well they nver won the europa league which is the highest title in the world to win
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Eriksen was a top player. Was the best midfielder in the prem for multiple seasons. Just because he didn't cost 80m, it doesn't take away the was an elite player.
Same goes for Lloris. French number 1, world cup winner.
Dele was an elite talent. Again had we paid 50+ million nobody would have said it was too much.
Romero/VDV would start for most teams in Europe.
In other words, let's have a forum where everyone says nice things and agrees with you,
Every top club will have players like those you mention. Every one. But they also supplement those players by spending big when the need arises to give them that extra yard. To try push the team on.
We don't. That's the difference.
We have the financial clout, but don't use it.
As someone brilliantly put it last night, we must be the biggest club in the world that doesn't act like a big club.
I wonder if he made those claims on the advice of his new Gooner PR man.
I'm assuming he did. And he's probably regretted it ever since.
Nwaneri was also back up on that u21 team btw
Being 18/19 in the u21 squad is impressive enough on its own.
Imagine what that team could have won with the right elite level players signed to play with them when they peaked.
I understand why Poch didn’t want another punt that might pay off in 2 years, the window to win was right then.
Levy deemed it outside the model.
Exactly. It's all well and good talking about players that you sign for peanuts becoming elite, but you can't just rely on that model to keep you competing at the top end.
Liverpool use a data led approach so they can narrow down their list and have a higher degree of conviction for players they sign. Even if occasionally they have to spend big.
Levy wants data to find a bigger list of players in the hope that one or two of them prevent him from having to spend big.
That’s the difference and it’s why he has a losing mentality as a football chairman, even if he’s winning as a businessman.
The closest we had to this recently was Ndombele , which has totally put us off doing it again .
It's why I am wetting my bed so much about Levy recently, he doesn't show the ambition that Woolwich and Liverpool are showing yet tries to hoodwink us with bullshit about winning the PL and CL. We have similar resources to Woolwich but are shopping in Primark .
Yeah fair point
Dont think his profile was as high as Ndombele but I think he won defender of the year or something the year we signed him?
If Romero needed 70m and 200k pw to sign him, would Levy have signed him?
Yeah and stuck him on massive wages as well
I get your general point though, it doesn't happen enough.
In other words, let's have a forum where everyone says nice things and agrees with you,
Hi JOHN THOMAS
Care to explain why you vanished around the time we won a major trophy and when you returned you posted fuck all about it?
We are still waiting for your explanation.
This forum isn't 'dominanted'by anyone. That you think it is and are busy digging out strangers speaks far more clearly about the total lack of proportion in your relationship with the club and the forum, evident in your ramblings about people that haven't been in football in decades.Erm.. you're saying this on a forum dominated by people absolutely determined to make the fans say nothing positive about the club, based purely on who owns it. The current ownership doesn't bother me - the fact that people seem to yearn for worse ownership is more of the issue (we've been there, and arguably have never had better).
Regardless, coming onto a Tottenham Hotspur forum asking me to care more about something else that is going on in the world is an irrelevancy. Like when people ask why the local shop isn't open on the facebook group and people say "There's a war in Ukraine, it hardly matters whether the shop is open or not".
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Fucking ell, the irony of the first and second sentence and the guy who liked your post. There's no hope
As for your strange certainty that only worse owners are possible than Levy and Lewis that just irrational. In fact it's starting to sound like Stockholm syndrome. As for coming on to a Tottenham forum and asking you to stick to actual transfers talk thats not illogical, ramblings about the dangers of Irving fucking Scholar in 2025 is damn weird. If you need something worthy of concern I simply offered you something morally justifiable. Even for you that shouldn't be difficult to understand.
I'm fine with the club being self sufficient instead of relying on outside funding. If the club only uses money that it generates itself then it's sustainable and much less subject to the whims of a billionaire owner. However, there's room to spend more of the money that the club makes to bolster the squad as we have one of the lowest (the lowest?) wage to revenue ratios in the league, without ENIC needing to contribute a penny. Would love to see more of the kids coming through though, our club-trained situation is dire and it makes the club feel a little soulless in my opinion, so any acquisitions should be ones that won't block those pathways. I get that people want to win now, but I'm personally not a huge fan of the mercenary approach and hope that's one area that Frank will be able to improve us.
I think those squares could be circled by only signing top class players (assuming they'd be willing to come) in positions where we're truly lacking, rather than opportunistic punts that are no better than what we have in our own academy - i.e. no need for a Veliz when you have a Scarlett not getting any chances, etc. An approach that's ambitious, but measured, if you like with a focus on quality and need over quantity and opportunism
And strangely, have you met a fan that cares?
The difference between them and us, is they don't win a cup once every 17 years and finish 17th. They win cups AND titles and there's zero fucking debate whether they "deserve" it.
*financial doping aside