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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Matt1882 said:
The irony to me, is you put Scholes in the middle and Lampard wide and we'd have looked better.
In general though, this is where I started losing interest in England. It became about star names all being squeezed into the 11 no matter what. Beckham, by this stage, was not much threat outside of corners and free kicks.
Then again, what other English right wingers were there?
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I always thought Carrick should have been paired with either Gerrard or Scholes. And it should have been Lampard or Rooney supporting Owen. No harm being able to bring the two left out as a sub, or rotating.
 
HampshireSpur said:
I think Frank is very good – you can’t question what he’s done at Brentford over 6-7 years, it’s highly impressive. He’s erudite and will handle the media lot more smoothly than Ange. I do wonder what the brief is: winning a trophy isn’t enough so presume a strong champions league run? Also how much money to spend? There’s a talk of takeover which will be interesting, I imagine his ability to work with a tight budget is what attracted Levy…
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Spursidol said:
I'm very pro youth development, that's why I started the youth thread - but also want to balance that up with players able to perform now.

Up front we have 18 year olds Moore and Yang, and a couple younger to come through. Tel has done nothing much to impress - despite Tel being 2 years older than Moore I'm not convinced he is much better now, other than maybe physical development which can change quickly at age 18/19. My guess is that 2026/27 Moore will be a far better player than Tel as Moore will have physically developed, 2025/26 Moore is still developing.

Son may be good for another year - but more a once a week player rather than weekend, mid week etc. So if we get a big fee for him (lets say £50m + I think he goes and we try to replace at say £80m. Whether that happens is a total unknown.

But we cannot afford to find ourselves with a Tel with no goal/assist output as he showed this season, a declining Son, a developing Moore and an ever injured Richarlison making up half our forwards.

Hence not taking up the option on Tel but finding a more experienced forward able to deliver now, with Son's future I think in the balance (stay or go) and needing to replace Richarlison. That then allows us to further develop Moore and others without undue pressure as well s having a set of decent forwards for now,
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Teach said:
8M
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Spursidol said:
At 8m he stays as he's capable of playing once a week or more and be a threat to opposition
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I think we'd do very well to get £20m
Anymore than that and it's a no brainer.
The problem for me is the only teams likely to go after him are probably the middle east teams and maybe he doesn't fancy that?
It's a glorified early retirement and he's still SK captain so doesn't see himself as that.

As for youth, I'd extend Tels loan for a year with a lower fee if he pans out. I'd loan Moore and Yang out for another season to get experience.
Then decide on all 3 for 26/27
 
RicharliSon said:
Honestly don't know why anyone would consider United. It's a graveyard for players, with a manager so stubborn he wouldn't change from his formation if his wife's life depended on it.
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£££££££££££££
Also, although rapidly diminishing, there's still an element of prestige to it.
I don't really know how relevant the Milan Clubs and Juve are these days, but they're still big names in Europe that a lot of players would chose over potentially better teams elsewhere.
 
Mostly wrong said:
If true that he is willing to accept lower wages to come to Spurs with Frank that is a huge plus for me, says he's sold on the project and would only have gone to United for silly money due to the risk of the move not working out.
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Give him him juicy achievable bonuses and he gets CL, lush facilities and his favourite manager to continue working with.

Frank having a word in his ear could well be the swinger here.
 
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