Say 1 decent striker in means we get 4th. u easily make back what u spent on signing that striker.
in general I feel levy has done a poor job for many years now. hiring & firing managers all the time included.
he stuck his neck out and sacked harry and took on AVB which went against most fans opinion.
it didn't work out. he sacks avb. which cost millions which could be spent on this striker we need anyway.
again, the levy supporters our fine with wasting millions on sacking managers etc. but not on strengthening weak areas.
it was him who picked avb. It went wrong. he has no accountability which is wrong to me.
Problem is, one decent striker in doesn't magically mean we get 4th. He sacked Harry which only went against a small but extremely adamant and vocal minority of supporters that have been unhappy with everything anyways. After the shit that he pulled toward the end of that season most supporters felt betrayed and were happy to see Redknapp go. Most people got on board with AVB and wanted the best from him, the boo boys were those same people that just wanted Harry back and were marching around on the
opening game of the season wearing Redknapp masks hoisting signs saying "I want my job back" a season after Spurs were in third place ten points clear until
it was Redknapp that decided he wanted Nelsen and Saha, and then fucked off for 2 months while courting the England job before missing out and popping back up with 4 games to go acting like nothing had happened, and feigning total fucking surprise when he got sacked as a result.
AVB didn't work out. We've all reconciled ourselves to that fact, even the folks that actually wanted
AVB to succeed Tottenham to succeed. But the folks complaining right now are by and large the same sort who were calling for Pochettino's head before the end of September.
Levy owns a significant share of the club and has every incentive possible to see it succeed and Tottenham grow into a mega-club. And we've tried going down the route of huge acquisitions and mega spending, while making wholesale changes across every area of the squad and ambitious signings, and Eriksen aside only Chadli has shown that he might have been worth the price of admission. It didn't work out, so why would another round of 'ambitious spending' be any more successful? Typical reasons offered: "Because we spent 120m and not 200m." "Because our net-spend isn't ambitious enough."
Frankly, there wasn't a lot of movement this window, and it depresses me a bit that we didn't shift more dead-weight than we did, irrespective of incoming players. My dream would have probably been about 5-6 out and 2-3 in: one defender, one midfielder or winger, and one striker, but no club does that sort of business in January and I never suffered from the delusion that it was likely.
People are reacting so strongly against the spending advocates because
we don't want this club to become the next City or Chelsea, no matter how many new or old supporters are signing up to this forum banging on about showing some ambition to sign Milner or Schurrle and Salah, or whoever. 90% of the players that some upset fans have offered as possible transfer targets since last night were not remotely realistic targets, and a lot of us don't think we should be shelling out exorbitant sums for players whose contracts expire in 6 months.