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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Harrier said:
You think having a gooner mate is bad!

My son-in-law to be is a gooner. I gave my daughter two instructions on dating - make sure they are a decent lad and no gooners! She obviously didn’t read the second part of the memo! The penny dropped the other day that my first grandchild is going to be a gooner!

:mourcheeks:

However, when I’m babysitting I’ll be sending them home in a Spurs babygro!

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whisper 'totenham 'til i die' over and over in his ear while he's sleeping
 
CJJ said:

View: https://youtu.be/3F_m3wyZYHo?t=244


Not surprising to see John Thomas salivating at the idea of his denial with his post reaction, not that he likes to work on facts himself
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"That was the story that was evidently suggested by the club"

Look, it is clear that Poch's weird preferences and hang-ups around transfer business were part of the problem in Summer 2018, at Spurs more generally, and significantly contribute to his weaker job prospects among top clubs these days. He has earned the reputation as someone who doesn't work well with modern recruitment setups.

But there have been 666 (lol woah) Premier League club-summers, and one, ONE, in which a club did not sign a new senior player. This was not a garden variety difference of viewpoint, this was the total collapse of club governance, for which the responsibility lies at Levy's desk.

It was an unmitigated catastrophe that destroyed the Poch Miracle, caused a nervous breakdown of the club, and only through the frankly miraculous fortune of a dumb luck cup run has put itself mostly in our rear view mirror.
 
FightingIllini said:
"That was the story that was evidently suggested by the club"

Look, it is clear that Poch's weird preferences and hang-ups around transfer business were part of the problem in Summer 2018, at Spurs more generally, and significantly contribute to his weaker job prospects among top clubs these days. He has earned the reputation as someone who doesn't work well with modern recruitment setups.

But there have been 666 (lol woah) Premier League club-summers, and one, ONE, in which a club did not sign a new senior player.

It was an unmitigated catastrophe that destroyed the Poch Miracle, caused a nervous breakdown of the club, and only through the frankly miraculous fortune of a dumb luck cup run has put itself mostly in our rear view mirror.
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He said he asked Hitchen on "a number of occasions" who confirmed it, and he said he asked several people because he couldn't believe it.

I don't know why people continue to deny that it was another weird Poch stubborn decision. The man himself has never even suggested it was the club. The only people who seem to believe it are people who want to.

I've posted it before on here recently, but there were dutch/belgian stories in Jan 2019 about how the club had Tielemens ready to go and Poch said no.
 
FightingIllini said:
"That was the story that was evidently suggested by the club"

Look, it is clear that Poch's weird preferences and hang-ups around transfer business were part of the problem in Summer 2018, at Spurs more generally, and significantly contribute to his weaker job prospects among top clubs these days. He has earned the reputation as someone who doesn't work well with modern recruitment setups.

But there have been 666 (lol woah) Premier League club-summers, and one, ONE, in which a club did not sign a new senior player. This was not a garden variety difference of viewpoint, this was the total collapse of club governance, for which the responsibility lies at Levy's desk.

It was an unmitigated catastrophe that destroyed the Poch Miracle, caused a nervous breakdown of the club, and only through the frankly miraculous fortune of a dumb luck cup run has put itself mostly in our rear view mirror.
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I disagree with some of your opinions, but fair play, it's hard to disagree with anything you've posted here....
A great post bulging with facts the should close this ridiculous argument down once and for all.
 
CJJ said:
He said he asked Hitchen on "a number of occasions" who confirmed it, and he said he asked several people because he couldn't believe it.

I don't know why people continue to deny that it was another weird Poch stubborn decision. The man himself has never even suggested it was the club. The only people who seem to believe it are people who want to.

I've posted it before on here recently, but there were dutch/belgian stories in Jan 2019 about how the club had Tielemens ready to go and Poch said no.
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Rejecting a Tielemans deal is not the same thing as going an entire summer without signing a player.

It's tautologically obvious that that is a disaster that cannot be allowed to happen under any circumstances and has not ever happened one single other time in the history of the Premier League.

And while that was the big one, the failure to end all failures, it was just the most glaring symptom of an operation that had completely failed and was no longer capable of doing business at a professional level.

The pain-in-the-ass manager who the club hierarchy didn't trust with their money exercising a veto power he shouldn't have had in confusing and arbitrary ways is not an alternative to that problem, it is a constituent part of that problem.
 
The Swellhead Spur said:
bus-conductor bus-conductor I've seen fans mention Agoume is he any good?

I remember he was at Inter but was young

Is he a DM?
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Yeah, he’s one of those tall, athletic 6 type midfielders that France just churns out constantly. I’ve not watched much of him but he seems strong, pretty tenacious, technically good, press resistant and can use both feet to dribble out of pressure.

Like I said, not seen loads of him, but what I have seen is very likeable.
 
FightingIllini said:
And while that was the big one, the failure to end all failures, it was just the most glaring symptom of an operation that had completely failed and was no longer capable of doing business at a professional level.
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Unbelievably we then followed it up by not signing a single player in the following January window either. And if memory serves me right, we actually weakened the squad by selling Moussa Dembele.
Why are people still trying to justify this or absolve the board 7 years on. It's bizarre behaviour
 
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