Not in the least bit supprised.
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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Again, don't blame others if you can't set your own expectations.
Both can be true
Like I said, your talking bollox when you say the striker market isn’t that bad, as I should have said from the beginning - yes fuckety yes it is
It's weird, he thinks he's some sort of spokesperson of the thread always casting judgement on people's posts, just ignore him man, do what you gotta do
The durability part about Solanke is compelling after all the injury problems we’ve endured recently. Feeling better about the signing the more I think about it, but still underwhelmed overall. We’re supposed to be playing Ange-ball but the only wingers we’ve signed are Werner and Johnson? If Solanke is the only attacking signing we make it’s a depressing indictment of recent club xfer policy.
It just made me wonder why you would want to spend time chatting away with people you suspect of domestic abuse. Think it says,more about that person and how sad their life must be. I just ignore people here I don't respect.
What is this? FM?
Are we all members of the coaching team?
What a silly post.
Yes because that definitely means that people are unable to think of viable alternatives on the market doesn't it...
When you have the time to use your brain you'll probably realise that the price of Solanke is a symptom of what's actually on the market.
I can't believe they let you out of the asylum already and you're already speaking nonsense, Good Lord - at least it's not xenophobic crap this time I suppose.
Clearly you do..
Neto has never really seemed real prospect to me. We're not spending big money on a RW the summer after spending big money on a RW who scored or assisted 20% of our goals last season in a rotational role. We're getting a lot more Johnson this season, regardless of what the anti-stat crowd want.
If he can emulate close enough to what he did last season, which was to be at 12 goals by the end of December, then we'll at least know this lads career is legit taking off and we're not signing a player who can't consistently bang in a ton of goals season on season. If they charge that more, then so be it? Seems a necessary risk to me! Don't you think?
What I thought we needed, pre Werner, pre the Spence renaissance. It doesn't matter now, it's too late as 2 of those from the list have already been snapped up and the last one is featured by the tap in merchant
edit: stats from who scored
The striker market is never good . Scoring goals is probably the hardest thing in football and no club wants to sell their goalscorers. Having a good goalscoring no.9 who connects play is hard to find.
The options out there would elevate us without a doubt.
Look at all the top 5 teams in Europe, most don't have a genuine no.9 who bags loads of goals, it's more their general work. Alexander Sorloth was the highest scoring striker in la liga with 23 non penalty goals(he flopped at palace) now going to Atletico Madrid.
My bad.
He )Solanke) has a release clause, doesn’t he?
I’m assuming it can be triggered in January.
Does anyone know if it has time limits on it?
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I would, if it was a lobotomyIf he agreed to an exorcism....would you reconsider?
Dovbyk was pichichi last season, not Sorloth.
Thank you. Wasn't so hard was it? Not sure where you got this "hypothetical story" idea from though, they were questions.
I'll start with your third paragraph. If the rivals ahead of us don't make signings and, as a result, we close the points gap on them, they're going backwards no? I'm told repeatedly here that you have to make signings or you stand still, and standing still is moving backwards. So using that logic, they'll have gone backwards in relative terms because they have made no signings.
Still with me?
As to your last paragraph, now we're getting the grey matter going. This is where you then look at the signings relative to what that club already has available. Calafiore. Very good signing, quality player. Does he improve them? Will he be the difference in their next title tilt? I'll answer the first question because he does improve them, from a squad perspective. Insofar as getting more points? Highly doubtful.
City? They've signed a 20 year old kid for their right wing. Weren't you one of those ridiculing our club for buying kids?
Liverpool? Flat lining at the moment.
Newcastle? Lloyd Kelly, Lewis Hall and 2 unknowns that I won't even attempt to spell.
Villa? Lots of signings, but improvements when they've also sold arguably their best player?
Now we get to the point of why I asked those 2 questions in the first place. There's this narrative that you will only become elite if you buy the most expensive players, but that is only true to a point, they have to be the right player. So the 2 questions I threw at you were meant to illustrate that bollox. Signings are only part of the whole, they don't dictate success, or why would we need coaches? Buying a big name is great as long as they are the right fit. You only need look at Utd's transfer activity to see the truth of that. Then you look at City's strategy and see what buying the right players gets you. They were able to do both because they cheated, but their strategy is about as sound as it gets.
I'll be honest here, I was expecting a bit more of an hysterical response from you, but I was pleasantly surprised at the response as it was challenging.
Look, I'm as concerned about our lack of signings to date as much as you are, I just choose to wait until the end of the window before making judgements. A lot can happen in 2 weeks, and it's not like we haven't been in this territory before.
So, to end, I'll now answer your question. I consider every team in the PL a rival. Every one of them is out there to take points off us. If we aspire towards winning the league, then we have to consider everyone a rival that MUST be beaten, which hearkens me back to the mentality change that AP is looking to instill, it's why he couldn't wrap his head around us wanting to lose to City. He gets it now, but I can fully understand where he was coming from at the time.
Yes, I think...it's 65m. I imagine it should be able to be triggered in Jan too. I'd assume it's legit until his contract is finished with Bournemouth. So yeah, I really think that would be the best way forward for us!
Come on, day after day all you do is troll your fellow Spurs fans.
It's not up to us to provide the club with a list of viable targets, is it?
All we can do is comment on who are linked with and end up signing or not as the case might be.