It will be if it starts to go pear-shaped from here.
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I thought it went pear shaped starting in August when we made no new signings?

You seem to be taking this all very personally.

You seem to be taking this all very personally.
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Not at all I find it quite entertaining

Don never does anything but moan about transfers anyway

Half the people on here just dont have a clue

We could have signed 3 top top players and still been in this injury situation its just the way it goes and whining about it and panicking is just stupid

comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 59 seconds ago
It will be if it starts to go pear-shaped from here.
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I thought it went pear shaped starting in August when we made no new signings?
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Not really no. It will come down to how we do in the following weeks and at the end of the season.

Poch has done extremely well with what he's got up to this point, but now we've experienced an injury crisis to some top players, Son has gone, and we've sold a squad player who could have been useful.

If things go wrong then I'm not just going to accept that it was bad luck when we could have tried helping ourselves out.

comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 33 minutes ago
I’m not the scouter or the recruiter, that’s the clubs job not mine
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I hear that. but I am just wondering who you, as a football fan, have in mind for us to sign that is the following


1. gettable midseason
2. affordable for us
3. fit
4. premier league ready
5. better than the current fit options that we have
6. wants to come to the club, knowing that as soon as Moura, Son, or Kane are available he will likely be on the bench.


Please enlighten me....

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Rooney
Ibrahimovic
David Villa

All on their MLS break and have a couple of months spare until their seasons restart.

If things go wrong then I'm not just going to accept that it was bad luck when we could have tried helping ourselves out.
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At what cost? Because that does have to be taken into account

comment by Coutinho's Mirkin 4.0 (U21880)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 33 minutes ago
I’m not the scouter or the recruiter, that’s the clubs job not mine
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I hear that. but I am just wondering who you, as a football fan, have in mind for us to sign that is the following


1. gettable midseason
2. affordable for us
3. fit
4. premier league ready
5. better than the current fit options that we have
6. wants to come to the club, knowing that as soon as Moura, Son, or Kane are available he will likely be on the bench.


Please enlighten me....

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Rooney
Ibrahimovic
David Villa

All on their MLS break and have a couple of months spare until their seasons restart.
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I'd happily take any of them for this period we're in but would they accept much lower wages?

comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 13 seconds ago
comment by Coutinho's Mirkin 4.0 (U21880)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Tottenham Chronic (U3423)
posted 10 hours, 26 minutes ago
comment by Don_tottenham (U3372)
posted 33 minutes ago
I’m not the scouter or the recruiter, that’s the clubs job not mine
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I hear that. but I am just wondering who you, as a football fan, have in mind for us to sign that is the following


1. gettable midseason
2. affordable for us
3. fit
4. premier league ready
5. better than the current fit options that we have
6. wants to come to the club, knowing that as soon as Moura, Son, or Kane are available he will likely be on the bench.


Please enlighten me....

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Rooney
Ibrahimovic
David Villa

All on their MLS break and have a couple of months spare until their seasons restart.
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I'd happily take any of them for this period we're in but would they accept much lower wages?
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You could pay them £300k a week for 8 weeks and it would only cost the club £2.4m

I'd happily take any of them for this period we're in but would they accept much lower wages?
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Offer one of them 1.5 mill that would be money well spent but buying somebody for 20 mill on 100k a week would be bad business

David Villa

Ibra would be perfect but i don’t think poch could handle him.

MK

Its the most sensible idea so far tho just for a few weeks

comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 1 minute ago
If things go wrong then I'm not just going to accept that it was bad luck when we could have tried helping ourselves out.
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At what cost? Because that does have to be taken into account
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The cost is in potentially not doing anything. A weakened squad out of the League Cup and FA Cup in quick succession, when we didn't bother doing anything about it. How does that sit?

comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 2 minutes ago
MK

Its the most sensible idea so far tho just for a few weeks
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Yeah and that's just from a poster on a football forum. Imagine what professional scouts at a PL club could think up?

Although I’m sure ibra might just fancy the few months off before the start of his season.

Spurs are not going to get a striker in who can replicate Kane's strike rate. Therefore you need good movement or pace to stretch teams and allow the midfield to take up the slack as they'll have more space. I think if I spent half an hour on it I could find a few strikers who I've little doubt could be got on loan.

The likes of Tosun or Origi would be far more effective than Llorente imo and I'm sure I could find more if I looked. You can't be cup tied in the CL and few will be for the FA.

