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So Big Ben chimes for 11pm..... it’s all over and the window slams shut for another few months.
There’s about five teams that haven’t bought anyone in the window, all those relatively mid-table teams that have nothing to fight for already this season, they will hang on to their 7th -15th place in the table happy with their lot. They have no aspirations to push on and challenge the top 6. Maybe they will change their manager in the summer, find a few bargains from the world cup and start all over again in August.
A few of those teams were happy to move players on, selling players to make a bit of cash, loaning the odd player out to ease the wage bill under the guise that they want the player to get 1st team football.
As I write this Liverpool could’ve bought Knickerblockerglory or whatever his name is but that’s not final yet. United, they got Mata, Chelsea got everyone, the neighbours got some Swede in for cover on loan but hey they are 2nd behind city so neither really needed to do much. Everton they got a couple of bodies in too.
Personally I usually love Deadline Day. This year after Tim’s press conference I didn’t really bother to watch much more.
Make your own mind up on what I’ve written and what my meaning may or may not be. All I know for certain is that our squad is weaker now than it was before the window opened.
I certainly have my suspicions that the powers that be at Spurs have decided not to back this manager. Maybe they see him as a stop-gap until the summer or something along those lines, who really knows?
To end I shall simply say that right now I know more disgruntled spurs fans than happy ones
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Ihave my suspicions t hat the powers that be wouldnt know a football manager if he stood up in their soup.Anyway I vote for a change of manager every month.
ReplyDeleteThere was a report that Levy offered Sherwood players but he knocked it back and said the squad was too big as it is. Go figure. Apparently the Berbatov deal was ready for a week but Sherwood stalled and he moved to Monaco instead.
ReplyDeleteThis narrative sounds more plausible to me as Levy desperately wants CL football and has the budget left over from Summer to spend and never passes up the opportunity to unilaterally decide on a bargain buy whereas Sherwood knows he's only got a few months to prove and it's easier to do this with existing players than me ones who will take time to settle.
Levy offered players? Your joking right.if I kept appointing team leaders at work and kept sacking them , my position would be under threat as my boss would think I don't know what I'm doing.the sooner people realise spurs is owned by a business and run as a business the sooner they will realise that the sale of Defoe was to offset not gaining CL football next season.Levy was never going to spend any more money this season.
ReplyDeleteI think it's as TS said “They can bring them in, but they won’t play. We’re in this together. Unless we’re all in agreement they don’t bring them in - there’s no point, because they won’t play. It’s not always the right way, just to buy players. We need to put things together, like a jigsaw here, and I’ve got real trust in the players that we’ve got.”
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't think he's that good an actor to come up with all that just as a way of saving face. And I don't think he's that wrong. It's hard to buy quality players in January and is it really worth upsetting what little cohesion we've managed to put together to bring in someone new who may only be marginally better than what we have?
For me the only negative was not getting shot of Capoue after his nonsensical outburst.