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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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thinktank said:
Never heard of him and never heard anyone mention him tbf.
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bus-conductor bus-conductor has mentioned him a lot. quick search shows people have mentioned him a few times, e.g.

Transfers - January Transfer Thread 24/25

Palace a grave yard he's gone now for us. Zaha, Eze ect. Honestly my dream Autumn/Sumer window to M.S.G.A looks like this. It's fully a fantasy though in reality well within the business ability to carry. Think this five over two windows would enable us to realistically fight at the top...
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I don't bother keeping up with other leagues, nor do I play football games these days, so I have no particular opinion of him - but haven't heard his name before.
 
GlosYid said:
Lucas Moura signed 31stJanuary 2018

Tanguy Ndombele signed 2nd July 2019

517 days between those dates. I'll let you work out how many months that is.

All that Levy loving has gone to your head.
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Ha ha! Thanks for the clarification .

So, CJJ, how many months, and how many windows without a signing?

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CJJ said:
Well if you want to be technical, that's 17 months not 18.

But if you're being a total pedant, then that's like saying any club that doesn't make a winter transfer window signing goes a year without signing anyone.

No one says that though because it's mental. Nice bingo card for the insult though
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Good Lord, everybody in football understands it as one of the stupidest things a football club has ever done. Yet here you are, years after the fact, still defending it. The mind truly boggles.
 
kingdawson said:
Wharton is an exceptionally good DM.

Our Bozo board didn't want to part with the 20m Blackburn wanted when it was clear he was an exceptional talent. They were probably annoyed at their inability to act of the initial interest and decided to overspend on Gray so it didn't happen again. Sadly for them and us Gray is not and will never be the player Wharton has become.
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Jan 24 I think it was and 6 months later he goes to the euros. At the same we pay dbl for gray in summer 24. Go figure!
 
GlosYid said:
Good Lord, everybody in football understands it as one of the stupidest things a football club has ever done. Yet here you are, years after the fact, still defending it. The mind truly boggles.
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Errm... you might find you're one of the ones denying that the manager did it. He even outwardly said it.

So here you and a handful of others are, years after the fact, still adamant that it was the club.

The same club who, under other managers, never did that. Who spent well over £100m the season before, and £130m the next summer.

Sure, it was totally the club and not Pochettino. All those well-respected football folk close to the club must have made it up, including Poch. Crazy times.

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I think after the recent euphoria it would be nice to keep the feel good factor going with a couple of quality signings soon . Then hopefully one more by the end of the window , sadly I think the feel good factor will be allowed to ebb away . Have to hope Frank can work Poch like miracles improving players
 
CJJ said:

View: https://youtu.be/3F_m3wyZYHo?t=244


Not surprising to see John Thomas salivating at the idea of his denial with his post reaction, not that he likes to work on facts himself
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Ah yes the story the club were coming out with, because they’re always a shining beacon of honestly and transparency! And most specifically Steve Hitchen, the bloke supposedly behind some of our worst transfer windows in ENICs entire tenure and who openly stated that he “hates” the transfer window, of course he’s going to peddle his own canoe!

I’ve said this many times, I’ve no doubt Pochettino vetoed many players in his final 4/6 windows, but there is an absolutely massive difference between “not wanting to spend” and rejecting some of the utter garbage that was offered up to him by the recruitment team and Levy. He was sick of the second choice bargain bin options. The man got us closer to winning the league than any manager had in decades and he rightly wanted the club to “be brave” as he constantly called for and go and get some proper players.

A classic example is in January 2019. We sold Mousa Dembele to China without any replacement. Yes he wasn’t the player he was, but he was still playing PL games for us right until he left and was still our best central midfielder.
Supposedly the player offered up to replace him was Youri Tielemans on loan. Now Tielemans is a fine serviceable player, but considering where we were in terms of league stature at that point and how good and important to us Dembele was , to offer Tielemans as a replacement was an insult to the manager that had worked miracles for season upon season. No other manager from any other top team in the league would have stood for it and Pochettino was absolutely right to tell Levy to shove it.
 
Shadydan said:
I genuinely thought people have been trolling all this time when they said we didn't make signing because of Levy, it was a massive thing at the time and well known that Poch didn't want any players in 2018, I didn't actually think people truly believed anything else haha

It wasn't Hoddle actually, it was Redknapp who confirmed it


View: https://x.com/LastWordOnSpurs/status/1091841330412732416

www.express.co.uk

'Mauricio Pochettino didn’t want anyone… I know for a fact’ - Redknapp

TOTTENHAM manager Mauricio Pochettino did not want to sign any new players the last two transfer windows, according to former Spurs manager Harry Redknapp.
www.express.co.uk www.express.co.uk



Dan KP said something similar


View: https://x.com/HotspurCentraI/status/1313487541497212929

And Levy told the trust that Poch didn't want to sign anyone for the sake of it

www.bbc.co.uk

New Tottenham stadium not affecting transfer policy, says chairman Daniel Levy

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy tells fans the building of the club's new stadium will not directly affect their transfer policy.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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This is what we call receipts!!!

Honest John Honest John - put on your dress and give us a wave!!
 
CJJ said:
bus-conductor bus-conductor has mentioned him a lot. quick search shows people have mentioned him a few times, e.g.

Transfers - January Transfer Thread 24/25

Palace a grave yard he's gone now for us. Zaha, Eze ect. Honestly my dream Autumn/Sumer window to M.S.G.A looks like this. It's fully a fantasy though in reality well within the business ability to carry. Think this five over two windows would enable us to realistically fight at the top...
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I don't bother keeping up with other leagues, nor do I play football games these days, so I have no particular opinion of him - but haven't heard his name before.
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Interesting.

bus-conductor bus-conductor what's the deal here?

Would he be able to cut it, or Baldcunt just opportunistically taking bargain dip punt again?
 
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