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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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forest188 said:
Correct, I don't know that & at the same time you guys don't know that Forest have done anything. That is the point with this thing, there is a lack of facts because most of it comes down to contract law. The facts that we know are Spurs bid, booked a medical - then Forest ceased all contact & complained to the Premier League.

There wasn't even any reports there was any clauses in MGW's contract before this whole thing even came about.
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So we talk about the media reports, not the actual private discussions between agents, clients, and clubs.

You'll probably find a lot of talk that way on football forums about player's contracts and whatnot.

So with that in mind, the narrative is Spurs found out about the release clause in MGWs contract, agreed it with him through I suppose his agent, and Forest are trying to prevent the transfer because they didn't want other club's to find out about the clause, and sign the player relatively cheaply.

It might well come out not to be that, but for now we can discuss the media reports. We're not going to get MGW's agent to come on here and give us the rundown, even when the issue is resolved we'll still most likely only have the media to report the conclusion.
 
Confusius said:
Every fucking club talks to agents. But when we do it, we are threathened with legal action by a psycho owner!!!
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And we bend over
 
Tomo said:
There is nothing to say Levy has ignored anything. I am a Levy Out person so I have no reason to defend him. If Levy put a £60m release clause in a contract and I thought it was way to low I would be pissed off with Levy for putting it there in the first place but not in a million years would I expect Levy break a release clause. He is many things but he wouldn’t flagrantly break a contract.

Forest complaint is ‘tapping up’ and which is how every single team in the league includes your builds squads as Simon Jordan a former owner talks about. You speak to the agent who asks the player are you willing to come. If the agent tells the club yes then Spurs speak to Forest to speak with the player. The gray area is speaking with the agent but that is now how most transfers work. Athletico Madrid speak with our Romero all the time asking him to come, we ain’t taking Atletico Madrid to court. Regarding the release clause if the agent informs us of it that is the agents issue not ours, they have any NDA, we don’t.

Clearly there was a trigger of the release clause as it was confirmed you allowed a medical. That wouldn’t happened without agreement. Everyone knows your owner is a wild man. So why would an agreed transfer suddenly stop. Why would a triggered release clause suddenly not work. Just as Levy is known for lowballing transfer offer so your Greek guy is known for throwing toys out of the pram.


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understand Romano over weekend said that Spurs arranged the medical without Forests knowledge.

I usually think of you as one of the best posters on here, with usually thoughtful posts.
I think your position here of Spurs sueing Forest which you have repeated on quite a few occasions is very ill-thought out however.
Under what basis do we have a contract with Forest that they have broken ?
And it is our issue if we have used known illegally gained information (release clause) for our commercial gain.

I still think this happens and always have, however will be for North of £60m
 
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Spurs64 said:
I wouldn't be that surprised if there was a backroom arrangement with Forest and MGW that the transfer will go through quietly at a later date. Gives Forest time to spend the money without people thinking that they're flush and gives the owner the chance to claim he tried everything after publicly throwing his toys out of the pram.

Would explain how all parties have been so quiet in the last week.
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Was thinking the same. It's a scenario that makes everyone look good.
 
Sir Archibald Crooks said:
Its rapidly developing into the usual shit show and last minute trolley dash. To finish 17th and effectively just add Kudus to make any sort of difference 3 weeks out of the season starting is pretty pathetic even by our standards. Signing Tel and giving Davies another year are poor decisions. Solomon, Gil, Richarlison, Bissouma, Son, maybe Dragusin all still here.
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May as well get punished with a transfer embargo for the MGW release clause stuff...won't see the difference, will we?
 
Tomo said:
There is nothing to say Levy has ignored anything. I am a Levy Out person so I have no reason to defend him. If Levy put a £60m release clause in a contract and I thought it was way to low I would be pissed off with Levy for putting it there in the first place but not in a million years would I expect Levy break a release clause. He is many things but he wouldn’t flagrantly break a contract.

Forest complaint is ‘tapping up’ and which is how every single team in the league includes your builds squads as Simon Jordan a former owner talks about. You speak to the agent who asks the player are you willing to come. If the agent tells the club yes then Spurs speak to Forest to speak with the player. The gray area is speaking with the agent but that is now how most transfers work. Athletico Madrid speak with our Romero all the time asking him to come, we ain’t taking Atletico Madrid to court. Regarding the release clause if the agent informs us of it that is the agents issue not ours, they have any NDA, we don’t.

Clearly there was a trigger of the release clause as it was confirmed you allowed a medical. That wouldn’t happened without agreement. Everyone knows your owner is a wild man. So why would an agreed transfer suddenly stop. Why would a triggered release clause suddenly not work. Just as Levy is known for lowballing transfer offer so your Greek guy is known for throwing toys out of the pram.


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Why have we not made a public fuss to put pressure on Forest if everything has been done cleanly?
 
I've been pretty much in the "No to Garnacho" camp, because I assumed he'd breach Frank's "no dickheads" rule.

But it turns out Spurs have insider knowledge because Justin Cochrane coached him. Not only that, it seems Garnacho is more coachable than I imagined.

This clip is fascinating both in terms of the insights into Garnacho, but also Cochrane as a coach, and how he helped develop him. Just to add, Cochrane comes over very well.

I think this type of insider knowledge of a player is an important part of assessing whether a player is worth signing. It provides information the data analysis alone can't provide.


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MemphisWill said:
Never really said we shouldn't sell the naming rights. I said we shouldn't sign a 20 year agreement. Which we would be stupid to do.

Unless it was to someone who was coming on as a minority partner and the naming rights were really just a mechanism for juicing the accounts. Which is why I assume they haven't, and won't, be sold until/if that minority partner arrives.
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Do we know the structure of payments?

If it's 500m over 20 years but a good chunk is front-loaded then the TVM angle looks different. Maybe the Saudis are willing to put 100m cash down to guarantee this.
 
forest188 said:
In Spain release clauses are a legal obligation based on employment law. In the UK, release clauses are whatever it states in the contract. You can literally make them say anything and have extremely specific terms to be triggered.

The details aren't in the public for you to suggest an owner is ignoring a legal obligation. From every single public report, it's Levy that has ignored the legal obligation.
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..... That legal obligation being?
 
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