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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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SeeSpotRun said:
Overall I agree; maybe it's just the way it's worded.

Anyway, rather than the 11 / 27 week split you used, I think it makes more sense to break the season into 4 chunks of 10, 10, 11 and 7 weeks, because there are some clear breakpoints:
  • First 10 matches: 8 wins 2 draws, 2.6 points per game, top of table, "brilliant" as per your post.
  • Next 10 matches is a distinct chunk impacted by player availability (injury / suspension / internationals) which exposed our lack of depth: 4 wins, 1 draw, 5 losses; 1.3 points per game.
  • Next 11 matches we got most of the squad back together: 6 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses; 1.91 points per game, equivalent to 72-73 points over a full season which would have been enough for a solid 4th place.
  • Last 7 matches is a distinct chunk as one of our worst ever season finishes, fell off a cliff; 2 wins, 5 losses; 0.86 points per game.
So there's a depth issue in the second chunk, a what-the-fuck-happened? issue in the last chunk, and some good positivity in the first and third chunks.

The depth issue seem to be getting steadily resolved.

The need for upgrades in the forwards is obvious and agreed by all. It's disappointing that nothing has happened yet but we're not privy to the reasons behind that. There's over 3 weeks left in the transfer window and I believe our recruitment team is on the case.

If we get to the end of the TW and nothing has happened, then I'll start to worry. But I'm not going to worry now about something that hasn't happened yet and over which I have no control.
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Let's not forget the fixture list stitch up at the end of the season.

Sa 13Apr 2024Newcastle4 - 0TottenhamL
Su 28Apr 2024Tottenham2 - 3WoolwichL
Th 02May 2024Chelsea2 - 0TottenhamL
Su 05May 2024Liverpool4 - 2TottenhamL
Sa 11May 2024Tottenham2 - 1BurnleyW
Tu 14May 2024Tottenham0 - 2Man CityL
Su 19May 2024Sheff Utd0 - 3TottenhamW
 
If we actually do get Solanke and Neto I will be mostly happy. I’ve had my issues with both but that’s two ready made athletic specimens who add new dimensions to the attack.

Anything less, though…
 
I’m just finding it hard to get my head around how despite our new DOF, our new “data driven approach to transfers” and all the bollox we’ve been fed, the man that Lange and co. appear to have landed on is…. 27 year old Dom Solanke, who’s had one good season in the PL, for 60 plus million, 2 weeks before the season starts… like seriously? Are people actually happy with this?

And let’s be real here, IF this transfer happens, it’s gonna be a last minute one, because between our frugality and Bournemouth (rightly) likely being very pissed we’ve come in for their most important player at this point in the window, strap in for an absolute shit show of excruciating brinkmanship. It has Saido Berahino in 2015 written all over it.

Like when we signed Richarlison, you would have done very well to find any Spurs fan that would have wanted Solanke before he was seriously linked, but now that it’s clear we actually do want him you have people coming from everywhere trying to defend it and justify it rather than calling it out for what it is.
 
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