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So what's the point of scouts if they are possibly not being consulted? Again it seems like someone, somewhere in the hierarchy is not very good at their job.
It's all a murky world of people taking responsibility for the good ones and passing the buck on the shit ones i.e Modric and Suarez mentioned but surely concerns over his time a comedy central club QPR, who's recruiting has to be the worst of any club in the past 5yrs, but no doubt he just made the tea there or something.Not bad a current world first 11 would definitely have Modric in it and almost certainly Suarez so pretty tasty finds.
The reason we don't go for the left field buys initially like Bony & Pelle is because our director of football & maybe our scouts too, think that they are flash in the pans in lower leagues at lower level clubs than we should be buying from. On the plus side that looks like it is no longer happening with the signings of Fazio and Stambouli seeming to be specific buys to add some grit and fight into the subs bench.
ยฃ15m is our price....
West Brom want ยฃ25m........
I was just thinking about a few years ago when England played and we had six players in the squad the core of the tottenham team and how proud I felt watching them play and how they've been let down by us sold off replaced with average players. And now when England play it's only Townsend making five minute cameos.Agreed, think eriksen long term will be good, fazio looks an interesting player from what I have briefly seen of him, soldado is a massive drop from Defoe and paulinho well er.
Lots of bale money spent and not much to show for it, mason and Kane seem to be putting our big money signings in their place, embarrassing.
Easier said than done when clubs put such a high price on their British talent.
I agree but unfortunately that window of opportunity has gone. Quality proven players might have joined us a couple of seasons back but we took a risk and it's failing. You need either champions league football, lots of money or a big name manager that top players want to play for we don't have any. We really should have invested the money more wisely when we were an attractive outfit for big players to come and join.It does seem the we are often the victim of signing players who show great promise and ability abroad but can't hack it in the Premier League. Mind you, over the seasons, all these smaller fees of 5-10m on players who end up no marks add up, could have been spent on bigger names who are known to produce on a regular basis on the big stage
Nope you're right we can attract top players from teams below us but we'd be paying a lot for them.Am I too much of an optimist if I believe the name of Tottenham Hotspur alone is enough to attract players of a sufficient calibre? Haha, this is besides the point anyway, Levy seems to disagree with the idea of parting with a substantial transfer fee for a player, ยฃ24m spent on 5 average players in close season says everything about the board's intentions