made in UK wrote:It's strange how some people just pass off Keane's signing as a failure by the manager and are more eager to pull the knives out and chastise H&G if things aren't going according to plan. When 'money is tight' you cannot afford costly mistakes like that and Rafa with his handling of the player really let the team down. Its fair to say Keane isn't an 'easy' player to find a position for in a team, at Spurs now Defoe and Crouch are the primary pairing, Keane isn't neither a goal poacher (like Defoe) or a target man like Crouch and the combination of Crouch and Defoe seems to work for them. Having said that if Rafa didn't have an idea about Keane and his slightly unique style then he shouldn't of wasted 20 million on him. But he did, and the fact Rafa couldn't or didn't accomodate him better makes him the one where the fault lies and like I said when money is 'tight' you can't afford to make eratic decisions like that.
Yes, the £1m we spent on Keane really hit us hard.