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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.

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Château NoHo said:
Now that we've moved on the unwanted players (Ndombele, Lo Celso, Winks, Reguilón, etc.) I must admit that our squad is feeling a little lightweight.

All the reasonable of us realized that this revamping process would take several windows, but it does seem like there should be some emphasis on winning now, whilst we still have a peak Kane + Son.
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Great point but isn't that what THIS actually is? We got Conte (short-termer), Perisic (good but old), did business in January (which we don't often do), kept Kane (though no extension), and extended Sonny, AND spent 60M on a backup forward. Although I would have preferred the 'blowing it up and restart a project' approach this surely isn't that.

And now Conte's out here talking about 2-3 more windows to challenge. I'm assuming he's including January as well because he won't be here 2-3 more summer windows from now (not necessarily but highly unlikely). And in 2-3 more summer windows Kane (will no longer be under contract) and Sonny will be ancient. This IS trying to win now however unsatisfying an approach that is.
 
Conte on transfers: "I think that we did good things but I have to be honest with you because I see other squad of top team there is too much distance, still too much distance."

On Spence, he says: "Djed was an investment of the club. He's a perfect prospect for Tottenham. But for sure if we want to win we need other signings. I want to be very clear about this."

Conte plays down suggestion that Spurs have an advantage over rivals for doing their business early. "If you sign a player for £80-100m on the last day you have a big advantage because you're signing a top player." He points out that Spurs only spent on Richy & Bissouma.
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not sure of the full context here, but he doesn't seem much impressed with our business.
 
ThePreacher said:
Not buying another CB may well turn out to be the one mistake Paratici will have made this window.

Tanganga is not the answer to any issues we may have in our defence moving forward.
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The bigger issue is that we are unbalanced, 3 RCB’s, 1 CCB and 2 LCB’s. We can of course move Romero central but I think that takes away a bit from what he does. We really needed a second Dier, we also need Lenglet to be good.

I am less worried about our attack, Kane, Son, Kulusevski, Richarlison with Lucas and Gil should cover those spots reasonably well.
 
Kaz Hirai said:
Conte on transfers: "I think that we did good things but I have to be honest with you because I see other squad of top team there is too much distance, still too much distance."

On Spence, he says: "Djed was an investment of the club. He's a perfect prospect for Tottenham. But for sure if we want to win we need other signings. I want to be very clear about this."

Conte plays down suggestion that Spurs have an advantage over rivals for doing their business early. "If you sign a player for £80-100m on the last day you have a big advantage because you're signing a top player." He points out that Spurs only spent on Richy & Bissouma.
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not sure of the full context here, but he doesn't seem much impressed with our business.
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Source?
 
Kaz Hirai said:
Conte on transfers: "I think that we did good things but I have to be honest with you because I see other squad of top team there is too much distance, still too much distance."

On Spence, he says: "Djed was an investment of the club. He's a perfect prospect for Tottenham. But for sure if we want to win we need other signings. I want to be very clear about this."

Conte plays down suggestion that Spurs have an advantage over rivals for doing their business early. "If you sign a player for £80-100m on the last day you have a big advantage because you're signing a top player." He points out that Spurs only spent on Richy & Bissouma.
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not sure of the full context here, but he doesn't seem much impressed with our business.
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wherever he goes, no matter the kind of transfers made, he has to complain about the market. always.

let spence play, give him an opportunity instead of minimizing his value for prejudice
 
Kaz Hirai said:
Conte on transfers: "I think that we did good things but I have to be honest with you because I see other squad of top team there is too much distance, still too much distance."

On Spence, he says: "Djed was an investment of the club. He's a perfect prospect for Tottenham. But for sure if we want to win we need other signings. I want to be very clear about this."

