Nobody overtakes Manchester United by offering a helping hand,' wrote the Daily Mail's Martin Samuel in a bizarre rant about Tottenham's proposed transfer policy earlier this month. The alleged plan? To buy players in the £10-15m price bracket with a view to re-sale value; sensible transfer policy is clearly something to be derided.
Having tried buying wildly expensive players who are now worth considerably less (2013), and then cheaper players who are magically still worth marginally less (2014), they are apparently settling on middle ground in 2015 that should give Tottenham a) half a chance of finishing in the top four and b) every chance of balancing the books. When flirtations with the policy have brought in Christian Eriksen, Hugo Lloris and Jan Vertonghen - all now worth more than their original cost - you can see why Daniel Levy wants to make the permanent switch.
In all the fuss about Manchester City's disastrous recent transfers and Liverpool's patchwork summer business, little has been said about the mistakes made at Tottenham. Keen not to repeat the nightmare of 2013 that left them saddled with the Bootleg Beatles - Roberto Soldado, Erik Lamela, Paulinho and Ringo - Tottenham instead spent less than £23m on half a team who have barely played a full season's Premier League games in total.
Eric Dier's 19 top-flight starts make him the most settled of a list of incoming players completed by Fazio (14), Ben Davies (8), Benjamin Stambouli (4), Michel Vorm (2) and DeAndre Yedlin (0). It's a sorry list of unproven footballers who all cost less than £10m and are now all still worth less than £10m. There were greater ambitions but moves to sign more accomplished players like Danny Welbeck and Morgan Schneiderlin floundered in the face of high-profile competition and prohibitively high prices.
Tweaking rather than overhauling the squad left by Franco Baldini's blunderbuss was certainly worth one season's cheap experiment, the theory being that a new, focused manager could unleash the potential of those who struggled under Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood. There were early signs that Etienne Capoue, Lamela and Nacer Chadli could be coaxed into something close to their pre-Tottenham form, but Mauricio Pochettino has eventually skidded into the same brick wall encountered by his predecessors. The problem was clearly not with the management.
Pochettino has not been short of numbers - Yedlin became the 27th Tottenham player to play in the Premier League this season - but he is massively short on quality. "A bigger squad? No. Not bigger. Maybe different," he said at the weekend when asked about his plans for next season. Very diplomatic.
'Different' would presumably mean that Eriksen would not be running to stand still by March, Harry Kane would not be forced to play 90 minutes every single week and a back four of Vlad Chiriches, Fazio, Dier and Danny Rose would be a 'remember when?' moment rather than a reality. When you are seventh and only three or four of your players would get into any top-six side, you know that you have got your transfer policy horribly wrong.
Kane has provided a wonderful good news story for Tottenham this season, with Ryan Mason an intriguing snippet, but the truth is that Spurs are currently two points and one position worse off than the same stage last season, and it seems unlikely that their tired legs will scramble any higher up the table.
What's needed now is a summer's recruitment the like of which will anger Martin Samuel but could give Pochettino the tools for more than a token challenge to the elite. And if that fails, at least the profits might be good.
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