Tottenham Hotspur

[Zatara]

Ronaldo to Juve
Bobby L to Barca
Batistuta moved and won a league

I'd say the first two were arguable based on Juventus dropping off with him and the money they spent on him. Lewandowski has financially prevented Barca from bringing in and registering other players + added to their woes.

Great successes? Not for me.

Not arguing with Batigol, top notch.

 

[Groucho]

“European Heavyweight” is doing a lot of tenuous heavy lifting there.

 

[ElGato]

The £30mil would be dead money in your example, whether he continues to 33-35 at a high level or not.

What we don't want is to sign players for fees and then let them go for frees. Thats what destroyed out FFP level for years.

Mykolenko for example should be extended and Beto + McNeil sold because otherwise we'll not have value from the overall deals.

Can't go around throwing £30mil at players to let them go for free. Also cant be dropping that level of wonga on players likely to drop their current level of performance - which isnt top notch this season.

I hear you. In isolation, it's an obvious no. But if its part of a broader, diverse transfer strategy I might get on board. We can't exclusively sign 22 year olds with resale value; we should twin players for the future with some ready made players for the here and now.

As to whether Watkins makes a good addition as a starter at age 30 is a good question. In bad form, but is it just that: form? He doesn't appear to me to be on a physical decline, still looks sharp and until this season has generally played close to 90 week in week out.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Given the way he goes about things De Zerbi is bound to tell 3/4 of those ego's in that dressing room they ain't needed almost immediately. I wonder who it will be.

 

[BlueInNZ]

Fair enough, any others?

Is this your "what have the Romans ever done for us?" moment ?

 

[The binman chronicles]

He only has one game to get it right, right after an international break.

If they are in the relegation zone after the weekend it will implode and he will be under so so much pressure.

Think as long as they don't get absolutely pumped at Sunderland there will be a big push by the supporters for the Brighton game. They go behind in that and don't look like they can get back in it, then it will turn and quickly get hostile.

It already is toxic. Bad bad choice.

It's pretty stupid for the owners to pick someone who is questionable from the off, but fans are fickle. Win and those issues will vanish.

 

[GoldenToffee]

Hopefully they get pumped against Sunderland and heads drop immediately thereafter, fans turn on him for being a rape apologiser, they finish 19th, then he gets fired.

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Looks to me like a last resort appointment but in the end it doesn’t even matter.. as long as spurs dont go down with the sickness.

The greenwood connection seems to have a lot of spurs fans crawling in their skin

 

[Shibbywiggles]

Hopefully they get pumped against Sunderland and heads drop immediately thereafter, fans turn on him for being a rape apologiser, they finish 19th, then he gets fired.

It would be incredibly spursy to be desperately avoiding 18th place and do it by finishing 19th

 

[MikeH72]

Looks to me like a last resort appointment but in the end it doesn’t even matter.. as long as spurs dont go down with the sickness.

Went over so many heads this, very creative.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Went over so many heads this, very creative.

Trying to pick out nu metal references in other peoples’ posts but I don’t know many of these bands or songs. Can’t find ‘Hope They Get Absolutely Pumped’ on Spotify. Was that by insane clown posse or someone?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Trying to pick out nu metal references in other peoples’ posts but I don’t know many of these bands or songs. Can’t find ‘Hope They Get Absolutely Pumped’ on Spotify. Was that by insane clown posse or someone?

The cycle repeated, as explosions broke in the sky, all that they needed, was the one thing they couldn't find...

 

[DualityNSNO]

De Zerbi just needs to get them rollin, otherwise results may vary, I think that's the unquestionable truth.


* too egregious perhaps?

 

[MikeH72]

Trying to pick out nu metal references in other peoples’ posts but I don’t know many of these bands or songs. Can’t find ‘Hope They Get Absolutely Pumped’ on Spotify. Was that by insane clown posse or someone?

You’d have to be Blind to think that his style of football would work at Spurs, he just doesn’t have the Bodies in the squad to play that way.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

You’d have to be Blind to think that his style of football would work at Spurs, he just doesn’t have the Bodies in the squad to play that way.

I’ve been laughing to myself about these references for days.