3 of RW lamela LW well rock and soldado up front and rotate him and ade also I feel we need to beat Liverpool to Lallana they've just bid 25 million but if we bid about 30 at the most I'd take him and put him eriksen and dembelle in the middle.


5.) I think llana will join Liverpool and spurs aren't even interested at the price as we have too many midfielders already at the club. More than likely probs won't sign anyone from Southampton unless they are defenders. Rodriguez is injured


6.) £30m for Lallana when we already have eriksen, that's just not good business


7.) 31 May 2014 12:31:15
£27m for Shaw is the business to try and do, use the MoPo connection and try. He knows how to play him and Shaw gets first team football and not necessarily under same pressure as going straight to Chelsea or even United but, still plenty of time for a 'Real' type move n the future if wanted.


8.) £27mil for shaw? are you absolutely off your meds? Not a penny above £12mil


9.) 31 May 2014 21:56:25
I can see Levy agreeing to sign Lallana and giving MoPo the man in the middle he wants after AVB didn't get Moutinho to pull the strings for him on the field.

Though if he does I hope they figure out how to play him alongside Eriksen.


10.) 01 Jun 2014 01:08:44
Foxspur907
I would love him for £12m but it seems the price is £27m ish. My point is with Llalana rumours of around £25m, why on earth would we not switch that attention to Shaw? a) a position we're desperate to improve, b) younger player and rated very highly, more than Llalana who we don't need.
As it is I doubt either are even on our radar, the crocked and CHEAPER (lesser) talent of Rodriguez maybe real.


11.) Simmo,

I hear what you are saying but I don't really rate either. Agree that we need to bolster the defence but our midfield will be stronger this year as the players have had time to adapt.

As for the defence I would love A.Cole to cross the city for Spurs as he is quality and better than what we have by a country mile.

Get rid of Naughton (RUBBISH) and D.Rose is steadily improving but not quite there yet.


12.) Foxspur, agree get rid of Naughton, and Dawson, but Rose is improving?? He must have been total rubbish, if he has improved to the level he is at now! As for not rating Shaw, are you blind? By far and away one of the best LB in the PL!


13.) Davo, yes I am blind but only in one eye lol. I agree he did very well last season but would personally want to see another good season out of him before committing to buy! As for D.Rose, I never rated him last season as some people may remember but he did ok and just that - ok. Hence suggesting A.Cole, yes at 33 (I think) is getting old but still quality and free. Hell why not get shaw and Cole then I would be happy :)

Also Dawson, I like his commitment but he is getting slow and cost us a few points last season but still good. If our defence stays fit this season and with a few additions as mentioned I think we could do well next season, but our strike force needs to improve drastically also.


14.) 01 Jun 2014 18:20:04
Lallana looks half decent and Luke Shaw is improving, but the talk of £25m+ for each is mind boggling. There is no way we should be looking to spend that sort of money on these two players.

Fryers is the man we need to give a chance at LB, skilful and pacey with great defensive qualities.

Eriksen is different class to Lallana, and I cannot see a great benefit unless Eriksen comes into a CAM role. Even in this example Konoplyanka looks a much stronger player than Lallana.


15.) 01 Jun 2014 19:14:56
fryers looked more comfortable playing left CB than LB, not saying he can't progress. I'd consider Ben Davies at 21 years old for $12-15m looks like a value purchase compared to $25-27m for Shaw.


16.) Lallana was tremendous last season and I feel at a club like spurs he'll flourish into an even better player than he is! Also this talk about shaw, yes he's a good player but I feel he's a bit mediocre just now. As for Rose. The guy can't defend! He is just a mess of a left back, we need a solid defender that can cross that is all we ask for! So please mopo get a left back!


17.) 02 Jun 2014 00:54:13
Foxspur
I'm with you although Cole would be divisive, many fans on-line detest the idea of him joining. I am desperate given Rose was awful and Fryers, for what he promises, seems iffy and had one of the worst games at LB in one of the worst quality matches all round I've seen at Spurs in recent years (vs Cardiff). He definitely had better games as last-ditch CB cover. I think Shaw is v.good and should go on to be excellent - high quality already for an 18/19 yr old so there are many years ahead of him. What might that be worth? Big wages for Cole and still got to sign somebody within a year or so, if they're then in their mid-late 20s then may get one decent length contract out of them and be looking again. Shaw could play for 12-15yrs! All ifs and buts, my main point was always we should no-way be considering Llalana at the price. I think I'd have baulked at £13-15m for him. More TV money just means more stupid fees and wages for now, crazy.
Dawson definitely too slow now for system we're likely to play, was found out a lot last year.
We can flog Dawson, Rose (to make sure we sign another LB!), BAE, Carrol (always going to be too small, not exceptional enough to compensate in my opinion and hasn't come on under Harry according to various fans there), Siggy (shame but too bit-part to warrant keeping and Chadli offers more despite the stick he gets) and Livermore.
That should raise £25m+ to start with and clear several wage bills.


