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very true!

We're not in the shadows of Tottenham Hotspur. They are just outspending us with all that Bale money. Not much we can do when Spurs are offering more money and more wages. Our only saving grace is if Willian has a desire to play with Suarez, Coutinho, Sturridge and Gerrard.

We are their closest competitors. As vindictive as their actions may appear, it actually makes sense for Spurs to do this. If they buy all the best players we can afford, they will weaken us. Even if it means those players have to sit on the Spurs bench.

Willan is good but worth only 20m max, let Spurs spend all that money

And its obvious they to want to undermine us because we are direct competitors right now, not working out well for them so far, 2 flops and one overpriced player.

If we get that top center back I will call it a great summer because Suarez is staying.

We've finished what 6,7,8 and 7th the last four years. Meanwhile Spurs have reached or are peaking we're at our worst position in the league since I can remember.

Our negotiators are focusing on value and low balling clubs this allows others to act quickly and show real intent.

It,s simple if we can,t offer Champion,s league football then we have to offer bigger money and wages to attract the top players and when FSG wont offer top money like other clubs ie (spurs) so we have no chance of getting quality players and just have to hope we find a cheap gem

One thing for sure though is that Spurs are showing much more ambition than us. If they do sign Willian, they would have spend 90m already and if Bale goes, it looks like they will further spend to end up with a positive net spend. Right now we have spent less than what we have sold for.

Some posters here are talking about Sigurddson and Dempsey and that we were right unlike Spurs last summer by not signing them. Is that correct though? Hasn't Spurs finished well above us last season, wasn't Sigurddson better than Allen, haven't both Sigurddson and Dempsey have their contribution in Spurs performance?

Some are also saying that FSG are not going to spend more that what THEY value for a player. I would assume that they started this policy in the Jan window last year. Where have we finished since then? Probably 2 of our worst performances for a long time.

Look, I would love to see FSG policies bringing results, but so far, except for Coutinho and to some extent Sturridge where I think they took chances just like with Borini, Allen etc, there is not much to see.

Its not about ambition. Its about Spurs strategically eliminating us from the market, because its in their best interests to do so.

Their ambition then is to finish higher than us, which means they are more ambitious than us. It looks like they want to finish in the top 4 (whether by eliminating us or not) and are walking the talk, while we also want to finish in the top 4 by however showing less intent basically trying to find a cheaper way to do it or on a lower budget.

Nobody knows what will happen as this is football, but, who do you think right now has a bigger chance of getting there, us or them?

So because we're not over spending means we have no ambition? Of course we do but we have to live within our means. We haven't got some oligarch of a sugar daddy.

Spurs a just spending what they'll get for Bale so their net spend (I know it means nothing) will be very low. Does that then show a lack of ambition?

I agree completely.