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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Kane's left said:
Oh I think he does. If we win the PL it essentially means the clubs value would surge a decent amount.... But is he hell bent on winning it that he's willing to financially put his balls on the line to try and get us seriously competing with the big boys?!?

Absolutely not. :frankstare:

He wants all the big rewards but without putting in the necessary risks to drastically increase your chances of getting there.
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Pretty much..... He's seen us get close TWICE under his stewardship so believes it can be done; thus he's not gonna suddenly get in a cheque-book battle with clubs with bigger chequebooks.
 
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Optimistic_Spur said:
Tough one to profile and depends entirely on how frank see it.
I love the destroyer type and that would pair well with bergvall and bentancur. However somebody like sarr eould not be a good pairing as neither would be able to dictate play.

Luiz I love as a footballer, I prefer ederson more and neither are pure dm's imo and more sitting 8's or 8's but both would work beautifully in a double pivot with all our current cm's. But as you say we would then lack the big physical monster but having said that ederson is a physical ball winner.
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Ederson is that guy I reckon.
 
Airfixx said:
Also:

Fellow "elite" clubs that the "elite" Man C recently purchased from:

Wolves, Lyon, Frankfurt, Lens, Palmerias, Troyes, R.Villadoli, Wolves, Rennais,

Fellow "elite" clubs that the "elite" LFC recently purchased from:

Leverkusen, Benfica, Puskas AFC, Valencia, Liebzig, Brighton, Stuttgart, Enidhoven, Fulham, Aberdeen,



Arbitrary, fan-concocted rules in being arbitrary shocker.
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They obviously have a better system than us then, as most of our 'top'/costly signings over the past 10 years haven't been very good.
 
MCSpurs said:
Not a million years ago, we regularly finished above Liverpool and the Gooners (for 8-9 seasons I think). Then somehow, they are signing £100m players and stretching the gap to us, having easily overtaken us, whilst we made a lot of poor decisions.

Catching up is going to be really tough for us now, sadly, especially with our wage structure and the type of players we appear to be in the market for.
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Our bad trf business during the Levy/Poch/Hitchins era hurt us WAY WAY more than the summer without any signings.
 
RealCoolYid said:
It means buying a player believed will go directly into the first team

Tricky concept to grasp apparently
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The player who played 2nd most minutes last season was Kulusevski whose minutes were equivalent to 38 games out of 60 games in all competitions last season.

Just 11 players played enough minutes to be equivalent to 30 or more games last season (ie more than half games)

So we need a fairly large squad, not just a first 11, and to do that in CL we need to include players who are CL and/or List B (u21's who have been at Spurs for more than 2 years to get above 21 players (17 overseas and 4 HG).

The whole concept of a first team player has gone out of the window : I doubt if what most thought our first team last season played together more than 6 games (out of 60) due to injury, need to rotate or otherwise not available.
 
dudu said:
Salah was not on top wages being spent by City/Chelsea or United at the time. He was on about 120k a week, top players were 160k+ at that time, with Hazard being on 220k or so De Bruyne on 175k, Pogba 200k.

Salah's wages were closer to Lloris' than those players.

Allison was on 90k when he signed, less than Lloris, less than half of De Gea....

Mate - you're having a mare here.
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Alisson signed on very similar wages to Lloris and then doubled them within 2 years and Lloris stayed the same.

Virgil’s first full season with Liverpool was on 180k pw which is massive now let alone back then. Romero is on 180 now…

If you compare the total cost of transfers in terms of wages and transfer fee, Virgil, Alisson and Salah vs Lloris, Son and Romero, it’s just silly and you are making yourself look silly to reinforce a point that isn’t a point.
 
JDefoe said:
Someone called him the “German Declan Rice” which I can’t tell is a compliment or not
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Saw him doing some warm up routines...
Thomas Muller Bundesliga GIF by FC Bayern Munich
 
Macch said:
Man that January/Feb schedule looks rough.

No to any new signing that’s off to AFCON
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Group dates 21/12/25 to 31/12/25.
Final is 18/1/26.

  • GROUP A: Morocco, Mali, Zambia, Comoros
  • GROUP B: Egypt, South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe
  • GROUP C: Nigeria, Tunisia, Uganda, Tanzania
  • GROUP D: Senegal, DR Congo, Benin, Botswana
  • GROUP E: Algeria, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Sudan
  • GROUP F: Cote d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, Mozambique
 
Know a few spammers and they are not fans of kudos, typical motd player they say, flair in small portions, very poor work ethic , in fact virtually no work ethic and then there is the temperament. I think for that money we can do better.
 
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