Football Focus

[Jah Lush]

We won't have bought the title either.

[red devil]

FFS, it's going to be purgatory on here if Spurs win the league...C'mon Leicester! :)

[earlydoors]

To be fair we have spent a few quid here and there.

We didn't win Lamela in a raffle.

[earlydoors]

...and Soldado, Paulinho and the rest weren't on clearance at Aldi either.

[Jah Lush]

Yeah but apart from Lamela they've all gone and we broke even in the transfer market with only a couple of purchases and got rid of all the deadwood.

[Jah Lush]

red devil Wrote:

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> FFS, it's going to be purgatory on here if Spurs

> win the league...C'mon Leicester! :)

I felt I've been the only Spurs fan on here for ages so I'm happy a couple have come out of the woodwork. There's more than enough Irons on here anyway. ;-)

[earlydoors]

Yes good point.

[earlydoors]

In reference to both your postings.

[titch juicy]

I think point being that Pochettino's net spend whilst in charge has been ?6m profit.

Leicester have spent more during the same period.

Alright, that doesn't tell the whole story- Spurs first XI at the weekend cost c.?85m compared to Leicester's c.?22m and West Ham's c.?63m.

But it still pales when put alongside City's c.?250m, United's c.?184m, Liverpool's c.?131m, Chelsea's c.?129m and Arsenal's c.?123m. (yes, i've just sat and worked all that out!).

And goodness knows how much injured players and substitutes cost for all those teams.

[earlydoors]

City and United's spending has represented unbelievably poor value. I'm not sure who is responsible for the signings at either club, but they should be sacked immediately. I suspect at City it's those Spanish blokes they got from Barcelona. Mangala and Otimendi have been useless and each cost upward of 30 million.

Sterling is turning into another Aaron Lennon/ Theo Walcott/ Tony Daley type speed merchant. Never ever worth 50 million squid.

Di Maria cost 50 odd million then was flogged a season later. Was that down to Van Ghoul?

[Parkdrive]

earlydoors Wrote:

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> City and United's spending has represented

> unbelievably poor value. I'm not sure who is

> responsible for the signings at either club, but

> they should be sacked immediately. I suspect at

> City it's those Spanish blokes they got from

> Barcelona. Mangala and Otimendi have been useless

> and each cost upward of 30 million.

> Sterling is turning into another Aaron Lennon/

> Theo Walcott/ Tony Daley type speed merchant.

> Never ever worth 50 million squid.

> Di Maria cost 50 odd million then was flogged a

> season later. Was that down to Van Ghoul?

Sterling has never been anything else. His price tag is all down to the fact that he is an English player and for some inexplicable reason they command ridiculous prices. Liverpool must be overjoyed.

[earlydoors]

Though Dele Alli only cost 5 million, Eric Dier approx the same. But I agree, English players playing in the Premier league are vastly over priced and it encourages clubs to go abroad for better value.

I think there is a lot of English talent in the lower divisions now and some Premier league clubs are taking a chance on them. Before the premier league it was commonplace to trawl the lower divisions for talent, especially as there wasn't a foreign market. Liverpool built a European cup winning squad with players from Chester (Ian Rush), Middlesborough (Souness), Northampton (Phil Neal) and the rest.

[Otta]

Yeah bit no one had hear of Alli, you can bet he'd go for a hefty fee now. Sterling had had a good season with Liverpool, showing he could play alongside a world class player like Suarez. In truth Suarez made him look good, but that's why he cost a fortune.

[red devil]

What Ots said, Liverpool signed a then unknown Sterling from QPR for a small fee...

[earlydoors]

Yes though that backs up my point. There's plenty of talent below the Premiership waiting to be picked up.

I think the progressive clubs will set up smarter scouting network so that they can find these players, if they haven't already that is.

[Jah Lush]

Otta, it's a nonsense that other people hadn't heard of Dele Alli as there were quite a few clubs monitoring his progress, including Man Utd and Liverpool but Spurs took the chance and wasted no time in snapping him up. Our gain, your loss. Ha ha ha ha.

[Otta]

Of course clubs had heard of him, that's their job. What I meant was that he'd done nothing in the PL. Now he has and his value will have rocketed.

[earlydoors]

Well that's how it generally works. But Spurs took a chance on him and have reaped the rewards.

They also gave Harry Kane a chance after a few loan spells and look at him.

More clubs should do this.

[????]

From an English point of view, from a football point of view, from a fook the big clubs POV I'd be happy for Spurs to win....but it's Spurs FFS. I shall take solace in my 16/1 winnings if the worse comes to pass. In the meantime, COME ON LEICSTER

[Jah Lush]

Be interesting to see how you feel when you play Leicester next month.

[????]

Well as we put a dent in your hopes, it would only be fair to put a dent in theirs :).

[Jah Lush]

Excellent. Best of luck.

[Parkdrive]

I think Bilic has done a great job at West Ham, he was a very tidy player and thus far has proved to be a decent manager. It'll be interesting to see how he does next season.

[????]

Obviously one game can change everything but i do like our momentum at the moment and Man City's is going the other way. We have a potentially crucial game against Man U at home and Arsenal too but we are currently 5/1 for a top 4 position which I think is good value.

[????]

PS SAF has said he thinks we'll get it :)