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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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Pavard has one year left on his contract. I doubt he would want to come here but if he did Bayern could let us have him for 10 mill pounds and they can have Kane for 95 mill pounds...... Here we goooooo
 
JDefoe said:
I maintain that the biggest reason for our success under Pochettino in the late 10s was due to catastrophic widespread incompetence at each of the richer, historically more dominant clubs - namely United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Citeh and Scum. They had such a massive financial advantage over the field including us, that only squandering their money on shite players and horrific mismanagement would keep them from success.

Don't get me wrong. They've cocked it up to an enormous degree. But the tides changed for City and Pool and now for Woolwich and United seemingly, and it's only a matter of time before the Chavs and Newcastle use their financial might the right way as well.
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Our success under Poch actually came because Spurs had collected a the basis for a decent squad before he ever took charge of a game - Lloris, Walker, Rose, Davies, Dier, Vertonghen, Mason and Bentelab (Poch's first choice CM's in first season), Dembele, Eriksen, Kane - Poch 'simply' had to put the team together.

And most of these Poch played into the ground, but being all young he could do that during his best seasons.

The big issue was 2016-19 when almost no players coming in made any real impression on Spurs squad for more than a season - his best buys were probably Sanchez and Moura despite lots of money spent Hence the squad had deteriorated a lot by the time he left ....... and that's what we are still trying to rebuild from after 5 summers of dire buying, which is why the rebuild takes time.
 
Starks said:
I wouldn't take a single one of their central midfielders to start for us when everyone's fit.
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McGinn!

Old Man Good Job GIF
 
Macch said:
If Kane leaves we’ll probably have to target another HG player.

Wonder if we tap up Palace for Guehi
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I’m not too arsed about the HG quota for the Premier League.

The bigger issue losing Kane is that for European football you need 4 “club trained” players, and he’s really the only starting-level club trained player we’ve got. It’s Skipp and Tanganga, and then usually a youth keeper, so it would be mint if White, Devine, or Scarlett become rotation-level players in the next few years.
 
JDefoe said:
I’m not too arsed about the HG quota for the Premier League.

The bigger issue losing Kane is that for European football you need 4 “club trained” players, and he’s really the only starting-level club trained player we’ve got. It’s Skipp and Tanganga, and then usually a youth keeper, so it would be mint if White, Devine, or Scarlett become rotation-level players in the next few years.
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Devine is already rotation level imo, but keeping him on the bench for rotation right now would be absolutely wasting his talent. We're going to let him go on loan this year, and he can join the first team either next year or the year after that (after another loan).
 
Richard Arlison said:
I guess that’s possible

Don’t think it’s a ridiculous guess to think that it’s easier to get a price for Tapsoba than Kane though
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I actually disagree.

Smaller club, player under contract for 3 more years, Leverkusen don't need to sell. You discuss internally what your number is, but you don't tell the club with money that you know needs the player. You let them silently bid against themselves and hope they overshoot your valuation.
 
JDefoe said:
I maintain that the biggest reason for our success under Pochettino in the late 10s was due to catastrophic widespread incompetence at each of the richer, historically more dominant clubs - namely United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Citeh and Scum. They had such a massive financial advantage over the field including us, that only squandering their money on shite players and horrific mismanagement would keep them from success.

Don't get me wrong. They've cocked it up to an enormous degree. But the tides changed for City and Pool and now for Woolwich and United seemingly, and it's only a matter of time before the Chavs and Newcastle use their financial might the right way as well.
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Maybe…but the quality we had the pitch and the style of our play was was fantastic. I think it was more of a case of the stars aligning right for us. The right players in the right system with the right coach. To say it was all about incompetence from other teams would almost deny how good the football actually was.
 
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