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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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CarrieFi said:
Honestly, some people in this fanbase aren’t normal.

Imagine getting so worked up about transfers, as if any of us have any control over it :harrylol:
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People are passionate about their football club and desperate for some success

Disgusting isn't it

If I had my way , I'd round them all up and force them to hand over their proper Tottenham membership cards

And then I'd shoot them all
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Its ok everyone, our striker problems are soon to be solved according to the oracle that is Football Insider.


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Yea Right GIF
 
Shadydan said:
Okay but If you're referencing Ange stating that he wanted players in before pre season then you need to keep the same energy for when he comes out and says that he's calm no? We can't have it both ways - Either you acknowledge that Ange is happy to lay down the law and openly question the club's transfer policy or he's a shrinking violet who toes the club's line, we need to pick an argument.

Every manager needs time to work with new players, ideally in a perfect world we'd have finished our signings around 3 weeks ago so that the manager has time to work with them and take them on tour.

Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world.

What's more is that Ange isn't the only manager in this boat - Woolwich, City, Newcastle and Liverpool are nowhere near to completing their signings either, neither of their managers have got all their players in either and they're already playing on their respective tours as well - this tells you a couple of things:

1) The market is completely dead right now
2) Their targets are probably still away on holiday due to the Intl tournaments and are still getting their futures resolved.

So why should we be any different?

We're talking clubs by the way who normally have their recruitment spot on and have a plan in the TW, it looks to me that this TW is just an anomaly and we just need to accept that the fact that we've had 2 Summer tournaments plus the Olympics in the same Summer and if you look at it there's virtually been no money spent to the equivalent to other TW's around this time, it just is what it is.

Again equating the way we recruit now to how we recruited in the past is just a massive false equivalence, we're a world away from Hitchen for example, bringing up 2018 when we had 0 money to spend pre stadium to now where we are amongst the highest spenders in the league again is pointless, look at the pattern of the last few Summers for example - look at the players we are bringing in, there's clearly a plan and a plan that the manager is fully behind even if the fan's aren't.
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I do wonder if Ange also thought :
1 Euros and Copa are inevitably reduce transfer activity until players return from their 3 weeks leave after that
2 There is a lengthy pre season and there seem to be longer list than normal of top young players, who if they were good enough to be Club Trained would give me/the club a bigger squad in a year or two - and that might mean its worth staying here.
So since its going to be a quiet start t transfer window, lets give the youngsters a real good look this summer, make my mind up on them and finalise any transfers in after that - seems like a plan

And looking at the short list of talent (in no order) - Mikey Moore, Will Lankshear, Jamie Donley and Alfie Devine plus he needed to have a detailed look at Gray and Bergvall to assess what they might be like in Spurs first team - might have been worth the month or so work on training ground and using time well whilst waiting for a couple of transfers. And the youngsters might be better than some transfers.
 
At the end of last season, the talk was about improvement. football London have named the team they expect to line up against Leicester
Vic, Porro. Romero, van der Ven, Udogie
Biss, Sarr, Maddison
Kula, Richie, Son
Every one of them were here last season. So where is the improvement. The new kids may well break into the side later in the season and we may get players in later in August but I was expecting at least 1 new player to start the first match. Football London normally have a good idea of selection.
 
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