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General Transfer Rumour Discussion Thread

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has dismissed reports linking Real Madrid's 27-year-old striker Karim Benzema with a move to the club.(Evening Standard)

However, according to (AS), Wenger has set aside £45.6m to bring the French international to London.

The Gunners have beaten Manchester United to the signing of Benfica's 15-year-old goalkeeper Joao Virginia. (Metro)

Wolfsburg boss Dieter Hecking believes midfielder Kevin de Bruyne, 24, will snub an approach from Emirates Marketing Project. (Manchester Evening News)

But the Belgium international has said a move to the Etihad could be too good to turn down. (Sun - subscription required)

Emirates Marketing Project face a battle to hang on to highly-rated midfielder Marcos Lopes, 19, with Marseille, Monaco and Lyon all interested in the Portuguese starlet. (Daily Mail)

Sunderland boss dingdong Advocaat hopes to sign Rubin Kazan midfielder Yann M'Vila, 25, and take QPR's 25-year-old midfielder Leroy Fer on a season-long loan. (Guardian)

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Daily Mirror back page

Manchester United have offered 30-year-old winger Ashley Young a new three-year deal. The Englishman has one year remaining on his current contract. (Daily Star)

And United's Brazilian defender Rafael Da Silva, 25, is set to finalise a £2.1m move to Lyon. (Times - subscription required)

Tottenham are ready to take a £15m loss on 30-year-old striker Roberto Soldado after opening talks with Villarreal over a £11m move.(Daily Mirror)

Liverpool are looking to make a £14.9m bid for Real Madrid's 24-year-old winger Denis Cheryshev. (Daily Telegraph)

New Southampton midfielder Jordy Clasie, 24, has revealed his mum left him and his brother when he was aged just 10. (Sun - subscription required)

Everton manager Roberto Martinez is confident of holding on to centre-back John Stones, 21, who has been the subject of a bid from Premier League champions Chelsea. (Liverpool Echo)

Atalanta defender Yohan Benalouane, 28, has confirmed he has agreed to join Leicester City in a £5.6m move. (Bergamo Post - in Italian)

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West Ham co-owner David Gold says the club hope to make two more signings in the transfer window; one being 27-year-old midfielder Alex Song and the other a replacement for the injured forward Enner Valencia, 25. (Evening Standard)

The Hammers are pursuing Atletico Madrid forward Raul Jimenez, but are waiting on news of a work permit for the 24-year-old Mexican.(Telegraph)

Crystal Palace manager Alan Pardew says he hopes the club can finalise a deal for Sunderland's 22-year-old striker Connor Wickham. (Croydon Advertiser)

Swansea manager Garry Monk says they are still trying to come to an agreement for 29-year-old forward Michu to leave the club. (South Wales Evening Post)

Borussia Monchengladbach boss Lucien Favre has hailed Saudi Sportswashing Machine's appointment of Steve McClaren, saying the Englishman is a "very good" head coach. (Saudi Sportswashing Machine Chronicle)

The Saudi Sportswashing Machine boss is unwilling to sell defender Fabricio Coloccini, 33, despite interest from former Magpies boss Alan Pardew at Crystal Palace. (Shields Gazette)

Aston Villa defender Ciaran Clark, 25, will be offered a new contract to ward off interest from rivals West Brom. (Birmingham Mail)

Middlesbrough forward Lee Tomlin is training on his own after trying to force a move to the Premier League, with Bournemouth and Norwich City interested in the 26-year-old. (Mirror)

Stoke captain Ryan Shawcross, 27, will see a specialist to find out whether he needs to have an operation on his back. (Stoke Sentinel)

Championship side Fulham will sign 24-year-old striker Dwight Gayle on loan from Crystal Palace this week. (Daily Mirror)

Middlesbrough are lining up an improved £14m bid for Blackburn's 25-year-old striker Jordan Rhodes, having already had a £12m offer rejected. (Daily Mail)

Barcelona midfielder Lionel Messi has been criticised by the Human Rights Foundation for making a visit to Gabon. (Human Rights Foundation)

Former Chelsea and Emirates Marketing Project midfielder Frank Lampard, 37, has said he is not yet fit enough to to show his best form at New York City. (Sky Sports)
 
braineclipse said:
Way over the top mate...

