Tottenham will get 3rd BOTTOM next season

now you're reaching ;) sub 20million on Bent isn't financially sound management in most peoples eyes but to each their own.
 
Tunney said:
Spurs are nothing like Newcastle. Spurs have posted a profit each season since Levy took charge and have a clear wage structure. Newcastle's wage bill is 50% higher than Spurs'.

Yes, Levy has made some mistakes but he's still one of the best chairmen about. There's no hint of him sacking Ramos and most of the transfer problems have been down to Comilli.
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You're not wrong that Spurs aren't much like newcastle, however the wages aren't the significant issue at Newcastle, not really. a 52k seater stadium can simply support higher wages than a 30k seater stadium can. Likewise, Arsenal wages are higher than Spurs, but we make a heck of a profit, more seats, more money can sustain higher wages and still be profitable. Newcastles issues are poor transfer situation, buying far to many end of career high wage type players, rather than quality youth. Also not ditching the likes of Ameobi a decade ago, you get whoever the 5 year younger versions of Duff, Viduka, Owen, Geremi are and even if the transfer fee was the same you'd save 10-20mil a year in wages. All those players came from clubs where they were already on massive wages and to get them in you have to keep those wages high.

Another thing is, even if Comilli screwed up a bunch on transfers, isn't it the managers job to, effectively, complain and comprimise with the bosses till he gets what he wants or at least needs. Shouldn't he have been in meetings with Levy all summer saying, ditch Berb now, get the guys we need early and for the love of god buy me a consistant midfielder.


This damn retarded transfer deadline activity, its simply never good, you settle for players you didn't want as you get desparate, or in our case, miss out entirely(Arsenal).
 
4 games 1 point....

things look bad but personally im not worried
plenty of time to turn things around

btw RizL4 you should get a slap for starting this thread in the first place :rolleyes:
 
This Levy guy is running it like an actual business unlike a lot of the other clubs. Posting profits, selling top players who are needed for more profit. I mean it's great to talk about, however if you are a fan of Spurs (lol) you should be simply annoyed!
 
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RizL4 said:
so far
Bent 2 goals
Keane 0 goals
Berbatov 0 goals

bent will get 20+ :) :P he will keep us up lol
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what a stupid post, no wonder you were mad enough to think tottenham would be 3rd top.

Keanes been played out of position and has shown a lot of promise.
Berbatov has had how many starts?
 
Clipsey said:
This Levy guy is running it like an actual business unlike a lot of the other clubs. Posting profits, selling top players who are needed for more profit. I mean it's great to talk about, however if you are a fan of Spurs (lol) you should be simply annoyed!
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Arsenal do the same and they smashed four past B'burn during an emphatic performance at the weekend, and nobody on the pitch cost nearly as much as some of Spurs' players from last night. There are absolutely no excuses for how poor Spurs' are so far this season.
 
lol true, but then Arsenal are awesome :D There are not many clubs that buy & sell like Arsenal do. They have a really great set-up now!
 
jakeke said:
Arsenal do the same and they smashed four past B'burn during an emphatic performance at the weekend, and nobody on the pitch cost nearly as much as some of Spurs' players from last night. There are absolutely no excuses for how poor Spurs' are so far this season.
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Yes, but then again to be fair, Blackburn were a joke defensively, and really lack any quality anymore, were very poor last year for large portions and have a significantly worse manager/team than before. Villa are just, far far far better than Blackburn, saying that though, it could easily have been a 4 or 5-0 destruction last night. Ashley Young was 3 passes away from being in behind and getting 4, Harewood, Reo-coker and gabby all had a pass on to put him through on goal. 2 passes were woeful and Coker ignored him, tbh it just showed they were at the point where they all felt safe and wanted a goal for themselves which, being as they felt safe, away from home before half time doesn't bode well at all for spurs.

The problem is, they simply don't have a defensive midfielder to come in and shore up the defensive strength of the team, they don't have a single consistant midfielder who could carry the team through those tough games, you have 1 proven prem goal scorer who barely played last year and has no form and a very dodgey, inconsistant incredibly injury prone defense so I honestly can't see that they can make a massive comeback. I still don't think they are in any real danger, but they lack ALL the keys to a consistant top 6 team and you won't have a chance to get a striker in now till January.
 
At the end of the day its all too early to determine anything. So what, Spurs have 1 point from 4 games. However, looking at the table, they are only a win off 10th spot. Obviously some of those teams are likely to pick up wins at the weekend, but not all of them.

As for Spurs aspiring to finish in the top 4. Yes this is likely to be true, its an objective for clubs like Spurs, Villa, City, Everton to do so, even Blackburn were touted as potential top 4 finishers, yet no-one is making silly remarks about them performing poorly this season. The fact is, Spurs may not be playing well, yet they have not lost games heavily this season, and arguably the hardest away game to play for any team in a season was met with a 1-1 draw, a result not likely to be bettered by many (if any) this season.

I don't recall many official comments from the club stating Tottenham will finish in the top 4 this season, in fact 90% of comments on the matter are paper talk, yet they are taken as said, yet when comments about other fans clubs are made the comments turn to they are just paper talk.....BLAH BLAH.

The transfer dealings were all mentioned in my previous post, and until this season those players coming in were the responsibility of Damien Commoli, and Ramos this season said he wanted sole responsibility and he has that. You will notice that most of the signings Commoli was involved in prior to Ramos arrival no longer play for the club.

Tottenham are in a transitional period like you get when all new managers take control, and the true Tottenham fans will judge Ramos on his peformance come the end of the season, not just on 4 games. They play Thursday night at home in Europe I believe, and if they pick up a win there I am pretty certain it will kick start their season, as football at the end of the day is down to confidence and it is evident from the Villa game, Tottenham are lacking that.

Tottenham on their day, with confidence can beat anyone, last season proved that (wins against Chelsea, Arsenal) but at the moment they dont believe in themselves and the excuses that the sale of Keane and Berbatov do not wash.

Ramos doesnt like Berbatov's attitude, yet as a player he is key to any team when in the mood. His sale and Keanes were known about, but obviously Ramos decided he didnt need anyone else other than Bent and Pavyluchenko (sp) to spearhead his campaign, and thats because he is usually a 1 striker manager. Time will tell if this is the case, at the end of the day, Bent has 2 Premier League goals which is more than the majority of other top strikers this season (Torres, Berbatov, Keane, Rooney).

I would still go as far as saying that Spurs will hit the top half of the table and it wouldn't surprise me if they win yet more silverware this season, although it wont be the UEFA Cup which they would prefer because with Pavyluchenko cup tied and pretty certain Campbell wont be allowed by Utd to play, Bent wont score enough to win them that.
 
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