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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025
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Regarding Kudus everyone on here wanted a take on specialist.... he is exactly that.
One thing that did suprise me is he's actually a very accurate passer of the ball, for a winger in the 95 percentile that's pretty decent.
Also looking on dataMB his performances between the last 2 seasons at spammers is pretty similar apart from his G/A output
He's a versatile player but primarily a RW and I think that's why he may be preferred...with kulusevski being out for start of season.
He kinda makes sense, he does have the ability to pull out a worldie too but seems to lack consistency and a lot of west ham fans want him out.
I'm torn on him but he could be excellent under Thomas Frank.
One thing that did suprise me is he's actually a very accurate passer of the ball, for a winger in the 95 percentile that's pretty decent.
Also looking on dataMB his performances between the last 2 seasons at spammers is pretty similar apart from his G/A output
He's a versatile player but primarily a RW and I think that's why he may be preferred...with kulusevski being out for start of season.
He kinda makes sense, he does have the ability to pull out a worldie too but seems to lack consistency and a lot of west ham fans want him out.
I'm torn on him but he could be excellent under Thomas Frank.
6/7 of those players listed are from our academy, you dunce.
I mean with Harry Kane as our all-time highest paid on 200kpw (for six years of his prime with no release clause), and efforts having been made to reduce the wage bill since then, how bollocks is it?
Players whose motivation is to be making the peak of football riches at the most decorated clubs avoid putting their playing registration in Daniel Levy's hands, I think that's just the honest truth.
They can't make that money at Tottenham, nor can they escape to clubs where they can. Players are stupid, but agents aren't.
It's not the end of the world, and handing out silly wages to fill every hole creates its own problems, but it's certainly a matter of concern.
Our wages to turnover ratio for the 24/25 season is going to be pretty embarrassing for the club when it comes out, it's going to be lower than 23/24.
Last seasons stats suggest you are talking shite.
Daniel wasn’t to know FFP was bollocks , obviously the smart people knew though
Bloke said 100kpw.... That was bllx.
Couldn’t agree more. All
I hear is our academy players have to go on loan to get minutes. All the while players similar in age who we purchase for big fees can stay and play in our first team.
problem is, bournemouth are not selling. they just sold their entire defense, sold solanke last year. they are not selling semenyo. we are just taking advantage of west ham finances to get kudus
Why didn’t we buy him last year instead of blowing £40M on gray?
We've given some short shrift to the odd academy kid at the margin over the last decade, but it is just a cold, unfortunate fact that basically zero PL quality has come out of our youth ranks since Kane. Winks was there for a year or two then rapidly receded.
A coach believing in him isn't the difference between KWP and Pedro Porro, or between Tanganga and Romero, or between Marcus Edwards and Maddison. They simply aren't good enough, and the team would suffer enormously to pretend otherwise.
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Even getting the other toon player that went to pool instead of sissoko would prbly have done it.
Big waste of time that was then co spidering we have not given him any minutes in the first team.
Is he any worse than Davies at cb?
I'm never sure what to believe about transfer rumors. Players agents play teams off against each other and I'd imagine teams use rumors about signing particular players as a way to put pressure on other teams they are dealing with. Spurs just need to get it right. If they can't reach any of the wings they are interested in they can always keep Son around until the winter transfer window and see what happens.
Which is all well and good, but Kane looked no better than most of them until he suddenly broke through. Even ex players from that time (Van der Vaart) have said he looked awful in training, too.
I don't think these players will ever look magically good enough until they've played a few competitive senior games
So dazzle me with your suggestions of who we should be targeting.
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This is closer to reality
Son/Solanke/Johnson
Tel/Richarliason/Odobert