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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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skywalker68 said:
I think villa could, be heading for financial trouble.
They are operating at around 95% wage to turnover ratio, but generate around half our income.
They have over committed, and spurs have under committed with a 42% one and double the income.
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Like Chelsea, their owners invest. It’s only sustainable whilst they continue to boost revenue through their own money / investment. We are the complete opposite, do the absolute bare minimum and don’t have any owner or outside investment. Groundhog decade
 
Aphex said:
I see Woolwich in for Eze properly now.

Funny that we start leaking that we are backing off Eze, via our usual journalists, then start moving for Kudus, at the exact same time that Woolwich move for him and Eze saying he wants to join them starts coming out.

You don't have to be a detective to think that we actually were in for Eze, but he's told us he favours Woolwich and that is why we've backed off. It's not because we didn't want him, we've been rejected.

So we've now moved down the list, to Kudus.
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I'm not sure about that.

Eze doesn't fit ENIC's M.O. due to his age.

Eze's value will continually depreciate and his wages will be excessive.

Woolwich have probably had to pay more for Eze, in respect of the fee and wages, due to Spurs 'interest' in the player.

Having a Goon director on our team is probably leading to some political moves with the knowledge of their intentions that he has brought with him.

I doubt we were ever serious about buying Eze.
 
Aphex said:
I see Woolwich in for Eze properly now.

Funny that we start leaking that we are backing off Eze, via our usual journalists, then start moving for Kudus, at the exact same time that Woolwich move for him and Eze saying he wants to join them starts coming out.

You don't have to be a detective to think that we actually were in for Eze, but he's told us he favours Woolwich and that is why we've backed off. It's not because we didn't want him, we've been rejected.

So we've now moved down the list, to Kudus.
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Or more likely, he wanted to come but we wouldn’t pay the fee and he’s now pissed off and open to others
 
Kosher Kid said:
I'm not sure about that.

Eze doesn't fit ENIC's M.O. due to his age.

Eze's value will continually depreciate and his wages will be excessive.

Woolwich have probably had to pay more for Eze, in respect of the fee and wages, due to Spurs 'interest' in the player.

Having a Goon director on our team is probably leading to some political moves with the knowledge of their intentions that he has brought with him.

I doubt we were ever serious about buying Eze.
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Which is why we are where we are. The lack of ambition is infuriating.
 
KingstonSpur said:
Which is why we are where we are. The lack of ambition is infuriating.
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I do agree that the wages are the real issue.

However;

I'm not really that sure that Eze is the player Spurs need at the moment.

I think baulking at the fee Bournemouth are asking for Semenyo is probably the right call too.

I'm very underwhelmed by the pool of talent available to be honest.

Kudus probably is the best signing Spurs could make at this point.

That says as much about what is available than it does regarding Spurs ambition in my opinion.
 
Don Pedro said:
No manager has ever done both at Spurs.

Villa missed out on top 4 last year and got beat 3-0 to Crystal Palace in an FA cup semi final! Is that really what we are hoping to become?
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Poch finished 4th and got a CL final. Also got 5th and a league cup final in his first season.

No manager has been allowed to do what Ange did either.
We have always gone weak in the Europa League to make sure we're up and around the top 4/5 in the league.

If any future manager is given free reign to win the Europa league in the way Ange was, i would expect us to win it again. But we're not in it next season. The only way to get into it is to not win the CL or the PL, or finish as high as possible in the PL..

Winning the Europa League is easier than the FA Cup and League Cup just because we won't get Liverpool, City, Woolwich, Newcastle or Chelsea in it.
But we would have to have a bang average season for 25/25 just to get in the Europa League and then if we win it again in 26/27 we're back in the CL and have no chance of a cup again.

This is why most chairman/woman in football care more about league performance than sporadic cup wins
 
Kosher Kid said:
I'm not sure about that.

Eze doesn't fit ENIC's M.O. due to his age.

Eze's value will continually depreciate and his wages will be excessive.

Woolwich have probably had to pay more for Eze, in respect of the fee and wages, due to Spurs 'interest' in the player.

Having a Goon director on our team is probably leading to some political moves with the knowledge of their intentions that he has brought with him.

I doubt we were ever serious about buying Eze.
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It seems like some deals are being held up by the money clubs keeping negotiations with their second and third choices going. It may be a 10% chance, but seeing negotiations between Man United and Mbeumo taking so long, I still think Spurs could get back in if Man United won't meet Brentford's terms. It seems to come down not to how much Man U will pay, but when. Another interesting rumor about a player Spurs won't pursue, but whose presence in the market could affect a few teams plans is Ollie Watkins. I've got doubts about Eze and Kudos. You have to separate what they look like in individual moments of brilliance from what you can expect them to produce. It's been a frustrating window. Spurs seem like every Premier League player's second or third choice when they decide they want to move.
 
From Eze to Kudus is classic. Go on, you take the premium talent, the players who have been lighting up the league recently, and we’ll take that bloke everyone’s forgotten about.

Might do well but it’s just classic lack of ambition all round.
 
Kosher Kid said:
I do agree that the wages are the real issue.

However;

I'm not really that sure that Eze is the player Spurs need at the moment.

I think baulking at the fee Bournemouth are asking for Semenyo is probably the right call too.

I'm very underwhelmed by the pool of talent available to be honest.

Kudus probably is the best signing Spurs could make at this point.

That says as much about what is available than it does regarding Spurs ambition in my opinion.
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Levy is the issue, because he won't pay the wages that help us compete with the likes of Woolwich. I think the fact that the likes of Woolwich, Liverpool, Chelsea and United are all showing ambition while we do absolutely nothing is what's winding me up the most this window. We're doing nothing to close the gap between those sides.

Eze walks into our team. We should be in a position to trigger the release clause and offer wages that would convince him to join. Instead, we'll buy two average players for a similar total amount, on lower wages, then we'll be talking about how we can improve them in 12 months.
 
Kosher Kid said:
I do agree that the wages are the real issue.

However;

I'm not really that sure that Eze is the player Spurs need at the moment.

I think baulking at the fee Bournemouth are asking for Semenyo is probably the right call too.

I'm very underwhelmed by the pool of talent available to be honest.

Kudus probably is the best signing Spurs could make at this point.

That says as much about what is available than it does regarding Spurs ambition in my opinion.
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Are you saying Kudud is a better player than Eze? Eze adds class and is exactly what we need (amongst others). 65M and his wages don’t seem excessive at all
 
Dudski said:
It seems like some deals are being held up by the money clubs keeping negotiations with their second and third choices going. It may be a 10% chance, but seeing negotiations between Man United and Mbeumo taking so long, I still think Spurs could get back in if Man United won't meet Brentford's terms. It seems to come down not to how much Man U will pay, but when. Another interesting rumor about a player Spurs won't pursue, but whose presence in the market could affect a few teams plans is Ollie Watkins. I've got doubts about Eze and Kudos. You have to separate what they look like in individual moments of brilliance from what you can expect them to produce. It's been a frustrating window. Spurs seem like every Premier League player's second or third choice when they decide they want to move.
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Kudus has a great attitude.

Fire in the belly.

Wants to win.

Had a great season 23 / 24 but regressed last season.

24 years old.

He fits our profile.
 
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