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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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Starks said:
Always find it's hard to judge an isolated season (or in this case, half a season). Different circumstances, new coach, new environment. Like you say, Ajax were a mess. He only started two games for them in 5 months!

Much easier to just judge a player on things he is good at and if those are things teams are missing as opposed to environment.

Salah at Chelsea is an example. Clearly just didn't fit in there. If we had signed him off the back of his Fiorentina season, people would probably be questioning why we would be interested. Just one of those things. No one could forsee Salah ending up as one of the leagues greatest ever players.

There's also plenty of one season wonders out there too.

Not say to Mikataudze is someone we should be looking at but I was seriously impressed with his performance against Turkey from his work rate, technique, movement (but also, can never judge on a tournament either)

Will be interesting to see how he goes today.
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You make some good points there and yeah he sure is a good player. Just think we need a surer thing up front.

But ofc if he goes to Monaco and scores 20 next season, his value will skyrocket.
 
Klaus said:
Good player, but would be a huge waste of funds.

£70m on a guy who can't play in midfield with Maddison, and is behind Son on the left. When we desperately need starters at ST and RW, not to mention additions at #6, fullback and CB.

Terrible squad planning if this goes ahead, unless we've found some external investment and Levy is finally opening the chequebook in multiple areas (huge doubt).
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Chiesa would be shrewd for 35 mill assuming we get eze too
 
Klaus said:
Good player, but would be a huge waste of funds.

£70m on a guy who can't play in midfield with Maddison, and is behind Son on the left. When we desperately need starters at ST and RW, not to mention additions at #6, fullback and CB.

Terrible squad planning if this goes ahead, unless we've found some external investment and Levy is finally opening the chequebook in multiple areas (huge doubt).
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Son has how long left in the PL, two seasons?

This is what "terrible planning is all about".
 
Klaus said:
Good player, but would be a huge waste of funds.

£70m on a guy who can't play in midfield with Maddison, and is behind Son on the left. When we desperately need starters at ST and RW, not to mention additions at #6, fullback and CB.

Terrible squad planning if this goes ahead, unless we've found some external investment and Levy is finally opening the chequebook in multiple areas (huge doubt).
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sorry but is this squad too good for Eze ? We literally have only one attacking midfielder within the team and he’s doesn’t have the cleanest injury history.

At this moment Eze is the best player we’ve been linked to. Assuming Ange gave his blessing it’s a no brainer signing.

Buy the best players you can, then figure out where they fit.
 
AberdeenYid said:
A week in to the Euros now then. Who have we seen that we’d like to sign so far? Realistically.

Englands standout (the odd brain fart excepted) has been Guehi for me. But expensive and we don’t need him.

I’ve liked the look of Lobotka from Slovakia. Busy, good passer. Nearly 30 though, but seems like the kind of guy that’ll still be doing it at 36.

And get ready to take the fucking piss, as the other guy I liked in his only match so far suffers from the English hate that Ibrahimovic had to endure and that’s Lukaku. Massively underrated on here and did miss a couple of chances, but he somehow managed to get free in the box to miss these, even though he’s as big as a fucking town. And he scores a lot more than he misses.

Fire away, cunts.
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Hojberg 🤷‍♂️
 
AberdeenYid said:
A week in to the Euros now then. Who have we seen that we’d like to sign so far? Realistically.

Englands standout (the odd brain fart excepted) has been Guehi for me. But expensive and we don’t need him.

I’ve liked the look of Lobotka from Slovakia. Busy, good passer. Nearly 30 though, but seems like the kind of guy that’ll still be doing it at 36.

And get ready to take the fucking piss, as the other guy I liked in his only match so far suffers from the English hate that Ibrahimovic had to endure and that’s Lukaku. Massively underrated on here and did miss a couple of chances, but he somehow managed to get free in the box to miss these, even though he’s as big as a fucking town. And he scores a lot more than he misses.

Fire away, cunts.
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Oh, and Billy Gilmour
 
All wank, no spurt, this club.

'spurs interested in'
'spurs thinking of'
'on spurs' radar'
'spurs considering'
'spurs monitoring'
'spurs tracking'
'spurs wanknig...'

Get tf on with it, you feckless bald cunt.
 
ThePreacher said:
Son has how long left in the PL, two seasons?

This is what "terrible planning is all about".
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Then lets get an actual touchline winger to replace him?

Not a midfielder who sometimes moonlights as an inside forward.

Ask any Palace fan (or just watch Eze constantly cutting inside) and they'll tell you he's not a touchline winger, much more effective centrally. Don't think I've ever seen him take on a right back on the outside.
 
I keep wanting williams here so much with ever a transfer that u know will elevate us this is one perfect son replacement imo 21 years old we got son at 22 I think. 50 mill is not alot it's the wages but we are paying werner 175 to be fair
 
Macch said:
sorry but is this squad too good for Eze?
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I didn't say this did I.

Eze is a very good player yes. But he can be patchy, and he's injury prone. If we're gonna drop 70m on him we've got to make sure he's coming in to solve an immediate problem.

What is that problem? He's not a better #10 than a fully fit Maddison. And he's not a better LW than Son.

So most likely that £70m asset will spend half his time sitting on the bench. Which to me seems ridiculous when we're starting average guys like Brennan and Richarlison and still have a huge problem at #6.

As for AM rotation, obviously I'd love Eze to rotate with Maddison but this is Spurs we're talking about, not City. We don't have the funds/owner to be spending 70m on rotation.

Plus for now we still have Lo Celso, Kulu, Bergvall and potentially Donley and Moore who can fill in for Maddison. It simply doesn't seem like an urgent problem position to me.
 
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