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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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These El Khannouss links are horrible. Such an internet football hipster choice that people have picked up and ran with probably without seeing him play or even noticing him when they have. Every single player in the football pyramid has a good 3 minute compilation worth.
 
I know nothing about El Khannouss, but if he’s the player we’ve identified then just go out and sign him, doesn’t he have £25m release clause or something?

Dithering FC
Exactly, if this is our guy then this is our guy, should've been done weeks ago, or the moment the Morgan Gobb Shite deal fell through.

Not signing him until late in the window just demonstrates that either we failed multiple other deals, or had no idea what we were doing.

Yet we'll no doubt be full of it banging on about him being the one we wanted all along.

The time for monitoring and considering was last season, BEFORE the transfer window opened!
 
So we have an additional 20m to spend after the son transfer. I think we will see biss and Solomon added to outgoings also for another combined say 25m.

Just popping on transfermarkt to view the business we have done and it doesn't make good reading at all. With Danso and Tel already here last year, vuskovic not deemed as ready and takai unlikely to have any impact its bad.

Pre summer I think most spurs fans probably thought 'we have some really good young talent, go out and buy 2 or 3 top players that are ready now'. Since then we have lost maddison also.

Let's see what today brings.
 
So we have an additional 20m to spend after the son transfer. I think we will see biss and Solomon added to outgoings also for another combined say 25m.

Just popping on transfermarkt to view the business we have done and it doesn't make good reading at all. With Danso and Tel already here last year, vuskovic not deemed as ready and takai unlikely to have any impact its bad.

Pre summer I think most spurs fans probably thought 'we have some really good young talent, go out and buy 2 or 3 top players that are ready now'. Since then we have lost maddison also.

Let's see what today brings.
Tumbleweeds Plains GIF
 
With the squad as it stands at the moment is anyone confident of beating Burnley? I’m not tbh. Might scrape a one nil but think we’re going to really struggle to create chances.
 
Could ENIC inject some cash? Absolutely. But they're tighter than our rivals because they're poorer than our rivals. The idea they're stupid or that its out of malice is not accurate. They honestly just don't have the money for the position they currently inhabit in 2020s football.
Which is fine on the surface

But if that's the case , they should sell up , take what would be a very handsome profit and let someone else have a go who does have the wealth and willingness to push us on

Right now we are traveling in ever decreasing circles
 

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I would keep Luka and spend the money on a winger

Our left side options are grim

We had CBs 3 of them but sent them all loan. If anyone can sum up our transfer philosophy and young player progression for me they are welcome. I’m sure Philips has just as much competitive football as takai. Same with the Croatian lad. If we buy an experienced CB now what is that going to do for the ones above. Never mind dorrington. We waste money after money. The money should be used to buy a LW , 10 and CF. Dump Richi to get some funds. However still astonishing that we have spent so much on forwards and yet hear we are still needing to improve in that area.
 
With the squad as it stands at the moment is anyone confident of beating Burnley? I’m not tbh. Might scrape a one nil but think we’re going to really struggle to create chances.
If we score early, I think the wheels come off. Bit play into their hands and let them grow into the game, not so much. Our attack is absolutely nothing to afraid of either. I'm hopeful, not confident that we win.
 
Surely if the criteria is "debuting a Premier league season that wasn't playing in either Serie A, La Liga or the Championship the season before, has scored more than 10" than it's just 2 since Perriera, Pukki and Watkins were all playing in the Championship the season before?

Edit: Dele was 10 years ago and came from League One.

Edit2: From the same season ad Dele there is also Wijnaldum, Firminho and Martial.

More recently there is also Lacazette.
My bad mate i had a few too many pints after work when I wrote this on way home.

Your right about the championship so they would be exempt and i meant to say Ligue 1 not Serie A which would also exempt Martial, lacazette and Ibrahimovic and not add anyone.

Dele and fiminho only hit 10... not more than.

I think it's 5 players give or take me fucking it up again.

Haaland
Aubemayang
Wijnaldum
Jiminez
Benteke

It's still relatively low, consistent top goalscorers are hard to find and be interesting how the likes of Sesko, Ekiteke and gyokeres will do after big money moves
 
True, but TBF and I'm as anti Ange as the next guy - but one year ago we'd just finished 5th. I do think the squad we have is better than some (most?) on here, I think we have some really good players, yes light in MF and up top but still some good players.

I think we've defo taken steps backwards in the last 12 months.

again, i don't think we're too far away at all.

I expect we'll bring at least 2 more in, maybe 3. interesting to see who they are. I hope they are at least at the level of Romero/VDV/Udogie/Maddison/Kulu/Bentancur etc
We need players better than that level just to compete.
 
El Khannouss is a very good player. I saw him play in Belgium too. Upgrade on Kulu as a 10.

If we could get him and a LW like Leao or Fofana then I would be pleased.
 
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