Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Castagne was £21MSorry but no one is saying you need to spend £70M on a player. I think @DubaiSpur post was absolutely spot on. Leicester are the prime example to point out here, a team who are above us, in a cup final, and well established and steady. Everything we were, but no longer. Castagne is a quality full back, £16M. Tielemans was pricey at £34M, but has proven his worth. We spent that on Sissoko who's done a job, but hardly rooted up trees. James Maddison, £9m. What on earth has happened to us?
As i said before, 3 years ago we were above United and Liverpool, the fact we're a total mess with so much deadwood and looking for another manager, it's incredulous people feel the blame isn't at Levy's feet. We can keep blaming the stadium, but even when Arsenal built emirates they managed to spend at least £10m in those days on players coming in. We've become completely stagnant.
Remember when we hammered Liverpool 4-1 at home? From that starting XI, here's who's still at the club today, and not only at the club, these players are practically the same starting XI:
Lloris
Sanchez
Toby
Winks
Dele
Aurier
Kane
Son
Sub:
Dier
Sissoko
Speaks volumes that of the 14 players that were used in that match by Tottenham, 10 of those are not only still at the club, but actively in and around the first XI. That game was 22nd October 2017, so not far off being nearly 4 years ago.
That means not only have we failed to improve the squad, but the majority of players brought in, are clearly not hitting the required notes given we are still utilising most of the same players of 4 years ago.
The lack of a DoF is huge, but there is non-figuratively no one else to blame for the above but the club hierarchy. We now face a massive 2/3 year rebuild which was explained to us 2 years ago, but once again, Levy knew best. Right?
And they sell a big player every season to fund these moves (Kante, Mahrez, Maguire, Chillwell)
But I agree with everything else