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Transfers Rate the January Transfer Window 2025

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Rate the January 2025 Transfer Window

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7 for me but that's without 2/3rd of them touching a ball yet.

It's a January transfer window and we've upgraded what we have on paper for the next 20 or so games. Look around the world at what other teams have done (albeit not in the million injury circumstances we're in) and there's only really City and Villa who've done anything close to us. The lateness of most of the transfers has to come from Guehi being our primary target and Danso being a backup, seemed to of gone all out to buy a 'first team starter' and the selling club not wanting to lose their captain and getting left short. Guessing the Dragusin ACL was the Dissasi bid. Tel was obviously waiting for Milan to ring him and we managed to be the most appealing option.
 
Went with a 5. Individually some promising players brought in, so the story for me, as it often is under ENIC, is more about what wasn’t done.

Kinsky was the perfect signing as competition for Vic. No notes there.

We ultimately got a CB that could’ve been brought in earlier in the window, which would’ve been a massive boost to the injury-depleted squad during a busy January.

Tel is very exciting, but he may be a bit of an awkward fit in the squad if he doesn’t adapt to a RW role. He’s been most effective to date as a LW, which is one of the few positions with some level of depth, and I do have questions whether he currently has the strength and link up play necessary for a more central role. There’s much more potential than substance to the deal. I’m hopeful it works out, but think we have to acknowledge this feels more like an opportunistic long term move than a short term solution (not that Tel won’t help given the state of the squad).

With that in mind, I would’ve liked to have seen another attacking player (a proper RW or ST) or an LCB in. It seems like they’ve “half backed” Ange, and I still have my reservations as to whether he can navigate the ongoing injury struggles with the squad given to him.
 
4/10. Left it too fucking late, and on top of that we needed another CB. What made things worse is that if we had bought a CB early in the window, Dragusin would most likely not have done his ACL...
 
January transfer window: 2/10
February transfer window: 6/10

Probably needed one more defender. Disaster would not have counted.
 
BUYLEDLEYNEWKNEES said:
7 for me but that's without 2/3rd of them touching a ball yet.

It's a January transfer window and we've upgraded what we have on paper for the next 20 or so games. Look around the world at what other teams have done (albeit not in the million injury circumstances we're in) and there's only really City and Villa who've done anything close to us. The lateness of most of the transfers has to come from Guehi being our primary target and Danso being a backup, seemed to of gone all out to buy a 'first team starter' and the selling club not wanting to lose their captain and getting left short. Guessing the Dragusin ACL was the Dissasi bid. Tel was obviously waiting for Milan to ring him and we managed to be the most appealing option.
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I agree that Guehi was the primary target, but it was always very unlikely to happen. Palace selling their best defender and captain midseason when they were struggling to stay above the relegation fray until recently, was always unlikely. Hopefully it was an opening salvo to purchasing him in the summer when they're more likely to sell.

It was an acceptable window, I'd give it a 6.4 so I've rounded down. It was just as important not to buy players under pressure and just for the sake of it, in my opinion. Those players could become deadwood in 6 months, because we panic bought for the last 3 months of a season which really isnt all that meaningful in all liklihood.

We've done what we needed to ensure we have players capable of playing in the league matches and keeping us from being relegated, while we focus our first choice available players on the cups.

I think thats the proper decision. Whether we finish 8th or 16th doesn't matter in comparison to winning the EL.


If we'd signed a proper DM, the position we most desperately need to sort long term and irrespective of injury, it would have been a very good window.
 
MemphisWill said:
I agree that Guehi was the primary target, but it was always very unlikely to happen. Palace selling their best defender and captain midseason when they were struggling to stay above the relegation fray until recently, was always unlikely. Hopefully it was an opening salvo to purchasing him in the summer when they're more likely to sell.

It was an acceptable window, I'd give it a 6.4 so I've rounded down. It was just as important not to buy players under pressure and just for the sake of it, in my opinion. Those players could become deadwood in 6 months, because we panic bought for the last 3 months of a season which really isnt all that meaningful in all liklihood.

We've done what we needed to ensure we have players capable of playing in the league matches and keeping us from being relegated, while we focus our first choice available players on the cups.

I think thats the proper decision. Whether we finish 8th or 16th doesn't matter in comparison to winning the EL.


If we'd signed a proper DM, the position we most desperately need to sort long term and irrespective of injury, it would have been a very good window.
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Yeah it was an unlikely one to happen but surely it's a step in the right direction we're clearly targeting that price of player, as you said hopefully in the summer its a bit more appealing to all parties.

DM wise I really really think Gray is that long term. There's going to be hiccups and he needs to bulk up but there's a special player in there.
 
