Levy - Looking in the Bargain Basement

I don't care about M'Vila, Moutinho or even Willian. WE NEED A STRIKER!

am really not sure what we should be expecting. sure it is great to talk about bringing in the best players for huge money, but for all but the few, you have to wonder if regular big money deals will be a thing of the past, at least until the world economy improves. add FFP, the need to finance a new stadium and ever increasing demands from players wages and outside influences, it seems logical that Spurs and others are struggling and perhaps the clubs that thrive are those that can pick up the bargains, such as Diame, who of course was available as a free agent last summer

There is talk about the famous Fergie time, - well we are now about to enter Levy Time !

If there going to spend 3 mil on that player and 4.5 on that player we are going to have in 2 years time more dead wood, what is the point, if we cant get the top players that are better then we have DONT

Yeah it’s all getting a bit desperate now. There are plenty of for and against arguments RE buying players in Jan, Budgets, Wages, Transfers fee’s etc but it is getting a bit silly when like you say, we don’t seem to want to go over £5m. I mean championship clubs spend that FFS. I have not been inspired by any of the players we have recently been “linked with”, but there are no actually quotes from the club etc saying we are in talks, just clippings in the daily mail. The media like to pile $hit on us for one reason or another, but after last Januarys Nelson & Saha debacle I don’t put anything past Levy. I must admit even after 7 disappointing transfer window I am shocked that with a week to go in the window we haven’t signed another striker yet. I thought it might be different under AVB, but its quite clear that its levy that’s the problem.

what got us to the brink of success is a responsible approach to balancing the books. we have significantly increased the wage cap meaning that we are more likely to hang on to our important players. we will certainly spend 10 million or even much more on the right player but there are many boxes that need ticking. The notion that we could have got ba in because his transfer fee is under 10 million is completelt bogus, he knew teams like chelsea were in for him (they are hardly shy about tapping up players)

.. so ba would never have come to us. remy we clearly didn't rate enough, fair enough if AVB didn't want him. The players have to want to come to us though and that becomes more likely nearer the end of the window when other options haven't transpired. I am worried about this transfer committee though and the notion that sherwood's input is as important if not more than AVB's, I am also worried that arsenal somehow get in villa

I would rather have Moutinho/Willian/Eriksen/Damaio(someone of that caliber) or nobody at all. There's no point building up a massive amount of squad players, especially after we've worked so hard to rid ourselves of dead weight and cut down our wage bill. Quality over quantity all day long, and I think that even if we don't sign anybody we will be all right for top 4.

AllanDK, Levy time doesn't start for another 6 days. He hasn't even started his warm up yet!

I dont believe were in to much trouble at the moment. We do need to still get some players off the wage bill. AVB has only been in charge half a season, he will have his targets and will know now who he fancys at the club. With Holtby arriving soon there is no need to spend 20M on Mountihno. Ba would of been a brilliant bit of buisness. We are only one great striker away from a top top club

No signing will guarantee CL qualification. Players often need time to settle especially if they have no PL experience, or they can pick up injuries just like anyone else. Look at RVP in some previous seasons. The Board will have planned their spending taking account of all the known factors and risk assessments and will not knee jerk unnecessarily. They financed the purchase of two of last seasons provan striking successes in Ade and Dempsey so cannot be accused of parsimony imo.

The Holtby deal and Sandro's injury are surely unrelated, as they're completely different players. Diame wouldn't be the worst shout, but we should definitely move Thudd or Jake on if we buy him. Alternatively, rely on Parker for any remotely big games and use Jake or Thudd when we think we can get away with it. Holtby will be a great addition but we can wait until the summer for him.

Keep calm, everyone! We will sign a striker (I hope Gary Hooper - ex-Spurs schoolboy and knows where the net is, which is important regardless of what league you're playing in). We might sign Holtby. But we don't REALLY need anyone apart from the striker - Livermore is a lot better player than he is often given credit for on these pages. I agree that we should try and shift Hudd, Bentley and Jenas - I'm sure that "Arry would be more than happy to have them on loan. Look beyond that as well - we've got Tommy Carroll and Andros Townsend ready to step in - Carroll to me looks the best prospect for years - beef him up a bit and you're looking at Luka Modric in disguise. And on the money front .... yes, we made a loss up to the end of June, BUT after that we sold Modric and VdV and brought in Vertonghen, Dembele and Dempsey. There's a bit of change left over - mark my words. Mr Levy loves a bargain and will leave it till the last minute. My top tip - Hooper to be in the starting 11 for the West Brom game ....!