Conte plays down suggestion that Spurs have an advantage over rivals for doing their business early. "If you sign a player for £80-100m on the last day you have a big advantage because you're signing a top player." He points out that Spurs only spent on Richy & Bissouma.
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not sure of the full context here, but he doesn't seem much impressed with our business.
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He’s right, it’s not the amazing window some are making it out to be, but then I got killed on here for saying last summers window was poor at the time. It’s a quite good window 6/10 maybe 7/10 at a push. But we failed to land a top CB and a top RWB, no matter what the reasoning was, they were priorities and they weren’t brought in.
 
ginola92 said:
He’s right, it’s not the amazing window some are making it out to be, but then I got killed on here for saying last summers window was poor at the time. It’s a quite good window 6/10 maybe 7/10 at a push. But we failed to land a top CB and a top RWB, no matter what the reasoning was, they were priorities and they weren’t brought in.
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The summer window is great if Conte is going to be here for 3-4 years, it’s a big start. If Conte is here for just 1-2 years then clearly it’s nowhere near enough as he will be off then we will get a new manager and will have to start the rebuild all over again if the new manager has a different style eg Potter.

The question is is Conte going to become more like Pep and Klopp and build over time or is he more like Mourinho and a 2-3 year manager. It’s the only reason I was hesistant about getting Conte as manager and why I thought Potter fitted the club and how it was run more.

If Conte is just short term and wanted to have a crack at City at the title the below was the type of window we needed which would have required serious cash and overpaying. Hence I hope everyone understands it is a project and it’s just Conte protecting his image.

Hakimi
Bastoni
Bissouma
Perisic
De Virj/Skriniar
Richarlison
Veratti/Barella
Chiesa
 
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OZHotspur said:
Might sound weird but I don’t really want Lenglet as a loan player with no buy clause to be in our starting 11 consistently. We should be developing our future, not driving up the price so Barca can ask for an arm and a leg off from his suitors next summer.
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And who exactly is that LCB that is on our books whose development Lenglet would block?
 
I don't care what anyone says, I stick by my original prediction that he will be gone by the end of this season. We brought in Romero, Kulu, Bentancur, Richarlison, Perisic, Spence, Lenglet in the last two windows. Adding that to a team that already has some good and some great players.

As fans of course we want to sign more. We could have added 3 more players to that list and fans will complain. But Conte has enough there to make us a top club if he's a great manager.

Using 1 fucking sub against West Ham. Doesn't matter what our bench is when he won't use them.
 
ginola92 said:
He’s right, it’s not the amazing window some are making it out to be, but then I got killed on here for saying last summers window was poor at the time. It’s a quite good window 6/10 maybe 7/10 at a push. But we failed to land a top CB and a top RWB, no matter what the reasoning was, they were priorities and they weren’t brought in.
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Felt to me that despite finishing in CL, the club overall was trying to look for great deals, frees, prospects with high resale, loans, players with months left on contracts. Richie has 24 months left so was Everton's last chance to get something decent otherwise they wouldve priced him out of our range.

Which is fine and good to be smart, but to get some of the best sometimes you just have to spend like the real big teams on a single player. Not sure we have it in us to spend 80 million on one player, 140 on two.

I hope Conte doesnt get bitter and overweight about it like Poch eventually did
 
The summer transfer window was a nice, proper start for the Conte era .. it will take time .. we signed a boatload of players and that’s not even counting Bentancur and Dejan .. I don’t use Twitter and glad I don’t, why some people online are enraged by our transfer dealings just shows how delusional, out of touch, short sighted, overly emotional, some people are
 
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todd1882 said:
Great point but isn't that what THIS actually is? We got Conte (short-termer), Perisic (good but old), did business in January (which we don't often do), kept Kane (though no extension), and extended Sonny, AND spent 60M on a backup forward. Although I would have preferred the 'blowing it up and restart a project' approach this surely isn't that.

And now Conte's out here talking about 2-3 more windows to challenge. I'm assuming he's including January as well because he won't be here 2-3 more summer windows from now (not necessarily but highly unlikely). And in 2-3 more summer windows Kane (will no longer be under contract) and Sonny will be ancient. This IS trying to win now however unsatisfying an approach that is.
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Why would we blow it up and restart a project when Sonny is 30 and Kane 29?

