We are struggling to attract players
I can't accept that we offered £20-million plus Erik Lamela or Andros Townsend for Victor Wanyama, there would be no sense in the reports in the Evening Standard and regulated by the Metro.
Common sense tells us that is rubbish. We value Townsend at £15-million so that would value Wanyama at £35-million which is absurd. It's so un Tottenham like it's untrue.
The Daily Star, on the other hand, suggest we offered Southampton a more realistic £10-million plus Erik Lamela or Andros Townsend. Now that makes a lot more sense, even if it still does value him at more than he is worth.
He was one of a number of defensive midfielders we tried to sign but none of them came to fruition, we simply don't have the pull being below the top four in the Premier League. In Italy for instance or Germany it is a lot easier for a player to qualify for the UEFA Champions League if he doesn't play for Bayern Munich or Juventus, there are only a few clubs who fill the remaining places.
It makes Italy an attractive option for many players or Germany and we do seem to see a lot of players we are linked with end up in Italy. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation for us, we can't attract the top players but we need them to get to the next level to attract them. We can't afford their wages and we have seen a group of players only here for the money, we still have Adebayor here who isn't interested in playing football at all.
We can afford their wages to sign top players so we have to find then before they have hit the top. Modric, Berbatov, Bale either came from abroad or had to be developed here, buying Berbatov was no different than buying Soldado, who is instantly scoring goals in La Liga. Some purchases work some don't, that's th nature of the position we are in, we have to buy players we hope will develop, it's why I insist we must evaluate them mentally before we sign them.
We have to make sure everything is in place, not just hope or guess the right mentality is present. For every Modric there will be a Stambouli, for every Berbatov a Soldado. It's a risk business at this stepping stone level, the step from the crowd to the richer clubs.
If you stop and think why a top player would want to come to Tottenham you struggle for a reason. In marketing you need a unique selling point, if you apply that to Tottenham then perhaps youth development is our hook now. We not only develop, but we give a chance to youth in a way no other top club does in the Premier League.
If you are an up and coming player you'll get your chance and a decent wage while you develop. Will it work, who knows, but at least we have a strategy we are following that may enable us to attract tomorrow's stars today.
To lurch from season to season trying to buy success without the money to back it up is not a policy for regular success and it is surely regular success we are chasing, not an isolated incident when everything falls into place at the right time and we gat carried along by one or two players who can go on to better things.
I don't see Victor Wanyama as a star of tomorrow, just someone who will develop into a decent Premier League player and is that good enough, I don't think it is so I'm not disappointed we missed out on him.
Common sense tells us that is rubbish. We value Townsend at £15-million so that would value Wanyama at £35-million which is absurd. It's so un Tottenham like it's untrue.
The Daily Star, on the other hand, suggest we offered Southampton a more realistic £10-million plus Erik Lamela or Andros Townsend. Now that makes a lot more sense, even if it still does value him at more than he is worth.
He was one of a number of defensive midfielders we tried to sign but none of them came to fruition, we simply don't have the pull being below the top four in the Premier League. In Italy for instance or Germany it is a lot easier for a player to qualify for the UEFA Champions League if he doesn't play for Bayern Munich or Juventus, there are only a few clubs who fill the remaining places.
It makes Italy an attractive option for many players or Germany and we do seem to see a lot of players we are linked with end up in Italy. It's a bit of a catch 22 situation for us, we can't attract the top players but we need them to get to the next level to attract them. We can't afford their wages and we have seen a group of players only here for the money, we still have Adebayor here who isn't interested in playing football at all.
We can afford their wages to sign top players so we have to find then before they have hit the top. Modric, Berbatov, Bale either came from abroad or had to be developed here, buying Berbatov was no different than buying Soldado, who is instantly scoring goals in La Liga. Some purchases work some don't, that's th nature of the position we are in, we have to buy players we hope will develop, it's why I insist we must evaluate them mentally before we sign them.
We have to make sure everything is in place, not just hope or guess the right mentality is present. For every Modric there will be a Stambouli, for every Berbatov a Soldado. It's a risk business at this stepping stone level, the step from the crowd to the richer clubs.
If you stop and think why a top player would want to come to Tottenham you struggle for a reason. In marketing you need a unique selling point, if you apply that to Tottenham then perhaps youth development is our hook now. We not only develop, but we give a chance to youth in a way no other top club does in the Premier League.
If you are an up and coming player you'll get your chance and a decent wage while you develop. Will it work, who knows, but at least we have a strategy we are following that may enable us to attract tomorrow's stars today.
To lurch from season to season trying to buy success without the money to back it up is not a policy for regular success and it is surely regular success we are chasing, not an isolated incident when everything falls into place at the right time and we gat carried along by one or two players who can go on to better things.
I don't see Victor Wanyama as a star of tomorrow, just someone who will develop into a decent Premier League player and is that good enough, I don't think it is so I'm not disappointed we missed out on him.
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