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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window

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A deluded number have convinced themselves that a brief smattering of grumbles in the stadium following the loss to United is directly responsible for us having Conte now, when the truth is any semblance of protest built up so far by the loudest ENIC-out voices has been pitifully weak and barely registers outside of the twitter-sphere....

Citing the Sugar protests is completlely hollow seeing as it was a completely different era of football when the fanbase was WAY more connected at the grass roots despite (ironically) there being no internet. May as well bring the Scholar-OUT days into the conversation too as relevant as they are today.
 
Don't fall for Levy's tricks. If he really wanted to buy these players, he would have started the process a month ago. He would recognise that better clubs are interested in the same player and act accordingly.

Anyone can "try" to sign someone. I can send Zendaya an Instagram message and ask her to marry me, that's "trying". Does that mean it was ever going to happen?

Duckduckgo's Zendaya, is happy looking at her...
 
Dembele will be another one of those players that will have half the people on here will melt over when we get linked with him as he won’t be up to standard, while simultaneously melting when he ends up singing for someone else.
 
I can feel it coming, we'll try to make a last minute move for Dejan Kulusevski, it will fall apart because he'll go somewhere else or they won't want to lose him and Morata.

Amrabat deal won't be done because we won't shift any of the three midfielders we're trying to sell.

No rwb because we won't shift Doherty.

We'll bring in a last-minute yet to be named attacking player
 
Don't fall for Levy's tricks. If he really wanted to buy these players, he would have started the process a month ago. He would recognise that better clubs are interested in the same player and act accordingly.

Anyone can "try" to sign someone. I can send Zendaya an Instagram message and ask her to marry me, that's "trying". Does that mean it was ever going to happen?

Steady on there pal, make sure you carry out the requisite monitoring period before going in guns blazing...
 
This is why it's better to make our move early. Force rivals to act if they want to stop us signing the player leaving us free to pursue other targets for the rest of the window.

Levy doesn't even plug in the fax machine until there are 5 days left, this is why we never sign the players the manager asks for. We have so many players we need to bin, so many players we need to sign, no other chairman in the world would think the best idea is to leave it right until the very end.

That might work when you are doing your GCSE geography coursework but it doesn't work when you are trying to run a football club.
If I am an agent and you act early then I have longer to entice other clubs to make a bid. Acting early is only the best outcome for the club if the player really wants to come. Diaz and his agent won’t be stupid; every man and their dog knew Liverpool had an interest. Liverpool had a de facto first option on him but f we were the only other bidders.

We have to be cleaverer than at least 4 other PL teams because good players will choose them above us most of the time. That makes things harder for us but that’s the game and we have to play it.

Let’s see but it doesn’t seem like we’re playing it too smart at the moment
 
I can feel it coming, we'll try to make a last minute move for Dejan Kulusevski, it will fall apart because he'll go somewhere else or they won't want to lose him and Morata.

Amrabat deal won't be done because we won't shift any of the three midfielders we're trying to sell.

No rwb because we won't shift Doherty.

We'll bring in a last-minute yet to be named attacking player
You are being optimistic in expecting a player to be signed.

I think we should expect this again, except replace Jose Mourinho with Antonio Conte : Mourinho details Alli conversation which could revive Tottenham star's future
 
A deluded number have convinced themselves that a brief smattering of grumbles in the stadium following the loss to United is directly responsible for us having Conte now, when the truth is any semblance of protest built up so far by the loudest ENIC-out voices has been pitifully weak and barely registers outside of the twitter-sphere....

Citing the Sugar protests is completlely hollow seeing as it was a completely different era of football when the fanbase was WAY more connected at the grass roots despite (ironically) there being no internet. May as well bring the Scholar-OUT days into the conversation too as relevant as they are today.

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I wonder if the Paritici method has met its limits at Tottenham.

As I understand it, he lines up many possible transfers at the same time for the same position or for a given budget - the idea is that this maximises the clubs options and improves the bargaining position vis a vis the selling clubs.

The problem with this, is that the players, who obviously also have stakes in the outcome, may very well feel that they are being used and that they are really not so highly wanted. Maybe other clubs have caught on as well, given the mans high profile.

Perhaps Paritici could get away with this method working for Juventus because of the clubs pulling power and because Juve pays the highest wages in Italy.

It also strikes me that the method might be a tad annoying for the manager - he may not view two players as quite so "similar" as Mr Paritici.
 
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