We'd lose both players, and an elite head coach, and finish in mid-table mediocrity, with a toxic atmosphere in our shiny new stadium.

I'm glad we did business early. We couldn't have signed a player of Bissouma's PL experience for £25m if the chavs hadn't been in the middle of their takeover and manure in their "play like Ajax" experiment. Given the dippers' panicky move for Arthur Melo, they should have been competing for Bissouma too.

Conte now has to coach the likes of Gil, Spence & Sarr into his "idea of football", rather than blowing money on mediocrities like Dan James.

We can compete in four competitions whilst trying to develop some talented squad depth players. That's enough of a project for me whilst Kane & Sonny are in their peak years.
 
todd1882 said:
Great point but isn't that what THIS actually is? We got Conte (short-termer), Perisic (good but old), did business in January (which we don't often do), kept Kane (though no extension), and extended Sonny, AND spent 60M on a backup forward. Although I would have preferred the 'blowing it up and restart a project' approach this surely isn't that.

And now Conte's out here talking about 2-3 more windows to challenge. I'm assuming he's including January as well because he won't be here 2-3 more summer windows from now (not necessarily but highly unlikely). And in 2-3 more summer windows Kane (will no longer be under contract) and Sonny will be ancient. This IS trying to win now however unsatisfying an approach that is.
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Agree. That there's only 9 or 10 weeks until a World Cup break was obviously considered as well.

Reassess the squad when back from the break on Boxing Day, and make any necessary moves in January.
 
Apparently, it's EXPLOSIVE STUFF from Conte...

Tottenham v Fulham (Sat, 15:00 BST)
Explosive stuff from Antonio Conte before Fulham on the transfer market: "You have to understand in this transfer window, the club did what they could. I think we did good things, but I have to be honest, the other squads in the top teams have too much distance.
"We have just started the process to improve; we did it this summer and in January. But to be a title contender, you need at least three transfer windows."
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Fucking 'explosive'.... gimme a break... they're just trying to prise clicks away from SSN!
 
TheSpurEst said:
Only that it would be really fcking expensive.
40 mil + wages (guess he would want 3-4 years ; say 150 kpw) he would cost 63 million and would have no value left in the end of contract.

Now you tell me, in what kind of a fucking world would 63 mil be a good idea to throw at 5th choice attacker?!?

And to tell it is not your / mine money - surely not. But I want my club to do well and use money wisely. Wiser the money is used, higher the chance for success. Throwing 63 mil at ageing player who can only be big fish in small bond would be idiotic. And people with any kind of brain activity would say quick "no" to that.

Ndombelly+LoCelso fuckup is criminal and someone should be put to jail for that, but just being better then one of the worst decisions in football history is not adequate benchmark. Otherwise 99,9% of the deals would be great success.
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He’s the same age as Kane, he’s not a 32 year old has been. Also PL proven

Granted, if Conte is terrified to rotate his favoured front 3 it’s not a good signing (a la Richy not starting), but with 60 games, 5 good players vying for 3 spots is fine. City work it with their attackers, KDB starts every 5th game on the bench and often gets subbed for example meaning back ups like Mahrez play tons of games too
 
Zomb said:
He’s the same age as Kane, he’s not a 32 year old has been. Also PL proven

Granted, if Conte is terrified to rotate his favoured front 3 it’s not a good signing (a la Richy not starting), but with 60 games, 5 good players vying for 3 spots is fine. City work it with their attackers, KDB starts every 5th game on the bench and often gets subbed for example meaning back ups like Mahrez play tons of games too
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Why are you bringing Kane into equasion?
If he would not be playing for us, I can guarantee, we would not go after player of this profile either.

PL proven indeed - proven also that he can't make it in big team where there is pressure.

I am not against bringing in players in their prime. Nor taking on more experienced options. I don't think Zaha would be worst option either. But paying 40 mil for him at this situation would be financially absolutely idiotic.
 
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