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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.

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Tbh we’re going to have to sign a centre forward at some point. Kane and Son have a few good years left in them but someone of Martinez’ calibre would safeguard our future for the next 6 years. He’s a machine.

Son - Kane - Martinez is the best front three in the world. No one even comes close.

As it stands Son - Kane - Kulusevski is the best front three in the Prem.

With that being said, a LCB and a RWB are more of a priority.

Holy shit it’s good to be a Spurs fan at the minute.
 
Massive Conte said:
Tbh we’re going to have to sign a centre forward at some point. Kane and Son have a few good years left in them but someone of Martinez’ calibre would safeguard our future for the next 6 years. He’s a machine.

Son - Kane - Martinez is the best front three in the world. No one even comes close.

As it stands Son - Kane - Kulusevski is the best front three in the Prem.

With that being said, a LCB and a RWB are more of a priority.

Holy shit it’s good to be a Spurs fan at the minute.
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even if these players dont come i love these links because it shows coonte wants to win things now rather then wait a few yrs

thats the mentality pep and klopp take on their teams too
 
It might be that Conte knows how good he is and being young Conte might be telling us to buy him now while we can because his ceiling is so high that although expensive he is a very good deal still.
We don't need him as much as we need fill some other positions but still, if Conte does want him then I am all for it.
 
JDK said:
If there's anyone you're going to break the bank for, it's Lautaro Martinez. Was a top 10 attacking player in the world by all metrics last season and is still only 24. In terms of goalscorers 25 and under, only Mbappe and Haaland are ahead of him. Last season stats:
  • 0.83 goals per 90 minutes, 8th overall in Europe's top five leagues behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, Schick, Benzema, Immobile, Ben Yedder, Dembele. Immediately ahead of Mbappe, Vlahovic and Salah.
  • 0.77 xG per 90s minutes. 4th in Europe behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, and Benzema.
  • 0.91 xG+xA per 90 minutes. 8th in Europe behind only Lewa, Benzema, Haaland, Mbappe, Salah, Zapata, and Neymar.
Then he's also just an ideal fit. He's played under our manager before. He's played in strike partnerships with great goalscorers like Lukaku and Dzeko as he would be doing with Kane and Son here. He's just now entering his prime being only 24.

As noted above, the only two strikers in the 25 or under bracket at his level are Mbappe and Haaland. This is a guy that you put all the chips in the middle for if you have any type of a chance to make it happen. He's worth 100m and if we truly have a chance to get him we should be willing to pay that much. This level of player is essentially never available to us.

Don't think it will happen though, Inter are just too difficult to deal with. Been fooled one too many times.
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With their financial difficulties that 90 million will make them feel a lot better
 
JDK said:
If there's anyone you're going to break the bank for, it's Lautaro Martinez. Was a top 10 attacking player in the world by all metrics last season and is still only 24. In terms of goalscorers 25 and under, only Mbappe and Haaland are ahead of him. Last season stats:
  • 0.83 goals per 90 minutes, 8th overall in Europe's top five leagues behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, Schick, Benzema, Immobile, Ben Yedder, Dembele. Immediately ahead of Mbappe, Vlahovic and Salah.
  • 0.77 xG per 90s minutes. 4th in Europe behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, and Benzema.
  • 0.91 xG+xA per 90 minutes. 8th in Europe behind only Lewa, Benzema, Haaland, Mbappe, Salah, Zapata, and Neymar.
Then he's also just an ideal fit. He's played under our manager before. He's played in strike partnerships with great goalscorers like Lukaku and Dzeko as he would be doing with Kane and Son here. He's just now entering his prime being only 24.

As noted above, the only two strikers in the 25 or under bracket at his level are Mbappe and Haaland. This is a guy that you put all the chips in the middle for if you have any type of a chance to make it happen. He's worth 100m and if we truly have a chance to get him we should be willing to pay that much. This level of player is essentially never available to us.

Don't think it will happen though, Inter are just too difficult to deal with. Been fooled one too many times.
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He's not an ideal fit. He can only really play off a big guy or hold up guy. And he can only really play from the left coming inside. We've pretty much got that base covered with Son. And he doesn't create much for others.

If we spunk big bucks on him, (he will only be a back up/rotation for Son) we still need to go and buy a back up for Kane.

If we are going to spunk some serious dough, I'd much rather go after someone like Nkunku, who's XG + XA combined was also a very healthy 0.83, but who can also play in any three positions across the top, including down the middle, and who's game is more more multi faceted - and doesn't depend on others as much as Martinez's does. Who can also cover Kane as well as Son.

Even Rafa Leao would make more sense IMO. He can back up Son's remit (he can run at and past people from the left to inside and out, creates chances for others, but can also play as a 9).
 
