‘You can’t just spend’ – Postecoglou explains Tottenham’s plan in the transfer windows
Ange Postecoglou has insisted that Tottenham Hotspur and the other Premier League sides need to be extremely smart with their recruitment decisions, pointing out that...
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Ange Postecoglou has insisted that Tottenham Hotspur and the other Premier League sides need to be extremely smart with their recruitment decisions, pointing out that bad decisions could prove especially costly, given the tighter financial restrictions now being imposed.
The Premier League have demonstrated recently that they are willing to punish teams who do not adhere to the Profit and Sustainability Rules, which has meant that many clubs across the division have not been able to make the kind of signings they wanted to in January.
That has potentially played into the hands of Tottenham, who have been running sustainability over the last few years from a financial standpoint, thus giving them more leeway.
When it was put to Postecoglou that the club’s balanced spending in previous years has enabled them to be the highest spenders in January, the Australian told Football.London: “In the smallest spending window? There’s a bit of context there.
“Come on mate, don’t tell me I’ve bought my way to the top! Yeah, look, I think all those things are an advantage but whether you have got one pound or a million it’s how you spend it, I really do think that.
“I have no issue with clubs that spend a lot of money if they get it right – good on them. Whatever you’ve got you want to invest it wisely whether it’s a limitless amount or a finite amount – which there is now.
“We are all finding out that you can’t just spend. For us, we have done a good job strategically because part of the brief from my perspective anyway was to do it early.”
Smart and early deals worked well for Tottenham
Postecoglou reiterated that the club’s decision to capitalise on the opportunity to sign Radu Dragusin and Timo Werner early in the window ended up proving pivotal.
When asked about Tottenham’s early business, he said: “That was really important. I know people dismiss that aspect of it but if we hadn’t had Timo and even Radu over the last three weeks and dropped games we wouldn’t be in the position we are.
“Maybe you are right, maybe because of the lack of activity it allowed us to do that early but I still think we were pretty smart about in terms of the targets we identified. Is there an opportunity? I think there is always an opportunity, it’s how you embrace and take it.”
When asked if Spurs’ strong position when it comes to PSR would allow them to dictate proceedings again next summer, the 58-year-old said: “It depends again on how we use that money. If we mis-spend we are going to be in the same kind of environment because once you mis-spend you have to replace, don’t you? And you can’t.
“It’s as much about how you spend as what you spend because one mistake, particularly with financial fair play, costs you more than that because you have to replace that player and you cannot sell him for what you bought him for. There is a whole knock-on effect. I could be wrong but clubs are taking more care in the way they are spending – I don’t think that will change.”
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What Postecoglou says is spot on as Spurs (or any other Premier League team for that matter) cannot afford mistakes like the Tanguy Ndombele purchase any longer.
That is why all sides are quite wary about spending £50m-plus on players and handing them bumper contracts as it would become extremely hard to offload those players in the current climate.
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