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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.

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Pippins said:
I wouldn't be surprised if the stadium rights have been settled, hence the wad of money available for transfers
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Nope.... This shit is all over the news.

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ENIC have upped their share ownership.
 
Tomo said:
That’s a good point has the club fixed the scouting now, has Paratici done much with it, haven’t heard much on that front.
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Seems there's been a big overhaul, looks like we'll focus more on closer analysis now. Ndombele should've been raised as a potential red flag. Pochettino liked him because as a footballer he fitted that need for someone press resistant, but whether he had people in his ear at the club warning him about potential attitude issues we don't know.

I still have my doubts about Paratici but thus far it's been a lot more competent. I'm hopeful we're being very careful with signings and ensuring they fit the Conte mould.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Pochettino was the coach. It wasn't his job to do background checks/scouting on players. We have no idea if the people we had at the club actually did their research or not. You think Klopp is doing that kind of work at Liverpool? He didn't even want Salah.

Blame the scouting team, not the manager..
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As the head-coach, Pochettino would have a huge influence over the incoming players and it's naive to think a head-coach/manager does not know about the attitude of the players their club is buying. And if he didn't he's still partly at fault for not checking.
Just recently the Norwegian national head-coach, Ståle Solbakken, told about a meeting he had with Pep Guardiola (in Manchester) where they, of course, talked about Haaland...and he was surprised about how much Guardiola knew about Haaland as a person.
You're insinuating that Liverpool bought Salah against Klopp's will but it was simply the case of having him change his mind by convincing him Salah is the better option.

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Klopp eyed German forward, 'didn't really want Salah' - Football365

Jurgen Klopp was convinced to take Mo Salah last summer when he really wanted a different target.
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And German journalist Raphael Honigstein has claimed that Salah was not Klopp’s top Liverpool target back in the summer
Instead, he wanted Leverkusen star Brandt, but Reds sporting director Michael Edwards intervened in the matter.
“Michael Edwards had been getting a lot of criticism in Liverpool for some of the decisions they’ve made over the last few years,” Honigstein told the Totally Football Show podcast.
 
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Pathfinder said:
I wish Pochettino had done this before signing Ndombele. In fact, he could simply have googled him and had enough info not to buy him.

Sky reporter reveals Spurs the lengths Spurs are going to in order to sign the right players - Spurs Web - Tottenham Hotspur Football News

Tottenham Hotspur are leaving no stone unturned in their extensive recruitment efforts to improve their squad.

Sky Sports reporter Paul Gilmour has revealed that the north Londoners have previously rejected the opportunity to sign a talented Premier League footballer since their findings believed that he would be a disruptive influence within the dressing room.

Spurs managing director of football Fabio Paratici has been working behind the scenes to conduct an evaluation of all departments which link to the footballing aspect of the club including a refresh of the scouting set-up (Football.London).

Gilmour told Sky Sports: “Extensive homework is being carried out on player ability and character. Spurs recently rejected the chance to sign one talented Premier League player because their research highlighted concerns he could be a disruptive influence.”

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Antonio Conte appears to have moved on some of the disruptive influences within the squad and now has a happy core of players which we have not seen since the Mauricio Pochettino era.

Sky reporter Michael Bridge revealed in March that Giovani Lo Celso and Tanguy Ndombele were not generally popular at the club which is hardly surprising both found themselves shipped out of the club on loan (GiveMeSport).
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He definitely didn't do that before we bought Emerson.
 
Pathfinder said:
As the head-coach, Pochettino would have a huge influence over the incoming players and it's naive to think a head-coach/manager does not know about the attitude of the players their club is buying. And if he didn't he's still partly at fault.
Just recently the Norwegian national head-coach, Ståle Solbakken, told about a meeting he had with Pep Guardiola (in Manchester) where they, of course, talked about Haaland...and he was surprised about how much Guardiola knew about Haaland as a person.
You're insinuating that Liverpool bought Salah against Klopp's will but it was simply the case of having him change his mind by convincing him Salah is the better option.

www.football365.com

Klopp eyed German forward, 'didn't really want Salah' - Football365

Jurgen Klopp was convinced to take Mo Salah last summer when he really wanted a different target.
www.football365.com www.football365.com

And German journalist Raphael Honigstein has claimed that Salah was not Klopp’s top Liverpool target back in the summer
Instead, he wanted Leverkusen star Brandt, but Reds sporting director Michael Edwards intervened in the matter.
“Michael Edwards had been getting a lot of criticism in Liverpool for some of the decisions they’ve made over the last few years,” Honigstein told the Totally Football Show podcast.
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Not according to him.

I'm sure managers do know about certain players (especially one as high profile as Haaland who has been a wonderkid since he was in nappies) but their role isn't to study a signings personality. That should be done by analysts/scouts at the club and presented to the manager. That may well have happened, but we don't know. I highly doubt Pep knows the details of every players career like he did with Haaland.

