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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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bk_spur said:
That bit in particular if true is incredibly embarrassing for the club. Club needs to issue some kind of statement otherwise we'll end up looking like bitches over this. Can't simply let Forest dominate the narrative without issuing any kind of statement.

Even something like "we triggered the release clause in what we thought was a legal fashion, but morgan gibbs-white wasn't willing to challenge the legality of Forests denial to recognize our clause-breaking" would be nice- at least then we can simply say MGW was too much of a pussy to insist on a move.
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It can't be.

Use logic.... A party (i.e. Spurs) can't break an ND*A if they're not the one who's originally party to the info. (*Key word "Disclosure"!)

MGW/Agent leaked the info to us. There's no 2 ways about that part.


(At this point we have TFC fan-satire muddying up so-called journo reporting.)
 
sudoku said:
Truth is there are a load of people who are sick off the anti-Enic cult driving us mad in the transfer thread.
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I'd be all for a thread that's segregated strictly to player evaluations and tactics/fit stuff, which can often get short shrift here.

But once you get into negotiations over fees, there's just no separating it from the level of aggregate investment in the team, nor should there be.
 
Ignoring how we have not added any other vitally needed first team upgrades, how the fuck have we not even brought in a fucking left back yet?

If we go into the season with Davies, again, it's fucking totally embarrassing incompetence.
 
FightingIllini said:
I'd be all for a thread that's segregated strictly to player evaluations and tactics/fit stuff, which can often get short shrift here.

But once you get into negotiations over fees, there's just no separating it from the level of aggregate investment in the team, nor should there be.
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Can't remember if it was here (or somewhere else I briefly frequented), but the links and associated player analysis used to be kept in their own thread...... One thread acting as just a 'pinboard' for info during the TWs and another behemoth like this where people could discuss and yell at each other.

Really good system if people can respect it.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Telegraph article

Bitter legal threats and personal feud fuelled Nottingham Forest move to keep Morgan Gibbs-White​

By fending off Tottenham’s advances, Evangelos Marinakis has made a major statement of intent – and got one over on Daniel Levy

Morgan Gibbs-White will wear the red jersey of Nottingham Forest this season and, for the club’s owner Evangelos Marinakis, this moment feels like a pointed statement to the powerful ‘Big Six’.

Marinakis is determined to establish Forest as a force in European football and his success in persuading Gibbs-White to reject the riches of Tottenham Hotspur is another clear sign of progress.

“At the end of the day, we always win,” were Marinakis’s words after an interview on Saturday night confirmed that Gibbs-White has signed a new three-year contract.

Tottenham are preparing for Champions League football under their new head coach Thomas Frank, who was convinced that a deal was inevitable after triggering the £60m release clause.

Yet the full details of the stormy mini-saga, which included bitter legal threats and acrimony between the owners of the two clubs, can be revealed here.

Spurs bungled release-clause activation​

After Tottenham made their move on July 10, the fall-out was spectacular. Forest were convinced that Tottenham breached certain levels of confidentiality, and there are even doubts that they matched the exact terms of the release clause.

Such clauses can be very complex, and it is understood that Tottenham fell short of activating a number of conditions.

Forest sent an intention of legal action to Spurs owner Daniel Levy, while an official complaint to the Premier League was also under consideration.

Just over two weeks later, Gibbs-White committing his future to Forest was not in the script. Marinakis flew into Portugal on Thursday with one intention – to resolve the future of his star player. Negotiations advanced quickly and on Saturday night, shortly before a friendly against Fulham, the England international had agreed to stay.

There is no release clause. There is no gentleman’s agreement to leave next summer. Gibbs-White will be the best-paid player in Forest’s history, and Marinakis views this as a major triumph.

Marinakis took Levy approach personally​

Tottenham have missed out. The message was relayed to Frank on Saturday night that the deal was off. Marinakis was simply not ready to accept losing this particular battle with Levy. He felt the nature of Levy’s approach was a slur on Forest, and what he is trying to build.

Gibbs-White is relishing the start of the new season, and the team spirit which has defined their evolution under Nuno Espirito Santo cannot be discounted.

The 25-year-old has behaved impeccably as the saga unfolded. There has been no strike action, mysterious injuries or threats of transfer requests. He has reported for training as normal and while many will argue that should be a prerequisite, other Premier League players caught in a similar situations have not always responded in that way.
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The bottom line is MGW wanted neither CL football or a move to Spurs.

What his agent saw was an opportunity to pad his, and his players bank account.
 
FightingIllini said:
I'd be all for a thread that's segregated strictly to player evaluations and tactics/fit stuff, which can often get short shrift here.

But once you get into negotiations over fees, there's just no separating it from the level of aggregate investment in the team, nor should there be.
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It's like Groundhog Day in this thread. One poster deliberately posted an identical post every day, sometimes multiple times.
The same thing, the same "joke" repeated over and over and over. I can't put all of them on ignore.
Other posters keep quoting my ignored posters which makes it hard to follow the thread.
There is a thread that is specifically about Levy and Enic but these anti-Enic nutcases just want to pollute other threads, even match threads.
 
bus-conductor said:
Ignoring how we have not added any other vitally needed first team upgrades, how the fuck have we not even brought in a fucking left back yet?

If we go into the season with Davies, again, it's fucking totally embarrassing incompetence.
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It is actually crazy. There's a world where VDV is a good LB match, if he's the one forming a back 3 with the RB pushing up. Just don't want a scenario where our LB and back up LB are both part of the strongest 11
 
reachingforthestars said:
It is actually crazy. There's a world where VDV is a good LB match, if he's the one forming a back 3 with the RB pushing up. Just don't want a scenario where our LB and back up LB are both part of the strongest 11
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I'd rather we bit the bullet and just committed to a proper 352 if that was the case........ All the wonky shit drives me potty. Just too predictable and one-sided.
 
sudoku said:
It's like Groundhog Day in this thread. One poster deliberately posted an identical post every day, sometimes multiple times.
The same thing, the same "joke" repeated over and over and over. I can't put all of them on ignore.
Other posters keep quoting my ignored posters which makes it hard to follow the thread.
There is a thread that is specifically about Levy and Enic but these anti-Enic nutcases just want to pollute other threads, even match threads.
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Well match threads are just everyone operating from a psychotic fugue state, it's buyer beware in there.

But in the transfer window thread, the negotiation of player values is just inseparable from the finances and investment in the club, that just is what it is. I'm as tired of the same old "offer RM a packet of crisps and Josh Onomah for Rodrgyo" jokes as you are, but you have to meet people where they are insight-wise I guess :harrysmile:
 
FightingIllini said:
Well match threads are just everyone operating from a psychotic fugue state, it's buyer beware in there.

But in the transfer window thread, the negotiation of player values is just inseparable from the finances and investment in the club, that just is what it is. I'm as tired of the same old "offer RM a packet of crisps and Josh Onomah for Rodrgyo" jokes as you are, but you have to meet people where they are insight-wise I guess :harrysmile:
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There are posts and posters in this thread hoping we get relegated and getting agrees from the predictables . That to do with transfer finances has what?
Anyway, I am going to bed.
Had a very pleasant day down the boozer watching the lionesses. In the olden days I would still be there.
 
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