No January Signings?
No January Signings?
The press sees we are tracking someone and assume we must be looking to buy the players in January, but why, most players aren't available in January.
If you are a club, what is the point in selling a quality player in January, unless he is in the last year of his contract?
Another club is not going to sell you an equivalent player because they do not wish to weaken themselves halfway through a season.
The market is very small in January. The players Tottenham are watching are players for the summer, not January.
It will not change from its current approach.
Personally, I don't see us signing anyone in January.
Our chairman recently spoke to the Evening Standard and made some very obvious comments, but comments which journalists, pundits and therefore fans, simply ignore when formulating their opinions.
Personally, I don't see us signing anyone in January.
Spurs have just changed the manager. The players we have have not learnt how to play the way Mourinho wants to the standard we can yet. That will take the remainder of this season.
We have been scouting players to fir Mauricio Pochettino style of play and now we are playing a different style. We, therefore, need to scout players that suit Mourinho's requirements so there is a lot of work to do, especially as you view players over time to see how they react to different situations and under different levels of pressure
We have been scouting players to fir Mauricio Pochettino style of play and now we are playing a different style. We, therefore, need to scout players that suit Mourinho's requirements so there is a lot of work to do, especially as you view players over time to see how they react to different situations and under different levels of pressure
Daniel Levy has reminded you all that you have to let go this obsession with buying all the time and get used to operating more as foreign clubs do. He has said Jose Mourinho does not want players in January and that means the pair have clearly had full and frank discussions about how the club will operate.
Our chairman recently spoke to the Evening Standard and made some very obvious comments, but comments which journalists, pundits and therefore fans, simply ignore when formulating their opinions.
"I can't remember when I first spoke to Jose, but once I made the decision in my mind we had to make the change, although internally we knew of more than one candidate who would have been interested, Jose was absolutely number one.
"We had a number of discussions. Firstly, it was such a hard decision and you never know what you are really getting until you work with somebody.
"There are lots of perceptions out there in relation to Jose that I’m not sure are true. I wanted to spend some time with him so we were totally aligned, on the basis there was no point him coming to a club where he expected different things to us.
"And we were totally aligned on the strategy going forward."
That final line says it all. That final line is the same for any managerial appointment. Journalists and pundits seemed to think that because Jose Mourinho has been at richer clubs and therefore spent money that that is now how Tottenham will have to operate.
That is untrue, it is Jose Mourinho who has to adapt to the strategy of the club and his words since his appointment appears to be along those lines, I'm happy with my squad, I don't need players in January.
Since writing this I see Jose has had an interview with Sky Sports where he says the same thing, He knows and accepts the club strategy, he doesn't need to buy players in January.
Why can't all these 30 something journalists, who think they know about a game they don't actually know about, understand that?
Since writing this I see Jose has had an interview with Sky Sports where he says the same thing, He knows and accepts the club strategy, he doesn't need to buy players in January.
Why can't all these 30 something journalists, who think they know about a game they don't actually know about, understand that?
We have seen from General Election results in Australia, USA and now Great Britain that the people are rejecting journalists, rejecting the political classes to reassert the will of the people.
Journalists today are reduced to writing what a few idiots on Twitter have tweeted and put that out as news, the days of proper journalism in football have long gone.
There are still people, laughingly, out there today who believe journalists write inside knowledge, they don't.
News today comes from Twitter and the foreign press. Take the signing of Roberto Soldado, I was able to stay ahead of the press because I knew Valencia officials actually speak directly to the local press outside the ground immediately after they come out of meetings.
In Portugal, they publish which clubs have applied to have scouts admitted to games so you always know which clubs are scouting where.
Those things don't happen over here and where journalists used to have inside contacts at clubs they no longer do.
Most journalists transfer stories come from the foreign press, nothing to do with the information they would like you to believe comes from their sources at the club. They put players up as transfer targets when a club is simply watching a player, before the club have even determined whether he fits the bill or not.
A lot of what they write lacks basic common sense and lacks footballing or business knowledge, it certainly lacks that of a winning mentality or of knowing how success is achieved in any walk of life.
The breakaway European League was a prime example. All these 30 something editors and journalists were unaware that no player can represent his country unless he plays in a UEFA or FIFA sanctioned competition.
Players want to play international football so it would have a significant impact, would weaken the product, weaken the TV revenue and success of any such venture.
Yet all of us who knew football before the Premier League did. We had all been there before, the UEFA Champions League was created to avoid the same breakaway European League.
It was created to guarantee big European games for club and big revenue streams. The whole competition is about generating money for the elite clubs, that was the goal in its formation.
Thus everyone was being misinformed.
Journalists guess what Spurs are after and portray it as fact, Lyall Thomas at Sky being the latest.
People read transfer stories. Newspaper sales went down when they stopped them so they immediately brought 'rumours' back and newspaper sales went up again. That's how the whole transfer market transfer stories all started many moons ago.
Times haven't changed, fans want to know who a club is signing before they sign them while journalists will always want to guess and hope one of their guesses hits the mark.
What's that monkey's phrase?
So, are we being misinformed over transfer activity in January?
