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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?


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Shame we didn't get the 194 points needed last season to be top of that points per £1m chart :harrysmile:
 
People have already made their mind up about Ange. I am hoping it works out but I can also see him gone by Christmas if we do not have a good start.
I don't think anyone wants him to fail.

Our forward play is dynamic and fun.

The other side of it is... airy.

I think people just want to see him pull his pants up and sort a couple of things out that will help us loads.
 
Is it just me who's getting the sense that we have no fucking idea what we're doing?

I'd say considering 10 days ago we weren't linked with anyone and within that time have signed Solanke for 60m, who's been confirmed as the managers top choice, we probably do know what we're doing.

We just haven't got Paratici involved with leaking numerous different footballers in the media to keep things ticking over during the quiet moments.
 
Some daft cunt on Spurs Community has posted the following. To be fair, this hasn’t come from one of the so called ITKs, just a random, so there might actually be a morsel of truth in it:

Good afternoon, I am not ITK of any sort however, I had some information given to me yesterday by someone within the Brighton camp that we are getting Simon Adingra. I’m just passing this on as I know nothing about him
 
Because they wanted it done early and spoke about waiting for first options being worth waiting for.

There’s nothing left that we can see obviously to cause a delay.

Players that we’ve seen regular links and reportedly bid on have gone elsewhere for more money than we reportedly wanted to pay.

Do you feel like everything is still going to plan?
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I don't mate no, I did say it was disappointing.

The trouble is, we're trying to discern a pattern with nothing more than smoke & mirrors in the media, which is why I'm keeping my powder dry.
 
No I’m not making excuses.

I’m explaining the extra context that people missed when people made their judgments of his first season. Im doing it so that people still hold some further patience in their locker for this season because there will be times this season as well when fans hopefully don’t throw their toys out the pram whilst the project is still developing.

Especially considering the type of support the club have offered for transfers so far and average age of our squad.
What context?

People appreciate he wanted to ingrain his system.

Been pretty patient tbf.

Ange was the one who came out and said he didn't need to fix set-pieces

Yes, he did end up addressing it, but it looks like we've reverted to disorganisation again when we should have consolidated.

Looks like he went hybrid zonal/man for some reason, when he appeared to go pretty much man-for-man near end of season.

It's not hard for fans to see what's going on.

There's no wizardry at play.

Ange plays high-risk football, heavily attack weighted and relies on speedy scramble recovery to prevent the oppo scoring.

Ange had gathered enough info throughout a whole season to come to pre-season and show he's ON IT.

Again, go catch one of Liverpool's pre-season games and the tactical work slot has done in such a short period of time.

"Fitness" is what teams with super ingrained, solid, properly established, functioning systems might be about in pre-season.

Effectively addressing tactical failure is we've been in need of.

You don't focus only on fitness and park that up until the first day of the season and then see if your tweaks might work.

What are we even doing here???
 
Is Vanderson any good? Whats his attributes? Is he quick, modern right back bombing down wing and good defender? If were getting him then spence must be going.

Quick and skillful. Perfect inverted full back and his underlying metrics are basically on par with Porro.

I'd say he was probably better defensively than Porro but maybe not quite as good offensively.

He's better than Spence. But not 40m more better. Plus Spence is already here and is HG so he helps alot.
 
I'd say considering 10 days ago we weren't linked with anyone and within that time have signed Solanke for 60m, who's been confirmed as the managers top choice, we probably do know what we're doing.

We just haven't got Paratici involved with leaking numerous different footballers in the media to keep things ticking over during the quiet moments.
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