I'm flabbergasted! Are some posters trying to tell me that our finances are in such a perilous state that if we spend £10m to £15m on a striker in this window we will go bust? If that is the case then ENIC should be shown the door today. If that isn't the case why are we willing to support such a blatant lack of ambition? Are we not a club good enough to be regular CL participants? If not what are we doing in and around 4th place regularly and on the cusp of making it? Stop the nonsense about comparing us to Villa and Leeds. Nobody is saying to go out and spend £150m on players this week. We're talking about £10m to £15m for a top striker for the love of God. If we can't afford that then we have no place in the PL let alone the CL.

I think this is a bit concerning now. I support Levy and the board but unless there is something bigger transfer wise going on behind the scenes they are handing 4th to arsenal. There is a point we can reach when it's better off not shopping at all and. 3.5 mil for Diame might just be that point. If we don't improve what we have in the days remaining in this window arsenal will finish above us.

well said spurious! various reports stating Sevilla and Valencia are cash strapped! Surely 15mill could get us Soldado or Negredo? FFS this has been an issue for 4 years now!

I am with Spurious on this one.

spurspanther - exactly. If I've done my maths correct I think we own 27 senior pro's at this stage. This is the lowest for years. We know Jenas, Gallas and Bentley will be out of contract and can walk in the summer. That's us down to 24. Within that 24 we have Rose, Khumalo, Dawkins and Falque out on loan and I can realistically see us only keeping Rose. Remove Obika as well and we could be down to 20 players. We then have to find space for Caulker, Holtby and potentially Townsend or Fryers next season as they are all over 21 or over so we are coming back closer to the limit of 25. AVB will then be somewhere close to being able to operate a one out, one in policy and really go after quality players. As you say, we will then have a formidable squad that is operating within our natural financial boundaries and there is plenty of space for a striker.

Nobody else seems to have noticed, so it falls to me to say it: we need a striker. On a more serious note, it looks very much like we are not going to get any of the ones that we really wanted. Sigh.

After comoli I firmly believe levy only wants the right player at the right price, Bentley is a prime example of being stung by reckless spending before! I am positive if Harry had his way then we would have any Carroll right now! Levy is a business man and will make the investment if the opportunity is right! What happens if we buy a £20 mil player and: A) they get injured B) they get homesick C) they don't adjust to the pl D) bale or dembele get injured E) Arsenal go on and Chelsea have exceptional ends to the season. How is spending going to guarantee champions league football? Well said Ox and Liamyid

We still havent seen the best of our current squad. Our best CB and left back have been out along with Parker for the first half of the season, now with whats happened to Sandro. Cant wait to have them all playing in the same team

Gylfi is on 15k pw more than bentley....that was reckless. If we can only look at players under 5m will the last person to leave WHL please turn off the lights, we may just as well all pack up and go home....

jod you quote the exception that proves the rule....

So Jod what are you trying to say? We don't need a striker? Our current strikers are good enough to get us CL next season? We don't want to be in the CL next season? All that matters is surviving as a club even if that is in the Championship or below? You choose.

we're closer to doing a valencia or Wolves (ie fecking up the football side for stadium) than we are to doing a leeds or Villa...

talking of Leeds, we're playing them at the weekend how come I've not heard us linked to Luciano Becchio? that's how it normally works isn't it??..;)

35m?? Would love to see him at WHL but thats alot of money for someone who is really unproven. 20m tops. Id rather spend the 20m on Lewandowski

Zaha to united confirmed....Nani should be leaving then..

losses of £4.7m quoted and some rags put that down to us not being in the champions league, 4th this time around means we have a qualifying round, 3rd or better we go straight into the group stages next season, is that around 30+m? And higher place money from he prem. The club needs to continue it's run in the Europa Cup and beat Leeds and go all the way in the fa cup, both worth a lot of money to us, some players will get sold, now or in the summer they should clear the 4.7m. Pay 1.5m for Holtby around 2m euros? Get a player (striker) for 20m, that money is recovered by getting CL football next season, i have said it before Premier League finishing places will come down to goal difference and in the summer we will be saying the same thing ''if only we had signed a striker'' it's always IF ONLY. Levy and his last minute buys same same every time.

