Either that or we were praying we caught the Palace chairman while he was high on Fentanyl
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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They both started against Chelsea and Forest you numpty.
Did he not watch any Premier League football in the last few seasons then?
I'm jesting but he will know the squad and who he wants and doesnt and would have said at interview.
8th hahahahahahahahahha.
Vinai, Lange the cry baby and Paradodgy in a triple threat 'tongue levys fartbox' match .
I just dont see us spending the amounts spoken about on one player this summer. It's why I'm finding it hard to get that excited. I'm not convinced we will sign the correct players at lower sums either.
I liked it when we tried to sign five Spanish strikers on deadline day once, we were running from one to the next like headless chickens and ended up with none.
The good old days when Morientes told us to do one and Rivaldo instructed us to play the harmonica on his ball bags.I liked it when we tried to sign five Spanish strikers on deadline day once, we were running from one to the next like headless chickens and ended up with none.
We got a nice letter of the latter, though. Daniel still reads it to all staff every morning.
the left side isn’t any stronger than the right. What’s needed is finding the best players we can in the final third, whatever position. kulu/Johnson/odobert compared with Tel/Odobert/Son isn’t a gaping hole. There’s no stand out there at the moment.
Good players like to play with good players and have good players around them on the same wavelength. Maddison and Eze would gel fine. Just like De Bryne, Silva or what would happen if he went to Woolwich with Odegaard. They are not going to stand on each others toes. Maddison comes deeper anyway, they will both find the spaces.
when Maddison is not available we really missing that ability to beat a man in central areas and break lines and open up space
It's just an astounding assessment to say Kudus is a player who has a great attitude and just wants to win when it's widely recognised that it's exactly his attitude and application that is holding him back.
West Ham fans can't wait to be shot of him which tells you it all really.
So one journo, probably a Spurs-hating one too. I call bullshit.Matt Law
Tottenham’s ‘sell-to-buy’ headache as crucial summer looms
Club’s net transfer debt of £279 million means a tough window of trading lies ahead for Ange Postecoglou or potential new appointmentwww.telegraph.co.uk
I have a thought that just came out of my arse so might be shit. I keep hearing well we waste ‘60m on this guy, £60m on that one, we pay for average, why can’t we spend better’. But isn’t this simply the result of our club size plus business model
1 we can’t do a Brighton who do buy for resale and therefore can use an entirely data driven system to pick young players then sell them to Chavs for massive money and repeat. Brighton are about 1/4 our size as a club so the expectations are vastly lower and they have a set plan. We are also not a selling club, we only sell when forced like Kane or Bale.
2 We are big and showed we are big with 1/4 of million fans celebrating the EL as well as filling up Wembley for two seasons, something few fanbases could do but we are not big enough to have vast numbers of player desperate to come no matter how bad we are like United.
3 our business model is about keep wages low and never on any deal overspending. This means we always limit the pool of players within our price range so yes we can do £60m but it’s £60m on a player for £150k per week not £220k per week. This also means our squad is far less competitive so less likely to attract players even excluding money. This is why Man City can often pay £30m for players better than our £60m players.
So in effect we have put ourselves in a situation where we will often have to overpay because the range of player available is far more limited both below and above us. We will of course get good deals like Maddison for £40m but the Richy, Solanke, Johnson type deals will often occur unless we become insanely good at scouting and getting deals done.
1 we can’t do a Brighton who do buy for resale and therefore can use an entirely data driven system to pick young players then sell them to Chavs for massive money and repeat. Brighton are about 1/4 our size as a club so the expectations are vastly lower and they have a set plan. We are also not a selling club, we only sell when forced like Kane or Bale.
2 We are big and showed we are big with 1/4 of million fans celebrating the EL as well as filling up Wembley for two seasons, something few fanbases could do but we are not big enough to have vast numbers of player desperate to come no matter how bad we are like United.
3 our business model is about keep wages low and never on any deal overspending. This means we always limit the pool of players within our price range so yes we can do £60m but it’s £60m on a player for £150k per week not £220k per week. This also means our squad is far less competitive so less likely to attract players even excluding money. This is why Man City can often pay £30m for players better than our £60m players.
So in effect we have put ourselves in a situation where we will often have to overpay because the range of player available is far more limited both below and above us. We will of course get good deals like Maddison for £40m but the Richy, Solanke, Johnson type deals will often occur unless we become insanely good at scouting and getting deals done.
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THere are still no links to any defensive midfielders to fill the gaping number 6 hole in our team
I think we will do Kudus then a Lange style Kinsky deal for the DM.