Sorry to tell you mate but you’re getting old. Ndombele and Lo Celso were more than 5 years ago. Sanchez was 8 years ago.
If you would like to discuss quality then I’m with you. But that’s not the claim that the other poster was making
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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If you would like to discuss quality then I’m with you. But that’s not the claim that the other poster was making
True.... But on the legal front it does appear there was some kind of confidentiality breach which gave fatty all his leverage in this saga.
Our issue isn’t transfer spending, it wages and it’s not often having a clear idea what we are doing. Chelsea get away with it because they spend such vast amounts of cash, it’s throwing shit against a wall until it sticks. That shouldn’t be us.
We are not far off being a very strong team but it means higher wages and more aggressive targeting of players we really want. With CL football our revenue is the same as Woolwich and Liverpool they are who we can copy realistically and do well. The club have done well getting higher revenue but you need to target it properly. It also wouldn’t hurt to get a bit of extra investment like other clubs have.
For what it’s worth if Kudus, Palhinha, Savinho and Paz is our window that is actually a very good window despite the MGW and Eze mess, much better than normal. If you added Hincapie that would be our best ever window IMO.
I fully agree.
3 of those 5 plays were def. Poch picks, you clown.
The other 2 aren't emblematic of anything in particular.
I know they've been longer that 5 years. Their contracts were 5 years, which brought them into being Spurs players in the last 5 years. Mostly getting money on the free. That is why I mentioned them.
Christ you're pathetic.
Spin, spin, spin, it's all you fucking do.
Yeah, Liverpool have had an awful window. Chelsea haven't signed anyone.
You're beyond parody at this point.
Ok but we were talking about the last five transfer windows.
If we were gonna sign this guy we'd have done so already.
We're not going to be in a better bargaining position the closer it gets to deadline day.
So if Baldfuck isn't going to pony up now/by now, he never is.
They want the money - pay it or stop wasting everyone's time and taking the piss out of the fans AGAIN.
Fucking twisted bald sociopath.
"Last 5 Years Net Spend" is a perfectly reasonable metric to throw around, but it creates a deceptive picture for Spurs, who exactly five years ago were a disgraceful catastrophe of a squad as a result of 5-7 years of colossal transfer underinvestment prior to that.
Which both necessitated huge spending just put a team together that could survive the loss of prime Kane and Son, and which had absolutely zero other value to sell and balance the books.
And the full picture of our squad spending relative to our revenues has been well behind our competitors at every stage.
We do not spend enough to win, because we have confiscatory ownership ideologically dedicated to underinvestment. Period.
I'd assume an additional £600m net (motly pre Neymar inflation spike) spent during that 5-7 year period would have reflected very differently.......
MGW with the body language of beaten man.
Don't fret, Morgan, you'll have Stockholm syndrome in no time!
Don't fret, Morgan, you'll have Stockholm syndrome in no time!
All of the team that beat City yesterday, I think?
I think they are stringing us along, this one will go into the filing cabinet under "we tried"
Don’t you guys get bored discussing the exact same thing regarding Levy and transfers and net spend?
None of you are saying anything new that the guys on the counter argument side haven’t heard a million times and won’t change their mind and vice versa.
I agree.
But i think we have all found a common ground in saying that the club absolutely need to bring in a 10 and LW of quality before the window shuts.
Not long to go, major pressure on Levy.
Run out of paint atm...more on order though.
As some of us were screaming at the time!
Yeah we've had a fair few successes in the transfer market since binning off Hitchen.
The most impactful of which has been paying full retail price for two top class CB's. That's excellent business that other clubs would envy.
You conveniently leave out wages. The simple fact is, and I don't even understand why you are disagreeing. We do not show the ambition in the market which our rivals do. It's not debatable. We target specific subset of players which fit into our tight wage structure, and fit into our transfer range, which is generally sub 60 million.
It seems Levy was willing to push the boat out for Eze as an exception, but that probably would have meant no Savinho when we needed both.
The Savinho signing would actually be a step change IMO, because it isn't the type of signing we usually make. Thing is, we haven't signed him yet, and we probably won't.
For me Woolwich are the best comparison, because we have similar revenues and they aren't a oil club etc and just look at the ambition they have shown in the market.
They signed Rice for 100 million.
They beat Liverpool to the signing of Zubimendi.
Signed Eze
Gyokores was one of the most in demand strikers in Europe, whether he's turns out any good is another matter.
They built upon the excellent foundations they had by signing some very good players like Saliba and Gabriel cheap. This has allowed them to go from top 4 to title challengers.
We have got similar foundations, but we won't kick on and do what Woolwich did by sprinkling the team with top top quality. That is where my problem is with Levy.
The players we need to kick on, the extra quality we won't do.
We simply won't get there by signing the likes of El Kannoush. It's mental to think otherwise. Woolwich didn't. Liverpool didn't, they went and signed Van Djik and Allison for huge money.
We under Levy will never do that, and subsequently we will never take that step to real challenger for the biggest trophies.
We actually have most of the team there, we have the manager in place, but Levy will leave us short and we will miss our chance. He won't give the manager the tools, like FSG did with Klopp and now Slot, like Kroenke did with Arteta.
We do not need the likes of El Kannoush, not coming in as our main man anyway, we need elite talent to push us on. Savinho is one of those.
I don’t disagree although this reads more that his agent is trying to use us to push Palace to up their offer. No doubt we’ll bite. God I fucking hope not though but Levy & Co can’t be trustedAaaand..this years relegated, poundland, D' list cheap alternative / punt for the future is....
Honestly, man...This is as predictable as cider turning into piss
