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Transfers Summer 2019 transfer thread
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Ndombele has played his hand.
If Ndombele has asked to leave and is as the comment above suggests wiping his mouth of a 5% transfer fee a second a bonus then that automatically gets Lyon a further £3m-£3.5m which should help in negotiations.
Only a small thing but it would help squeeze any kind of figure down somewhat at least.
If Eriksen and Alderweireld leave probably a lot more than if they stay.
If they stay might do another £50m plus sales proceeds of exiting more minor players ?
We made a 150m I think this year, plus there is money to spend from previous windows, so I'd say 200m for this summer. I don't think any of the transfer budget should be used to pay off the stadium.
I'd rather that Poch didn't throw our model in the bin, we need to refine it, Bayern have only spent more than 40 million on a player once, Lyon paid 8 million on Ndombele. Were missing a trick here, we should have one of the best scouting networks in the world, instead I'm not even sure if we have one at all. Prices are going up, If we insist on getting top level players, 50 mil a season, isn't going to cut it.
Expectations will have to be lowered whether Poch is still at the helm or not.
How about Skipp, Walker-Peters and Edwards? Maybe wishful thinking but then Harry Kane happened so maybe not?
Completely incomparable mate.
Skipp for sure is a talent but no where near ready to truly challenge for a starting spot in the league. Poch clearly has major reservations about KWP. And Edwards will be playing in League 1 in a few seasons unless he seriously changes his mentality.
It's unfair to compare any academy graduates to Kane IMO. He's just a freak of nature.
Harry was allowed to go out on loan and develop. Poch seems to see sending a player away on loan as a last resort. But as a result of that we see players get stuck in the doldrums and waste valuable development time.
All three of those guys need first team football to grow not only as professionals, but as people. Kane spoke massively in his players tribune about how he grew as a person whilst out on loan and outside of his safety net.
Winks is the only youth player that has come through for us under Poch that has not been on loan I am fairly certain. Kane did loans, Mason was on loan, Andros was on loan.
The only one aside from Winks that I can think of that did not spend time away on loan was Bentaleb. And we all know how that went.
Aulas a few days ago states if we sign a box to box mid we could see some developments on Ndombele’s departure.
Lyon sign DM
Aulas confirms Ndombele has asked to leave...
Something is in the air, I really hope it’s us that makes that serious push now things have fallen into place. I need a pick me up signing and we need to get this ball rolling. We have a chance to start something great right now, it’s time to break the bank and take it.
Lyon sign DM
Aulas confirms Ndombele has asked to leave...
Something is in the air, I really hope it’s us that makes that serious push now things have fallen into place. I need a pick me up signing and we need to get this ball rolling. We have a chance to start something great right now, it’s time to break the bank and take it.
Jeez man like N'Dombele yeh.
It really is incredible that if you're a youth player under Poch, and you go on loan, that's basically your Spurs career done and dusted.
If you look at the list of youngsters that were highly regarded in his time that have gone on loan - CCV, Onomah, Edwards, Harrison, Sterling. If we're being honest none of them really have a hope in hell of making it for us now.
One has to wonder is it a bit of a blind spot from Poch to discard young players so soon, or were they just overrated dross to begin with? Could be somewhere in between.
Happy Birthday to Victor.
And being realistic. Who on earth would spend money on him in his current situation. He’s going nowhere.
We'll see. It's the romance of the academy I guess. It's the same with Onomah and Carter-Vickers. CCV played left sided central defense at Swansea. Onomah at shef wed I'm not sure about. I'm looking for a forum for some feedback. He was set. Goodness knows what happened to him though?
Found one....
Josh Onomah
https://www.footballinsider247.com/exclusive-sheffield-wednesday-open-talks-to-sign-tottenham-player-permanently/ Was not impressed by him, but he is still young.
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Very much doubt we have a transfer fund of £200m - that's only ever been an invention of the fabled Hercules supposed itk of SC.
After the £150m profit a number of players had contract extensions with big pay rises and I guess the same will happen this summer as week.
And with player pay at circa £150m within that profit, almost £100m below Woolwich and Chelsea it's not hard to see pay rises of maybe up to £50m needing to be paid plus despite your wishes the interest alone on borrowings to build the stadium will be running at cir.ca £25m and the only funds to repay loans is profit so expect funds to go there too.
My personal guess is that there is £100m plus sales proceeds as a transfer fund which might be stretched for the right players - DL wants a good side at NWHL and a decent CL run again but money is not infinite.
But like almost every club except Real Madrid, Barcelona and Mancs we need to be more clever on buying players - one of the reasons why we are buying Jack Clarke (allegedly) now for £8.5m plus add one to £14m in the hope we do not need to buy him for £50m in a few years time. And I expect to see a couple of too youngsters coming in each summer for this reason.