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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Tomo said:
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.
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What?!? You make no sense good sir

How much profit will Red Scum make on the £100m they paid for Rice or the Scouse on the £120M they will pay for Wirtz. The answer is NONE - They will make NO profit!

On the other hand - we got Soloman on a FREE and are about to sell him for what £10 - £15-20M - Return on investment is THROUGH THE ROOF. Pure profit sir! #WINNING!

(sarcasm)
 
Spursidol said:
The only criteria is goals across all competitions in matches he was chosen to play in. And he played a lot of minutes. Its not up to you to pick and choose one set of data suiting your agenda.

Son scored and created assists in most of competitions Spurs played in, including EL, which if you might recall we won and gives us a platform to build from. If he had not played those other matches he could well have been able to play more and score in PL.

One fundamental reason why spurs struggled with this season (24/25) was playing 60 games in the season rather than the 40 odd in the previous season - with a consequent need to play both weekend and midweek. That's why all players but one could only manage to play LESS than 40 matches in 24/25 as the frequency of playing took it out of them.

Son played a decent part in 24/25, if he stays at Spurs next season I think he will largely only be able to play once a week to generate goals and assists. If we get a decent offer (and your suggestion of 8m is a long way below his worth) then it - and as players have agency makes sense for all for him to move on to play in a less intense league than Spurs play in, allowing Spurs to find a decent forward to replace him and get the 24 or so goal involvements which Son got in 24/25 which FEW players do as you ought to be aware of..

But if we only get offers of 8m, he's likely to stay.
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He had little impact in the PL compared to prior years and we won’t be in the second rate EL so scrub that as a relevant data point

He couldn’t pass a ball forward, gap players or strike the ball. Position didn’t help him but use your eyes, he was a liability.
 
Col_McCafferty said:
Mate, slagging off Harry but defending Levy??

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If you think describing what happened is slagging off harry, that's on you :pochcmon:
 
SpaggyBoy said:
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 'clever and grown up' nickname doesn't even work.

Biss doesn't rhyme with shit.

Bissouma doesn't even start with S.

I've seen our players called some pathetic names by some pathetic posters but even I admit some of them are clever word play.

You haven't even got that.

And the guy, for all his faults, was integral to our Europa win. I wish him well.
 
Ionman34 said:
To be fair, Solanke scored 16 and assisted 8 in an awful season where we had no continuity in playing staff and he was, in large parts of the season, starved of service. That's only 4 less than he managed for Bournemouth in the previous season. He's hardly been a failure in that regard.

Football is littered with players who've had mediocre starts to their first season at a new club, then risen to the challenge after that.

Didn't RM fans vote Modric as one of their worst ever buys ever after his first season? Now he sits as arguably one of the greatest midfielders they've ever had.
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Solanke 's goals were all tap ins. He is not a forward for a Champions League club.
If we can move him on, we should.
 
nicoclaesen said:
Why do people keep mentioning Kyle Walker Peters? He’s so bang average at best! Why don’t we sign Sessegnon back too! Sign a player because he’s club trained even though he’s not good is bonkers. The same people who mention this moan about how our squad is shit when we have injuries and have to play these types.
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Is Kyle Walker club trained Football Chap Football Chap
Spursidol Spursidol ?

Bit of a cunt but knows the club and PL by heart, has won plenty, got bags of experience...and Milan is a right mess so maybe coming home would appeal.
 
I think Atleti have gone for Hincapie because they know they won’t get Romero. They’re not prepared to pay 70 mil and no way Levy is budging on that price, nor should he. Atleti sell for big prices but aren’t prepared to buy for big prices so they can go fuck themselves
 
malin said:
I was thinking about him - but even with his CT status - i would pass.

As FB we have: Udogie, Spence, Porro and Gray as an option (plus in theory VdV). Think Spence as major cover for both LB and RB is enough. Especially since under Frank fullback role should be simplified.

Only addition i would consider here is either LB/LCB hybrid, or someone like pre-injury Rico Henry (dynamic left footed guy who can cross). KWP does not fit any of those profiles.
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Bring Cirkin back?

Did well in the champo with Sunderland.
 
PointToPatrik said:
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.
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Friends in high places and had a lot of dirt on Spanish and foreign leaders/rich fuckers.

Made himself untouchable.
 
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