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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Its not a blind assumption, the rates of sponsorship deals grow exponentially. And that is not unique to Spurs.

The money spent on transfers and wages is a direct reflection of the global exponential growth in broadcasting and marketing revenue within football.

The idea that we should take £10/yr (BetMGM already pays more than that on a short term deal for the training kit) for 20 years for the naming rights is preposterous. That amount of money is already entirely negligible. Within 5 years it would be a miniscule benefit we'd tied down to for another 15 years. By the final 5 years of the deal it wouldnt be enough to pay a U-21's wages.


Anyway - this is all hypothetical, again, as we're not selling our stadium naming rights any time soon - if at all. It's pure fantasy that its this great windfall waiting to happen.
Guys, seriously...can you not take this convo to a separate thread?
 
Supporters always fuck this up.

We love football. We obsess over it and spend our free time on it.

For professional footballers, it is very much a job.

I think you're overstating this. It's probably a lot more true of US sports, for instance, where sports are stratified accordingly but in Europe and South America the vibe is very different. Most kids love and play football as a passion, and the best ones are funneled into clubs at an early age, becoming entirely absorbed into the culture.

For every Benoit Assou-Ekotto or David Bentley there are a hundred professional players whose greatest desire is to score in a World Cup final, and even the richest players on Earth are still playing for love of the game.
 
What precisely has he developed Garnacho into?
Cochrane uses the example of coaching Garnacho to stop chopping onto his right foot all the time, and to trust his left more. Garnacho takes the coaching, and scores for the first team with his left.

More generally, Cochrane is telling a young player parts of his game he needs to develop to get ahead of the likes of Rashford, Sancho and Elanga.

Sure, Garnacho is far from the finished product, but the video is intriguing in what it reveals about Garnacho's mindset, and of how our new coach works with young players trying to make that breakthrough from the Academy.

It doesn't mean I want us to sign Garnacho. I'm still unsure. But I'm pleased that we have this insider knowledge of the player and his attitude.
 
Something very fishy is going on with Chelsea.

Valuation of N.Jackson is 80m +. A joke amount, but it being Chelsea they'll probably get it.
They bought Veiga for 14m and he played less than 10 times for them before being loaned out. Now talk Athletico will buy him for triple the amount.
They consistently sell their unwanted players for huge money.
Their (published) wages are not even that high any more, but still seem to attract player after player.

What's going on? Could they be paying backhanders to players/agents/clubs? Any other explanation?

The whole club is one big scam...... Been that way for decades.
 
Something very fishy is going on with Chelsea.

Valuation of N.Jackson is 80m +. A joke amount, but it being Chelsea they'll probably get it.
They bought Veiga for 14m and he played less than 10 times for them before being loaned out. Now talk Athletico will buy him for triple the amount.
They consistently sell their unwanted players for huge money.
Their (published) wages are not even that high any more, but still seem to attract player after player.

What's going on? Could they be paying backhanders to players/agents/clubs? Any other explanation?

Such a despicable club that I would like to believe they were up to no good and would get found out but it's them so I hold out zero hope.
 
I think you're overstating this. It's probably a lot more true of US sports, for instance, where sports are stratified accordingly but in Europe and South America the vibe is very different. Most kids love and play football as a passion, and the best ones are funneled into clubs at an early age, becoming entirely absorbed into the culture.

For every Benoit Assou-Ekotto or David Bentley there are a hundred professional players whose greatest desire is to score in a World Cup final, and even the richest players on Earth are still playing for love of the game.

Yeah big Americanism that imo. Most footballers fucking love the game and obsess over it. Like I said, Luis Suarez can barely walk without pain but he's still playing .. it isn't for money, it's for love of the sport. Plenty of players talk about the sport like giddy schoolkids and still watch/comment on it constantly.

I don't doubt there are job elements to it all, but a majority of footballers love football imo. To say otherwise is just being cynical for the sake of it.
 
Firstly, half of those are not true. And the ones that are true, we were complaining about we got completely shafted over.

Maybe think independently & don't just believe everything you are fed.

I, nor do any Forest fans really care what people think about us when we feel our club is getting shafted. Maybe your owner should have the same passion for the club.
You're just bitter cause James Ward-Prowse would rather go back to West Ham than play for youse again.
 
Maranakis is throwing a tantrum and just like when toddlers do it, we are ignoring him.

Hopefully he won’t reach the stage of throwing his own faeces at people…
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Live from The FGC's bathroom
 
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.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEIEXtneD0


View: https://youtu.be/mkcKQmr7kRc
 
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