18.) I totally agree with all your saying but not Carroll. His passing looks exceptional and baulk him up a bit and we have a real player under our hands keep a hold of him for a couple of more years then see where he goes from their. Another youth talent to look out for is Alex Pritchard he looks like a class act!


19.) 02 Jun 2014 18:51:55
Hi Rosscocee
Just wondering what you're basing those Carroll opinions on? I've seen a bit of him over the past couple of years and hardly ever see much of this passing ability. They're constantly astray and I've always put it down to it just being a snap-shot of games in teams where he's new or, that he's young and learning but, to be honest, 22 isn't that young when it looks like there is such a long way to go. As for bulking him up, again 22 is not young enough to think he'll suddenly have a growth spurt or couldn't have ripped up a bit by now. At 22 I was a far different physical proposition than 18/19 but, at 24/25 there wasn't much in it, I was probably on the decline by then! ;-)
Also, I have a lot of Derby fan clients and spoken to a couple of QPR season ticket holders who are mates and they all have one word for him, four letters in it I'm afraid.


 

 

 

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10 May 2016 12:48:44
I agree that changes are needed in the summer if we are to make an impact on the Champions League without sacrificing our League form, but first I would make a couple of more general comments about our performances this year.

I am slightly worried about our tactics. Our success this year has been based on a pressing game, but that has proved impossible to sustain over a whole season. Against West Brom and Southampton we kept a high line but didn't really press the ball and suddenly our defence looked as frail as last season.

I also think half the team need a good kicking for the way they try to protect a lead. You don't kill a game by rolling the ball at half pace backwards and forwards across the back line. Each under-hit pass sees the opposition getting nearer the ball until one of them is in a position to force a hurried pass or a mistake. This has been a problem all season and not just in games where we have dropped points.

I also think that we have seen too much show-boating, with players doing their party tricks instead of doing what is effective. It is all very well playing all those little nudges and cushion passes, like Barcelona do, but it only works if everybody is equally good at it. At Spurs, that is not the case and too often have played four or five of these passes and then lost the ball in a dangerous area: Keep It Simple Stupid.

When we have been desperate for a goal, the lack of a natural wide player has often been crucial. In their different ways, Walker, Trippier and Rose have done well in the wide areas but that is not the same as having a top quality specialist wide player.

Too often, we see everybody trying to work the ball through the middle of a crowded defence. Not only does this seldom work, but when it breaks down it often results in two or three opposition players bursting out of defence and racing through an empty midfield, with few of our players having the pace or determination to get back and smother these counter-attacks.

Of course, I don't want to overstate these weaknesses. They have to be seen in the context of our best ever Premiership season.

Nonetheless, there is still work to do on the training ground, irrespective of what new players we bring in this summer.

KM

1.) 10 May 2016 13:18:03
We need a little shake up and move a few players on but not an overhaul of players in and out. We don't really have any out and out wingers, I'd move Lamela and Chadli on and get wingers who can go either way, Lamela drifts in to much that's where we lose width. He has got better but I'd flog him if we can get £25M for him.
We also need another creative midfielder because Eriksen goes missing in some games, Along with another striker, maybe move 6 players on and get 4 in.


2.) 10 May 2016 14:16:43
Part of Eriksen's problem is being played wide when Alli is in the center, then you add in Lamela coming inside and we get congested and narrow real quick. Eriksen doesn't appear to have the personality to influence any of that - witness the free kick on Sunday that was lined up for him and Lamela just stepped in and took it.


 

 

21 Apr 2016 13:28:51
I don't know if the Big Four will be able to quickly reassert their dominance but there has to be fear that they will.

Money by itself cannot buy success, but money and good management can. Similarly, good management without money can achieve great results in the short run, but cannot sustain it.

Mega-money gives the Big Four some crucial advantages.

It means they can make mistakes without it costing points. It doesn't matter how much money Chelsea or City spend on a player, if he doesn't deliver he can be immediately side-lined and then dumped for next to nothing. Other clubs often don't have the luxury of doing that. For example, we probably played people like Bent and Soldado far too often in the hope they would eventually come good, simply because we paid so much for them.

