If that's true, well thanks for the memories, big lad...and very best of luck in Bavaria.
He'll play good minutes there, win trophies. Might help his England chances, he's still young enough.
Nice one, Eric.
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Transfers January Transfer Thread 2024
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If that's true, well thanks for the memories, big lad...and very best of luck in Bavaria.
He'll play good minutes there, win trophies. Might help his England chances, he's still young enough.
Nice one, Eric.
No problem, that at least makes sense - the way you worded the 'its bollocks' part earlier read as though you were saying those two factors (league position and injuries) weren't true.
RE: Cheap shots - there are far too many people on all sides of every argument on here who seem to think that no one else has right to a different opinion, or who can have a valid point even if it disagrees with their own. If you're not one of them, and 'All that matter is' was just a lazy turn of phrase, great.
So what?
A couple of million for a player who has a very high chance of being worth double his asking price in the future.
Maybe help us secure CL postion.... I mnean how many points have we thrown away this season because fo the lack of depth and quality with ou CB's?
How many millions is that going to cost us?
Football is not like every other business and a couple of million for a player in a position we are desperately in need of is not goint to bankrupt us, but it may well do wonders for pushing us on and backing Ange and could well make that back in next to no time.
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I have never put anyone on ignore and never would - for me it's important to listen to and try to understand people who disagree with me, more so than listening to people who agree with me.
Have to let it go.
Transfer will probably happen in about 2 weeks after following our usual pattern. There are at least 2 levels of fucking around to go.
Grandson, lemme tell you about the time Sergio Ramos & Pepe were seen as the naughtiest, dirtiest, meanest shithousery ever in football. Well...that was until Spurs formed the diabolic duo of the Argie Attila & Romanian Hulk
just a complete wild guess in the hopes of gaining some likes the sad loser, and itk credit if it were to happen.
Biggest bullshite on there, he really triggers me lol
Yep in time for Brentford when Romero and VDV are back.
Still wouldnt be shocked if it ends up being Kelly or Tosin, both 6 months on their contracts left, both playing for non relegation threatened clubs so probably happy to sell, both much cheaper.
I actually agree with your last sentence. But that doesn't make them right. I (and many others on here) would prefer the club to be run well from a business perpsective as well as a football perspective. I don't want us to routinely overpay (and hence get a reputation as a club that can be relied upon to routinely overpay. (Perhaps it's the Jew in me
). That's not the case at Chelscum or Man U, and nowadays they are regularly taken to the cleaners for it.I think it's fine for you, me and others to disagree on that - no one is right or wrong, we just have different perceptions maybe even of what a football club is (some on here have actually said previously that in their view THFC is not a business!!!) - I guess the main thing is what ENIC / Levy thinks, and I'm pretty sure they will continue to run the club as well as they can from a business perspective.
We reinvested the fee for Kane into the squad and are a much better team as a result.
As for the haggling, almost every team does it. You can see fans of other teams complaining about it as well but there's a reason for it. If you don't haggle, you end up like Man Utd and get charged more and end up paying 90m for a player like Antony who would've gone for half that to any other club who plays the game.
I think we’ve agreed the price and just finalizing the payment structure, which should be agreed today…expecting “here we go” from you know who, post 14:00 CET
They'll never forgive Harry, for this.
Fair play, don't want to get into a dick-measuring contest with you...yes, cause you'd likely win by a few inches, but also cause it's just friggin football!No problem, that at least makes sense - the way you worded the 'its bollocks' part earlier read as though you were saying those two factors (league position and injuries) weren't true.
RE: Cheap shots - there are far too many people on all sides of every argument on here who seem to think that no one else has right to a different opinion, or who can have a valid point even if it disagrees with their own. If you're not one of them, and 'All that matter is' was just a lazy turn of phrase, great.
The bollocks bit was, in retrospect, probably misplaced and open to misinterpretation. And yes, the all that matters was a lazy turn of phrase.
