Imo hes not ready yet.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Based on the times he played there last season, he's absolutely not ready. needs a full summer in the gym for a start.
It was funny.5 gave it a laugh though
Some of us can laugh at our own expense. Self depreciating humous is a thing some of our fans can't comprehend.
What does it mean though?
Does it mean we need the cash to use to buy other players?
Or does it mean we need the squad space?
If it's the former, then there really is a big problem at Spurs and finances have been catastrophically mismanaged. If it's the latter, then we really need to put big boy trousers on and tell the unwanted players to find new clubs and for us to "leak" their availability.
He is and will show people within 6 months how good he is
Maybe on deadline day, but not at this point.
Or we have truly appalling players we are trying to move on?
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Also an excellent point.
We didn’t get resale for that squad because we absolutely rinsed them physically due to building zero depth around them
Either he's deemed good enough or not..... And if he is; bring him in now.
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13 players that we’ve got 10m or above is how I’ve taken it
Kane
Walker
Trips
Bergwijn
Skipp
Winks
Toby
Royal
Rodon
All I can think of
Does read awkward
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You can always move players on. You just have to take a hit as a consequence of your poor buying but it's for the greater good in the end.
I can't help but feeling that a 29 year old striker with one good season never can be anything but a panic, everything else has failed, deadline day purchase.
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The replies. We’re just like Bayern fans
I just don’t see it. Certainly not this season, he will have to have a huge jump forward in quality and physicality to be tearing it up in cm in the PL and CL.
Both this—and
Barmby
's point—is true, but the narrative that Levy is always looking buy young and/or cheap in order to maximise their resale value isn't (which I know is a different point to the one you're making, but it is sort of related). If anything, we've held onto players well past their peak market value (Son is, perhaps, a good current example, Eriksen before that) because of what they could deliver for us on the pitch; and, where we've had to let our best players go, it's not always for the biggest fee we could have secured (e.g. refusing to allow Modric to go to Chelsea, and Kane to go to either City or United).As much as Levy frustrates me in his general approach to conducting transfer business, I don't buy the criticism that he's only ever looking to buy for profit.
He means that only 13 players have been sold for fees greater than £10m I think.
People were saying they didn’t see it with Bergvall until he got a run of games
And he only got a run of games because Gray was covering our crappy squad building at CB
Eriksen about £16m I think.
I will say that is an awful apples to oranges table from CBS Sports.Sell to buy FC,
It is based on EBITDA, which means for premier league clubs means does not include the transfer fees of the players