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I don't think any player is worth £30 million Stan. There has got to be a 'tipping point' with these insane fees and perhaps it has now been reached. Scainer commented earlier that a lot of people seem more excited by the transfer fee than the player, and I couldn't agree more.

On a general point, I really look forward to seeing how Tottenham Hotspur get round the FFP rules (if they are ever brought into force). Their ratio of spending to income surely can't be matched by any other English club, it's truly remarkable yet the media never criticise them.

Going back 3 seasons including this window, they have a net spend of around 10million and I assume that Bale will be sold by the end of August which will leave them in a net profit for the last 3 years so FFP won't be a problem for them

But it is about much more than transfer values. It is wage budget, and they signed a heck of a lot of players last summer on more than decent wages, and have added more to that. I think it'd be interesting to see the financials. Not sure they'll quite add up.

I am sure they have worked it out, they cannot be that stupid. We are guessing here with probably a lot of wishful thinking.

I agree. Wishful and thinking are my middle names. But yeah, I don't think they're over-ly worried about it, and have less of a worry than some other top clubs.

Thank goodness people are talking common sense on here at last regarding our transfer policy.

We may have actually made Spurs pull out more money than they wanted to. This may stop them being in a position to take our next target. Which could be a defender. Something they also need because they have not got a lot there either.

With Gerrard and Suarez top earners there was no way we were going to pay anyone over and above them as soon as they joined.

Not all their new signings will work out. Nobody is that lucky although you get the pen that they got on Saturday and it does make you wonder. And Willian has Joorabchian as an agent. The guy is a snake. He had ownership of Tevez and Mascherano and I would not trust any deal that had his mark on it.

Anyway it is not about a £30m signing. It is about putting together a squad of players who can play together.

The only thing Spurs have done well is to manage the fans disappointment of losing Bale by flooding their squad with a load of expensive signings. They need 3 of the 6 or 7 to succeed though to get away with it.

That would be a fine argument if we were also doing something but we just seems to be picking up the left overs and the one world class player we have wants to leave. And it seems our transfer policy s based on putting spanner s in the works of our rivals as they put firm plans in place. Our plan it seems is to charge the fans the maximum for the lowest value product. Last person to do that was Gerrard ratner

I find it funny how alot of you guys here saying William isn't worth 30 mil and there is better option for that price. Its easy to always say there's better but could someone identify a 30 mil player that we can realistically get. The reason for the buzz surrounding William was because we were in a position to sign a top player who actually was willing to come to us. I say top player because he was linked to top teams and not a Everton or west ham but Chelsea and man city. So I ask again we are short on ten flanks seeking a marquee signing who do you guys think is available, because all the players that come to mind a debate will still arrive, perfect example, Amelia from Roma is going for 25 mil according to the club Luis Muriel one that I think would be perfect is valued at 40 mil some sources are reporting, even if his value goes down to 25 mil there is still the case of he hasn't achieved anything and we would be buying based potential. So while I do believe 30 was alot for William its the price we have to pay for our current position.

So the perfect player may be valued at £40m but suddenly if he is worth £25m we are then buying based on potential.

Can you make up your mind please?
I just get the feeling that there are some who will not be happy until we sign someone for £30m+ to show we have some balls.

We will buy who we can based on a budget. It is not a bottomless pit of cash that has to be spunked on one player.

I'd rather spend reasonable amounts of money and be pleasantly surprised than spend a fuckton and be [oops] off until we inevitably sell them at a loss for being useless...

If players came with guarantee stamps on their foreheads saying you get your money back if they're not up to the required standard then I say go spend 50-60mil on them. But they don't. And we don't have that kind of cash to burn.