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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Teach said:
Exactly the signing Spurs made under previous owners. The fans have funded vast investments to grow revenue, so why can’t we pay 120m?

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According to the Bank of England’s nifty little inflation calculator, 120 million pounds today is the equivalent of 27.6 million pounds in 1980 and 48 million in 1990. We have never been anywhere close to making “exactly that signing” under previous owners.
 
WPHIII said:
According to the Bank of England’s nifty little inflation calculator, 120 million pounds today is the equivalent of 27.6 million pounds in 1980 and 48 million in 1990. We have never been anywhere close to making “exactly that signing” under previous owners.
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Also the average English football salaries back in the late 80s and early 90s (specifically before the PL boom) was £1-2k per week. We actually paid Gazza around a reported £5k per week in 1988 which for that time was a lot of money however that adjusted for inflation is around £13k per week now lol, a far cry from the £300k per week Isak is reportedly demanding now.

Such a disingenuous crap argument because the football landscape has changed so much, we bought the likes of Sheringham and Anderton because we sold Gazza for a record fee to Lazio, likewise we bought Gazza because we sold Waddle for a record fee to Marseille. We replaced a star for a star whilst ignoring the rest of the teams needs and actually building a squad hence why we couldn't compete consistently. If you ever wanted to repeat that strategy now then it's akin to buying Isak now and having the likes of Emerson Royal, Skipp, Winks and Lankshear in the team to support him.
 
Aphex said:
It is quite unreal that Levy sat on camera and said our aim is to win the league and CL with a straight face....

and then we've signed Kudus. Where our rivals have spent massively on loads of elite players.

I bet Liverpool will finish up with Guehi and Isak in their squad by end of August. That is on top of all the other talent they've brought in.

And they won the fucking league. Talk about building from strength. Do you think if we somehow won a league title, Levy would do that the following summer? haha.

We finished 17th and we have signed one player. It's scandalous.

The bloke is an absolute cretin. The clown probably thinks because we got to the CL final previously, that we can do it again without spending.

That's the thing with Levy. I don't doubt he wants to win, but he doesn't really want to win. He doesn't spend the money to put us in the best position to win. if we win, it's because lightning has struck twice. Just like if we somehow got to the CL final this season, it would be lightning striking twice.

But of course we won't get to the CL final. We won't win the league, because Levy doesn't spend the money to make it happen.

But I tell you who will, or at least go close. Liverpool. City, Chelsea, Woolwich, why? Because they are spending the money to give themselves the best chance.

None of us expect guranteed trophies, we just want the club to show similar levels of ambition to the clubs on the same footing as us, with similar revenues, but we don't.

There is zero reason a club like ours shouldn't doing what Liverpool and Woolwich are doing.

We should be going all in for Isak as an example. Yes he might want Liverpool, but we should be throwing 300k a week at him, and 130 million at Newcastle and going for it. At least trying.

But we won't. I am just sick of the fact we never ever show ambition that our rivals do. There is no excuse or reason for it, apart from Levy being Levy.

I honestly don't know how he has the gall to show his face in Tottenham. Doesn't he look at our rivals and think how embarassed he is that they bring in top quality and we don't? If I was the owner I'd be like, wtf am I doing? shameful. Let's at least have a go.

It's the same every single year, and it's all because of one man. We aren't asking to bankrupt the club, but let's go big for some elite players. Show everyone we are going for it, not just trying to finish top 5.

I mean, he did actually say he wanted to win the CL and PL, so where is the money and where are the signings?
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You nailed it when you said Levy wants to win but doesn't REALLY want to win.

Actions will always speak far louder than empty words.

Until Levy physically demonstrates some serious ambition its all just talk, whilst they continue to mug off this very loyal fan base by charging the highest ticket prices in the land.

We were told the new stadium would be a game changer, well it is for ENIC pockets - it hasn't changed a dam thing in terms of how we operate as a football Club.

It's disgusting really.
 
WPHIII said:
According to the Bank of England’s nifty little inflation calculator, 120 million pounds today is the equivalent of 27.6 million pounds in 1980 and 48 million in 1990. We have never been anywhere close to making “exactly that signing” under previous owners.
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I do agree with you on our level of ambition; the only ‘drop your bacon sandwich’ signing I can remember where we signed a player all the ‘bigger clubs’ wanted was when we signed Gazza.

