Summer Transfer Window 2019

[Spikey M]

Yup. That strategy always seems to be the absolute best way to financial ruin without at least getting some Silverware on the way.

Always better to buy one star player for 80M than 3 mid-tier players for 25M each...

See what happened with Spurs when they sold Bale, for instance.

They transformed their squad and ended up in a Champions League final?

[Dave.]

They transformed their squad and ended up in a Champions League final?

Spurs spent all of the Bale money in the summer he left the club. Only two of these players (Eriksen and Lamela) are still at the club while some of their signings that summer contributed next to nothing to the teams results - Soldado etc.

[Smjffy]

Spurs spent all of the Bale money in the summer he left the club. Only two of these players (Eriksen and Lamela) are still at the club while some of their signings that summer contributed next to nothing to the teams results - Soldado etc.

Chadli reached double figures the following season tbf. Capoue went on to be a Premier League regular but the one that sticks out after a little look is Paulinho. Definitely dodge.

Tottenham buy him for just under £17m, then they sell him to China for £10m, Barcelona sign him for £36M, he does the double with them before being loaned back to China less than a year later, then six months after that they Chinese snap him up again for £37m. Suspect as fuck.

[Spikey M]

Spurs spent all of the Bale money in the summer he left the club. Only two of these players (Eriksen and Lamela) are still at the club while some of their signings that summer contributed next to nothing to the teams results - Soldado etc.

And the sales of the useless players were invested again. The core of the side was built within 3 years of Bale going.