** Summer Transfer Window 2011/12 Season Rumours/Signings **

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We have spent years and hundreds of millions of pounds investing in our First Team squad and in creating a settled team. Having quality players means they automatically attract attention from other clubs - but I can assure you that we have no reason to sell, and every intention of retaining, our key players. We shall simply not entertain any approaches for these players.

We do, however, currently have one of the largest squads in the Premier League and, given the 25 man squad rule, it is no longer practical to retain players who are unlikely to qualify within that limit. We shall, therefore, look to reduce the number of these players during the coming summer transfer window in order to operate both effectively and efficiently.

Additionally, this season we saw the growth and development of several younger players who have undoubtedly benefitted from the combined system of loaning to ensure match time whilst retaining training sessions back at Spurs Lodge. Several of these players will be valuable additions to our First Team next season.
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Very promising words from My Levy and I, like I'm sure many other Spurs fans, will surely appreciate them.
 
The Running Man said:
The jury is still out on Bebe, however when he has played, he hasnt really shown anything great. I just think that after Ronaldo and Nani, Fergie heard the words, fast portuguse prospect and just bought him up anyway unde the pretences that Real M. were also interested.

Still if it works out that out of 3 transfers, Hernan, Smalling and Bebe that only 2 are great signings then we will have to be content with that, as 2/3 isnt that bad for the combind price of the signings.
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The point about Bebe was that it SEEMED a crazy signing - player the manager hasnt even seen for £7m when he could have been signed for nothing months earlier.

In those cicumstances its only right to look at the player for a hint of what the manager was thinking.

We have signed numerous dubious forwards who have sunk without trace (Manucho, Dong etc) but they didnt set us back £7m, at that pricepoint it isnt really acceptable to say "hes not fit" or "hes in a foreign country". The reason you pay £7m is to avoid such trivialities.
 
J-FRO said:
I see what you mean, yeah. But I find it hard to believe they wont try to bring in one or two if they can manage to sell the 6 or 7 that are surplus to requirements.
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How much realistically are you going to get for those you no longer want? The fact that you're willingly selling will push the price down.

I'd imagine if you've got little transfer funds to start with this summer you're going to have to sell one of your prized assets to bring in a big name star.

We'll help you out there with Modric ;)
 
Tom84 said:
How much realistically are you going to get for those you no longer want? The fact that you're willingly selling will push the price down.

I'd imagine if you've got little transfer funds to start with this summer you're going to have to sell one of your prized assets to bring in a big name star.

We'll help you out there with Modric ;)
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The best thing Spurs can do is sell VDV.

Great and all as he has been he has completely ruined the pattern of the team and the strikers.
 
I actually disagree. Yeah we won't be able to sell all those players for as much as we'd like. But we wont be ripped off.

And I'd say when we do sell we will have more than enough money in our coffers to sign a big name star. The problem with Spurs is more the fact we don't like paying over the top wages. Which isn't so much as a problem as players get paid a lot anyway, it's just a self imposed limitation. With a bigger stadium and more income perhaps we could afford to pay them a bit more.

And I don't think we need to sell VDV either. Yeah there is some compatibility issues, but with the right striker paired with him, or with the right understanding with a current striker we have, they could be pretty effective.
 
J-FRO said:
I actually disagree. Yeah we won't be able to sell all those players for as much as we'd like. But we wont be ripped off.

And I'd say when we do sell we will have more than enough money in our coffers to sign a big name star. The problem with Spurs is more the fact we don't like paying over the top wages. Which isn't so much as a problem as players get paid a lot anyway, it's just a self imposed limitation. With a bigger stadium and more income perhaps we could afford to pay them a bit more.

And I don't think we need to sell VDV either. Yeah there is some compatibility issues, but with the right striker paired with him, or with the right understanding with a current striker we have, they could be pretty effective.
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The question that raises is do you really change the entire way a team plays to suit one player?

Does VDVs performance and 15(ish) goals contribute more than having a couple of strikers the previous season banging in the goals? Its not a slight on VDV who has been excellent but in a squad with the likes of Modric he is probably more disposable than most.

I think something has to give with Spurs this summer. A couple of players need to be sold IMO, not because of a lack of CL but because the team/squad lacks a bit of direction.
 
