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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Part of the question of the cost of players, for me, is what is the club trying to achieve.
I assume the purpose of any purchase is to strengthen the squad and enhance our chances of winning trophies. I further assume it is not for the purposes of an investment. By that, I mean it is not to buy a player hoping for a quick buck when selling him again.
If my initial assumption is correct, then we should identify the player, or players, who we can afford, and do our best to buy him, or them. If that means spending £80m or more, so be it, as long as we can afford it.
There is no guarantee that the player(s) purchased will be a success. That's the business risk you run, but as long as proper due diligence was done and the reasoning for the purchase was sound, that's life.
If the player is a huge success, you'd hope to keep him for as long as possible and get full value for the initial outlay. Again, he wasn't bought as an investment to be turned over.
If some Billy bigballs, oil rich, club comes along and offers funny money in the meantime. That's fine. But that should not be the rationale for any purchase.
I assume the purpose of any purchase is to strengthen the squad and enhance our chances of winning trophies. I further assume it is not for the purposes of an investment. By that, I mean it is not to buy a player hoping for a quick buck when selling him again.
If my initial assumption is correct, then we should identify the player, or players, who we can afford, and do our best to buy him, or them. If that means spending £80m or more, so be it, as long as we can afford it.
There is no guarantee that the player(s) purchased will be a success. That's the business risk you run, but as long as proper due diligence was done and the reasoning for the purchase was sound, that's life.
If the player is a huge success, you'd hope to keep him for as long as possible and get full value for the initial outlay. Again, he wasn't bought as an investment to be turned over.
If some Billy bigballs, oil rich, club comes along and offers funny money in the meantime. That's fine. But that should not be the rationale for any purchase.
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I did that as per your advice , got a very strange look from the bloke in the dry cleaners .
Tottenham more advanced than Man City.
Ever see that race of the McLaren F1 and the Bugatti Veyron?
They let the McLaren get to 100mph before the Veyron got going. It caught the F1 and then beat it to 200mph
Guess which one we are and which one City are .
Crikey! The first page of that list doesn’t make good reading, with only a few being what I’d class as a success and worth the fee paid.
Who the fuck is gonna do the pointing??
A strange look is probably better than made up bollocks from some twat on X.
as a football fan i wanna see KDB stay. as a spurs fan i want him gone ASAP.
I still think eze and Toney get done.
Issue is, we do still need a winger that can take on a man 1v1 and a left sided defender that can cover LCB and LB
That’s 4 players with GLC, Gil, Solomon, Reguilon and Emerson still to sell/loan
Lot of work. I wonder with the added games will we keep more youth like Philips/Devine rather than loan them?
Issue is, we do still need a winger that can take on a man 1v1 and a left sided defender that can cover LCB and LB
That’s 4 players with GLC, Gil, Solomon, Reguilon and Emerson still to sell/loan
Lot of work. I wonder with the added games will we keep more youth like Philips/Devine rather than loan them?
I need to visit the same dry cleaners after spitting my coffee all down my front after reading your post!
It looks like ours a few years ago, now it's looking a bit more healthier:
Tottenham Hotspur - Record arrivals
This transfer statistic shows the compact view of the most expensive signings by Tottenham in the Overall statistics of current season season.
Pep said he was staying.
They both (kdb & pep) likely move on next summer.
You actually believe that? If we want Eze we can get him and it’s nothing to do with selling players.
Bayern can have Doue. If that helps them, I'd happily take Bryan Zaragoza off their hands.
I know, another 4ft tall Bryan...
one more year to suffer then haha. cant wait for pep to go.
Only forwards from last season who should still be on the roster are Sonny & BJ.
Werner's loan should never have been extended.
Kulu was terrific his first 6 months, but time has come to find the kid a new home. Very best wishes to him.
Richy...take care lad but off you go.
Solomon, Bryan G...need I explain.
we'll probably try corner wolves in the final week of the window with a much reduced(and more realistic) offer
really dont get the eze hype and he also plays in a position we are already fairly healthy in. not sure hes even an upgrade on maddison.
we need far better wide players, the money should be invested into that area, thats where we will see the biggest % increase. they are far to important in this system to be incompetent.