Akliouche, all day every day. He covers RW and AM, and a proper creative flair player.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025
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Akliouche, all day every day. He covers RW and AM, and a proper creative flair player.
If you had the choice, who would you sign?
Akliouche looks technical but is he pacey enough to play wide in the PL? looks like a Fellaini vibe where he ends up a SS.
No way people want us to sell him? The guy is a future Star !!!
I’d say he looks quite Sancho-y. Very skillfull but not with a real explosive change of pace. Always gonna be a risk adapting to the PL.
ONLY in PL squad, which is easy to get right for Spurs.
In CL squad all those players do not count as List B and therefore take up a squad place. Even now we have TWO players too many to fit into CL squad.
Any player joining (and most existing players) will hate to be left out of CL and will regard those in CL squad as first team with any others only in PL squad as 'squad players' . Not only that but most player contracts give win and playing bonuses so NOT being in CL squad translates as lower pay. So players regard NOT being in CL squad as a clear indication club doesn't really value them and will ask agents to find them another club.
That's why its important to build the squad eligible for CL with possibly a couple of players in PL squad and NOT playing in CL
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Worth a quick reminder that Frank and Lange know each other very well - even to the extent of sharing an office 20 years ago at another club.
So wouldn't surprise me if they've had conversations about which players might be leaving and which might be good joiners for several weeks already.
So wouldn't surprise me if they've had conversations about which players might be leaving and which might be good joiners for several weeks already.
Much rather mbeumo.
Do like larsson though. Get the Swedish pairing together!
Do like larsson though. Get the Swedish pairing together!
If it helps, nobody with a working brain wants to sell him.
There must be a limit of how many right-footed WF Spurs will need for next season 
So far: Son, Yang, Odobert, Tyl, Moore, Johnson, Richarlison, Manor Solomon
PS! Yes, I know that Son, Solomon and Richarlison may be sold and that Moore and Yang most probably will be loaned out...but, hopefully, Moore and Yang will return ready to play in the EPL for Spurs...
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So far: Son, Yang, Odobert, Tyl, Moore, Johnson, Richarlison, Manor Solomon
PS! Yes, I know that Son, Solomon and Richarlison may be sold and that Moore and Yang most probably will be loaned out...but, hopefully, Moore and Yang will return ready to play in the EPL for Spurs...
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I didn’t say drop Maddison. I simply said that midfield would have legs. We can’t have one main midfield trio. We can drop Sarr in some games and drop Maddison in some games as well . Horses for courses.
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Suspect that wasn't the full quote and he would have finished it by saying sth like "but he's a Spurs player and we don't speak about other clubs players"
either way, that kind of comment is only likely to add 10m on the price coming from Levy. Really think Romero stays this summer.
But sometimes you need to take unpopular decisions to improve/upgrade the squad balancing up both short term (season 2025/26) and long term.
When Sarr was bought we thought him a potential world beater - currently he's a powerful runner but not great at passing etc. Not on anyone's must sell list. But equally has not developed as quickly as we'd hoped - he's fallen behind 19 year old Bergvall for example - so has become a useful squad player.
And to upgrade the squad overall sometimes its the squad players that need to be sacrificed
How long is Kulu out for? Probably can leave him out of the first phase of CL squad, depending on his recovery/fitness date.
Can probably leave Romero and VDV out of the champions league squad - they will be injured after the first few games.
Likely to be back early in season - possibly before first leg of first CL match in September
So many posts saying 'he's a player I really like' and 'so much potential'
Upgrading a squad sometimes means 'breaking a few eggs' .
Yeah probably another one but tbh Kulusevski will come into the CL squad when he's fit, Dragusin maybe (probably) won't. If we sign a CB this summer then we are selling a CB and I wonder if that will be Dragusin because Italian teams love him.
Fair enough. Forget the suggestion then. For some reason I thought he would be out longer
What's he like over the first 5 yards? That's the important bit really for getting past a marker.