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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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This the thing Frank said he knew about spurs traditions, wanted to play front foot attacking football. But really he is going to be more conte ball. Will fans accept that?

I don't expect Spurs to park the bus and wait for the other team to make a mistake, but I do think they may surrender the ball more often in favour of defensive shape. Only a couple of games to go by so far, but looking at how the team structured, it appeared the instructions was the allow the oppo to progress into our half of the pitch and then try and steal the ball and make a quick break up the field and win a free kick in an advanced position.
 
I imagine we will replace Son. The club knew Son was leaving and allowed Moore to go out on loan. They must plan on signing a left winger

You would hope so, he’s one of our what…arguably 2 world class players.

But I honestly think it’s more likely, people say we need to replace him with a bit of a superstar, and the club instead hope that someone like Odobert becomes good to replace him and saves them the money.

They want to replace Son’s talent, but they won’t want to pay for it.
 
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Hear me out here.

Seeing the Son drop off was sad, particularly his loss of pace. Now was the right time for him to depart on a high as EL trophy winning captain.

Kane is a different sort of player who doesn’t rely on pace. But he’s only 1 year younger than Son and if as has been widely reported he wants to beat Shearer’s PL goal record before he retires, he will need 2-3 injury free seasons to do it.

Now is the time for him to come back to the PL. We could do with a goalscoring 9 with the jury out frankly on whether Solanke or Richie are good enough. A cheeky bid to our mates at Bayern?

I would be keen. Would hate to see him at ManU or Newcastle who both desperately need a quality 9.
 
Solomon thread is locked so I’m posting this here.

For those of you backing Solomon to make it at Spurs, interesting that Frank didn’t mention him when he talked about Tel and Odobert potentially replacing Son.

That to me means Solomon is goneski. Just need a club to offer sufficient sheckles.
 
Hear me out here.

Seeing the Son drop off was sad, particularly his loss of pace. Now was the right time for him to depart on a high as EL trophy winning captain.

Kane is a different sort of player who doesn’t rely on pace. But he’s only 1 year younger than Son and if as has been widely reported he wants to beat Shearer’s PL goal record before he retires, he will need 2-3 injury free seasons to do it.

Now is the time for him to come back to the PL. We could do with a goalscoring 9 with the jury out frankly on whether Solanke or Richie are good enough. A cheeky bid to our mates at Bayern?

I would be keen. Would hate to see him at ManU or Newcastle who both desperately need a quality 9.
Hmmm no?
 
Hear me out here.

Seeing the Son drop off was sad, particularly his loss of pace. Now was the right time for him to depart on a high as EL trophy winning captain.

Kane is a different sort of player who doesn’t rely on pace. But he’s only 1 year younger than Son and if as has been widely reported he wants to beat Shearer’s PL goal record before he retires, he will need 2-3 injury free seasons to do it.

Now is the time for him to come back to the PL. We could do with a goalscoring 9 with the jury out frankly on whether Solanke or Richie are good enough. A cheeky bid to our mates at Bayern?

I would be keen. Would hate to see him at ManU or Newcastle who both desperately need a quality 9.
I suspect he doesn’t want to come back and isn’t obsessed with Shearers record
 
May be but which player is? Also he has had two years of Ange where he was basically our only creative player so all the pressure was on him. Then he had FBs playing in his position. To me when he came on v goons he adds that little bit extra control and keeping the ball with little passes and one twos. No other player offfers what he does.
Sure, but my point was we need a better, version of him.
 
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Parts of his game are elite, other parts most definitely aren’t.
Parts of his game are very good with elite potential I would say. Other parts are lacking as you say.

The sum total does not add up to a player worth £80M+, to think that is just batshit mental IMO.

I'm on record saying that I don't care what we pay as long as we bring in the right player, but that doesn't mean you can't evaluate a player's worth based on their performance to date, particularly when there are other players out there, playing in a similar position, who are better in this league.

£80M+ is the sort of money you pay for the finished article. Wharton, as good as he is and can be, is not that and is a few seasons away from it imo.
 
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