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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Club was bought in a dodgy fire sale for £2.5bn plus £1.5bn to be invested in the club for the stadium. They have spent close to £1.5bn on players so wonder if the stadium money has just been thrown at buying player assets. They are supposed to be a profit making investor company but Clearlake Captial has a ton of Saudi money so can’t tell if it’s just a Saudi front company.

If they are looking to make money and the £1.5bn has been spent on players we should see a slow down. The Chelsea sale was one of the most dodgy things ever, cheap value with the condition of massive investment driven by the U.K. government. The U.K. government literally supported a football team getting £1.5bn investment, corrupt as fuck.
I personally dont think its a Saudi front. Because Saudi wants the publicity. Its pointless writing cheques if they don't get the credit.

But its true Saudi's are an investor in Clearlake and Clearlake own Chelsea.

My feeling is that they probably have a high wage bill, running out of things to sell back to themselves and players tied down on long term contracts. Wouldnt be suprised if they sold a big name like Enzo to bring in some cash.
 
Surely if son goes he's being replace by a marquee signing, suuuuurely
When the likes of Vertonghen and Eriksen left we didn’t replace them for years, and took a year to replace Harry freakin Kane.

Absolutely nothing is beyond Spurs when it comes to making an utter cock of replacing a player.

If we don’t sign someone to replace him you’ll likely hear a few old classics such as “Player X that is nowhere near good enough that we signed years ago is Son’s replacement” or “Franks new system is his replacement, we can’t replace him with an actual player.”
 
He’s properly 2-footed, fast, strong, hard working oop.

Not a polished finisher yet though.

£70m is crazy money. £50m is closer and probably still high

I think with Johnson, Maddison, Kulusevski, Richy, Solanke we have enough finishers. £70m is high but we don’t have his profile in the squad. The alternatives are WillIams or Leao which is unrealistic or Dibling who isn’t ready.
 

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I really like this transfer.

Dibling has a similar profile as a strong dribbling ball carrier but is an unready kid. This guy is ready. He has the Nico Williams/Leao profile.

Be nice to have a really powerful two way winger.

I think him and with Odobert as his understudy on the left and Johnson with Dibling as his understudy on the right is not a bad blend.
 
I think with Johnson, Maddison, Kulusevski, Richy, Solanke we have enough finishers. £70m is high but we don’t have his profile in the squad. The alternatives are WillIams or Leao which is unrealistic or Dibling who isn’t ready.

The fact that he plays either side as well helps him and the squad

I’m not sure he plays LW as well as Eze or RW as well as Mbeumo but he’s younger than both so could easily reach that level.

Still think we’d need another left footed attacker and another option at AM in case Frank moves Kulusevski back to the RW
 


Its the right time for him to.

Absolutely love Sonny, I doubt there's a Tottenham Hotspur suppoerter that doesn't but him leaving with a trophy, at a time where his legs are ageing, and with a new manager incoming, along with it being our last opportunity to get serious money from Saudi Arabia it just all leads to a win/ win.

Get good money, leave a genuine legend of the club, on a true high which so few have been able to have done and use it to grow and finally make a sale that is truly beneficial to the club. The last I can remember us making was Wimmer to Stoke for £20m
 
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