At the very least, deadwoods are going away....
Last 2 weeks been mostly outs...whether its loans or sold or out for 6months+ with injuries...
Time for some ins...get moving baldy
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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At the very least, deadwoods are going away....
Last 2 weeks been mostly outs...whether its loans or sold or out for 6months+ with injuries...
Time for some ins...get moving baldy
I am like, 'we have sold 2 already,season hasnt even started'....given how bad we are at doing this
You've paid you're £100 + for a ticket you can do what the fuck you like within the law... you want to boo, then go ahead. You should never tell other fans how to fan.
Don Paratici has just saved the window for us
He doesn’t want to do a Leeds mate, get him to look at Skodas.
I thought this was the last year of his contract? How is there a future option/obligation?
"I made it up first"
"no, I made it up first"
No-mark ITK jabroni royal rumble for the delusional self-importance trophy.......
....Except the gimps in the comments patting both on the back for their "continued good work".
FFS; no wonder these (not)-ITK scabs continue to throw shit at the wall.
The club ownership needs to change. This is becoming ridiculous. We are now known as the cheapskate, penny-pincher, skinflint club in addition to being the laughing stock of the football world failing to to compete for trophies and bottling almost every chance to win something. They always shop a level or more below the top class and try to squeeze every penny out of any deal.
This my friends is a culture, and it stems from the very top. They, dragged this great club name to the mud, and continue to do so.
SELL THE CLUB YOU MISERS!!!!!
This my friends is a culture, and it stems from the very top. They, dragged this great club name to the mud, and continue to do so.
SELL THE CLUB YOU MISERS!!!!!
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What are your realistic expectations of this group of players? Surely not top 4, so an optimistic 5th to 8th? And you're happy with that knowing that we have the opportunity to build on last years cup success and improve the starting 11?
Don't answer that or I might start getting embarrassed by fan base. We're supposed to want the best for our team, not worry about how the fucking owners look.
Probably something like if he plays 20 game they have to pay £10m if not he goes somewhere for free at the end of his contract. Probably a loan fee in there as well??
Where is the planning? Why do we take such a scattergun approach? (Jackson to replace Richarlson in the last week f transfer? Per lease)I know buying players is a bit more complicated than, say, buying a car but just how hard can it be?
1. Make a list of positions that need upgrading.
2. Triage that list. Put members of the recruitment/purchase team on each of the triaged list. (eg top person/s on priority 1 etc. it is possible to work on more than one transfer at a time)
3. Draw up list of three to four players the manager would like for said positions.
4. Find out the willingness of the player to join and the club to sell.
5. Find out sale price of player and players wage demands, agent fees etc. Do cost analysis v budget for said position/player.
6. Pay for player.
7. If unable to get choice one go to point 4 for choice 2.
8. Do the above as early as possible.
Simples just ask Liverpool.
That’s how a club who plans well should operate.
Spurs never appear to have a plan, appear to procrastinate over our choices and take forever trying to scrape every dollar off the deal.
Let’s take the example of selling Richarlson and buying Jackson.
If we wanted/needed another striker, which imo we do, why wait till so late in the window when there’s so little left in the striker pool. Why did we not try for one of the strikers our competitors have now signed/about to sign?
Fair dinkum, you’d reckon this club is run by a pack of beer swilling truck drivers the way things get done around here. This sort of incompetence shouldn’t be tolerated. When I ran my business if my acquisition team had been so incompetent they’d have been out the door and not after 25 years of incompetence either. *
* Mind you I did most the sourcing and acquiring, needed someone I could trust to not fuck it up
1. Make a list of positions that need upgrading.
2. Triage that list. Put members of the recruitment/purchase team on each of the triaged list. (eg top person/s on priority 1 etc. it is possible to work on more than one transfer at a time)
3. Draw up list of three to four players the manager would like for said positions.
4. Find out the willingness of the player to join and the club to sell.
5. Find out sale price of player and players wage demands, agent fees etc. Do cost analysis v budget for said position/player.
6. Pay for player.
7. If unable to get choice one go to point 4 for choice 2.
8. Do the above as early as possible.
Simples just ask Liverpool.
That’s how a club who plans well should operate.
Spurs never appear to have a plan, appear to procrastinate over our choices and take forever trying to scrape every dollar off the deal.
Let’s take the example of selling Richarlson and buying Jackson.
If we wanted/needed another striker, which imo we do, why wait till so late in the window when there’s so little left in the striker pool. Why did we not try for one of the strikers our competitors have now signed/about to sign?
Fair dinkum, you’d reckon this club is run by a pack of beer swilling truck drivers the way things get done around here. This sort of incompetence shouldn’t be tolerated. When I ran my business if my acquisition team had been so incompetent they’d have been out the door and not after 25 years of incompetence either. *
* Mind you I did most the sourcing and acquiring, needed someone I could trust to not fuck it up
Agree, and both The EL win and finishing 17th in The EPL have to be acknowledged. One through celebration, which like every other Spurs fan I did. Then once I sobered up reality hit that we were shite in the league and lucky in a dumbed down EL comp and a major overhaul of our squad was needed for 25/26 in the hope of avoiding another crap EPL campaign. And you can't have an opinion on this unless you acknowledge we only avoided relegation because of 3 truly poor sides who clearly didn't belong in The EPL. And our current answer to that is Kudus and an 30 year old loanee.
Certain criteria triggering a retrospective fee makes potential sense.
But it also says "option to buy"..... Which makes zero sense.....
That the majority of fans and writers can't process the diff. between and meaning of the words "option" and "obligation" is a complete mind fuck!
Does what you think have any relationship to fact ? You have no idea what they could or could not do financially or if have had him in their plans . You’re just having a guess which is fair enough but it’s not particularly a strong argument , is it
I think the 24/7 multi-platform sport media cycle largely contributes to base angst, as well.
Through the 80s you read press clippings of other teams, I expect, and maybe some highlights. You chatted it up with your mates - but mostly it was about going to the ground and watching your club.
Because you really only ever saw large amounts of your own team, as well, clubs had more of their own cult heros and probably overrated their own players to a degree.
Transfers were more rare, teams built more organically and sprinkled in outside recruits. Now you seem to have move coverage in the summer than during the season. There's this expectation of "keeping up with the Joneses" and if you aren't chopping and changing 1/3 of the squad then you're falling behind.
In reality, I think a good of the complaints against ENIC are echoed on other forums about other clubs. A lot of it has to do with general negativity about the way the sport has gone and continues to go.
As you say, its all about money and what your place in the hierarchy is. You can't really overcome that, except through a truly elite level run of recruitment such as Liverpool have had.
We need more commitment out of ENIC, but can't make Joe send money. I am excited to see the development of what is a very young squad.
Where have I said we haven’t spent money?
WTF you talking about? Except for Kudus, Pahlinha and Takai (who’s unlikely to play), we’ve seen all these players play before. We know what they are and aren’t capable of in most cases. We may disagree on some of them, but I’d say there’s a large consensus on the squad as a whole, by the fan base as to where we stand, and the inactivity of management to improve a squad that finished 17th last season is deserving of protest. But hey, we’ll all pull our heads in because we’d hate for YOU to be embarrassed, petal
EDIT: Your ok anyway, as we don’t associate you as a spurs fan, more a Levy/ENIC fan.
Edit the second: I’m not embarrassed by what the board does, I’m disgusted.
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