Re: Levy…Baldini…Poch…SOMEBODY - pull your finger out!!
Emirates Marketing Project, Man Utd and Chelsea have done some good business but I'm sure that I don't need to remind you why we can't begin to compete with any of them in the transfer market.
As to the rest, Liverpool have signed some squad players. Because they needed to. They didn't have sufficient depth to cope with the increased demands of Champions League football. But the CL will still be a problem for them. They won't have the free run at the league that they had last season. It's also worth pointing out that they're highly unlikely to have their talisman, player of the year striker. Spurs fans understand better than most how such a loss can adversely affect a team's performance, no matter the players signed with the proceeds.
Arsenal have thus far only agreed to sign Debuchy - much to the mirth of many Saudi Sportswashing Machine fans who don't rate him at all. Would he be an improvement on the departed Sagna? He's three years younger. That's it. He's not an upgrade in any other sense. More the opposite, if anything. As to other potential signings, we'll see. Even if Sanchez does sign, there's no guarantee that he'll be a success - especially in his first season. Once again Spurs fans, more than anyone, should understand that after last season.
As to your claim that Walcott would be like a new signing, what about the players we lost to injury? Lamela especially. But also Capoue, Vertonghen, Sandro, Walker and Kaboul. Even Danny Rose (as poor as he is) was missing for most of last season, which left us without a proper left back. We clearly will sign a left back this summer so won't have that problem next season.
Furthermore, what about the fact that the seven players signed last summer will have had a full year to acclimatise to life in England and in the Premier League? What about getting a full season out of Ade rather than having to wait until mid December before he gets a run of games? Above all, what about the fact that we have a new manager who, judging by his time at Southampton, knows how to organise a team and to get the maximum out of his players? There could hardly be a greater contrast to last season, when we veered from having a manager who stifled and befuddled the players into near paralysis to having a clueless manager who went to the opposite extreme, believing that headless chicken football was the way to go.
Even if we were to sign no one - and I don't believe for a second that that will happen (and nor do you) - then I'm still very confident that we will be a lot better than we were last season. So let's not panic, eh? Not in early July. And not unless we start selling some of our best players without replacing them.
Emirates Marketing Project, Man Utd and Chelsea have done some good business but I'm sure that I don't need to remind you why we can't begin to compete with any of them in the transfer market.
As to the rest, Liverpool have signed some squad players. Because they needed to. They didn't have sufficient depth to cope with the increased demands of Champions League football. But the CL will still be a problem for them. They won't have the free run at the league that they had last season. It's also worth pointing out that they're highly unlikely to have their talisman, player of the year striker. Spurs fans understand better than most how such a loss can adversely affect a team's performance, no matter the players signed with the proceeds.
Arsenal have thus far only agreed to sign Debuchy - much to the mirth of many Saudi Sportswashing Machine fans who don't rate him at all. Would he be an improvement on the departed Sagna? He's three years younger. That's it. He's not an upgrade in any other sense. More the opposite, if anything. As to other potential signings, we'll see. Even if Sanchez does sign, there's no guarantee that he'll be a success - especially in his first season. Once again Spurs fans, more than anyone, should understand that after last season.
As to your claim that Walcott would be like a new signing, what about the players we lost to injury? Lamela especially. But also Capoue, Vertonghen, Sandro, Walker and Kaboul. Even Danny Rose (as poor as he is) was missing for most of last season, which left us without a proper left back. We clearly will sign a left back this summer so won't have that problem next season.
Furthermore, what about the fact that the seven players signed last summer will have had a full year to acclimatise to life in England and in the Premier League? What about getting a full season out of Ade rather than having to wait until mid December before he gets a run of games? Above all, what about the fact that we have a new manager who, judging by his time at Southampton, knows how to organise a team and to get the maximum out of his players? There could hardly be a greater contrast to last season, when we veered from having a manager who stifled and befuddled the players into near paralysis to having a clueless manager who went to the opposite extreme, believing that headless chicken football was the way to go.
Even if we were to sign no one - and I don't believe for a second that that will happen (and nor do you) - then I'm still very confident that we will be a lot better than we were last season. So let's not panic, eh? Not in early July. And not unless we start selling some of our best players without replacing them.
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