I never understood why he received the ball so tight to the touchline. It made it pretty easy for defenders to turn him inside or force a backwards pass. When he came a few yards away from the touchline it gave him the option of spinning in behind and made him much more dangerous. Why didn't Frank just tell him to do that?
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Transfers Summer 2026 Transfer Thread
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Most of the squad seemed utterly disinterested in playing for us until the last minute. They shouldn’t be getting the chance to scale up. No matter who the manager was last season, they are better than they played. Showed the lack of class in almost every one of them.
We definitely need a leftie, no doubt there. And yes, I’d happily upgrade Kudus too, but not as a priority. Other fires to put out that are more urgent. But what I also wouldn’t do is buy a backup for Kudus.
We’re always buying backups, squad players, youngsters. When you are challenging for the title, you can buy a Norgaard for depth. But when you are trying to get there, it should be first teamers only.
We don’t have a single player that firmly deserves to be in our first team. They’ve all let us down or aren’t good enough. Fuck buying back up for them. Get them on the bench or out of the club.
Why, Scott is an excellent footballer and Hackney is an actual passer who is wanted by multiple premier league clubs and fits the profile of the type of player we lack. We ain’t getting Anderson or anyone of that ability or readiness.
There will be more howls from the people who hate all our own young players, but a few minutes for Tynan Thompson next season couldn't hurt.
We need game changers and neither are that.
If we get a game changer and one of them then fine but there will be no significant improvement if we bring in those two imo.
I can’t see Wharton or Anderson coming though and any foreign player baring the unobtainable like Vitinha will always be a risk bringing into the league just as much as Hackney coming up a league.
It's a bit of a catch-22. The proven 'game changers' are either aiming higher than us or already at top clubs, while the potential game changers from other leagues are unproven and, thus, a risk, or unappealing to fans.
6 months ago if we'd signed Rayan a lot of Spurs fans would've (quite fairly) said "wtf are we doing signing another unproven 19 year old who doesn't know the league ffs". And yet now he looks like, potentially, a real rising star for Bournemouth.
We've either got to get into a position where we can actually attract established guys like Semenyo to come to us, or we need to get better at scouting and bring in the right younger/foreign players before the explode.
Like, maybe in 2 years, with the right coaching, Hackney is a game changer? Who knows?
Well we can't sell most of the squad unfortunately and in any case they were disinterested because of the shit coaches we hired and the club being an utter shitshow, thankfully now we have a proper coach now that the players respect.
I don’t think Scott is much of a risk, he is already just below the Anderson/Wharton level, to me given what you have said this would be almost a no brainer. Hackney is a risk but offers a passing profile similar to a top draw deep playmaker like Wharton, with Hackney it will be the physical adaption to the prem that will make or break him.
If we don’t go for either I see Scott at Chelsea and Hackney at Everton. If they do well it will be too late.
What ITK level is Xavi?
Yeah he's closer to the Semenyo example albeit not quite as established or proven. The issue with him would be more attracting him over other clubs (although sounds like Everton are ahead of us in the race for Hackney too).
Doku started out poorly and improved whilst Savinho went backwards...what is there to hold onto here? I'd understand if he had a poor first season and inproved in his 2nd but he's actually gotten worse through his goal contributions and his general play.
Scott is a huge Spurs fan, his whole family are. We would be his dream.
Yeah but people keep saying this, are we going to be able to attract those 'gamechangers' you want to the club? Unless you have someone in mind?
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Wharton came from Blackburn in the Championship. IIRC, the same concerns were expressed about whether he could step up by some.
There's no way for us to determine whether he will step up in the PL or not, other than to give him game time and see whether he does or not, but he's been as influential for Boro as Wharton was for Blackburn, so there's good reason to think he will, though by no means reason to be ultra confident.
I kinda agree with your points in this post, however, if now isn't the time to splash the (plentiful) cash we have, when is?
We need to get good players in and rebuild and after the relegation threat of this season (and, to a degree, last season); therefore, surely we shouldn't be messing about with targets we want.
However, I will concede that a lot of our scouting leaves a lot to be desired.
Agree with the number 10 position but what scares me is that you actually watched West Ham
A quick Danny Rose says Papi either means
1) Friendly greeting as in bro/dude
2) Romantic term of affection as in baby/sweetheart
3) Father figure as in dad
So, Xavi has either terribly lied about his age, or is having a sexual relationship with Savinho or just greeted a friend. In other words SAVINHO TO SPURS CONFIRMED!
Baleba and Scott would be better
Nah, Doku started out well, then got poor then improved.