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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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I wouldn't go higher than 15 mil...and that's incl bonuses. Ideally, a swap type deal with Tangs or Rodon + Sess going the other way.

How many times have you watched him...honestly? This ain't a dig, my man...just curious. So many on here (and other platforms) talking about Taps, VdV and Tosin being good/great/underrated etc when all they've seen are YT highies or the odd game or read threads on Twitter.

Personally, I don't care about market rates and that bs premium tax on HG. He's 25, not a regular starter for Fulham, nowhere near the top 20 CB in the PL, no senior England cap and could still elect to play for Nigeria meaning awol for a month whenever AFCON comes round. In my books that ain't worth 20 mil, especially not when we must sign 2 proper good CB. May as well keep Tangs/Rods, save ourselves 20 mil and the higher wages he'd likely commend.

You asked me this before but anyway, randomly I have seen a few other Fulham games and one game against us.

I do like him.

VdV I'm pretty open that I know next to nothing about. Tapsoba I saw the Juve games in Europa, mainly because there were Xabi Alonso rumours to us at the time. I liked what I saw.

15m seems a fair price for Tosin but if it was me and I was making an ideal window out of the players linked, I'd like to see Tapsoba of them all.

If he's costing 50m that isn't happening though.
 
Spurs haven't legally done anything wrong but morally, yes. As I said, Shakhtar is experience extreme hardship right now and on top of that any club can cherry pic their best players and have them for free. Imagine that happening to "your" club!
Spurs being one of the richest clubs in the world, Levy could easily afford to pay them a decent compensation, which they deserve.

Sucks for the club but you can see the player's perspective.

A fairer way might have been to use the transferMarkt value for the player or set a value for each player and have a forced release clause at that value.

At least Shakhtar get paid then.

Saying that, they will probably get help from the Ukraine gov eventually. They are swimming in USD atm.
 
To listen to Shakhtar, you’d think he came through their academy and they deserved a fee for developing him. He went there at 20.
At what age he joined them doesn't matter - what matter is that he was under contract with them and they did pay €6 for him (back in 2019) and developed him as a player since then. But FIFA (or UEFA) invalidated his contract, which is not fair.
F.ex., Højbjerg joined Spurs at 25, does that mean Spurs should not get a fee if they decides to sell him?
 
I think it's pretty clear the window will end with

Vicario
Maddison
Solomon
One of Tapsoba or Van de Ven
Lenglet

Not sure if that ticks a lot of boxes tbh

That would be really fucking poor return if true, and for number of reasons -

1) This club NEED MORE CENTERBACKS. And good centerbacks. While Lenglet is decent on the ball his turning speed and agility are not on top half EPL level. His one on one defending is just shit. We need minimal 2 new CBs, and would be positive if one is experienced in the English game, I would be even fine with promising player from Championship or smth. But not one from Bundesliga and another one, subpar cheap signing that did himself no favors with his loan spell last season.
2) This club NEEDS MORE PROVEN QUALITY. I mean from this list, let's be honest, who is proven quality? Maddison. Period. As I said - Lenglet would be cheap punt and subpar signing. Solomon would be another free-transfer-punt, far from sure thing. Either of other CBs are more of "promising lad from Bundesliga" and Vicario... we know rather little about as well.

If you would substitute Lenglet with better quality CB and add maybe JWP from Soton, then we might be talking. Everything below that would be pretty poor and clearly insufficient.
 
To listen to Shakhtar, you’d think he came through their academy and they deserved a fee for developing him. He went there at 20.
At what age he joined them doesn't matter - what matter is that he was under contract with them and they did pay €6 for him (back in 2019) and developed him as a player since then. But FIFA (or UEFA) invalidated his contract, which is not fair.
F.ex., Højbjerg joined Spurs at 25, does that mean Spurs should not get a fee if they decides to sell him?
 
At what age he joined them doesn't matter - what matter is that he was under contract with them and they did pay €6 for him (back in 2019) and developed him as a player since then. But FIFA (or UEFA) invalidated his contract, which is not fair.
F.ex., Højbjerg joined Spurs at 25, does that mean Spurs should not get a fee if they decides to sell him?
Can you explain why they let him go on loan with a year left on his contract? Genuine question.
 
To listen to Shakhtar, you’d think he came through their academy and they deserved a fee for developing him. He went there at 20.
At what age he joined them doesn't matter - what matter is that he was under contract with them and they did pay €6 for him (back in 2019) and developed him as a player since then. But FIFA (or UEFA) invalidated his contract, which is not fair.
F.ex., Højbjerg joined Spurs at 25, does that mean Spurs should not get a fee if they decides to sell him?
Sucks for the club but you can see the player's perspective.

A fairer way might have been to use the transferMarkt value for the player or set a value for each player and have a forced release clause at that value.

At least Shakhtar get paid then.

Saying that, they will probably get help from the Ukraine gov eventually. They are swimming in USD atm.
Majority of that money goes to weapons, though. And there is no guarantee that will happens when (whenever that is) the war is over as the priority will be to rebuild the whole country.
 
Tapsoba, VDV and Tosin are all interesting players of the right profile but I think we will only sign one. Seems like Lenglet is in the mix, so if we are playing a back 4 we are only going to need four CBs.

Dier
Romero
Lenglet
VDV
Davies (for emergencies)

Any more than that is overkill. Of course the sensible thing would be to not buy a shit player like Lenglet and buy Tapsoba instead.

Wait... you START this list with Eric Dier and end with Davies (for emergencies) - what the hell?!?
Name ONE element of play on top of headers where Dier is better than Davies ?!? He is not faster, makes more brainfarts, concentration is weaker, game-reading is average at best... etc.

From this list Dier should be for emergencies and Davies above both - Dier and Lenglet.

Still really-really hoping we will not waste resources of bringing in Lenglet. This is taking long-term obligation for subpar player whose quality and value will surely decline. If we take a punt, we can hit a gem at least. With him, upside is limited but downside was demonstrated last season already.
 
There’s so many things that need to be better next year. At least we won’t have Hugo trying those ‘lofted passes’ to the full backs..

They absolutely fucked us
 
Meanwhile at PSG they're filling up an already overfilled squad :cool:
Kang-in Lee was linked to Spurs several times - most probably coz of Son. If he turns into a top class player it means he'll be the 2nd Korean player, after Kim, who got away despite of Son heavily recommendations...

 
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