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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread

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Signed to my local team here .

I will accept a reasonable fee to keep my eye on him , Lange you trumpet

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JDefoe said:
Well one of those foreigners might be Bergvall, or Udogie, or Van de Ven etc… which represent some of our recent deals which worked out, buying players before the big clubs would get their paws on them.

I just don’t think there’s ever a one size fits all transfer policy is the thing. Some youth punts come off, most don’t. However, a lot of PL proven talents are ridiculously overpriced and not that good anyway. Transfers are a tough business… it’s about educated guesses and making bets you believe in. Not sure what the best strategy is, probably a mixture of all.
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I'm not sure Bergvall is the player people think he is.
Udogie benefitted from staying on loan after we signed him. He's OK but not elite IMO.

Thanks to Chelseas player hoarding, we can only loan a certain number of players out now. That would have been the answer for younger players, but it's just not as viable anymore.

So we need to stop taking random punts on players who have 50% or less chance of being 1st team ready. Or we'll just spend a 3rd season toiling in the bottom 1/4 of the league. Again..
 
Spursidol said:
Today is 31 May and first World Cup match kicks off on Thursday 11 June - with international managers typically calling their squad players to arrive 2 weeks in advance, which probably means many will be with international squads on Monday. The last Group Stage match is on Saturday 27 June, following which players entitled to 3 weeks hols (Ie to end 3rd week in July) if they are not going onto round of 32 at WC.

World Cup final is on 19 July with players being entitled to 3 weeks holidays after that - with PL kicking off a week or so after last players come back from hols.

Our transfer window opens Monday 15th June and closes Tuesday 1 September.

Spurs have got ahead of the game with 2 signings of Robertson and Senesi ..... but from now on most top players will be almost unreachable at WC (international managers often try to ban players talking to clubs/agents), making deals harder and longer to do.

So it could be a long transfer window, unless we have one or two other transfer lined up to announce next week - but that's optimistic !.

One significant exception is Italy. And Roberto is Italian.

Italy missed out on World Cup, so its players are more available. Odds favour us signing an Italian player or any other player not going to World Cup !!
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Good points.
I think di zerbi will want his team together as soon as possible for pre season. It could also explain why we are linked to certain players so far.

Scott - no w/c
Baleba - no w/c
Savinho - no w/c
ST ? Not sure who

Could be a big big advantage going into the season if we can have most of our starting 11 here and fully ready for match day 1 compared to the other top teams.
 
Worth noting here that we haven't actually signed Andy Robertson and Liverpool just sacked Arne Slot.
Wonder if Salah, Konate and Robertson will all listen to contract offers now he's gone?
 
Spursidol said:
I would point out that both in football and other business typically 50% of signings fail to live up to pre deal expectations.

But in signing Gray we also missed out on Anderson leaving Newcastle (for FFP/PSR reasons) to join Notts Forest for £30m/£35m, ready made with PL experience still only 23 but already one of best CM's around. Transferred in early summer 2024, same time as Gray.

Transfers are all about spotting/guessing the opportunities in advance and getting into the right position to take advantage (sometimes 6 months or a year forward), and doing homework on player. Newcastle's FFP issues were well know but Spurs failed to be in the queue for Anderson .......
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Signing Gray over a player like Anderson was also influenced by our appalling ability to integrate our own academy players into the squad and believing we needed to sign some 18-year-olds to make them club trained for Europe. The whole thing is a chain reaction of mismanagement.
 
Matt1882 said:
Worth noting here that we haven't actually signed Andy Robertson and Liverpool just sacked Arne Slot.
Wonder if Salah, Konate and Robertson will all listen to contract offers now he's gone?
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Robertson's contract with Liverpool doesn't expire until 30 June.

So much in press already with Roberson's apparent collusion that its likely Spurs have signed some form of agreement effective 1 July with Liverpool's consent ...... but until transfer window is open for registrations (2 weeks time) its not worth announcing yet if there are a few open items (eg his medical)
 
The Tottenham Way said:
Reportedly pulled out of signing Paulinha on a permanent deal, now off to Sporting.

I think we should go all in for someone like Wharton. This team is crying out for someone like him.
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Who reported that? (I don't do much in the way of social media).
You'd hope that if it's true, it would mean that we've identified and seen positive signs of a better player to get instead.

Unless it's just a tactic to get Bayern to reduce their fee because I can see them trying to squeeze us, especially if there's interest from elsewhere.
 
Extremely happy we are not signing Palhinha, we need to raise the technical quality across the midfield and attack.

No more athletic donkeys running around with little to zero technical quality on the ball like Gallagher.
 
The Tottenham Way said:
Reportedly pulled out of signing Paulinha on a permanent deal, now off to Sporting.

I think we should go all in for someone like Wharton. This team is crying out for someone like him.
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Strongly disagree

Clear to me that we need another box to box midfielder that does a little bit of everything but nothing well

Been crying out for that kind of profile for a while

I have complete faith in Johan and the team to deliver

I don't call him the postman for nothing
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
Signing Gray over a player like Anderson was also influenced by our appalling ability to integrate our own academy players into the squad and believing we needed to sign some 18-year-olds to make them club trained for Europe. The whole thing is a chain reaction of mismanagement.
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Fully agree.

Devine could/should have been kept with first team squad for 24/25 having just come off a season on loan at Westerlo (Belgium top division, believed by some to be better than Championship) to bolster a thin midfield squad - but Bergvall in particular needed playing time to get up to speed and wasn't good enough to start until Christmas time.

I like both Gray and Bergvall, but Lange brought in 2 inexperienced midfield players when at least one, if not both needed to be more experienced.

Devine at that stage had 2 years loan experience and is 2 years older plus versatile enough to plat as a 10, deep lying midfield player and in emergency plays on wings (looked good in E youth doing that - even MOTM contender playing out of position) so very versatile. In 2025/26 we started season knowing that Madison and Kulusevski were likely out for a good part of season and Simons had no back up (plus needed time to get up to PL speed) so Devine would have been a possible 'bandage' to have available to rotate with Siimons (and possibly Donley too ?), even if not perfect. Yet Lange decides another loan - where Devine proved once again to be key for his side, Preston.

We face a similar problem this season with Maddison, back but untried, and this time Kulusevski and Simons likely out for some time .... so Devine once again an option for rotation.

Lange may be ok at assessing players using data analysis, but it seems to me that he is crap at understanding squad building : in fact he's demonstrably failed 2 seasons in a row, not just with Devine but the whole forward line.
 
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