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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread

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I'm so fucking tired of this club's executives. It's amateur hour all year round. They identified that changes needed to be done in September. Now is the end of May, the window opens 15th of June but it's already in practice open. In order to give a new DoF a chance to perform he needed to be appointed in October. Not now.

This is not a plan executing a strategy derived from a vision. It's a reaction to nearly going down. This is the 9th richest sports club in the world, and it's run by morons.

We can't bring in a DoF from Germany now. It's too late. He will not have a chance to perform this summer. He doesn't know the demands of Premier League.

Sadly enough, I think, sticking with the useless Lange is the best we can do at the moment. It's too late to change him now.

Fuck Charington. Fuck the gooner, Fuck Lange. Fuck Enic.

With these amateurs were going to have to fight for survival another season.
 
Papafeels said:
Think Perrone would be damn near impossible with Como being loaded and having CL. Woltemade, after they spent €95m on, Rayan will be wayyy up there too.

I actually think Stiller is attainable. I also like EL Said from Koln.
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Yeah you’re probably right, but still think the stature of our club still has that pull over the current clubs these players are at. Woldemade is a weird one as Newcastle hasn’t utilised him well and were reports they wanted rid, plus there financial situation with FFP.
 
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TeamSpirit™ said:
It doesn’t matter what level the club is at, you should always have a succession plan.

The reason Brighton were comfortable letting Bissouma go was precisely because they believed Caiceido would either match or exceed his level. Same goes for Baleba now.

we’re basically back at the 2004 level and have to build ourselves back up. Then if we hit a tipping point like we did in 2017-18 this time make the correct calls.

Big clubs also sell their best players and move on. It happens.
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But all the big teams get this wrong. Its not as easy as this post makes out.

Look at United with their plans..... Chelsea even Liverpool now.... no Salah performing last season.... 24 less.points.

Took Woolwich years and a team of relatively cheap youngsters before they invested in Rice.
 
FightingIllini said:
That it's all fundamentally about scouting and signing good players is true enough.

But the point is, if your aim is to compete for and win the biggest titles - and at Spurs in our current stadium with our current commercial ambitions it must be, there is no other choice - you look to City and Woolwich and Liverpool as models, not clubs who do not face the same challenges you do.

"If only we could be Bournemouth but richer" is not a thing, Bournemouth is able to be Bournemouth precisely BECAUSE they aren't an established big and wealthy club.
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All 3 have different models.

its felt like we were actually doing the Arsneal thing in the way they built thier current team, albeit with slightly younger players.
 
dudu said:
But all the big teams get this wrong. Its not as easy as this post makes out.

Look at United with their plans..... Chelsea even Liverpool now.... no Salah performing last season.... 24 less.points.

Took Woolwich years and a team of relatively cheap youngsters before they invested in Rice.
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Liverpool suffered more due to Isak's elongated transfer and then injury, and Wirtz (like Xavi Simons) finding the first 3-4 months of PL football too fast and furious, than Salah's drop off IMO.
 
Tio Martin said:
We should be buying him in addition to a more established name at LW. We either go in for Godts this summer or else he goes to Chelsea or PSG in a year for like £75m.

They're in a lot of trouble. Already losing money hand over fist in the Prem and have all that transfer debt. Going to have to sell anyone of value except Bowen just to stay afloat.
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I think of West Ham as a “sleeping minnow”
 
Rafa said:
The only goal I can find this season where he scored with a lot of space on the counter was against Burnley. For his other goals there wasn't much space and he got himself in a shooting position to score.

The problem is that we need goals in the team. I'm not too sure if Savio's game is about getting in those types of positions and shooting to begin with. Sure it can be added to his game like it has to Doku's but that's a big if.
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Doku scored 5 goals - most of them coming at the end of the season, after getting a run of games no?
 
FYI them dicking about bringing a new transfer guy in to work with or replace Lange gives them a perfect excuse not to buy asap. He will have ideas on who he wants as will de Zerbi. Can see a cocktail of disagreements there. Whoever comes in has to have a relationship with the manager or else it’s asking for trouble.
 
spids said:
Liverpool suffered more due to Isak's elongated transfer and then injury, and Wirtz (like Xavi Simons) finding the first 3-4 months of PL football too fast and furious, than Salah's drop off IMO.
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Look at their defensive issues too.

They threw so much money at their rebuild - RB, LB, LF, ST - 24 less points.

It is simply not as easy as just copying a model - those models take time to bear fruit, and I'm not saying we have done things right, far from it, just people need to be realistic.
 
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