Slow process this overhauling Spurs lark
Tottenham needs an overhaul, we had an overhaul but it didn't work, we overhauled with the wrong players so changing things now is increasingly difficult.
The players we bought in have thus far lacked the winning mentality required by the majority to become successful and we as a club don't do enough to change that. Mauricio Pochettino is trying to work with what he has and change as much mentally as he can and he has been backed by Daniel Levy, who has also brought Andre Villas-Boas in to achieve the same thing.
If you can't change the mentality of the players you have then you have to change the players and that is what Tottenham are embarking upon. Shelling out £100 million hasn't worked, we are in the same position as we were before we spent it, except for the fact that we now have a core of young players who have been at Tottenham a while and have a feel for the club.
The difficulty Spurs face is we do not have the money to splash the cash and we can't afford the wages even if we did, we don't have the income. Income dictates what you can spend on wages and transfer fees, Financial Fair Play was brought in to achieve that. The transfer market is changing and clubs are looking to ways to acquire players without having to spend huge amounts.
The three options are young players with potential you hope to improve, loan players that you only don't own so give back and swapping players.
There is a new stadium to pay for that is crucial to increasing match day income so money is obviously going to be tight. Fans have got to get used to the new situation. Go to any forum and you'll find complaints that Spurs never find any talent before it's discovered and they regularly quote a bargain who has arrived in the Premier League and made an impact.
Yet these same people, when Tottenham buy a bargain, complain that Tottenham are shopping in the bargain basement and that this must be Daniel Levy's doing, blah blah blah. Not all players will be successful, that's impossible, no club achieves that, take Torres to Chelsea, £50 million for a flop, so spending cash guarantees nothing either.
It doesn't matter who a player is, what they have done or how much they cost, what they do for Spurs is all that matters. I wrote a couple of summers ago Tottenham needed to get a group of young players together to learn a system together and grow together, much in the same way as some of the teams we face in the latter stages of European competition. Benfica, Basel both played us off the park at White Hart Lane thanks to players who knew a system, not individual brilliance.
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Tottenham's net spend won't change, wages have to be trimmed and there are only 18 non-home grown player slots available to us for the Premier League. With those filled it's impossible to buy more unless some leave, we all know that yet still I see some who don't understand it, complaining we are not buying.
We have expensive players who are not worth what we paid for them but who we can't just sell cheap, we have to improve them or swap them so there will be more of the Gylfi Sigurdsson deals in the future.
The players we bought in have thus far lacked the winning mentality required by the majority to become successful and we as a club don't do enough to change that. Mauricio Pochettino is trying to work with what he has and change as much mentally as he can and he has been backed by Daniel Levy, who has also brought Andre Villas-Boas in to achieve the same thing.
If you can't change the mentality of the players you have then you have to change the players and that is what Tottenham are embarking upon. Shelling out £100 million hasn't worked, we are in the same position as we were before we spent it, except for the fact that we now have a core of young players who have been at Tottenham a while and have a feel for the club.
The difficulty Spurs face is we do not have the money to splash the cash and we can't afford the wages even if we did, we don't have the income. Income dictates what you can spend on wages and transfer fees, Financial Fair Play was brought in to achieve that. The transfer market is changing and clubs are looking to ways to acquire players without having to spend huge amounts.
The three options are young players with potential you hope to improve, loan players that you only don't own so give back and swapping players.
There is a new stadium to pay for that is crucial to increasing match day income so money is obviously going to be tight. Fans have got to get used to the new situation. Go to any forum and you'll find complaints that Spurs never find any talent before it's discovered and they regularly quote a bargain who has arrived in the Premier League and made an impact.
Yet these same people, when Tottenham buy a bargain, complain that Tottenham are shopping in the bargain basement and that this must be Daniel Levy's doing, blah blah blah. Not all players will be successful, that's impossible, no club achieves that, take Torres to Chelsea, £50 million for a flop, so spending cash guarantees nothing either.
It doesn't matter who a player is, what they have done or how much they cost, what they do for Spurs is all that matters. I wrote a couple of summers ago Tottenham needed to get a group of young players together to learn a system together and grow together, much in the same way as some of the teams we face in the latter stages of European competition. Benfica, Basel both played us off the park at White Hart Lane thanks to players who knew a system, not individual brilliance.
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Tottenham's net spend won't change, wages have to be trimmed and there are only 18 non-home grown player slots available to us for the Premier League. With those filled it's impossible to buy more unless some leave, we all know that yet still I see some who don't understand it, complaining we are not buying.
We have expensive players who are not worth what we paid for them but who we can't just sell cheap, we have to improve them or swap them so there will be more of the Gylfi Sigurdsson deals in the future.
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