7 Days Left, Is There Still Work To Do?
The transfer window for clubs in the English Premier League closes shut at 11pm on Friday 30th August. Whilst Tottenham Hotspur have done a decent job so far, certainly of moving on players that Ange Postecoglou doesn't think fit into his system I still have concerns over the recruitment. Again, credit must be given for bringing in Dominic Solanke, a direct replacement for Harry Kane who left for Bayern Munich a year ago. By the standards of our owners, this is quite a quick reaction. For example, Michael Carrick left for Manchester United in 2006 for £18m (two years after buying him for £2.5m) and it took them 6 years to replace him with Moussa Dembele who cost £15m. Okay, so we played a whole season using either an out of position Son or an often unfit Richarlison in the place of arguably the best centre forward in Europe but it was enough to get the club into Europe's second best competition for this season. It also appears that the current policy is based on signing young p