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So how many of those are south of 25 and would cost less than £20m?
This is what i quoted on transfer deadline day, I now believe he will be one of the worst buys in spurs history. It's a shame that we had that kind of money to spend, and brought a mercenary who doesn't play for the shirt and flatters to deceive.
Time we changed our fucking wage structure then,. People keep using this to excuse the club missing out on our targets. 85,000 fans at wembley shows we're big enough to compete.
Also, didn't Poch want Wijnaldum, Wijnaldum wanted Spurs, but Levy bulked at the fee of £22million or whatever it was.....finished up going to a club that has rarely made the CL in recent times and finished 8th last season
It can only be speculation. But fairly certain most would be within the bracket suggested if not all, I get that age and wages are a factor.
Long - 10-20 ( last sold for 12 million )
Berhihino - 10-20 mill ( who knows after Pearce and Levy fucked his career )
Austin 5-10 mill ( signed for 5 last year )
Rodriguez 5-10 ( being linked away this year at that price )
Rondon 15-20 ( last sold at 15 mil )
Llorente 5 million ( Seville keen to sell and an undisclosed fee )
Wilson 12 million ( complete guess here )
Negrado..on a loan this season / 5 million
Defoe - would have to guess at a small fee.
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But you scouted him Poch ? Surely ?
This debacle is criminal. Absolutely criminal. Poch / Levy / Mitchell whoever it was authorized this transfer carries every responsibility. Biggest transfer fee in our history could well be the biggest loss in our history and not for the first time ! ( stand up Bentley ) or will this be Ade part 2 ?
So pathetic.
Pochettino tells Tottenham star Sissoko he does not deserve spot
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Couldn't agree with you more.
Agree, except that even if Levy did it (which I am sure he did), I would not want to sack Levy. Levy is quite simply too good at everything else not footballing related for us to get rid of him.
My thought on the tell as to why Levy purchased him and not Poch, is that Poch has always opted to play Sissoko out wide at RM/RW. I think this is a way that Poch has obliquely registered protest with Levy over Sissoko's purchase. I can easily see Poch telling Levy "we need a wide attacker with a physical presence" and Levy failing to figure it out properly early on and desperately signing Sissoko to fulfill that role, presenting him to Poch right at the deadline. Poch, probably not comfortable enough with his boss to tell him off, or maybe just glad he got anything at all with Levy's inept handling after Mitchell's departure, instead reluctantly accepts Sissoko, giving him the professional, perfunctory welcome as he would any other club signing.
However, since he specified he only wanted a wide attacker in the side, he is only willing to play Sissoko in that position and allows the unmatched-ness of the player to the position to speak for itself to Levy. Sissoko is not a wide-man and anybody who has watched him knows that. His performances for France out wide were highly atypical for him when judged against the rest of his prem starts. I think Poch's refusal to play Sissoko at CM is a nod to his belief that he already had his central midfield options settled, was not interested in adding to them at the transfer deadline, and is still not interested in playing Sissoko in that position even now.
I hope the club as a whole learns from this debacle and I hope that Levy is removed from participating directly in negotiations for top football talent. I don't think he is the man to land critical, high-price players on behalf of the club. He is the kind of guy you want running organizational operations for the club though, as his hard-bargaining style is perfect for practically any other realm of service.
As for Sissoko, he spoke out of turn on, as an earlier commenter astutely pointed out, the issue of club talent and playing at Wembley- a subject too important to the club for any single player to appropriately speak out on. His place is the side seems like it will be success as a wide-man or bust, and he is clearly at least 2nd or 3rd on the depth chart out wide behind Son and Lamela. Hopefully he can just settle down, train hard, and focus his mind towards effective performance in a wide attacking position. If he can't succeed out wide though, I think Levy just lost the club a ton of money.
At least he's not Paul Pogba...
Back in January of this year, Pochettino made it clear what he would expect from a £30m signing by saying: “If we spend £25-30 million, we need to be sure that this type of player represents Bale or Cristiano for Real Madrid, or Messi or Neymar for Barcelona. We need to speak about a player that is our best player and need to help us to achieve a lot of things. It's impossible to sign a player for this amount who we need to wait to perform.”
Well done lads......cocked it up again didn't they.
Moussa Sissoko shown Mauricio Pochettino's ruthless side as Tottenham career continues to stutter
Well done lads......cocked it up again didn't they.
Moussa Sissoko shown Mauricio Pochettino's ruthless side as Tottenham career continues to stutter
This. Poch never forgives
I still think we should/could've done more to keep Chadli at the club and save £30m on Sissoko...
N'Koudou for N'Jie I can just about see the logic in... we've kinda done a like-for-like replacement... minus the injuries!
So hard to call... 'cos it wasn't so long ago that Lamela was being touted around Europe, and no one would've been sorry to see the back of him... and now look... a few weeks out of the team, and we've realised just how indispensable he has been!
So maybe there's hope for Sissoko... just not this side of Christmas!!
N'Koudou for N'Jie I can just about see the logic in... we've kinda done a like-for-like replacement... minus the injuries!
So hard to call... 'cos it wasn't so long ago that Lamela was being touted around Europe, and no one would've been sorry to see the back of him... and now look... a few weeks out of the team, and we've realised just how indispensable he has been!
So maybe there's hope for Sissoko... just not this side of Christmas!!
Why would Sunderland sell Defoe for a small fee?
He's their only chance of staying in the Premier League - and PL football is worth something like £50m a season......
What a mess, !
If poch had no say in this transfer then fair play to him for standing his ground, with the signing of Wanyama we did not need another central midfielder. Poch was just as ruthless with Townsend and Ade, this kind of managerial discipline was and is still needed. Prima Donna's in the squad cause splits in the squad and this was sorted until the record signing arrived........
If poch had no say in this transfer then fair play to him for standing his ground, with the signing of Wanyama we did not need another central midfielder. Poch was just as ruthless with Townsend and Ade, this kind of managerial discipline was and is still needed. Prima Donna's in the squad cause splits in the squad and this was sorted until the record signing arrived........
Once the new stadium is built i am sure we will.....
Unless there are other quotes, he doesn't say he didn't want to sign him:
“Football is not about money,” Pochettino said when asked about Sissoko’s absence. “It is about players being better, and that they show on the training ground that they are better than another team-mate and that they deserve to be involved or not. In my opinion, I need to take the decisions and I believe that the players that started in the game [on Saturday] and the players on the bench deserved to be involved in the game. There’s nothing else to [read into] it.
“It’s not frustrating for me. It’s about football. We can see in football different things that happen. You sign a player and then you expect something, and you don’t find what you expected … If another deserved to be involved, like maybe [Georges-Kévin] Nkoudou or Josh Onomah, or [Vincent] Janssen, then why not? Just because we pay money [for someone], do they deserve to play? Sissoko needs to work hard and to show in future that he deserves to be on the team.”
1 win in 10 neither do i.