Players like Doherty, Gil etc have squad functions that should be occupied by academy talent really - or should be experienced players brought in on free transfers. Spend most of your money to get a top quality 18 players, and fill the rest with academy players and decent free transfers should be the strategy for us.
It's because Daniel Levy is like a vendor from an RPG.
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Yeah. Easy to say with hindsight, but if we'd just persevered with Kyle Walker Peters we would've saved ourselves years of upheaval in that position, the best part of 60-70m, and with a homegrown player on low wages.
Yeah its always been his issue, great talent scout but awful and getting rid of players.
Not sure how if they've never sent us anyone
Fear it, run from it, there will always be Emerson.
Not sure if it is the club, or if it is the players who are unwilling to move (as any takers presumably would not match their Spurs wages).
Not that I wasn't a fan of the Conte appointment - but really want our next manager to have a proven record with integrating academy talent. It makes building a squad so much easier when you have a chairman like Levy. And if there are still gaps then these days there are so many quality free transfers that would easily be good enough to fill the bench for us. Our lack of free transfer activity has been another baffling one to me for that reason, although I guess we brought Forster and Perisic in last season.
Does depend on who made the final decision on the Doc loan, maybe Conte prefers Royal as backup.
That's depressing. Almost a £200 million worth of talent there, all due to go for a fraction of that, if not loaned out again. Incredibly poor recruitment.
Levy was/is no better.