NWND made a good point you ignored about what Levy's motivations are and how he tries to reach reach (financial) goals for the club. He also said we have to look for the clever options rather than the highest profile players our managers may want. He didn't say all the signings made under Levy have been the clever option with the benefit of hindsight.
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And my point was that we don't sign the 'clever' options: we haven't done that for nigh-on five years now. We sign the cheap options, which means that they won't be as good or as risk-free as the more expensive ones. We signed Dembele as the supposedly 'clever' option for Moutinho: a player who plays nothing like him, and thus who forced AVB to completel rejig his preferred tactical system to accommodate this disparity (a decision which subsequently saw him being criticized for relying too much on Bale). We signed Stambouli as the 'clever' option for Schneiderlin: we then made do without a dedicated DM for the entirety of the 2014/2015 season as Stambouli was immediately banished by a disinterested Poch, and leaked masses of eminently avoidable goals in the process. The last 'clever' signing we made was (in my opinion) either Ade on loan in 11/12 or Luka in 08/09:in the former case, we took a headcase City didn't want and turned him into a goalscoring machine at little cost to us, and in the latter case, we took a risk on a player few in the PL wanted to risk their money on in the hope that his qualities would outweigh his deficiencies.

Now, we just sign the cheap options, and hope that their deficiencies can be overlooked by the man tasked with playing them. There is nothing 'clever' about that, and painting it as some masterstroke that us dimwits in the crowd can't quite grasp in our slavering demands for an Abramovich or Mansour is just facile. That was my point. And as for his own point about Levy's motivations and financial aims, I don't think he particularly cares about the football side of the club, at least as far as his investment's concerned. As long as he keeps floating around in upper mid-table, the PL's money making machine will take us along for the ride, increasing our value and (by extension) his asking price for the club. And as long as the facilities are improved, the value of the club's assets will increase, which again will increase his (and Lewis') asking price. In this, I think the football side of the business has been relegated to almost tertiary status: little else can explain the studied series of bad decisions and (imo utterly unnecessary) penny-pinching it has had to work with for the past half a decade.
 
parklane1 said:
This is the relevant line, all those who keep barking up the same tree are doing so of nothing more then rumours in the papers. The vast majority of fans have no real idea of what really happens but some have convinced themselves on little more then paper gossip that Levy is ripping everyone off. And what makes it worse they keep going on about net spend which is really not that relevant in the long term as long as we spend what we take and we usually do that.
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Sourced, verifiable words straight from three manager's mouths are 'paper gossip'. World-class misrepresentation there, well done. And as for spending what we take, I repeat: 56 million pounds in net profits over the last five seasons. Spending what we take? Hardly that, even as the chairman assures us that that is precisely what we will do, stadium or no stadium. But of course, coming from a man who can never admit that Levy can do wrong, I'm not surprised at all. Don't bother trying to rebut that, because I won't take it in, just as you generally completely ignore what I say in your panting, sweaty rush to harp on about your favourite 'broken record'.
 
DubaiSpur said:
What utter rubbish. 'Say no to the top stars and look for the clever option'? Stambouli for Schneiderlin was the clever option? Dembele for Moutinho was the clever option? Lamela for Willian/Hulk was the clever option? Saha and Nelsen for Tevez and Cahill were the clever options? Pav and Fraizer f*cking Campbell for Berba and Keane were the clever options?

Where on Earth you're getting this from, I have no f*cking idea. 'Clever option', forsooth. 'Cheaper' option, every time: which comes with its naturally attendant extra risks and troubles.

'Clever' option, indeed. What rubbish. And I won't even get info the whole 'we're so poor' nonsense: we have made 56 million pounds in transfer window profits over the last five seasons. If the chairman's own claims about transfer spending not being affected by infrastructural development are true, then that would have been enough to cover a Hulk, a Moutinho, a Schneiderlin, and anyone else you'd care to name. The same also applies to your claim that we only had a '2%' chance of signing players like that: hogwash. Better players have signed for lesser clubs. Don't undersell us.
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You clearly have a lot of issue with grasping some key concepts. The biggest one in my view which means you have a complete inability to grasp why we were unable to sign Moutinho, Hulk, Willian, Tevez and Cahill is that for all we might have had, say, £80M lying around for the Bale sale, we have to fit these players in our wage structure. That is very difficult to do if not impossible. Its only possible with someone like Ade where nobody else is interested, there are no better options and staying at his club isn't a viable option. Even then we need him to take a huge pay cut that even then is subsidised by City and above anyone else on our pay roll.

