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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Richard Arlison said:
Liverpool about to sign Guehi and likely not done either.

Meanwhile in the Spurs transfer thread we are back to discussing Kulusevski.

Daniel Levy is a specialist in crushing any good sentiment at this club and if we are all honest about it, just too small time to ever really compete for the things he claims he wants to win.
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The really frustrating thing with Liverpool is how much money they're going to get for Darwin Nunez.

We'd be paying 3/4 of his salary to limp him along with Turkish loan moves for five years if we'd signed the exact same player and had gotten the exact same performances. The sheer Liverpool brand name is protecting the value of the player, so frustrating.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Liverpool about to sign Guehi and likely not done either.

Meanwhile in the Spurs transfer thread we are back to discussing Kulusevski.

Daniel Levy is a specialist in crushing any good sentiment at this club and if we are all honest about it, just too small time to ever really compete for the things he claims he wants to win.
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That's because, at Liverpool they demand to win, at boardroom and supporter level.
At Tottenham, apart from a few of us on here who want that level of success, the other Tottenham fans are more interested and keen to point out, how stable we are and what a good job levy is doing.
Tottenham isn't winning the league anytime soon under ENIC, they keep us midly competitive, but lack the minerals to go balls deep and be a genuine big club.
 
FightingIllini said:
The really frustrating thing with Liverpool is how much money they're going to get for Darwin Nunez.

We'd be paying 3/4 of his salary to limp him along with Turkish loan moves for five years if we'd signed the exact same player and had gotten the exact same performances. The sheer Liverpool brand name is protecting the value of the player, so frustrating.
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They definitely manage to extract money for their flops.

But they aren't making enough money back to balance what they just gave Salah and VVD in contracts and the mental spending they are on this summer.
 
Doom Funk said:
Kulusevski has proven for three seasons now that he will have about 10-12 good games a season and be completely hopeless for the rest

This has happened under multiple managers and systems

I don't know how it's even a debate at this point
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He is clearly a player lacking coaching and direction, in fact all the managers we've had since Kulu haven't been known for nurturing young talent and improving them

You can literally make the same argument about all of our players over the past few years, our players not called Harry Kane have all tended to stagnate or gone backwards because of the lack of care from the club in hiring an actual coach to get the most out of our players.
 
skywalker68 said:
That's because, at Liverpool they demand to win, at boardroom and supporter level.
At Tottenham, apart from a few of us on here who want that level of success, the other Tottenham fans are more interested and keen to point out, how stable we are and what a good job levy is doing.
Tottenham isn't winning the league anytime soon under ENIC, they keep us midly competitive, but lack the minerals to go balls deep and be a genuine big club.
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Levy deserves some credit for what the club has grown into in terms of stadium, facilities and global brand. And like Ange, he actually had the chance to bow out withi his status enhanced after the EL.

The fact that he sacked Ange and stuck around himself, despite the massive protests and clear evidence that the club and Premier League has clearly outgrown him, just shows that this is about something else that he's clinging onto.
 
CJJ said:
I don't think Kane "FORCED" his way into the PL squad any more than Bentaleb did. He was fortune to have Sherwood willing to make a point about being the academy whisperer. I'm sure we don't need to go back to posts on here, which was before you were a member, to AVB's summer window and see everyone lambasting the club for having Kane as a backup to Adebayor and Soldado, instead of signing some dud like Boly.

Note that you're cherry-picking on your list. Mason became a PL player, and was absolutely worthy of it, after 8 different loans to non-PL sides where he hardly kicked a ball and was 23 years old before he broke into the first team. Townsend was very similar and was 21 before AVB gave him a few games.

Tanganga is a weird choice to suggest his "career revealed (his) level" considering he's been getting rave reviews at Millwall. It was injuries that hampered his time here. Equally, KWP got how many MoTM awards for us, and went on to be a PL starter. Skipp is pretty much the same, and being stuffed into a rather useless Leicester team with an amateur manager is no more "his level" than it was Maddison, Barnes, Tielemens, Perez, or Vardy's when they suffered the same fate
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You do some odd shit weird time bending shit.Temporal flux shit! Whose Boly? And yesterday it's Dalglish.
Do you mean Wilfred Bony or Basil Bolly? One was a centerhalf one was a Centerforward.
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Richard Arlison said:
Levy deserves some credit for what the club has grown into in terms of stadium, facilities and global brand. And like Ange, he actually had the chance to bow out withi his status enhanced after the EL.

The fact that he sacked Ange and stuck around himself, despite the massive protests and clear evidence that the club and Premier League has clearly outgrown him, just shows that this is about something else that he's clinging onto.
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If only he had never retaken his A levels. :gallashmm:
 
Richard Arlison said:
Liverpool about to sign Guehi and likely not done either.

Meanwhile in the Spurs transfer thread we are back to discussing Kulusevski.

Daniel Levy is a specialist in crushing any good sentiment at this club and if we are all honest about it, just too small time to ever really compete for the things he claims he wants to win.
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If you were not constantly agitating I would struggle to argue with much of what you have written.

Whilst I think we have and need a ceiling to our expenditure, I absolutely see no correlation with an aspiration of PL success, whether that be next season or in the next 3 if we are always the slowest and most cautious out of the blocks.

On this window, once again I am genuinely staggered at the lack of activity(thus far) and the names we are being linked with.

I will wait until the window closes before passing judgement but it's not looking like our squad is going to improve to the levels I think is needed, and that's before we see what Frank can do.

I don't expect a PL-challenging squad, but neither do I want to see a squad who will be considered to have done well if it finishes top half. I mean fcuk that.
 
Notabadsquad said:
I will wait until the window closes before paying judgement but it's not looking like our squad is going to improve to the levels I think is needed, and that's before we see what Frank can do.
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Frank is used to having one the lowest budgets in the Premier League.

He's here to polish turds.

We all know it.

If Kudus is the magic dust we are in more trouble than even I thought.
 
JDefoe said:
A lot of our attack’s dysfunction stems from Kulusevski being a major part of it to be honest. Not totally his fault of course as we had many sources of dysfunction under Ange but still.

You either make the concession to fit him in and sacrifice to play him at RW (pace, transition threat, witdth), or sacrifice ball retention, quick passing, and defense to play him at 8/AM.
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Would he not function well with Porro overlapping rather than under lapping?
 
Richard Arlison said:
Levy deserves some credit for what the club has grown into in terms of stadium, facilities and global brand. And like Ange, he actually had the chance to bow out withi his status enhanced after the EL.

The fact that he sacked Ange and stuck around himself, despite the massive protests and clear evidence that the club and Premier League has clearly outgrown him, just shows that this is about something else that he's clinging onto.
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Nobody is doubting the infrastructure, probably best in Europe or the world.
Problem is,the team doesn't match that, he doesn't seem like he can or wants to push the club on.
And what else is he clinging to, a legacy of sorts?
 
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