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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Yes please.
I don't think we could realistically do better than this for another 8. Hes known as a dm but this guy can play.
Knowing frank I can see why we would be interested. His mid range passing especially over the top/through balls/switches of play are excellent.

Hes very slight though so hes no guarantee to succeed in the pl. But partnered with palhinha he would thrive. He similar in style to vitinha.

As I said i think realistically with the funds were likely to have this is as good of an option as we could hope for.
 
Levy cannot or should not spout aspirations of PL glory on Frank, and oversee a transfer window such as we are seeing, relative to clubs who are pulling away. It's just incongruent and quite unacceptable.

I am going to see who else we bring in before the end of the window, and of course, see who comes into the club in the next few months, but Levy is leaving himself wide open here, and that's said from someone who feels they are quite pragmatic..

None of this flighty garbage was foisted on previous managers, so why now?
Yeah I’m not into Levy this or ENIC out but he can fuck right off with that interview
 
Yes please.
I don't think we could realistically do better than this for another 8. Hes known as a dm but this guy can play.
Knowing frank I can see why we would be interested. His mid range passing especially over the top/through balls/switches of play are excellent.

Hes very slight though so hes no guarantee to succeed in the pl. But partnered with palhinha he would thrive. He similar in style to vitinha.

As I said i think realistically with the funds were likely to have this is as good of an option as we could hope for.

I think all of the Barcelona midfielders (even the bench players) are fantastic, but they’re used to being on teams that dominate the ball.

You don’t get a player like Fermin or Casado if you don’t intend to dominate possession.

What’s our plan here?
 
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.

And for those like Ed Vanderlay talking about prestige.... Champions League is the prestige of modern day football, a competition we have qualified for more consistently under ENIC than at any other time in our entire history by a long long way.
 
c'mon daniel that double hit of kudus and mgw was so sweet. give us another big signing soon! all will be forgiven!

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This is exactly how that lost weekend I had with Mrs Perryman Mrs Perryman and Nutter-Naylor Nutter-Naylor started...
 
For this insane binge of player acquisition to have advanced them no further than the dizzying heights of 4th place rather calls into question the wisdom of the operation, no?

Can you win the title like this?
I think they can. My prediction is they'll finish in the top 3 this season and could be a title contender next season. Don't forget this past year was under a new coach and they're a very young team. I hate their guts, but sadly they'll be competing for top honors in all comps.
 
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.

I disagree with your summary on several points.

The Spurs squad that went into the 92 / 93 season, the first season of the Premier League, was not as bad as you suggest.

The side was in transition and finished 8th in the Premier League and reached the semi final of the F.A. Cup.

There was plenty to get hold of at this stage. The new signings; Teddy Sheringham, Neil Ruddock and Darren Anderton had all hit the ground running and the emergence of Sol Campbell and Nick Barmby from the youth team had turned everything around.

We lost the F.A. Cup semi to Woolwich and tbh we were robbed by some shit refereeing in that game.

They went on and won both the domestic cups; Sugar sacked Venables and Ruddock demanded a transfer.

This was the start of a pattern we became used to under Sugar and it continued under ENIC.

94/95 season was very similar.

Several great signings from the 94 World Cup, finished 7th in the league and again lost an F.A, Cup semi final to Everton; having beaten Liverpool, in the quarter final, at Anfield.

The decade of despair was from 95 - 05.

Spurs were still credible until 95. Woolwich were actually shite as well by 95 but then appointed Wenger and we went in opposite directions.

Campbell leaving for N5, in 01, being the low point.

Sugar did not understand football and didn't like football people in general in my opinion.

He was the wrong man for Spurs and ENIC are just Sugar's methods with a bit more luck and a slightly better idea about what they are doing.

Levy has had better luck and judgement regarding some of the people he has hired to administer the football operation at Spurs than Sugar did.

Sugar fucked up regarding the timing of sacking Terry Venables; appointed Ossie Ardiles at the wrong time and gave Gerry Francis too much money to spend. Gross was just a disaster without his English speaking right hand man. The media took him apart.

By the time Sugar appointed Geroge Graham he was getting desperate.

Levy didn't get it right until the Arnesen / Jol appointments.

The ten years in the wilderness changed THFC.

It's been jam tomorroiw ever since.
 
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Unless I missed it , in which case I apologise I don’t think any of the Levy defenders answered my question .

If we do not sign a top quality experienced replacement now for Maddison is that an acceptable scenario to them that can be justified . That was the question maybe not word for word

Any of the levy lovers won’t answer it as they would never dare criticise their glorious leader.

Sycophantic baboons.
 
This is exactly how that lost weekend I had with Mrs Perryman Mrs Perryman and Nutter-Naylor Nutter-Naylor started...

My motto is fags and weed, glue and speed, but I draws the line at crack. That way, everyone knows where they stand.
 
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