It's far too early to assess the TW yet when 2 of the 3 senior players have even yet to train with the club.
There are 2 groups the asses, too, 1) the senior players, 2) the academy players.
Kinsky - so far so good. In fact very good. 21 years old, totally new to England and the EPL, and have 2 clean sheets so far. Could be Spurs' numero 1 for the next 10-12+ years to come. and's providing a healthy competition for Vicario.
Denso - from what I understood, not on the top of Spurs' "wish list" and was meant to be an understudy but who will now -due to the injuries to Dragusin, Romero and van de Ven - be starting regularly.
Tel - to get an attacker of that quality and beat the likes to Man Utd, Chelski and Woolwich to his signature in January deserves more credit than many want to give Levy and Angelos. Of course, Tel has to prove himself as player before one can get carried away...

Of the academy players Denney seem to be the most exciting one but it will take 1-2-3 seasons before one can pass a proper judgement on those 4 players.

Oscar Sandiford
Luca Furnell-Gil
Reiss Russell Denney
Daniel Batt
 
BUYLEDLEYNEWKNEES said:
Yeah it was an unlikely one to happen but surely it's a step in the right direction we're clearly targeting that price of player, as you said hopefully in the summer its a bit more appealing to all parties.

DM wise I really really think Gray is that long term. There's going to be hiccups and he needs to bulk up but there's a special player in there.
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I agree, but I think we definitely need to plug that gap in the mean time. Ideally we could find someone more experienced that can offer 2-3 seasons, then Gray takes over as first choice somewhere in there and we backfill behind him.
 
With the fact none of the players are that Premier League experienced, it's exceptionally hard to judge. I think we might still be a bit light, if Tel & Danso adapt we could be in for a decent finish to the season.

The youngsters could make a difference, the key is that when we're up in games we must save the experienced legs and give the young players a try, because they are certainly going to be needed in the event of an injury.

Could be great, let's see how it plays out!
 
The Absolute GOAT said:
Tel - needed another striker. However only a loan and he's young.
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Well, it's a loan with an option to buy, which is surely the best kind of transfer a buying club can possibly have isn't it?

  • With a straight loan, if the player does well the parent club will want him back at the end of the loan, or massively inflate his selling price if you want to buy.
  • With a 'loan with obligation', you have to buy the player in several months' time even if he is rubbish for the next 3 months.
  • With a permanent transfer, as above, you will have to keep the player for the long term even if he shows himself to be rubbish in the next few months.
  • Loan with option to buy is the best of all worlds for the buyer (and worst for the seller) - if he is rubbish, we send him back, but if he does well, we keep him, at the already agreed price, and there is nothing the seller can do about it.
So when you say "only a loan", surely it's actually much better than a permanent transfer isn't it?

(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your point somehow).
 
scarletjim said:
Well, it's a loan with an option to buy, which is surely the best kind of transfer a buying club can possibly have isn't it?

  • With a straight loan, if the player does well the parent club will want him back at the end of the loan, or massively inflate his selling price if you want to buy.
  • With a 'loan with obligation', you have to buy the player in several months' time even if he is rubbish for the next 3 months.
  • With a permanent transfer, as above, you will have to keep the player for the long term even if he shows himself to be rubbish in the next few months.
  • Loan with option to buy is the best of all worlds for the buyer (and worst for the seller) - if he is rubbish, we send him back, but if he does well, we keep him, at the already agreed price, and there is nothing the seller can do about it.
So when you say "only a loan", surely it's actually much better than a permanent transfer isn't it?

(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your point somehow).
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Given all factors; a loan with an option is the best case scenario in this instance........ Certainly better than dropping 50m quid only to find that he didn't really want to come here or that he can't hack our league.
 
I don't wanna repeat what I've posted in other threads but my outlook is thus

Gwan Uncle Rodger

Fried Rice Cooking GIF by Nigel Ng (Uncle Roger)
 
scarletjim said:
Well, it's a loan with an option to buy, which is surely the best kind of transfer a buying club can possibly have isn't it?

  • With a straight loan, if the player does well the parent club will want him back at the end of the loan, or massively inflate his selling price if you want to buy.
  • With a 'loan with obligation', you have to buy the player in several months' time even if he is rubbish for the next 3 months.
  • With a permanent transfer, as above, you will have to keep the player for the long term even if he shows himself to be rubbish in the next few months.
  • Loan with option to buy is the best of all worlds for the buyer (and worst for the seller) - if he is rubbish, we send him back, but if he does well, we keep him, at the already agreed price, and there is nothing the seller can do about it.
So when you say "only a loan", surely it's actually much better than a permanent transfer isn't it?

(Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your point somehow).
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Agree we should all see this as a BANDAID on a problem - if he loves it here or performs really well then that's a question to be answered when the 'only a loan' ends.
 
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