Whatever else you say about Mauricio Pochettino – and, by they way, we still think that he’s the nuts – he’s done a far better job of any before him in getting rid of the ridiculous amount of dead wood in the Tottenham squad.
The Times reports today that the Tottenham head coach has followed up the excellent sales of Paulinho, for silly money, and Etienne Capoue by offloading another peripheral squad player:
Benjamin Stambouli has become the latest player to leave Tottenham Hotspur this summer as Daniel Levy, the chairman, continues living up to his reputation as a man who drives a hard bargain.
And this guy went for a profit. After buying him for around £3.5m a year ago they sold him for £6m after the Frenchman made just 12 rather uninspiring appearances for Tottenham.
At 24, he obviously still has potential, having been snapped up by one of the world’s richest clubs.
But he never really got his feet under the table at Tottenham and the defensive midfielder will leave without having made much of an impression on The Premier League.
In other news The Telegraph reports that Tottenham could offlaod yet another player who is treading water at White Hart Lane:
Tottenham consider loaning Emmanuel Adebayor to Aston Villa
Unsettled striker could move to Villa Park on season-long loan, if Villa fund his £100,000-a-week wages
While a permanent deal would obviously be preferable it would make a big difference to the wage bill if they could get rid of Adebayor for the season.
The striker has clearly had family problems over the last few years which hasn’t helped.
But, from a footballing perspective, he isn’t doing the business at Tottenham and has become an expensive albatross around the next of the London club.
With these two gone Mauricio Pochettino will surely be free to go out and buy one or two more top quality players.
steve
Jul 22, 2015 at 9:09 am
the other advantage of loaning Ade rather than selling him (not that anyone would pay a fee and his wages!) is that he wouldn’t be able to play against us (we all know what happens when a former player plays against his old club!)
jeepers
Jul 22, 2015 at 10:45 am
How can these deadwood players be sold for a profit when they’ve not played and yet been paid wages all the time, not to mention been useless buys in the first place. I’m tired of seeing levy get praise because he managed to shift players he shouldn’t have bought to start with !
Chris
Jul 22, 2015 at 8:44 pm
Exactly Jeepers! Levy tight arse approach means we end up signing cheap no bodies!! I’m glad we are finally shifting these deadwood players. Unfortunately we will be signing more.
Alderwerald is a good signing but I’m sick of people saying we are having a great transfer window!!! Sign some quality creative players then we can start praising levy!