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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Kosher Kid said:
You are not measuring apples with apples though are you?

In the 60's and early 70's, which was THFC's golden period really, Spurs were definitely perceived as one of the top clubs in the country in respect of winning trophies, buying the best players and competing in general with all the big hitters.

This is the period before Bob Paisley's Liverpool going on to dominate English and European football.

The recovery from relegation in 77 and the 80's domestic and European success then sustained the club's status as one of England's biggest teams.

Spurs were genuinely competing with everyone in those days.

The Sugar and ENIC regimes have changed that status and done reputational damage to Spurs.

Spurs under these regimes have become a selling club who have flirted with success but more often than not bottled it when it matters most.

Spurs also no longer break British transfer records, as they did with Greaves and Gascoigne, to beat other big clubs to the best players and pay them the top salaries.

Spurs only have the best paid directors under these regimes.

The league position was not the be all and end all in the 60's, 70's, 80's and to a lesser extent; the 90's.

The F.A. Cup and European trophies were all a much bigger prize than they are post Premier League and Champions League. The League Cup was the poor relation in this respect but winning it did get you into Europe.

I know it must be difficult for younger supporters to comprehend this but it is important that people understand how big THFC was then, is now and could be with the right people running the finances.

ENIC and Levy will always be more interested in what's in it for them rather than the supporters.

Levy will never change this perception of him now.

It's too late.

What he will do is anything that buys him a bit more time.
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You missed the fact that Irvine Scholar (Chairman) virtually bankrupted Spurs through bad decisions and a far greater East stand cost which required Spurs to sell its best players ...... almost sold the club to (Robert Maxwell - he of the Mirror pension fraud scandal) so his sale of Spurs to Sugar and Terry Venables (with 20/20 hindsight) saved us from oblivion - this was about 1999, just after an FA Cup win.

Problem then was tv money was tiny and Spurs were still virtually bankrupt so Sugar was trying to cut any costs possible - even selling the training ground etc.

So when PL started Spurs fortunes were at their lowest ebb - a shadow of the club that had been dominant in 60's/70's/80's - with a weak squad.

The Sugar era was lean, selling Spurs with George Graham as manager to ENIC in a couple of tranches, the first of which was in 2001 exiting completely in 2007 or thereabouts - but still with minimal cash, and a very weak playing squad

In the Sugar years and early ENIC years Spurs were almost always well into the bottom half of the table - indeed my memory of those times was breathing a sigh of relief when we passed 40 points, usually at end of March or in to April.

The good times restarted under Martin Jol in about 2005 when we got to 5th (and should have got 4th but for Lasagnegate) - the highest we had got to for almost 20 years. And getting back into Europe which we hadn't for years (except 2 matches under Graham - with an amazing first match being a 2-0 away win against Besiktas at a time when pretty much every PL club feared going away to Turkey..... yet Spurs were clapped off the pitch by a very sporting Besiktas crowd.

So something to be remembered by Spurs fans is the very bleak period from about 1992 to mid 2000's which divided the success of the 60's/70's/80's and the almost rebirth of Spurs from 2006 onwards.
 
Hampshire Spur said:
I saw that levy interview. Admiring the stadium and his ego and concert being prepped on the pitch. Its about the football 1st team levy. Thats where the imbalance is for Levy imo. Commercial outweighs what happens on the pitch with him.
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Tough to interview him in the close season with a match on in the background. That’s when matches don’t happen.

Would you have preferred if he’d been interviewed during Chelsea at home instead? ‘Fucking Levy not even looking at the match, the cunt”.

Get a grip.
 
Richarlison is a waste of a shirt imo.

Current available front 3 to be chosen from...
Kudus, Oderbert, Tel, Johnson.

A double pivot against PSG from Gray, Phalhinha, Benny....

Ahead of a pairing of 2 of the above... Sarr

Back 5...
Vicario, Porro, Romero, VDV, Spence.

Soak up, break up PSG's play hit it forward and quick using the pace of our front 3.

Just a thought!
 
Macch said:

View: https://x.com/HotspurRelated/status/1952422833813852303
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From the clips, Marc Casado looks like a destroyer DM / 6. Wiki sez he can also play at RB or CB, although at 5'8" he isn't going to play CB in the PL....

This suggests we want an aggressive midfield that can protect the defence and break up play for quick transitions. It seems Frank & Cochrane see Bergval, Gray & Sarr primarily as 8s, with tenacious players like Palhinha & Casado behind them, giving them the licence to make forward runs & potentially press high. Not sure where Bentancur fits in, and Bissouma would definitely be off if we sign Casado.

Against the bus parkers though, we're crying out for the guile & creativity in midfield that Maddison, and to a lesser extent, MGW, would have provided. We still need a 10.
 
bus-conductor said:
He’s a fucking menstrual pit pony
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Aubrey Plaza Hot Ones GIF by First We Feast
 
Hampshire Spur said:
We should be going for Sesko imo.
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I don't see it. He's young and got loads of potential sure, but his scoring record is pretty shit and they want like £70m for him. If we're spending big money on a striker it should be on someone who is all but guaranteed to give us 20+ goals a season.

Sesko might turn out to be that guy but it's a gamble we cannot afford. We've already made so many mistakes on expensive punts in the transfer market.
 
Elias said:
From the clips, Marc Casado looks like a destroyer DM / 6. Wiki sez he can also play at RB or CB, although at 5'8" he isn't going to play CB in the PL....

This suggests we want an aggressive midfield that can protect the defence and break up play for quick transitions. It seems Frank & Cochrane see Bergval, Gray & Sarr primarily as 8s, with tenacious players like Palhinha & Casado behind them, giving them the licence to make forward runs & potentially press high. Not sure where Bentancur fits in, and Bissouma would definitely be off if we sign Casado.

Against the bus parkers though, we're crying out for the guile & creativity in midfield that Maddison, and to a lesser extent, MGW, would have provided. We still need a 10.
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Lots of Barca fans saying the Sport article is BS anyways
 
Spursidol said:
a shadow of the club that had been dominant in 60's/70's/80's
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This is the misconception where a lot of the angst regarding ENIC has its genesis.

We were not "dominant". Spurs have never been "dominant". We were elite for 3 years at the beginning of the 60s and had a great run of cups for 3 years at the beginning of the 80s.

Liverpool were dominant during this period.

Posted at length several times, the only difference between ENIC and the Golden Quarter (60-85) was that we have bottled cup finals and a league title under ENIC. Basically the same rate of success, up to that final yard. Considering that, not nearly enough of the blame lands on the players and managers who aren't good enough in that final yard between contender and victor.
 
Elias said:
From the clips, Marc Casado looks like a destroyer DM / 6. Wiki sez he can also play at RB or CB, although at 5'8" he isn't going to play CB in the PL....

This suggests we want an aggressive midfield that can protect the defence and break up play for quick transitions. It seems Frank & Cochrane see Bergval, Gray & Sarr primarily as 8s, with tenacious players like Palhinha & Casado behind them, giving them the licence to make forward runs & potentially press high. Not sure where Bentancur fits in, and Bissouma would definitely be off if we sign Casado.

Against the bus parkers though, we're crying out for the guile & creativity in midfield that Maddison, and to a lesser extent, MGW, would have provided. We still need a 10.
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We might be the bus parkers
 
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