We don't need a striker ''BALDRICK'' has a cunning plan!!! just watched Malaga 2 Barcelona 4 - lining up with Messi playing behind the striker, well he would have if they had one 4-5-1-0 amazing game of sheer class and passing football, the movement was outstanding and Malaga are a good side, they will over come Porto in the next CL match up, Pique scored in the week he became a father, in the box, chest control and left footed into the bottom corner, that was a strikers goal, let alone from very good centre half. Couple of incoming players at spurs like getting this Holtby deal sorted and a fast attacking player like Heung-Min Son or Son Heung-Min and away we go. Read more: http://www.spurs.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=7514373#ixzz2IyrE5QqA

United just splashed £15m on a Prospect who they wont be getting till the summer. That’s ambition. That’s also the reason they’ve won the PL title 12 times.

Maybe you're right about 2 years ago Shedboy2, but would Levy have really given HR any more money, when he probably already thought about getting shot of him?

longtimespur - the more time that passes the more obvious it becomes that Levy deals with transfers irrelevant of who the manager is. He actually thinks he's good at it and he certainly enjoys it. The results of his transfer ego trips are there for all to see.

As I have pointed out before, - no panic buying Please!If we can get that elusive Locksmith and Top striker, then by all means go for it! However it is very unlikely due to the very nature of the January window. Otherwise keep the ammo for the summer. Please remember we have entered a longterm project with AVB at the helm, - therefore if the two above wanted players are not available, promote our youth strikers in case of injuries to Ade/Defoe/Demps. Again there is no quick fix on the road to the top of PL, - we simply cannot compete financially with the big clubs presently. I believe in 3-5 years, when the new Stadium is up and running, - we will be able to pay higher wages and consequently be able to bring in the top players. Whether some of you like it or not, - Patience is the key word ! COYS!

trouble is spuriouslife, with a £15m player there is wages, agents fees, etc. Suddenly the £10-£15m player is costing you a £30m package. Its very easy for us as fans to say "just spend another £20m and we can get champions leage which will give us back £40m" but business aren't run like that and thats what football is these days, a business. ENIC can leave but whoever took over would be exactly the same. I suspect until the likes of Bentley and Jenas can be removed from our collective nipple, there will be no big moves in the transfer market. Realistically this is where our club is at.

82spursdebut - I like what you write, but your usage of grammar is appalling lol.

With Holtby coming in summer, Ade returning in a few games so we still have a good squad at present. No point condemning Levy and Spurs to absolute failure if we don’t get our new year’s present. I don’t care how much people have a problem with our ‘rich’ owners and their money, it shows complete lack in faith in our current squad and how far they can go. And that’s pretty *****ty coming from the so called faithful. We need to get behind them regardless of who else we may or may not bring in. Spurs are changing, and improving, so should the fans (including me). We know there is a difficulty period ahead of us and a busy fixture list so let’s not be too hard on the current team, no matter how much we pick players/areas we want to upgrade. Because we always think we need to upgrade on what we have. Now, Summer next Jan and onwards. Sandro is a massive blow but Parker and Livermoor have their back. I will be really surprised if Levy and co won’t look to bring in a little more flair in midfield, but come the West Brom game I’m going to make a point taking the same attitude and support I have now for the team regardless. Summer is the time I feel we will make a move for a striker, a player for the long term who can add quality to the team. Don’t kid your selves, money is there but chucking it in any old direction isn’t the way we do things. It’s youth, loans or the right man for the right money… The stadium is going to cost a lot and is top of the list and we don’t want to give that up. COYS.

I understand your point Jimmy-Yid. But, in real life, you get nothing for nothing. Of course the deal has to right in terms of purchase price and salary but it's the same in any buiness. You have to balance what you're willing to pay for someone with the improvement they can bring to your organisation. When you have a pressing need or find a real top talent the only thing that suffers if you don't take the opportunityto snap them up is the organisation itself. We can't pretend to be a top football club or even a good business if we don't back our words with appropriate deeds.

Sebthespur. Fully agree. Our midfield and defense is ok. We just need a semi decent striker. For gods sake with the service they get I could point at several Strikers in Denmark who could put them away for us. Even bendtner. Sorry rant over

Lloris, Walker, Kaboul, Vertonghen, Esso, Sandro, Dembelle, Lennon, Holtby, Bale and Said striker. With Friedel, Caulker, Naughton, Gylfi, Dempsy, Defoe and Ade. thats a great first 11 and theres a couple of players on the bench who can make an impact.

