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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Shadydan said:
You're right, should have just given Bournemouth an extra £30m for Solanke on top, just to appease our insecure fanbase and make them feel like we are competing with the bg boys 😍

Solanke for £85m sounds well cool!!!
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I've got a better idea, how about add 30 million to get osimhen, a player that would be admired by any elite team in Europe in need of a 9.

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Oh and Liverpool could have had solanke for 20 % less (due to their sell on clause)....didn't seem to be interested at even a cut price.
 
Mr Buttons said:
I understand what you mean but you forget that we have also brought in other players, like Gray, and we're still looking for a winger (and a CM too?). So, in total, that adds up to much more than what Bournemouth can spend.

In terms of why we don't just go out and compete for the most expensive/prestige deals, the answer is that we're not title contenders and don't have the same prestige badge on our shoulder as other clubs have - nor do we just throw money at players for the fun it.

Let me elaborate. Tottenham is not seen as an absolute top club like Man City or Liverpool. We don't compete for the Premiership title... yet. We're a club with massive potential and with a healthy economy. That is a good stepping stone for glory days. On top of the fact that we aren't title contenders, we don't go out using Saudi money to completely destroy the competition. For many players, money is the greatest motivation. Just look at Ruben Neves, who said he could help his whole family for generations with the money he's getting. I'm oblivious to that, but more wants more and footballers are a great example of that.
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I don't get the excuse here. By the time all the deadweight is shifted, the savings of the wage bill are huge. Even if we signed an Eze and got those players out, we'll probably have a net spend of 30/40m. The club is a money making monster, world-class facilities and stadium and the London pull.

10 years ago we couldn't compete with the United's or Liverpool's of this world, but we do now, and in an amazing financial position to do so. Clubs like West Ham and Brighton going out and spending serious money, when they don't have near the resources as us. There's absolutely no reason that Spurs don't go out and spend properly.

Liverpool weren't title contenders when they went out and addressed the issues that needed addressing and spent big on big name players. The next season they were absolutely title contenders.

I don't know how people can excuse the club's unwillingness to spend, as if we're some nearly club. Despite what you think, Spurs are a huge club and should start acting like it.


And before someone chimes in with the losses made. That is creative accounting, with the stadium debt, that is inflation busting, long-term structured debt (ie very, very good debt), however they record depreciation on their assets, means that by recording a loss, they don't pay tax on profit and shareholder payouts. If the club was struggling in any capacity, Levy wouldn't have given himself a record bonus. They also wouldn't have injected £150m to own anothercirca 2% of the club.

Levy just wants to get an outside investor to come in, pile money into the playing side, so that he can focus on the non-footballing operations, like property development etc.

There's no excuse to not be spending big money, none what so ever. We were told that the frugal spending was to take advantage of the PSR rules and when clubs were concerned and not able to act like they had, that we could pounce. The former has happened, all around Europe for the last 12 months, but we've never capitalised. Until there's change at that end of the club, it'll always be the same old story.
 
Kane you believe it said:
I've got a better idea, how about add 30 million to get osimhen, a player that would be admired by any elite team in Europe in need of a 9.

:freund:

Oh and Liverpool could have had solanke for 20 % less (due to their sell on clause)....didn't seem to be interested at even a cut price.
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Yes because the whole of Europe are literally falling over themselves for him, the last time I checked he's still stuck at Napoli 😆

And of course Liverpool famously need yet another striker on their books...
 
Mr Buttons said:
I understand what you mean but you forget that we have also brought in other players, like Gray, and we're still looking for a winger (and a CM too?). So, in total, that adds up to much more than what Bournemouth can spend.

In terms of why we don't just go out and compete for the most expensive/prestige deals, the answer is that we're not title contenders and don't have the same prestige badge on our shoulder as other clubs have - nor do we just throw money at players for the fun it.

Let me elaborate. Tottenham is not seen as an absolute top club like Man City or Liverpool. We don't compete for the Premiership title... yet. We're a club with massive potential and with a healthy economy. That is a good stepping stone for glory days. On top of the fact that we aren't title contenders, we don't go out using Saudi money to completely destroy the competition. For many players, money is the greatest motivation. Just look at Ruben Neves, who said he could help his whole family for generations with the money he's getting. I'm oblivious to that, but more wants more and footballers are a great example of that.
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You say we are not title contenders. Why not? Why can we not be title contenders what is stopping us?
 
Shadydan said:
Yes because the whole of Europe are literally falling over themselves for him, the last time I checked he's still stuck at Napoli 😆

And of course Liverpool famously need yet another striker on their books...
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He's expensive and few clubs can justify the outlay with FFP. we on the other hand remain hundreds of millions away from FFP breach.

Anyhow all I was saying is if we were spending 30 million more on solanke we may as well have osimhen
 
Kane you believe it said:
He's expensive and few clubs can justify the outlay with FFP. we on the other hand remain hundreds of millions away from FFP breach.

Anyhow all I was saying is if we were spending 30 million more on solanke we may as well have osimhen
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You're being very kind to engage with his very strange POV about paying an extra £30m for Solanke. it's just him trying to goad posters into an argument as usual.
 
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