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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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How Dry should our Powder be?

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JDefoe said:
All you can do is laugh. we spend all this money to get the analytics department up to snuff, bring in a slick talking Nordic with a data background, and end up “identifying” Neto, Eze, Solanke, and Gallagher. Then act shocked when the deals are either too expensive or too difficult to do, and have no backup plan.

Fucking fuck. It’s all gone a bit Redknapp.

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maybe all the fancy data churned out ….. those names lol

Must’ve been a bit of a let down !
 
Richard Arlison said:
Sounds about right.

I don’t have an issue with what we paid for Solanke btw. I’m more talking about the deals that we won’t do and we all know why.
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To be honest I thought Solanke would be an option at the end of last season but when I saw the price quoted I was surprised. Glad we paid it to get a fit striker option and I get your point about how we do business but that's what the club do and I'm not surprised by it.
Having grown up on the 80's with cup success a Spurs thing I'm gutted how things have gone. More than anything I want silverware but I also see how it has happened prioritising league finishes.
We as a club (in my opinion) have struggled to find our own identity and have been striving to copy and follow others. We have been late to every party and never capitalised on things when they are good.
I was surprised by your comments and I always took you to be a reasoned poster but perhaps it gets to us all eventually.
 
Spursidol said:
www.skysports.com

Frenkie de Jong admits he nearly joined Tottenham before Barcelona move

New Barcelona signing Frenkie de Jong has revealed he was tempted to join Tottenham last summer.
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com

Remember 2018 when we signed nobody .....

Poch had no Plan B after Frenkie de Jomg turned us down
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Tbf, I’d imagine he was sick of getting Stambouli, Fazio, Njie, Sissoko et al as “plan B’s” clogging up the squad.

Pochettino was evidently very clear from around 2018 on - stop trying to be clever and looking for “good deals” in the market, buy me some proper players that will actually push us to the next level or fuck off.
 
To be honest I'm gobsmacked that fans think it's normal for a club to leak transfer info before it happens.
Unless we are smashing everyone out of the water (which is not the Spurs way) out best transfers have been done out of the blue.
 
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SouthCoastSpur said:
To be honest I'm gobsmacked that fabs think it's normal for a club to leak transfer info before it happens.
Unless we are smashing everyone out of the water (which is not the Spurs way) out best transfers have been done out of the blue.
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We seemed to be linked to everyone when Fab was around though, 5-6 players per position. To me it just seemed he negotiated for dozens of players then the club would pull the trigger on who fit in terms of skillset and price.
 
For those who think we dont need more players…from the horse’s mouth. We haven’t done enough.

In May this year, The Athletic researched injuries in the top flight last season and discovered Tottenham’s injured players were absent for 1,331 days. When you adjust it to the injury burden per 1,000 minutes, they were the fourth most impacted team (nine injuries per 1,000 minutes) behind Chelsea (9.4), Crystal Palace (10.0) and Manchester United(10.3).

We didn’t have a squad that was equipped to handle the rigours of a Premier League campaign, particularly when you’re trying to challenge and sustain some sort of level of intensity and competitiveness in the toughest league in the world,” Postecoglou told The Athletic earlier this month. “It wasn’t surprising. Some of that is just because it was my first year and we had a lot of injuries, which I think was just the remnants of us training the way we train and the way we do things. You’d like to think this year we are a lot better equipped to handle that side of it.”
 
dudu said:
Well it seems as if Moore is going to be getting mins this season so not sure LW is a huge priority.

Agree about LB and probably a 6 too, but woefully short is pure hyperbole.
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It's not that hyperbolic.

We have no suitable back up to Vicario, if he were out for an extended period we're fucked.

Back up for key positions I'd think, Udogie has none. Arguably the preferred option there is our first choice LCB, who also has no natural back up.

Back up for Porro is also thin, depending on how Spence goes.

No back up for the role Maddison is supposed to fill, also question marks over Maddison's form. We're shockingly short of creativity in the middle of the park, and pinning a lot of hopes on Bergvall hitting the ground running in a much more competitive league than he's used to.

Forward areas, we have plenty of players, but plenty of question marks over their actual quality.

We're relying on a lot of things to fall in our favour in order to have a good season. It could well work out, but we're Spurs so my inclination is that it won't.
 
John Thomas said:
Yeah, of course. Like we spent 60 million cos Bayern gave us 100 million for Kane.
Like I said, the fact we spent 60 million or 65 million doesn't make him a marquee signing and is no justification for lavishing praise upon the Chairman for fuck sake.
It's the absolute bare minimum we should be expecting.
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Who's lavished praise on Levy?

Put the posts up. Nothing like fact to back up your assertions.
 
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