I like your team spurspanther! If that said striker was world class then I think that is a squad that could challenge for the PL!

We have money to spend... Where is it worth spending....

Heung min Son - 10 million
Negredo 10-12 million
Diame 3.5 million
Isco - 30 million release clause to be signed on new contract
Willian - 20-25 million
Belhunda - 12 million
Hooper - 8-10 million
Moutinho - 20-25 million
Damaio - 20-25 million
Eriksen - 20 million
Soldado - 10-12 million
Lewandowski - 20 million

Which would actually boost our starting X1 now?....

Im thinking get rid of BENTLEY, JENAS, GOMEZ, HUDD or LIVERMORE for anything close to 10million... and of course not forgetting that we would save inturn around 1,000,000 a month just on salaries for these 4 players...


then go all out for WILLIAN, ISCO or SON.... and play a 4-2-4 with a 4-man attacking option...

BALE, LENNON, HOLTBY and WILLIAN/ISCO/SON...
COYS....

Oh yeah happy birthday David Ginola, you legend ha http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZE3139vN04

If we wait till the summer will we ever see Bale cross to a decent striker? We can't keep waiting, keep saying next season....what happened to- To Dare Is to Do?

Yidmarks- diame would be an option...a bad one....think Zokora but worse....

shedboy2 - To Dare Is To Do, on the pitch. Which is where we need to Dare. Its all about the glory, right? Defoe, Ade and Dempsey will all be here to bang some goals in if we dont get one

Madabout - I'll go for a looksie now mate ;)

Looking in the Bargain Basement; Aim higher Levy try ''CASH IN THE ATTIC''

If we wait till the summer will we ever see Bale cross to a decent striker? shedboy2 YEAH most likely RONALDO @ Madrid?

At least get your facts right, £20 million is not a stumbling block to a Mountinho signing, the £30 million release clause they are now demanding is, big, big difference. Holtby is not a replacement for Sandro, he is a creative midfielder not a defensive one. M'Vila is not seen as a missed opportunity, only by those who can't even get their facts right. And then you finish off with stupidity. You don't just spend for the sake of it. You decide what you think they are worth, what you are willing to pay and try. If you don't succeed you move on. Fans like you need to grow up and get into the real world. We have the best Chairman we have had in donkeys years. He is the man who has taken us from a mid table side to a side whose fans now expect Champions League football.

Bale will leave unless we sign a striker - Yeah hes just confirmed that on twitter!

sky italia tv is reporting that a massive bid has been accepted for jovetic from a premier league team,man this is one sick player,just hope this is not true,i know arsenal have been snifin around...no what anightmare

I didn't know that CL qualification spots were decided on the 31st of January – The rule being, Sign a striker we are in, don’t and we are out. Wow levy must be missing a trick. And if Bale wants to go he will regardless who we sign or where we are in the league? I tell what is sad....

got a feeling that Jovetic is on his way to LeArse....

If Jovetic is going to Arsenal then bye bye 4th. Seriosuly that is not good news.

SpursOne2-which is part of the club...so in other words I was correct first time and didn't need you to try and point out it was only on the pitch..which is incorrect.

If Arsenal are going to sign a player like Jovetic for somewhere around £15m to £20m and pay him £90k per week am I to assume that they will be going bust by the end of the season? Is their spending reckless?

SpursOne2- not looking for a fight....I agree it should be applied on the pitch as well as throughout the club- including Levy and his procuring the right players to implement it...it applies to the whole club.

I have been out the country for the last few months and unable to watch many games. Can someone give me an honest opinion on Dawson, ive heard hes played himself back in and around the team?

spurspanther Dawson is the same as alway. Very honest, genuine, brave and always gives 100% for the team and the club when he plays. Unfortunately he is still far too slow for a top level PL team and is still addicted to the 'Hollywood' 60 yard cross field diagonal pass which (more often than not) leads to us losing possession. He is a great bloke and a great back up CB who will not let us down in an emergency but no more than that.

On a lighter note - off twitter

' Joey Barton must be one annoying **** He's only been there for 6 months and the whole of France is emigrating to Newcastle.'

Cheers Spuriuslife

that's a good one coops...

