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Transfers Summer Transfer Thread 2023! - Closed (Maybe)

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TheRealTI said:
I'm sure there's some truth in this, but the phrasing of all this stuff cracks me up.

Do we think Levy is sitting in his office and sees a Madrid phone number pop up and he yells to some underling, "someone go tell Paul they're calling!!"
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Genuinely though, there seems to be someone in the club just in constant fucking contact with O Keefe, how does it go on?
 
Matt1882 said:
Some of the fans on here give it the old "there always has to a scapegoat" when people move on to the next weakest link in the squad.

Well with various minor improvements, Skipp is rapidly becoming that scapegoat.

I would counter the negative connotation fans use when pointing that finger at other fans with - there are a lot of fans who massively over rate our youth and under rate others.

Chelsea have sold a fucking tone of youth for loads of money.
Who have we sold other than Kane?
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Poch sold about 10 for £100m, didn't coach any other than Winks into First Team squad - and we have been struggling to build a strong squad through lack of Club trained and HG players ever since.

Complete naivety to ignore the need to coach academy kids through to the first team which has become a bigger and bigger problem all the way to today.

Situation as of today :
Club Trained
Skip, Austin (3rd GK) ......... plus Tanganga, Whiite

Trained by other clubs affiliated to The FA/FAW :
Maddison, Forster, Davies ........... Spence, Sessegnon
And with Forster and Davies likely to depart next summer, that leaves ONE quality HG

So in total, in reality, Spurs currently have maybe 3 HG players going forward (Skipp, Maddison, Austin as 3rd GK) to fill 8 places.


So the cost of not coaching the youth through to the first team is big :
(1) We are restricted in numbers of players in the squad as insufficient HG players
(2) Cost to buy HG players at a premium
 
Spursidol said:
Poch sold about 10 for £100m, didn't coach any other than Winks into First Team squad - and we have been struggling to build a strong squad through lack of Club trained and HG players ever since.

Complete naivety to ignore the need to coach academy kids through to the first team which has become a bigger and bigger problem all the way to today.

Situation as of today :
Club Trained
Skip, Austin (3rd GK) ......... plus Tanganga, Whiite

Trained by other clubs affiliated to The FA/FAW :
Maddison, Forster, Davies ........... Spence, Sessegnon
And with Forster and Davies likely to depart next summer, that leaves ONE quality HG

So in total, in reality, Spurs currently have maybe 3 HG players going forward (Skipp, Maddison, Austin as 3rd GK) to fill 8 places.


So the cost of not coaching the youth through to the first team is big :
(1) We are restricted in numbers of players in the squad as insufficient HG players
(2) Cost to buy HG players at a premium
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Maybe Poch saw the academy was failing to pick up talent.
10 players for £100m is just deadwood quite frankly. The best players we've actually sold for money? Winks, Carrol? Mason, Townsend, Bentaleb? It's all so fucking average.

Chelsea get £30-£60m for their youth, who aren't all great but way better than those.
 
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