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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

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dmulally said:
I don't think we should sell Son or Kane (the most prolific strike partnership in PL history), but to explain the thought process it would be to assist in the painful rebuild. If you look at the ages of Sess, Gio, Tanguy, Bergy, Tanganga etc we are one or two seasons away from challenging for anything meaningful again.

If we take the Eriksen situation as an example if we had have sold him at his peak we could have re-invested but the fans would have been upset. Nobody knew he would turn out to be shit.

Even though we top the Forbes most valuable club in England list, we don't have the financial clout to spend as much as Burnley or Watford (we are 17th in the net spend league over the last 5 years) so we have to sell to buy.
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We have a bunch of wooden tops that would bring in a bit.
Aurier, Sanchez, KWP and so on down the ranks. Clean out the dead wood, pocket a few mil and rethink the squad. Prioritise what is most needed. A back line, GK, DM etc.. and then see what the f
dmulally said:
I don't think we should sell Son or Kane (the most prolific strike partnership in PL history), but to explain the thought process it would be to assist in the painful rebuild. If you look at the ages of Sess, Gio, Tanguy, Bergy, Tanganga etc we are one or two seasons away from challenging for anything meaningful again.

If we take the Eriksen situation as an example if we had have sold him at his peak we could have re-invested but the fans would have been upset. Nobody knew he would turn out to be shit.

Even though we top the Forbes most valuable club in England list, we don't have the financial clout to spend as much as Burnley or Watford (we are 17th in the net spend league over the last 5 years) so we have to sell to buy.
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And we have a lot of deadwood to sell.
 
dmulally said:
I don't think we should sell Son or Kane (the most prolific strike partnership in PL history), but to explain the thought process it would be to assist in the painful rebuild. If you look at the ages of Sess, Gio, Tanguy, Bergy, Tanganga etc we are one or two seasons away from challenging for anything meaningful again.

If we take the Eriksen situation as an example if we had have sold him at his peak we could have re-invested but the fans would have been upset. Nobody knew he would turn out to be shit.

Even though we top the Forbes most valuable club in England list, we don't have the financial clout to spend as much as Burnley or Watford (we are 17th in the net spend league over the last 5 years) so we have to sell to buy.
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Gatsby said:
Mate, ENIC are going nowhere. They have set up a model which floods in the revenue. Over the past 3 years they have made over £1b on revenue, why would they give that up?


The figures show £1.115billion of revenue came in to Spurs across those three years. During the same time, Spurs spent £452.72million on staff costs, which was the sixth highest in the Premier League. However, those staff costs made up a 39.33 per cent ratio of the club's revenue.


The only way they go is if someone like Amazon, Alphabet or another world leading business comes in with a huge offer, I'm talking £1b.
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So basically. we're fucked!
 
NSFB said:
No. They did it buy buying a cheat code to win their place at the top.

I don’t want oil money or any other dirty money and empty cheque book
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What's wrong with oil money? Seriously, it's a legitimate business. Once, Shell, A British company was the biggest producer in the world. Are you anti oil or is your stance a political point of view based on human rights etc.. Serious question. Personally I'd love to have someone like Bezos buy us.
 
TomHotspur said:
The season after Mourinho won his last league title at Chelsea is when his decline began. He took that amazing team you speak of and left them in disarray in the bottom half. Managers like Pep, Klopp, and indeed Poch were gaining momentum and their higher energy and higher fitness level football which was being adopted by more and more coaches was simply too good for Mourinhos pragmatic, reactive style of football. He was found out.

Wind on to his time at United and it became even more glaring that his style was finished. Those two trophies he won in his first season, let’s look at them a bit closer. To win the League Cup, Mourinho had to beat Northampton Town, City (on pens), West Ham, Hull, and Southampton. I would call that an unbelievably favorable draw.
For the Europa, he had to beat the might of St Etienne, Rostov, Anderlect, Celta Vigo and an unbelievably green Ajax side in the final. Has any side ever had an easier run to a final in a European cup than that? And even at that he scraped past most of those teams. Luck had a far far bigger role in him winning his two trophies at United than his managerial prowess.

He then went on to spend another hundred odd million on players HE wanted, only for United to get progressively worse and worse. You mention Rashford and McTominay as players he improved. Are you for real? Rashford is just a fast Danny Welbeck and hasn’t improved since Van Gaal gave him his debut, and McTominay is just a slightly more mobile Dier.

Talk about Mourinhos past glories all you like, but to be trying to gas up his time at United, thats just embarrassing.
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You tell us to look "a bit closer" at Jose's titles in 2016, but then you simply give us wrong informations to justify your agenda. Man Utd didn't beat City on pens, for example. They won that game 1-0 with a goal from Juan Mata. Just saying this because that's where I stopped reading you. I don't know if you mentioned the fact that, on his second season, Jose finished second in the Premier League with a team that had Valencia, Young, Smalling, Jones and Lingard. This team finished the league in front of Chelsea, Liverpool, Tottenham, Woolwich, etc. I suspect you forgot to look a bit closer at it. With all due respect, please study a bit more and then try to look a bit closer at things. COYS
 
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Don Corleone said:
Can I just put this out here. Fraser, Hojbjerg. Just some of the names linked strongly.

Chelsea - Werner, Havertz and Ziyech.

Utterly depressing. People wonder why some of us are fed up ? Chelsea consistently buying quality and winning stuff. Us buying the scraps and winning nothing.
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We get it, dude.

Chelsea's owner spends his own money and has for nearly 20 years. Spurs owner does not spend his own money and hasn't for nearly 20 years. This has resulted in Chelsea winning trophies and Spurs not winning trophies because wage bills (not transfer spend, by the way) is the most reliable indicator/predictor of success in football today.

If you want to go bitch at the current owners than go do it in one of the 10 other threads Tottenham Massive Tottenham Massive has setup in this forum to complain about it.
 
AlabamaSpur said:
Don't lie to me Ricky!
Seriously though, this would be fantastic. .0001% chance of happening, but still
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Darnswim said:
I'd love to see Jimenez here, because he's a brilliant player, but this transfer doesn't make that much sense for either him or us. We don't have the funds, and like previously mentioned, he would be second fiddle to Kane.
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Stanley said:
This might be an unpopular opinion, but isn't being second fiddle to Kane at our club a step down from being the main man at Wolves?
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Shhhh... Only 'Son Of Levy; Celebrator Of Failure' says things like that.

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