Diame is a very good footballer, better than mvila imho. I have seen both several times and i think its a good investment considering parker will be 33 this year and sandro is crooked. Watch him at the 2:15 mark embarassing kaboul parker and friedel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD8_ktkuoDI

a) Signing players is no guarantee of improvement. Goal machine Dzeko joined Man City in a January window for 27m and proceeded to get merely 2 goals in the remainder of that season. In the same window, goal machine Suarez joined Liverpool for 23m and proceeded to get only 4 goals. Summer is the best time to make signings like these, and we will do. b) We spent big already last summer. There is nothing wrong in getting in young promising players now, because that entails us to spend bigger later. We signed Modric for 16m, sell him for 30m, and then spend ALL of that 30m. That is an increase in spending. Bale will go for profit, and we will reinvest that. This is being well run.

Holtby will sign, they don't want him now and Levy will pay the 1 million to get him. We still need a wide player and a forward. I suspect Will.I.am will go to Chelski but sometimes it better to wait. Not the best time to buy as we know.

SpuriousLife- Arsenal's spending is not reckless because they have higher revenue to support it. They raked in 110m euros more than we did last season. That means higher wages, and they can spend more than they recoup....yet they tend not to. Even Arsenal fans think that they do not spend enough, so everyone moans.

Newcastle's scouting policy is down to our old scout, thank phuck we got shot of him then, they are really riding high!!!

Jovetic to the scum, it's ok relax, Wenger said ''I did not see him''

that's four in a row, i feel like Gary Hooper scoring goals

sell Gomes, hudd & livermore asap. do something-anything ie loan out/sell if poss at any price the likes of Jenas & bentley. purchase Diame & a striker.

To all those who go on about, 'what if we pay 25m and he is a flop, homesick, or does not score goals'. How many chances on goal did we have in the last 5 games?? A top class striker is the difference between a win and a draw. If you need proof look at Van Persie. Without his goals, utd would not be top. More important is the number of winning goals he has scored. That is what we are missing. If we are having 20 shots on goal and cannot score, something is not right.

SpuriousLife - 10mil is not a lot in this age to secure CL with a return of 40mil but what if that 10mil doesn't help us get CL. I think if we spend 10mil we need to spend it on a player or players that we can resell if we don't qualify for CL otherwise we will be in trouble. So my bet it has to be a player that is young enough and good enough to attract potential buyers. However, even that is not guaranteed, the player may not want to be sold on after half a season especially if he has up rooted his family. Plus what 10mil + player will come to us on our wages when they will try and wait to see if one of the other clubs come calling. There is so much to spending money and getting the balance on and off the pitch. I can see Levy agreeing with AVB get us into CL then we can spend otherwise we have a small budget and that will increase with sales of existing players. So AVB may need to sell to add the the small budget Levy is prepared to give and not take risks. So the likes of Hudd, JJ, Bentley and Gomes are the first to sell but problems here who wants them and are they in any rush when they are on good salaries at the lane for doing nothing.

Guernman - spot on. Quality players will become available after their options are limited which will be last day of transfer window, these players stall to see what happens. On last day one of the big clubs may get a serious injury and go looking for a replacement and these quality players know that so they wait until the last minute.

mutley - agree we are still clearing up HR mess he brought us by losing us CL place. We had to increase wages to keep existing players like Bale around and we are not attractive enough for top players until we get CL. We had a lot of players that were unhappy for not being used under HR and players that were too old and injury prone and we saw a clear out immediately even though players like Corluka and Krancjar would have been more useful than some players we still have at the club, but their heart had gone from Spurs and they were not going to wait another season and see if the new manager would involve them which is fair enough they sat around long enough under HR when they could have been more involved but HR was clueless on managing a squad of players. We still have some clearing out to do before we have funds especially from getting them of the wage list to put towards securing any quality player if available.

coopsie - thanks for that info lets see if any of it comes true.

I think we should tell JJ and Bentley they are not in the squad and see if that will give them a kick at looking for a club.

It’s on the pitch we need to do the talking, we have a talented squad and we did invest in the summer. We dropped form this time last year (ish) and slumped into the last few games with poor results. This year we have new manager, staff, facilities and we don't want a repeat (even though its AVB's first season). Bringing in a new player doesn't solve this, results do...keeping up the hard work, the support etc. I hate to say it but Arsenal achieved 3rd last season by doing the talking on the pitch. I don't remember them signing one player last Jan that ensured their qualification? They just kept winning, as a team. We can’t sweep this one under the carpet and think one player can ensure this. The lads need to knuckle down, work as a team and get the results. We have a good squad. Yes it’s a Bonus if levy can pull a player out of the bag that everyone rates, but the same applies if he does. Onwards and upwards and keep the faith. COYS.

