Tottenham Hotspur

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 

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