Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.

[Airfixx]

I don't think Spurs would be a PL team today had it not been for Sugar.

That alone gives him a free ride as far as i am concerned.

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It's a theory... I suppose..... But there's no escaping the fact that our down-turn really kicked in on his watch.

He backed his managers in the transfer market

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Not anywhere close to the extent that the habitual liar that sparked this debate would have us believe.

and was pretty much lied to and deceived by Venables throughout his time as manager.

Whether he sanctioned bad deals or not all Chairman do.

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Clubs buy duds sometimes.... That's the nature of the beast... I more than accept that.

The deeper criticism I and many others hold is that Sugar lacked the vision to see what the advent of the EPL meant for both football in general and a club the size of Spurs.... Ironic for a man that likes to think of himself as an innovative thinker.

 

[Imhotep]

You know it’s a quiet time in the transfer window when people are arguing about Alan Sodding Sugar.

 

[MVP]

I really think we won’t bring anyone else in now unless it’s a hugely opportunistic deal or something falls into our lap. We need to sell players big time rather than bringing people in. It’s probably fair enough given our business but as spurs fans we are used to going deep into the window signing players, so it will be a bit strange for us.

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We have 5 weeks left, that's enough to sell and buy. I reckon at least one more in, two at best.

 

[Shotgunofmichalebrow]

Lingard and Maguire. Some of you people don't deserve nice things....

 

[Airfixx]

You know it’s a quiet time in the transfer window when people are arguing about Alan Sodding Sugar.

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What we actually have is 2 people having a calm and reasonable conversation about our transfer history......


........And another person on the fringes just lying to further a long established shit-stirring agenda.

 

[A Tuba]

Ah yes, you're right.

But these just underline my point really, we'd get individuals every now and again, we've never really spent "big," as in multiple big outlays, since the 60's. I don't think either Lineker or Klinsmann were particularly big outlays either, as both were on the downswing of their respective careers.

This is really the first time in decades that we've looked to spend big, other than with the Bale money, to actually build a team/squad worthy of a challenge. Poch's team was built on astute punts that were a result of player trading as we moved up the Prem rankings.

The root cause of this has always been Scholar.

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Reading the Philip Green book (dodged a bullet there), Scholar got involved as the West Stand refurbishment fucked us financially.

 

[Perryman]

Truly amazing.

Selling off their TV money to keep their credit line going.

That club genuinely deserves bankruptcy.

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Probably around 350m Euros in total. Problem is they look like they are going to spend most of it on players. Must be banking on the super lge re appearing and tv revenues to go through the roof.
Giving a 3 yr contract to a 34yr old , Lewandowski, seems bonkers.
Meanwhile Frankie De Jong says, where’s my 17 mill Euros you owe me.

 

[Airfixx]

Probably around 350m Euros in total. Problem is they look like they are going to spend most of it on players. Must be banking on the super lge re appearing and tv revenues to go through the roof.
Giving a 3 yr contract to a 34yr old , Lewandowski, seems bonkers.
Meanwhile Frankie De Jong says, where’s my 17 mill Euros you owe me.

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This is where La Liga & UEFA should step in, but like fuck they will....

Makes a mockery of all the other players that agreed to take a pay cut last summer too.

 

[Honest John]

ThePreacher - What aspect of this do you disagree with?

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"s's'someone disagreed with my post"

 

[Spaniel]

Time has given reflective ability.

Myself and close family have all declined this. None of us have had the virus.

Personally, have valid exemption, but was never going to have it.

Both my children are completely unvaccinated. Both never needed antibiotics except eldest at birth. Both never had significant illness (past eldest from prematurity). Pretty comfortable in my choices.

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You'd better be careful. There's a deadly strain of measles on the rise. And I'm not joking....

 

[Stov]

Get him in!

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He's super slow.

 

[Spaniel]

Well done for free-riding off the rest of society.

Vaccines stop the unvaccinated from getting sick too. If you disagree, go tell me how fun it was to get smallpox before the work of the great Jenner (and Pasteur in France) and a great deal of international cooperation on vaccines helped to eradicate it.

