People taking pride in being dumb as shit was something I did not see coming as I powered up Encarta on my first computer in 1997.
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Seriously fuck off with this shit. It's his life his decision. Take the preaching out of the football forums.
Now if THAT shit were to get out and about again, we'd be well in the shit...
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Several clubs have not taken unvaccinated players on pre season international tours this year, because like or not, countries have strict quarantine rules.
This has a commercial impact on the clubs and the viability of lucrative tours . Not surprising if clubs factor this in when spending tens of millions on players and their wages.
This has a commercial impact on the clubs and the viability of lucrative tours . Not surprising if clubs factor this in when spending tens of millions on players and their wages.
Its likely that stricter controls come in Europe in the winter so not just ££ but CL
Although at the turn of the century, when the current administration took control, we were the 4th most decorated club in English Football.
Why you're so determined to belittle the great club you've latched on to is beyond me.
I simply made the factual point that being linked with top quality football players is not something that's all of a sudden new to Tottenham Hotspur, as the poster suggested.
We have a history as big spenders, trailblazers and, indeed, record breakers in the transfer market pre the current administration.
Two decades of austerity seems to have blinkered our newer fans to our past and conditioned them to somehow think we're suddenly blessed in the present.
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Our trophy haul isn't a reflection of how "big" we are tbh. A lot of nothing clubs have won as many leagues as us. We're much bigger than a club like Everton even though they won the league a lot more.
We have more fans, a bigger stadium, more money, more name recognition, more prestige, more superstars etc. We've also had more than our fair share of near misses, a different roll of the dice and we'd probably be league and CL winners under Poch for instance. Which is why we have the bottler rep, we're a big club not winning like a big club.
I do accept though that we're not quite up there with the mega clubs.
I was not suggesting that Maddison or Zaniolo would be a signing that's bigger than ever achieved at Tottenham. In just the past few years, there are 4 similar big signings (Richy, Romero, Tanguy, and LoCelso). I was making the point that Maddison/Zaniolo would potentially be yet another big signing just this Summer. As I lack historical perspective of pre-ENIC windows, when has Tottenham ever added so many quality pieces and big signings in just one window?
Never.
The blokes a fraud whom false-quotes and lies at every turn. Just make note of the user name and kick on with your evening, fella.
£20m+ plus add ons which might be triggered if Lo Celso is successful (=more money pouring into club) taking deal to close to £30m sounds about right.
Its right the purchaser should look at his Betis form when making a bid - Spanish league is a lot closer to Italian league style than PL, so more directly relevant than high intensity and physicality of PL
And now we're 6th....
Why?
Cos Sugar (and Scholar before him) left us in the mud and since then, two petro-doped club have hoovered up the majority of trophies.
Nah, you deliberately mis-quoted him.....
He clearly alluded to the AMOUNT of quality players in one window.
We have a history as big spenders, trailblazers and, indeed, record breakers in the transfer market pre the current administration.
Two decades of austerity seems to have blinkered our newer fans to our past and conditioned them to somehow think we're suddenly blessed in the present.
Yeh, those trailblazing, record-breaking 90's.......
You're SO full of shit.
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Don’t forget we won the FA Cup in 1901 and signed Ossie and Ricky in 1978. We were trailblazers….. once.
Tanganga on loan with an obligation to buy Ndombele
Arthur has been left out of Juventus' USA tour.
We made them before Scholar nearly bankrupt us, forcing us into a 20 year rebuild, just at the point that the Prem took off and we got left in the dust.
We were a wealthy club when there was a relatively level playing field. Scholar changed that and Enic have picked up the pieces at a time when the landscape has changed with the wealth that billionaires have brought into the league.
Good because he isn't all that maybe in four years but we need better right now.
The thing is, everyone was a trailblazer once.
Preston North End, Blackburn, Burnley, Nottingham Forest, Ipswich, at some point they were at the very front of football in this country, past performance does not mean continually being at the top table.
I think we have to accept the reality that there have been times we can't compete and times where we have really outperformed too. That is the story of most football clubs.
We have made some good signings but this isn't the time to say we've won the transfer window, there is no guarantee that all of the signings will be magnificent, we'll know once we get 10 competitive games down the line.
The signs look good, but every transfer is a risk and the more change, the more difficult it can be to get everyone playing at their best. We may need to be patient with this new look or the starting 11 might not be drastically different to start with come next season, it is going to be an interesting ride.