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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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I’d be fine with Rodon as 4th choice. Doubt we’d be able to buy one as good for that position, that may accept his place. Even if we could, maybe £20m?
I don't think we'll be getting all the players in all positions that we need this transfer window, so need to manage what we have. We'll probably get reasonable money for PEH, so that helps with funding a proper DMF. If we can sell GLC and Gil, that should pay towards a forward such as Eze.

I think (realistically hope) that we get a proper DMF, Eze, CF, and a winger who can dribble past defenders. We might need to use VDV and Dragusin as cover for FBs, hence keep Rodon for now.
 
I don't get why that is so controversial, for the most part since ENIC have been at the helm that has happened unless for the vast majority of the time we haven't had attacking coaches and we've bought ready made stars?

Be interesting to know what you think the ethos of the club is...
The ethos of ENIC and Daniel Levy is to make as much financial gain as possible from the football club.

They don’t have an ethos on the football side of things. Absolutely none. They’re shysters who put on a facade that they have a philosophy and ethos as you suggest by occasionally throwing out buzz word statements like “we want a coach that can play free flowing attacking football” before appointing Nuno, or “we have our Tottenham back” after we won a couple of games, to make the more gullable of the fans believe they actually have some sort of vision. They don’t.

The old chestnut that they try and put out there that we are a club that signs exclusively young talented players is absolute dung too.
We sign predominantly players that are cheap. If a player is not a young and talented player we have no issue signing him as long as he isn’t very expensive. It’s a classic way of trying to justify continuously signing players that are not at a level that are really going to turn us into challengers. “Oh we don’t sign stars, we make them. It’s the Tottenham way.” Utter horseshit.

Under Jol, Harry, AVB, Poch, Mourinho, Conte, Nuno (what a collection of different managers that is btw, for an ownership that supposedly has an “ethos”) we signed numerous players mid/late 20’s/early 30s. Why? Because we could “do a deal.” Ethos went out the window.

Levy and ENIC have no footballing ethos or philosophy. They plod along on the football side of things chopping and changing from different methods and regimes and whenever things go tits up, Levy comes out with a buzz word statement, “we need to get back to the Tottenham way.” and bobs your uncle he gets a cohort of fans back onside again.
Rinse and repeat.
 
The ethos of ENIC and Daniel Levy is to make as much financial gain as possible from the football club.

They don’t have an ethos on the football side of things. Absolutely none. They’re shysters who put on a facade that they have a philosophy and ethos as you suggest by occasionally throwing out buzz word statements like “we want a coach that can play free flowing attacking football” before appointing Nuno, or “we have our Tottenham back” after we won a couple of games, to make the more gullable of the fans believe they actually have some sort of vision. They don’t.

The old chestnut that they try and put out there that we are a club that signs exclusively young talented players is absolute dung too.
We sign predominantly players that are cheap. If a player is not a young and talented player we have no issue signing him as long as he isn’t very expensive. It’s a classic way of trying to justify continuously signing players that are not at a level that are really going to turn us into challengers. “Oh we don’t sign stars, we make them. It’s the Tottenham way.” Utter horseshit.

Under Jol, Harry, AVB, Poch, Mourinho, Conte, Nuno (what a collection of different managers that is btw, for an ownership that supposedly has an “ethos”) we signed numerous players mid/late 20’s/early 30s. Why? Because we could “do a deal.” Ethos went out the window.

Levy and ENIC have no footballing ethos or philosophy. They plod along on the football side of things chopping and changing from different methods and regimes and whenever things go tits up, Levy comes out with a buzz word statement, “we need to get back to the Tottenham way.” and bobs your uncle he gets a cohort of fans back onside again.
Rinse and repeat.

Their ethos is to keep the clubs value high to suit their non football business. We are their collateral.
People just can't seem to understand that it's not about taking money out of the club, it's about using the clubs value as a guarantee.
 
If anyone catches Levy looking in the bargain bucket give him a good hard kick up the bollocks

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Their ethos is to keep the clubs value high to suit their non football business. We are their collateral.
People just can't seem to understand that it's not about taking money out of the club, it's about using the clubs value as a guarantee.
To be fair, that's mainly because some people - including several quite prominent & vocal posters - are continually claiming that ENIC does take money out of the club. Whichever side of the debate you're on, it would be nice if people dropped the nonsense idea that the owners actually take money out of the club and put in their own pockets, it just causes unnecessary arguing and confusion. If those people actually mean that the owners want to grow the value of their asset so it will be worth more when they sell it, or whatever, then fine, but whilst people keep claiming that the owners take money out of the club, other people will keep correcting them. ;)
 
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