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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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John Thomas said:
Nice post Richard.
I think we agree on the fundamentals regarding investment etc. But probably disagree on the likely long term result of our current recruitment strategy and transfer policy.
Time will tell wether we're investing to win or investing to promote a business model but history suggests your optimism may be somewhat unfounded.
In my opinion, of course.
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I think history shows that when we try to buy established players, we don't pay the wages to get the very elite level ones and we end up with a squad full of older players on higher wages than anyone else wants to pay and we struggle to shift them.

The last time we followed the model closest to the one we are currently on, we ended up getting very close to winning things, including a CL final. History also shows that if this squad of talent looks like getting there again, we still can't trust the club to invest in the really elite level, established players to get us over the edge.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic or I have a bias for "projects" whatever that means but as I said, I'm enjoying football and Spurs again so ready to see where this ride takes us. Maybe by the time this group gets there we have new minority owners on board who care about winning and maybe by some freak miracle chance Levy actually decides he wants to build a legacy before selling and finds the backbone to invest outside his comfort zone. Either way, I'm going to enjoy finding out because that's what football is all about (to me at least).
 
TottsAmazeballs said:
I’m not trying to be a dick here, but we can’t ignore the constants of city and chavs cheating.
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100%

We haven't helped with a lack of taking things seriously sometimes, but we've been in multiple finals under ENIC in various completitions under their tenure. We've lost to Man United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City in those.

We've also gone out to the same opponents at other stages in cup competitions at quarter and semi finals too. Yeah, we've also gone out to Fulham, Sheffield United, Portsmouth etc but a lot of the time it's to clubs you'd expect us to struggle against, for whatever reason. Mostly financial doping.
 
kingdawson said:
there's no excuses then if Vicario gets injured and it all goes tits up.
Gooner scum sold Ramsdale and no doubt they'll bring in a decent back up today whilst we will rely on an aging goalkeeper who has already shown signs of losing the little agility he had and is coming back from an injury?
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They've taken Neto the other way. He's happy to sit in the bench.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Should have sold Richy and bought toney


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I strongly suspect the club wanted to sell Richy and he refused to go.

Should we have sidelined him and forced him out? maybe but the manager doesn't work that way and doesn't even sideline guys like Reguillon and GLC when everyone knows they are gone.

Either way, Richy's body can't be trusted anymore and he has to know that.
 
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