Shadydan
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He was too busy out getting bottled in night clubs and pretending to be a gangsta...not mismanaged, he just wasn't worth the time.
Spurs' worst signings according to goal.com
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He was too busy out getting bottled in night clubs and pretending to be a gangsta...not mismanaged, he just wasn't worth the time.
Geyzer Soze
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Yeah and also what about Khumalo who's a) still with us and b) NEVER played for us
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I remember a recent interview with him saying he wasn't mature enough at the time for the move and his attitude was all wrong. Decent enough player.
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I always thought that if football had similar rules to American Stupidball, so when a free kick was given you could bring on a dedicated kicker of the ball, just for that particular play, who then left the field immediately he had struck the thing, Bentley would've been a megastar.
And fat.
And fat.
Francis Gibbs
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surprised Lamela not at the top of the list pound for pound could prove to be our worst signing ever, with Soldado not far behind.
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With regards to Lamela, I think a lot of us forget the lessons we should have learned from a 24 run of games being on the losing side, a jonah who no-one could agree on where his best position was and who we almost sold for buttons two years after he joined us because he was just a badly injured calamity.
Bale was a lame duck, a twig who just didn't have what it took, physically or technically. For two years he was either on the treatment table or walking off with his shoulders slumped after another disappointing show.
I'll not bother going on, i'm sure you all know the rest.
Patience can sometimes pay off. Lets at least give it another year.
Bale was a lame duck, a twig who just didn't have what it took, physically or technically. For two years he was either on the treatment table or walking off with his shoulders slumped after another disappointing show.
I'll not bother going on, i'm sure you all know the rest.
Patience can sometimes pay off. Lets at least give it another year.
Ginolas_Hair
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Surprised by the lack of Rohan Ricketts...
spurs-r-us
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The official site was devastated, they had to find a new rent-a-quote!We sold Zeki Fryers this summer?!
Navin R Johnson
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I meant Jenkins!
Phantom
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Shit list, so many who should not be anywhere near that list:
- Darren Bent goals in 1-3 is by no means a disaster, particularly when not getting a run of games.
- Danny Murphy "past his best"..... erm not really played 6 more seasons 5 of which were in the PL. He just wasn't needed.
- Saha? Did what we needed provided cover for the squad, was never going to be first choice.
- Zamora, yeah ok was pretty shit for us but allowed us to pick up Defoe
- Jose Dominguez should no way be on the list again not first choice and was adequate
- Zeki? Really the guy barely played and was pretty decent when he did (well IMO)
- Pletikosa, didn't get any game time for some reason but was a loan
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Shit list, so many who should not be anywhere near that list:
We have signed some real shit over the years which could easily fill this list up.
- Darren Bent goals in 1-3 is by no means a disaster, particularly when not getting a run of games.
- Danny Murphy "past his best"..... erm not really played 6 more seasons 5 of which were in the PL. He just wasn't needed.
- Saha? Did what we needed provided cover for the squad, was never going to be first choice.
- Zamora, yeah ok was pretty shit for us but allowed us to pick up Defoe
- Jose Dominguez should no way be on the list again not first choice and was adequate
- Zeki? Really the guy barely played and was pretty decent when he did (well IMO)
- Pletikosa, didn't get any game time for some reason but was a loan
Agree.
I think the "author" of the "article" just had a look back at players who didn't play much and though "ah, he must have been a flop" or "oh look, Saha failed to win a long term contract - what a flop!".
It's slightly below 'twitter ITK' in the list of things I would give credence to.
VegasII
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Booth quite literally stood there.
SpurSince57
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Or of Levy's planning for Harry's departure in May whether he got the England job or no and being very unwilling to shell out big bucks on players for him.
Or because we had a chance to get some of our money back on the Rubbish Russian, and there was very little chance of getting a top-drawer striker in January.
Choose your conspiracy theory here.
On top of which, Harry only seemed to lose the thread in February.
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If you're genuinely asking a question, can you rephrase it as that lot didn't fit together too well and comes across as a bit of a ramble.
All I know is that between 9th Feb and 1st May, when the England job was available and Harry was asking Rodgers if he wanted to assist him, we played 11 PL games and won only three. We lost one more game (5) in those 11 games than in the 24 games prior to that (4). We didn't lose a game after Roy got the job. A conspiracy is an unexplained event, whereas this one seems to explain itself quite well, IMO.
SpurSince57
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I wasn't asking a question. I was offering different explanations for the signings of Saha and Nelsen. That much should have been obvious to anyone with a decent grade at GCSE English.
No shit! As I said, the wheels didn't come off until February, several weeks after we signed Saha. Between 1 January and 8 February we took 14 from seven, culminating in a 5-0 rout of Newcastle. We then had three difficult games against Arsenal, United and Everton, two of them away, and anyone who expected that we'd still have our 10-point lead after those was delusional. We took 16 from the remaining 10, which wasn't that bad; it was stupid defeats against QPR and Norwich, and a draw against Sunderland, that cost us. Win just one of those, it was a different story.
You're also ignoring the fact that injuries and loss of form caught up with Parker and our talisman Ledley, who may have made more errors in that sequence of games than the rest of his career put together.
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We signed Saha on the last day of January (which is several hours, not weeks before Feb), so again his 'career' at spurs coincided with one of Redknapp's worst runs as tottenham manager, which magically coincided with the availability of a job he fully planned on taking, even before he was offered it.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here?
