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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Maureen said:
We could have gone for exe and made a big down payment of say £50M using the money spent on Tel. This is thing people say Tel is good prospect and has potential although we haven’t seen any eveidence of it. Yet moan that we don’t go for players like eze. If we made bette choices on how we spend our money then we could get players like eze, Simmons, Brian, etc. but no we need Tel abd he will come good. We know what our owners are like so when we spend money we should be smarter. I’d much rather have eze than Wilson and Tel. We have other young players any ways.
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Agree, Eze is never going to flop. It’s low risk at a premium price. Pay it
 
Maureen said:
We could have gone for exe and made a big down payment of say £50M using the money spent on Tel. This is thing people say Tel is good prospect and has potential although we haven’t seen any eveidence of it. Yet moan that we don’t go for players like eze. If we made bette choices on how we spend our money then we could get players like eze, Simmons, Brian, etc. but no we need Tel abd he will come good. We know what our owners are like so when we spend money we should be smarter. I’d much rather have eze than Wilson and Tel. We have other young players any ways.
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Not that simple at all. In fact we probably paid nothing for tel in actual money, it probably just wiped off any money owed for kane.

Eze is a brilliant player but there's a reason why no top club has coughed up the money and that's because just having 50m in a lump to hand over is very unusual.
The way deals are structured often means that the first payment on say a 60m player might only be 15-20m at most.
I think we could do it but we would be very very hampered elsewhere with business we need to do.
Just hope we get simons, I've decided he's the one I'd like most from the names mentioned so far and for the prices floated around.
 
Maureen said:
We also have Josh who looks better than the others but will no doubt be sold. No wonder are Club trained quota is shite as we never give them a pathway to first team. It’s always blocked by some young player from somewhere who just bco we have paid money for them automatically makes them better than our own.
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Josh Keeley can never become Club Trained - he was bought about a year too late for that to happen. Wil always be overseas trained - but a very good young GK
 
Maureen said:
We also have Josh who looks better than the others but will no doubt be sold. No wonder are Club trained quota is shite as we never give them a pathway to first team. It’s always blocked by some young player from somewhere who just bco we have paid money for them automatically makes them better than our own.
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Purchased via the political madness of our tyrannical exec board and the culture of fear that drives staff to push for foreign stars, so they can take the acclaim

Moore, Devine and Keely over shite like Tel, Odobert and Kinsky
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Yep, if all we did this window was a good ball playing No 6, Mbeuemo and Eze/Simons i'd bite your hand off. Would happily make do elsewhere. We'll be lucky to get 1 of that quality.
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I'd take an established #6 to replace Biss, and complement Bentancur or Bergwall, to allow Gray to get eased into the role longer term ...

I'd take Eze in a heartbeat, probably above Mbeulo if he really does have his heart set on Utd... I've wanted (and thought we'd get him ONE day) ever since that photo of him, Sonny & Maddison at a fashion show came out...
Something about the 3 of them together just looked right!
TBH, at the time, I thought they were doing the groundwork getting him on board to join us... seems it's gonna take longer than I'd hoped!

I think if we sell Biss and one of Richie and Sonny, we'll need to bring at least TWO more in, just to get the numbers back up...

Kaz Hirai said:
Suppose it doesn't matter really as we're not paying 70 million plus wages
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This Summer, I think we might be pleasantly surprised for once...
 
Teach said:
Agree - less so. But he can’t move

Early days, he’s clearly miles ahead of most top academy talents of the same age but watched and thought oof, that’s an issue
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Tonnes of CBs who weren’t fast had amazing careers - Puyol, Terry, Adams, etc. if he can be as dominant in the air and duels in the PL as he has been so far in his career and you pair him with someone like VDV then you have a proper defence.
 
Isn’t the Kyle Walker Peters/Cirken debate just that we need a left back cover in general and also a club trained player for the CL and it would be probably a cheap deal so means we can spend on more pressing needs.
 
Don Pedro said:
He's on 192k a week at Bayern and he ain't taking a paycut to join us. If we don't offer him 200k a week then he's not an option for us.
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Loan with BM paying towards wages?
dudu said:
Mate, I manage and analyse data professionally.... so let’s clear this up now: statistical analysis is not pure objectivity. It’s shaped by the framing, the variables you choose and the comparisons you make, and the assumptions you build in. You’re misusing the concept to shut down debate because you have lost all bearing and have nothing else to add.

Now, to break down the gaslighting, flip-flopping, and misdirection happening here:

My original point—Liverpool won the league without buying elite players on elite wages—is factual, not subjective.
You jumped in claiming Salah and Alisson were bought on elite wages. That’s provably false.
Then you pivoted to total transfer cost....but only once the wage angle stopped working.
Then back to wages.
Then back to the transfer cost again.

When that didn’t land, you pivoted to tone, hilariously implying I don’t “get” how this type of debate works. But all that really shows is that you’ve run out of ground and are leaning on condescension.

You invoked a general statistical trend about wages correlating with league position something which I never denied.... I said it’s not the full story, especially at the top. And the fact that Liverpool outperformed clubs with vastly bigger wage bills - 4 of them actually - supports that. That’s not me ignoring data. That’s me understanding it in context.....which you’ve refused to do from the start.

I see your game, my friend. I spend much of my day debating far more in-depth data than this with far smarter people than you.
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they don’t waste lots of money on young players who some keep saying ‘there is a player in there somewhere’
 
Pathfinder said:
Thing is that Spurs already have a 10 in Maddison, and Kulu can also play there (maybe Bergvall as well) ...and Maddison has proven himself at Spurs already (albeit he's been a bit inconsistent)...
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Sell
Kulu if we can he isn’t a 10. Never will be does t have the composure abd loses the ball to much. Also in tight space he does t have that extra bit of skill like MADDs or eze who can get away from their players even though they are fast.
 
nicoclaesen said:
Why would we sign him at all. Fucking nuts thinking he should play with us now. It’s hard for me to comprehend why some in here think that signing a poor player for where we are at and where we want to go. The contradiction is mind boggling!!
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100% ! Some on here want better and to buy top
Quality but then are happy to have KWP back.
Keep saying what conte said we should be buying 2/3 top quality players every year with a few leaving. Bolster the squad with some promising academy players. That’s what city do they have plenty of academy players but also go out buy quality. Not always for big money.
 
PointToPatrik said:
I hope that he is aware of the fact that he is a cult figure within Spurs lore despite never having played for the club.

He should 100% be invited to play in whatever celebrity game that we put on next.
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Wasted his own career not coming here tbh, if he had ever signed I am utterly 100% convinced he would have become the 21st century Pele and break the Ballon D'or stranglehold of Messi/Ronaldo, we would have won every cup going and my dog never would have gotten hit by that car.
Football's biggest "what if".
 
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