Suppose the question may be do we need a number 1, 2, or 3 striker? If AVB believes Ade can get back to banging them in (lets remember he has had bad luck with injury this season and not played too much) and be our no1 striker, will defoe be number 2? Then surely looking at likes of Jovetic and Negredo is not gonna happen and the likes of Hooper or Son are far more likely. However, if they believe they need a new number 1, then surely Negredo and Jovetic are in consideration (assuming arsenhole have not just secured his signature). An if this is the case would we accept Son or Hooper as bench back-up?

BTW, anyone know the ITK that claimed he would eat his hat if Snjeider was not a Spurs player by 1 Feb? I'd like to see the lad phucker up on video?!

To be honest i'd be delighted if we signed Carlton bloody Cole - so desperate we are imo for a striker. Ok maybe not Carlton Cole. But if Defoe pulls his hamstring against Leeds - Then what? Dembele upfront? We are seriously low in the striking department.

arsenal did not need to buy last january, we gave it to them on a plate. we DO need another striker or we might just repeat the last two seasons mistake.

your mate should be sacked Tornado, but interesting info........Ossie we have very good cover at left back, trouble is he's playing for Sunderland (very well)...Shedboy that old scout, you mean the one Redknapp moved out so he could waste our money and get his ber..ungs in?

Yeah totally agree jod. I'm suprised we havent seen any unknown arrivals from Portugal or Brazil given AVBs knowledge of Portugal & its connections with Brazil. Maybe something is in the pipeline.

exactly SO2 think they might spend this window though. defoe gets injured we will be up s**t creek. will levy take that chance? we will see soon enough.

tophobunty- yep Graham Carr, chatty mans dad....and he can hardly be blamed for Toon playing badly....nope they have a bang avg manager on an 8year deal....brilliant!

Slurms was with you on the repeating pattern of the Jan window up until you saud it swings into action...I wouldn't call Saha and Nelson much action last year....let's hope history doesn't repeat itself.

Shed agree mate, he looks like a top scout to me...while on the Newcastle subject, I would buy Ben Arfa this week.

topspur53 - We could say the same for Demeble, Bale maybe? Don’t want to tempt fate but i hear you. We do have some depth but i think this year we need to work harder on the results than last year...regardless who we bring in. we have 3 up top remember. Slurms - Wolfswinkle isn't a bad shout, i think we have been linked before? He’s young, can play up top or support attacking role. Never thought he would go for that money? Wonder if its pure spec. COYS.

Slurms -apart from the Arry era-defoe,keane and palacios....we did get Woodgate...Chivers, Gilzean....but contracts and times are a changing making January a far better time to do business than historically...again why wait till summer? that just means 31st of August to us....look at the headline for this article and that everyone knows what 'Levy time' is shows how we now do our business...

to be fair we have had a bid of 9.5 accepted by inter

Phuck it I'm moving to ghulamville, it seems a far happier and optimist place to live, this whole "real world" isn't to my liking at all!!

are you guys taking the mick or is this real? Cant see owt on tinterweb?

so2 we sing from the same sheet, but i dont think we have depth on the striker front. if defoe or ade get injured i dont think playing someone out of position will work, had enough of harry doing that, and what happened then? one young striker would not go amiss , son or wolfswinkle would do. cant imagine what song the fans would dream up with the latter thou.lol

Just searched it on the web and it sounds like bollox cooked up by Sky Italia (who are apparently as reliable as the daily fail)... hope I'm wrong though.

Jod. What you say is very clear and you're right. My point is simply this - in this era of modern day PL football £10m is not a lot to pay for a GOOD player. Now, to me, you and most mortals it is a massive investment and therefore an equally massive risk. However in the rarified atmosphere of PL teams challenging for CL status it is not and cannot be viewed as an insurmountable amount. If it is we will never be able to move on. I'm not advocating spending vast amounts on every Tom, Dick or Harry but we will at some point need to risk spending somewhere in the region of £10m on a player if we are serious about trying to compete for the top positions in the PL and to get into the CL. If we don't then we must accept we will never be anything more than a mid-table team that may win a domestic cup once every 25 years or so. That may be acceptable for some but it certainly won't fill a 55,000 seater stadium every week. You can't have it both ways.

Well we signed Ade? He was meant to fix our issues.

