Tel & Odobert lol
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Brentford making their move, now we were strongly linked with this guy a few weeks ago, Don't know if this may bait us, plus means Wissa going perhaps
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If we sell Son and expect Tel and Odobert to match his goal contributions (the highest in our squad) then we are completely fucked.
Neither of those players would start for Fulham never mind a CL team.
Read were after defender arujo from barcelona.
There’s a difference between prime age hand me downs - these rarely meet expectations. Palhinha falls into this category.
However, Van Der Vaart was 10 levels above Palhinha, he was squeezed out cos Madrid bought Kaka & Ozil. I don’t see Bayern buying any top CM’s, they just want rid, the same way PSG couldn’t wait to get rid of UGARTE after 12 months
Llorente, Gudjohnssen, Naybet, Davids, Bale, Gallas were all proven at the very highest level, Palhinha isn’t.
Kulusevski, Bentancur, Romero all young enough and GDS was a youth punt who was never going to get the minutes at Barca because of the minor issue called Lionel Messi.
All Palhinha has is a good season at a mid-table club. That makes him a Morgan Schneiderlin to me.
However, Van Der Vaart was 10 levels above Palhinha, he was squeezed out cos Madrid bought Kaka & Ozil. I don’t see Bayern buying any top CM’s, they just want rid, the same way PSG couldn’t wait to get rid of UGARTE after 12 months
Llorente, Gudjohnssen, Naybet, Davids, Bale, Gallas were all proven at the very highest level, Palhinha isn’t.
Kulusevski, Bentancur, Romero all young enough and GDS was a youth punt who was never going to get the minutes at Barca because of the minor issue called Lionel Messi.
All Palhinha has is a good season at a mid-table club. That makes him a Morgan Schneiderlin to me.
I can understand why the club has done it and he will undoubtedly help us in bigger games.
However IF the aim is to get back to where we were, then a 1-dimensional shin kicker isn’t going to cut it vs 13/14 teams in the league.
I anticipate a lot of “spurs have run out of ideas” type scenarios this season.
Every good team needs a nuts and bolts player. Paulunha has been brought in for that reason. Decent signing imo.
For us, it's really more about cutting down the goals we concede than replacing the goals we scored.
If we can reduce our GA by saying 20-25 for the season, then that's equivalent to getting in a striker who'd score the same amount.
If Tel & Odobert manage to contribute say 10 less goals than Son between them for the season, that still leaves us a net positive of 10-15 goals for the season, which could potentially mean we are in the running for CL spots.
That's why I'm thinking that signing Palinha could be a bigger needle mover for us than many are giving it credit for.
I'm not suggesting we'll suddenly turn into title challengers, but the old saying springs to mind, goals win games, but defenses win titles.
Yeah, Woolwich just signed Norgaard to do something similar. I think I'd rather have Paulinha.
Yeah i'm not sure what the long term plan is, it will be interesting to see what Frank's plan is for Gray as he wanted him before he came to Spurs, last season though we were just to weak in midfield , I'm not even sure what Formation Frank is going to play, I think he will change it game to game, but Palhinha will hopefully mean we aren't bullied so easily, I really hope the club are thinking about next season as well and this is just a stop gap.
Solanke is criminally underrated on here. He's better than Jackson at almost everything.
Yeah, he didn't score enough goals last season but his all around performances were brilliant. He's not an elite like Isak/Haaland but then players are rare. If he adds more goals to his game then he's a brilliant number 9!
I hate repeating myself but for everyone at the back.... SOLANKE IS NOT THE PROBLEM!
What is the smartest man in the room up to today I wonder
Probably back to running his Greek shipping empire I would imagine
Probably back to running his Greek shipping empire I would imagine
I guess for Teams that sit back we will have the option of something like below, add in Udogie and Porro getting forward the only position that worries me is Udogie's Rotation and Tel being the Heir to Sonny, really need to see a lot more from Tel as its a huge Gamble , the club has the MGW money , go out and get a marque signing now to replace Sonny and someone to rotate with Udogie and Frank will actually have a chance.
...................Palinha.............
.....Bergvail......... .......Maddison'.......
Kudus...........Solanke................Tel
