spurs are doing considerably better than liverpool is the reason why and it is based on spending in the same size basket as ours.Originally Posted by selassie
great, liverpool have splaffed their load on shite and were is it getting them right now? hardly shooting up the league, they are only consolidating.
Spurs are doing considerably better because they have built a decent squad, there players weren't all freebies and loans like you've selectively posted, nice try though.
I'm not asking for us to spend millions on average players, what Liverpool do in the market has got nothing to do with what we may or may not do had we spent more or shown more ambition in the market.
Besides, our current policy is hardly anything to shout about considering we've pretty much stood still for the past 5 seasons.
I quite like reading GP's (serious) take on Arsenal. Although I can never tell if he's being sarcastic or not.
About signings - yeah, this Henry signing is, I'm sure, partly designed to sweep the January transfer inactivity under the rug. But it's worked - at least for me. I can't wait to see Henry play tonight. And you just wouldn't put it past the man to show he's still a very useful player. What will happen in 2 months time when he leaves? We'll worry about it then. Might as well enjoy watching another 2 months of Henry first.
that was their summer spend. check it out for yourself before you are too rash to condemn me. ah....
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/art...11-summer.html
modric cost what, 10? bale 5-10? parker and ade you can see above, van der vaart was about 8, lennon 1 mil? they've not spent much at the back either.
I wasn't condemning you, merely stating that using their business this summer as an example or justification that our transfer policy is fine isn't totally fair.
Aside from spending and the amounts, you have to take into consideration that they have managed to retain their best players, all the more baffling seeing as they couldn't even offer them CL football.
I wouldn't really be totally against our policy if we managed to retain our star players but we can't even do that anymore....though I suppose a lot of that is to do with lack of ambition.
I don't think we lack ambition, I just think there's a lot of misplaced faith.
i'm not just relying on the summer, i've given a break down of the cost of their star players, purchased over the past 2/3 years. no different to us.
apart from spending and amounts, then how can we talk about being in the same market as spurs, as you wanted to a few posts ago?
you honestly think bale, modric and vaart will be there in two years?
Last edited by Kano; 09-01-2012 at 02:54 PM.
We don't want to kill anyone by signing new players.
I think everyone at the club, players, manager, board, want to win stuff, there's just too much faith in the current squad to deliver.
Which is why I find it baffling that Wenger persists in this way, certain players let him down all the time, he never gets anything from them. Park is never involved, only Wenger knows why, and Chamakh is a striker who has scored twice in 14 months. Not to mention the hap-hazard form of Theo, Gervinho and Arshavin.
To any sane onlooker, we need to bolster the forward options.
Henry will probably be it for this month and then maybe we'll buy in the summer, as it can be difficult in Jan for obvious reasons, however it may be too late then, I just hope we still have CL football to offer up to any potential targets.
Last edited by Marc Overmars; 09-01-2012 at 03:10 PM.
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