Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread

[Shadydan]

Very few people will have genuinely watched enough of him to know that to be unoquivacably true.

The hype around this kid is insane; but (on paper) another year on loan at the right club at his age would do him the world of good in the long run.

.....and contractually time is on our side.


He's even younger than Gvardiol was and his transition to a far better, more stable, functioning MC squad wasn't without bumps; yet Vusko is being expected to be a starter for a wobbly club from day one by reems of people that have likely never watch a full 90mins on the kid.

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Very few people won't have genuinely watched him until he actually comes back and plays for us, there's no difference from now and next Summer in that case as people don't know his true level and if that's the case how do we know he needs another year on loan?

I don't expect him to be a starter, ideally though I would think he's good enough to be a first teamer behind Danso hypothetically, from what he's heard he's good enough for a role like that...he won Bundesliga CB of the year, I think we can determine that's he's good enough to be rotating with Danso who is the definition of average himself.

 

[CPH_Spurs]

If we bring in Van Hecke and then loan or sell Vuskovic, then it would be stupid.

Sell Romero, reinvest that in a no6 playmaker.

Bring back Vuskovic.

 

[Matt1882]

So we are after Savino again meaning it is clearly a club signing and not a manager one. Throw that in with a couple of “free” transfers and I am seeing nothing different from this New ENIC

We should be tearing up our old strategy and getting Lange out the door

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I don't think it's that sinister.
I suspect it's more likely that people within the club have informed De Zerbi that we got quite far down the line in a deal this time last year, and that it wouldn't take a lot of work to get it over the line now.
Then they leave it in De Zerbi's hands as to whether he wants him or not.
I also think the phrase "talks have taken place" and similar aren't only about actually purchasing a player. I think clubs hold talks about suitability and all sorts. If they don't, they're run even more worse than I could contemplate.
You come to a package worth potentially £100m - you wanna know you're getting a motivated player, who can and will play how the coach wants him to.

 

[Tottenham Massive]

Not quite sure how it works if we do replace Romero with Van Hecke. As Senesi won't want to sit on the bench all season. With no Europe either, I don't get why he'd sign for us unless he's been told he'll be starting for us.

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Oh man....Not this shit again.
It's a squad game these days not 11 v 11
You need quality depth in every area not one good player and an inferior player as back up. That's a recipe for mediocrity at best and another relegation fight at worst.
We're a big 6 club for fuck sake. Time to bin off this small time mentality once and for all and start acting like one.

 

[Brian Fantana]

Oh man....Not this shit again.
It's a squad game these days not 11 v 11
You need quality depth in every area not one good player and an inferior player as back up. That's a recipe for mediocrity at best and another relegation fight at worst.
We're a big 6 club for fuck sake. Time to bin off this small time mentality once and for all.

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Plus, and some might have noticed this, we get fuckloads of injuries!

We need a squad of about fifty with our medical department!

 

[Poch's Last Stand]

Very few people will have genuinely watched enough of him to know that to be unoquivacably true.

The hype around this kid is insane; but (on paper) another year on loan at the right club at his age would do him the world of good in the long run.

.....and contractually time is on our side.


He's even younger than Gvardiol was and his transition to a far better, more stable, functioning MC squad wasn't without bumps; yet Vusko is being expected to be a starter for a wobbly club from day one by reems of people that have likely never watch a full 90mins on the kid.

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I think that, with the number of players we'll need to sign, spending funds on another CB when we already have VdV, Senesi, Danso and Vuskovic would be foolish. We should at least give the kid a chance during pre-season.

 

[postbox]

I don't think it's that sinister.
I suspect it's more likely that people within the club have informed De Zerbi that we got quite far down the line in a deal this time last year, and that it wouldn't take a lot of work to get it over the line now.
Then they leave it in De Zerbi's hands as to whether he wants him or not.
I also think the phrase "talks have taken place" and similar aren't only about actually purchasing a player. I think clubs hold talks about suitability and all sorts. If they don't, they're run even more worse than I could contemplate.
You come to a package worth potentially £100m - you wanna know you're getting a motivated player, who can and will play how the coach wants him to.

