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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Can't see Spurs spending £85m on Kudus. Besides, Spurs are be working on a deal for DIbling anyway...
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Cardoso, Dibling, a left back, Gomes if Bentancur leaves, a utility forward if Richarlison leaves, maybe a left sided centre back if Romero and Davies go.
Both have been linked to Spurs for the last 2 seasons
Assume Bissouma, Romero, Richy, Davies, Forster, Gil, Regulion and possibly Bentancur and Son are out.
I think it'll be less than that, especially with no Europe
In:
Cardoso
Tel (maybe renegotiated or re-loaned)
RW (cheaper option to Dibling)
backup LB
Out:
Richy
Werner
Biss
Bentancur
Davies
Forster
Romero?
Probably end up with somebody like Gil sticking around as depth.
Why are so many predicting Bentancur out? I thought he was getting offered a new contract? He hasn't been at his best recently but he is not a player I'd be keen to sell! If you put legs beside him in midfield then he's a top player.
He has been asked to do an impossible task that doesn't suit him. Any CDM would look exposed in our system, nevermind a makeshift one! He's not a lone CDM who can cover loads of ground. If that is what you want him to be then he's not up to scratch at all and sell. But if you play him in a functional midfield and play him in his natural 8 position beside a proper 6 who can cover ground? Then you will see a top midfielder. He has proven this before. He always played his best football beside Hojbjerg, not beside Bissouma or alone behind 2 of Maddison/Bergval/Kulusevski. Please appreciate that he has been fed to the dogs this season with where we've asked him to play. He hasn't become a bad player overnight and anyone who watched Uruguay over the international break will see that.
He has been asked to do an impossible task that doesn't suit him. Any CDM would look exposed in our system, nevermind a makeshift one! He's not a lone CDM who can cover loads of ground. If that is what you want him to be then he's not up to scratch at all and sell. But if you play him in a functional midfield and play him in his natural 8 position beside a proper 6 who can cover ground? Then you will see a top midfielder. He has proven this before. He always played his best football beside Hojbjerg, not beside Bissouma or alone behind 2 of Maddison/Bergval/Kulusevski. Please appreciate that he has been fed to the dogs this season with where we've asked him to play. He hasn't become a bad player overnight and anyone who watched Uruguay over the international break will see that.
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Only has a year left on his contract and there's interest in him, maybe not one we would actively look to sell but I think we would accept a reasonable offer.
There were also some rumblings a couple of weeks ago about the club and Bentancur not finding a middle ground in their respective salary offers. Which could mean that the club are now okay with selling him if a good enough offer comes in.
I think it'll be less than that, especially with no Europe
Surely Levy will be thinking about the loss of revenue from no Europe, and be thinking that ought to justify cutting 1 squad players' wages.
Likely no Europe next year- Levy doesn't have to make that decision just yet (we aren't knocked out of EL just yet), but presuming it happens, we probably won't need a full 25 man squad, at least not in the second half of the season if we are knocked out of domestic cups early.
ST - Dom, Richy,
LW/RW - Odo/Moore, RW/Bren
CAM/CM/CDM - Madd/Kulu, Berg/Sarr, Gray/Card
LB/RB - Udog/LB, Spence/Porro
CB - VdV/Dans/Drag/Vusk
GK - Vic/Austin
Lanskhear, Devine, and Phillips could potentially be our other 3 players and then send em out on loan in the winter depending on our domestic cup situation.
We'd only need to recruit for RW and LB. We'd have around 135m to spend after selling Romero (70m), Bentancur (25m), Bissouma (15m) and Son (25m),
Obviously it'd be better to get rid of Richy, but I have a feeling Levy will insist on trying him one more season. I don't think he's prepared for another all-loss Ndombele, and he's not salable in his current state.
ST - Dom, Richy,
LW/RW - Odo/Moore, RW/Bren
CAM/CM/CDM - Madd/Kulu, Berg/Sarr, Gray/Card
LB/RB - Udog/LB, Spence/Porro
CB - VdV/Dans/Drag/Vusk
GK - Vic/Austin
Lanskhear, Devine, and Phillips could potentially be our other 3 players and then send em out on loan in the winter depending on our domestic cup situation.
We'd only need to recruit for RW and LB. We'd have around 135m to spend after selling Romero (70m), Bentancur (25m), Bissouma (15m) and Son (25m),
Obviously it'd be better to get rid of Richy, but I have a feeling Levy will insist on trying him one more season. I don't think he's prepared for another all-loss Ndombele, and he's not salable in his current state.
So you think Austin will be the main backup goalkeeper and not Kinsky?
Will Kinsky get enough games to properly develop as a #2 playing very little behind Vic? My guess is not, and that he'd be better off with a season long loan elsewhere. For me Austin has shown enough to potentially be a #2- and it's something I wish we'd explore further so we could know for sure.
Not for me. Kudus is well overrated. Greedy and plays for himself and just not that good. Broken record on Dibbling but think he’s going to be a top player very soon. People turning there nose up at him reminds me a bit of the Gorden talk a few years ago.
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Nah Kudus is a good player, he just thinks he’s too good for West Ham, which he is, much like Romero thinks he’s too good for us, so you’re getting only a fraction of the player’s capacity
Even so, I’d like to see him against Prem level tactics and defence, before judging…We’re about to get a real good look at Ekitike very soon
I’m predicting a terrible summer window. As bad or worse than signing Werner on loan.
I don’t doubt Diblings talent but how many young players do we need?