£290k a week plus signing on fee. Wonder why he’s gone there…..
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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£290k a week plus signing on fee. Wonder why he’s gone there…..
Semenyo links worry me a bit.
He's a good player, but not for 70 million.
I wouldn't pay any more than 50.
I do get the unfortunate familiar impression that we are going to be picking up the dregs left after City, Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Woolwich have done their transfer business.
And its shit.
I don't want to turn this into an anti Levy post, but I am sick of the way we approach the market. I totally get the data led approach but do we think those other clubs aren't also using data?
I just find it ridiculous with all our wealth, money, stadium etc, there's no reason we can't compete for these players other than a lack of ambition.
What will happen, is we will end up signing the players that the top clubs don't want, for a reason. They aren't good enough.
Which is why I think it will be a disgrace if we don't sign Eze. He's literally right there, we can offer CL football and he's exactly what we need.
It seems like we should have a clear run at him hopefully, so just do the deal.
He's a good player, but not for 70 million.
I wouldn't pay any more than 50.
I do get the unfortunate familiar impression that we are going to be picking up the dregs left after City, Liverpool, Chelsea, United and Woolwich have done their transfer business.
And its shit.
I don't want to turn this into an anti Levy post, but I am sick of the way we approach the market. I totally get the data led approach but do we think those other clubs aren't also using data?
I just find it ridiculous with all our wealth, money, stadium etc, there's no reason we can't compete for these players other than a lack of ambition.
What will happen, is we will end up signing the players that the top clubs don't want, for a reason. They aren't good enough.
Which is why I think it will be a disgrace if we don't sign Eze. He's literally right there, we can offer CL football and he's exactly what we need.
It seems like we should have a clear run at him hopefully, so just do the deal.
Plus, they've already signed Frimpong and about to sign Kerkez (and signed GK Mamardashvili last year)
But pay the highest boardroom salaries in English footballSpurs have 4 players over 100.000£ a week now Timo is gone. (Son, Romero, Kulu and Maddison)
To compare to the "big 6"
Liverpool 12, Man City 16, Gooners 17, Man Utd 16 ,Chelsea 13.
Levy's eye-watering Tottenham salary towers over Man Utd and Liverpool chiefs
Fans wanted Premier League experience but yet don't want the club to pay for Premier League experience.
Semenyo is not dregs. He is a very good player and was playing very good football this season before Bournemouth burned out. He was also one of the key reasons Solanke scored 20 league goals the season before. He’s fast and extremely physical which was a big problem for us last season - all of our wide players were powder puff at keeping hold of the ball when confronted physically.
Eh? No. I just don't think he's technically the right sort of player for the elite clubs.
He's a handful and a bit of a livewire, and a good signing, but for less than 50 million. I'd be disappointed if he's our only wide attacking signing.
There's a reason he isn't being targetted by the top 4 unfortunately.
I literally said we should sign Eze, what are you on about PL experience?
Putting it in here cos its all connected. I reckon its because Man U and Spurs were crap and fans switched off.
Wonder what% of UK football fans support either club.
View: https://x.com/Football__Tweet/status/1932682930608054673
Wonder what% of UK football fans support either club.
View: https://x.com/Football__Tweet/status/1932682930608054673
I didn't call Semenyo dregs, I just meant in general we seem to be waiting for the other clubs to do their business before we start moving and then pick up the scraps.
That is how it looks like. Same every summer.
On Semenyo, as said in the post above, I am not sure he's technical all round in possession for the elite sides.
He's a good player, he isn't 70 mill though. Not when Eze is right there who is a much better all round player.
I think you're right but Eze is a £60m downpayment, I think we will go for him though but probably after we shift some players.
Semenyo though is the kind of player we should be targeting, or at least in that bracket, otherwise I don't know who else there is on the market that fit our specific criteria...
How customers did Sky and BT lose due to prices? Might be something to do with it as well, people finally had enough paying stupid prices.
Mata was far from "flimsy." I'll give you Ozil though, although he had more than a few good seasons for the filth.
I'm quite happy with our transfer strategy so far, players like Bergvail for instance, don't get me wrong through the squad needs some experience added in but compare our signings now with when Poch was in charge and its night and day.
No, he’s not 70m, but we wouldn’t touch him at that price anyway. Maybe he’s not technically sound enough for an elite side, but we’re a long way from being one. We need physically tough players who can get us back to being difficult to play against so we can get back to 60+ points in the PL.
These are figures from Spurs accounts cash flow - so includes only instalments received and any bonus payments (for sales of players) and reverse for purchases of players. So they won't match other projections based upon estimated transfer fees.
But what both do show is that Spurs are committing to quite large total transfer fees to bring players in , particularly over the last 3 or 4 years, and no reason to think that's going to change - but its a tough market now with a lot of competition from the likes of Villa and Newcastle joining the traditional clubs vying for CL/top 4 in PL and therefore the best players.
Maybe it’s because no cunt will pay for them and use a firestick
Sky are obviously losing money. Look at the number of redundancies in the last couple of years .
It’s not that people are not watching it’s that subscribers have jacked it in . There are some stories that people watching on dodgy feeds might get arrested, rather than the blokes selling them.
Not sure they would dare to do it but always a possibility .
I'd say Liverpool and City are winning the transfer window at the moment.
Spurs are in a different universe.
Is Ait Nouri, Reijnders and Cherki going to move the needle though? I' not sure about Cherki or AN if they are top level.
Spurs are in a different universe.
Is Ait Nouri, Reijnders and Cherki going to move the needle though? I' not sure about Cherki or AN if they are top level.
Imagine winning the league and then backing your manager in the Summer window as it wasn't enough!