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I suspect theres an element of

"Heres our list, players we like, some we have held talks on - take your pick from that"

Because I doubt they have anything else in their locker

My main hope, right now, is simply that its good enough for RDZ - because if its not - he wont be around long...

 

[Spursidol]

Thought some Savinho stats might help :

2025/26
PL - 24 appearances,(incl. 7 starts) 821 mins - 1 goal, 2 assists
CL - 7 apps, 369 mins - 0 goals, 1 assist
Domestic cups - 5 apps, 312 mins - 3 goals, 0 assists
Total - 1,502 mins - 4 goals, 3 assists (1 goal involvement every 215 mins)

2024/25
PL - 29 apps, 1772 mins - 1 goal, 10 assists
CL - 9 apps, 578 mins - 1 goal, 1 assist
Club WC - 3 apps, 300 mins - 1 goal, 1 assist
Domestic Cups - 6 apps, 447 mins - 0 goals 1 assist
Total - 3,087 mins - 3 goals 13 assists (1 goal involvement every 154 mins)

At Girona in Italy in 23/24 he got 11 goals and 10 assist in 3253 mins (1 goal involvement every 155 mins)

Just by comparison the much injured Odobert scored 2 goals and got 5 assists playing 1,609 mins in 25/26, a goal involvement every 230 mins not too dissimilar to Savinho in 25/26.

Savinho has NOT lacked for game time in PL, but his productivity in terms of goals & assists is pretty average.

If Savinho came to Spurs, we would need to hope that he creates enough chances and these are put away by other forwards. He's not scored many goals in PL, so I can't see him scoring many goals despite his Girona streak.

A price tag of £50m is pushing it, just as paying £40m for Tel was

 

[CPH_Spurs]

Lange record is not bad at all interms of identifying players.

Watkins, Rogers, Jhon Duran, Emiliano Martinez, Buendia, Diaby, Cash - core of the Villa side was signed under him.

Like him or not for his role in bringing in Frank, persisting with Frank, brining in Tudor - he identifies players.

Jhon Duran from Chicago Fire and selling him to Al Nassr for 64m was just phenomenal

Infact, if Duran is not so expensive in transfer fee & salary, I would happily get him as no9. Cant do much wrong with him still at 22.

 

[Shadydan]

I have to honest, the striker market is rubbish.

A lot of the names I’m seeing aren’t particularly great individually and are very team dependent.

We should focus on good intelligent players first and raising the overall technical level of the team.

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[Matt1882]

I used to have fun with it when I was younger. Friends who knew nothing about cars but would parrot stuff like Jay Cartwright, so I'd make stuff up that I knew they'd confidently blurt out like making up some silly but totally incorrect version of what "GTI" stands for.

In work, we'd get consultants in and you could see they were blaggers so I'd also feed them made up stuff just to see them repeat it in big meetings. When the attendants swallowed it up instead of calling it out, I realised how work is based more on blagging than it is skill. (Similar to that IT Crowd episode with "The Internet")

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These sound like the sort of people who would believe anything a Reform candidate says without checking it.

 

[Sir Archibald Crooks]

If we bring in Van Hecke and then loan or sell Vuskovic, then it would be stupid.

Sell Romero, reinvest that in a no6 playmaker.

Bring back Vuskovic.

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Complete waste of resources and just makes a mockery of our youth appoach and doing well on loan. Van Hecke is very good but he just blocks the pathway of Vuskovic for the forseeable. Surely everything needs to be put into the 6 and then the attacking options, our weakest areas by a mile.

 

[Football Chap]

Vuskovic is the way

 

[CJJ]

These sound like the sort of people who would believe anything a Reform candidate says without checking it.

