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Zomb said:
Dier and Dele could have been flipped for 130M a few years ago…. We’ve had such success with hoovering up young lads, no idea why we’ve stopped. Bale, Lennon, Dawson before

missed out on a 1/4 of the Eng squad who came through the championship
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Dawson coming as a double signing with Andy Reid IIRC, which just goes to show how it by its very nature as so much hit and big, fat miss......pun very much intended :angryscouser:
 
matspur said:
The players you flagged up are not particularly recent are they?
And anyway Bale was clearly physically gifted and an exceptional talent and was always going to be a star. Eriksen was already on the way to being a good player and had played over 160 times for Ajax helping them to win their first Dutch title in 7 years with Eriksen winning their player of the year 2 years prior to joining Spurs. He had played approximately 40 times for Denmark prior to joining us. Therefore I think it is hard to draw comparisons though I do agree we developed Kane from scratch.
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Eriksen I'll give you, though he was still raw, young and came out of the Dutch league, which a few on here don't think too highly of.

But behave on Bale. He was a kid when we got him for £8M and had such a poor start with us, Redknapp was contemplating farming him out on loan. However, we stuck with him, gave him the platform and he developed into a World Class player under our guidance.

As has been mentioned previously too, Lennon, Walker, Rose are further evidence that we can and do nurture young talent into World Class Footballers (OK not Lennon on the WC ability but you get my drift). You could even put Modric into that bracket. He was a talent no doubt, but we took the punt on him and turned him into a WC player.

The law of probabilities would see more fail than succeed, regardless of what club it is, as so much depends on the mentality of the player himself.

We have no less a success rate than any other club and probably more than most.

When was the last time you saw Utd, Chelsea et Al develop a youngster into a WC player? City with Foden I'd go along with, but who else?
 
Ionman34 said:
Eriksen I'll give you, though he was still raw, young and came out of the Dutch league, which a few on here don't think too highly of.

But behave on Bale. He was a kid when we got him for £8M and had such a poor start with us, Redknapp was contemplating farming him out on loan. However, we stuck with him, gave him the platform and he developed into a World Class player under our guidance.

As has been mentioned previously too, Lennon, Walker, Rose are further evidence that we can and do nurture young talent into World Class Footballers (OK not Lennon on the WC ability but you get my drift). You could even put Modric into that bracket. He was a talent no doubt, but we took the punt on him and turned him into a WC player.

The law of probabilities would see more fail than succeed, regardless of what club it is, as so much depends on the mentality of the player himself.

We have no less a success rate than any other club and probably more than most.

When was the last time you saw Utd, Chelsea et Al develop a youngster into a WC player? City with Foden I'd go along with, but who else?
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Didn’t say we didn’t develop him but he was always gonna be a star as Harry Redknapp has since said himself. He was just too fantastic a talent and physical athlete not to be. None of your examples have been recent which is the point I was making.
 
Very good signing and doing a Dele situation where we loan him back to his original club for a little bit to develop more. Hopefully he comes ready made to start like Dele was. Let’s also hope he doesn’t have a drop off like Dele had after a few years.
 
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