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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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So why did people criticise the club and say they weren't acting like a big club when they did exactly that to the likes of Doherty, Aurier, Ndombele, Gil etc

I have no idea who did that. Other than the people who kept wanting to give Ndombele chances .. which is because in fairness he was talented.

Doherty was the epitome of an ENIC signing - fucking cheap and opportunistic, shite footballer. Aurier was on the dumb end of ENIC signings where they like to ignore all the red flags as long as the club selling are desperate to get rid and we can 'do a deal'. Gil is a wet fart.
 
I don't usually agree with him but he's right.

I know on paper we need to sell before we buy but fuck that. Because what happens if we don't sell is we end up not signing anyone and giving the likes of Bissouma another season. We've seen this before with ndombele.

Biss came up clutch in the europa league final but he's put in 3 consistent years of being completely inconsistent! Excuse the irony. He's totally unreliable and it's a massive gamble if we go into next season with him expected to play close to 50% of games. Buy a replacement now and if we can't sell him then so be it.

Same applies to Son and Richarlison. I'm open to keeping one but keeping both without signing an upgrade is another big gamble! Richarlison could be out injured for 3 months by September and all of a sudden we are asking Solanke to play every 3 days until we run him onto the ground
 
LOL...... The usual suspects shat all over it every damn time........ None more so when Doherty was loaned out to Madrid.
Isn't he saying that getting rid of them led people to say that was "not acting like a big club"?

The opposite is true. Us just paying Doherty to fuck off so we could get Porro onto the squad and not mess with any of our loans was lauded precisely for being a big club mentality.

And who wasn't happy when Ndombele was finally written off the books?
 
I actually think Winks could have made it but had all his best traits coached out of him under different managers. He was uniquely good on the ball for his age when he first broke on the scene and was almost elite at receiving the ball on the turn and playing through the lines. But we never really played possession based football under Mourinho, Nuno or Conte so the best part of his game was never really utilized and his confidence went and he never got it back.

I do think your environment is everything. If Busquets was born in England and dumped into the Championship at a young age, I think he'd have been eaten alive. Not enough legs for midfield and doesn't score, assist or make enough tackles! Even though his profile was unique and IQ were off the charts

He fucked his ankle against Palace in one of his first games. I remember Poch saying at the time it would be likely he would never play pain free again for the rest of his career. So it obviously hampered him. Typical Spurs.
 
Isn't he saying that getting rid of them led people to say that was "not acting like a big club"?

The point he made was quite clear....... People just worked it as an angle from which to criticise. Damned if you do; damned if you don't.

The opposite is true. Us just paying Doherty to fuck off so we could get Porro onto the squad and not mess with any of our loans was lauded precisely for being a big club mentality.

Haha..... You and I both know you don't truly believe that's how it went down.
 
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