Somebody make sweet love to that man again & again.
Brilliantly said, my man.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Brilliantly said, my man.
Exactly. Thank you....From AC Milan.. A record transfer fee at the time for one of the best, if not THE best strikers in Europe.....
....And yet the clown I was responding to claimed we have "never been close to making signings" like Isak under any previous ownership
Some fans need to brush up on our history
I think Spence actually makes a pretty good LB , however if we get an injury to Udogie or Porro and Spence steps in , they can't both be playing CL and PL so yeah I make you right !
I'm not saying Frank is a magician, but I feel like he's not going to struggle making a decent midfield/attack out of that list. there are no stand-out superstars there, but at the same time he didn't buy mbuemo or wissa as over £100m worth of players either.
But we can't magic up depth where it doesn't exist, and it is surprising that people are not focusing the conversation on those positions.
This is the whole fucking point!Teach is the one who bought up this stupid comparison with yesteryear as if we are playing by the same rules, we're not.
The market prices are incomparable to today's price you're right but the entire fucking football landscape is incomparable as well, this was a time before we had the Premier League capitalist boom, sugar daddies, blood and oil money, nouveau riche teams hoovering up the talent and thus increasing the prices of players throughout the league, player power etc...Yes our revenue has hiked up since then but so has everyone else's in this league.
There's clubs playing by their own rules in this league and using every inch to cheat their way round the rules and you expect us to be at the forefront of signing the best striker in the league, you're delusional.
To say we were trailblazers in the market at a time where we were on the verge of running our club into the ground and nearly going into administration twice is actually hilarious.
The thing that you jokers fail to recognise is that we had to sell Paul Gascoigne because we were in financial ruin and on the verge of going under. Do you know what bought that on? Financial and squad mismanagement by our (then) owner Mr Scholar, all well and good signing a big star and putting them on a big wage and not being able to sustain any kind of success or progress but that kind of strategy has a shelf life because it's impossible to compete if the squad isn't up to par.
BTW we beat Utd to the signing of why we beat Utd to Gazza by the way because we offered him higher wages and a bigger signing on fee of £120k.
It's all well and good brining up the times when we bought the odd star and paid big bucks but it was fleeting, it wasn't the norm for Sugar and it wasn't the norm for Scholar because the majority of their transfers turned out to be average or complete duds and what did it all fucking lead to anyway:
Scholar: 2 FA Cup's and a UEFA Cup
Sugar: 1 FA Cup and a Carling Cup
Big fucking whoop! lmao
No period of dominance, no league title(s), no European cup(s), no sustainability, no consistency, resulting in losing these players in the end because we couldn't sustain ourselves competitively and in the end we had to sell these players to stay afloat financially, this is the period you're hailing?
Anyone hailing our previous owners in terms of recruitment and strategy needs to have a look at themselves, it's an embarrassing and desperate argument.
Keep your shit arguments to the ENIC thread, tired of reading this disingenuous crap.
TBH I don't even know what he is. He's been both good and a bit shit at LWB and RWB, but seems (including on his loans) to blow hot and cold. I wouldn't blame someone for worrying about that and not counting him as reliable depth.
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Well said sir, people forget just how close we were to there not being a Tottenham at all under Irving Scholar.This is the whole fucking point!
The market prices are incomparable to today's price you're right but the entire fucking football landscape is incomparable as well, this was a time before we had the Premier League capitalist boom, sugar daddies, blood and oil money, nouveau riche teams hoovering up the talent and thus increasing the prices of players throughout the league, player power etc...Yes our revenue has hiked up since then but so has everyone else's in this league.
There's clubs playing by their own rules in this league and using every inch to cheat their way round the rules and you expect us to be at the forefront of signing the best striker in the league, you're delusional.
To say we were trailblazers in the market at a time where we were on the verge of running our club into the ground and nearly going into administration twice is actually hilarious.
The thing that you jokers fail to recognise is that we had to sell Paul Gascoigne because we were in financial ruin and on the verge of going under. Do you know what bought that on? Financial and squad mismanagement by our (then) owner Mr Scholar, all well and good signing a big star and putting them on a big wage and not being able to sustain any kind of success or progress but that kind of strategy has a shelf life because it's impossible to compete if the squad isn't up to par.
BTW we beat Utd to the signing of why we beat Utd to Gazza by the way because we offered him higher wages and a bigger signing on fee of £120k.
It's all well and good brining up the times when we bought the odd star and paid big bucks but it was fleeting, it wasn't the norm for Sugar and it wasn't the norm for Scholar because the majority of their transfers turned out to be average or complete duds and what did it all fucking lead to anyway:
Scholar: 2 FA Cup's and a UEFA Cup
Sugar: 1 FA Cup and a Carling Cup
Big fucking whoop! lmao
No period of dominance, no league title(s), no European cup(s), no sustainability, no consistency, resulting in losing these players in the end because we couldn't sustain ourselves competitively and in the end we had to sell these players to stay afloat financially, this is the period you're hailing?
Anyone hailing our previous owners in terms of recruitment and strategy needs to have a look at themselves, it's an embarrassing and desperate argument.
Keep your shit arguments to the ENIC thread, tired of reading this disingenuous crap.
On a slight tangent, there was a post yesterday bemoaning Liverpool's attempt to sign Isak which went on to point out that we broke all transfer and wage records by signing Jimmy Greaves from Milan.
The poster forgot to mention that we did this from a position of being English league and cup champions and the second best team in the world at that time.
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Wind your neck in, sunshine. Been a fan 40+ years, seen 1000s of games at the ground & telly, used to have a ST and buy a fortunes worth of merch etc.
By 'all in' do you mean like the the Lions once did after the 99 call and kick the shit out of him so he can't play for anyone?
More chance of that happening than him deciding us over the likely suitors and I think it's fair to say he'd rather stay where he is if we were the only option for him leaving.
Best ever striker that I was privileged to see despite a fag at half time with Gilly!
I'd say there's a fair argument that RB is our strongest position in terms quality of #1 and how little drop-off there is in quality to the #2.
I still don't trust Spence. He was sensational for a 2 month spell last year (January/February) but his end of season form was embarrassing. I'm not sure we can trust someone who has only really played 10 good games for us. I know he's a fans favourite and he has been mistreated by previous managers and probably not had enough opportunities to play.
BUT I wouldn't be comfortable with us relying on him being our main back up fullback next season. I just think it'll end badly. Obviously hope he proves me wrong if and when he does get games, but I just am not convinced he'll show consistency and be a reliable back up. I think we will regularly drop points when he plays.
Porro has played 105 games in less than 2.5 seasons, so we need to be very careful to manage that. He struggled for form last season when he was clearly getting a bit leggy.
Ideally, we'd bring in someone in that area. Wouldn't even be against someone a bit older to do the domestic cups and to refresh Porro so he can have the main games. Or invert that, depending on how Spence is to be identified.
Still, an injury means we'd be rotating in someone who isn't primarily a LWB or RWB, like VDV or Davies. That's more of an issue to me than the interpretation of what our midfielders currently offer.
I can't get on board with this assessment , in my mind he's a generational talent
It's clear English isn't his first language and I think some of the things he says get lost in translation a bit. Give him another chance , I promise he is a golden nugget , a rose amongst thorns