He’s a Chelsea fan. At the end of each window he calls us all dickheads and then opens a different account.
It’s utter bollocks.
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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It’s utter bollocks.
Exactly. "I was the one who copied and pasted a link, so therefore I am 1 tier higher than thou."Who isn't a ITK??
What does "perfect player to compliment Son, Maddison and Kane" really mean? He plays in the position as Son and Kane but he's not an OMF like Maddison. And would Spurs really spend that much money on a "compliment" player? Don't think so.
Replace Son probably
This "bargain hunting" theory simply isn't true. Not anymore. It's a relic of the pre-Bale Spurs which very much looked for cheap young players to develop and sell at a profit. But that M.O. does a decade ago. Since then we've spent:
2013: €30M Soldado and €30 Lamela. This €60M was the more that any PL club spent on 2 players other than United (€66M for Fernandinho and Jovetic)
2015: €30M on Son, which was the 3rd most expensive transfer of the summer aside from the Manchestee clubs. At the two Liverpool transfers that trumped it were Benteke and Firmino, which got a lot of praise at the time but were poor deals retrospectively.
2016: €35M on Sissoko (oof), which outside of Manchester was joint 5th highest behind Xhaka (€45M, lol), Mustafi (€41M, lol), Mane (€41M), and Batshuayi (€39M, lol)
2017: €42M on Sanchez plus €53M combined for Moura and Aurier. Outside of Manchester there were 4 players more expensive than Sanchez; van Djik (€85M), Morata (€66M), Aubemayang (€64M, lol), and Lacazette (€53M, lol)
2018: Well this is the problem.
2019: €62M on Ndombele, €30M on Bergwijn, €27M on Sessegnon. Outside of Manchester there was only 1 transfer more expensive than Ndombele: Pepe (€80M, JFC lol). Only clubs signing 3 players over €25M: Woolwich (Pepe, Saliba, and Tierney), United (Maguire, Fernandes, Wan-Bissaka), and Everton (Iwobi, Kean, and Gomes)
2020: €32M on GLC and €30M Reggie. Outside of City and Chelsea (who turned the doping back into high gear with Havertz, Werner, Chilwell, and Ziyech for €223M), only Partey+Gabriel (€66M) and Jota+Thiago (€67M) were a more expensive pair.
2021: €69M combined on Gil, Royal, and Betancur. Admittedly a weak transfer group, but this was a weak transfer year for everyone due to Covid. Liverpool spent €87M on Diaz+Konate. Woolwich spent €121M on White+Odegaard+Ramsdale. Chelsea threw away €113M on Lukaku which seems like spending for the sake of it in retrospect. United spent €125M on Sancho and Varane. City bought Grealish for €113M
2022: €108M on Richarlison+Romero, €30M on Bissouma. Aside from SaudiLondon back on the dope, only SaudiNorth (€152M for Isak+Gordon+Botman) and United (€223M for Anthony+Casemiro+Martinez) had a more expensive trio
The problem is that most of those listed were major busts for us. Soldado, Lamela, Sissoko, Sanchez, Aurier, Moura, Ndombele, Bergwijn, Sessegnon, GLC, Reggie, Gil, and Richarlison cost this club €431M.
It hasn't been because we're cheap and bargain hunting. It's because we've been very, very, very bad at scouting.
Exactly.
The problem at Spurs is that we seek deals not footballers and a valuable book of assets not a squad.
Which is a derivative problem from the core one: We are a business project not a sporting one.
You can, and if you want to succeed must, be both.
I prefer Lo Celso to Ndombele, but won’t harp on about it as people get angry.
And yes totally agree with you otherwise.
Spurs Lion ffs
Merci beaucoup!How dare you bring such common sense to water down all the delusion!!!!!
Seriously though. What an absolute terrific post
still growing, huge risk with him.
Thought he looked out of coordination in spells this tournament, are you old enough to recall Wes Brown at 18/19?
That boy had it all, young players of the season (I think), but strongly think playing too much too early, at CB in particular when you are up again some of the most suited athletes in the world (heavier frames grinding young if any slight growth issue… Wes Brown).
Are Spurs fans supposed to allow a gooner to spam every thread?
That doesn't prove the point you're trying to make.
We didn't sign Ndombele, Sanchez, etc. etc. because they were valuable assets for the book. They were highly lauded transfers. Ndombele had been drooled over here on TFC for a year prior to us signing him.
We've tried to sign footballers and fucking blew it. Stop looking for shadows to blame everything on - we've been exceptionally shit at scouting, that's what's been the problem.