The Big Four can also pay over the odds for anyone they want and so get players that other clubs really don't want to sell. If they need a short term fix they can afford it and they can make it happen.

They can also maintain a larger squad of top quality players, so have more insurance against injury or poor form.

One of the reasons both Leicester and Spurs have had such good seasons is that they have achieved a critical mass of quality players, with relatively modest expenditure, and have had very few serious injuries.

Leicester have had almost none and Vertonghen was our only main casualty (fortunately, Wimmer gave excellent cover) .

However, when we played slightly weakened teams in the Cup games we often struggled, which shows a slight weakness in the squad. If we lose any of our key assets in the summer it may not be easy to replace them. Leicester is probably even more vulnerable.

We will still have a good squad even if we lose Kane and Alli, but will it be good enough to cement our place in the Top Four? Of course, we would demand top money for either of these players, but that money would still have to be well spent: remember what happened to the Bale bonanza. We can criticise how the Bale money was spent, but the truth is that most clubs have had failures just as bad. There are no guarantees in the transfer market.

Leicester and Spurs have performed consistently well all season and either will be worthy Title winners, but we cannot deny that this has been helped by the under-performance of Chelsea and United.

Something went seriously wrong behind the scenes at Chelsea this season and they were out of the running for the Champions League before it could be corrected. Similarly, Van Gaal's tactics at the start of the season scuppered United's chances. My worry is that there doesn't seem to be any fundamental problems in these clubs that a good manager with a big transfer budget couldn't sort out quite quickly.

However, if we can keep our squad intact (or improve it) and maintain our level of performance next season, the Big Four will not find us easy to catch.

I remain optimistic.

KM

 

 

19 Apr 2016 18:24:43
Irrespective of whether Leicester wins the Title, or we do, it will be a massive boost for the Premiership. However, let's not count any chickens yet. Man City and Arsenal could still sneak past us both.

Either (but not both) could finish on 75 points. The only tough fixture for either of them is when they play each other. However, all season they have both been dropping points they shouldn't have dropped, so this is only a 'worst case scenario'

To ensure it doesn't happen, Leicester must get at least 3 points from their remaining fixtures and we must get 7.

Next up for Leicester is Swansea at home. I almost hope they win it, to ensure that the Title definitely doesn't go to one of the traditional Big Four clubs again this season.

We will then probably have to win at least 3 of our remaining fixtures to maintain our challenge. There are no certainties, but West Brom and Southampton at home and Newcastle away should give us a good chance.

Whether that is enough for us to pip Leicester, might then depend on getting something out of the Chelsea game.

Either way, Northeast Spur is right - let's just enjoy our best ever season in the Premiership (and hope it is just one of many more like it) .

KM

1.) 19 Apr 2016 22:19:54
Keep the faith KM, there's still a good chance we can be triumphant.

There's some twists still to come.


 

 

16 Feb 2016 14:28:23
A few years ago, it seemed that the Champions League had created a self-perpetuating elite of four clubs, whose revenues put them in a different league to the rest of the Premiership.

At the start of the millennium, there were six clubs competing for the huge Champions League bonus, but Leeds imploded and Newcastle quickly dropped back into the chasing pack.

That left Arsenal, Chelsea, Man United and Liverpool mopping up most of the trophies and adding huge sponsorship deals to the massive TV revenues they already got from their Champions League exposure. It looked as if they were going to dominate English football for years to come. Then Sheikh Mansour arrived at City at the same time as Hicks and Gillett were asset-stripping Liverpool and City replaced Liverpool as one of the Big Four. Tottenham nabbed a Champions League spot during the transition.

Nonetheless, the dominance of the mega-clubs seemed assured. In the new millennium, the five clubs that have constituted the Big Four, have won all 16 Premiership Titles, 13 F A Cups and 10 League Cups (39 out of 48 trophies) .

However, a couple of years ago we saw Liverpool suddenly back in the Title race again and this season it is Leicester and Spurs, with both Chelsea and Man United struggling to even qualify for the Champions League.

Does this represent a new trend in football? Have we finally reached a point where any Premiership club is now rich enough to compete with the best if it is particularly well-managed? Or is this season just a blip, due to bad management at Chelsea and United, that will soon be corrected?

I know what I hope and I know what I fear.

KM

{Ed001's Note - G&H never asset stripped Liverpool, they just ran out of money and the club nearly went into admin because of overspending, not asset stripping.}


1.) 16 Feb 2016 15:56:04
I used the term figuratively, rather than literally.

