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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?


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for 25m its not the end of the world if it doesnt work. 25m is peanuts in football today. its a punt worth taking, if it dont work, oh well.
If you're Chelsea, you take a £25m punt on an injury prone player.
If they're crap, you just farm them out to the u23s and give their squad space to someone else.

If you're Spurs, you don't. You don't discard a £25m "asset" you keep them in the 25 man squad no matter what as we can't have a £25m asset that isn't able to ever play.
And by doing that, you block anyone else from joining the squad.

Levynomics.

Init.
 
Rishi Sunak on a free ?

Could do a job

:levyeyes:
angry get out GIF
 
Another element to consider is that for an 18/19 year old, Spurs have been one of the top clubs in Europe for all of their football-watching life. No trophies but plenty of Champions League adventures and great players. Best stadium, best training ground, London etc. etc.

I don't think they attach the mental baggage that we do as fans of 30 years + from the dark days of the 90s and early 2000s.

Spurs have a lot of pull.
Very true.
 
I mean, we've got two of them at the moment and have signed about 7 players from Serie A in the last couple of years. Everything is possible when you've got a Mafia mob boss pulling the strings for your club out of a luxurious Italian prison.
We got a kid who isn't from an Italian family and a keeper who has no chance of being no.1 for Italy.
It's not totally impossible, but if you're a traditional Italian it's rare to leave Italy if you're wanted by a Milan club or Juve these days.
 
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