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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Szymanski will get crushed in PL, and he isn't even that good at all, it would be disgrace of a transfer for club like Tottenham. So this is exactly what I believe Levy could do
Exactly. That's why Spurs signed them.
If the price was 30m lot more clubs would have wanted them.
I get what you say and it appears to be true as well.
But the massive dissapointment and frustration is not coming only from this deal.
It also comes from the fact that we failed in pursuit of MGW in the same window already.
And from the fact that after this deal falling through we will not sign a ready made attacking midfield on Eze level this window (!! mark my words !!). He was THE ONLY OPTION, I've seen no links to any alternative on similar level. And we are in it is now in last 10 days of the transfer window. Look how long our transfers drag all the time.
In the last week of window the clubs that were forced to sell have done their selling and clubs that don't need to do it cannot find suitable replacement. Which means we either do nothing at all and use classic "we tried" excuse. Or we go in for an average player that his current club is not bothered to lose and offer way higher transfer fee and salary than he is worth and will not get needed contribution out of him nor can we move him on due to his high salary.
And all of that is sad!
I reckon he actually orchestrated 9/11...
I think the Goons hate him nearly as much as we do?
Why you got to bring Ange into this?? He might have been slightly hamstrung, but he was fucking shit, and surpassed everyone's expectations of how bad a league campaign could be. We weren't even good going forward under this "all out attack" moron
Yep. I also think Orstein was publicly saying propagands pieces for Woolwich and doing bumsteers by saying Woolwich were no longer in for Eze. I think they leaked through him. Something wasn’t right the whole time. Ornstein had this smirk even when he was talking about Eze to Spurs earlier in the week, it was like he knew something but couldn’t say.
He was never tweeting about Eze to Spurs at all, lots of silence and then he comes in with the big bomb how Woolwich were closing in on Eze.
He knew the whole time.
Woolwich always knew they had Eze right where they wanted him and they could simply wait until the last moment to trigger the deal, and it’s what they did.
Oh bugger off, Ange was useless.
Ange and Levy were both problems, it's not an either or matter.
Well that’s the big question. Unfortunately players of Ezes quality aren’t readily available. We’re fucked basically. It sucks. I can see why the club tried and failed. After Eze most other targets are big risks and might not even be available
I don't think ENIC are interested in selling until the NDP are done! Maybe not then either
How bad will Levy's day be today.
He must feel completely humiliated, laughed at in the footballing world, laughed at in the press.
And he knows he's been outmanoeuvred and stitched up like a kipper.
Oh to have a camera in his office - he must be seething.
He honestly needs someone to give him a good
of reality
It doesn't. It frequently makes you seriously ill or incapacitated for a long period of time.
He won us a trophy so how about a modicum of respect!
And he certainly isn't stupid!
You have no clue what the payment terms on his release clause were. We were still negotiating the payment structure 10 days later when Woolwich came in and offered faster payments on the deal. There’s no excusing that.
We went into this deal with full knowledge of the player agreeing a deal with Woolwich earlier in the window, with the players full background and affinity to Woolwich known and with us desperately needing an attacking mid. It took us 5 days to finally offer 55 mil + add ons, when we should have being doing everything within our power to get a deal agreed as soon as possible so we know one way or another what’s happening and if we need to move onto other targets. Trying to “win” the negotiation and try get the best deal like levy always does was not the right way to go about this transfer with the context behind it.
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This is worse