'skope wrote:i'd be amazed if spurs recouped half of what they paid for lamela if they were to put him up for sale.
Not now, but then they're not selling him, are they?
'skope wrote:same goes for paulinho and others i can't even remember the names of. i think eriksen was the only good bit of business they did in that transfer window from hell.
The ones you pretend to forget were Chadli (7m), Chiriches (8.5m) and Capoue (9m). Chadli is becoming a force, Chiriches has a lot of class but still needs to bulk up and Capoue has, like Lamela, been often injured. All three are 25 or under and all but Capoue current internationals. Paulinho cost 17m and of course they - or more precisely Levy - would get a lot more than half that if they sold him now.
Soldado went outside Spurs usual policy of buying young talent and has been a disappointment, as I said on that other thread. Lamela is still only 22.
Anyway, that lot cost 93m. Apart from the 85m for Bale, Levy also managed to gouge 9m for Caulker (relegated), 6m for Dempsey, who wasn't good enough in the first place, 5m for Thud (was sorry to see him go, but he would never thrive in a Poch team), 6m for a 32-year-old but still nifty striker in Defoe and even 3.5 for a decrepit Parker. That has to be an improved squad, bearing in mind there was no replacing like for like with Bale, and 12m operating profit. It's hardly a transfer window from hell. Most disappointing in retrospect was in losing out to Chelsea for Willian. The season that followed was a train-wreck (although qualified for Europe yet again) because of Adebayor and AVB rather than the players signed
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