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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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Kosher Kid said:
It was still a remarkable and noteworthy thing to see Davids in a Spurs shirt for the first time.

He was an iconic player and he definitely contributed something to that group of players.

The magic rubbed off.
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Yeah maybe but some stories I've heard that he wasn't particularly liked and a bit arrogant. Keane knocked him out at training once apparently?
Anyway the discussion was about signing WC players and David's was not world class at that point in his career
 
kingdawson said:
the hilarious thing is we could have got him by activating the 6m release clause last season but decided against it.
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He has a year left on his contract with Sunderland. Transfer market has him at €8M. They notoriously undervalue but, even if his value was double that, with just a year left, I doubt he'd cost too much more than the release clause was valued at, and he's had a further year of Championship Football where, by all accounts, he's really grown as a Footballer. Had we exercised the clause, it's debatable whether he'd have had the same sort of growth with us or out on loan.
 
spids said:
That is a little harsh - Udogie is already a very good player who will develop into one of the very best LBs in world football and is already one of the best in the league IMO. Last year he missed all of pre-season after very significant quadricep surgery and then was played relentlessly in the first 3 months of the season until he broke down again. The fact Ange chose not to play Spence at all in that period was negligent. Once Udogie returned got some games under his belt, with his minutes managed through rotation for a few months, he looked consistently brilliant again (April onwards).

We do have the foundations of a very good squad with potential. As players like Bergvall (19), Gray (19), Tel (20), Udogie (22), Sarr (22), Odobert (20), Donley (20), Kinsky (22), Dragusin (23), Moore (17) and Vuskovic (18) grow into their potential it is essential that we invest in the right type of 'peak years' player to help them improve and gain consistency, and do not invest in even more youth. Our academy has a conveyor belt in place with the right manager.

Porro (25), VDV (24), Kulusevski (25), Johnson (24), Spence (24) are all about to hit their peak years (26-30) . What we are missing is 2 or 3 more top players aged 26-30. Vicario (27), Bentancur (27), Maddison (28), Solanke (27) and Romero (27) all fall into that category for me (although Vicario needs to stop shitting the bed on corners!). I would be looking to replace Davies, Son, Richarlison (too injury prone) and Bissouma (too inconsistent) with peak year players with the right characteristics.

Replace Son with Eze (26).
Replace Davies with Collins (24).
Replace Richarlison with Mbuemo (25).
Replace Bissouma with Luiz (27).
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Richarlison must stay. Big things from him the next two years.

Solanke will probably be sold next summer. Very low quality footballer.
 
Rejoice...the oracle on SC has spoken...

Hercules SC
“Of every hundred men ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are nothing but targets, nine are real fighters we are lucky to have them they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one of them is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
 
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SausageVince said:
Richarlison must stay. Big things from him the next two years.

Solanke will probably be sold next summer. Very low quality footballer.
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Richarlison is made of glass. Levy would sell him tomorrow to Saudi if he could but richarlison doesn’t fancy it yet

Solanke not very low quality. He will run through brick walls and score 15 goals a season. Perfect backup. We do need a striker but Richarlison certainly isn’t the one.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Perfect bit of PR to either boost the price or soften up the fans to make it look a better transfer

Tbh I don’t hate it because he’s young and actually pretty highly rated

Academy kids are good for club culture as well
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You seen his injury record?

Also, you wanna push Udogie, you don't sign Cirkin.

But yeah he's CT and Chelsea want him according to Spurs' PR dept.
 
Harrier said:
That’s exactly what it would be for rather than running one of the first choices into the ground as you say.

Bring Cirkin in for one of the easier cup games when you draw a Tamworth or like ……….. oh!

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What 3/4 max games a season? No if they buy him he will have to play more than that or we will run into the same injury or form problems like last season.
 
Ionman34 said:
He has a year left on his contract with Sunderland. Transfer market has him at €8M. They notoriously undervalue but, even if his value was double that, with just a year left, I doubt he'd cost too much more than the release clause was valued at, and he's had a further year of Championship Football where, by all accounts, he's really grown as a Footballer. Had we exercised the clause, it's debatable whether he'd have had the same sort of growth with us or out on loan.
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To seal up our LB spot and get an extra CL roster spot? Bargain.
 
Pathfinder said:
Rejoice...the oracle on SC spoken...

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