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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Airfixx said:
"Denial"

This is incredibly ironic as you have effectively dredged up the exact same conversation you and I had yesterday (i.e. how that gap over 5 years might actually be accounted for if one looks beyond the lazy 'tight bald cunt theory'); which led us down exactly the same path.... With me left asking you exactly the same question, which after a fair few hundred words expended, led to you doing your best Sunak impression of answering the climactic question with a reductive, deviating question in order to evade the point being made to you all along.............. And then disappearing to chat about something else, cos once unpacked, the convo took you somewhere you hadn't planned on being.



Quite.

"Denial"

As has already been put to you, Richard Arlison Richard Arlison and numerous people many times before; if you draw a line the in the sand of Spurs spending at the day we moved back into the new stadium (which is THE entirely fair thing to do) then the spending comparisons between us Arse & Liverpool (i.e. the teams of a similar income bracket) then we don't compare anywhere near as unfavourably.

......The fair caveat to that being that the final spend levels of this current window are TBC. However, this does beg the question; on what basis is this currrent 5 year/250 spend gap you've jumped on actually been calculated? ....5 years from today? ....The last 5 complete trf windows? ...Did you even care to question the figures?

Unfortunately for brevity of discussion; details matter.

Also further sidenote: "Denial" - Yesterday...... "There's been no links to players in or out today" >>>> Simply not true.



The broader, frustrating fact of the matter is that once again were in one of those cyclically-shifting-goal-post scenarios where despite me being told a week or two ago that Net spend isn't a fair stat because gross is the true indicator of 'willingness to spend' (due to fund regenerated by sale - Liverpool/Suarez/Coutinho meaning Liverpool have allow net spend being the argument); the split second we trouser 100m quid and it optically works against us midway through the trf window, net spend magically becomes king again.

Exhausting.
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You would make an excellent Inquisitor, I only have to see one of your long assed rambling, dry posts and a part of my soul quietly dies.
 
daveyboy88 said:
without european football its a big ask to have a 50m cb a 40m cb and another over 40m. we should be nailing some recruitment for the backup and doing some actual competent scouting work. to be fair if the backup is sanchez and hes used sparingly, its nt the end of the world. just dont want him having the ball at his feet much.
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Where possible we should be focussing any big fees on 1st XI, because if we bag Europe then next season we'll be in a better position to attract higher quality depth than we are right now.......... Young'ns like Veliz & Phillips accepted.
 
sudoku said:
I think Ndombele was linked to Rennes as well.
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We basically gave Dele away. If Tanguy hadn’t cost 54m he would be long gone. It’s as if Daniel cannot take a big loss on a transfer. Tanguy was signed on a 5 yr contract , therefore his value on the books diminishes approx 11m per year. As it stands he is worth 11m to us .
take 10m euros and call it quits.
FFS Daniel….get a grip.
 
Airfixx said:
That's not remotely true.......

There's been very little actual links to Lenglet; just a few propaganda noises coming from Barca's end.



We're still being mentioned... Literally today in this thread.
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Where, exactly? I haven't seen one credible link to Tosin in about 3 weeks. People throwing his name around in a transfer thread on a fan forum isn't exactly what I'd call a "credible link" either.
 
kingdawson said:
yeh you're imagining it.

In reality we we were linked to Raya before the season ended and the first reports of Raya actually agreeing terms was the 11th June. Vicario signed on the 27th.
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So we moved on once it was clear Brentford weren't going to budge?

Chelsea were linked with Olise three and a half weeks ago. Got rejected today and have moved on.

What exactly are you moaning about?
 
White Hart said:
Other clubs are spending more money than us…
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We need to spend according to our accounts; no-one else's.

White Hart said:
.some of our ,only on players who were with us last season so technically don’t improve us that much now.
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Bissouma & Udogie def. improve us compared to last year....... + 3 (Vic, Mad & VDV) more starters... That's essentially half a new starting XI + the effects of a new, hopefully more productive manager.
 
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Joan Thomas said:
Absolutely. Did an Incredible, Fantastic job for us with his hands tied for 5 years. Such a shame we sacked him instead of backing him.
What's really strange is that there are still a few Spurs fans who admire and respect Daniel Levy

:sonhmm:
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OldBoy68 said:
100%. Sadly still full of scumbags and people making villages under bridges but I doubt there's anywhere in the world where you can throw a stone in any direction and find good people and great food.

Spaniel Spaniel

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View: https://open.spotify.com/track/6EkMkK5ekg3NaSJAxFsEmx?si=1bbbe3661aa746ba
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The Debussy preludes are one of the milestones of piano music....I applaud your choice, Oh Master....
 
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scarletjim said:
What if we brought in VDV on the understanding that whilst ongoing team selection will be on merit, he would start immediately (which he has) and the place would be his to lose. Then you want to sign Tapsoba, even if he also expects to start, and potentially thereby piss VDV off only a couple of weeks after him joining? That would be a very stupid thing to do.

I don't know if that's the understanding VDV has, but it could be. You certainly don't know that it isn't. My point is that the above scenario is perfectly plausible, and makes signing Tapsoba now an unwise thing to do if it's true.
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What if we didn't? If there's even the remote chance we can get Tapsoba for a sensible fee we do it. If you liked the way we looked last week , saw the massive upgrade VDV was over the stooges, keep in mind almost unanimously Germann football experts say Tapsob is ahead of VDV. Besides this is how we came unstuck, by allowing automatic starters. Competition for your place IS the key to success. No more sacred cows! No more Kane on one foot in ECL final No more Ledley on No knees.
 
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