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da prosport bet： In the transfer market Manchester United, Chelsea and Manchester City operate at the uppermost level, the upper tier. It is quite clear that Tottenham Hotspur, whilst attempting to work on this level, have found themselves in the back row with a restricted view.
To trade at the top you need money and Champions League football and if you don’t have the latter then you need a lot of the former. Despite their best efforts, Tottenham have neither. Unfortunately this means that the calibre of their transfer targets has dropped.
You can still pick up excellent players but there is always a catch. The most common catch in Tottenham’s case is that these players are old. Consider some of Tottenham’s recent targets: William Gallas is now 34, Brad Freidel is 165 (40), Craig Bellamy 32 and Scott Parker 30. These players may once have been at the tip of the market but those years are some way behind them now, in particular the first 3.
If Tottenham’s targets are not old, then they have a problem at their previous club. (Sometimes they are both old and troubled!) Rafael Van der Vaart was surplus to requirements at Real Madrid, Bellamy and Adebayor are both irreparably out of favour at Manchester City and ‘Mr West Ham’ Scott Parker would now much rather be out of the Championship and operating under the controversial new nickname Mr Tottenham Hotspur.
The lack of Champions league football prevents Tottenham from signing stars who are at the top of the game already, but the lack of money prevents Tottenham even investing in average players in their prime unlike the moneyball movements of League rivals Liverpool who are also operating from this restricted tier of the market, except with a bottomless pit of money to work with.
Liverpool are buying players from the same tier, but the difference is these players are in their prime or likely to improve. Carroll, Downing, Adam, Henderson and Enrique do not require Champions League football now and would not demand it, but they have the potential to improve and mature whilst attempting to qualify. (Only Suarez really looks like a player of the utmost quality.) Liverpool have not done particularly astute business but at least they seem to have a plan. Tottenham Hotspur seem to be chasing the old and unhappy and with every new signing the future seems to look less clear, just slightly more chaotic.
Of course Tottenham fans can point to the signing of Sandro and the promising youth players now getting a run in the Europa League to suggest that there is young talent in the squad but the fact that Tottenham are struggling to keep up in the transfer market has never been clearer than now.
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