Spurs turned down the chance to snap up suarez!!!

[Parklaner81]

He would have been shipped out quicker than you can say "Soldado".

Not sure I agree, when based entirely on playing contribution. However, when you factor in all the grief he brought upon Liverpool in his first season or two, I think we'd have definitely shipped him out before he peaked.

 

[Gutter Boy]

IMO our biggest mistake was releasing Des Walker in the early/mid 80s because of his 'rebellious haircut' (apparently this is true).

Venables' team of 89/90 might have gone a bit further than 3rd place with him partnering Mabbutt, rather than Sedgley.

 

[SteveAWOL]

we'd now be watching a front 3 of
Suarez - Adebayor - Bale

It'd probably be Lewandowski up front instead of Adebayor if we'd followed Steve Archibald's advice...

Tottenham could have had Robert Lewandowski on the cheap, says former Spurs striker Steve Archibald | Metro News

Doesn't even begin to compare to the legendary levels of incompetence shown by Sir Alan and Gerry Francis in the mid 1990s though: choosing to sign Chris Armstrong instead of Dennis Bergkamp because he didn't want another "Carlos Kickabout", Francis describing Zidane as "too wooden", declining the chance to sign Stefan Effenberg, paying Emmanuel Petit' cab fare so that he could go and sign for ARSEnal... #-o

 

[Lost Mango]

IMO our biggest mistake was releasing Des Walker in the early/mid 80s because of his 'rebellious haircut' (apparently this is true).

Venables' team of 89/90 might have gone a bit further than 3rd place with him partnering Mabbutt, rather than Sedgley.

I've never heard anything about Walker being on our books. Thought he was picked up as young'un by Forest.

 

[veron23]

comparing our mistakes to Chelsea, Utd, Barca etc is not the same.

those teams need results instantly and cant afford to take chances with youth. if you ask anybody at Chelsea I bet they wouldnt regret letting Matic go even if meant paying 24 million for him - the time away allowed him to develop. Matic and the other examples was down to this and not down to lack of foresight.

for us however who dont have same pressures to win every game we can afford to take chances with the likes of Suarez and Lewandowski so if we didnt it was purely down to lack of foresight and somebody not doing their job properly.

 

[paxtonwolf]

On the flipside as has been stated, we have also found a few gems that others didnt gamble on. Modric and Berbatov in recent seasons spring straight to mind, along with Bale as mentioned in an earlier post.

Lennon for £1m hasnt been a bad deal either

 

[braineclipse]

comparing our mistakes to Chelsea, Utd, Barca etc is not the same.

those teams need results instantly and cant afford to take chances with youth. if you ask anybody at Chelsea I bet they wouldnt regret letting Matic go even if meant paying 24 million for him - the time away allowed him to develop. Matic and the other examples was down to this and not down to lack of foresight.

for us however who dont have same pressures to win every game we can afford to take chances with the likes of Suarez and Lewandowski so if we didnt it was purely down to lack of foresight and somebody not doing their job properly.

They're the ones that can afford £24m essentially as a fee to another club for developing one of their players for a couple of seasons, yet we're the ones that afford to take chances? How does that work.

How about Lukaku, DeBruyne and Courtois? Chelsea could afford to sign them for solid amounts of money and not even have them in their squads, just send them out on loan and see what happens. How's that for affording to take chances? They've signed and benched and given up on players at great cost that we couldn't even dream of affording.

How about City? To sort out their attacking options they tried signing Robinho, Santa Cruz, Jo, Adebayor, Dzeko, Tevez, Balotelli, Aguero and now Negredo and Jovetic. Just to sort out those 2-3 striker/forward positions. How's that for affording to take the chances?

You can't sit in hindsight and list the players we "could one time have signed" and say that because we didn't sign those specific players we lacked foresight. Clubs compete, we can't possibly be expected to outperform all the other clubs combined in the transfer market... We've made some fantastic signings, we've made many average signings and some crap signings. Unsurprisingly that's true for all the other clubs too.

 

[Craig_J]

We could have had Messi and Ronaldo too if we'd watched Newells Old Boys and Sporting Lisbon.

 

[Kingdawson]

IMO our biggest mistake was releasing Des Walker in the early/mid 80s because of his 'rebellious haircut' (apparently this is true).

Venables' team of 89/90 might have gone a bit further than 3rd place with him partnering Mabbutt, rather than Sedgley.

I didn't even know Des Walker ever played for us.

 

[Kingdawson]

It'd probably be Lewandowski up front instead of Adebayor if we'd followed Steve Archibald's advice...

Tottenham could have had Robert Lewandowski on the cheap, says former Spurs striker Steve Archibald | Metro News

Doesn't even begin to compare to the legendary levels of incompetence shown by Sir Alan and Gerry Francis in the mid 1990s though: choosing to sign Chris Armstrong instead of Dennis Bergkamp because he didn't want another "Carlos Kickabout", Francis describing Zidane as "too wooden", declining the chance to sign Stefan Effenberg, paying Emmanuel Petit' cab fare so that he could go and sign for ARSEnal... #-o

We could have signed Zola also.

 

[El Guepardo]

I didn't even know Des Walker ever played for us.

neither did I

 

[El Guepardo]

We missed out on the chance to sign Falcao too, before he moved to Europe