Moutinho wasn't interested in forcing a move as the terms we were offering weren't mind blowing. May as well stick it out at Porto if a fee isn't agreed. That allows Porto to be stubborn.

Hulk- just laughable that we could even contemplate a deal.for him.

Cahill, Oscar, Willian all turned us down in favour of Chelsea, which you would do.wouldn't you. How is that Levy's fault? Willian was having a fudging medical.
 
Gazzasrightboot said:
Thanks for posting these articles. Here's my take on them for what it is worth:

1. Ramos - He is complaining that he wanted to sign Eto and Villa and instead got Pavluchenko and Bent instead. The same Villa who that summer refused to go anywhere including Real Madrid meaning that Schuster accused him of lacking ambition! The same Eto who was at Barcelona at the time! If Pochettino had a go at Levy for not signing Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar, Iniesta or Suarez I think we'd all agree that was unfair!

2. Harry Redknapp - He is complaining that we signed Saha and Nelson instead of Tevez and Cahill. He says in the same article, Tevez wanted £200k a week which we obviously could not afford. And Cahill went to Chel53a. How could we compete with them?

3. AVB - Now this is the interesting one. He wanted Moutinho, Willian, Oscar and Damiao. Willian and Oscar we could do nothing about, they went for bigger wages and Champions League elsewhere. Moutinho was third party ownership issues and then went for stupid money and wages to one of the richest clubs in the world. Damiao - well it seems like no one can sign him! In that same article he complains about losing VdV, who just recently slated AVB because he didn't feel wanted by him. He also says Baldini was imminently going to leave. Hasn't happened.

Who really knows what the truth is? You are choosing to believe these three which is fair enough. I don't as Ramos and Redknapp were asking for the outrageous and I wouldn't trust AVB as far as I could throw Hulk.
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It wasn't just Eto'o and Villa, you know. Like indianspur said, we also tried to sign Diego Milito and Sergio Garcia, only to balls up both those deals (the BBC reported on our interest, possibly the best source out there). And we ended up with Fraizer Campbell (on loan) and Pav to replace Keane and Berba: then Ramos was sacked a month or so after the end of that window, and we spent 51 million pounds to rectify those mistakes in January. I think Ramos is fully justified in bemoaning that: and I do believe he has a point.

Same thing with Harry, really. It wasn't just Tevez and Cahill he was asking for: he wanted Chris Samba and Loic Remy (http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/16492077) then of Blackburn and Marseille. We ended up with Saha and Nelsen on free transfers. We couldn't buy either one of those players? There was no major interest in either of them (Remy moved to QPR in January 2013, Samba to Anzhi a month after the window closed). would it have killed us to go for the somewhat more expensive options there?

AVB...oh, I've said an awful lot on AVB's time in charge. It wasn't just Willian and Oscar, or putting in a bid for Moutinho on deadline f*cking day (which was a stupid move in and of itself) it was Villa, that left back whose name escapes me, it was Hulk in the summer we lost Gareth Bale. Would it have killed the club to be a bit more competitive in these instances? We clearly weren't, as AVB himself declared afterward.

NWND said:
You clearly have a lot of issue with grasping some key concepts. The biggest one in my view which means you have a complete inability to grasp why we were unable to sign Moutinho, Hulk, Willian, Tevez and Cahill is that for all we might have had, say, £80M lying around for the Bale sale, we have to fit these players in our wage structure. That is very difficult to do if not impossible. Its only possible with someone like Ade where nobody else is interested, there are no better options and staying at his club isn't a viable option. Even then we need him to take a huge pay cut that even then is subsidised by City and above anyone else on our pay roll.

Moutinho wasn't interested in forcing a move as the terms we were offering weren't mind blowing. May as well stick it out at Porto if a fee isn't agreed. That allows Porto to be stubborn.

Hulk- just laughable that we could even contemplate a deal.for him.

Cahill, Oscar, Willian all turned us down in favour of Chel53a, which you would do.wouldn't you. How is that Levy's fault? Willian was having a ****ing medical.
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Grasping some 'key concepts'? Dear, oh dear. Suffice it to say, your ill stupidly thought-out schtick about being 'clever' in the market doesn't stand up to the most rudimentary of scrutiny, and I'm glad you've dropped it. As for Moutinho: we made a bid for Moutinho on deadine day and offered him less than he'd have liked, and that was supposed to be an example of us needing to be 'clever'? Could we perhaps have bid earlier, to allow more time to negotiate? Could we have bid a higher fee in a summer where we made a profit (as per usual)? Could we not have left things until the last minute when trying to buy a player the manager clearly wanted quite badly?

