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Transfers Summer 2020 Transfer Thread

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Stopspot said:
As have already been discussed here and in other threads. Our transfer strategy needs to and hopefully is already changing. As you've said. We cannot afford to have 60 mil players flop. Better to recruit smarter. Buy players that cost less but have growth potential. Combined with a few astute more expensive signings.

Buy smarter, not expensive for the sake of expensive. Copy a bit of what Dortmund does.
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Thing is I don't think we really veered away from that approach; just haven't necessarily done that good a job of it of late.

"Combined with a few astute more expensive signings."

As per my point, Jansen, Dav, GLC & Ndombele... Even Lamela... All kinda fit that criteria on paper tbf...

It would require or scouting and recruiting departments to be overhauled but that has to be our next big backstage renovation now that the stadium is done either way.
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Yep.... Ideally headed up by a DOF with a coherent, trickle down vision. It doesn't feel like we scout particularly deeply.
 
AlabamaSpur said:
It doesn't baffle me. He's fucking terrible. Worse than Winks. That's right. He's worse than the player 75% of this board thinks is complete shit, yet somehow keeps getting caps for England. GREALISH IS SHIT
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Mate, grow up. You sound like these spoilt brats hiding between twitter profiles.

He's a very good player, only an idiot would think otherwise. He'd improve us ten fold.
 
Gatsby said:
Mate, grow up. You sound like these spoilt brats hiding between twitter profiles.

He's a very good player, only an idiot would think otherwise. He'd improve us ten fold.
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Love it! .....Fighting exaggeration with exaggeration. :tobyarm:


(I think the point at hand is you obviously rate him a lot more than Garreff.)
 
Stopspot said:
Our transfer strategy needs to and hopefully is already changing. As you've said. We cannot afford to have 60 mil players flop. Better to recruit smarter. Buy players that cost less but have growth potential. Combined with a few astute more expensive signings.

Buy smarter, not expensive for the sake of expensive. Copy a bit of what Dortmund does.
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The thing is, it's exactly the growth potential that costs so much money. It's a very tight market with a lot of very smart, analytically sophisticated clubs with a ton of money to spend.

What Dortmund does (and Atletico Madrid belong in this conversation too as a similar sort of project) is do a LOT of trading in players. Way, way more squad turnover than we have.

That does a couple of things, first, it gives them a lot of chances to be right. You've got more chances of finding an Ousmane Dembele if you keep churning through opportunities. And the other thing, and this was explicitly expressed by Haaland for why he signed there, their well-documented willingness to accept a reasonable fee for their players, reinvest that in someone new, and keep the machine humming makes talented young players and their agents not just willing but EAGER to sign there. It's a springboard to the biggest clubs in the world, and you might just beat the biggest clubs in the world a time or two on your way there.

It takes a lot of trust in your scouting department, the willingness to sell your marquee players at reasonable fees, and the operational bandwidth to conduct a lot of business every window.

Spurs have zero of those three things.
 
FightingIllini said:
The thing is, it's exactly the growth potential that costs so much money. It's a very tight market with a lot of very smart, analytically sophisticated clubs with a ton of money to spend.

What Dortmund does (and Atletico Madrid belong in this conversation too as a similar sort of project) is do a LOT of trading in players. Way, way more squad turnover than we have.

That does a couple of things, first, it gives them a lot of chances to be right. You've got more chances of finding an Ousmane Dembele if you keep churning through opportunities. And the other thing, and this was explicitly expressed by Haaland for why he signed there, their well-documented willingness to accept a reasonable fee for their players, reinvest that in someone new, and keep the machine humming makes talented young players and their agents not just willing but EAGER to sign there. It's a springboard to the biggest clubs in the world, and you might just beat the biggest clubs in the world a time or two on your way there.

It takes a lot of trust in your scouting department, the willingness to sell your marquee players at reasonable fees, and the operational bandwidth to conduct a lot of business every window.

Spurs have zero of those three things.
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You are correct in that we don't have that right now. But that doesn't say that we cannot develop those things by implementing a new strategy. Or at least implement some of them. And what works in the Bundesliga is of course not guaranteed to work here. But you can definitely lift a few things and tweak a few others.

And surely even Dortmund have a few untouchables in their squad. The likes of Reus and Bürki who are there to be part of the central spine of the team. But you are very much correct in that they are much more willing to do business.
 
Swoos said:
As soon as Grealish makes a little fuss and asks to be sold his price tag will drop and be more realistic. We need Jose in his ear.
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He's an £80m player to Villa, and that's the most important thing. Villa have very rich owners, so it's not like they need the money. If he wants to leave then yes, it may be that they do lower the price, but it isn't going to be anything like £30-40m that a player of his level should be, it'll be more £55-65m.
 
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