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but Ferguson mentioned that VDS had a waver about his retirement and he told him to make his decision quickly as we were in the middle of concluding our deal for a new keeper.
 
DanH84 said:
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but Ferguson mentioned that VDS had a waver about his retirement and he told him to make his decision quickly as we were in the middle of concluding our deal for a new keeper.
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Personally i think we need to sign a new keeper regardless.

VDS has been awesome this season but at 40 the decline WILL be rapid. I tend to agree that he should go out on top. Even if he stays another year id rather see it more in a role of introducing the new keeper and coaching. The boy from Madrid is only 20 odd, it wouldnt be a bad scheme to have him work with VDS for a year. PIG is going and Lindergaard is nothing but a reserve.
 
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The question that raises is do you really change the entire way a team plays to suit one player?
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I don't think its a matter of changing the entire way a team plays, I think it's a matter of adapting to be able to play that way better. A team shouldn't be restricted to one method of playing. They should be able to employ all tactics. We need a striker more versatile for two modes of play upfront as far as I'm concerned. I think Pav will go (along with the usual Keane, Bentley, dos Santos etc) out of our current three main strikers but then we need to bring in a big forward capable of playing in a 4-4-2 formation with either Crouch or Defoe, or playing in a 4-4-1-1 formation with VDV as the link man. Crouch and Defoe can't play that main forward because one is too weak and tall, the other is technically good and pacy but too small. They can play together ok as big man and little man. But neither is suitable for the lone striker role.

A big lone striker would also benefit any 4-4-2 formation because either Crouch can head the ball down for a big striker who wont be bullied of the ball, or the big striker can hold the ball for Defoe to slot in or Crouch to bundle in.

So in conclusion we need a striker with a lot of presence and pace who can hold the ball up and is technically refined. There's not many of them about. But if we can find one we might put more goals in because we've got the midfield capable of supplying the ball already.

The only reason VDV's goals seem significantly high is because our strikers have been significantly poor. We've had games this season where we've had a phenomenal amount of chances on goal but just not been clinical enough to put them in. For instance on the 19th March against West Ham, it ended 0-0 but we had 26 attempts on goal! And then when we lost to City last week we had 14 attempts and didn't get anything but an own goal! City by comparison only had 7 attempts on goal. Valid Defoe hasn't been on great form this season, but he has also sat large chunks of it out. If he had been in form and scored about 20 goals, I don't think the league table would look anything like it does right now.

Last season Defoe scored 18 goals in 34 league games. That's 0.53 goals per game. This season he's been restricted to 21 games where he's only scored 4 equating to 0.2 goals per game. However he has been restricted to 21 games for a reason. He didn't play on the 21st August, then came back, went and played the international game where he looked like he was in form and then was out for 10 games from 11th Sept - 13th Sept. He then played in the next two games but was sent of against Villa quite harshly and so had to miss another 3 games. So thats 14 games of the season he wasn't even able to play in anyway. So out of the 24 games he has been able to play in he's only not played in three of them! I therefore think his poor form could quite easily be attributable to those 10 games he missed early in the season due to his injury. Hopefully a good rest this summer will see him back on form next season.
 
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lol at being in Spain, when Arsenal are playing today, hes gone
 
DanH84 said:
Don't know if anyone mentioned this but Ferguson mentioned that VDS had a waver about his retirement and he told him to make his decision quickly as we were in the middle of concluding our deal for a new keeper.
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I'd still take another season of VDS over any of the potential replacements tbh, who's knows another season in Spain for De Gea may be best for all

Can't see it happening at this late stage though
 
J-FRO i totally respect that analysis of spurs and i accept you know more that i do but to the outsider that is ignoring the elephant in the room.

It IS as simple as it seems. VDV IS a link man who plays off a front man. That front man isnt Defoe or Crouch and in some ways his dropping deep impacts on the role of Modric too.

He is the striker who isnt actually a striker. You have crouch and defoe who are strikers who dont score anymore. You have Bale who is not good enough to be a full back or a winger and is too fagile to be relied upon for either role.

That is why i am saying thats Spurs need to sell individual talent in order to form a team.
 
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