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That's what the guy on instagram does (wears a union jack suit and lures in farage voters and does a switcheroo with policies they didn't know they were passively supporting)

I once heard the saying that all adults are clueless kids cosplaying as what they think adults should be, and as I get older I realise it's more and more true. When senile people regress back into a childlike persona, I don't think there's actually much regression going on there. People in jobs put on a show more than they actually know and feel confident in, and the football pipeline is historically full of ex-players who had no qualifications or academic brains who are suddenly involved in running multi-million euro transactions. Hilarious really. I suspect they're playing with monopoly money in their heads

 

[Matt1882]

That's what the guy on instagram does (wears a union jack suit and lures in farage voters and does a switcheroo with policies they didn't know they were passively supporting)

I once heard the saying that all adults are clueless kids cosplaying as what they think adults should be, and as I get older I realise it's more and more true. When senile people regress back into a childlike persona, I don't think there's actually much regression going on there. People in jobs put on a show more than they actually know and feel confident in, and the football pipeline is historically full of ex-players who had no qualifications or academic brains who are suddenly involved in running multi-million euro transactions. Hilarious really. I suspect they're playing with monopoly money in their heads

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I'm 45 but feel like it's such an effort not be 15, tbh.
Other than a complete inability to lay in anymore. Fuck sake.

 

[Spursidol]

Lange record is not bad at all interms of identifying players.

Watkins, Rogers, Jhon Duran, Emiliano Martinez, Buendia, Diaby, Cash - core of the Villa side was signed under him.

Like him or not for his role in bringing in Frank, persisting with Frank, brining in Tudor - he identifies players.

Jhon Duran from Chicago Fire and selling him to Al Nassr for 64m was just phenomenal

Infact, if Duran is not so expensive in transfer fee & salary, I would happily get him as no9. Cant do much wrong with him still at 22.

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Agree with bit in bold

IMO Lange's blind spot is 'squad building' that means spending money on the right player at the right time.

One of the best examples of that is buying Gray for £40m in June 2024 having also signed Bergvall who signed that summer, both aged 18 and I like both players for their likely good futures - but for example Bergvall did not make his debut until Christmas in that season as he was very raw. What we needed that season was at least one experienced good midfield player. In June 2024 Newcastle sold Anderson to Notts Forest at about £35m ........ he's probably one of the best DM's with good passing abilities in PL right now and aged 23 - that's the player Lange should have signed who would have helped us a lot more for last 2 seasons and next few seasons, and probably worth £60m - £80m already.

And I'm sure there are other good examples.

 

[Rebrov_Likes]

Lange record is not bad at all interms of identifying players.

Watkins, Rogers, Jhon Duran, Emiliano Martinez, Buendia, Diaby, Cash - core of the Villa side was signed under him.

Like him or not for his role in bringing in Frank, persisting with Frank, brining in Tudor - he identifies players.

Jhon Duran from Chicago Fire and selling him to Al Nassr for 64m was just phenomenal

Infact, if Duran is not so expensive in transfer fee & salary, I would happily get him as no9. Cant do much wrong with him still at 22.

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As has been said many times, the skill is not identifying decent players - if you can’t do that in the age of data you really should go and find another job. The skill is putting together a balanced team in which the parts complement each other. And Lange has shown zero ability to do that.

 

[holloway spurs]

Is it me ... but does this thread seem to come around quicker and quicker each year ...

 

[Richard Arlison]

I know he plays LCB, but rotating CBs never happens playing once a week. You have a starter and a back up. If VDV is first choice and stays fit, Senesi could easily spend the season on the bench apart from a few league cup games depending how far we go. IMO Senesi will be a starter, so where does that leave VDV?

Which is why I am curious how this all works.

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Big clubs don’t worry about this stuff

They need 2 good players in every position

Big players don’t worry about it either, they back themselves to win the starting position

 

[Richard Arlison]

Senesi can also play RCB

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How often has he played there?