A once rich, profitable club was bleeding money to pay interest on the loans that had been taken out to purchase it, and was not able to respond to the challenge of Man City.

To Liverpool fans, that would have seemed like asset-stripping.

{Ed001's Note - ok mate, just wanted it to be clear, though it does stick in my craw to defend the pair of them.}


2.) 16 Feb 2016 16:42:33
Hey ed that wasn't you sticking one on Origi, was it? 😁.

{Ed001's Note - damn you caught me out!}


3.) 16 Feb 2016 17:17:24
TV revenue is becoming a major factor for PL teams.

Additionally recycling the same old managers is becoming less a solution . Their styles/ tactics are better understood now . hence we see some younger managers emerge such as MoPo, Eddie Howe who I expect to be given a chance at a bigger club. Just be sure to pick the right one. MoPo did.

Looking at Man U and Chelski, if you were a younger manager which would you take if offered? Both have money . but Utd looks more attractive from a younger playing base and patience of owners. I just hope Utd take Jose cause that will set them back even further in 3 years time - he might win something in season 2 but his record shows the players don't respond for too long to his ways.


4.) 16 Feb 2016 17:25:15
While every premier league club will have lots of TV money next season utd Chelsea and city will have TV money plus their usaul financial power, but both Chelsea and utd have to find a manager who fits their clubs to go back to how things were.
My guess next season will be the most competitive yet with Liverpool Spurs Arsenal Chelsea and utd as for city I'm not sure they might be out on their own or right in the thick of it with the others obviously depends on how good or bad the Gardiola effect is.


5.) 16 Feb 2016 18:14:59
I'm not so sure Chelski and Man U will bounce can quite so quickly.

They both have to find a longer term managerial solution and will likely be playing without Champions League again next season.


6.) 16 Feb 2016 19:36:15
Good point Yellow no CL makes singing the players you want more difficult or at least means you've got to pay way over the odds in wages to make them come and like you i'm not sure either will get the manager they need.
If Guss stays I think Chelsea will be back in the hunt for champions league football but he won't be able to guarantee it as for utd I think their stuck between wanting Giggs but needing a much more proven manager.


 

 

15 Sep 2015 12:00:40
If we did a deal with Adebayor that meant we paid him substantially less than the 5m we owed him, then I suppose there was some point in releasing him. But if we simply bought out the remainder of his contract, I think it would have been better to have kept him.

We are still short of options to lead the line. Adebayor was never going to be more than a an emergency back-up in that position, but he has shown he can do a decent job when he is up for it. His strike rate for us, especially in the League, is better than most people realise.

His record of 35 goals in 87 Premiership appearances (0.4 goals a game) is inferior only to Klinsmann (0.54), Kane (0.48), Sheringham (0.41) and Keane (0.41).

That means his strike rate is actually slightly better than players like Berbatov, Defoe, Ferdinand, Bent or Armstrong.

I can only assume that we made it so clear we wanted to get rid of him that, when he turned Villa down, relations between him and the club were so bad it was impossible for him to stay. That doesn't seem like very good management to me.

I have to hope there were other factors, that I know nothing about, to explain why we were so determined to hurry him out of the club.

KM

1.) 15 Sep 2015 15:33:01
You can't blame it in poor management, Adebayor has caused problems at every club he has played for. I couldn't care what any of his stats were I never wanted to see him in a spurs shirt again even if it costs us points. Good riddance to him.


2.) 15 Sep 2015 16:54:55
I have to hope you are right.

His mysterious absences for personal reasons and the fact that he has now been dumped by Togo both suggest there have been problems behind the scenes, it’s just that I don’t really know what they might have been.

Wulf used to have a contact in Spurs, who tipped him off about Kane’s exceptional form in training at the start of last season, so perhaps he can shed some light.

However, I still fear that the main problem was simply that we wanted him out of the club on the cheap and he wasn’t having any of it.


3.) 16 Sep 2015 21:49:20
KM , the bloke was interested in himself and only himself! He caused problems at every club he was at! It was a total waste of talent , but he thinks he is a god! We all heard how much Sherwood did for him, yet when he had a chance to join him, his petulant attitude stopped that!
He doesn't deserve to wear the Spurs shirt!


 

 

 

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30 Apr 2015 17:02:58
Overall, I think you are being a little bit too radical.

The problem with Adebayor is that he doesn’t want to go, so we might have to buy out his contract. That would cost £5m. If nobody will take him off our hands, we might as well keep him for another year. He might contribute something. Last year he was good value for money.

