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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Deary me. Have heard the same from every Spurs manager for the last 20 years. They all end up sacked. It's going down the same path. We heard it last summer. So what do we do? wait until this summer, and now? same again, wait until summer 2026?
It's a fucking joke that stopped being funny two decades ago
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Ridiculous that it’s gotten to this stage
Feels like De Ja Vu, EVERY Summer
Realistically we need 6 new first XI players to start with Vicario, VdV, Romero, Porro and Palhinha. All other current players are back up at best.
Well, it wouldn't be deja vu if it only happened once.Feels like deja vu, EVERY Summer
It being like this following a European triumph and those comments about competing are even enough to drain the positivity out of those who are deseprate to find it at all times, despite a history of evidence suggesting otherwise. That in itself is quite a talent, a dark Daniel themed talent.
How many more weeks until Grealish starts to look appealing?
Not getting MGW has really spun us out
I think the 'need to win the league' thing has just been completely blown up by the fans. Even the stupidest of stupid people could tell from the very scripted interview there was absolutely no implication that was meant for this season but it turned an absolute nothing puff piece into another stick to get beaten by.
I'm not pro ENIC, the option of an outside takeover would be great, I think they've pretty much cemented where we are as generally the 6th best team in the country and that in itself is an achievement, just there's now a absolute chasm between us and the 5 obove us and I don't think there's a realistic chance under this ownership that it's breached.
Frank must be the hill we die on as Spurs fans in a sense. We have turned every which way to every which type of manager since Poch and not a single appointment has worked, we can all see as fans he has been given a squad that wasn't good enough for the ambitions foisted on him by the chairman before he's even had the chance to conduct a training session and has barely been strengthened in the meantime, meanwhile the teams he's supposed to be catching up to are out having £200m+ net spend windows.
We might get some shit results, we might play some ugly football, so be it. I refuse as a Spurs fan to allow Levy and ENIC off the hook for another manager. He had a golden opportunity to back a new man to the hilt after a clean-ish break with Ange and our first silverware in 17 years to build on, he stoked the fire when he mentioned winning the top competitions, he wants the credit for building a "successful" club, but never has the appetite to apply the finishing touches to achieve it. If Thomas Frank fails at Tottenham Hotspur, based on what we know about his abilities in the PL and how well regarded he is as a coach by his (former) players, it won't be his fault. If I'm going to put any energy into calling for anyone's head from this appointment onwards, it will be Daniel Levy's.
Again though, why is effectively the shot-caller of a multi-billion pound entity not being briefed that even mentioning winning those competitions creates effectively a timeline of expectation? As I have said previously, even if you accept that challenging for those competitions forms part of a 3 or 5 year plan, that still invites unwanted scrutiny on our transfer activity and competition performance under our new manager from the get-go. If Frank finishes 9th and takes us into a semi-final, I would class that as a good starting point to build on, considering we would have improved 8 places and given a decent account of ourselves in a cup competition, but if you contextualise a 9th placed finish and a cup run in year one of a 3-5 year plan to win the league, that is utter failure. I never expected us to spend the probably close to £1bn on player acquisitions that would be required for us to even closely compete for the league, but if you tell me that's where you want to get eventually, I expect you will at least break £200m net as every single one of the teams we would have to surpass to achieve those goals have.
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Yeah, I know, am pushing that abit. But we have more important positions to fill unfortunately.Vicario
That’s the crazy thing about optics. If we turned to Grealish, after already landing a #10 like MGW, because of Madders injury I wouldn’t have a problem with it. But as a primary target. Brutal.
If the rumours about City insisting the receiving club picks up the whole of Grealish's wage are accurate then it's dead in the water as far as Shylock is concerned.
No way is
he going to fork out over £300k+ per week in wages on a player and I'd be surprised if he agreed to pay 50%...60-40 is more his style. McAtee is possible I suppose but we need someone who is more prolific rather than promising.
He didn’t say we need to win them this season but he did say it so we can expect to see some efforts to get closer. We haven’t seen those efforts