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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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TomHotspur said:
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.
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Dembele wasn't important to us at that time. The reason we sold him to China was because he was no longer capable of the absurd physical expectations Poch had. He managed less than 700 minutes of football that season before he left.

I don't think it is valid to focus on the one verifiable option Poch turned down and claim that was some kind of travesty. We had an entire scounting team who 100% wouldn't have been sat around twiddling their fingers.

But don't you think it is a bit far fetched to suggest that it was a bit cover-up by the club. Lots of people close to the club, with absolutely no motivation for dishonesty, all confirming the same thing. Poch telling people he was going to do it before he did it, going on all the time about being "brave". Not that it wasn't a story "the club were coming out with". The club rarely say anything. It is a story that people who don't work for the club are recounting when asked.
 
thinktank said:
Never heard of him and never heard anyone mention him tbf.
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bus-conductor said:
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Adding Tom Bischof (20yo CM Hoffenheim) . This kid keeps popping up with good metrics on data sheets. Hadn’t watched loads, so set about watching some bits and bobs, and like what I have seen. He looks like a slightly more mobile, more tenacious Adam Wharton. Gets his foot in, but also has vision with his passing and pops up with goals/assists too.



6/8/DP
Baleba/Stiller/ Bischof /MGW / Andre?/ Bouaddi/ Camara?

Attack
Mintheh/ Mitoma / Eze / Cherki/Akliouche/Mbuemo?(not for too much money)/Ekitike/Mikautadze/Sancho/Fofana (Lyon)

LB
Ait-Nouri/Robinson,

CB
Tapsoba
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Harry Vaginola said:
to be fair lucas signed at the end of the january window while we were playing so we went those 31 days without a signing when he certainly would've helped coming a month earlier
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IIRC, Poch spent that January trying to convince Di Maria to come instead, because PSG wanted to sell one of either.

Same Di Maria that said this a few years earlier:
“It hurts when you’re always doing your best for your club and then you hear that you might be going to Tottenham,"
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:pochshock:
 
tommyboyspurs said:
Didn't we have at one point the option of raphinha vs rich and we went for rich this was when leeds needed to sell

Honestly I blame scouts aswell as levy
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Spurs chased Raphina who insisted he only wanted Barcelona, so Spurs moved onto Richarlison (possibly a Conte choice)

Firstly Chelsea and then Woolwich followed Spurs in pursuing Raphina, but with the same results....... and Raphina did then join Barcelona
 
TomHotspur said:
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.
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Tielemans was "utter garbage?"

Kinell!
 
TomHotspur said:
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.
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Brother, we were playing Harry Winks in CM at that point. Tielemans would have been like signing Pirlo in conparison.
 
thinktank said:
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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I think he'd be a reasonably big upgrade on Richarlison for exactly the same remit Inverted left forward/CF. Not as good at the without the ball stuff but loads better at the with ball stuff. Technically really good, favours right but can use both, can dribble as well as score and create. 11 goals and 6 assists in 1400 minutes, his underlying numbers are even better, suggesting it's not just purple form. His XG90was 0.74, his XA90 0.34.








For the sort of money we'd be looking at - which I don't think would be crazy - I think he'd be a good value addition and upgrade on Richarlison as CF/LF rotation. Beter striker than Solanke as well, again, just perhaps not as great without the ball. But that can be worked on.
 
Aight, Mikautadze highlights are decent tbf, on first look.

Looks like he'd be much more use than Richie, anyway.

Tbh lost interest in this window already.

Bald bastard.
 
thinktank said:
Aight, Mikautadze highlights are decent tbf, on first look.

Looks like he'd be much more use than Richie, anyway.

Tbh lost interest in this window already.

Bald bastard.
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bus-conductor said:
I think he'd be a reasonably big upgrade on Richarlison for exactly the same remit Inverted left forward/CF. Not as good at the without the ball stuff but loads better at the with ball stuff. Technically really good, favours right but can use both, can dribble as well as score and create. 11 goals and 6 assists in 1400 minutes, his underlying numbers are even better, suggesting it's not just purple form. His XG90was 0.74, his XA90 0.34.








For the sort of money we'd be looking at - which I don't think would be crazy - I think he'd be a good value addition and upgrade on Richarlison as CF/LF rotation. Beter striker than Solanke as well, again, just perhaps not as great without the ball. But that can be worked on.
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Yeah, just posted he'd be more useful.

Looks well-rounded and dynamic.

Handy forward with a good toolset.
 
bus-conductor said:
I think he'd be a reasonably big upgrade on Richarlison for exactly the same remit Inverted left forward/CF. Not as good at the without the ball stuff but loads better at the with ball stuff. Technically really good, favours right but can use both, can dribble as well as score and create. 11 goals and 6 assists in 1400 minutes, his underlying numbers are even better, suggesting it's not just purple form. His XG90was 0.74, his XA90 0.34.








For the sort of money we'd be looking at - which I don't think would be crazy - I think he'd be a good value addition and upgrade on Richarlison as CF/LF rotation. Beter striker than Solanke as well, again, just perhaps not as great without the ball. But that can be worked on.
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Just a question of persuading Richarlison to move to a club who want him and prepared to pay both his wages nd a reasonable fee for him - maybe Everton or Galatasaray - to create a squad place for him
 
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