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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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ShutUpPatrik said:
And Modric. Where Levy actually managed to convince him to stay on for another year and sold him to Real instead of Chelsea.

Player sales are an active part of the sport and something that 99% of clubs have to have as part of their business model, no matter how much they do not want to sell a specific player.

It is definitely an area where we can improve. But where we really need to improve is in regards to selling academy players. Chelsea were able to buff their financials for years, even with Roman's shady money, by being able to sell academy players for 5-15 mil a pop every 2 years or so. Just as a nice booster. We need to be better at selling academy players that don't make the cut but that can still make good careers for themselves more regularly instead of letting them walk for free.
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There's so much valid criticism that can be levelled at the club/owners, I just don't see why people feel the need to concoct blatantly incorrect narratives on top...

If anything, the cub has not cashed in on players at their peak often enough over recent(ish) years...

We have clung onto players way beyond their peak and ended up getting next to nothing for them, not even getting into the question of cutting your losses on the likes of Ndombele, GLC, Sess, etc, look at the money left on the table for players like Dele, Dier, Rose.

There are players like Moura, Wanyama, Reguilon, Aurier who have been held onto and released either for free or nominal fees, when surely we could have sold them on sooner and recouped some money, increasing the amount that we could have been spending on fees/wages.

We're terrible at selling players.
 
Brian Fantana said:
I’m predicting a terrible summer window. As bad or worse than signing Werner on loan.
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I think Wernrr was unfot
Herclueless said:
Eriksen was the same.

All clubs sell their players if the player decides they want to go, with the exception of Madrid largely because they are at the top of the food chain, there's always a bigger fish who can turn a players head.

Selling our best players isn't actively pursued by Levy and ENIC, it's the last resort. Both Eriksen and Kane would have been given new deals if they had been amenable to it.

Pretty sure the same can be said for Bale.
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I have put in a bin vote for you,because I cannot abide anyone talking so much sense.

Your post is absolutely accurate, possibly with the exception of adding Barceoba to the top of the food chain (all things being equal), but yes,, R. Madrid come calling and it's all but sold to that bidder.

Can't see many teans coming in with stupendous bids for our current players, bar maybe Romero (good riddance)
 
Herclueless said:
There's so much valid criticism that can be levelled at the club/owners, I just don't see why people feel the need to concoct blatantly incorrect narratives on top...

If anything, the cub has not cashed in on players at their peak often enough over recent(ish) years...

We have clung onto players way beyond their peak and ended up getting next to nothing for them, not even getting into the question of cutting your losses on the likes of Ndombele, GLC, Sess, etc, look at the money left on the table for players like Dele, Dier, Rose.

There are players like Moura, Wanyama, Reguilon, Aurier who have been held onto and released either for free or nominal fees, when surely we could have sold them on sooner and recouped some money, increasing the amount that we could have been spending on fees/wages.

We're terrible at selling players.
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Oh please stop. Your clarity is too much.

For the sake of those who won't understand, I am of course 100% in agreement, although timing just when to sell players is very difficult,only ever mitigated against, if the replacement is even better.
 
Notabadsquad said:
I think Wernrr was unfot

I have put in a bin vote for you,because I cannot abide anyone talking so much sense.

Your post is absolutely accurate, possibly with the exception of adding Barceoba to the top of the food chain (all things being equal), but yes,, R. Madrid come calling and it's all but sold to that bidder.

Can't see many teans coming in with stupendous bids for our current players, bar maybe Romero (good riddance)
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I considered them but then think of Neymar, and go a good bit further back and you have Figo being tempted to Real...

It's a spectrum for most, Barca are very much at the top end of it, but can still fall victim to those higher up than themselves. Water's a bit murkier these days due to oil money too.
 
_mehstg said:
Bale - bought as 17 year old with potential... turned him into a world beater and sold him
Kane - came through the ranks, one of the best strikers in world football and sold him
Modric - unproven 23 year old... turned him into a world beater and sold him

There would be many more if our scouting department was any good... but will probably add Bergvall to this list at some point.
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Modric was hardly unproven. Dominated the game at Wembley when Croatia kicked England out of the euros.
Wenger was well aware of him but said he thought he was too lightweight for the premier league.
Everybody wanted Bale. We only got him because Jol told his mother he would be straight into the first team .
Same things might happen with Gray and Bergvall. Don’t think supporters would want to sell them.
 
AberdeenYid said:
So, three players.

Modric, who we held on to for an extra year. Hardly the actions of a selling club. And this was 13 years ago.

Bale, who we got a record fee for? 12 years ago.

Kane, who gave us his best years, became our top scorer and made us £100m profit?

These three examples over a 13 year period hardly screams a team that polishes rough diamonds and then sells them. Our scouting department have made many good decisions (and poor ones) and our management and coaches over the years have improved numerous players that we haven’t sold on for a profit.

You know your original post painted us as a club that buys these players with the wish to improve their value and sell them. But we hardly ever do that.
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Agreed, the only other one really is Walker.

But the 4 are all pretty much generational talents or at least truly world class so its expected to lose all 4. Not many sides can keep hold of players of that calibre
 
Worth looking back over last few years transfers in when Paratici (joined June 2021) and then Lange have been in charge of recruitment, before then recruitment had been not just poor but positively bad since about 2016 - which becomes obvious when you note all the players in squad today have arrived since 21/22 with the exceptions of Son (bought 2015) and Davies (2014) but nobody bought between 2015 and 2021 is in the squad today - a huge 6 year gap in the recruitment,

2021/22 - Gil, Royal, Bentancur, Kulusevski, Sarr, Romero, Gollini (loan). (7 players)

2022/23 - Richarlison, Bissouma, Udogie, Porro, Spence, Danjuma (loan), Perisic, Forster & Lenglet (loan).(9 players)

2023/24 - Johnson, Maddison, Van de Ven, Dragusin, Vicario, Veliz, Phillips, Werner (loan) & Solomon (9 players)

2024/25 - Solanke, Gray, Odobert, Bergvall, Kinsky, Tel, Yang & Danso (8 players).

