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Transfers January 2022 - Transfer Window
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Don't worry guys I'm sure the Don has got something else up his sleeve
What do we do wrong? Why cant we have anything nice?
joke thats 2 deals we took ages on and got beat
there is no forgiving if this goes tits up come the 1st
its almost laughable it always happens to us
its almost laughable it always happens to us
Fair play though, Spurs really do dare to defy expectations these days. I thought we were gonna end up with a pretty damn underwhelming window of Adama and Amrabat in, Ndombele and Bergwijn out. Instead it looks very much like it'll just be Amrabat, so credit to the club for reaching new low levels of underwhelming!
Ah well, we just have to wait for this apparently mega summer people are building up to. Because you can't do business in January we're told, as clubs around us are signing players we wanted .. In january. I'm sure it's totally going to be a brilliant window, and not a series of 'club is confident' tweets from Gold before we sign a couple of players on loan with options to buy. Glory glory, Tottenham Hotspurrr!
Ah well, we just have to wait for this apparently mega summer people are building up to. Because you can't do business in January we're told, as clubs around us are signing players we wanted .. In january. I'm sure it's totally going to be a brilliant window, and not a series of 'club is confident' tweets from Gold before we sign a couple of players on loan with options to buy. Glory glory, Tottenham Hotspurrr!
We're very good at making the same mistakes over and over again, without seemingly not taking any lessons from it
Not investing properly when we were really good a few years back has completely killed this club from a competitive perspective. Good players don't give much of a shit about a sick stadium or training ground, they do however care about playing against the best, earning shitloads and winning trophies. We can't really offer any of those things, at least relative to the best teams going around.
Liverpool are really about to hijack Diaz…
This is what happens when you lollygag around trying to save money. Someone with conviction comes in and gets the thing you want.
So if most of us on here assumed this would happen the moment our interest got out there, our transfer committee must have done too...
Right?
Right...?
:llorisunsure:
For what it's worth, I don't think it's a lollygagging issue - it's a the moment we had a bid accepted Liverpool were waiting to pounce and match it issue.
With the way we drag out transfer deals to save a few million here or there, you can guarantee we try to offer weirdly structured, as low as we can possibly go wages to new signings as well, leaving them with no real incentive to play for us unless absolutely nobody else decent wants them at all. We basically seem to fanny around on deals for ages until another club comes in, offers the money the selling club actually wants, and probably slaps down a more attractive contract too.
It was always going to happen. We did the hard work. Porto accept a bid. Then a bigger club takes him off us.
Weve allowed our stock to fall so low.
Weve allowed our stock to fall so low.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's a lollygagging issue - it's a the moment we had a bid accepted Liverpool were waiting to pounce and match it issue.
We are never going to get a free run at a top player. There always going to be someone ready to pounce.
The club doesnt try hard enough, and it doesnt get involved in bidding wars.
Fun while it lasted
The trick was never believing there was even a remote chance we'd sign Diaz in the first place.
But goddamn, the Traore clusterfuck was a surprising car crash, even by our standards.
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A two-gazump day. Top drawer Fab.