thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Agreed.
And the time he gets with them all. In Ange's case, not much sadly!
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Daniel Levy - Chairman
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And the time he gets with them all. In Ange's case, not much sadly!
Lemonade Money
Dimitar Berbatov
Well he better hurry up as his career is nearly over.
thfcsteff
Garth Crooks
Indeed!
We will never know if he could've unlocked the talent in there. And it is hard to argue that he hasn't exactly blossomed beyond potential...
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Yep, if Spurs continue to invest £100m every year we should slowly pull ahead of most other non-financially-cheating teams and find our rightful place amongst the Top6 (TM).
It's like a yacht race, we were jostling in the pack and are slightly behind as we tacked left when most tacked right, but we now have the wind in our sails, we are accelerating and will catch them up. It probably won't be BECAUSE of Ange or even WITH Ange, but if we have a few good signings and a decent manager we have every chance of catching them up.
SteveAWOL
Barry Daines
parklane1
Tony Galvin
our biggest waste of money we have spent, since leaving he has managed to waddle through less the 100 games in 5 seasons.
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
Sorry that’s rubbish as we had no idea they were crap when Poch was sacked. Ndombele actually started well and then got injured. Lo.Celso also arrived injured if I remember correctly and barely played, he was also only there on loan when Poch was in place and Mourinho made that permanent
Lemonade Money
Dimitar Berbatov
That man has a lot to answer for.
DeanoAustin
Rafael Van Der Vaart
Wasn't the Lo Celso one always going to be permanent but us and Betis couldn't agree a figure. PSG had a sell on clause so us and Betis agreed a ridiculously large loan fee (which PSG got none of) and a smaller transfer fee (which PSG got their cut of) and that left us and Betis happy and PSG ripped off.
Don't think Jose made the decision to sign GLC at all.
Don't think Jose made the decision to sign GLC at all.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
That’s how it was reported
We paid a bug loan fee and had to buy him for the remainder of the fee or lose the money we already committed
Lemonade Money
Dimitar Berbatov
Yeah, we didn't want to waste what we'd infested.
Bedfordspurs
Chris Waddle
He was a pest TBF
Bishop
Nick Barmby
Clubs have never done it "the right way" there have always been outside benefactors that allowed a club to perform at its best. That's literally the beginnings of most football clubs, they were works team or started by a local magnate. Let's not pretend football has ever been an even field in terms of the financials possible it never had been.
Bishop
Nick Barmby
I don't really understand this logic, essentially you're saying Levy is easily swayed by some fans (none of those sackings even had universal support) in terms of who manages the club. He couldn't possibly cope with the pressure is essentially what you're claiming.
Yet when those same fans en masse demanded that we do not sell Carrick, Berbatov, Keane, Bale etc that pressure didn't stop him and he still sold them.
So which one is it? Is Levy someone easily swayed by fan opinion or is he strong willed and will do what he thinks is best for the club? You can't have it both ways.
Bishop
Nick Barmby
The desire to back Levy no matter the cost is the cause of this revisionism. As you said Lo Celso came to us injured and had barely played, I think he'd been on the pitch 5 times before Poch got the sack and like you said it was actually in Mourinho's tenure that we decided to go through with the purchase. So if we do want to criticise Poch and that's fair enough, he wasn't perfect you can't really blame him for a purchase of a player that wasn't even made while he still manager can you?
Mourinho confirmed the signing not Poch and that's largely because he had a decent run of form at the time. This is the bit I hate about fans when they want to spin a particular narrative. Now it's that Ndombele and Lo Celso were always terrible from day one which is far, far from the truth.
Bishop
Nick Barmby
No it was an option to buy not an obligation.
Even when we did buy him Spurs reported it themselves as exercising the option to buy.
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SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
No doubt a factor once Poch was losing games and support but that came after. If Poch had started the season well would Levy have sacked him? Of
Course not. So if we’re looking for core reasons it is our performance with these new players who let Poch down. But as he’d signed them and taken control he was culpable.
As I recall an increasing number of the fan base wanted Poch removed. They weren’t flirting with Mourinho were they?
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SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
As is often the case observers don’t know where the balance of blame lies. At that time Ndombele was gold and it was just the manager. Change the manager and the 60m of talent would shine and we’d start winning.
Don’t forget we went from Sissoko in midfield! Anyone should have been a big upgrade. But we were much worse. We also spent on others too. All that outlay and nothing to show for it. If you’d been let lose with the kitty and signed such - average is kind - players, you probably do deserve the sack!
SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
It is simple: we spent well over 100m, Poch had a free rein to spend the cash, and we were significantly worse than we were. In fact it took us 5 years to recover from these signings! Poch paid with his job.
Bishop
Nick Barmby
Ok, but half of the 100m wasn't actually spent by him though as you have now been corrected.