remember the hype surrounding him. This board had plane tracker and all.
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Can’t see this being a big window.
More outs than in’s and only the latter if a deal too good to be true falls in our lap.
With a 64 million pound loss last season and many payments in relation to our dealings over the last few years (38 million euro for Vinicius alone) due in the next season or so, can’t see us in a financial position to splurge.
On the other hand cash strapped clubs might be forced to sell so Lewis might put his hand in his pocket for once to get under priced assets.
Then again, when it comes to Spurs the only time Lewis reached into his pockets was to buy us ha.
More outs than in’s and only the latter if a deal too good to be true falls in our lap.
With a 64 million pound loss last season and many payments in relation to our dealings over the last few years (38 million euro for Vinicius alone) due in the next season or so, can’t see us in a financial position to splurge.
On the other hand cash strapped clubs might be forced to sell so Lewis might put his hand in his pocket for once to get under priced assets.
Then again, when it comes to Spurs the only time Lewis reached into his pockets was to buy us ha.
I've been significantly less than impressed with Sanchez's tenure at Spurs since basically the beginning, but kept my mouth shut because he was young and most defenders end up ironing out a lot of mistakes in their game over time, and so I didn't want to baselessly moan over a player.
But he's been a trainwreck for a long time and I've given up on thinking that he's going to be the rock that we had all hoped he might become.
I'd sell Sanchez in Jan and not look back if we could swap him for someone of a certain standard with a fresh start.
He's still trying to do too much on the ball, and narrowly escaped several dangerous situations of his own manufacture. He didn't exactly get himself out of them either, rather he was fortunate on all those occasions not to lose possession that led to a goal.
Dier is good but is still learning how to be a safer, steadier CB. He's not all the way there yet to being a reliably safe senior CB in a CB pairing.
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Because our entire summer transfer budget was about 65m, and the season before that we spent 170m. Thanks to COVID and no CL , we also made 65m loss in the last years. It's why Regui was the only "expensive" transfer at 27m.
We just don't have the money.
I think it has more to do with youth level, where youngster would need to get qualified for British work permit like from other continent.
I have no idea what this actually means in terms of transfers, but it will add cost so probably can't be good for us...
At first team level, there wouldn't be much change.
We actually already have 25 players plus some u21s, some of which will start matches on a regular basis. None of this equates to 'home grown is a problem'?
Actually we do - in the latest accounts we had I believe our highest ever cash reserves at over 220m - much of that comes from a short term 125m government Covid loan, but it's still cash in the bank.
The idea that we pay 70m for a 70m player is very simplistic - deals are structured in stages over several years including split fees, bonuses, and appearance add-ons. A 70m transfer might only cost 35m upfront (and Levy is the master of buy-now-pay-later) so headlines saying Spurs had a "170m transfer window" are a bit misleading.
From a purely accounting aspect a 70m transfer will be amortised over the life of the contract so in simple terms 70m over 5 years will only show as 14m a year.
We are reporting a liability of 268m for "Trade and Other Payables" in our latest accounts, it's safe to assume that a proportion of that is transfer fees outstanding. It should be noted that we have 347m owed in "Trade and Other Payables" so we are well in-hand on that accounting line.
In the EPL, apart from the billionaire bankrolled clubs, we are probably the best placed to take advantage of 'cheap' players made available by clubs forced into sales to balance their books ...
FYI - we don't start a window with a fixed "budget" instead we have targets in terms of player types required - ie a 23-25 year old experienced home-grown CB - if the right player comes along that meets the criteria only then will we decide what we are willing to spend.
Last summer we did not anticipate all the signings we made, however when the opportunities arose to fill several of the transfer committee's agreed player criteria the money was found, it will be the same in January, nothing is expected but our eyes will be wide open.
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He's been a good keeper for them for a while now to be fair. For some reason I thought he was 28/29.
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I'm fully aware of all that, aside from the significance of "trade and other payables". Even if a player's transfer fee is amortised over the life of the contract, that's still a financial commitment from the club. I know we didn't just give nearly 200m in cash to other clubs.
I do agree on the highlighted part, but the point is that another 65m to take this season's transfer spending to 15m, for us is not really cheap and opportunistic is it? I really don't see Levy splashing that much cash in Jan, no matter how good the deal might be.
He might look good enough in a Spurs kit to warrant an Onani, though.
Hugo has always been Onani-ish
If you look at our 25 man EL squad (with only 24 registered) it already includes Whiteman (professional debut playing 10 minutes last week) and Jack Clarke (yet to start a match) take just those 2 out and we are down to 22 players capable of starting matches.
Add in numerous posters wanting to sell Dele and Winks (both HG), and it starts to look even thinner of quality players capable of starting matches.
Will Bale get to a high level of playing so we keep him next season ? Still to be proved, but I hope so. If not its another gap in HG numbers,
Which is why, if anything, we need to :
1. Buy rather than sell HG players
2. Do all we can do to bring through academy youngsters - if we think they are good enough - such as Skipp, so we avoid needing to buy in 'squad' level players who often are no better than those brought through the academy.
So, in summary, the limited number of HG players Spurs have at the moment is a constraint, we cant afford to lose any experienced HG players (net), so likely we will need to sell overseas trained players to create space in the squad.
Biggest problem I see in January is creating space in squad for more players - currently paying Gedson wages but not registered in any squad to play. Similarly Gazzaniga not playing. And rose paid but not playing.
Don't see Levy wanting to add to numbers on a 'pay but no play' basis, and not too many buyers for players we might want to sell or loan out.
If the 'right' player is available - decent price and wages, decent age etc. Maybe - but otherwise I think we will wait until summer fir transfer business.
Indeed, the winter window might be better used to offload some olayers like Gazzaniga with a view of adding in the summer.