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elyid said:
The fact that more clubs can pay high wages also means strikers are less happy to sit on the bench these days.

In the past we’ve had the likes of Mido, Kanoute and even Keane and Defoe spend considerable time on the bench.

Nowadays players of that quality prefer to be first choice on a big salary at a lesser club than sit on the bench week after week. It’s difficult to buy a backup.
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Unless you're on cheat mode and can pay £150K per week to have someone sat on the bench.
 
scaramanga said:
I vehemently disagree. He's suited to clubs with no ambition to get into the top half of the table.
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Indeed. Only clubs which win titles, countries which win world cups and clubs which reach the CL final for the first time in their history due in large part to his contribution.
 
Hootnow said:
Indeed. Only clubs which win titles, countries which win world cups and clubs which reach the CL final for the first time in their history due in large part to his contribution.
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Would you be happy with him here? He was once a decent (not great) player. That player was long gone by the time we got rid.
 
scaramanga said:
Would you be happy with him here? He was once a decent (not great) player. That player was long gone by the time we got rid.
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In an ideal world, no. In an ideal world, despite some of our fans still thinking we're paupers, we actually show some ambition now and make sure we have enough options in the squad to cope properly with a Kane injury.

In a world where we let him go (when he made a genuine discernible impact on last season's result, he wasn't Wanyama) without a replacement, it was a fudging stupid decision, unless we thought Parrott was ready to step up.

It has merely been laid bare because of our hiring of a manager who is more amenable to a long ball now and then and because of Kane's annual injury coinciding with a rare Son injury.
 
scaramanga said:
Would you be happy with him here? He was once a decent (not great) player. That player was long gone by the time we got rid.
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I'm pretty sure he would be starting for us at the moment if he was here. He may even be more suited to JoMo soccerball than MoPo soccerball.
 
Kandi1977 said:
Also, we were never gonna sign just anybody as an emergency. It had to be someone actually worth buying and keeping. Not many options in that category.
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You know it and i know it and most Spurs fans i know think the same, there was no choice unless we bought someone who was (A) not good enough for us or ('B) who was never going to play and just add to our wage bill going forward.

Sadly some fans look for yet another reason to have a dig at Levy, thankfully they are in the minority.
 
Hootnow said:
In an ideal world, no. In an ideal world, despite some of our fans still thinking we're paupers, we actually show some ambition now and make sure we have enough options in the squad to cope properly with a Kane injury.

In a world where we let him go (when he made a genuine discernible impact on last season's result, he wasn't Wanyama) without a replacement, it was a fudging stupid decision, unless we thought Parrott was ready to step up.

It has merely been laid bare because of our hiring of a manager who is more amenable to a long ball now and then and because of Kane's annual injury coinciding with a rare Son injury.
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Son is backup for Kane. How many teams in the world (not on cheat mode) have first and second options that good?

How many teams (not on cheat mode) can lose their two first choice forwards and still have players as good as Moura to bring into the team?
 
scaramanga said:
Son is backup for Kane. How many teams in the world (not on cheat mode) have first and second options that good?

How many teams (not on cheat mode) can lose their two first choice forwards and still have players as good as Moura to bring into the team?
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We have to move potentially our second best player to cover for the first and therefore rejig the whole attack. This is ok if you are happy with consistently going backwards on the field (as we have for the past 4 seasons now) but not if you actually want to get better, advance and win some trophies.

Moura is not a good striker at all and is incredibly frustrating as an attacking midfielder. He is especially not a good striker if you're going to attempt to sit back and counter with long balls.
 
Hootnow said:
We have to move potentially our second best player to cover for the first and therefore rejig the whole attack. This is ok if you are happy with consistently going backwards on the field (as we have for the past 4 seasons now) but not if you actually want to get better, advance and win some trophies.

Moura is not a good striker at all and is incredibly frustrating as an attacking midfielder. He is especially not a good striker if you're going to attempt to sit back and counter with long balls.
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We have to have players cover across various positions. For starters, we can't have 11 subs on the bench. We also can't keep an entire second string happy and getting minutes.

We only play one striker, we play 3 behind him. It makes perfect sense that we have two spare players for the three behind and two of the three that can play up front.
 
scaramanga said:
We have to have players cover across various positions. For starters, we can't have 11 subs on the bench. We also can't keep an entire second string happy and getting minutes.

We only play one striker, we play 3 behind him. It makes perfect sense that we have two spare players for the three behind and two of the three that can play up front.
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Yes we do, all clubs do. I would strongly disagree that Moura can play upfront to any level of competency. We have one striker and one player that can cover. Nobody said anything about an entire second string either.

We are also, despite some fans insistence otherwise, one of the most economically powerful clubs in the world. And were even before the new stadium, purely by dint of being a member of the most powerful league economically in the world.
 
Hootnow said:
Yes we do, all clubs do. I would strongly disagree that Moura can play upfront to any level of competency. We have one striker and one player that can cover. Nobody said anything about an entire second string either.

We are also, despite some fans insistence otherwise, one of the most economically powerful clubs in the world. And were even before the new stadium, purely by dint of being a member of the most powerful league economically in the world.
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Ajax says "Hi"
 
Hootnow said:
As does Llorente, with his multiple knockdowns and general bullying of the Ajax defence the entire time he was on.

Without Llorente against Ajax, they'd have been going on with their typical Dutch arrogance from the CL final.
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I disagree.

Whenever Llorente was on the pitch our players resorted to trying to hit him from anywhere as soon as we had the ball. Our play suffered from him being on, not improved.
 
scaramanga said:
If we don't qualify for the CL this season you've only got one man to blame, and he'll probably be fudging things up for Madrid by that point.
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Surely the second best squad in the league with one of the top managers in the world can over come a four point gap to Chelsea, who are brick, over 10/11 games?
 
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