JDK said:
If there's anyone you're going to break the bank for, it's Lautaro Martinez. Was a top 10 attacking player in the world by all metrics last season and is still only 24. In terms of goalscorers 25 and under, only Mbappe and Haaland are ahead of him. Last season stats:
  • 0.83 goals per 90 minutes, 8th overall in Europe's top five leagues behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, Schick, Benzema, Immobile, Ben Yedder, Dembele. Immediately ahead of Mbappe, Vlahovic and Salah.
  • 0.77 xG per 90s minutes. 4th in Europe behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, and Benzema.
  • 0.91 xG+xA per 90 minutes. 8th in Europe behind only Lewa, Benzema, Haaland, Mbappe, Salah, Zapata, and Neymar.
Then he's also just an ideal fit. He's played under our manager before. He's played in strike partnerships with great goalscorers like Lukaku and Dzeko as he would be doing with Kane and Son here. He's just now entering his prime being only 24.

As noted above, the only two strikers in the 25 or under bracket at his level are Mbappe and Haaland. This is a guy that you put all the chips in the middle for if you have any type of a chance to make it happen. He's worth 100m and if we truly have a chance to get him we should be willing to pay that much. This level of player is essentially never available to us.

Don't think it will happen though, Inter are just too difficult to deal with. Been fooled one too many times.
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Also I think the Bastoni transfer is dead and the other LCB targets aren’t going to cost that much. I think we will spend big on player this summer might as well make it an attacker so we have the best frontline world football.
 
Pathfinder said:
If - as "reported" - both Martinez & Bastoni are so keen to remain at Inter I rather see Spurs switch targets. If a player is sold against his will it can have a negative impact on his performance.

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They're not exactly being forced to transfer work place to a sweatshop in Vietnam, are they. Italian clubs seems to have a quite pragmatic approach to transfer dealings and the players will know that. Granted, moving to a new country is a major thing, and we have to trust that Paraciti and his team would be able to suss out if it'll be a enough to have a negative impact. Personally I don't see a major issue here.
 


Be interesting to see how long Inter can hold out, they have only 13 days left to improve financials on their balance sheet, the figure heavily touted before was circa 60M, not long left for them.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
FWIW, I would anticipate the transfer rumblings over *someone* to intensify the moment Bissouma is done (which, Spurs official announcement aside, seems to be now).

Paratici's MO definitely seems to be focussing laser-like on one deal at a time before moving onto the next. I'll admit I thought this would likely be Djed Spence though.
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AFAIK all reports on Paratici is the exact opposite....that he's forever wheeling and dealing with multiple potential deals for multiple positions at the same time. It's just randomness that some deals fall into place before others.
 
JDK said:
If there's anyone you're going to break the bank for, it's Lautaro Martinez. Was a top 10 attacking player in the world by all metrics last season and is still only 24. In terms of goalscorers 25 and under, only Mbappe and Haaland are ahead of him. Last season stats:
  • 0.83 goals per 90 minutes, 8th overall in Europe's top five leagues behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, Schick, Benzema, Immobile, Ben Yedder, Dembele. Immediately ahead of Mbappe, Vlahovic and Salah.
  • 0.77 xG per 90s minutes. 4th in Europe behind only Lewandowski, Haaland, and Benzema.
  • 0.91 xG+xA per 90 minutes. 8th in Europe behind only Lewa, Benzema, Haaland, Mbappe, Salah, Zapata, and Neymar.
Then he's also just an ideal fit. He's played under our manager before. He's played in strike partnerships with great goalscorers like Lukaku and Dzeko as he would be doing with Kane and Son here. He's just now entering his prime being only 24.

As noted above, the only two strikers in the 25 or under bracket at his level are Mbappe and Haaland. This is a guy that you put all the chips in the middle for if you have any type of a chance to make it happen. He's worth 100m and if we truly have a chance to get him we should be willing to pay that much. This level of player is essentially never available to us.

Don't think it will happen though, Inter are just too difficult to deal with. Been fooled one too many times.
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Kane 29 next month, Son 30 next month and this kid just 24

To go all in for him would make sense.
 
bus-conductor said:
He's not an ideal fit. He can only really play off a big guy or hold up guy. And he can only really play from the left coming inside. We've pretty much got that base covered with Son. And he doesn't create much for others.

If we spunk big bucks on him, (he will only be a back up/rotation for Son) we still need to go and buy a back up for Kane.

If we are going to spunk some serious dough, I'd much rather go after someone like Nkunku, who's XG + XA combined was also a very healthy 0.83, but who can also play in any three positions across the top, including down the middle, and who's game is more more multi faceted - and doesn't depend on others as much as Martinez's does. Who can also cover Kane as well as Son.

Even Rafa Leao would make more sense IMO. He can back up Son's remit (he can run at and past people from the left to inside and out, creates chances for others, but can also play as a 9).
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I'm honestly a bit tired of how high Inter players are rated. If they're all so damn good, why did they finish second to a Milan side with a Giroud and Ibrahimovic as the main strikers, a fresh faced Tomori, and a lot of other players like Ramagnoli that few people would rate?

