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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Semenyo links worry me a bit.

He's a good player, but not for 70 million.

I wouldn't pay any more than 50.

I do get the unfortunate familiar impression that we are going to be picking up the dregs left after City, Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Woolwich have done their transfer business.

And its shit.

I don't want to turn this into an anti Levy post, but I am sick of the way we approach the market. I totally get the data led approach but do we think those other clubs aren't also using data?

I just find it ridiculous with all our wealth, money, stadium etc, there's no reason we can't compete for these players other than a lack of ambition.

What will happen, is we will end up signing the players that the top clubs don't want, for a reason. They aren't good enough.

Which is why I think it will be a disgrace if we don't sign Eze. He's literally right there, we can offer CL football and he's exactly what we need.

It seems like we should have a clear run at him hopefully, so just do the deal.
 
Richard Arlison said:

View: https://x.com/ithismeansmore/status/1932057870998069458?s=46&t=fbqxNuG9CT4qTaiJx8mBjg

Remember when we were ahead of Liverpool??

Now dropping 150m on one player and still chasing players that would be our only marquee spend at 50-60m. And offering wages that triple our biggest legend in modern history to rotation players to compete with their starting 6
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Plus, they've already signed Frimpong and about to sign Kerkez (and signed GK Mamardashvili last year)
 
Aphex said:
Semenyo links worry me a bit.

He's a good player, but not for 70 million.

I wouldn't pay any more than 50.

I do get the unfortunate familiar impression that we are going to be picking up the dregs left after City, Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Woolwich have done their transfer business.

And its shit.

I don't want to turn this into an anti Levy post, but I am sick of the way we approach the market. I totally get the data led approach but do we think those other clubs aren't also using data?

I just find it ridiculous with all our wealth, money, stadium etc, there's no reason we can't compete for these players other than a lack of ambition.

What will happen, is we will end up signing the players that the top clubs don't want, for a reason. They aren't good enough.

Which is why I think it will be a disgrace if we don't sign Eze. He's literally right there, we can offer CL football and he's exactly what we need.

It seems like we should have a clear run at him hopefully, so just do the deal.
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Fans wanted Premier League experience but yet don't want the club to pay for Premier League experience.
 
Aphex said:
Semenyo links worry me a bit.

He's a good player, but not for 70 million.

I wouldn't pay any more than 50.

I do get the unfortunate familiar impression that we are going to be picking up the dregs left after City, Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Woolwich have done their transfer business.

And its shit.

I don't want to turn this into an anti Levy post, but I am sick of the way we approach the market. I totally get the data led approach but do we think those other clubs aren't also using data?

I just find it ridiculous with all our wealth, money, stadium etc, there's no reason we can't compete for these players other than a lack of ambition.

What will happen, is we will end up signing the players that the top clubs don't want, for a reason. They aren't good enough.

Which is why I think it will be a disgrace if we don't sign Eze. He's literally right there, we can offer CL football and he's exactly what we need.

It seems like we should have a clear run at him hopefully, so just do the deal.
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Semenyo is not dregs. He is a very good player and was playing very good football this season before Bournemouth burned out. He was also one of the key reasons Solanke scored 20 league goals the season before. He’s fast and extremely physical which was a big problem for us last season - all of our wide players were powder puff at keeping hold of the ball when confronted physically.
 
Shadydan said:
Fans wanted Premier League experience but yet don't want the club to pay for Premier League experience.
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Eh? No. I just don't think he's technically the right sort of player for the elite clubs.

He's a handful and a bit of a livewire, and a good signing, but for less than 50 million. I'd be disappointed if he's our only wide attacking signing.

There's a reason he isn't being targetted by the top 4 unfortunately.

I literally said we should sign Eze, what are you on about PL experience?
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
Semenyo is not dregs. He is a very good player and was playing very good football this season before Bournemouth burned out. He was also one of the key reasons Solanke scored 20 league goals the season before. He’s fast and extremely physical which was a big problem for us last season - all of our wide players were powder puff at keeping hold of the ball when confronted physically.
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I didn't call Semenyo dregs, I just meant in general we seem to be waiting for the other clubs to do their business before we start moving and then pick up the scraps.

That is how it looks like. Same every summer.

On Semenyo, as said in the post above, I am not sure he's technical all round in possession for the elite sides.

He's a good player, he isn't 70 mill though. Not when Eze is right there who is a much better all round player.
 
Aphex said:
Eh? No. I just don't think he's technically the right sort of player for the elite clubs.

He's a handful and a bit of a livewire, and a good signing, but for less than 50 million. I'd be disappointed if he's our only wide attacking signing.

There's a reason he isn't being targetted by the top 4 unfortunately.

I literally said we should sign Eze, what are you on about PL experience?
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I think you're right but Eze is a £60m downpayment, I think we will go for him though but probably after we shift some players.

Semenyo though is the kind of player we should be targeting, or at least in that bracket, otherwise I don't know who else there is on the market that fit our specific criteria...
 
Aphex said:
I do get the unfortunate familiar impression that we are going to be picking up the dregs left after City, Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Woolwich have done their transfer business.

And its shit.

I don't want to turn this into an anti Levy post, but I am sick of the way we approach the market. I totally get the data led approach but do we think those other clubs aren't also using data?
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I'm quite happy with our transfer strategy so far, players like Bergvail for instance, don't get me wrong through the squad needs some experience added in but compare our signings now with when Poch was in charge and its night and day.
 
Aphex said:
I didn't call Semenyo dregs, I just meant in general we seem to be waiting for the other clubs to do their business before we start moving and then pick up the scraps.

That is how it looks like. Same every summer.

On Semenyo, as said in the post above, I am not sure he's technical all round in possession for the elite sides.

He's a good player, he isn't 70 mill though. Not when Eze is right there who is a much better all round player.
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No, he’s not 70m, but we wouldn’t touch him at that price anyway. Maybe he’s not technically sound enough for an elite side, but we’re a long way from being one. We need physically tough players who can get us back to being difficult to play against so we can get back to 60+ points in the PL.
 
sudoku said:
I estimate transfers by calendar year, not seasons, but my guess is very close to that total:

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BOUGHTSOLDP/L
202111045-65
2022157.543.5-114
2023201123-78
202415678.5-77.5
202581.50-81.5
706290-416
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These are figures from Spurs accounts cash flow - so includes only instalments received and any bonus payments (for sales of players) and reverse for purchases of players. So they won't match other projections based upon estimated transfer fees.

But what both do show is that Spurs are committing to quite large total transfer fees to bring players in , particularly over the last 3 or 4 years, and no reason to think that's going to change - but its a tough market now with a lot of competition from the likes of Villa and Newcastle joining the traditional clubs vying for CL/top 4 in PL and therefore the best players.
 
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