I'm sure we could pull off a gentlemen's agreementYes we are already at the can't-sign-players-without-starting11-assurances phase!!
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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FFS can people please stop talking about a couple of million quid like it doesn't matter! My last job was at an organisation with an annual global turnover of more than £100 billion, yet if one of our UK Finance Directors had ever dared to suggest that losing out on £2m somewhere didn't matter, they would have been shown the door pretty sharpish! Wealthy companies don't stay wealthy by being frivolous with money. They may make mistakes - a takeover that didn't deliver what was expected (for football read N'Dombele) - but they don't just routinely knowingly pay over the odds for assets instead of negotiating an appropriate price. They might do so once in a blue moon for an acquisition that they really think will change the world (for football some might read Van Dijk) - but not for 'normal' transfers.
It never ceases to amaze me how little people on here seem to understand about business / money.
It never ceases to amaze me how little people on here seem to understand about business / money.
Only Pep and Klopp out of that list get what they want most of the time and even then their clubs haven't been able to get their priority transfer over the line and have been engaged in long drawn out processes to land their targets.
TW's been open 5 days by the way.
Show me a single person who has ever said that?Yes we are already at the can't-sign-players-without-starting11-assurances phase!!
Plenty have said that some players might decide not to sign for us if they think competition for their place is too feirce and they will have a better chance elsewhere, and that is absolutely their right as human beings to make such a decision.
"Man United managers always get what they want".
Today's news: United reportedly back in for Frenkie de Jong.
By my reckoning that's maybe now 3 years they've been trying to sign him?
"Man United managers always get what they want".
Today's news: United reportedly back in for Frenkie de Jong.
By my reckoning that's maybe now 3 years they've been trying to sign him?
Imagine using Utd and Chelsea as barometers of transfer success
All that matters is this at the end of the day:
- Ange asked for an extra CB in the summer...didn't get it and there's zero valid excuse
- That has cost us big important points already. That's a fact. Of course, the Back Dan At All Costs brigade will tell you that we're still right near the top, that nobody could've foreseen such bad luck with injuries etc, but it's bollocks
- Ange 100% should've seen a new CB he likes/has approved come thru the door in time for Burnley...yes, would've meant approaching the selling club & player pre-TW but guess what? Everybody does it, incl Spurs & Genoa
- We're a very, very wealthy club. Sure, doesn't mean we should make stupid moves a la United or Chelsea, fuck no...but on the other end we shouldn't be taking ages to sign a 25-30mil CB, when it's already 6 months behind schedule. Even POK, who's pretty clued up & reliable, has talked about the usual Spurs tactics and whether you're Levy Out or In, it's a fact that it's cost us transfers in the past...annoying the fan base, incumbent manager, costing us points/opps to win trophies...rinse & repeat
Sorry, which bit of that is bollocks?
- Are we not currently sitting 5th place, 3 points behind 2nd and 6 points off top?
- Have we not had incredibly and unprecedented bad luck with injuries to our most important players?
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PS And as for "All that matters is this" - is it only your opinion that matters then? So you and you alone get to decide what matters? Other fans have no say in what matters or what context is relevant etc? :/
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Every opposition manager to their medical team: "Did you bring the extra bandages and blood transfusion kits?"
Every opposition manager to their medical team: "Did you bring the extra bandages and blood transfusion kits?"
It was never going to happen. We could have as many layers between Levy and the signing as possible but ultimately he will write the cheques and decide fees. Was always wishful thinking to assume he'd take a back seat with a new structure in place.
Mate, you seem a pretty well-educated fella, so please don't pretend you didn't get my overall point and resort to cheap shots just because we're clearly on different side of the fence as far as the Dragu transfer is concerned.
Yes, we've had crazy bad luck with injuries (still, not the worst in the Prem). And yes, we've still found ways to pick up points and stay in contention...creds to Ange & the boys. I can read. I breathe Spurs day in day out, I'm aware of our results & league standing. Thanks.
The big fella should've had that extra CB he asked for in the summer. Injuries, poor form, suspensions...that's part of football. Daniel knows that. That's the job of the powers that be to prepare for such eventualities, by making sure you have sufficient cover if/when the proverbial shit should hit the fan. Especially when the man in charge of the troops has told you repeatedly that he's one short.
So yeah, in my humble opinion, it's bollocks that he wasn't provided with the full toolbox in the summer, when it was so glaringly obvious that we were exposing ourselves to danger acting that way (again)...and it's also bollocks that we're going into the Burnley game without a new CB, be it Dragu and some other kid Ange fancies.
He'll also only employ people that operate in his image.
Man you're embarrassing yourself.
My posts = my opinion.
But cheers, I'll remember to add a disclaimer to all my future posts.
Now you can also put me on ignore, same for all them other posters you don't agree with...that way you'll have a nice easy scroll whenever you're on here.
Football isn't a normal business when it comes to transfers and money.
Paying the extra 2million happens more often for teams that place greater value on results than money.
It's just a case of becoming de-sensitised to the figures chucked around in football these days I think, also to a Spurs fan not really following the minutiae of Man Utd transfer dealings for example, they just see that the transfer has gone through and think that Utd just paid the fee, not considering that actually even a Man Utd transfer is actually the culmination of prolonged negotiations back and forth...
They also ignore the fact that Man Utd fucked themselves so hard with previous transfer dealings that last window they ended up having to sign Reguilon on loan, Soyfan Amrabat on loan, and Jonny Evans on a free...
Bald headed c**t fucking around as usual. Should have just paid the asking price Genoa wanted, around 30 million if the rumours are true.
The bald headed cunt, dicking about with a critical area that we desperately need depth.
A fucking loan, and I wouldn't be suprised if the Napoli rumours are true too.
