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Transfers January 2020 transfer thread

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superstaryid said:
Yeah decent enough post , I just think you're over selling it, we are well run no doubt about it but we made a world record profit between June 2017 and June 2018 and spent no money that's unforgivable in my book and is a big black mark against Enic, some forecasts suggest we will break a world record profit again between June 2018 and June 2019 one thing is for certain the profits will be huge probably well over 100 million.

You're probably going to be looking at 250 million pounds of profit and 100 million spent over the last two years
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I agree we absolutely should have signed someone that summer but we did put all of our eggs in one Grealish sized basket and it blew up in our faces, it's not as if we didn't try and go for someone.

That summer will always have a black mark next to ENICs name but that money does still exist and is probably the reason why we are stacking a few new lads in the ranks as we speak. Blown money or powder dry? Each will have their opinions but yeah I do think going a whole year without identifying someone we could 100% secure was a slack move regardless of how much time and emphasis was being placed on getting back to N17.
 
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Reading through twenty odd pages it's hard to grasp the lack of understanding about how our club's transfer system works ... we use a transfer committee, we have done for ages it consists of the CEO, the Manager, our Chief Scout and our Head of Player Development. It was put in place by Michael Edwards when Harry was around, Michael was head of player analysis (think moneyball) at the time.

In case you aren't aware Michael was poached to join Liverpool in 2011 by Comolli (yup also ex-Spurs) where he took over the same role, he became their Technical Director in 2015 and is the man credited with the transformation of their transfer committee and their recent huge success in the market.

Back to Spurs, we use the same committee structure as Liverpool, targets are identified by the manager but theses are purely positional not names, the committee than agree a series of key skills required, age, height, technical abilities, value. The 'money ball' team at Spurs then produce a list of possible candidates based on the given criteria ... the committee selects it's favourites and scouts are employed to take a closer look, agents are spoken with on potential availability, only then do the committee meet again to discuss the actual players we might bid for ... not sure how that bit works is it a vote? does Levy have the final say? does Mourinho?

However that's our transfer system in a nutshell it has been for almost a decade ...
 
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BangkokSpud said:
Reading through twenty odd pages it's hard to grasp the lack of understanding about how our club's transfer system works ... we use a transfer committee, we have done for ages it consist of the CEO, the Manager, our Chief Scout and our Head of Player Development. It was put in place by Michael Edwards when Harry was around, Michael was head of player analysis (think moneyball) at the time.

In case you aren't aware Michael was poached to join Liverpool in 2011 by Comolli (yup also ex-Spurs) where he took over the same role, he became their Technical Director in 2015 and is the man credited with the transformation of their transfer committee and their recent huge success in the market.

Back to Spurs, we use the same committee structure as Liverpool, targets are identified by the manager but theses are purely positional not names, the committee than agree a series of key skills required, age, height, technical abilities, value. The 'money ball' team at Spurs then produce a list of possible candidates based on the given criteria ... the committee selects it's favourites and scouts are employed to take a closer look, agents are spoken with on potential availability, only then do the committee meet again to discuss the actual players we might bid for ... not sure how that bit works is it a vote? does Levy have the final say? does Mourinho?

However that's our transfer system in a nutshell it has been for almost a decade ...
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But does Bergwijn get on base?
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todd1882 said:
Ok, so just watched (still watching but he's off now) the Milan-Torino game and gotta say not really impressed with our boy Piatek. Could be the skippy stream or it could be because he didn't do much but not really impressed. TBF the stream is quite skippy.

But I just can't rate a player whose only quality is 'goals'. You've gotta bring more to the game and on first viewing he doesn't look the player to do that. But I'll withhold final judgment until he arrives then slate the donkey first chance I get.
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I watched part of it, after Piatek went off. This kid Zlatan Ibra-something or other looks good.
 
BangkokSpud said:
Reading through twenty odd pages it's hard to grasp the lack of understanding about how our club's transfer system works ... we use a transfer committee, we have done for ages it consist of the CEO, the Manager, our Chief Scout and our Head of Player Development. It was put in place by Michael Edwards when Harry was around, Michael was head of player analysis (think moneyball) at the time.

In case you aren't aware Michael was poached to join Liverpool in 2011 by Comolli (yup also ex-Spurs) where he took over the same role, he became their Technical Director in 2015 and is the man credited with the transformation of their transfer committee and their recent huge success in the market.

Back to Spurs, we use the same committee structure as Liverpool, targets are identified by the manager but theses are purely positional not names, the committee than agree a series of key skills required, age, height, technical abilities, value. The 'money ball' team at Spurs then produce a list of possible candidates based on the given criteria ... the committee selects it's favourites and scouts are employed to take a closer look, agents are spoken with on potential availability, only then do the committee meet again to discuss the actual players we might bid for ... not sure how that bit works is it a vote? does Levy have the final say? does Mourinho?

