It does feel like we painted ourselves into a corner with regard to HG. I’ve no issue with the signing of Maddison/Solanke, it’s us then progressing to the point where we buy players that could potentially push those players to the bench that bothers me, we prefer to buy unproven/unworthy back up players instead.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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It does feel like we painted ourselves into a corner with regard to HG. I’ve no issue with the signing of Maddison/Solanke, it’s us then progressing to the point where we buy players that could potentially push those players to the bench that bothers me, we prefer to buy unproven/unworthy back up players instead.
I think you're closer to the mark the many suspect. Something doesn't make sense.
All the new revenue money talk, with bids of £115 million on the table and talking up moves for Wharton with club retainers like Gold nodding along....then two weeks getting brutalised by Marnakis and we end up in a cage with the a ball-gag. Something went badly wrong. Naming rights indeed.
Still a swing and a miss
Yes, I did. I gave reasons a) to f) why I thought, at this time, Levy should be focussed on transfers. You never addressed this directly. Instead you replied, primarily for the benefit of your posse, to imply I was just another schizo spurs fan.
You mean, the binary positions you offered up in your earlier 'schizo' reply?
No, you didn't want to be led, hence the C answer to your own A/B proposition.
Which brings us right back to the start. Ordinarily, I'd agree. But, right now, given where we are—referring back to a) to f)—I would rather he was back in his office doing everything possible to improve our situation ahead of 13th August.
Lo Celso - August 2019
Sessegnon - August 2019
Reguilon - September 2020
Solanke - August 2024
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This summer is turning into a disaster and the squad we're taking on these preseason tours is in no way equipped to get back in the top half of the table, let alone play champion's league football.
One signing for the first team. But we've locked down Tel and Danso, we're saved!
Someone said on a pod that Spurs' record transfer is the 44th largest transfer in premier league history. If this is a joke it's a cruel one.
One signing for the first team. But we've locked down Tel and Danso, we're saved!
Someone said on a pod that Spurs' record transfer is the 44th largest transfer in premier league history. If this is a joke it's a cruel one.
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But i thought West Ham, Leicester, and Forest were our biggest rivals???
Can we hire these guys?
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They are now. Reality of the tier we’ve fallen to.But i thought West Ham, Leicester, and Forest were our biggest rivals???
Are you really a loser if you have to log out from this cesspit until Jan 1st...
We spend a lot of money in recent years, but the problem is that it's spread across a lot of mid-sized fees for a lot of players, rather than huge fees for a small number.
We have to do this right now, because our squad quality has gradually eroded away since the peak Poch years. We've missed the boat by a long way for being able to just add one or two quality players to an already good squad, and are currently in our 5th or 6th successive year of needing a major overhaul.
Matters made worse by a succession of utterly inept people involved with recruitment, that many point to Paratici as the standout performer in that field, a man who spent ~£60m on Emerson Royal and Brian Gil, speaks volumes.
We are an absolute mess, and the people steering the ship's only successes have been largely stumbled upon by chance - Jol, assistant to Santini promoted when the man we took a year of deliberation to settle upon walked after a handful of games, Redknapp, a desperation hiring to stave off a relegation battle, Poch, fallback option after LVG stood us up last minute to take the Utd job.
Anything they have time to actually think through, they cock up.
Hopefully Frank bucks this trend.
to me it looks like we only sign and buy for value and that is defined by levy and everyone else on the scouting/transfer team is just living and breathing in his world. £60 million for mgw is £10-20 million under his valuation so only £40 million which means we won't buy another £60 million player unless they are similarly under priced. none of this is about filling needs on the pitch.
our club strategy is stay on budget, look for value, hope it pans out and if it doesn't we didn't overextend too much so no biggie. we will hold onto to the players we buy and hope they eventually come good and if they don't, again no biggie. what we won't do is take the chance of buying a top shelf player on big wages who could flop or want out, but to be fair, no top shelf player wants to join this shitshow
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We know what we are
We know what we are
Spouters of horseshit
We know what we are
I expect to see Manor Soloman in a Spurs shirt soon.
There's no question that Levy has done the absolute minimum, he tries to run a major club on a shoestring budget with a view toward squeaking into the last Champion's League spot for the least expenses being the best thing he can accomplish in a year.
That doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to improve the 11, and that this summer is rivaled to this point only by the summer of no transfers for its deplorable lack of ambition. This is poor even by Levy's poor standards
And this while things looked bright for a time.
Dumping Ange seemed very much like a "We're not satisfied with this" type of move. Only now do we see that idea in its full context. We weren't satisfied with 17th, but we can't be arsed enough to make wholesale changes. We only want to get the support back in their chairs at summer's end.