Are journalists putting up stories just to receive hits to increase advertising revenue?
The latest is a bid for an attacker from Turkey. Personally, I don't believe a word of it. I believe it is a misinterpretation (or a way of writing stories in Turkey) that takes a foreign story and reports it for their audience.
Our writers then repeat that story which started out as the club merely scouting a player who isn't a top priority. We had all that nonsense about Ibrahimovich simply because journalists put two and two together to make six and write that as fact when it was just pure invention that lacked basic common sense.
Our priority is not a backup for Harry Kane.
There are far more pressing matters to attend to, like our total inability to defend competently. If we were to strengthen in January, it would either be central midfield or right-back, where we currently have Serge Aurier and nobody else.
As Aurier said himself, he has no competition at Tottenham. Kyle Walker-Peters isn't competition, he is a million miles away from being a top quality right-back.
I'll continue to report what I hear and what I believe, not what some journalist has guessed.
I will put my head on the block, just as I did in the summer when my news was right from Day One.
Spurs will not sign anyone, Lo Celso perhaps being the only one.
Tottenham are looking at the summer when players are more available, not January when they are not.
Who would you consider and as a replacement for whom?
Bear in mind the homegrown quota.
Should we sell Eriksen (if we can) or use him until the end of the season? Especially given now he is starting to play and put himself in the window as opposed to going through the motions, does this make a difference?
Most clubs will be happy to wait until the summer I would have thought. He will know where he stands and he has told Mourinho what he is going to do.
A right-back, a centre-back, a left-back, central midfield, a goalkeeper, where should we prioritize?
Journalists today are reduced to writing what a few idiots on Twitter have tweeted and put that out as news, the days of proper journalism in football have long gone.
There are still people, laughingly, out there today who believe journalists write inside knowledge, they don't.
News today comes from Twitter and the foreign press. Take the signing of Roberto Soldado, I was able to stay ahead of the press because I knew Valencia officials actually speak directly to the local press outside the ground immediately after they come out of meetings.
In Portugal, they publish which clubs have applied to have scouts admitted to games so you always know which clubs are scouting where.
Those things don't happen over here and where journalists used to have inside contacts at clubs they no longer do.
Most journalists transfer stories come from the foreign press, nothing to do with the information they would like you to believe comes from their sources at the club. They put players up as transfer targets when a club is simply watching a player, before the club have even determined whether he fits the bill or not.
A lot of what they write lacks basic common sense and lacks footballing or business knowledge, it certainly lacks that of a winning mentality or of knowing how success is achieved in any walk of life.
The breakaway European League was a prime example. All these 30 something editors and journalists were unaware that no player can represent his country unless he plays in a UEFA or FIFA sanctioned competition.
Players want to play international football so it would have a significant impact, would weaken the product, weaken the TV revenue and success of any such venture.
Yet all of us who knew football before the Premier League did. We had all been there before, the UEFA Champions League was created to avoid the same breakaway European League.
It was created to guarantee big European games for club and big revenue streams. The whole competition is about generating money for the elite clubs, that was the goal in its formation.
Thus everyone was being misinformed.
Journalists guess what Spurs are after and portray it as fact, Lyall Thomas at Sky being the latest.
People read transfer stories. Newspaper sales went down when they stopped them so they immediately brought 'rumours' back and newspaper sales went up again. That's how the whole transfer market transfer stories all started many moons ago.
Times haven't changed, fans want to know who a club is signing before they sign them while journalists will always want to guess and hope one of their guesses hits the mark.
What's that monkey's phrase?
So, are we being misinformed over transfer activity in January?
Are journalists putting up stories just to receive hits to increase advertising revenue?
The latest is a bid for an attacker from Turkey. Personally, I don't believe a word of it. I believe it is a misinterpretation (or a way of writing stories in Turkey) that takes a foreign story and reports it for their audience.
Our writers then repeat that story which started out as the club merely scouting a player who isn't a top priority. We had all that nonsense about Ibrahimovich simply because journalists put two and two together to make six and write that as fact when it was just pure invention that lacked basic common sense.
Our priority is not a backup for Harry Kane.
There are far more pressing matters to attend to, like our total inability to defend competently. If we were to strengthen in January, it would either be central midfield or right-back, where we currently have Serge Aurier and nobody else.
As Aurier said himself, he has no competition at Tottenham. Kyle Walker-Peters isn't competition, he is a million miles away from being a top quality right-back.
I'll continue to report what I hear and what I believe, not what some journalist has guessed.
I will put my head on the block, just as I did in the summer when my news was right from Day One.
Spurs will not sign anyone, Lo Celso perhaps being the only one.
Tottenham are looking at the summer when players are more available, not January when they are not.
Who would you consider and as a replacement for whom?
Bear in mind the homegrown quota.
Should we sell Eriksen (if we can) or use him until the end of the season? Especially given now he is starting to play and put himself in the window as opposed to going through the motions, does this make a difference?
Most clubs will be happy to wait until the summer I would have thought. He will know where he stands and he has told Mourinho what he is going to do.
A right-back, a centre-back, a left-back, central midfield, a goalkeeper, where should we prioritize?
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