No the cl. Look at league winners in other european countries before the cl and after. The cl created the mega clubs. People stopping supporting their local teams.
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The transfer thread
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No the cl. Look at league winners in other european countries before the cl and after. The cl created the mega clubs. People stopping supporting their local teams.
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
He's listed as a DM, so these make sense.
Everyone is short with a couple injuries in certain areas, City has no similar level replacement for any of Haaland, KDB or Rodri
Your squad is always 25 players, the difference is this one has no deadwood, unfulfilled potential? yes, deadwood? no
I personally think the club has done something it's never done, this squad is not for this season (yes, we can't come fudging 8th, I get), this isn't in my opinion a top 4 or bust strategy (as it has been for probably a decade+ now). How we do this season will be very dependent on how well Villa, Brighton, United actually play as much as us.
You saw you laugh at replacing Kane with Solanke, who were you expecting we would buy? (and for it's worth we realistically have replaced Kane with Maddison +Solanke)
Bedfordspurs
Les Bennett
Matt Berry
Local Bedford legend
Bedfordspurs
Les Bennett
I agree
It’s took one season to get a team who can play and ball across a quantity of players
Last year we had enough opportunities to get CL with a significant proportion of players who couldn’t play ball
That’s a big change
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
Lots of our rivals are weaker too - Ineos, Villa, Chelsea. West Ham have strengthened, but not that much
Bedfordspurs
Les Bennett
Have they???
Honestly
United have brought in players but I’m A long way from being convinced they are better than they had/have
Villa have weakened IMO… sold their best player and brought some at some random ones. Hell the guys they got in that deal have left on lain which says a lot
Still don’t think Chelsea have brought anyone for the first team
West Ham may have. I rate some of them for sure but that still is a wait to see
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
We should be adding players like Romero was when we bought him. We should be adding players like VdV was when we bought him. That's proper scouting and succession planning without breaking the bank, while ensuring the drop-off in quality is minimal. And when we finish 4-5 points from the top and need that one extra piece to push for the title, then we hold on to everyone and add the ready-made player that will get us to there. It'll also be much easier to hold on to our star players too.
Until then, I see it as 3 steps forward one step back. But the important thing is that the net is forward and is done in a sustainable fashion that will not put us in a position similar to Barcelona.
alekaras
The ITK of IDK
The Sky countdown clock until the window slams shut is totally messed up. It calculates based off the user's local time zone, rather than BST. What a rooster up. I'm in the US where it's 16:00 and it's telling me the window slams shut in 7 hours, even though it is 21:00 in the UK and the window slams shut in 2 hours.
Muttley
Paul Konchesky
Even without Solanke, our new team scored the same amount of goals without Kane as with Kane's 30. As controversial as this may sound, in his last season Kane scored those goals but cost us a load of goals indirectly. He only actually got 3 assists as well. Yes, he could head a ball in our own 18 yard box (as a big man should) but he just stepped aside when our opposition had the ball and let them move through the thirds unopposed. He also did the old kid the kidder thing where he was pretending to compete for headers, but you could tell he actually wasn't. He could also complete 95 min games with less than 30 touches. He was barely showing for the ball and relieving the pressure on his team mates.
This is the new Spurs. Ange's Spurs. Now, a 23-24 year old Kane would fit in lovely to this new Spurs but I always had my doubts that 30-something Kane would do anything other than be disruptive. I genuinely hope Solanke and Richi don't get compared to the great man. Let them do it their way. Ange's way. LOL - they're only keeping Lanks shirt warm anyway.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
I think you are agreeing with me. Its 2 sentences - i only put West Ham in the stronger half
Did kane cost us goals or the way we played?
RunTMC
Erik Edman
I could be wrong but something tells me you might have an issue with the manner in which the window closes
Bedfordspurs
Les Bennett
Yep
Missed the full stop when I read it
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Cecil Poynton
There will be a lot of slamming of doors and windows if we don't buy Carlos Kickaball or similar, only a couple of hours and this madness ends until Christmas.
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
And it will all be Levys fault.
Muttley
Paul Konchesky
He definitely cost us goals. There was no defending from the front for the last 2-3 years of his career with us. Pick any system you want and there is some dependency on the striker to do their bit. Kane quit on that responsibility, perhaps with the blessing of a couple of managers whose only priority was to keep his talented body away from the treatment room. I remember one game where the opposition had possession and we had them 3 on 3 just inside their half. Kane just walked away and made it easy to pass around our other 2 players. 3 seconds later, Hugo was picking the ball out of our net. In that period of 4 games, I counted 3 goals that Kane could have easily cut out at source.
You won't see that with Solanke and Richi. What you will see though is many of those deja vu moments where we all cry "Harry would have buried that". Kane's finishing was legendary.