Evidently, we couldn't. The manager is sodding worthless when it comes to transfers, and it should please them that the club even deigns to consider their inputs: anything else would apparently be lacking in the 'cleverness' you think we conduct ourselves with. And as for your dismissiveness with regard to Hulk, again, there's little to say: if you believe we are unable to even secure a winger from Zenit when he was actively seeking to leave in a summer where we banked 85 million quid from the Bale sale alone (hundred-odd million from all the sales) and offloaded high wage earners (Defoe, Parker, Bale himself), then you both do our club a disservice and think too highly of the 'we're in dire poverty' line too many have adopted around here.
 
DubaiSpur said:
Sourced, verifiable words straight from three manager's mouths are 'paper gossip'. World-class misrepresentation there, well done. And as for spending what we take, I repeat: 56 million pounds in net profits over the last five seasons. Spending what we take? Hardly that, even as the chairman assures us that that is precisely what we will do, stadium or no stadium. But of course, coming from a man who can never admit that Levy can do wrong, I'm not surprised at all. Don't bother trying to rebut that, because I won't take it in, just as you generally completely ignore what I say in your panting, sweaty rush to harp on about your favourite 'broken record'.
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O dear,dear. Not only time for a new pair of glasses for you it's also your toys out of pram time. Time to end it for me.
 
Gazzasrightboot said:
Yeah, I've been lurking a while so have seen where he is coming from. I'll be honest, I stopped posting about 6 or 7 years ago because I felt that the discussions were not discussions but rather arguments. People could not accept a different opinion from their own and got overly emotional about it. As if disagreeing with them attacked the very core of their own being.

Whilst I can see Dubai does sometimes get a bit emotional in response, I can see why. Sometimes he is baited, other times there's a misunderstanding and he does get about 4 or 5 posters quoting and replying to him. If people just accepted each other's opinion and looked to understand why they think that way, it may be a little less emotional. But that would take the fun out of being a keyboard warrior! None of this is aimed at you btw. We're all spurs fans, so just want the best for our club.
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That's ultimately true, but we are perfectly willing to bloodthirstily slaughter each other when it comes to defining what actually is 'best' for the club. ;) Overall, I really don't get that emotional when posting here, and even when debating this issue: until recently, I took pains to add that I harboured no ill-will towards the people I disagreed with to many of my most vehemently stated posts, and still enjoy reading what the likes of braine, bill and others have to say (you too: in fact, I strongly echo Nigey's words of wisdom, and can only recommend that you post more, given your evident intelligence). And I think, by and large, bill, braine et al understand that too, which is why I gradually dropped that qualifier when arguing. I don't even mind being the target of multiple posters disagreeing with me: I understand that the opinion I hold is a relatively unpopular one (here, at least: The Fighting rooster seems much more balanced), and as long as said posters take the time to read what I say and understand my position, I'm happy to engage in a back-and-forth for as long as they desire.

What I do vehemently dislike is what certain posters like @parklane1 have started doing: mouthing off about 'broken records' and other such nonsense without bothering to understand my position, or, in park's case, actively misrepresenting it to score stupidly cheap and risible points. And when coupled with my moody sulk yesterday over the goons winning the Community Shield, it inevitably leads to emotional reactions from my side when that sort of utter rubbish is passed off as an argument or a discussion. Understand: I am no one-track hater of all Levy does, or even of the man himself. I've gone utterly ga-ga over Hotspur Way and the stadium renders (twice), and generally think he's a great person and a man I'd love to have a drink with somewhere: overall, I think he's been good on the infrastructural side (even if I do dislike his penny-pinching delaying our plans over trivial matters like Archway) , average on the footballing side, and, overall, a decent (if mediocre) chairman to have at a club like ours. Plus, he's a fan himself, which is always a good thing for a club chairman to be. What I dislike is his utter aversion to any sort of risk-taking in pursuit of the club's on-field ambitions, his (imo) excessively shoddy treatment of our managers, his penny-pinching affecting our ability to buy the players we badly need, and his (and his partner's) reluctance to put more of their money into the football club that they own. When his business acumen and work on the infrastructural side is coupled with his disappointing tenure on the footballing side, we come to the middle, i.e average. And that's my stance on the chairman: I harp about his transfer dealings and treatmnt of our managers, and I praise his infrastructure development schemes (as evidenced by my mini-meltdown on the NDP thread a few weeks back :p ).

