TOTTENHAM ARE STILL A BIG CLUB!

Njie "was named in the squad for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations,[14] and played in one group stage match, coming on as a 67th minute substitute in a 1–0 loss to Ivory Coast.[15] Following the 2015 Cup of Nations, he continued his lethal form for Cameroon by scoring once against Thailand in March 2015,[16] and bagging a brace against Burkina Faso in June 2015.[17]"

I don't think Berahino is really good enough to inspire such a long and obviously distracting transfer saga either. Excited for the new guys though.

Pardew knows what's up
"Spurs have some outstanding players. I'm a big fan of Kane, Chadli and Eriksen. They will definitely finish in the top ten."

Deems with everyone fit, what's your preferred front six?

Ooof

Not seen enough of son tbh....

Get back to you on it.

Yours?

Alli-Dier double pivot definitely, they controlled the midfield against the best team in the league and our general defensive solidity this season has been in no small part down to them. There might be times where a bit more worldliness is called upon but I can't see Bentaleb or Mason exactly providing that either.

Eriksen in front of them, obviously.

Lamela has been looking better and better this season and I think dropping him now would be disastrous for that momentum, so him on the RW with Son on the left, or swapping over.

Kane upfront durr.

N'jie as pacey impact sub, Chadli/Dembele as cover, Bentaleb if you need three in central midfield, Townsend at Sunderland.

Don't really see what Mason provides that Alli isn't already doing better.

mason's distribution is probably a bit better than alli's but there's not much in it between those four, just go with whoever's in form. lamela does seem to be still improving but atm I'd slightly prefer chadli, for temperament if nothing else. I'd like to see a swift kaneless attack at some point too, n'jie, son & mb alli in a more advanced role

Mason not as penetrative as alli and prone to silly losses of possession.

Chadli/dembele I like but yeah short of a huge improvement in consistency they're good bench options.

Feel like waiting for lamela to become a 30m player is never gonna happen but I've no prob embracing him as first xi scrappy winger.

N'jie and Son I've yet to see so I guess Kane, Eriksen, Alli, Dier, Lamela and Dembele with latter vulnerable

Quite happy with bentaleb, mason, dembele bench options when you look at our midfield historically

N'jie is very fast and quite tricky but some of his decision-making looks pretty suspect at the moment, expect Poch to work on that though.

Son has looked very classy so far but I can't see him winning many tackles so playing him in front of Danny Rose is not going to work.

CSKA Moscow and Leverkusen in pot 1 and 2 isn't bad going.

Given I already have tickets for all three group games I have mixed feelings about that group. It's a bit Europa really.

tbf, I imagine the other clubs feel the same way about us.

Someone had to inherit the Man United draw.

Plenty potential for Spurs to finish third and end up in the fucking Europa again. I'd rather they go out having played Barca or Milan rather than some tame 1-0 defeat in Moscow.

Kane and Alli vs Akinfeev, Berezutsky, Ignashevich and Shennikov - what could possibly go wro...

No, on current form, and fully accepting that on their day Spurs can lose to anyone in the world, they should be ok against CSKA. Monaco are much weaker than they were two years ago. Leverkusen are good, though.

Lads it's far indeed we've come when we're moaning about the unglam standard of our cl opponents ffs

Lamela you fucking mug

(assuming that was lamela)

No team with Ben Davies in it will ever win the cl

Better

Is it not a penalty if the ball isn't in play? Didn't Blanc concede one in the World Cup once?

Possibly not, googling it.

No. Same thing happened recently in a Prem game but can't remember which one

lol at the Monaco defenders having the same meagre understanding of the rules as me.

xps Davies hasn't even been bad, there's just a glaring lack of finesse and vision compared to his teammates (even the ones who are often dense and drive me nuts)

Sounds like you're describing a back-up left back.

Monaco are much weaker than they were two years ago.

hmmm

They are, though they have had a terrific start to the season. Man-for-man it's a weaker team but Jardim is still an excellent manager. I missed the first half hour so didn't see them at their best but the last 45 minutes at least was all Spurs, though without a great deal of quality to show for it.

I was at the game and while the first 15mins were all Spurs it seemed inevitable that Monaco would score with their first attack. Dier was being asked to do way too much (and he's off the boil in any case) and they kept running through our midfield until Dembele came on.

Should really have brought Sissoko on earlier, there was a sense that something might happen every time he ran at them, although a right flank of Sissoko and Walker is both terrifying and a disaster waiting to happen.

Spurs all over CSKA in opening 30 minutes.

We'll concede any minute now.

Spurs look hugely vulnerable atm and have barely created anything. They can step up several gears though.

Lamela stinking place out of it with his passing

Not sure subbing Janssen instead is a wise move.

Lamela at CF.

<3 u Igor.

seen figures for various club's net spend, didn't realise what an exceptional case spurs are. top 6's net spend since 12/13 (this cribbed off twitter so somewhat dubious)

City £402m
United £368m
Arsenal £205m
Chelsea £192m
Liverpool £121m
Tottenham £1m

and looking here http://www.transferleague.co.uk/premier-league-last-five-seasons/transfer-league-tables/premier-league-table-last-five-seasons spurs have a lower net spend than any team currently in the PL except swansea. that's crazy, how is it the case?

Selling club innit? ;)

£80m for Bale, £30m or whatever for Modric, £10m+ for pretty much every piece of squad deadweight. It adds up.

is there a more accomplished selling club?

Porto. Juve.

If we can get more than £20m for Ben Davies, as Levy is reported to be holding out for, we would be up there with any of them.

Cos I was interested I looked up transfer fees of starting 11 vs chelsea:

lloris 10.71
vertonghen 12.75
alderweild 12.75
dier 2.98
rose 4.25
wanyama 12.75
dembele 11.05
walker 1.7
kane 0
erikson 11.48
ali 5.6
86.02

Courtois 7.61
cahill 7.14
luiz 29.75
Azpilicueta 7.48
alonso 19.55
kante 30.43
matic 21.25
moses 9.78
Hazard 29.75
Pedro 22.95
Costa 32.3
217.99

Janssen refused a transfer to Galatasaray, his manager said today, as he "wants to go for his chance" at Spurs. That could've upped the balance with a million or two...

levy <3

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Tunnel side seats in the new stadium

Guys straight up called fuckit eh

Walker clearly up for fuvking us tonight

Walker I can't even.