Bit more complicated than that I know, although not impossible, but it would be a stop gap until the summer and then reassess the reserves. Ideally Spurs will (or have but he's 16) find a youth in their system who can be the perfect understudy to Kane for seasons to come.

Alternatively, and this is what I think Spurs will do, is look to play Moura there or simply stick with Llorente.

But there is definitely a middle ground. Personally I'd want my club to get someone in as not only does it give an option I reckon stuff like that can really lift a squad.

Yeah and that's just from a poster on a football forum. Imagine what professional scouts at a PL club could think up?
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But I have noticed that none of the complainers have given one sensible or viable option

But I have noticed that none of the complainers have given one sensible or viable option“







Weak argument and every time someone does suggest a particular player, all you do is shoot it down so what is the point in debating with you ? We are not the scouters or recruiters, so it’s not our job to suggest anything just to appease you,so I couldn’t really careless wether that doesn’t satisfy you or not , if it all starts to go pear shaped, you will be the first person I’ll be coming on and giving it to. Pointless you sitting there saying how wrong we all were when we are in the middle of Jan. Has the season ended Grand? Please enlighten me. I have already said, if we get top4 and win a trophy without any signings, I will be first to come on and say fair play I was wrong for complaining last summer. Until then grand, shut the f** up mate!!!

Oh and Grand, just because you are 85 years of age and been going to Spurs since the 50s, it doesn’t mean you are any more clued up or better as a supporter as us guys who have grown up watching us through the 90s. You really do give us this superior attitude at times like your opinion is the only one that matters and nobody else is right

comment by grandspurs (U3810)
posted 10 hours, 24 minutes ago
Yeah and that's just from a poster on a football forum. Imagine what professional scouts at a PL club could think up?
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But I have noticed that none of the complainers have given one sensible or viable option
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I suggested a number of players who are all some combination of the following:

(a) available for loan,
(b) available for purchase under £20m,
(c) young,
(d) English,
(e) not first-choice at their clubs, and
(f) less overworked due to not appearing at the World Cup last year.

If you choose to ignore that list, that's up to you. But you're wrong to say no-one has suggested credible alternatives. It's certainly wrong to suggest that other people are unnecessarily negative or that they don't have a clue. To be honest the aggressiveness/lack of compromise in your line of argument makes you look a bit simplistic.

Amanda, you gave a list of viable options no doubt.

There have been some good suggestions but honestly there is no chance of us doing any sort of business now that is going to make a difference to the outcome of our next 2 matches. If we're signing someone it will be at Levy's favourite time of the transfer window - the last minute, after both the League and FA Cup matches will have been played, so pointless. And by the time the CL starts up again we will have a better looking squad again anyway.

If top 4 was in danger then maybe Levy would have reacted. As it's the FA Cup and League Cup, Levy doesn't really care one way or the other.

Spurtle, the signings should of been made right at the start of the window, just like they should of been made last summer. Until we finish the season, nobody really has the right to come on bragging saying “ the moaners are wrong “ when nothing has been concluded yet. We could still finish the season plotless and out the top 4, nobody knows yet. That being said, I stand by my point and couldn’t give a s** what people think. Levy is holding us back like I have always said and we should of strengthened last summer and in my opinion it will come back to bite us. Hopefully Pochettino’s brilliance will just about pull us through.

I know Don, since it looked like we were always going to try and sell Dembele in this window too.

Aside from the bad luck with the injuries, you'd like to think there has been thought gone in behind the scenes for targets to go for should we really need them if we do find ourselves in a crisis like this. I mean we knew already Son would be away for a few weeks at an important time in the season, so would be one injury away from potentially struggling up front.

Spurtle, no excuses for it whatsoever mate. The club knew full well we would be competing on all fronts this season. If our squad wasn’t strong enough last season, then what the hell did they think it would be up to scratch this season without any recruitment ? Grand and Chronic can delude themselves all they like that Levy is the second coming, but Spurs have made a serious balls up by not signing a single player last summer.

When you say competing on all fronts Don, I assume you mean just being involved in all of them rather than get far in them? Cause I don't think any of us (management included) expected us to do as well as we have on all 4 fronts.

And that's what makes this so potentially frustrating, that we have done as well as we have in the competitions and now suffering the worst injury crisis we have had in years, and yet no ambition from the top to help matters. Instead Levy is hoping Poch can pull results out of the bag even more than he has been. Levy has already got away with it up to now in the sense that the squad has improved by Sissoko's up turn in form.

Well, if it goes wrong from here he'll have a lot to answer for.