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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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If Solanke presses less he has more energy and time to score . The question then becomes who does more pressing at Spurs, or can it be shared more than it is. So its a manager issue to tell the players how they should set up and their roles in the team.

Richarlison was never a high scorer at Everton or Watford before that - but his big problem at Spurs is not being fit. The goal scoring is a secondary issue
He's a very physical player who goes to the pitch frequently. There's a lot of mileage on him for his age.
 
We need real honesty

Solanke needs to put the ball over the line more than he does, and I would put a pound to a penny (P'Tang Yang Kepperbang), for those who are old enough that Richarlison would score more goals than Solanke if he was on the pitch an equivalent amount of time.
Yep it's all very well say Dom is more than just a 9 ... Blah de bloody dah! But he won't be remembered for his work rate, he'll be remembered for his goals and the reason he cost a large chunk of cash, was not cos of his work rate but cos he was banging GOALS IN LEFT RIGHT AND CENTER ...and in him ATM I'm struggling to see anywhere near 20 goal a season striker..AND the big worry he just doesn't seem to create chances .. Whereas when richis on the park as a 9.. I see a striker that's gonna be a menace and just feel he's gonna create and score. He may have his issues but when he plays he's a handful, gives center bacs a bloody hard time.. I tell ya coming through the ranks in Brazil Is not for the feint hearted they are tuf mother fuckers... NO CB will enjoy his afternoon when he's @ 9.. whereas Dom
..well I don't see the same aggression or hunger.. but hey.. I bloody sincerely hope Dom proves me wrong..
 
To each their own Bruv.

I can appreciate the artistry of the Studio Ghibli animation, some of it is quite stunning, but the pace, or lack thereof, of the stories just had me dozing off or completely losing interest.

One studio that my daughter got me interested in is Cartoon Saloon, from Ireland. If the Gibli artistry is your thing, check out the films from CS, like Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers or The Secret of Kells. The artwork in them is breathtaking.

My daughter has been heavily influenced by CS. If you're interested, you can see her graduation animation short on YouTube, it's called "Guardian" and features a horse. I cried like a baby when I first watched it, it's absolutely beautiful.
Your daughter is gangsta bro. I'm hoping my daughter follows in her foot steps.
 
Yep it's all very well say Dom is more than just a 9 ... Blah de bloody dah! But he won't be remembered for his work rate, he'll be remembered for his goals and the reason he cost a large chunk of cash, was not cos of his work rate but cos he was banging GOALS IN LEFT RIGHT AND CENTER ...and in him ATM I'm struggling to see anywhere near 20 goal a season striker..AND the big worry he just doesn't seem to create chances .. Whereas when richis on the park as a 9.. I see a striker that's gonna be a menace and just feel he's gonna create and score. He may have his issues but when he plays he's a handful, gives center bacs a bloody hard time.. I tell ya coming through the ranks in Brazil Is not for the feint hearted they are tuf mother fuckers... NO CB will enjoy his afternoon when he's @ 9.. whereas Dom
..well I don't see the same aggression or hunger.. but hey.. I bloody sincerely hope Dom proves me wrong..
Let’s see how he does if we get wingers in who are able to cross the ball to him.
 
‘The Hammers want around £65 million for Kudus and feel they are being quite reasonable, given his £84 million release clause at the London Stadium.’'

In fairness, that's about right.

We will end up paying 60+

Assuming Walker-Peter's doesn't want more than 11K a week........
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He's scored 38 goals in 161 Premier League appearances. it's about 9 goals per season, just like last season 9 Premier League goals. But because he's joined Spurs he's great, he's a Europa League cup winner, absolutely fantastic player!!

Bit weird you're posting stats including when he was a young player at Liverpool and Chelsea knowing that he's matured as a player since then and using those stats to take the piss out of him.

Do you think people are basing their opinions on him before he matured?

Do you think we spent £65m on him for what he did when he was 21?
 
Bit weird you're posting stats including when he was a young player at Liverpool and Chelsea knowing that he's matured as a player since then and using those stats to take the piss out of him.

Do you think people are basing their opinions on him before he matured?

Do you think we spent £65m on him for what he did when he was 21?
I think it's fair to wonder how wise it was to spend that kind of money on a technically average striker who is now 27 years old and has scored double digit goals in a top flight league season only once in seven attempts, that one being the season before we made him the club record signing.

There is a lot Solanke does well that helps a team succeed, but the goals need to flow in order to justify that price, which has not been the most reliable.
 
Ok dammit, I’ll start: fave character, Mark, Tiny, Princess, Keyop, or Jason.

Who is your fave character and how would they help Spurs next year?

Is Seven Zarc Seven part of our data focused approach?

And which of our rivals is Zoltar?
 
I think it's fair to wonder how wise it was to spend that kind of money on a technically average striker who is now 27 years old and has scored double digit goals in a top flight league season only once in seven attempts, that one being the season before we made him the club record signing.

There is a lot Solanke does well that helps a team succeed, but the goals need to flow in order to justify that price, which has not been the most reliable.

I think it's fair to say we paid that for his previous hot season at Bournemouth not when he couldn't get off the bench as a teenager at Chelsea.

At the end of the day that price was set because a) that was his release clause and b) that was the going rate in the striker market last Summer - it's just what it is.

It's also wise to use a bit of context if you're gonna analyse his goalscoring ability in his first season with us and realising that the team wasn't setup for him to score goals, but to facilitate others scoring.

I do agree that the goals need to flow this season and I think they will.
 
league form was shit and unacceptable but it its clearly fact that we binned off the league to win the Europa League.

I don't know why people can't just accept that. From February onwards we were resting our best players in the league and prioritising Europe. The proof is in the fact that Romero and VDV played no league games together!

I know you hate Ange and don't rate him. I'm not an Ange aplologist. I'm glad he's gone. But I really don't know why people can't accept that reality that we did bin off the last few months of the league to win the Europa. Romero said it himself in an interview. Thats why the squad were still so united after 22 league defeats, they were all focused on Europe! We were using the league games to rotate the squad and keep players fresh. Hence why the bad league form didn't make the squad turn on the manager. They were all focused on Europe!
Mate, I genuinely love Ange, and was defending him a lot longer than most of my pals were done with him. Bit the his quotes trying to rewrite history are about as credible as him cupping his ear at Stamford Bridge as he was trying to hear our away fans.

As the post you replied to stated, it wasn’t really till Frankfurt that we started taking it seriously which was April. AZ we phoned in the 1st leg completely and that was March. We didn’t have any EL games in Feb.

And by April our ceiling if we’d won all our remaining games was something like 12th/13th.

So my point is, had we lost the 2nd leg to AZ and gone out in the round of 16, and then gone on an unlikely winning run of every single game, it still would’ve been our worst premier league finish in 20 odd years.

As has been done to death on TFC, trading a mid table finish for 17th and the joys and glory of Bilbao is a not something anyone would do. But to put the narrative of 17th down to “focusing on EL” isn’t accurate - despite what Ange would want us to believe.
 
Last season says you are 100% right
Wise guy's always right. Even when he's wrong, he's right.

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(Quote's actually from Al's Lefty in Donnie Brasco)
 
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