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milo said:
I stumbled across this blog by a sports lawyer last week and have mentioned it once before. He had a collection of posts on the transfer window that are worth reading and covered this point in one of his posts:

Why do some deals take until the last day of the transfer window to complete?

Transfers can become a game of bluff and double bluff. One transfer can set off a chain reaction. By way of very basic example, if “Club A” has a choice of two players and is negotiating hard to get the best deal, such a negotiation and transfer may take until the last few days of the window. Once the club goes ahead with the deal, the agent of the player that Club A decided against buying may have been negotiating with several other clubs and one of those clubs may now try to complete the transfer.

If Club A’s transfer is going through, another player in Club A’s squad may not play as much and may be told to find a new club in the closing days of the window. The transfer positions of various clubs if a club buys or does not buy, waits and negotiates on a particular deal or pulls out of a transfer, can all have knock-on consequences for other directly or indirectly linked transfers.

The arrival of transfer deadline day focuses minds.I can understand how it may seem strange that clubs leave major investment decisions to the very last minute – and sometimes that is the case. It should be stressed, however, that even transfers done on deadline day may have been the culmination of weeks or even months of planning even though, to the outside world, such a deal may appear to be a “panic buy”.
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http://www.danielgeey.com/the-transfer-window-what-you-need-to-know/
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Come on Milo. You know that the only reason why we leave transfers to the last minute is because Levy goes on holiday to the USA or caribbean for the first part and really wants to screw the selling club. ;)
 
Finney Is Back said:
Although difficult/expensive Tevez was perhaps doable due to him having that big fall-out with Mancini.

Cahill would've been possible but for Chelsea coming in for him. IIRC we did actually bid for Cahill only to be gazumped by Chelsea. I actually thought that Saha and Nelsen were reasonable, experienced back up players costing very little and worth bringing in on that last day of the window when we hadn't managed to do anything else.
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I agree re Saha and Nelsen - Nelsen actually played very well in the games he was played in and Adebayor stayed fit for the remainder of the season anyway so in retrospect an ageing pro happy to be backup was a sensible move.

Not sure City would have sold us a player of Tevez's quality mid season when we were, at that stage, competing with them at the top of the league
 
parklane1 said:
He did like spending other peoples money, much to the regret of fans at Southampton, Portsmouth and Q.P.R.
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In years to come, when Levy is remembered, it won't be for building one of the world's most iconic stadiums, it won't be for his prowess in negotiations and it won't be for turning Spurs into challengers from perennial midtable fodder.

He will be remembered for being the chairman who managed to employ rentaquote and not go bankrupt or end up as part of an investigation.
 
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billyiddo said:
Not sure City would have sold us a player of Tevez's quality mid season when we were, at that stage, competing with them at the top of the league
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Of course they wouldn't.

We also couldn't have got near his wage demands and he still wouldn't have bothered turning up to play.

Just about the worst transfer demand ever made.
 
scaramanga said:
In years to come, when Levy is remembered, it won't be for building one of the world's most iconic stadiums, it won't be for his prowess in negotiations and it won't be for turning Spurs into challengers from perennial midtable fodder.

He will be remembered for being the chairman who managed to employ rentaquote and not go bankrupt or end up as part of an investigation.
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Indeed.
 
scaramanga said:
In years to come, when Levy is remembered, it won't be for building one of the world's most iconic stadiums, it won't be for his prowess in negotiations and it won't be for turning Spurs into challengers from perennial midtable fodder.

He will be remembered for being the chairman who managed to employ rentaquote and not go bankrupt or end up as part of an investigation.
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Still astonishes me that there are fans arguing that Levy should just have given Redknapp more freedom in the transfer market.
 
braineclipse said:
Still astonishes me that there are fans arguing that Levy should just have given Redknapp more freedom in the transfer market.
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You'll find that there's a very vocal group of supporters at every club who's always advocating 'backing the manager' and 'showing ambition', ie. spend way more money than you could ever afford and sack the manager when it doesn't work out. Rinse and repeat.
 
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