How comes they bottled that EL final against Sevilla with a better team, and got dumped out the CL in the round of 16 last season and didn't even make it past the groups in mutiple previous season?

It's going overboard now.
 
What's you're 25 man squad gonna look like?


01 Lloris
02 Romero
03 Sanchez
04 Centre back
05 Davies
06 Dier
07 Royal
08 Perisic
09 Doherty
10 Bentancur
11 Bissouma
12 Hojbjerg
13 Centre mid
14 Kulusevski
15 Moura
16 Forward
17 Son

01 Foster
02 Austin
03 Tanganga
04 Sessegnon
05 Spence
06 Skipp
07 Parrott
08 Kane

Centre back - Clement Lenglet (loan)
Centre mid - Christian Eriksen (free)
Forward - Richarlison (£who knows)


FULL Arab mode;
Centre back - Alessandro Bastoni (expensive)
Centre mid - Western McKennie (expensive)
Forward - Lautaro Martinez (really expensive)
Raphina for Moura (would love to see him play for Spurs either way!)


Son/Martienz/Kulusevski/Raphina/Kane/Parrott

McKennie/Bissouma/Hojbjerg/Bentancur/Skipp

Perisic/Royal/Doherty/Spence/Sessegnon

Romero/Sanchez/Bastoni/Dier/Davies/Tanganga

Lloris/Foster/Austin
 
bus-conductor said:
He's not an ideal fit. He can only really play off a big guy or hold up guy. And he can only really play from the left coming inside. We've pretty much got that base covered with Son. And he doesn't create much for others.

If we spunk big bucks on him, (he will only be a back up/rotation for Son) we still need to go and buy a back up for Kane.

If we are going to spunk some serious dough, I'd much rather go after someone like Nkunku, who's XG + XA combined was also a very healthy 0.83, but who can also play in any three positions across the top, including down the middle, and who's game is more more multi faceted - and doesn't depend on others as much as Martinez's does. Who can also cover Kane as well as Son.

Even Rafa Leao would make more sense IMO. He can back up Son's remit (he can run at and past people from the left to inside and out, creates chances for others, but can also play as a 9).
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Kane is the best center forward in the world in regards to hold up play, Lautaro and Kane would be a perfect strike pairing.

Understandably fans judge Lukaku on what he did at United and this year at Chelsea, but Conte had Lukaku playing in an extremely similar way to how Kane did this year. Lukaku had 11 assists in the league at Inter last year, numerous to Lautaro. Obviously Kane would be way better in that role as Lukaku.

If we're truly going to spend big on an attacking player whether it is Richarlison, Lautaro, or someone else it means we intend to rotate across the front three much more than this year when Son, Kane, and Kulusevski were the first names on the team sheet. I think Conte wants another top notch forward player for numerous reasons: five subs, more competitions, and because he wants the flexibility to switch back and forth between 3-5-2 and 3-4-3.

We're extremely lucky to have Kane, Son, and Kulusevski currently and hopefully next year we'll be lucky to have high-level fourth option that allows us Conte to impact the game with substitutions and formation changes and keeps aging Son and Kane fresher for a whole campaign. I'm sure Conte wants the best player possible to be that fourth option and Lautaro is the best option. Nkunku and Leao are obviously both excellent players too, but I think they are even less likely to be sold and the asking prices quoted are even higher than 90m euros apparently for Lautaro.
 
bus-conductor said:
He's not an ideal fit. He can only really play off a big guy or hold up guy. And he can only really play from the left coming inside. We've pretty much got that base covered with Son. And he doesn't create much for others.

If we spunk big bucks on him, (he will only be a back up/rotation for Son) we still need to go and buy a back up for Kane.

If we are going to spunk some serious dough, I'd much rather go after someone like Nkunku, who's XG + XA combined was also a very healthy 0.83, but who can also play in any three positions across the top, including down the middle, and who's game is more more multi faceted - and doesn't depend on others as much as Martinez's does. Who can also cover Kane as well as Son.

Even Rafa Leao would make more sense IMO. He can back up Son's remit (he can run at and past people from the left to inside and out, creates chances for others, but can also play as a 9).
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I'm not convinced he can do Son's role either. He would be a great signing if we played 352, but we don't and moving to it would displace Deki (although he did play in a CM3 at youth level.

Richarlison would be a better signing IMO.
 
KEDS said:
bench Kuluveski who's been amazing?

Also, for as good as Kane is coming deep, I still rather him upfront then anyone else.
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It’s a squad game for us next season with CL and lots of big games. Liverpool have 5 quality options for the front 3 positions. We currently have 3, what if any of those 3 get injured? Or if we need a game changer from the bench?
 
Lol, Lautaro is genuinely a top 10 striker in world football and still hasn’t hit his peak years. If you can get him, you get him and figure out the exact tactics later. Especially when you have a world class manager who has coached him previously at the helm.
 
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