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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread

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Its a high ceiling vs high floor comparison. Romero on his day is twice the player Senesi will ever be. Romero on a bad day is twice as bad as Senesi on a bad day.

Romero is good enough to play in a title winning team (we saw his performance levels in our Europa league run). Senesi is not good enough to play for a title winning team. However, Romero is rash and unreliable so has the potential to be part of a team that gets relegated. Senesi is too good and consistent to ever be part of a team that gets relegated.

After finishing 17th two seasons in a row and nearly going down, I think we can all agree that we'd prefer the consistent and reliable Senesi. Someone who should be available to play nearly all 38 league games, avoid getting sent off and just be a reliable presence at the back.

But lets not pretend he's a better player than Romero, he's not.
It's a moot point really don't you think? You're comparing Romero to Sensei when they play in different positions. If the comparison is to be made, it would be Senesi and VDV.

Regardless, he brings more balance to the squad being a lefty, and is an upgrade on Dragusin, who I think will be off this Summer. His agent will not be happy that he'll be 3rd choice RCB, if Vuskovic comes back and Romero is sold, so I would be extremely surprised if he's not touting him out right now.
 
Everyone on Twitter losing their mind over Antonio Vergara.

A 23 year old that’s played 80 games, mostly off the bench . . . doesn’t exactly inspire me! Unless he’s back up for Kudus of course. But how many back ups are we gonna sign for a first 11 that isn’t good enough in itself?! 👀
 
Danso will be our starting CB with VDV I reckon with Senesi used heavily in rotation. Or vice versa. Romero is a massive liability and he’s not captain material. There’s more to football then their skills with the ball and I think his time has past at Spurs. I also think Danso is a better defender

Lots of ways the Senesi and Robertson signings could change the squad :

1 If Romero stays, we have lots of cover at both CB and LB, but I think Romero goes anyway as he only has one year left on contract (to June 2027)
2 If Romero goes, it maybe that Vuskovic players in his position, so Spurs again have a lot of cover at both CB and LB.
3 If Romero goes it maybe that Roberson and Van de Ven share LB position most of time with Van de Ven splitting his time at CB and LB.
4 Dragusin is a decent defender but not good at passing (with Roberto wants) so he may leave - will Robertio give Ashley Phillips a chance at 4th CB position - he's a strong defender, excellent passer, fast big unit with over 2 seasons experience in Championship and unusually the loanee made Captain for half a season, showing leadership which Roberto also values.
5 We might end with having as CB's Van de Ven, Danso, Senesi, Vuscovic, Phillips plus cash from Romero and Dragusin sales to put towards forwards..... and still have Van de Ven splitting his time between CB and LB which might mean Udogie also leaves giving us a bigger pot of cash to spend on forwards/creative CM (our biggest weaknesses last season 25/26)

I think we wait until closer to end of the window before drawing any final conclusions on how our defensive players line up as there could be a lot of variables
 
Cannot see why people are happy with this. 29 year old with only 3 caps and not in Argentina WC squad. Whilst at the same time happy to let go Romero, younger, more caps & much better player.

Romero is a stupid fucking prick, that's why.
If he's not giving refs every opportunity to send him off, he's out of position in the opposition box and at fault for conceding.
1/5 games he's a 9/10
The other 4 he's more like a 2.
Then there's the stories of mugging off coaches, turning up late, public statements in the midst of a crisis.

He absolutely has to go. And a regular 7/10 player is better than an occasional 9/10
 
Everyone on Twitter losing their mind over Antonio Vergara.

A 23 year old that’s played 80 games, mostly off the bench . . . doesn’t exactly inspire me! Unless he’s back up for Kudus of course. But how many back ups are we gonna sign for a first 11 that isn’t good enough in itself?! 👀

How do you know he'll be a backup? A lot of people thought Dele Alli would be a backup. Not knowing a player =/= them not being any good.

If this is the player RDZ has asked for then let's trust his judgment for now. I'd certainly prefer him to pick the transfers rather than Lange.
 
Because at 23 he’s barely kicked a professional football. 😂

Well like I said, if this is RDZ's pick then we have to trust him for now.

We should know by now not to judge players before they actually take to the grass for us. We can't celebrate RDZ being given major input into football strategy then immediately criticise his signings before they've kicked a ball. Either you trust him or you don't.
 
Well like I said, if this is RDZ's pick then we have to trust him for now.

We should know by now not to judge players before they actually take to the grass for us. We can't celebrate RDZ being given major input into football strategy then immediately criticise his signings before they've kicked a ball. Either you trust him or you don't.

I don’t trust anything about our recruitment process. De Zerbi is separate to that.
 
Everyone on Twitter losing their mind over Antonio Vergara.

A 23 year old that’s played 80 games, mostly off the bench . . . doesn’t exactly inspire me! Unless he’s back up for Kudus of course. But how many back ups are we gonna sign for a first 11 that isn’t good enough in itself?! 👀
If its even true he'd almost certainly be rotation for Maddison or Kudus, which we need anyway.
 
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