I am not, as the grating @parklane1 puts it, a 'one track record' blaming Levy for everything wrong under the sun. That's a flimsy, cheap accusation to make, and it is made to hide the fact that the poster has very little of actual value to add to the discussion: hence, I treated it with the contempt it deserves, and will continue doing so if the poster pursues that stupid line.
 
Gazzasrightboot said:
Ha! That's sometimes the charm about football. I have the same argument with my brother almost every time we talk about football. He insists that Ginola has been the best Spurs winger in the last 30 or so years. I disagree, and think that Waddle, Ardiles and Bale have eclipsed that. This has been going on for 3 years now but it still doesn't stop us from arguing about it though!!

Our other one where neither of us are prepared to back down, is best goalkeeper in the same time period. He thinks it should be Lloris or Thorsvedt, and I think you cannot even begin to look past Clemence.

But I digress.....
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Funny you should say that I have the same debate with some of my son's mate about Ginola, they say he is the best but like you I reckon Waddle was num one and Jones num 2. And the best keeper for me was Pat Jennings with Clem being next. ( guess I may be a bit older then you :)).
 
I really see no point in having strong - especially strongly critical - opinions on issues about which we have, at best, scant knowledge. Citing the opinion of ex managers doesn't constitute proof. It constitutes one, highly motivated side of a story. That is all. And since the other side of the story can only come from a man who isn't in the habit of mouthing off to the press, or feeling that he has to justify his actions publicly, we will likely never be in a position properly to evaluate what really happened, what the true issues really were and who, if anyone, is to praise or blame (and in what measure) for our successes and failures in the transfer market.
 
DubaiSpur said:
It wasn't just Eto'o and Villa, you know. Like indianspur said, we also tried to sign Diego Milito and Sergio Garcia, only to balls up both those deals (the BBC reported on our interest, possibly the best source out there). And we ended up with Fraizer Campbell (on loan) and Pav to replace Keane and Berba: then Ramos was sacked a month or so after the end of that window, and we spent 51 million pounds to rectify those mistakes in January. I think Ramos is fully justified in bemoaning that: and I do believe he has a point.

Same thing with Harry, really. It wasn't just Tevez and Cahill he was asking for: he wanted Chris Samba and Loic Remy (http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/16492077) then of Blackburn and Marseille. We ended up with Saha and Nelsen on free transfers. We couldn't buy either one of those players? There was no major interest in either of them (Remy moved to QPR in January 2013, Samba to Anzhi a month after the window closed). would it have killed us to go for the somewhat more expensive options there?

AVB...oh, I've said an awful lot on AVB's time in charge. It wasn't just Willian and Oscar, or putting in a bid for Moutinho on deadline f*cking day (which was a stupid move in and of itself) it was Villa, that left back whose name escapes me, it was Hulk in the summer we lost Gareth Bale. Would it have killed the club to be a bit more competitive in these instances? We clearly weren't, as AVB himself declared afterward.



Grasping some 'key concepts'? Dear, oh dear. Suffice it to say, your ill stupidly thought-out schtick about being 'clever' in the market doesn't stand up to the most rudimentary of scrutiny, and I'm glad you've dropped it. As for Moutinho: we made a bid for Moutinho on deadine day and offered him less than he'd have liked, and that was supposed to be an example of us needing to be 'clever'? Could we perhaps have bid earlier, to allow more time to negotiate? Could we have bid a higher fee in a summer where we made a profit (as per usual)? Could we not have left things until the last minute when trying to buy a player the manager clearly wanted quite badly?