Soldado is a complete disaster. I was one of the few people on this site who didn’t want to buy him because he seemed massively overpriced, but I never expected him to fail so badly.

If we are stuck with a striker we don’t really want next year, Adebayor is a better bet than Soldado.

Kaboul is a naturally gifted central defender, but if Pochettino won’t pick him what is the point in keeping him?

Paulinho is just a decent squad player who was overpriced and is (probably) overpaid. I would like to see him replaced by something better, but see no urgency in this.

Chiriches has some ability but has the worst distribution of any defender I can ever remember. Some of his mistakes this season had to be seen to be believed. He has to go.

Capoue is the great unknown. What does he do? Why was he bought? How has he managed to alienate Pochettino? Again, there is no point keeping a player that will never get picked.

Davies is still young (especially for a defender), so it is far too soon to give up on him.

Dembele is a good player who should be getting much more game time than he now gets. His ball retention under pressure is almost at the level of Modric. The problem is that he doesn’t do enough in the final third of the pitch.

Fazio is an OK defender but looks to have too many penalties in him for comfort. He needs to be replaced eventually but once again this is not urgent.

Stambouli is another Kaboul or Capoue. Pochettino doesn’t pick him so there is no point keeping him.

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28 Mar 2017 16:39:59
Darren Anderton was one of our most talented players for 12 seasons and deserves our respect today. I would support a testimonial for him.

However, the truth is that he lived up to his nickname and rarely played enough games to make a real difference. When a player is right at the heart of how a team performs, he needs to be playing in at least 75% of the big games. Anderton didn’t manage this.

He joined Spurs as a promising 20-year old in 1992 and quickly established himself as a first-choice player. In his first 3 seasons he made 34, 37 and 37 League appearances in 42-game seasons (86%) and looked to be a very good buy. At that time, our only worry was whether we could hang on to him (United was very interested) .

Then the problems began: only 39 League appearances in his next 3 seasons (34%) . You always hope an injury-prone player has just been unlucky and will soon get over his problems, but they rarely do. In retrospect, this is when we should probably have let Anderton go. While we were waiting for him to come good again, we weren’t actively seeking a replacement of similar quality.

In the end, we kept him for another 6 seasons. Two of them were good: 32 appearances in 88/ 89 and 35 appearances in 01/ 02 (88%) . But he only made just over 20 starts in each of the other 4 seasons (56%) . That wasn’t quite enough.

In the long run, Anderton became part of the problem not the solution. Sad, but true.

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08 Feb 2017 14:13:20
It's an interesting idea, but I have two doubts.

Firstly, Son has been in great form but the one weakness in his game is that he is prone to lose the ball. Given the way he plays, always taking people on, this is inevitable, but it does raise doubts about how he would cope defensively.

Secondly, he is a very willing player and will run himself into the ground for the team. Often Pochettino has to take him off for the final 15 minutes to ensure he keeps fresh for the next game.

If we ask him to do a defensive role as well as charging forward all the time, it will encourage him to expend even more energy.

Still, it might be worth a try.

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20 Jul 2016 12:00:26
The Damiao deal is 99% done. There is just some paperwork to complete and he will be ready to join us for the start of the 2013/ 2014 season.

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24 Feb 2016 09:48:23
Davo

I didn't forget Jennings. He is the reason I said that Lloris might be our best ever keeper.

Of course, Jennings played in a different era, but my recollection is that he was as good as anyone in the country at that time (on a par with Shilton at his peak) and Vorm would have suffered just as badly by comparison with him.

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23 Feb 2016 14:06:38
I think a lot depends on what Pochettino thinks of Luke McGee. He still only 21, but is at an age when he needs to start getting some first team experience. If Pochettino thinks he is ready, then he could start to take over as cover for Lloris next season and Vorm could be eased out.

However, if he doesn't fancy McGee, then there is probably no point in getting rid of Vorm.

He's not the best, but you wouldn't expect him to be. He is just a back-up player, who only made 4 League appearances last year and just one this year (20 appearances in total) .

We are not going to find a class keeper willing to spend that much time on the bench, and might struggle to find another veteran who is significantly better than Vorm. Of course we should look, but we have to be realistic.

Actually, I suspect Vorm suffers by comparison with Lloris, who might be best keeper we have ever had.

If he was back-up to a Barry Daines, Milija Aleksic, Tony Parks, Erik Thorsvedt or Paul Robinson, we might be less critical of him.

KM