Dang- both him and Bissouma's contracts are up in summer '26. I don't know if we will have enough time to sell everyone we need to this summer.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Dang- both him and Bissouma's contracts are up in summer '26. I don't know if we will have enough time to sell everyone we need to this summer.
My guess is we will look to Angel Gomes and Cordosa as the Bissouma/Betnancur replacements.
Isak is apparently on 140k pw. 70m transfer fee
Richarlison on 90k pw 60m transfer fee
We have Levynomics and a stadium, they have ambition.
I don't think we're gonna be selling Johnson this summer- I doubt Levy will want to take such a big hit on his fee/contract without hoping for next season's coach to try and revive his career one more time.
Cardoso now looks like a must-buy. I'm worried Gomes is too small but perhaps that is short-sighted of me. Also am seriously wondering if Devine might be ready to step in for us?
Definitely keep:
Attack- Solanke, Odobert, Moore, Yang
Mid- Maddison, Kulu, Bergvall, Gray, Devine
FB- Spence, Porro, Udogie
Def- VdV, Danso, Dragusin, Vuskovic, Phillips
Salable:
Attack- Son, Johnson, Richarlison
Mid- Bentancur, Bissouma
FB-
Defense- Romero, Davies
Davies' contract expire this summer. After getting done by Sessegnon for that goal we should really just let his contract expire. Or offer him player/coach as last choice CB or something I guess.
Son, Bentancur and BIssouma have contracts that expire in '26- the latter two should be moved on. Son can perhaps stay one more season if the new coach wants to keep him.
Romero and Richarlison have contracts that expire in '27. I don't think Romero is going to sign a new contract, so this will be our last chance to sell him for big money- and we should to ensure we can recoup on his transfer fee. Richarlison probably has close to no transfer value at this point so I expect Levy will hope for the new coach to rehabilitate him so he can be sold for something in summer '26.
All this gives us our MUST SELL targets: Bentancur, Bissouma and Romero
Pretend we just do that bare minimum business. This would be our roster:
AT Solanke/Richy, Son/LW2(?)/Moore, Odobert/Johnson/Yang
CM Madds/Kulu, Bergvall/Sarr/Devine, Gray/Cardoso
FB Spence/Porro, Udogie/LB2
DF VdV/Danso/Dragusin/CB4(?)/Vuskovic/Phillips
This gives us our "must do" business: LB2, and maybe LW2 and CB4 also
Add this all together and we have our most necessary business for the summer:
SELL: Bentancur, Bissouma, Romero
BUY: LB2, Cardoso
Maybe buy: LW2, CB4
Maybe sell: LW1 (Son), ST2(Richy)- these would warrant replacement too
edit- completely forgot about sarr so that solves the CM2 business...
Attack- Solanke, Odobert, Moore, Yang
Mid- Maddison, Kulu, Bergvall, Gray, Devine
FB- Spence, Porro, Udogie
Def- VdV, Danso, Dragusin, Vuskovic, Phillips
Salable:
Attack- Son, Johnson, Richarlison
Mid- Bentancur, Bissouma
FB-
Defense- Romero, Davies
Davies' contract expire this summer. After getting done by Sessegnon for that goal we should really just let his contract expire. Or offer him player/coach as last choice CB or something I guess.
Son, Bentancur and BIssouma have contracts that expire in '26- the latter two should be moved on. Son can perhaps stay one more season if the new coach wants to keep him.
Romero and Richarlison have contracts that expire in '27. I don't think Romero is going to sign a new contract, so this will be our last chance to sell him for big money- and we should to ensure we can recoup on his transfer fee. Richarlison probably has close to no transfer value at this point so I expect Levy will hope for the new coach to rehabilitate him so he can be sold for something in summer '26.
All this gives us our MUST SELL targets: Bentancur, Bissouma and Romero
Pretend we just do that bare minimum business. This would be our roster:
AT Solanke/Richy, Son/LW2(?)/Moore, Odobert/Johnson/Yang
CM Madds/Kulu, Bergvall/Sarr/Devine, Gray/Cardoso
FB Spence/Porro, Udogie/LB2
DF VdV/Danso/Dragusin/CB4(?)/Vuskovic/Phillips
This gives us our "must do" business: LB2, and maybe LW2 and CB4 also
Add this all together and we have our most necessary business for the summer:
SELL: Bentancur, Bissouma, Romero
BUY: LB2, Cardoso
Maybe buy: LW2, CB4
Maybe sell: LW1 (Son), ST2(Richy)- these would warrant replacement too
edit- completely forgot about sarr so that solves the CM2 business...
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Dang? you mean good riddance?
The talk of Bentancur being offered a new contract is laughable. After months of absolute shit performances:
1) There has been reports of him being a vital leader in the squad.
2) Ange continuosly talks about how important he is.
3) The club are trying to extend his contract.
4) Ange plays him every game and acts as if he's insispensible.
Ive never quite seen anything like it. We are actually rewarding shit performances. This as well as us appealing his ban for racism actually makes me pretty sick.
Yea- my comment is more that it puts a lot of pressure on our staff to make sales this summer- which is something I don't really feel that they especially excel at- especially when needing to do lots of business.
As for selling Bentancur and Bissouma- I'm completely fine with it- I find them to be very mid mids.
I suspect there is a chance the club would like to keep Bentancur as a senior presence in midfield to help support Bergvall and Grays development, but who knows what will happen. I'd like to think we'll just take a chance on playing our excellent younger players and toss these relative turds to the side of the road.
Spurs '25-26- minimum necessary business edition:
First XI
Solanke
Son Maddison Odobert
Bergvall Gray
Spence VdV Danso Porro
Second XI
Richarlison
Moore Kulu Johnson
Sarr Cardoso
Udogie Dragusin Vuskovic LB2(?)*
*Playing Spence out of position even if he is our best LB is questionable and sets up a later question of buying a LB1 to challenge/supplant Udogie, or a RB2 to challenge/supplant Porro.
First XI
Solanke
Son Maddison Odobert
Bergvall Gray
Spence VdV Danso Porro
Second XI
Richarlison
Moore Kulu Johnson
Sarr Cardoso
Udogie Dragusin Vuskovic LB2(?)*
*Playing Spence out of position even if he is our best LB is questionable and sets up a later question of buying a LB1 to challenge/supplant Udogie, or a RB2 to challenge/supplant Porro.
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Tin hat on and prepared to be accused of being biased etc but Tottenham could do worse than look at signing Igamane as a striker option for next season from Rangers. Currently Seville, Everton and Marseille apparently interested. I'd rather he stayed with us for another year or two obviously but being pragmatic when clubs from the top 5 leagues start sniffing about one of your players they are pretty much off. At his age and the impact he's already had at Rangers Tottenham should at least be assessing it.
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Rumours forest want him back as they need him for Europe to be CT. I reckon we can get our money back given they need him and he's actually scored more here than at forest so no reason not to
If they actually need him for CT that's something else and maybe makes it actually likely. Either way we'll take it gladly and buy a new RW.
Bryan Zaragoza is just a great name, I want him for that alone - sounds like a Sunday league team
Does this suggests (that you'd have a kid who's started a couple of games ahead of Kulu) you are coming round to my opinion that Kulusevski isn't as good as many were saying?
He has the occasional moment of brilliance, moments of absolute shite, and a vast swathe of pure mid.
He defo looked a handful when we played them. Plenty of pace, trickery and power.