Who is to blame for Spurs buying all the wrong players?

Traditional media and sites like this are to blame for helping the top 4 illegally tap up top players at other clubs. How can we challenge if you always help the big 4 take the likes of Carrick and Berbatov?

were good for the future. Unfortunately, we needed to buy for the present. As you say, we needed desperately to strengthen the back 4 - last season Dawson played exceptionally. This season he seems to have taken a giant step backwards. Even the reintroduction of King doesn't seem to have helped much, although with only a couple of games under his belt (and now yet another injury) that was always going to be a non-issue. When taking the age of the signings into account, they were always looked upon as future potential, rather than current stars. Even Darren Bent, one of the Premiership's top English strikers, and consistently so over a number of seasons wasn't a bad buy. The only negative was the price - absolutely fleeced. Yes, he's not fitted straight in, but he's a quality player and shows flashes of that now and again. I'm sure that Ramos realises that we need urgently to bolster the back 4, and will be taking steps in that direction, without being held over a barrel by greedy agents and managers. A

What the hell are you on about, Comolli wasn't even at Spurs when Jol was appointed, it was Arnesen,

What? You mean you're surprised to find glaring inaccuracies on a Sportingo article?!

I agree with most of what you say. But surely the position we needed most, and still need most is goalkeeper. Any half way competent goalkeeper would be nice. Then, and only then can the defence be judged.

Actually, Commolli was appointed AFTER Martin Jol, after Arnesen went to Chelsea, bit of a major flaw in your article there! But on the other hand, it does seem that Commolli expects the clubs First team coach to be able to fit round pegs in square holes...

Comolli is the person to blame for buying crap players! boetang,kabul and bent especially! even now in this window we seem to be linked with flair midfielders instead of decent defenders! comolli should leave and they should let ramos buy who he wants to like the old days.director of football!-what a waste of a salary!

but I distinctly remember people raving on about Boateng, and how we HAD to have him. He's played a few games, put in a few decent performances and all of a sudden he's awful?! And Kaboul - he's only what, 19? Far too young to be one of our main CBs, should be sent out on loan for the experience. Doesn't make him a bad player though. And Bent, consistently one of the best english strikers in the Premiership. Just because we got taken to the cleaners for him, doesn't make him a bad player.

Boateng was, for a long time, a target for Ramos whilst he was at Sevilla and Ramos plays him more than Jol did (although he was carrying an injury then). Kaboul was for the future and who could forecast that we would have 3 out of 4 first team centre backs long term injured. Gardiner is not my favourite player but he was playing well when he went down. Bale - a good signing, Tarabt, one for the future and the story is now emerging that Petrov wouldn't play for Jol. Another blatant attempt to stir up a controversy where there probably isn't one. Please can we move on.

I wish these sort of articles didnt come up on newsnow - amateur puff. Why do you even need to find someone to blame? and even if you do, how can you - an outsider - pinpoint any blame without knowing anymore than the rest of us. How do you know comolli et al didnt go for the types of players you suggest? how do you know they were available? how do you know they wanted to come? or that even if they did, it made economic sense? even then how would you know that Kaboul would adapt quickly to the english game? or that petrov would? or why he didnt come? you could even ask whether the fans are to blame? do we put too much pressure on the club? are we always expecting new signings? and expecting these signings to become miracle workers? how do we know it's not just simply the case that there are a shortage of players in suitable positions? or that the teams around us havent simply improved more? it's impossible to answer all these questions 100% accurately or weigh these various elements against each other. Ma

With regards to who we buy or how we sort out our defensive frailties we are now in the position that nobody wants to come to Spurs. Following Hutton turning down a move it is now anounced that Erby Emanuelson has told Ajax not to negotiate terms with Spurs because following a conversation with Davids he doesnt want to go there. I wonder who we can find that actually wants to play for us.

who is to blame for such appalling articles? the moderators? society? the education system? Jeff heath? his parents? sportingo? the inventors of the english language? who damn it! who?

It's so easy to be wise when things are going wrong, but I have to disagree. Boateng was voted best young player in Germany last year and Kaboul has been the captain of all France youth teams and is thought be one of the most promising players in France. Both are young and need time. As did Vidic for MUFC for example. And Bent has not turned into a bad player, his time will also come. What Spurs need is international experience along with youth. Ramos will bring that, I´m sure.

To say Darren Bent is a "wrong player" is totally ridiculous. He hasn't played one full 90 minute game all season, which i think is fair to say isn't giving him an opportunity. If you look at the last two seasons (excluding this one for anyone wanting to argue) add up the goals he has scored then add up the goals Berbatov has scored and you'll see Berbatov has only scored ONE more, thats not even taking into account the amount of time Bent was injured in Charlton's relegation battle! Yet Spurs want £30mil for Berbatov and everyone says Bent is overpriced? I think it was wrong for Spurs to buy another forward when Defoe clearly has class and their defence was basically non-existant but that doesnt mean Bent is the wrong player and theres no reason he still cant go on and be a formidible player for Spurs - its only been 6months for goodness sake!

honestly, i don't dislike spurs, think they are a great attacking team- respect keane immensely- get a little petty against hammers but its a derby! The people in charge of your club are total mugs ie admin and not the players or managers THAT is what is wrong at the moment

You cant really blame our new signings for our poor for this season. We bought Kaboul, Bale, boateng for the future. Bale has performed well when not injured, Kaboul wasn't supposed to be a regular yet but due to nearly all our CBs getting injured he was thrown in at the deep end. Boateng's only played a handful of games so can hardly blame him. As for Darren Bent, we wasted £16 million on him, not because he's a bad player but because strikers were about the only position that didnt need strengthening in the summer. If we'd spent that money on an experienced CB or CM we wouldnt be out of the race for european places already (barring a miraculous turnaround in form in the second half of the season)