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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Superstar? I mean, it was a nice moment, but did he do anything this season worthy of being considered a superstar?
We don't want to make Romero captain- he just announced interest in leaving. And he'll walk on a free in 2 years if Levy doesn't give a favorable price to RM or AM...
No he didn't but he's got a massive future ahead of him. We need established quality around so we don't have to pin our hopes on 19 year old to be world class right now.
Like the other youngsters, good coaching, tactical development and a system that suits them and they will grow and shine.
Look I agree with your post about him being a decent creative inside LW (something he's mostly only shown elsewhere), but my post was simply about how ridiculous the tweet text was: "we have a superstar on our hands". If they had said a "young star in the making" or something like that it would have been credible, but this mischaracterization is overly-fawning and off-putting. That is all.
I don't know how hard Romero is pushing for a Spurs exit and I agree we don't want anyone at the club who truly doesn't want to be there but it will be Franks job to determine that when he meets him. Should Frank/Enic feel they can offer him what he wants in terms of career success, then maybe Frank could persuade him (with a pep talk and the captaincy) to remain for another season and then beyond depending on how successful that season becomes?
I appreciate we would potentially then be looking at a player with just a year to run on his contract which would "devalue" him, but that's where Enic come in, in the 25/26 seasons negotiations.
But yeah, if he really wants away, then fuck him!
Top 3 in Spain regularly.
Have a manager thats never say die and is a fellow
Unbelievably passionate fan base
Atleti actually try to compete and don't fuck around
A few of his countrymen in the squad
Being a resident of Spain myself, the culture and climate are big draws
Doesn't have to speak English
Atleti are seen as a larger more prestigious club than Spurs
My thoughts anyway. Hes been agitating for a while. Hes a mega mega player and we'll be worse off without him generally as we will absolutely not replace him with similar or better quality. It is the way of the Tottenham
It makes me so angry that Levy thinks you can compete in this version of the PL without at least two prime forwards on 200k a week plus.
He doesnt think that at all because he doesn't want to compete, he wants to exist. We will always have the highest prices as long as we continue to pay them.
I don’t believe that. I think that like all people who are a bit long in the tooth he’s become convinced he can recreate his earlier success of the start of the Poch era, have a load of young players that will become superstars and control the wage bill with incremental contract increases. The PL has changed and he’s not willing to change with it.
As
Shadydan
brilliantly put it the other day, ENIC's Tottenham Hotspur......"exist to compete in the Premier League, not for the Premier league".....
Riding the gravy train... snouts in the trough....without any meaningful intention to sustain any kind of serious challenge.
Spot on. We did that well from Pleat, through Arnesen and Commoli for several years. Defoe, Dawson, Lennon, Keane, Bale, Modric, Walker. We were actually pretty good at it as no one else was doing it. Now we're way behind even the likes of Brighton, Palace and Bournemouth, let alone clubs that spend big. Levy is stuck in a 2005 to 2009 timewarp. He's just too stale like anyone thats been doing the same job for 25 years would be.
I have a hard time believing that Spurs can't find a straight buyer for Bissouma. He is that good (when in form)...
View: https://x.com/Bergvallisking/status/1931447418366623763
View: https://x.com/Bergvallisking/status/1931447418366623763
How does this change the London weather? His poor family …
Only 1 year left so not sure what the obligation is about?
I'd like him to move on though
I really dont see it with him. His output in the dutch league is awful and he thinks hes a lot better than he is. Has this horrible arrogance about him without being able to back it up. Significantly better players with way bigger out puts have left the dutch league and flopped.
Isn’t that how we sold PEH? He only had 1 year left too.
Yer I suppose. Just seems strange to word it like that.
Was kind of hoping bissouma would be one we could sell to Saudi for an overinflated fee
I doubt he thinks you can compete to win the PL without 2 attacking players on 200k pw
He thinks you can get 8-4th as long as you don’t stretch your squad too thin in cup or European competitions