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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Pathfinder said:
He cost just £15m, so you can't expect him to be world-class but he looked solid being played out of position (he's a right-footed CB playing as LB) vs Real M. An he was up against Rodrygo.
Which is more than one can say about most of the Spurs defenders.
I'd still take him at £15m :cool:
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Dude, come on think...if he played in our defence he's not replicating his form at City.
 
Pathfinder said:
Manuel Akanji cost Man City just £15 million (summer 2022) and is the sort of player Spurs needed.
I know it's too late now but I wonder why on earth Spurs didn't go for him at that price 🤔 Man City got him relatively late in the transfer window.
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Yes was thinking the sane whilst watching the match. Same with Alvarez who cost peanuts. Not all citehs purchases are over £50M. Alvarez seems to be able to play anywhere up top and has good pace. Think he was about £20M. I mean compare him and £60M rich. Who was doing the scouting last year? Patarici did t really look beyond a few leagues.
 
Maureen said:
Yes was thinking the sane whilst watching the match. Same with Alvarez who cost peanuts. Not all citehs purchases are over £50M. Alvarez seems to be able to play anywhere up top and has good pace. Think he was about £20M. I mean compare him and £60M rich. Who was doing the scouting last year? Patarici did t really look beyond a few leagues.
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The City Group own more than 10 clubs (13?) around the world across 4(?) continents.
If you think all Manchester City’s scouts (and other employees) are hired and employed at Manchester City then I have a bridge in Florida to sell you.
 
Imagine that; City amongst those at the top of the list when agents start shopping their players around for a new deal.........

It's almost as if players actually like the idea of Pep, guaranteed trophies and a tasty wage packet. :harrysmile:
 
Airfixx said:
Couldn't it be argued that Keita & Firminho should have been sold by now?
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not really. Firmino has still been useful off the bench. Keira is washed and would have no buyers.

Spurs would have given them both 4 year extensions 2 years ago and then been stuck with them for 2 more years.

You have your head in the sand if you don’t think this club has been run like shit the last 5 years.
 
bonaspur23 said:
not really. Firmino has still been useful off the bench. Keira is washed and would have no buyers.

Spurs would have given them both 4 year extensions 2 years ago and then been stuck with them for 2 more years.
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You're being silly.......

If what you suggest was the case we'd have Lamela on a new deal and wouldn't have happily let Lucas's contract wind down. The flip-side implication of your comment and the poster that preceded you, that Spurs never let players walk when it suits them is a myth...... I've already listed a bunch from the last 2/3 years.... You can add Aurier to the list too if it's not a long enough list.

(The point about Firmino is that once his fitness and appearances started to dwindle and more fwds were brought in - ie Diaz, Jota, Nunez & now Gakpo - a policy actually worth commending would have seized the opportunity to cash in before his deal was up. Keita ditto; but just do it before the rest of the world wakes up to his shitness..... )

There's double standards in the air again..... A bit like Arse; they let expensive players walk for free and it's commendable squad management; we let cheap one's walk and it's deemed a shambles.

bonaspur23 said:
You have your head in the sand if you don’t think this club has been run like shit the last 5 years.
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Please don't strawman me..... I was refuting the notion that these Liverpool releases are anything to be applauded and used as a counterpoint to our flaws; I was not bigging us up.
 
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Interesting point posed by 1882 1882 in another thread.....

Does Toney's ban from "all football related" activity exclude him from the impending trf window?
 
FightingIllini said:
There's a place to resolve those contradictions, it's called the table.
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Touche.... But I maintain that our over-riding downfall has been poor key purchases; not whether or not Matt Doherty & Danny Rose should have been allowed to leave for free.

By the same token, maybe Liverpool wouldn't have slid so dramatically if they'd recycled the players in question sooner...... Perhaps they wouldn't have had to pull out of the race for Bellingham if they weren't taking this financial hit....... Similarly; perhaps if the goons had got money of Lacazette, Ozil, PEA etc. they may have had enough depth to get over the line this season.
 
Airfixx said:
Touche.... But I maintain that our over-riding downfall has been poor key purchases; not whether or not Matt Doherty & Danny Rose should have been allowed to leave for free.

By the same token, maybe Liverpool wouldn't have slid so dramatically if they'd recycled the players in question sooner...... Perhaps they wouldn't have had to pull out of the race for Bellingham if they weren't taking this financial hit....... Similarly; perhaps if the goons had got money of Lacazette, Ozil, PEA etc. they may have had enough depth to get over the line this season.
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Except for City who honestly went on like a 5 year run where Benjamin Mendy was their only mistake, everybody has pluses and minuses in the transfer window.

Nonetheless, I definitely think that the overarching theory that we had a squad capable of competing for major honors requiring a manager to wring the best from them is a true description and has been a brutal failure.

Perhaps our purchases may have been better if they weren't brought in with an eye to fitting within our decaying squad structure.
 
FightingIllini said:
Except for City who honestly went on like a 5 year run where Benjamin Mendy was their only mistake, everybody has pluses and minuses in the transfer window.
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Liverpool just had a damn good run; but nothing I've said was to claim exclusivity in having signed some duds.

FightingIllini said:
Nonetheless, I definitely think that the overarching theory that we had a squad capable of competing for major honors requiring a manager to wring the best from them is a true description and has been a brutal failure.
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Lost me there somewhat........?

FightingIllini said:
Perhaps our purchases may have been better if they weren't brought in with an eye to fitting within our decaying squad structure.
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When I look at the more expensive end of the duds list, I don't see how it's down to squad structure as much as it is weak/superficial scouting:

Sanchez 40m - All body/little technique
Ndombele 60m - Lightweight/ghost-tendencies/dodgy attitude
GLC 40m - Lightweight/ghost-tendencies/Arg-FC comes first
Reguillon 35m - All dynamism/little quality

TBC
Romero 45m - Attitude in question/Arg-FC comes first
Richarlison 60m - If anything made perfect sense in terms of squad structure, yet struggling to produce.
Porro 45m - Fingers strongly crossed, but already appears to be very niche.

Like I said; way more detrimental than us letting Doherty, Sissoko et all walk.

Until we start to get the big ones right we're reliant on Bale/Kane size miracles....
 
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