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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024
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Mate you are just wrongNeither Barca or Madrid can find the money to sign someone who "might be one of the top 3 attacking players in the world"?
Really?
This tweet will rile a few people up, I'm sure
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Yeah me
Can't remember a window where so many deals have collapsed. Good stuff!
You're right. I'm sure Madrid can't find the money to sign one of the 3 best attackers in the world and/or simply aren't interested. That tracks.
Nico Williams is really good, I never said he wasn't. But you greatly exaggerated. He may be one of the top 3 attackers one day - but he isn't right now and he won't be this season. Or next.
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Concerns me how many people genuinely thought the club would be after a right winger.
The club has literally spent something like £90m on RW in the last 18 months on an 24 year old and a 23 year old and people think that they’re gonna go again this summer?
I said at the time Werner WAS the versatile winger. Just because people don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s any less true.
The club has literally spent something like £90m on RW in the last 18 months on an 24 year old and a 23 year old and people think that they’re gonna go again this summer?
I said at the time Werner WAS the versatile winger. Just because people don’t like it, doesn’t mean it’s any less true.
They signed Mbappe this year. They have Vinicius: that’s probably the other 2 in the top 3 and they are above him.
I keep having this same recurring vision of “Federico Chiesa to Tottenham, here we go! Italian winger joins on a loan with option to buy” on August 31st 10:59pm. Not sure why
When has Madrid ever not signed one of the top players in the world because they "don't massively improve their options"?
Have we watched the same sport for the last 25 years?
Atletico also not interested in one of the top 3 attackers in the world available for merely £45M?
You're right. If there's 1 thing Real Madrid are globally known for it is their restraint.
It's odd it's like saying we have prime Benzima, and prime Lewandoski, let's add prime Kane. Not even Madrid are that silly. Williams wants Barca or stays where he is it's very widely known. But he'd cost twice the amount Barca can spend on Olmo... they struggled to register the coach! And Madrid don't need that position when they have an identical level player. Not sure why that's contentious. Wish it was Spurs problem.
Are you counting Kulu as a RW?
I hope we don't see him there this season.
I’m not counting him as anything. I wasn’t involved in the deal.
BUT, he was signed as a right winger and I expect Levy would be pretty annoyed after spending big money on two of them to have someone knocking on the door and saying ‘we don’t have any right wingers’
I’m not saying we don’t need someone - but I’m perplexed after all this time how people think this club is gonna all of a sudden operate.
I mean if your argument is “Nico Williams is not that good” I’m sorry that’s stupid. We can quibble about the top 3 attacker thing but he’s clearly a gem of a winger prospect and was the danger man in Spain’s dominant Euro run.
The reason his release clause hasn’t been triggered is because this isn’t FIFA and the player has to agree to leave the club. He plays at Bilbao where only Basque players are allowed to play and clearly will only leave his hometown club to go to specific places of his choosing. It’s a lot like Jesus Navas in the early 2010s.
With Mbappe and Vinicius, doesn't that mean that that Rodrygo looses his place in the starting eleven? What would he cost?
6- Carrick, Busquets, Pirlo, Xavi, Scholes(later years).
8- Seedorf, Lampard, iniesta, Yaya toure, Gerrard, modric, Kroos, De bruyne.
A great 6 is a deep lying playmaker who is defensively sound.
A great An 8 is more busy(usually box to box), gets about the pitch and likes to attack the opposition box.
some players are just good at both especially as they mature like Modric, Kroos and Gerrard among others. usually more often than not a great 8 can become a good 6 rather than vise versa.
Some cases you might have a playmaking 6 but needs protection of an 8, a good, bad example of this is Winks and Sissoko.
Obviously this is a very simple breakdown. Other posters will likely put it better than I have.
Edit: it's somewhat conflicting though as someone like Makelele I wouldn't say is a 6 but is an excellent defensive midfielder.
Or Kante who is an excellent all action midfielder but not really an 8
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Probably true then.
Then have been buying up attacking players this window. He’s quality too.
Possible changes…David for Richarlison.
Locatelli for Lo Celso
Gallagher for Skipp
New left back
Great news. I’m sure 99% of spurs fans want him to be a great success with us.
Tbf, given that it hasn’t come from Herc or Trix I’d actually give it more of a chance of being real
There is a deal to be done there as well just looking at it logically. Gruda and Minteh both brought in as many know but they’ve also bought another one of the Ghanaians from Nordsjaelland, Ibrahim Osman for £16m.
That’s a fuck ton of wingers, to go along with Mitoma, Adingra, Sarmiento, Solly March etc. Far too many in fact.
Not super convinced by Adingra, suppose we could do worse though.
The guy posting it has been a member on there since 2005 and has 60 odd posts so I can’t see him being a wum and is probably just passing on in good faith……the result, they’ve deleted the post!