Plus stealing one of the pikeys best players for free would be a laugh
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Would rather Rice. Soucek was rubbish last season compared to the previous one.
Doesn’t he have two years left on his contract?
It’s also for the club, Inter fans probably don’t yet want to admit we are a bigger club than them. And no fan wants to see tgeir best player be sold and leave. So the narrative to appease the fans has to be that Spurs have offered financially limited Inter a great fee that neither the club nor the player can refuse for the good of the club.
I expect the player would be gappy to stay and in an ideal world inter would keep hold of him, but I don’t know that I buy this narrative of significant reluctance. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
Anyway, once he is here, winning games, experiencing big games, smashing the Gooners and coming out on top of City again, hearing the fans chanting his name, he’ll soon forget his first love.
People keep saying Rice. They're gonna want an absolutely insane amount of money to sell him. IMO, he's not even a £50m player but they're gonna want 3 times that to sell.
More chance of signing Mbappe than Rice ffs
Indeed. Let City spunk that on him next summer.
No no no no no.
Let Man United flex their muscles. Hopefully they pay him £400,000 a week as well to blow everyone out of the water and show the world what a big club they are.
Then watch him disappear.
It almost makes me sad that Woolwich didn’t get CL or they’d be an obvious destination on similarly inflated wages. Never mind, one of the Manchester clubs it is.
Not us anyway. I’d rather have Bowen anyway if we bought any of their players.
Not me!
That thought still contributes to my
We're not though... We're a better team than them, but we're definitely not bigger than Inter. They're a giant of Italian and European football too. It's a shame their owners have been shit since Moratti left (Erick Thohir was terrible, and the Zhangs started well until China decided to fuck them and stop letting them invest). Inter fans (the ones I know at least) are deluded though. They think they're as big of a club as Barcelona, Bayern and Real Madrid.
We Do Not Need Squad Players
Why Don't Spurs Fans Get It!
We Want to Win Trophies
Squad Players or Bench Warmer Won't Win Trophies
We Need Decent Good Players To Compete Starting XI
If In Doubt, See Liverpool Man City.....
Of course. We won’t be signing either anyway.
Inter were giants of Italian and european football, but that status has been eroded a lot in recent years.
ATM Spurs are rated as 14th in UEFA's Club Coefficient points system, Inter 23rd, with the highest rated Italian club being Juve in 8th place Club coefficients | UEFA Coefficients .
If Spurs/Conte get the players they want this window and next window, its likely that Spurs will get higher in that league and Inter, if as likely they sell players, will go down in that league.
In terms of financial value, given the enormous disparity between revenues (particularly TV and commercial combined) between PL and Italian leagues, I'd guess that Spurs are probably worth 2 or 3 times Inter's value right now.
So whether Inter fans like it or not, they are no longer the big club they were
You mean Hercules is dead ?
What a tragedy ! And how will SC get revenues without a 'star' ITK !
Archibald and Crooks very much alive mate
I think in general a foreign player who's made it in a foreign league (eg Romero, Perisic in Italy), is lower risk than a native success like Bastoni. Because they've proved they can adapt to a new country, a new culture, a new language.
On top of that I want someone who sees Spurs as a destination (somewhere they can fulfil their potential) or at least a step up - so dreaming of Real Madrid is ok if it means they are 100% committed and motivated to prove they are good enough to get that move.
Bastoni carries these risks, but I think can still work, if he's the enormous talent people say. He could come to us with some doubts, but grow into a Premier League giant under Conte. And the key there is Conte asking him to play the role he knows very well from Inter, so not a huge adaptation on the footballing side. If that happens, the success can change his mentality, change his ambition, so that instead of pining for Inter, he aspires to success with us or the very biggest clubs like Real.