However that's our transfer system in a nutshell it has been for almost a decade ...
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You haven't mentioned Steve Hitchen.
 
superstaryid said:
Yeah decent enough post , I just think you're over selling it, we are well run no doubt about it but we made a world record profit between June 2017 and June 2018 and spent no money that's unforgivable in my book and is a big black mark against Enic, some forecasts suggest we will break a world record profit again between June 2018 and June 2019 one thing is for certain the profits will be huge probably well over 100 million.

You're probably going to be looking at 250 million pounds of profit and 100 million spent over the last two years
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We spent 250m of our own money on the stadium ... hence the loans are 600m on an 850m project ... or did you think that 250m came from the council? we're not West Ham no handouts here.

We made 33m profit in 2016, 41m in 2017 and 113m in 2018 .... most of which has now gone on new players, what bit about that is so hard to understand?
 
Mariner said:
The whole premise is that it could have ended differently, we lost out because Madrid weren’t interested, Eriksen despite the rumoured wage increase lost out because he it was Real Barca or nothing Inter is face saving. Mr Hynter is trying to make out that we lost out, from the position we were in Levy did magic to get any money and that much for a player who’s free come mid May
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Well actually Madrid were very interested and an agreement was already on the table - unfortunately some cunt demanded 100 million euro in transfer fees and the momentum dissapared - and then the transfer window closed down - then Madrid got a new french manager who prefers to hire french players (Zizou) - and this closed the door for CE at RM. CE owes THFC absolutely nothing - the idiot running THFC ruined CEs transfer to RM - and in the end had to sell CE for peanuts. Regarding the new signings at the club - none of them are a shure bet - even lo celso - who has performed well in his last couple of matches - has still not proven that he cant maintain a consistant high quality level of play - i hope i does - because if he does not THFC are in for a rude awakening. 18 games left in the premier league this season is a lot of games with an inexperienced midfield consisting of primarily young talents and players who would be warming the subs benches in most other clubs in the premiership....
 
doktordanny1 said:
Well actually Madrid were very interested and an agreement was already on the table - unfortunately some cunt demanded 100 million euro in transfer fees and the momentum dissapared - and then the transfer window closed down - then Madrid got a new french manager who prefers to hire french players (Zizou) - and this closed the door for CE at RM. CE owes THFC absolutely nothing - the idiot running THFC ruined CEs transfer to RM - and in the end had to sell CE for peanuts. Regarding the new signings at the club - none of them are a shure bet - even lo celso - who has performed well in his last couple of matches - has still not proven that he cant maintain a consistant high quality level of play - i hope i does - because if he does not THFC are in for a rude awakening. 18 games left in the premier league this season is a lot of games with an inexperienced midfield consisting of primarily young talents and players who would be warming the subs benches in most other clubs in the premiership....
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Total and utter bollocks .... why do you bother?
 
doktordanny1 said:
Well actually Madrid were very interested and an agreement was already on the table - unfortunately some cunt demanded 100 million euro in transfer fees and the momentum dissapared - and then the transfer window closed down - then Madrid got a new french manager who prefers to hire french players (Zizou) - and this closed the door for CE at RM. CE owes THFC absolutely nothing - the idiot running THFC ruined CEs transfer to RM - and in the end had to sell CE for peanuts. Regarding the new signings at the club - none of them are a shure bet - even lo celso - who has performed well in his last couple of matches - has still not proven that he cant maintain a consistant high quality level of play - i hope i does - because if he does not THFC are in for a rude awakening. 18 games left in the premier league this season is a lot of games with an inexperienced midfield consisting of primarily young talents and players who would be warming the subs benches in most other clubs in the premiership....
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You're boring... Go bother Inter or something.
 
Shotgunofmichalebrow said:
Everyone in the world with a passing interest in the game know about Camavinga sadly they also know both Barcelona and PSG are all over him. Way out of our range sadly. Zakaria not an unknown quantity, he played more as a box to box in the two games against the Republic of Ireland. On athleticism alone required for the EPL he'd be my pick. Touch of a the pre-busted Wanyama about him. Soumare over Luis but as you say both have less ability.
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He's destined for an uber club for sure, I can't remember being this impressed by a 17yo 6 type, but hopefully he's smart enough to realise 17yo might be too soon to make the leap to a Barca/RM - that could potentially stall his career - there might be a hope of a next tier club providing him with that much needed intermediary step.

having watched a bit more of both through the season so far, I'd take Zakaria over Soumare.
 
John Thomas said:
I know There's a strange phenomena occurring on TFC.

Tanguy N'Dombele's fee has also already increased from 53million to 62million.

Tanguy Ndombele: Tottenham sign France midfielder from Lyon

Some of our fans have a weird obsession with spending huge sums of money, it seems
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Tanguy Ndombele: Tottenham sign France midfielder from Lyon. Tottenham have signed France midfielder Tanguy Ndombele from Ligue 1 side Lyon for a club record 60m euros (£53.8m). The 22-year-old has signed a deal until 2025 and the fee could rise to 70m euros (£62.8m) with incentives

That's the link you posted I'm quoting
 
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