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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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bus-conductor said:
I know we need better than Kulusevski, Johnson, Werner as wide forward options. Even if 19yo Odobert and 17yo Moore turn into spunkbread, we still need more/better quality options than those first three.
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Next season could look something like:

NEW -- Solanke -- Odobert
(Son) -- (Lankshear) -- (Moore)​

Werner won't be around.
Son in his final year so can become rotation rather than a starter.
I think Kulu's future is through the middle and he will establish that this season.
Sell Richy and Johnson and use that money to go big on the best LW we can attract.
Maybe also add a CF if Lankshear is not quite ready and we feel we can upgrade on Solanke.
Yang maybe loaned out initially.
 
VonnegutBusy said:
Next season could look something like:

NEW -- Solanke -- Odobert
(Son) -- (Lankshear) -- (Moore)​

Werner won't be around.
Son in his final year so can become rotation rather than a starter.
I think Kulu's future is through the middle and he will establish that this season.
Sell Richy and Johnson and use that money to go big on the best LW we can attract.
Maybe also add a CF if Lankshear is not quite ready and we feel we can upgrade on Solanke.
Yang maybe loaned out initially.
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Agree with your set-up in the long term, but not sure that we'd transition to that within a year.
Odobert is 19, so it may take 2-3 years before he is at an elite level. Moore will be 17 next year, so could benefit from a loan at some point?

In general it's very difficult with youngsters to predict their rate of improvement. In a way it's lucky we're in Europa this year, as it's a perfect opportunity to give the likes of Odobert, Lankshear and Moore game time.
 
Papafeels said:
I get their rivals, but bashing a team for showing ambition the way people have here and mocking people for being worried, sound.... Worried.

Fair play to them for being ambitious. Do I think they'll be top 4? No. But 7/8th and European football? Yes, absolutely.
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The problem is that people were melting and saying they are showing more ambition than us before we bought in Solanke, crying for no reason seeing as the window isn't even closed yet it just became an unbearable mess of grown men in tears because at that point they were doing more than us.
 
citizenabel said:
Cheers......script on its way to them ,retitled ' The Angry pirate,'
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Im Out GIF by Shark Tank
 
GGTH said:
He seems talented, but as others mentioned in this thread we currently have 6 wingers for 2 positions, and we're adding another in January.
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Only 2 of the 8 WF’s at Spurs are left-footed. And one of them, Gil, is out on loan and most probably won’t play for Spurs again.
Solomon most probably will be loaned out or sold this season; Werner will be gone by the end of the season (unless he has a "super season"), and I doubt Son (now 32 years) will stay beyond next summer.
That leaves Spurs with Johnson, Moore, Odobert and Kulusevksi.
And it’s still early to know whether Moore and Yang will make in the EPL, although the future for Moore looks “bright”.
So although I don't see it as top priority I wouldn't mind if Spurs added left-footed WF this TW.
 
Pathfinder said:
Only 2 of the 8 WF’s at Spurs are left-footed. And one of them, Gil, is out on loan and most probably won’t play for Spurs again.
Solomon most probably will be loaned out or sold this season; Werner will be gone by the end of the season (unless he has a "super season"), and I doubt Son (now 32 years) will stay beyond next summer.
That leaves Spurs with Johnson, Moore, Odobert and Kulusevksi.
And it’s still early to know whether Moore and Yang will make in the EPL, although the future for Moore looks “bright”.
So although I don't see it as top priority I wouldn't mind if Spurs added left-footed WF this TW.
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If Son only stays this season and the next, that still leaves us with 5 wingers for two positions (even without counting Yang) for the next two years. Either way, it's not something we need to pursue this season, next season we'll see. By the time Son leaves we'll probably know if Moore and Yang will make it or not.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I had no clue about Odobert but based on what I’ve found about him since and the fact that he’s already got prem goals and assists to his record, I’m pretty comfortable with their decision to go for Odobert over Bakayoko. It’s not like we’d have had much competition if we did decide we want Bakayoko…

Odobert is better off both wings and looks he also has a higher ceiling. Granted Bakayoko has Dutch caps so he’s ahead in that respect.
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What I’m saying is, why not both?
 
bus-conductor said:
People like Kvaratskhelia, Williams would be dream ticket, but if not then imo we still need quality attacking options. Our forward options are so limited. Our bench is really meh. Maybe someone like Bakayoko might be an option.

You got any suggestions?
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When it comes to pure footballing talent I'd go for Bakayoko among the left-footed WF's still available but there is "something" about him that causes me have reservations about him, and which is why I think no club in the "biggest" leagues have snapped him up yet. But that "something" is what the scouting network at Spurs are paid to find out about.
He reminds a bit about Leon Bailey back in 2018 when both Bayern M and Real M were after him.
 
bus-conductor said:
People like Kvaratskhelia, Williams would be dream ticket, but if not then imo we still need quality attacking options. Our forward options are so limited. Our bench is really meh. Maybe someone like Bakayoko might be an option.

You got any suggestions?
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Williams would be great as someone who would go either way around the opponont and his release clause is fairly modest, but just can't see him convinced. Neto made sense as an upgrade and when he went to Chelsea I struggled to see which alternatives woud be an "Ange" winger. It had to be someone at least of Jonhnson's level otherwise it wouldn't really make sense if it was one vaguely better than Moore. I think the recruitment department did well to come up with Odobert. He's our most Ange like winger now and him and Johnson will push each other. You probably shouldn't get you hopes up about another wide player. Maybe a versatile 10 like Eze, MGW, Ramsey, Baena or something like that
 
GGTH said:
How do you fit more wingers into our squad, particularly when we already have player registration issues? How will Moore get the minutes he needs to develop? It doesn't make sense. We bought both Kulu and Johnson last season, cause obviously the club believes in them, same for Werner who we loaned this year.
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Well, I wouldn’t have bought Kulusevski and Johnson for a start (or Solomon) and I definitely wouldn’t have brought Werner back for another year.

But you still don’t say “we’ve already got some meh/flawed players so we better not sign better ones.

Moore is a free hit squad wise, as he’s u21 and HG/club trained. Even so, I’d still be tempted to send him abroad to play games most weeks and develop. Unless he’s going to get lots of minutes here.
 
GGTH said:
How do you fit more wingers into our squad, particularly when we already have player registration issues? How will Moore get the minutes he needs to develop? It doesn't make sense. We bought both Kulu and Johnson last season, cause obviously the club believes in them, same for Werner who we loaned this year.
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Lunatic take (BC not you)
 
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