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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Impossible to say but he's talented, can cover 2 positions (RB & No 6) and will be classed as home grown and club trained in 3 years. Ticks a lot of boxes. He won the championship young player of the year and is playing 2 levels up for England U21s. I think its a good signing but time will tell. You can certainly see why the club went for him.
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Young player of the year yes but at right back in the Championship Team of the Year was our very own (at one time) Kyle Walker-Peters. Funny old world.
 
Ed Vanderlay said:
I have been keen on Gray for a while , kept an eye on him because a Leeds fan in my office has been raving about him for a couple of years.
I have never posted about it though , so fully expect a 20/20 vision with hindsight torrent of abuse. Anyway I am very positive about this transfer if true
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Never paid any particular attention to him myself, but even then I know there have been constant noises about how he's one of the next big things, etc etc.

Chuffed that we (apparently) got him over the line. I think if the club had this transfer approach in years gone by we probably wouldn't have slept on players like Eze or Olise. Oh well, onwards and upwards.

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Also, if Gray is coming straight in and not being loaned back, this might signify the end of Bissouma at Spurs. Really think it's just not going to happen for him here.
 
According to IKT on SC (Hercules) Spurs are after both Guéla Doué and Désiré Doué :cool:
Both have been mentioned the media already, and Désiré Doué has been linked with Spurs since last window's TW anyway...
As someone said: To dare is two Doué
 
Spursidol said:
Quite a turnround in buying strategy over the last few years - we are buying a couple of players most summers who are long term bets eg Sarr, Lankshear, Soonsup-Bell, Phillips, Bergvall and now Gray.

Its a good strategy as we may buy a young player who we'd struggle to get when he's older.

Sarr looks to have been a good buy after a full season in PL, and I have hopes for the others in the next year or two.

And add in youngsters who have come through our youth system eg Parrott, Donley, Moore, Devine, Santiago, Dorrington, Abbott et al, all of whom might make it into first team consideration (although most will not) and we should have an interesting squad refresh in future years of thise bought for the 'here and now' mixed with a few youngsters that have grown at Spurs.
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I think we want to be a dortmund or something like that. Whether that’s possible in the PL I’m not so sure. We tried before but fell off the wagon. Let’s see if we can stay on it for longer this time. I suspect levy will give up at the first sign of trouble like usual and we will replay the cycle again but let’s see.
 
Ionman34 said:
Get the right winger in (Williams, Doue, whoever it will be that can move the needle) and I think that a striker becomes less of an issue. Both Son and Richarlison can play the top role, and a quality winger would feed them both to their preferred style. Son would most especially benefit, as it severely reduces his need to play with his back to goal, he'd be running into the ball rather than have to hold it up and play others in.

Eze, top winger and Gray would be a good window IMO, then worry about the striker role next season. That's if it isn't already solved by then, should anyone of Parrott, Scarlett or Lankshear happen to make the step up, with Son and Richarlison already here.
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No out ball there though with them at 9 and you need that in the PL. We simply have to get a forward in who can hold up the ball and win fouls up the pitch. Without one it just keeps coming back and we will have a similar season like last year when we couldn’t defend from the front and it cost us so many goals.
 
Ionman34 said:
Get the right winger in (Williams, Doue, whoever it will be that can move the needle) and I think that a striker becomes less of an issue. Both Son and Richarlison can play the top role, and a quality winger would feed them both to their preferred style. Son would most especially benefit, as it severely reduces his need to play with his back to goal, he'd be running into the ball rather than have to hold it up and play others in.

Eze, top winger and Gray would be a good window IMO, then worry about the striker role next season. That's if it isn't already solved by then, should anyone of Parrott, Scarlett or Lankshear happen to make the step up, with Son and Richarlison already here.
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Getting the right winger is imperative but if we don’t get a striker that can control the ball with his back to play and bring others into the game we will always come up short. Our front three give it away more than they keep it and we can’t continue playing this way.
 
Brian Fantana said:
I think we want to be a dortmund or something like that. Whether that’s possible in the PL I’m not so sure. We tried before but fell off the wagon. Let’s see if we can stay on it for longer this time. I suspect levy will give up at the first sign of trouble like usual and we will replay the cycle again but let’s see.
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I like the idea of having multiple strategies in buying players
- Dortmund's idea has been to buy top English youth (often for relatively peanuts), give them playing time/experience and then flog hem back to PL clubs at top prices which German clubs would never pay.
- Spurs are buying top youth talent with a view to developing them into top players for Spurs playing in PL, and europe, although if any don't make the grade they will be sold on. And preferably bought at an age where they can become 'club trained'

So Spurs and Dortmund's models are very different - Dortmund are trying to be a nursery club for top PL clubs exploiting the fact that youngsters get good experience playing in the less competitive/pressure German league

And Spurs youth development model sits alongside the 'standard' model of buying the best available players within their budget.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I think we aren't buying a #9 as well mate.

From here I would expect another forward that isn't a #9, maybe a CM and an established defender that covers LB/LCB.

The kicker would be if they push for that other young kid Doue. If they get Doue, I would still guess they try for another senior forward on top.
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It is back to Levy and Commolli and moneyball bollocks where buying strikers is the least profitable position to buy in. Can see it a mile off. I know you don’t rate him but personally I’d just go and get Toney and be done with it. Him and Richy up top ticks all the boxes.
 
Richard Arlison said:
I think we aren't buying a #9 as well mate.

From here I would expect another forward that isn't a #9, maybe a CM and an established defender that covers LB/LCB.

The kicker would be if they push for that other young kid Doue. If they get Doue, I would still guess they try for another senior forward on top.
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Another season with Sonny a year older and no striker....Don't like it much...
 
Pathfinder said:
Spurs have ended the Gray "dynasty" of Leeds (Eddie & Frankie Gray)....so why not, as a long-term investment stretching past Archie's playing career, jus sign Archie's brother, Harry, as well....and then their children will grow up to be Spurs players :cool:
There seem to be something in that Gray DNA


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Noticed his Dad was Andy Gray.

Who played with Brennan Johnson Dad at Forest and alongside our new coach Nick Montgomery at Sheffield United.

God, we're getting old.
 
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