Evidently, we couldn't. The manager is sodding worthless when it comes to transfers, and it should please them that the club even deigns to consider their inputs: anything else would apparently be lacking in the 'cleverness' you think we conduct ourselves with. And as for your dismissiveness with regard to Hulk, again, there's little to say: if you believe we are unable to even secure a winger from Zenit when he was actively seeking to leave in a summer where we banked 85 million quid from the Bale sale alone (hundred-odd million from all the sales) and offloaded high wage earners (Defoe, Parker, Bale himself), then you both do our club a disservice and think too highly of the 'we're in dire poverty' line too many have adopted around here.
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Ramos doesn't mention the penny pinching ways resulting in not signing Milito and Garcia though. Surely if they were as advanced as you say, they would be better examples for him to mention in his "honest" interview which was given before we faced his new team. Forgive me, but I just don't buy it. That summer we signed Modric, Dos Santos, Bentley, Gomes and Corluka for considerable transfer fee. He wanted to add one or two of Etoo, Villa, Milito and Garcia. He got Pavlyuchenko (one of the top scorers at the Euros that very summer). I just don't think he can complain for not being backed. Soldado outscored Milito and Garcia in spain!

Re Harry, are you really saying that Samba would have been a good signing for us? As for Remy, buying a foreign player in January is a risk which they obviously didn't think was worth taking.

AVB - He was backed. He signed Soldado, Lamela, Paulinho and the rest. Hulk is on stupid wages which we cannot afford and to be fair Villa is out of our league.

I think looking at the profit the club has made is irrelevant because of the points that I had made earlier regarding the differences in cash flow and the treatment of training centre and stadium versus players. It's not a comparing like with like. I think we are quite well run, and I'd rather the more careful approach that we have now compared to the one that says let's spend more and get the players like Liverpool are doing now and QPR did as well. Yes, the top 4 clubs in the country also happen to spend the most on transfers and wages. That doesn't mean that we need to spend that amount of money to get there, but rather when you are in that position, you are able to buy those better players to keep you there.
 
This makes sense.

From http://hotspurhq.com/2015/08/02/tottenham-figuring-out-pochettinos-plan/

Is there a certain method to Mauricio Pochettino’s madness?
This is an interesting question as it relates to how the transfer market has recently gone for Tottenham. As was discussed yesterday, if Tottenham didn’t sign anyone else would it be considered a failure? A resounding yes seemed to be the answer, but it looked to be more of a quick reaction than anything else.

Let’s review Tottenham’s summer and look closely at what’s going on.

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Signings: Kevin Wimmer, Kieran Trippier, Toby Alderweireld

Losses: Paulinho, Lewis Holtby, Étienne Capoue, Younès Kaboul, Benjamin Stambouli, Vlad Chiricheș

Key addition: Toby Alderweireld

Tottenham lost more players by releasing them and one retiring (Brad Friedel), but for the most part they weren’t big losses. The players who were released weren’t able to crack into the first team, so it was best to just move on and part ways mutually.

So with that said, selling six players and signing three, obviously would make the club weaker at first glance. The problem with that thinking is, that’s not the whole picture. While the big picture is competing for a top four finish and getting into the Champions League, it’s weird to assume that Tottenham can’t fight their way up the table.
If it wasn’t already obvious, Tottenham’s main issue heading into this summer was their defense. That had always been a priority; look no further than who was brought in to the club once the summer began. Both Wimmer and Trippier were quickly signed with Alderweireld taking slightly longer, but was completed after Daniel Levy flew to Madrid and was able to seal the deal with a couple of days.

Midfield, winger and striker are important as well, and yet no one has been signed.
The fact that many names have been rumored but nothing has been official leads me to believe that Tottenham are simply inquiring about certain players.

They’re looking at potential targets and seeing if a club is willing to sell them for an arbitrary number, a formal bid if you will (£10.6m for Clinton N’Jie for example).

A number of different factors could tell us why Tottenham hasn’t signed any offensive players. Perhaps one of them is that the club could already be set. Mauricio Pochettino has a penchant for bringing in youth players to the first team and Daniel Levy is all about smart and affordable purchases. The core is there, it just needs to be augmented with a couple of more key signings, if it doesn’t happen it’s not a terrible loss.

It’ll make the climb to the top four harder, but it’s always been like that.

For what it’s worth, Mauricio Pochettino is thinking long term rather than short term. Sure the club gets weaker with more losses than gains, but money won’t be thrown around haphazardly on a yearly basis. The only signings that Tottenham should be making are young, high ceiling/potential players, who are easily affordable and have re-sale value if Tottenham decides to move on.

Otherwise, their youth players are more than capable of helping this club out.

Basically, the gist is that spending doesn’t always guarantee success. Tottenham is that kind of club, who won’t spend a lot to compete with the other elite Premier League clubs. It’ll be like this for as long as Mauricio Pochettino is the manager and oversees all of the youth players coming to the first team.
 
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