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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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CerealMaterial said:
I think Starks Starks quite likes the Jacobs
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holding it in fired up GIF by WWE
 
Starks said:
In those early Modric years, you never really got the fuss until you truly watched him live.

I remember going to a game at home to Stoke in his first season. I couldn't believe he played for Spurs.
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He was that good even though we shunted him out left in his first season he just adapted to doing what he does best from out wide, still became an important part of the side that season from there, but when he moved centrally we utterly transformed as a team. Just pisses me off we bought a donkey like Crouch which encouraged our defence to completely bypass our best player at the time by far with 70 yard upfield punts. Like putting a Vauxhall badge on a rolls royce.
 
reachingforthestars said:
None of that makes Kane a better player than Bale
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For us he was.
Bale had one spectacular season where he scored 21 league goals. And then he fucked off to Madrid.
Before that he scored 12 league goals in 5 seasons.
Kane on the other hand, from his first full season scored 21, 25, 29, 30, 17, 18, 23, 17 & 30
The only time he ever scored less than 20 league goals was when he played less than 30 games through injury or the season he wanted out.

There's no doubting Bale was a wonderful player to watch, but he did far less for us in far less time at the club.
 
Starks said:
In those early Modric years, you never really got the fuss until you truly watched him live.

I remember going to a game at home to Stoke in his first season. I couldn't believe he played for Spurs.
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I remember watching him and Bale destroy Wigan at WHL (first time I'd seen both in the flesh( and legit thought that there's no way we are keeping these players at the club.
 
Signing Solanke really takes the pressure off needing to sign more HG players - we now have 6 (Solanke, Forster, Spence, Davies, Maddison, Johnson) although we are still short of Club Trained players (Austin and Skipp) although we hope with playing experience to get more with Donley, Devine and, Lankshear the first few with the younger Moore coming along too.

So as and when Forster and Davies come to the end of their contracts, there is now less pressure to replace them with HG players, which means we have a much wider choice of players we could sign.
 
Notabadsquad said:
It's like asking if you talk sense this season, does it correct all the previous seasons of whatever. Maybe is the answer.

Scoring 18 goals of significance is very different to scoring 18 goals in let's say 10 games, where only 2 or 3 made a difference to the result.

Kane being the prime example. It's not how many goals but when they are scored and those other elements, which I think is what Solanke might add. Might.

You still have some room for improvement, so there is hope for Solanke..
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I hate Levy and ENIC more than most, but even I share the doubts about foreigners hitting the ground running at Spurs. Outside of Klinsmann and Berbatov, I can't recall many we've had that succeeded.
 
TomHotspur said:
In terms of his legacy as one of the best for Spurs it does though.

If you were to ask me who was a better player in the history of football, pound for pound Bale has been better throughout both of their careers I would agree.
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Matt1882 said:
For us he was.
Bale had one spectacular season where he scored 21 league goals. And then he fucked off to Madrid.
Before that he scored 12 league goals in 5 seasons.
Kane on the other hand, from his first full season scored 21, 25, 29, 30, 17, 18, 23, 17 & 30
The only time he ever scored less than 20 league goals was when he played less than 30 games through injury or the season he wanted out.

There's no doubting Bale was a wonderful player to watch, but he did far less for us in far less time at the club.
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Still doesn't make Kane the better player. That's just sentimental on Kane's part. Testament to Bale, that he was metioned in the next breath to prime Messi and Ronaldo, and not just by us but the broader football community
 
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