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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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I have to be honest the appointment itself kind of set the tone of the direction we're heading.
If as a club you intend on spending serious money to attract top players you don't appoint Thomas Frank. You just don't.
If you have serious designs on competing for the Premier League and Champions League you don't employ Thomas Frank.
He's here to operate on a shoestring relative to our peers and get the optimum out of what he has at his disposal
This is the ENIC model
I’ll be honest it took me a while to clock it but as soon as I did, it was pretty obvious
60m is gone, forget it but
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Go get Akliouche for 45m. He fits our financial model of being young and has resale value and is probably better than MGW anyway.
He gives this squad a Dele deluxe
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Go get Akliouche for 45m. He fits our financial model of being young and has resale value and is probably better than MGW anyway.
He gives this squad a Dele deluxe
It's not that they refused to contemplate selling to us. There was a release clause which we matched but Notts Forrestts owner did everything he could to protect his club to stop it happening and bullied our owners.
One owner consistently shows ambition and tries to improve their club while ours focuses solely on the entertainment business.
People can dress it up anyway like they but it's an absolute shit show, we couldn't even sign a player when there was a release clause. Add it to the never ending shit shows we have had to put it with in last 25 years
If it makes you feel better, keep believing the whole charade.
Mate, it will be Jacob Ramsey or at a push Harvey Elliott.
Dunno how I would feel if this was say Romero , MGW obviously wants out of Forest yet somehow ends up signing a 1 year
Extension , what not a new 5 year
Contract if he was serious - proper small club mentality from them , hope
The cunts go down
Extension , what not a new 5 year
Contract if he was serious - proper small club mentality from them , hope
The cunts go down
That’s exactly what I’ve been afraid of for a while now
I’d prefer the Leicester kid El Khanouss to either of those
Quite probably by we obviously don’t want to pay for Eze so will try and fudge it in some other way. I wasn’t convinced mgw was worth the money they wanted anyway but we need to go for a few players with CL experience and Grealish has that. There’s still a player there. As unlikely as Eze though I suspect.
I just want a few players in who can pass the ball, we have a team of runners. Not enough technical players who can keep the ball and that will be exposed and embarrassed greatly in Europe this season. Although we’ve never changed tact with CL money so can’t see it now. It’s just more of a standard ENIC window, which would have been the case if mgw had come in anyway. Depressing.
I don't know much about his mentality - but that is certainly a red flag if true. Looking on the bright side, Mainoo is only 20 while Rashford is 27. Kobbie still has a lot to learn and you can hope that a manager with Thomas' people skills can make him understand that the team is more important than the individual. However, it is certainly a risk.
A serious big club would be putting their balls on the table and paying what it takes for Eze or Simmons who can play as a 10 and nominally off the left. 2 positions we need filling.
That’s who we’ll get because he’s got a low release clause apparently!
So fucking transparent with this club. We’ll go for the younger option and hope it pays off all while not being what we actually need. The club think they are being clever, but they aren’t, we’ve all seen through it.
HomeWinks has less than a year left on his contract
Grown as well….
Alasdair Gold:
The team Spurs beat in that Europa League final have not sat still. Manchester United have added proven quality in Bryan Mbeumo to their ranks, joining Matheus Cunha as a big money arrival while Diego Leon has also arrived this summer with the trio setting United back £130.8million.
Manchester City have spent £126million so far on four signings but last season's top two Liverpool and Spurs' north London rivals Woolwich are getting huge business done.
Arne Slot's side completed a £69million deal for Hugo Ekitike after that potential British record transfer of £116million for Florian Wirtz to take their transfer tally to £269million, while Woolwich's signing of Viktor Gyokeres took their spending to more than £200million with the prospect of adding Eberechi Eze on top of that.
Don't forget Chelsea either who have spent £212million with Joao Pedro, Jamie Gittens and Liam Delap among the new faces.
Spurs are looking up and gawping at all of those sides on the ladder above them at a time when they needed to be trying to leap up to grab their ankles.
This should have been a time of pushing on. It's no longer an era when bringing in one big money signing is enough. The £55million put towards Kudus is just the tip of the iceberg compared to other side's spending this summer. Everyone knows Spurs were prepared to spend £60million on Gibbs-White so they will have to invest that now on someone else.
The team Spurs beat in that Europa League final have not sat still. Manchester United have added proven quality in Bryan Mbeumo to their ranks, joining Matheus Cunha as a big money arrival while Diego Leon has also arrived this summer with the trio setting United back £130.8million.
Manchester City have spent £126million so far on four signings but last season's top two Liverpool and Spurs' north London rivals Woolwich are getting huge business done.
Arne Slot's side completed a £69million deal for Hugo Ekitike after that potential British record transfer of £116million for Florian Wirtz to take their transfer tally to £269million, while Woolwich's signing of Viktor Gyokeres took their spending to more than £200million with the prospect of adding Eberechi Eze on top of that.
Don't forget Chelsea either who have spent £212million with Joao Pedro, Jamie Gittens and Liam Delap among the new faces.
Spurs are looking up and gawping at all of those sides on the ladder above them at a time when they needed to be trying to leap up to grab their ankles.
This should have been a time of pushing on. It's no longer an era when bringing in one big money signing is enough. The £55million put towards Kudus is just the tip of the iceberg compared to other side's spending this summer. Everyone knows Spurs were prepared to spend £60million on Gibbs-White so they will have to invest that now on someone else.
Club PR machine will be working overtime this morning after last night's drubbing. I expect a solid new link to appear today.
I reckon Harvey Elliot.
I reckon Harvey Elliot.
You can blame a lot of people for the MGW situation but I’m sorry to tell you, Levy ain’t one.
Yep, even if the goons wanted Eze, Simons was right there all the time Chavski were selling Madueke and hadn’t won the club cup.
But we were never serious about Eze, Simons or MGW