How old do you think Solanke is?
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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How old do you think Solanke is?
I'm really glad you don't want good value - my house could be yours for only £5m. Well worth it for a discerning buyer who avoids the plebian idea of value for money
His contract is up next Summer, I guess we want him to start making trouble ... Spurs or nobody, I am not going to sign a new contract so I will walk on a free ... the usual routine.
Brentford have an option for an additional year so he’s effectively signed until summer 2027.
So Brentford could try keeping him another year but the smart move is probably to sell this summer so as you say - next summer, they don’t face the pressure of Mbeumo running down his contract - Something to consider for those who don’t want to sell Romero this summer …
Brentford announcement from 2022 when Mbeumo signed his deal at 45K a week.
Past payments are not a particular problem, providing that we pay them off and buy players with staged payments this summer. That way we might well afford to buy players worth say £200m on 5 year contracts this summer as that means we only play £40m this year.
Pay £68m this year for one player, and its more of a struggle to buy other players. And that is true for virtually every club.
FYI 95%+ of all transfers are done on staged payments - and that suits all clubs for reasons of cash flow and allows all clubs to comfortably afford multiple players every year.
Also worth knowing that banks do not like funding player purchases - too much danger of a player becoming injured and potential total loss of of value.
Doesn’t always work in football though does it. Is Rice worth £100m, is Wirtz worth £120m, probably not, perhaps 20-30% above what you might expect to pay. It’s overpaying but overpaying to fix what a manager sees as a key weakness. Value for money is good but not when it comes at the expense of team evolution. Looking for value above all else is how we have ended up going through Solomon, Danjuma and Werner for the LW and waste cash.
Look at our squad, perhaps more depth than I have ever seen in a Spurs team (when all fit) but lacking in key quality. Fixing that may mean overpaying for 2-3 positions but that could end up being the difference between getting CL qualification next season or winning an FA cup. Everyone laughed when Liverpool paid £90m or so for VVD, seen as massive overpay but has proven to be worth it.
Never claimed he was but the original post spoke of signing players from foreign leagues as opposed to British ones as they are better value but clubs have to sign home grown as well.
What Brentford have forced us into offering £70million. How is Brentford using us?
Absolute rotten cunt of the highest order he was. Truly despicable individual who deserved nothing but pain. Should've gone to jail for ten lifetimes for all the vile shit he pulled.
The post I relied to wanted to overpay for any position he wanted to fill.
Overpaying a bit to get 2-3 positions filled if you get quality players who for the system is not a problem. Get 3 Ndombele's in and its a huge problem for next few years.
Ndombele was just poor scouting combined with changing the managers to ones who have no need for that type of player even if he didn’t get lazy. Our scouting and general decision making needs to be far better and I am a little more hopeful with Paratici/Lange/Vanai structure we will be better placed when we do spend big to make better choices. We can’t live in the shadow of the Hitchen era, that’s gone thankfully.
The journalist who hosted the pod I listened to did a lot of research on him and it felt so bizarre how things always kept escalating. So many times that I thought "surely this is were he goes to prison/faces the consequences" but nope.
HJULMAND can go suck a bag of dicks
Very good player. Mbeumo/Semenyo/Kluivert is the level we should be looking at. Players who in their own way can add something to our front line.
Shittsouma on his way out? Oh happy days...
The only issue is that no-one is ever going to pay £30m for that useless shite. Just cancel his contract. It's the only way to be sure that the fetid stench of his mediocrity is gone for good.
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The only issue is that no-one is ever going to pay £30m for that useless shite. Just cancel his contract. It's the only way to be sure that the fetid stench of his mediocrity is gone for good.
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*Bum emo
Hamburg will be playing in the Bundesliga again next season. Would defo take him back and be a great way for him to end his European story if he helped them stay up. Then he can go play a couple seasons in the K-league before retiring.
Going back to Bayer also an interesting proposition. They've lost Xabi and Wirtz so could do with an old wise head. Be funny to see Sonny go up vs Kane.
Yeah teams that finished 17th with 22 defeats and 65 goals conceded usually don't.