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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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spurs9 said:
Why would you need to upgrade 4th place CB if you are just playing kids in Europe?
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Because last year we lost our two first choice centre backs, were forced to play Davies and dropped from 1st place to 5th.

He's fine on the ball but simply doesn't have the attributes to enable us to play the way we require under Ange.

He's slow, so can't play high line football.
Small, so can't win headers.
Weak, so gets outmuscled by big strikers.

Currently he's our 5th CB anyway after Gray. Time to go.
 
Klaus said:
Its £7m for one year. By all means whine about it, but then go find a player who would cost that much & who wouldn't block Moore's pathway while Son gradually steps back.
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I have no issues with it as far as I can remember he does and has contributed... He was probably our best attacker for 5 of his 10 starts.

Atleast 2 or 3 times a game he will get to the by line and put in a cross.

Sonny will start and Werner is an experienced option until Moore comes of age.
 
TeamSpirit™ said:
Striker I’m not worried about. Son + Richy was 29 goals when either started in the middle. Unless an outrageous offer comes in for Richarlison, so we can turn around and buy Gyrokes, I’m fine with them.

DM - I think the succession plan from Bissouma to Gray has already been made.

All of our attention should be on LW and also a LCB/LB hybrid
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Some fair points but I will die on the sword that Richarlison is not and will never be good enough for a team that are supposedly trying to compete at the top end of the league. He just has far too many weaknesses to his game.

Son is also not a striker and is not getting any younger.

We sold the best striker in the world and replaced him with no one. That point remains. We desperately desperately need to bring in a proven goalscorer this summer.
 
Doc said:
Think Chiesa is just so diminished by his injuries. Neto seems to pick up more muscle injuries, but his pace and threat when he does play is much greater. The few ideal top targets seem beyond our reach.
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The top targets will be, they will only move to clubs who challenge and win stuff which we don't.
Or you have to pay big fees and wages, which again we are loathe to do as a club, we are second tier, the club can attract reasonably good or younger players but not the best.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Trusting him more than Dragusin in this system is taking it a bit too far imo.

Based on preseason I’d expect Ange to play Gray RCB and Dragusin LCB before Davies played… but I’d still be ok with him staying around as an influence on young players or for emergencies. Question is if he’d stick around for that?
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Davies has one year left on his contract, I suspect he'll be happy to stay for an 11th year knowing he'll .be a back up.

He earned his coaching badges within last 12 months so may decide to transition to being a coach - maybe academy coach at Spurs who knows.
 
Harrier said:
Selling a stake in the club is likely with the intention that the shareholders can realise funds from their original investment.

It does not mean those funds will find their way back into the club!
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It can be made as a sale of existing shares (ie cash goes to shareholders) or a sale of new shares (ie money goes into Tottenham Hotspur) or a sale of existing shares plus a sale of new shares.

Gold's article implied at least some of shares would be new shares, but that maybe because Gold does not understand the subject
 
Klaus said:
I'd prefer Raphinha to either but apparently the club seem obsessed with the idea of having at least one sicknote in the injury room.
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Everytime I watched Raphina for Barca, including once in person, he was a cut in type who played as an inside forward.

I don’t think he’s a winger these days. Maybe he was at Leeds. Chiesa and Eze are inside forwards really but Eze is also a legitimate attacking midfielder who can play #8
 
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