Let Frank access the squad for a few seasons, no point buying players who will just block the route to the first team for some of our under 11's who will be world class if they get given the chance!
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Maddison was signed on 175k though at a similar age. I think particularly with Son on the way out we were open to signing someone near 200k this summer.
Maddison for 40m and 8m a year is very different to Eze for 60m in 3 installments and 10.5m per year.
You can believe it but it won’t happen. Sorry but it won’t.
… and if it does happen like you say it’s to replace Son on 190 and likely Romero on 180 or whatever he’s on. Sameway Maddison replaced Kane’s wages in effect.
If we only sign top wage earners to replace other top wage earners, then we are treading water at best.
Unless it's Xavier Simons from Bolton Wanderers.
I know it’s not gonna happen. I just don’t believe it’s because of the wages.
How many opposition fans rated Firminho or Salah in the first season or 2 at Liverpool ?
Answer - NOBODY (and a lot of Liverpool fans were not fans of the players either)
Firminho doesn't score many yet as a CF he should
Salah - failed at Chelse, not a great winger
......... roll on 5 years ...... different story.
Stop writing off Spurs players in their first couple of seasons - supposed fans wrote off Bale and Kane too...!
Forums full of misery merchants
AHH of course Chelsea
Yes he does but clearly part of his role was to occupy defenders to allow for Johnson to find space at the back post or run beyond.
who is Zoltar? can't find his YouTube reel
Yeah! Kees Smit is a jewel, but just 19 years with less experience in the Dutch Eredivisie. Season 24/25 18 matches in the Eredivisie with 986 minutes. It's a lot of money for this boy and totally no guarentee too success. ( think of Janssen...I'm sorry guys!
).During UEFA Under 19 he was (one of ) the best player among his peers without a lot of fysical duels.
Thank you mate, I'll pass that on to her, she'll be very pleased.
think we want a large sell on or something similar just in case
Sadly what you say is very plausible and it's something I've thought for a long time. Sticking to the wage structure is the most important thing to Levy,that's the way he wants to run the club and history has proven this. Being linked to and making half hearted attempts to sign players the likes Kudus, Simons, Eze etc is fine as long as in the shadows the real cheaper wage targets are the deals that are actually being worked on.
An added aspect is that I think there is an element of paranoia in Levy after what happened with Willian. It's beneficial for Spurs if rivals like Chelsea, Newcastle, Woolwich complete their transfer business first and that will mean they will no longer be in competition with us and gazump us at the last minute for the players we actually want.
An example of this could well be Kudus and Dibling. It's like we are provoking Chelsea or whoever to come in and buy Kudus instead of Dibling who they have been also after whilst we are deliberately faffing around in negotiations with West Spam. If Chelsea get him then we have a free run at Dibling.
Neto last summer was a similar situation. In no way whatsoever were Spurs interested in Neto considering his wages, transfer fee and injury record. However they obviously made a fake effort to negotiate to flush out Chelsea who eventually signed him. Meanwhile all along Lange was working in the shadows doing a deal for the real target Odobert
Having said all this id love to be proved wrong and we sign Kudus and lets say Simons this summer.
Agree. But i don't think Madders is good enough either. Not if we want to become challengers.
Yeah! Kees Smit is a jewel, but just 19 years with less experience in the Dutch Eredivisie. Season 24/25 18 matches in the Eredivisie with 986 minutes. It's a lot of money for this boy and totally no guarentee too success. ( think of Janssen...I'm sorry guys!
During UEFA Under 19 he was (one of ) the best player among his peers without a lot of fysical duels.
What kind of a midfielder is he?
When we do miss out on Kudus and decide to buy some young forward from another league who nobody ever heard of before, it'll be interesting to see if Frank behaves like Ange did and pretends he was on board with it.
The prime example from last year was Ange demanding a 1v1 specialist with Pedro Neto being the main target. Very similar to the Kudus situation now where Neto was open to coming and his wages demands were quite reasonable (150K) but Spurs were trying to do the deal for 45m. Wolves consistently asked for 55m. Chelsea came in out of nowhere and paid the Wolves asking price and offered Neto 160k a week. We then went and signed Odobert for around 20m and he's on 25k a week salary. Ange went into a press conferance and pretending Odobert was the player he wanted all along even though the dogs on the street new it was a club signing and they didn't back him with a first team player! He towed the line for Levy.
If/When we miss out on Kudus for a cheaper and younger alternative. Lets see how Frank behaves!
The prime example from last year was Ange demanding a 1v1 specialist with Pedro Neto being the main target. Very similar to the Kudus situation now where Neto was open to coming and his wages demands were quite reasonable (150K) but Spurs were trying to do the deal for 45m. Wolves consistently asked for 55m. Chelsea came in out of nowhere and paid the Wolves asking price and offered Neto 160k a week. We then went and signed Odobert for around 20m and he's on 25k a week salary. Ange went into a press conferance and pretending Odobert was the player he wanted all along even though the dogs on the street new it was a club signing and they didn't back him with a first team player! He towed the line for Levy.
If/When we miss out on Kudus for a cheaper and younger alternative. Lets see how Frank behaves!
It's called an opinion! And in my opinion I have yet to see that the players mentioned are good enough to get us CL qalification next season..
Do I want to be wrong about this? I'll let you decide, but if Frank does get a tune out of this group to the point we are bouncing around the top 4 all season I'll hail him a managerial genius!
Feel free to fuck off until the end of the transfer window if that's your attitude.
Buh-bye
