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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Yes we are a rich man's west ham.
he looks physically abled to compete in the prem thats for sure, thats where i worry for players like devine, you need to be able to run well to play in the prem, if not you need to have unreal technique and vision. bentancur doesnt move clean enough to play in prem midfield and he has no outstanding attributes to his game.
Jashari instead of Camara. Camara isn't better than Bissouma and Sarr and doesn't improve your team. Jashari is a defensive midfielder but he has also great feets: he should be a perfect signing.
Agree. But in Ligue1 Sarr was better than Camara. PL is different level.
Villa, Newcastle, Everton, Leeds. And Woolwich were much more successful than us at that time.
The reason I harangue some posters is because they're OTT and fact-free with some of their comments (e.g. we don't spend any money; Levy pockets the money, etc etc). It's Levy Out or bust, whereas what would benefit us the most is him running the business side of things, which is something he excels at, and having a world class football operations department running the sporting side. But hardly anyone makes this kind of argument. It's always a guttural reaction, so I'm going to call people out on that.
He'd go for more than Caicedo, he is good but just not worth it. Could end being another Bissouma for all we know.
Jashari is all but wearing the Rossoneri
Nope to the bolded bit.
The fact its a short contract to 2028 and the fact that neither Spurs nor any other club tried to counterbid should tell you that Notts Forest gave him a mega pay rise say £300 pw (£15m pa) or even more say £400pw or £20m pa (possibly including guaranteed bonuses) to keep him - but no other club could afford to buy him at £60m or so plus those mega wages. Hence ManCity withdrew before bidding and Spurs were left without MGW.
Notts Forest tactic is sometimes known as a poison pill for good reason.
Maybe we can sell our Cheese Room to our parent company?
To be fair any player who gets close to that city first team from the academy must be pretty special
I first saw Macatee play for Sheffield United a few years back and he totally bossed the championship that season I didnt even know until the year after he was on loan from city
Great young player who just needs a team to give him starts to showcase his ability and I'd be very happy if he did come to Spurs
Same with Harvey Elliot i dont see city or Liverpool standing in those players way if a suitable offer arrives
Onana- another decent player ruined on the merry shores of United.
Would be a great addition, if he can adapt to the PL. This one I'm excited about.
Other teams sell their properties so they can buy more players
We buy less players so that we can build more property
We'll probably try selling players to ourselves to finance another wing on the hotel
Backwards club
We buy less players so that we can build more property
We'll probably try selling players to ourselves to finance another wing on the hotel
Backwards club
''Journalist Duncas Castles has now revealed that Zabarnyi wants to move to the French capital, but PSG are only willing to pay €60m (£52m) for his services.
However, he asserts that Tottenham have already made a bid of €70m (£60.7m) for the Ukrainian, which is more than the fixed component of the fee they paid for Dominic Solanke, who is Spurs’ record signing.''
Tottenham Hotspur submit club record £60.7m bid for Premier League star
According to Duncan Castles, Tottenham have just submitted a mammoth offer for one of the quickest centre-backs in the Premier League.www.spurs-web.com
Good lord why do we need another CB? Sounds weird.
It's hardly an important point, but these 4 of the 6 transfers you referred to as early absolutely are a gotcha in terms of what you were on about...
Lo Celso and Sessegnon were deadline day signings ffs!
The 2020 window started 27th July and closed 5th October, season started 13th September, with Reguilon joining the following week.
Solanke joined the week before PL kicked off and had no pre-season with us, but granted, by your expectations of Levy this was early.
Main point though, there's no correlation between when we sign players and how good they are, whenever they sign there's 80% chance they're gonna be cack.
Any legal action is just a matter of finances, it's not like MGW could possibly see any legal repercussions for leaking his release clause beyond a fine, which we would pay anyway as is always the case in these instances. I want to believe that Marinakis held a gun to his head with that contract waved in front of his face by a nearby henchman until he agreed to sign it but it just isn't realistic, as I said what can Marinakis threaten MGW with? Once he's in London in a Spurs shirt he's completely untouchable, doesn't matter how much money he has, the resources thrown into any investigation of any unfortunate circumstance that may befall MGW after his transfer would be staggering, there's absolutely no way you get away with blackmailing (or worse) a PL player in 2025.
I think by far the likeliest scenario is that there is a new clause in the new contract active from next summer for very specific clubs, likely clubs who have been in European competition consistently over x number of years so Marinakis can save face. MGW is 25 and has his entire prime in front of him once his current Forest contract expires, even if he doesn't get a move he is now on at least the £150k/week being reported plus whatever else Marinakis has bribed him with, he has time and simply does not need the Tottenham move. Either he continues playing as well as he has and someone will stump up the new RC next summer or they won't and he's free at 28 to go wherever he likes on a free with massive wages to boot.
I hate it, I hate that we've fucked our chances sitting on our hands for 3 windows under Poch and then going for the cheap option time and time and time again when we had the pull to bring in real top class players, but we did, and we are paying the price for it now, players will happily pass up rolling the dice on joining us to wait it out for a surer thing a year or two down the line. We really need to pray Frank is the real deal and we can start putting our tarnished image back together over the next 2 seasons.
Talk about changing the narrative!
Do you really think if he had a free choice he’d be staying at Forest?!