Here he is. Mr Soundbite.Aaaaand we're off and running with an early entry for the annual 'Transfer Window Excuse' bingo card.
Fair play...It's a blimmin' cracker
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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But he’s said it. We are obliged to measure his actions and adjust our expectations against those words
Very true. Thanks for the "then he needs close that, players from mid table clubs' tab on his laptop" visual...gave me a good lol moment.
Fat chance baldy will do that though....
Where grown men come to act like the 13-year-olds they never stopped being.
Liverpool just won the league buying players with wages of less than 150k a week. MacAllister, Nunez, Gravenberch, Gakpo - not one 'elite'
Woolwich bought players on 200k+ a week the last two seasons and won fek all.
Looking at the options linked for the number 6, position Hjulmand (despite the Woolwich tattoo) seems like the standout option if we’re going for someone that brings physicality. He looks like a tough tackler and a leader in the middle of the park but does give me Hojbjerg vibes a little bit on the ball.
If we were going the other way, Juventus want to sell Douglas Luiz for about £30m, and given the likely return of Paratici and his links there, I’d imagine he’d be pretty easily gettable, perhaps even on a loan with an option/obligation. Luiz is definitely far superior on the ball and would allow us to progress the ball forward better from deep, but he lacks the physicality of a Hjulmand and might leave us exposed.
What profile do we need more if we’re only buying one DM?
If we were going the other way, Juventus want to sell Douglas Luiz for about £30m, and given the likely return of Paratici and his links there, I’d imagine he’d be pretty easily gettable, perhaps even on a loan with an option/obligation. Luiz is definitely far superior on the ball and would allow us to progress the ball forward better from deep, but he lacks the physicality of a Hjulmand and might leave us exposed.
What profile do we need more if we’re only buying one DM?
Oh I think he does. If we win the PL it essentially means the clubs value would surge a decent amount.... But is he hell bent on winning it that he's willing to financially put his balls on the line to try and get us seriously competing with the big boys?!?
Absolutely not.
He wants all the big rewards but without putting in the necessary risks to drastically increase your chances of getting there.
So the guy(s) running this side want the Spurs players to recruit (and tap up) other players because Frank & co. won't be able to convince Simons to come by themselves... 
View: https://x.com/Daily_Hotspur/status/1935048449382092900
View: https://x.com/Daily_Hotspur/status/1935048449382092900
My assumption is that he's heard on the grapevine that certain players have not responded well to Ange's sacking eg Romero and Vicario. And this PR stunt was done to help sway the players into staying.
and when he doesn’t deliver nothing happens and he’s still running the show sacking manager after manager
Aaaaand we're off and running with an early entry for the annual 'Transfer Window Excuse' bingo card.
Fair play...It's a blimmin' cracker
Ah here he is! Incognito under a new guide with the same 10 posts on repeat.
now you can say ‘2 trophies in X years’ one to update on your bingo card.
I’d say this season Gravenberch was elite and macsllister is close to elite tbf
Tough one to profile and depends entirely on how frank see it.
I love the destroyer type and that would pair well with bergvall and bentancur. However somebody like sarr eould not be a good pairing as neither would be able to dictate play.
Luiz I love as a footballer, I prefer ederson more and neither are pure dm's imo and more sitting 8's or 8's but both would work beautifully in a double pivot with all our current cm's. But as you say we would then lack the big physical monster but having said that ederson is a physical ball winner.
At least he's not joining Woolwich (if Barca get their finances together that is).
View: https://x.com/GraemeBailey/status/1935050678583665015
View: https://x.com/GraemeBailey/status/1935050678583665015
He’s put his balls on the line. I respect it because I’m expecting him to deliver on those words
When I watched the interview with the pair of them, my thoughts were that they were likely setting out their stall to attract a minority investment in the club.
Liverpool already had Salah, VVD and Alisson all on massive wages. They paid 150k+ pw for squad pieces around them because they wanted to win.
We pay our biggest stars the same as they pay their squad pieces.
You were being disingenuous in this post and you knew it but have the cheek to call me a troll in other threads.