Woah easy tiger... I never buy shit, its these useless manages I keep hiring.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Woah easy tiger... I never buy shit, its these useless manages I keep hiring.
We’ll make 2 signings max & one of them will be a loan.
I bet we don’t bring a single player in before that match. It will be the last week or so of the window now.
Why would you think that, though?
Seriously - why?
Have a look at the players we have been buying the last 3 years, revamping the squad with young promising players and seriously, seriously ask yourself why you would think we were going to all of a sudden revamp the entire squad?
We need to bolster some specific positions qith quality - a revamp is exacly the opposite of what people had been calling for when all they wanted was a plan and for us to just stop buying stop gaps.
If you arent on board with the current way of doing things then fair enough - but having an expectaion so far removed from reality was always going to leave you disappointed - i just dont know where that kind of idea would even materialise from?
But I genuinely don't think we need mega investment as opposed to better investment.
Being competitive creates all manner of opportunities. Thats our biggest failing in the last few years, even when we finished behind Villa a couple of seasons ago. We can't lay a hand on the top teams, weird City sh!t apart.
We just get it wrong in the transfer market so often
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And I’d be surprised if either improves the starting XI
Yet some will tell you, they care about being competitive
Nothing will ever make them care
Armstrong dovetailed with Sheringham beautifully in his first season (22 in 45 all comps), sadly he could never stay fit afterwards. I hate the revisionism on him, because injuries done him in.
A Sheringham/Bergkamp front 2 (quality as it sounds on paper) would have had no In behind threat.
In 1995, Replacing Nicky Barmby with Andy Sinton caused far more damage IMO - Fans love getting angry at the wrong things.
I don't think any of our players would even get into the Liverpool squad, although that's probably inaccurate.
A world class player has a price tag and a wage bill that means 'world class'. We neither pay world class transfer fees nor world class wages, so we end up paying £150m for Solanke, Tel, and Richarlison, who, combined, couldn't score the goals of Kane in one single season.
We are sh!t and nothing will change.
We are sh!t and nothing will change.
I had similar on another forum and on top of the misinformation regarding an obligation to buy I was chastised for not recognising talent when I saw it and not giving the player a chance etc.I also argued with a lot on here about that loan. The clubs both stated it was a l loan with an option. But because some no name journo on X said it was an obligation, they argued it was that.
So no name idiots on X know more than the actual clubs involved.
I think the lesson I learned there was - there's no point arguing with people. It goes on and on and on and they won't back down.
Just move on.
I mean WTAF? We're not professional scouts ffs we're unqualified viewers using our minces to draw our own conclusions (rightly or wrongly) whether or not there is an actual baller out there in front of us.Not interested in proponents cries of 'there's a pass in him' if it's every 5 games or so and I don't care if I'm proved wrong about a player...in fact I insist upon it.
I think it's optimistic to say we're competing for CL places. I think we'll be struggling to finish top 10. And it'll only be downhill from there given we can offer CL this season but won't in future, need new ownership.
I just think we sign loads of young players with the hope they come good. The harsh reality we cant compete in the market for top players. Tottenham will always have an attraction as a name to players as were a big club but dont behave like a big club pursuing top players.
Yep worked really well. He had the pace power and grip to constantly commit centerbacks ran beyond. Teddy had the guile. He was just another one cursed by the injury demon we have.
Massive misconception over Woolwich summer 2022.
The majority of that team were already in place, young hungry and improving (Xhaka and P*rt*y provided the prime age reliability).
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The biggest 1st team addition was Saliba, who they had had out on loan for 3 years.
They bought Zinchenko & Jesus from City, but discovered within 2 years just why Pep had sold them in the first place.
So who should be held accountable?
The man setting the agenda at the top.
If Levy had a boss who valued the performance of the footy side more he could have been sacked at least 6 times