Here we are again. It’s just one week before the summer transfer window slams shut, and many fans feel that we have done nowhere near enough business to make a genuine push for the top four this season, or even just secure fifth place.
It is the same old story at Tottenham this summer, we are three games into the new Premier League season, and yet again, Daniel Levy is going to leave it until the last minute to get his business done, if he gets any business done at all.
I have always believed that you must get most of your summer business done before the new league campaign starts, and this is something that we haven’t done in previous years. The reason for this is so that players can bed into the squad without a rush so that they have pre-season to get used to his new teammates and new coach/manager.
This year this was the case for Kevin Wimmer, Kieran Trippier and Toby Alderweireld. All good players and brought at the right time, but nowhere near what we should be buying this summer. In my opinion, we needed to buy an additional striker and perhaps an additional holding midfielder.
Neither of these came before the season’s start, and we are now three games in, and they still haven’t come in, apart from Clinton N’Jie who may be played on the right. It is clear that Daniel Levy is looking for a much lower price for the players he is targeting, so holding out as long as he can, but the risks associated are maybe unnecessary.
Buying players midway through the season doesn’t give them that bedding in time in pre-season to gel with their new teammates, and this could be what determines whether a player is a success or a flop at a certain club. So I ask the question, is it worth paying that extra perhaps £5m to give a player that pre-season time, or is it worth saving £5m, and taking the risk.
In my opinion, Daniel Levy will need to get his business done before the season starts in the future, but for now, we are left with another Tottenham transfer window panic.
