Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

[Baleforce]

I think there is another very interesting sub-plot here, which is a CB partnership between Dutch teammates.

Glad you are not on our scouting team, they are both Belgian.

And even in international football, where everyone is brick, VDV is shunted out to left back.

 

[thfcsteff]

We will see
I still think we may see a back 3 with Senesi and JP in a playmaking role from deep

We certainly have options with him.

 

[Mikey10]

Surely im more likely to be impressed, if it turns out he’s actually good l.

If he is a 52m defender we’ll all be fudging delighted because we’ll barely ever concede.

Romero and VDV are both supposed to be £50 million+ defenders and we’ve just finished 17th in consecutive seasons, having conceded a bucket load of goals each time.

Go figure, as the World Cup joint hosts would say.

 

[Baleforce]

Romero and VDV are both supposed to be £50 million+ defenders and we’ve just finished 17th in consecutive seasons, having conceded a bucket load of goals each time.

Go figure, as the World Cup joint hosts would say.

we paid 21m for Kevin Danso, had we had two Kevin Danso's, for 42m, playing every week, we would never concede a goal

I do not believe Van Hecke is as good as 2 and a half Kevin Danso's, I think he's about a quarter of a Kevin Danso

Kevin Danso is the best CB we have, he is my yardstick

 

[Finney Is Back]

Err I started following Spurs in the 80s, we finished 4th twice and 3rd 3 times with 1 serious league title challenge that decade and won the UEFA and FA Cups when they genuinely still prestigious competitions.

Yes the following decade was awful but when I started following Spurs we were one of the big 5, so yes we fell from that position but I would have compared us to those teams at the time. Even in the Sugar era it took some time before we really began to lose our status, it wasn't until the mid to late 90s when we were truly on the brick heap.

So yes you're right the era directly before ENIC we wouldn't compared but Sugar's reign is hardly the be all and end all of Spurs and we were considered a sleeping giant for a reason.

As I said…. sugar was a godsend for Levy and ENIC as it fooled some of our fans into thinking that we weren’t a big 6 club.