I've my opinions and it's pretty well known where I stand re transfers, ENIC/Levy...and sure I will defend those. But somebody wants to see things differently, of course that's cool. As long as it's done in a mature & respectful manner, I've no issue entering into a debate. Especially cause there are always some valid points made by the other side...for instance I did rate your point about 2 mil not being money wealthy people will just see as small change. That being said, some on here still annoy me, I'll say it...cause it's blindly defending Levy for the sake of it, without bringing anything concrete or new to the table, just the same old lazy rhetoric. Same on the Levy In side.
Anyway, let's fucking smash Burnley without Radu, win the FA Cup and finish ahead of our cunty neighbours in the league.
COYS
I'm trying to understand the psychology of those people. They don't think Levy invests in the team enough, yet they constantly believe that all these deals are going to be done.
And then when they don't happen,they get mad at Levy who they think is cheap anyway. And they do this every single year.
Why would they even expect all these transfers to go through anymore?
I actually agree with your last sentence. But that doesn't make them right. I (and many others on here) would prefer the club to be run well from a business perpsective as well as a football perspective. I don't want us to routinely overpay (and hence get a reputation as a club that can be relied upon to routinely overpay. (Perhaps it's the Jew in me
I think it's fine for you, me and others to disagree on that - no one is right or wrong, we just have different perceptions maybe even of what a football club is (some on here have actually said previously that in their view THFC is not a business!!!) - I guess the main thing is what ENIC / Levy thinks, and I'm pretty sure they will continue to run the club as well as they can from a business perspective.
If you are an adult you recognize there has to be a balance and acknowledge that Levy has done a great job building the foundations of the business to become a revenue machine. This has helped performance some seasons as well.
If you are an adult you also have to acknowledge that it's a football club built on the good will and faith of customers (fans). Those fans have been the collateral the business has been built on, the business that makes the board members millions. It's not unreasonable that those fans want to see a bigger priority placed on results over the occasional slight overpay to reduce the risk of dropping points.
It will bankrupt us if we begin to routinely overpay for players and hence get a reputation for doing so. Whether you like it or not, I can guarantee to you that ENIC and Levy see THFC as a business as well as a football club, and they will make decisions with both hats on to the best of their abilities (of course that doesn't mean they will always get it right). If Daniel was convinced that getting Dragusin in on1st Jan would be the difference between us winning the FA Cup or not winning it, then I can promise you he would have ensured the club did everything in its power to make it happen - why wouldn't he? Whatever anyone might say about him (and there have certainly been lots of valid criticisms over the years), he definitely does want to make Spurs richer, and if that's through CL qualification etc, he'd be delighted with that. So, why do YOU think he hasn't paid the (currently mythical / unsourced) £2m extra to get Dragusin in yesterday? Surely the only answer must be that in his opinion, it wouldn't guarantee success worth more than that £2m, it wouldn't even increase our chances of such success enough to be worth £2m.
When you look at it like above, football is actually a lot more 'like every other business' than perhaps we like to think. Well certainly to those who have the most power to impact the club anyway.
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Sure, it could be .... BUT we all fucking know it won't be.
The extra few million could easily be recouped when you consider the riches of CL qualifications
Clever bastards
To support your point, I’d argue that we haven’t been incredibly unfortunate with injuries in the CB department.
It’s only the games against Brighton and Bournemouth where both starting CBs were missing with injuries, they’re the only games I would consider to be particularly unlucky.
There’s a lot of back and forth in this thread and the standard cunt-offs along the way, but surely everyone agrees that the squad was left light of that CB it needed in the summer which was a huge oversight by the club, and ultimately that has cost us points in the first half of the season.
The team have coped incredibly well, but it shouldn’t have happened and we should be seeking to rectify that as quickly as possible within this window.
We all need to be realistic that deals are more complicated than they seem on paper, and there’s no real incentive for Genoa to do a deal quickly either. But if the club aren’t pushing this as hard as is possible they’re fucking idiots.