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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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I hate doing this but I am going to anyway...
Our recruitment is nothing short of shocking

Newcastle
63m Isak
45m Gordon

Spurs
55-65m Solanke
47.5m Johnson

Discuss?
yep. its not about how much money you spend, its about how well you spend it. man united have been the perfect example. if you have idiots chucking it about who dont have a clue then youre in big trouble.

in fairness, solanke is a good player and weve not seen the best of him, hes under a manager and system that is fucking dreadful. at least with solanke hes proven he can play, johnson cant do the fucking basics.
 
I hate doing this but I am going to anyway...
Our recruitment is nothing short of shocking

Newcastle
63m Isak
45m Gordon

Spurs
55-65m Solanke
47.5m Johnson

Discuss?

They have recruited very well and have recruited players to improve them after an initial bedding in period.

Our recruitment for the now has been poor but the teenagers we bought last Summer are going to turn out to be stars IMO
 
I hate doing this but I am going to anyway...
Our recruitment is nothing short of shocking

Newcastle
63m Isak
45m Gordon

Spurs
55-65m Solanke
47.5m Johnson

Discuss?
Johnson probably 1/4 of the wages that Isak gets. Solanke probably similar ratio against Gordon. Money talks. Transfer fees are fictional to such an extent now as to be just simple marketing nonsense.
 
I am not defending the purchase of BJ, but when Newcastle bought Isak and Gordon, Spurs had Kane and Son plus Conte as head-coach...

Indeed but we also bought Richarlison when they bought Isak. Isak could easily have played on the wing for us with Kane.

The only reason we didn’t is because we all know Levy won’t sanction 70m on a player. He’s got a hard limit at 60m for some reason.
 
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