No I'm insinuating Klopp probably didn't know all that much about Salah when he came in, other than what he was presented with. I just don't get why the shots are being aimed at Poch in this instance when I'd say it's more of an issue with our scouting team, which has now been overhauled..
 
MVP said:
He definitely didn't do that before we bought Emerson.
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Who? Pochettino? Paratici? Nuno?
Emerson was bought in as a RB under Nuno - and to my knowledge, his attitude has always been (very) "good".
By the way, the subject of this article and my added comment was about the attitude of certain players and not their performances.
He's was 22 when he arrived, had never played in the EPL, then mid-season had to adjust from RB to a RWB and by the end of the season, he improved very much as a player.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Good on him.
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Not really...... The players were all expected to lick their wounds and get on with it after the CL final; why not the manager?

Raumdeuterz said:
Still believe him over any of the other people at the club.
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......So Serge, Ndombele, Foyth, GLC, Llorente, Sanchez et al all lied?

Conversely you think it was Levy that froze Trippier out without talking to him? Cos Trippier doesn't.....

No manager gets every player they want, that doesn't mean they aren't getting their chance to rubber stamp players.

FFS, we didn't replace Mitchell cos Poch wanted more sway.


Ndombele, Gio & Sessengon were all reportedly Poch's first choices...... So the trf committee decided Clarke was worth a punt even though Poch wasn't keen; who cares! He was just a speculative 'roll of the dice' - we should be making such purchases. The rest of his pouting the summer before he left was about the speed it took to get those deals done..... Well tough shit; we saved about 70m based on asking prices on those 3 players and 2 of them were injured upon arrival anyway.
 
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Airfixx said:
Not really...... The players were all expected to lick their wounds after the CL final; why not the manager?



......So Serge, Ndombele, Foyth, GLC, Llorente, Sanchez et al all lied?

Conversely you think it was Levy that froze Trippier out without talking to him? Cos Trippier doesn't.....

No manager gets every player they want, that doesn't mean they aren't getting their chance to rubber stamp players.

FFS, we didn't replace Mitchell cos Poch wanted more sway.


Ndombele, Gio & Sessengon were all reportedly Poch's first choices...... So the trf committee decided Clarke was worth a punt even though Poch wasn't keen; who cares he was just a speculative 'roll of the dice' we should be making such purchases. The rest of his pouting the summer before he left was about the speed it took to get those deals done..... Well tough shit; we saved about 70m based on asking prices on those 3 players and 2 of them were injured upon arrival anyway.
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I don't blame the manager who got fucked over since the day he arrived here for being a bit stroppy having to deal with Levy's shite despite getting to a CL final with a shoestring budget. But hey, that's just me.

No doubt he had a final word on some players, also no doubt he was lumbered with others & very regularly didn't get what he needed, hence why he was permanently frustrated at not being properly backed. Hopefully Levy doesn't pull the same bullshit with Conte or we'll see the same salty press conferences.
 
Pathfinder said:
Who? Pochettino? Paratici? Nuno?
Emerson was bought in as a RB under Nuno - and to my knowledge, his attitude has always been (very) "good".
By the way, the subject of this article and my added comment was about the attitude of certain players and not their performances.
He's was 22 when he arrived, had never played in the EPL, then mid-season had to adjust from RB to a RWB and by the end of the season, he improved very much as a player.
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Paratici , I bolded the ability part in your article, he improved but he isn't good enough, not only that but we spent the whole summer haggling over how Takehiro's transfer fee should be paid.
 
Raumdeuterz said:
Lovely stuff.

Surely this would mean the end of Reguilon's Spurs career? 3 LWB's would be overkill and we need Sess for the HG rule + he usurped Reguilon at the end of this season.
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Hopefully.

Will be great to have a creative passer on the wing. See Kostic's assist vs Rangers in the final. Sess and Reg don't even see that angle.

Kane and Son will be loving life if we can add similar on the right.
 
VonnegutBusy said:
Lloris
Romero - Dier - Bastoni
Perisic ------------------------ Kostic
Bentancur --- Milenkovic-Savic
Nkunku -- Kane --- Son
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Forster
Davies
Sanchez
Sess
Spence
Skipp
PEH
Eriksen
Kulusevski
Lucas

Perisic - Free
Eriksen - Free
Kostic - 12m
Spence - 15m
Bastoni - 60m
SMS - 70m
Nkunku - 65m

Total spend: 222m

Sales:
Gio - 25
Reg - 25
Emerson - 20
Doc - 10
Winks - 10
Berg - 25
Rodon - 15
CCV - 7

Total sales: 137m

Net Spend: 85m

DONE
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Are you binning Kulu to the bench?
 
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