33 players arrived over 4 seasons, of those IMO these are the 'poor' transfers in :

Gil (physically just not built for PL)
Royal (bought to play 442 and a limited player, but I can see why he might have appealed to Nuno.
Gollini (loaned in from Serie A, didn't inspire confidence as PL gk, but a loan so he goes back)
Richarlison (Horrendous injury record, but 2-3 months scoring almost every game. What might have been ?)
Danjuma (loan), (not quite at standard we wanted, but a loan so he goes back)
Lenglet (loan) (not at standard we wanted, but can see why he appealed to Conte)
Perisic (too many injuries to really evaluate, but Conte's top pick)
Werner (loan) (Has failed to get back to his standards or 3 or 4 years ago - but a loan so he goes back)
Solomon (too many injuries at Spurs, think he's really a lower PL player)
Phillips (£2m 18 year old who has done well on Championship loans. Decent punt)
Veliz (Has not lived up to Argentine reputation, should be at lower leagues to see if he can make it in PL)
2024/25 Maybe too early to evaluate but look good so far - only Yang might take another year on loan, whilst Tel is still a bit of an enigma)

Overall there are few if any totally rubbish transfers, although clearly Richarlison's £60m injury ravaged career at Spurs sticks out : over priced for sure but maybe as much bad luck as poor transfer, Gil is physically unable to cope with PL and a few such as Werner, Danjuma and Solomon are not really at the level Spurs need.

Bissouma has not lived up to the standards he had at Brighton, but that's about consistency as he has good matches, just too few of those and too many 5/10 matches. Not a great buy but not necessarily poor recruitment. Others will pick out players they don't rate, which is fair enough.

Overall we have brought some very decent players in, although few if any are 'top stars' (although a number of youngsters do have that potential development but it might take a while) and importantly only 1 out of 3 players coming in are probably not good enough for one reason or other (which is better than average).

It would be odd to expect any major changes this summer - so circa half a dozen players or so to arrive of whom maybe half are definitely first team ready with others maybe good youngsters (eg Gray, Bergval) and one loan in. So another gradual improvement in first team quality - not spectacular but solid long term progress seems to be Levy's declared management style.
 
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I mean, I had few expectations re summer signings to begin with, even after this calamity of a season we're having. But now, after reading our Dear Leader's latest statement, whatever little hope I had has been well & truly extinguished.

Make no mistakes, he could literally have just said "here's our latest results, we're printing money, now fuck off with your demands you mugs", that'd have been the same thing. He clearly doesn't give a shit about us, about success on the pitch, about showing true ambition as the 9th richest club in the world...how anybody - even the Fixxies, Shadies and LPs of this world - can still defend that walking cancer is beyond ridiculous.

Regardless of who the 568th manager of ENIC's tenure is, we'll get another bunch of (supposedly) promising kids and a couple dudes straight of the B or even C-list. And that'll be that. The Change For Tottenham protest on Sunday and anything else we as fans will throw the board's way between now and Sept 1st won't change a damn thing. The evil dwarf is defecating all over us and he ain't even hiding it no more...but he knows there'll still be enough die-hard fans & plenty daytrippers to fill his boots so all is well in Levyland.

Hoping to strike gold again with a new HC a la Poch and cheap hidden gems like Bale, Harry & Dele...spending 2nd rate money but hoping for 1st class results...that's the strategy.
 
I am reaching the point where I think we should delete all Levy emojis

Let’s be honest does anyone want to see the odious little twerps face ever again , even if the actual post is negative about him.
 
Based on recent Levy statement we need to change the name from The Summer Transfer Thread 2025 to The Summer Transfer Sliver Of Cord 2025... in other words... 10m on Josh Brownhill, Werner on loan and some 15 year old from China (untapped market).
 
AberdeenYid said:
So, three players.

Modric, who we held on to for an extra year. Hardly the actions of a selling club. And this was 13 years ago.

Bale, who we got a record fee for? 12 years ago.

Kane, who gave us his best years, became our top scorer and made us £100m profit?

These three examples over a 13 year period hardly screams a team that polishes rough diamonds and then sells them. Our scouting department have made many good decisions (and poor ones) and our management and coaches over the years have improved numerous players that we haven’t sold on for a profit.

You know your original post painted us as a club that buys these players with the wish to improve their value and sell them. But we hardly ever do that.
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Oh it's even worse than that Aberdeen- we're not actually able to keep players or match their sporting ambitions, so we end up selling by default- when players walk for free, or become contract rebels.

I'm sure Levy would like to keep all his best players- if only they would agree to middling wages and "sustainable" club spending, which isn't capable of actually competing and winning things.
 
https://www.givemesport.com/fabrizi...-update-on-cristian-romero-leaving-tottenham/
The Spanish giants have reportedly been told that they need to pay over £100million for the Argentine to prise him from the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, in what could be one of the summer's biggest transfer sagas.

And Fabrizo Romano has revealed that whilst Romero's exit is a possibility, it also depends on chairman Daniel Levy's willingness to let him leave - with the Englishman being notorious for dragging out huge fees for his players. Romano told GIVEMESPORT in his transfer newsletter:

"It’s a possibility but not something guaranteed as it depends on Daniel Levy, and we know how strong Spurs are in negotiations.
"So it’s something possible, definitely; but it has to be an important financial package or Levy won’t accept anything."
 
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