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Tottenhams Signings

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Spurs rumored to be near the completion of an £11m double transfer of two young players with 42 Championship games between them has got me thinking of all the promising talent that Spurs have caught a whiff of and stormed in with a massively inflated price and successfully ruined or delayed their progression.

Lets get a list going.

Gareth Bale £10 million
Alan Hutton £9 million
Michael Dawson & Andy Reid £8 to £10 million
Darren Bent £16.5 million
David Bentley £15 million
John Bostock £1.5 million
Chris Gunter £2 million
Wayne Routledge £2 million
Giovani Dos Santos £8.6 million
Kevin-Prince Boateng £6 million
Younes Kaboul £7 million

Thats £87.6m.

Any more? Modric (£16.5m) could arguably be added.
 
Didn't buy him - but what was the point in keeping Fraizer Campbell on loan?!...

Helder Postiga - £6m+
Sergei Rebrov - £11m
Calum Davenport - £3m

Pushes your original total to over £107m in wasted / misused / unfulfilled talent...
 
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I suppose the flip side is that they've had the, very rare, one that's gone on like Carrick and Berbatov. That can't be enough to sway young players though can it when so much wastage has happened?
 

They have the money to break into the top 4 easily but I'm not sure if they even scout players. They just wait for someone to be interested and say "hey he must be good" and outbid the other team despite analyzing the fact whether said player would even fit in.

The only 3 signings out of the 800 or so the last 5 years that were 1/2 decent was Woodgate, Keane (buying back for the scum turning a profit), and Palacios. You could put Bostock in there but that was more on the lines of robbery thanks to the FA.
 
Modric was one of there best players last season, started to look really good after a slow start and Spurs fans rate him highly. They say he's far too good for them. Palacios has also done well and will be a good signing.

I don't like Redknapp as a man but I do think he's a good manager, I think he'll steady the ship there and push them on.
 

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