Parker cant play all the remaining league, europa and FA cup games. The truth is we wont win alot with Hudd or livermore starting(remember how we started the season?). We need a defensive midfielder, a young hungry striker, and holtby ........all together less than 15m!

I was taking the micky, after reading hundreds of posts over the last number of years claiming we have signed players. I just guessed at the 10million because of the articles on the Spurs media watch. I don't believe a player has been signed until Ox offically or Coopsie unoffically announces it!

Slurms, don't do that to me... you had my heart going for a minute, Coutinho would be a quality purchase.... Oh well :/

I think its between the Saints and the Bin dippers for this little chap anyway!

Okay pelebro, but have you not been entertained in these barren trophyless years? Have you not seen footall played the way it should be? Are we not a joy to behold when in full flow? Is it not exhilarating teetering on the edge of greatness while your rivals stutter and stumble?

pelebro, your glass is more than half empty. Drink the rest now. Don't worry about tomorrow. Fact is, from 2007 Spurs have gone from being worth 246M to being worth 564M at last Forbes. Now, I don't know many big bankers, but I can presume that a club that wants to spend 450M on a stadium that is worth almost twice what the club is worth does not make much sense. However, a club that is worth more than the project they are undertaking seems a better venture. Oh, and you really should thank ENIC for allowing us to "teeter" on the edge of success because when they took us over, we certainly weren't there. In fact, in 2007, we were part of the best of the rest with Everton and Villa. Have you looked where they have finished since then? In the League we have overtaken one of the "big 4". That's a major accomplishment. Yes, the Sheikh throwing all of his money around has made it more difficult, but we still got CL, have finished 5th, 5th, 11th (with a cup), 8th, 4th, 5th, 4th and currently sit fourth. Threeof the teams ahead of us (ok, all the teams ahead of us) can outspend any other team in the PL twice over without missing a beat, and you are annoyed we"teeter" at the edge of all this. I prefer to look at it as could be better, but still pretty good. Could be worse. We could be Villa. Or Pompey. Or West Ham. Or Leeds. Or Birmingham. Or QPR. Or Southampton. When there is no plan in your "big spending", you are in big trouble. Levy plans for the worst and hopes for the best. I applaud him for that. We will get our stadium and we will compete all along. COYS

Becchio, Becchio, Becchio, an absolutely nailed on Levy transfer. It would cement his reputation, firmly established following the astute signings of Gregor Rasiak, Frazer Campbell (loan), and Louis Saha. Why interfere with a winning formula, success breeds success, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Incidently of course Levy has a plan, and it is fully costed, it amounts to spend sweet FA and ensure that you don't become too successful, it costs too much, and while you are at it, make sure the books show a loss, that will keep the natives, and HMRC quiet.

Peterbalb, will we be in the new stadium in time for the club's 150th anniversary, is that the cunning plan.

Levy knows we lost 4 1/2 million because we missed out on champions league. He also (I would have thought) knows why we missed out, (various opinions are posted on here) I also hope that financial wizard that people say he is, he must see that if we carry on in that vein for another four or five years we might as well buy a proven striker of the RVP ilk right now, he would soon repay his wages with helping us gain Champions League and winning it. We have come close before without the knowledge of continental teams and the discipline our current manager has instilled in the team as a whole, so who knows how soon we could be winning the Champions League if had that striker playing for us by the end of this window. Come on Mr. Levy, pull your finger out, and sort it please. From one Spurs supporter to another.

peterballb tells Frank, "we will be in the stadium as soon as is possible without taking a hit on the playing side of things." But again peter fails to give us a date for the big move? Not even an estimated year... When will the move happen Peter? Which year do you anticipate flying into London from Canada for the opening ceremony of the ENIC DOME? Which year Pete??? Which year will ENIC provide seats for those 35,000 Spurs fans waiting on Daniel Levy's Fantasy Football season ticket waiting list? Which year Pete???

pelebro, I didn't realise that Levy had been picking the team and setting the formations throughout his entire tenure with us. Makes me wonder why we've ever employed a manager as in your book Levy does everything at the club himself, and so it's entirely his fault that we've won very little in the last decade, and nothing to do with squad mismanagement and poor fortune (i.e disallowed goals at Wembley, Lasagne etc), all of which he's apparently entirely responsible for. To make it worse Levy clogged up the whole country last week by making it snow bucket-loads, he set of the Volcano in Iceland, sunk the Titanic, and I know for a fact is responsible for the genocide of the American-Indian population a few hundred years ago.