Well past the contemplating stage, we're now 'poised to table a bid'
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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)
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Yeah of fucking course we could have signed Maddison when we were in the old WHL under Poch. The only competition was Newcastle who have literally only just started their 'journey'.
€60m (£55.3m) fee so Lo Celso still about our 3rd highest signing I think.
Tottenham agree £55m fee with Real Betis for Giovani Lo Celso
Tottenham have reached an agreement with Real Betis to sign Giovani Lo Celso for €60m and also hope a deal for Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon can be completed before Thursday’s deadline
www.theguardian.com
I mean it wasn't difficult to wikipedia how many goals Johnson scored last season and how many goals Nico Williams scored last season..
The reasoning of 'It's because he's better' is hardly backing up the point of why Nico Williams is a 'level' above Johnson...? When the most basic of stat proves that he isn't.
I guess where I'd push back is that I think as time moves forward the correlation between transfer fee and footballing worth gets stronger, but the correlation between "marquee" and both footballing worth and transfer fee gets weaker.
Chelsea signed Moises Caicedo for 100M and NGolo Kante walked away on a free.
Think we brought it down, by early exercise, to £42m odd. And, only about half NDombeles wages.€60m (£55.3m) fee so Lo Celso still about our 3rd highest signing I think.
Tottenham agree £55m fee with Real Betis for Giovani Lo Celso
Tottenham have reached an agreement with Real Betis to sign Giovani Lo Celso for €60m and also hope a deal for Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon can be completed before Thursday’s deadline
Awful value still, but not in the price range of Man City signings at that time, was all the point I was trying to make, he was top of tier 2 - how we have often shopped.
Epitome of average.€60m (£55.3m) fee so Lo Celso still about our 3rd highest signing I think.
Tottenham agree £55m fee with Real Betis for Giovani Lo Celso
Tottenham have reached an agreement with Real Betis to sign Giovani Lo Celso for €60m and also hope a deal for Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon can be completed before Thursday’s deadline
God what a shit show we got rinse with this dwarf...€60m (£55.3m) fee so Lo Celso still about our 3rd highest signing I think.
Tottenham agree £55m fee with Real Betis for Giovani Lo Celso
Tottenham have reached an agreement with Real Betis to sign Giovani Lo Celso for €60m and also hope a deal for Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon can be completed before Thursday’s deadline
Ginola ill give you.
VDV didnt play in our league but was pretty marquee in terms of name.
Modric, similar to Eriksen, were signings that had huge potential but hadn't done very much prior and I wouldn't compare them to signing Maddison who is one of the top 5 players in his position in our league.
So for only twice as much as he should be going for then? Surprised we are still using these negotiating methods but I guess they've borne fruit in the past...
...but not at a discounted rate.
Yes, but this seems to be the going rate in the current market. Whether we'd bought him yesterday or it goes to deadline day, I don't really care. He wasn't gonna start against Burnley either how
I believe Johnson will be a great fit for our style of play and a nice upgrade on Kulu
Runbish alll over the shop.
Why would you think that? It’s Tottenham my friend.
€60m (£55.3m) fee so Lo Celso still about our 3rd highest signing I think.
Tottenham agree £55m fee with Real Betis for Giovani Lo Celso
Tottenham have reached an agreement with Real Betis to sign Giovani Lo Celso for €60m and also hope a deal for Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon can be completed before Thursday’s deadline
Fuck it! I was hoping this wasn't an article from 4 years ago....
Brennan Johnson coring more goals than Williams proves nothing other than he scored more goals.
Quick glance at other stats shows that Williams is in a much higher percentile for chance creation, makes far more crosses, has a better cross success rate, assists every 600 minutes or so vs every 990 minutes, is in the 99th percentile for successful dribbles (!!) vs Johnson in 75th percentile, and weirdly enough also looks much better defensively .. if that's your thing.
None of which even means he's better. I haven't watched enough of him to say. But "Johnson scored more goals" isn't exactly compelling when it looks like Williams is being used as a more traditional ball carrier/creative wide player, which is generally what it seems like Ange wants.
And just because I'm a nerd: Boris Johnson became PM a week before that transfer, crashing the pound to historic lows against the euro, though recovering a decent amount by the time we completed the transfer.
Exactly how the forex stuff was handled in that deal makes a not-insignificant difference. Multiple millions, potentially.
I would imagine we can count on Levy and Lewis to have played all of that to their advantage but who knows.