Mauricio Pochettino - 'Tottenham Will Spend This Window'

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One of my normal midweek routines is to listen to the Jim White show on talkSPORT. But, I nearly fell off my perch when I heard Poch talking to Jim about just how many players..


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That means that everybody in the club knows that the squad should be strengthened!

That means also that none of the basic eleven players should leave without buying first or at the same time a better replacement.
Otherwise you can't call it “strengthening” the current squad!

But a few days before the start of the competition and while Levy and Co have already sold a player of the basic eleven to a “rival” (!) club for a respectable amount of money, on which since then they earn interest, it seems that the club, for yet another season, it is unable to strengthen in time the squad with the right players.
Expensive or less expensive, but just appropriate new players.

In the meantime, there are everyday rumours about the possibility more players from our first eleven squad to leave going abroad or to “direct rivals”.

 
Ioan, that post looks like something right out of a red top column.

The strategy, while annoying as hell to supporters, makes perfect sense when you're competing with big money. Wait until the market calms down and players who want to move are a little more desperate to make that move. AND the clubs that want or need to sell have less time to think.

And please don't go on about my ambition with Spurs. It's getting tired and is misplaced.

I expect us to win the league this year. We have the right man up front. Let's hope our defence is as miserly as last season.
 
Works the other way as as well. Teams want more money for players, they also don't want to sell as they don't have the time to replace their player. Which means the buying team goes further down the pecking order and end up buying average players not good enough.

So 80, you point has valid points but also has just as many faults. So lets not pretend this method is great because it really isn't.

The best policy is buy them in early, let them settle in their new homes, get to know their team mates, learn the philosophy. Then you have a more settled squad going into a new season and more chance of gaining more points over the whole season.
 
Real Deal - 9/8/2017 21:08

Works the other way as as well. Teams want more money for players, they also don't want to sell as they don't have the time to replace their player. Which means the buying team goes further down the pecking order and end up buying average players not good enough.

So 80, you point has valid points but also has just as many faults. So lets not pretend this method is great because it really isn't.

The best policy is buy them in early, let them settle in their new homes, get to know their team mates, learn the philosophy. Then you have a more settled squad going into a new season and more chance of gaining more points over the whole season.

This method is a crock of shit. And I'm as fed up with it as anyone. It's been going on since day naffing one.

But I'm finished starting the season in a negative frame of mind. The last two seasons have been a whole lot of fun even with some major naff ups.

I'm going to sit back and enjoy watching this team give it one more go before it breaks up and players start being sold.
 
Yep the thing that annoys me the most is that window is still open at all. Should be July 31st.
 
KiwiSpur - 9/8/2017 22:34

Yep the thing that annoys me the most is that window is still open at all. Should be July 31st.

That's a good idea. Transfer fees should be abolished as well.
 
80, I have no intentions to offend you or any other member of the forum.
I just express my opinion ...my own way!

According to me, when someone accepts that Spurs haven't won any title or trophy last seventeen years only because their current owners didn't want to strengthen effectively and in time the squad, when it was needed, in order to make it able to compete with realistic chances for titles and trophies, he simply shows that he has no high ambitions with the club.
Otherwise words lose their meaning!

I use also to say that the ambitions of those Spurs supporters with the club, match the ambitions that Gooners or Chelsea supporters have for ...Spurs: all of them they don't care if Spurs win regularly silverware!

Twenty or thirty years plans in football simply don't exist.
Except if you can name another club worldwide which could win titles and trophies after its owners have announced a plan which have taken such a long time to be materialise!

On the other hand, I can name a big number of clubs which have won titles and trophies in short time after they have been bought by new owners, just because those owners were rich and ambitious to achieve glory on the field, in the shortest possible time, and they had the ability to run, staff and strengthen effectively and in time a football club.

Spurs, like any other football club worldwide, just need such a kind of an owner.

To support unambitious owners doesn't serve the best interests of a big football club like Spurs.

The current owners have been granted more than enough time and had many opportunities to show their ambition for winning titles and trophies with the club.
They have failed to achieve that even in cases when the chances for such a success could have been significantly boosted by buying just a couple of appropriate players in the January transfer window.

After they own and run the club for seventeen (!!) years, their lack of ambition to set as priority to win silverware in due time, is obvious and beyond any doubt for any person, fan, player, journalist, with common football sense.

If they can't or they don't want to spend the necessary money to strengthen Spurs and make them able to compete seriously and in the shortest possible time for titles and trophies or they don't have the ability to raise such money, they can immediately notify their intention to sell the club, at a normal price and making a normal profit, to someone who has the intension and the ability to materialise that.
By doing that, they will show that they love the club and they want to serve the best football interests of Spurs.

Then, they can try eventually to materialise their plans with clubs like Millwall or Leyton Orient which have no ambitions for winning, in due time and regularly, titles and trophies.
But holding, for such a long time, a big club like Spurs, hostage to their unambitious for glory on the field plans and contemning it not to win any title or major trophy during all that long period, it is just criminal.

The only difference between Spurs and the clubs which win titles and trophies is the difference in ambition with winning silverware of their respective owners.
An ambition which is expressed only by making available the money needed in order to strengthen effectively their squads.
Nothing more and nothing less.

 
Then you need to support another club because Levy isn't going anywhere for the foreseeable future.
 
80, or, all of us, try to put pressure on him to sell the club.

A big football club has nothing to do with unambitious with winning, in due time and regularly, silverware owners.

The ambitious (that's the right word, isn't it) with their club supporters who want their club to win titles and trophies should do anything possible to get rid of such owners.

 
Levy has very thick skin. And he is on a mission. Good luck with that.

Plus we have improved every year for the last 3 years. Until that trend reverses most people will look at you like your out to lunch m
 
80deg16minW - 10/8/2017 11:22

Levy has very thick skin. And he is on a mission. Good luck with that.

Plus we have improved every year for the last 3 years. Until that trend reverses most people will look at you like your out to lunch m

which he is..and dinner. :3: :10: