We don't think like a big FOOTBALL club, more like a big financial institution.
That's the real problem, always has been.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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We don't think like a big FOOTBALL club, more like a big financial institution.
That's the real problem, always has been.
There’s no chequebook at Spurs anymore.
So you admit they are underwhelming then.
That’s a start. We are proud of you.
You were underwhelmed..... Of course..... There's nothing there to dispute. The minutia of any further such discussion with you however; would be an absolute waste of time.
So let's skip all that and I'll just say... Whatever.
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And again, the cuntiest cunt of a club getting it done on a player we should be targeting whilst we fuck about with our latest excuse to not get a transfer done
We all know by now MGW will be the “we tried” and we’ll end up signing El Khanouss or Buonannote type fodder
Nope!! We were shit before the injury bonanza hit us, and we were shit after it ended.Having less injuries is like getting new players right? ... I mean, right?
The only thing that MIGHT save our face, is that it might have been the system.
We will see this season.
How does it 'usually' play out?
Even if you ignore the loans-made-permanent, we've made 2 new new signings so far (Kudus and Takai) before anyone has left. If you include new options in the squad that weren't here at the start of last season, it's Vuskovic, Min-Hyeok, Tel, Danso.
Last summer it was Solanke, Grey, Bergvall, Odobert (£160m+)
The summer before it was Johnson, Maddison, Vicario, Van de Ven, Veliz, Phillips, Solomon (over £150m easily, plus Kulu & Porro made permanent for another £70m or so)
The summer before that it was Richarlison, Bissouma, Udogie, Spence, Perisic, Forster (over £120m easily, plus Romero made permanent)
The football is secondary to them,enics food and drink is building infrastructure and hosting these wonderful events (that I couldn’t give a fuck about)
It usually plays out by not doing enough, and sometimes nowhere near enough.
It's not just about transfer fees either, it's the wages we offer which restricts the quality of our recruitment massively.
Yeah because we have a tight bean counter at the helm and not a competitive winner
Even if we wanted him, he'd pick chelsea over us because of the contract. He's not all that anyway.
Last summer was Solanke and bunch of teenagers that meant the wage bill was slashed.
For a season when we were meant to be challenging in Europe as well as Domestic
It was a scandalous summer for a club our size and I say that as someone who rates all of those teenagers we signed
He’s class but I agree on the wages. That’s part of my point
Something about him gives me really bad vibes, probably just the yearly club hopping. Can’t see him being happy at Chelsea very long tbh.
What is this based on? Who's turning us down for that reason?
It's laughable for people to defend last summer.
Shocking window.
They’ll upgrade him next year
Players aren't choosing chelsea because of "wages" - they don't even pay that highly.
They choose them because they are practically giving them a guaranteed salary over their whole career, such is the length of the contracts. Lots of pros have commented on that aspect.
That is just stupidity and not a simple 'wages' matter
I hope you are right
They scare me more than Woolwich when it comes to actually winning shit
As much as I’ll criticise our clubs ambition, I’ll not criticise us not challenging Chelsea for players.
That club is an absolute crime ring that the Premier league is too scared to sort out. To be honest, any player that joins Chelsea, I simply question their mentality anyway, it’s only for financial reasons that you go there for a long contract and guaranteed cash, still a shit club, who now have partial history, but it’s all plastic, purchased and built on the backs of scum.
That club is an absolute crime ring that the Premier league is too scared to sort out. To be honest, any player that joins Chelsea, I simply question their mentality anyway, it’s only for financial reasons that you go there for a long contract and guaranteed cash, still a shit club, who now have partial history, but it’s all plastic, purchased and built on the backs of scum.