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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Everything is possible, especially with them mercurial type talents...look at Ousmane Dembele. And yeah La Liga is easier than the PL. But I think even Raphinha at 70-80% is (much) better than any of our current wingers at their best.
Not yet, Levy & his gang still checking public records & newspapers here and abroad to identify clubs in distress and urgent need of cash.
Last season says you are 100% right
Thanks for posting them numbers. I'd argue that the 4 players on that list are our 4 most underrated players. They get no credit for their durability at all. Instead people will focus in their tired performances during a difficult run. Kulusevski is a good recent example. Phenomenal up until November until we picked up 10+ injuries and couldn't rest him throughout the entire festive period. His form totally fell off then yet people on here now judge him as that player who was clumsily giving the ball away in January. Not the player who was unplayable in October.
Same with Porro! All his best performances for us came after he got a rest! There is probably still people on here who think Spence is better!
So it's obvious now that for most tragic of reasons Kudus ends up at his first choice...Liverpool. All so weirdly randomly predictably Spurs.
Johnson had 2.9 xA last season to Bowen’s 7.63, a huge difference. And Bowen exceeded xG by 3 whereas Johnson matched xG because Bowen was adding value with his goals by mixing it up with shots outside of 15 yards..
Johnson did better creative wise the season before but only scored 5 league goals .. Bowen can do both elements and does so consistently while being a hugely more impactful player on the ball.
FBref comparison has Bowen in much higher percentiles for progressive carries, take ons, touches in opposition box etc.. this despite playing large parts of a season as a striker because West Ham didn’t have one so you’d expect him to be less involved.
Brennan doesn’t match or better Bowen in anything other than off the ball movement.. he’s a worse striker of the ball, a worse dribbler, less creative on the ball.. I’ll accept the defensive gap might not be as big as thought but at every element of being a dangerous wide player Bowen is monumentally clear.
Stats aren’t even needed here. Anyone can see the gap with their eyes. You may as well say Yamals stats are comparable.
I think we should make up our own rumors. Why should be football media be the only ones in on the fun?
"Sources close to a service station attendant in Serbiton are reporting Ollie Watkins is open to a move to Spurs. An initial offer of 40 million has been rebuffed by Villa, but it is believed Spurs are preparing a second offer to include 5 million worth of Son Heung-min team store merchandise."
Both Solanke and Richarlison were over 60m. They need to score more goals.
Some things are bigger than football. A few years at Spurs vs a lifetime of domestic bother. Spurs would not be his only exit opp if it came to it. If it's about money he can always do a few years in Saudi.
There are whispers of a new golf course
Sources in Madrid have mooted a shock swap deal between Atleti and Spurs for Christian Romero and Julian Alvarez
Another element is that playing Sundays means you are always chasing and this can have a psychological impact, especially during the run in.
Johnson probably has the best movement in the box in the league and is a good finisher. If Porro was a left back honestly think Johnson would of had 30 goals last season. He's a flawed player but the way people talk about him on here is bonkers.
Expecting a 20 plus goal tally under Frank this season, he'll fucking love him.
Expecting a 20 plus goal tally under Frank this season, he'll fucking love him.
Your non EL opponents get an extra day's rest too.
Me neither. If you're paying 65m for a striker, they have to score goals. All well and good that he's the "best pressing forward in Europe", but he never looks like scoring.
Yeah India are 587 all out
Hopefully he will, now that he’s not (pointlessly) running himself into the ground chasing shadows in Ange’s farkakteh system.