Yes, like West Ham... our club chairman has turned us into West Ham... should be jailed.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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We're not yet at that point to need key vets though- our kids this season will become our vets the season after next. Then, when we are sure we have something worth adding to, we'll add 1-2 more vets and be ready to mount a dark-horse title challenge or CL run.
Arda Güler will have bigger clubs after him should he become available and Real M will most probably push to insert a back-bakck option to any club they'll sell him to (they really made fools of themselves in the Ødegaard deal).
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Whilst I don’t think Danso is as good as Romero, I’d actually put him on a par with Guehi
Yeah I think we all know danso will be the Romero replacement while Guehi swans off to a club willing to pay him a market wage.
I’d be keen on this as he addresses a need for us. As long as the buy back clause is suitably high it’s not the end of the world - if it’s Real Madrid and the player wants to go, they generally go anyway
Like who?
Arda Guler from Real Madrid 
The second baldy get’s told the price he will be Arda Hearing
The second baldy get’s told the price he will be Arda Hearing
Bale - bought as 17 year old with potential... turned him into a world beater and sold him
Kane - came through the ranks, one of the best strikers in world football and sold him
Modric - unproven 23 year old... turned him into a world beater and sold him
There would be many more if our scouting department was any good... but will probably add Bergvall to this list at some point.
This is the reality of Spurs under ENIC.
Whether the aspirational players are home grown, bought cheap as teenagers, on low wages, or bought for modest fees under the age of 25;
Levy sells them all in the end.
Always has done and always will.
Errrrr…who was the last player to do that?
Walker? We got some of his best years. And that was like 7 years ago?
Berbatov? Now you are going 10 years+
Carrick? That was so far back I’m not even sure if that was the ENIC or Sugar years.
People throw a negative spin on silly stuff to suit an agenda.
All 3 of whom forced the move. We were not willing sellers. We are not Bournemouth who need to turn a profit on player trading. We have the 3rd highest net spend over the last 5 years
Like almost literally every other club in the world does?
We were not willing sellers but yet all three were sold...
The successful teams retain their best players and pay them the going rate while they are winning trophies.
Spurs, under ENIC and Levy, sell their best players rather than pay them an increased salary for a sustained period.
The only exception to this policy was Kane but the miser got Kane's increased wages back in the end with the transfer fee received from Bayern.
ENIC and Levy are about illusion rather than ambition.
The elusive jam tomorrow forever has been ongoing now for 24 years.
Eriksen was the same.
All clubs sell their players if the player decides they want to go, with the exception of Madrid largely because they are at the top of the food chain, there's always a bigger fish who can turn a players head.
Selling our best players isn't actively pursued by Levy and ENIC, it's the last resort. Both Eriksen and Kane would have been given new deals if they had been amenable to it.
Pretty sure the same can be said for Bale.
So, three players.We were not willing sellers but yet all three were sold...
Modric, who we held on to for an extra year. Hardly the actions of a selling club. And this was 13 years ago.
Bale, who we got a record fee for? 12 years ago.
Kane, who gave us his best years, became our top scorer and made us £100m profit?
These three examples over a 13 year period hardly screams a team that polishes rough diamonds and then sells them. Our scouting department have made many good decisions (and poor ones) and our management and coaches over the years have improved numerous players that we haven’t sold on for a profit.
You know your original post painted us as a club that buys these players with the wish to improve their value and sell them. But we hardly ever do that.
And Modric. Where Levy actually managed to convince him to stay on for another year and sold him to Real instead of Chelsea.
Player sales are an active part of the sport and something that 99% of clubs have to have as part of their business model, no matter how much they do not want to sell a specific player.
It is definitely an area where we can improve. But where we really need to improve is in regards to selling academy players. Chelsea were able to buff their financials for years, even with Roman's shady money, by being able to sell academy players for 5-15 mil a pop every 2 years or so. Just as a nice booster. We need to be better at selling academy players that don't make the cut but that can still make good careers for themselves more regularly instead of letting them walk for free.