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In that case we would never have signed Alderweireld, Wanyama, Son, Moura and Trippier. It's also widely reported he wanted Mane, Winaldum, Martial and Fernandes.

He has made some mistakes for sure but if you remember of the 7 players we bought from Bale money only 2 were ultimately successful. Perhaps it's more about the wages we can afford that's the determinant of the success of a transfer rather than the transfer fee.

Probably the best manager at building a squad was Harry.
Alderweireld and Wanyama he worked with at Southampton, so no real judgement needed there. Out of Son Moura and Tripps I'd only call Son a real success.

Also he turned down players like Tielemans.
 
If we do get Conte and it’s a big if… even you can’t criticise Levy’s ambitions surely?
Not if we get him and back him in the manner he demands (I'm still not sure the first of those will happen and I certainly can't see the second of them happening).
 
Alderweireld and Wanyama he worked with at Southampton, so no real judgement needed there. Out of Son Moura and Tripps I'd only call Son a real success.

Also he turned down players like Tielemans.

trips was good for us, but was probably more of a transfer committee signing. mora same maybe.
 
Alderweireld and Wanyama he worked with at Southampton, so no real judgement needed there. Out of Son Moura and Tripps I'd only call Son a real success.

Also he turned down players like Tielemans.
Depends on how you define success? If you define it as integrated and added something to the team, add Aurier, Llorente and Sissoko to that list too. After all they helped us get to the Champs league final and finish 4th.

I do accept he was not as good at scouting players as Redknapp.
 
Trips was decent nothing special, maybe I'm being unfair as it was a downgrade on Walker.

he was a downgrade on walker, but the much maligned walker is still starting for city and England.

and we got trips for something like 3m which is unbelievable value
 
I’d call spending more than you make irresponsible rather than ambitious.

If I had a mortgage I couldn’t afford would I get more respect?
No, but if you had a business where your share had gone up in value massively since you purchased it and it now needed a liquidity injection to move forward further and you then diluted your ownership to allow that liquidity to be injected you would.
 
who else did he want that we didn’t get? Or is it only the hits you remember ? You can add Grelash to that selective list as well.

All the players that we signed that you quoted were within our transfer structure
If the club are demanding that the manager achieves CL qualification then they have to provide a commensurate transfer and wage budget to enable that. The players that Pochettino wanted weren't going for ridiculous fees, nor were they demanding absolutely outrageous money. Unfortunately our chairman thought his goose would keep on golden eggs even when being given chicken feed, once he started laying ordinary eggs he was jettisoned despite perhaps being the man who ensured the new stadium didn't actually bankrupt us (imagine the state of our finances now had we not had those four CL campaigns in a row).
 
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Redknap who I liked and loved the football played wasn’t backed because he was going to take the England job… that was never offered to him.
We didn't back Harry long before that. The season after we first qualified for the CL Harry was desperate for a striker. You remember the whole black and yellow saga and the interests in Forlan, Milito etc?

Instead we didn't back him and went into our first CL season, the holy grail if you will with flipping Crouch and Defoe.

If we had been able to back him we would have likely qualified for the CL two seasons in a row and built better long term foundations.
 
We didn't back Harry long before that. The season after we first qualified for the CL Harry was desperate for a striker. You remember the whole black and yellow saga and the interests in Forlan, Milito etc?

Instead we didn't back him and went into our first CL season, the holy grail if you will with flipping Crouch and Defoe.

If we had been able to back him we would have likely qualified for the CL two seasons in a row and built better long term foundations.
VDV played up front in the CL games with crouch
We also had pav playing too
 
VDV played up front in the CL games with crouch
We also had pav playing too
I know I sadly remember. VDV was making the best of a bad situation because our strikers couldn't be relied on to score. We needed and wanted a good No9 for VDV to play off. Crouch was million miles from that and Harry clearly never rated Pav.
 
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