But general inflation as recorded by the BoE just compared transfer spending to CPI. What about comparing it to the growth of our revenue? ‘Football inflation’ is surely > CPI. The best players in the world cost a couple of million in 1980; now that would be ? £200m
 
Richard Arlison said:
Isak is going to Saudi for a world record, ridiculous amount of money and wages.

He will go to a club owned by the same people that own Newcastle. The bar codes will then spend that “income” very aggressively.

Surely that’s fucking obvious to anyone and everyone?

They’ve likely promised him he can come back to Europe in a year or 2.
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Didn't think about that one. Makes a lot of sense. 250m and back on loan to Newcastle with a 10m option to buy in Jan... that would be so funny and not a thing the PL or UEFA can do about it.
 
spurs9 said:
Imagine how many more progressive passes & carries Bentancur, Bissouma or whoever the other CM is, if they had the ball more and received it quickly after we had won possession, so the opposition hadn't had chance to reset.

That is what Palhinha does.

Not every player on the team needs to be strong at progressing the ball. You need players that win the ball back and get it to the progressive players quickly, players that can intelligently progress the ball and runners to get onto the end of the pass.
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We have players who can win it back, we need players who can pass the ball
 
Bloodbath said:
Bissouma's best games are high quality, not many others are as good as him. He is rocks or diamonds though, more rocks last season. If someone could keep getting the best out of him on a regular basis we wouldn't need to sign anybody. Not sure Frank can do that.
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When Ange went double pivot to win the EL and Biss wasn’t under the microscope of being the lone 6, he was fucking outstanding.
 
WPHIII said:
According to the Bank of England’s nifty little inflation calculator, 120 million pounds today is the equivalent of 27.6 million pounds in 1980 and 48 million in 1990. We have never been anywhere close to making “exactly that signing” under previous owners.
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The market has changed massively, well above inflation growth. Lineker, Gazza, Waddle, Ardiles etc all comparable with the standing of Isak as a top player
 
WPHIII said:
According to the Bank of England’s nifty little inflation calculator, 120 million pounds today is the equivalent of 27.6 million pounds in 1980 and 48 million in 1990. We have never been anywhere close to making “exactly that signing” under previous owners.
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We did break the UK transfer record for both Greaves and Gascoigne. Amount wise it might not be comparable with todays fees but then there wasnt prem, CL, TV and absurd ticket price money sloshing around.
 
WPHIII said:
According to the Bank of England’s nifty little inflation calculator, 120 million pounds today is the equivalent of 27.6 million pounds in 1980 and 48 million in 1990. We have never been anywhere close to making “exactly that signing” under previous owners.
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But football itself never generated revenues back then for any club to make those sort of deals, so a bit of a silly equivalence.
A 5m deal back in 1980 would be equivalent of a 150m deal now based on revenue progression. (Maradona was world record transfer at £5m in 1982 for example).

Your analogy basically says because we didn’t spend more than 6fold the world record transfer fee at the time, we wouldn’t bid for Isak.
As I said it is just a totally silly equivalence, which I hope you retract.
 
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Doom Funk said:
Liverpool , Woolwich , City , Chelsea , Villa , Newcastle , Brighton

Probably be a couple other teams that have a forest or Bournemouth season out of nowhere too

Not saying we can't finish around 5th but with CL football it's going to be difficult

We've done nowhere near enough in this window so far

I'm confident the new manager will get us playing more coherently but Ange wasn't the only reason we were so poor last season , people are overhyping way too many of our players and giving them a free pass for last year
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Yeah I agree with that. What lots are also missing is that it was a group of players who were more than happy to hide behind the manager and let him take ALL the blame for the league results (when while he was obviously to blame, none of the players wanted to take any responsibility). We need some proper leaders and men in the team who want to take responsibility.
 
Teach said:
Waddle / Gazza
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Nope, work out the inflation comparion from then until now for both players, transfers and salaries, they don't come close to Isak's potential sale.

Let me ask you something would you prefer to go back to the previous strategy of buying the odd star every so often and having to sell them because of financial difficulties (Waddle and Gazza) or perhaps prefer a time where our squad building was so pitiful and bought a load of duds to make up the numbers in the squad? Is that really showing ambition?

It amazes me that people go on about our strategy immediately pre ENIC as if we were sweeping up trophies every season, such disingenuous nonsense.
 
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