In 2013, Spurs reluctantly cashed in on star man Gareth Bale and replaced him with seven new signings – but did their plan work?
came in the first couple of weeks of August. Then on August 30, just before Bale’s departure, Eriksen , Lamela and the centre-back Chiriches all arrived. The former two, Lamela especially, were signed to help fill the deficit in goals and assists that would be left by Bale’s departure. Likewise Paulinho, Chadli and Soldado. It was an outlay of more than £100million, with Spurs breaking their transfer record three times.
Arsenal won the game 1-0 but much of the build-up to the game centred on the contrast between Spurs’ perceived effectiveness in the window compared with the dithering of their north London rivals. At that point, the day before they signed Mesut Ozil from Madrid, they hadn’t paid a fee for a first-team player.
In September, Tottenham’s captain, Michael Dawson, said the squad “certainly has to be the best” he had experienced during his eight years at the club. Villas-Boas’ predecessor, Redknapp, claimed it was the strongest in the Premier League.away 2-0 on September 14 to go second in their first game after the window closed, the defeated manager Chris Hughton was asked if his former team could challenge for the title.
A decade on, it’s largely accepted that it takes time for new signings to settle and teams that make wholesale changes in the summer are unlikely to instantly click the following season.
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