TRANSFER TALK
Spurs former director of football Damien Comolli (2005 - 2008) suggests it is very difficult to improve on the first XI at Tottenham under Mauricio Pochettino. We have heard the same in various forms from several managers recently.
They seem to believe we have a money tree inside the new stadium that is going to pay for two world class players, which as my previous article explaining the impact of just a £20,000-a-week rise in our wage structure might have on the club.
A truely world class player, and that is a way over used term, on Facebook someone was trying to call Kyle Walker world class, er no, nowhere near it, a very good player yes, world class, not in a million years, would command £200,000 or more wages. That is totally beyond us, let alone two of them.
"I think Tottenham deserve so much respect for what they’ve achieved. Daniel Levy and Mauricio Pochettino are working with less money than everybody else and working on a lot smaller wage bill than any of the Premier League’s top five - we need to give them some credit.
"I’m sure they know exactly where they’re going [in the transfer market]. So to reinforce that team with players who are as good or better than those players, and as young too, it’s almost an impossible task.
"They're probably looking for young and up-and-coming players to come and compliment that team, probably two or three and I’m sure they’ll achieve that in the end."
Those in football know what we are doing and respect that as does the Spurs fans embedded in reality. If you look at who we are linked with over the past couple of seasons, you can see we are after quality youngsters that have bags of ability to bring out.
Timo Werner for instance, he was having troubles, moved club and has been banging in the goals. We tried to sign him but the German decided to stay in Germany unsurprisingly. The 21-year-old (22 next March) went to RB Leipzig, who having just been promoted, qualified for the UEFA Champions League.
He scored 21 goals and had a further 7 assists in just 31 Bundesliga games. That shows why we wanted to sign him for the £8.93 million (€10m - AUS$14.8m - US$11.8m) he joined RB Leipzig for.
He scored 21 goals and had a further 7 assists in just 31 Bundesliga games. That shows why we wanted to sign him for the £8.93 million (€10m - AUS$14.8m - US$11.8m) he joined RB Leipzig for.
We have to keep trying and keep adding talented youngsters to the squad. They fit within our budget and we want improvement to propel them and us to the next level. I don't see us signing anyone on more than £80,000-a-week wages, which isn't as bad as it sounds.
In Europe the majority of players are paid less than they can get in the Premier League so we can pick these players up, if we can convince them to come to Tottenham and fight for a place in the starting XI, and have them work their way through our wage structure that is designed to take them up a step each season they perform.
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