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^^ hah

£93m for Bale, ludicrous.

#againstmodernfootball

Unbelievable

So when if/when Willian signs for Spuds that would mean they have signed >£90m worth of players and sold >£116m worth of players. I bet the football agents are happy with AVB. Puts 'Arry's wheeling and dealing into perspective.

It makes 'Arry look like a car boot sale stallholder.

Hmm. So many others would say "sell your asset if he wants to move on and then invest in the team" so if that's what Spurs are doing - what's the problem?

And Spurs fans will take no guff from Chelsea, Liverpool or West Ham fans over financial strategies due to, Roman, Hicks/Gillette/FSG and Buscuit/Bongo Mag barons respectively.

I genuinely wish the cunt well. It would be bad for British football if he doesn't live up to expectations. You expect a lot of goals for ninety three thousand large! That's a lot of pressure.

Does this mean Bale is a Galactico?

Hmm. So many others would say "sell your asset if he wants to move on and then invest in the team" so if that's what Spurs are doing - what's the problem?

And Spurs fans will take no guff from Chelsea, Liverpool or West Ham fans over financial strategies due to, Roman, Hicks/Gillette/FSG and Buscuit/Bongo Mag barons respectively.

Very much this - although I have no major issues with the "Bongo Mag Barons" financial management at West Ham at the moment.

However, Spurs are investing to the extent that they are seriously expecting to compete at the sharp end of the league and should they fall short (and god forbid, finish behind Arsenal again) then it will be really quite amusing.

On a more serious note, should they fail to make the Champions League spots will the burgeoning wage bill become an issue for them?

Birmingham are a wounded animal at the moment, and not even a good animal like a cheeta, a rubbish animal like a marmot. That we can be held to ransom by some joker on the other side of the world absolutely stinks and makes a mockery of our so-called Owners and Directors Test

#properfootball #wearethe99% #yolo

^^They're going all in on two pair if you will.

I should add that the Tottenham model - very wealthy backer (Lewis) and seemingly shrewd chairman (Levy) - at face value seems like something that should work, and work very well for the long term.

I think that it will be interesting to see how they react if this current significant investment doesn't go according to plan.

It makes 'Arry look like a car boot sale stallholder.

This!

Hmm. So many others would say "sell your asset if he wants to move on and then invest in the team" so if that's what Spurs are doing - what's the problem?

And Spurs fans will take no guff from Chelsea, Liverpool or West Ham fans over financial strategies due to, Roman, Hicks/Gillette/FSG and Buscuit/Bongo Mag barons respectively.

I'm saying well done Levy - he relatively made his moves early on in the transfer window and once they knew that Bale wanted to leave they held out for longer than most clubs would have done and as a result Spurs received a phenomenal amount of money for Bale.
I've said it before, they'll come out of it stronger. They've shipped on a bit of deadwood and got some world class players in. Anything below 4th place should be considered a failure based on transfers alone.

@ Mikec, you need to dial down the spurs poaching Liverpool targets rhetoric, we were linked to Willian last season when he went to anzhi from shaktar.. Also just to let it be known I thought you were only in for Willian because you were gazumped by borussia Dortmund for mkhitarian. So are Dortmund also following your scouts round trying to buy players Liverpool have their eye on. Or is it a case of everyone is scouting the same talent, at the same time..

I'm more worried, even though we didnt put in a bid, of missing out on eriksen who seems to have more upside, room for improvement, and would be cheaper.

In relation to Dempsey and siggurdson, they took a decision to join spurs rather than the rebuilding project at Liverpool. Shows where we are relatively in our abilities to attract top talent.

Was discussing this with Multigrooves a while back and he was of the opinion that Levy needed to go all in to try and secure a champions league spot, it was spend big money or lose the opportunity and as much as I don't want us to mortgage our future for a top four spot right now, if it can't be sustained. As a fan we all know the excitement of your club spending money on talent and thinking as we all do at the seasons start "this could be our year".

And I'd rather AVB and Baldini were buying the players as opposed to 'Arry. Just look at the quality of player he targeted for Chelsea in his rebuilding stint there. Most of them have turned out all right..

Joe...its not a great bit of journalism but its hardly a hatchet job.

Is tenderloin the final remaining optimist in the Emirates?

I just hate this sort of journalism, designed specifically to generate comments/up-votes so that they can plaster it all over the front of their site because it's sooo popular. Lowest denominator shit.

I'll continue to be optimistic and should be doing so in the Emirates next 4/5 home games.

Fucking Spuds.

They look serious. Wage bill will be higher than Arsenal after this deal, so they really need that Champions League football.

not hard to have a wage bill higher than arsenal when they only have about 18 senior players

It will make no difference whatsover come the end of the season. The table will finish

1. United/City/Chelsea
   
2. United/City/Chelsea
   
3. United/City/Chelsea
   
4. Arsenal
   
5. Tottenham
   
6. Liverpool
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So many LFC fans forums are doing my fucking nut with their bedwetting "why can't Spurs find their own scouts" nonsense. As though anyone we've looked at has never ever been seen or heard about by anyone else. Today is the day when Tottenham became (for the here and now) a bigger club than LFC and it will be a painful registration for them (LFC fans).

They're all saying Lamela but that already looks dead in the water. For a club not oil rich they've really had the best business that I can remember.

For me I see a pattern emerging (reeposting myself but) What do Citeh, Chelsea, Spurs and Southampton have in common that United, Liverpool and Arsenal do not?

And I'd rather AVB and Baldini were buying the players as opposed to 'Arry.

This

Fucking Spuds.

They look serious. Wage bill will be higher than Arsenal after this deal, so they really need that Champions League football.

In fairness to Arsenal - you currently only have half a squad so of course Spurs' wage bill will be higher.

The only Eriksen you should be worrying about are the Titanium road bikes coming outta Chattanooga, Tennessee. He's been looked at by everyone inc us extensively and no one has taken the plunge. He's not the type to turn a game. If you're 3 - 0 up then yes he looks alright but dragging a game in his own vision, I'm not so sure. I see so much Barnes in Willan

#tearyeye

The ever eloquent Johnathon Wilson on the transfer window

I think the whole transfer market is a scam that is kept spinning by mutual interests:

• agents love it because it makes money
  
• players love it because it makes money
  
• managers love it because it gives them an excuse
  
• fans love it because it gives them the chance to dream
  
• media loves it because it fills space
  
• even club owners/directors love it because some make money and others get to strut about feeling important
  The only losers are the actual clubs and perhaps the integrity of football itself - if that isn't too quaint a term. Most clubs would do just fine by slowly phasing out transfers, promoting youth and making one or two buys a year to plug gaps. But they're all too terrified to do it because they'd look so silly if they failed.
  

yeah, because transfers are a new thing and didn't exist before the evil premiershit era.

Corny in quoting not even fit for areswipe articles shocker.

Is ClubCall still going strong?

The ever eloquent Johnathon Wilson on the transfer window

I think the whole transfer market is a scam that is kept spinning by mutual interests:

• agents love it because it makes money
  
• players love it because it makes money
  
• managers love it because it gives them an excuse
  
• fans love it because it gives them the chance to dream
  
• media loves it because it fills space
  
• even club owners/directors love it because some make money and others get to strut about feeling important
  The only losers are the actual clubs and perhaps the integrity of football itself - if that isn't too quaint a term. Most clubs would do just fine by slowly phasing out transfers, promoting youth and making one or two buys a year to plug gaps. But they're all too terrified to do it because they'd look so silly if they failed.
  
  

The less than eloquent me stated this a week ago. Fucking Wilson stealing my thoughts and opinions. Worse than a spurs scout.