That too was resisted by luddites like yourself but fortunately the sanity of our great nations and their brightest scientific minds prevailed.

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Plus he's going to cause problems for the NHS when, inevitably his kids do come in contact with infectious diseases and either catch them or spread them. I've been working at the sharp end all of my life and cardiac problems secondary to things like measles and rubella have ruined quite a few young lives. I sometimes wonder why we bother...

 

[Bazali]

There's really only one time where we were the biggest spenders in the league, and that was the 60's. At that time, Bill Nick assembled the most expensive team in English Football when he bought the likes of Mackay, Greaves, Gilzean et al.

We've made the odd big name signing, if I remember correctly, Archibald was the big signing we made under Burkinshaw. Ardiles and Villa were big names because of the World Cup, but I don't think they were particularly big outlays. They were big news because they were the first "foreign" signings of note brought over to England.

It's actually a fallacy to suggest that we used to do this regularly before Enic.

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No surprise that Harry Enfied’s character ‘Loadsamoney’ was a Spur!

 

[Spaniel]

The problem is I imagine Maddison would be about twice as expensive .. which is justifiable since he's about five times more productive.

Also no idea if Leicester would sell. They seem to have signed nobody this window, so maybe they're a bit tapped out and we could take advantage of that.

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How much money do we have available?

 

[Zomb]

They are selling their rights to a venture capital company and according to the BBC today, they have just sold another 15% of them raising a total of UP TO 600 million. None has been reported s going towards helping to pay off their huge debts.

They can only sell these rights once, is short term and bordering (to a certain extent) on what Risdale did at Leeds.

I mean if they are not investing in young talent to sell on and make money (which they aren't) then this money is in effect dead, a one time only revenue source.

Unbelievable that the main board would let Laporta do this, but this is Barcelona who have no restrictions enforced by UEFA.

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They will do a rangers in the next five years, fold the club and start again

 

[Zomb]

How much money do we have available?

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As much as we want spend imo. Levy will know the revenue figures from last season and I expect they are great, coupled with upcoming CL cash and stadium takings etc.

I think we will spend another 80M+ this window, especially if Paratici moves on the unwanted dregs and lowers the wage bill

 

[Zomb]

I don't think Spurs would be a PL team today had it not been for Sugar.

That alone gives him a free ride as far as i am concerned. He backed his managers in the transfer market and was pretty much lied to and deceived by Venables throughout his time as manager.

Whether he sanctioned bad deals or not all Chairman do.

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He’s an absolute prick

A lucky, one dimensional tool. I say one dimensional but he’s pivoted from tech to property so perhaps that’s unfair but his time in tech was done, anyone could make money in property over the last 20 years with some money behind them

 

[ThePreacher]

I used to spend a lot of time in the Oak Room around that time. One of the funny stories to come out was when TV replaced the dance floor at Scribes West and sent the bill to Spurs that said he was Spurs and referred to Woolwich as the scum

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I did see a documentary (can't recall the name) years ago, could have been on BBC's Panorama regarding the court case between Sugar and Venables.

Very interesting to see two barrow boys going toe to toe. I truly believe that this still goes on today at some clubs and have some cracking stories about Barry Fry and Brian Talbot that I can't print.

Brings back memories, and Spurs at that time needed saving and i think we got lucky with Sugar for all the right reasons ta THAT time.

 

[Olaf]

 

[ThePreacher]

It's a theory... I suppose..... But there's no escaping the fact that our down-turn really kicked in on his watch.



Not anywhere close to the extent that the habitual liar that sparked this debate would have us believe.



Clubs buy duds sometimes.... That's the nature of the beast... I more than accept that.

The deeper criticism I and many other hold is that Sugar lacked the vision to see what the advent of the EPL meant for both football in general and a club the size of Spurs.... Ironic for a man that likes to think of himself as an innovative thinker.

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I just replied to VY

I think Sugar was the right man at the right time for us, possibly by more luck than judgement. Think about it, Maxwell was lurking!

Anyway, perhaps not a golden age but an FA Cup delivered, and one that i will always remember. For good or bad that was some side Venables put together.