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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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_mehstg said:
Even Sheffield Wednesday have more playmakers than us and their players aren't even get paid. Its embarrassing that we had one fit playmaker, no fit goalscorers and no fit left backs coming into pre season. Romero is definitely gone next summer and I wouldn't rule out this summer just yet. What a mess!!!
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If I’m Romero I’m watching the club very carefully this summer. 2 years left so no need to rush into extending if they won’t put quality around him.

He was very close to Son and identified with him as one of the players with a CV to respect in the squad. Son has gone now as well
 
TeamSpirit™ said:
I should have been more specific - I don’t think he is a brilliant DM that’s the thing, I think he is great at a certain aspect of the job - hence why I bring up Adama Traore. As a dribbler, 1v1 Adama is near impossible to stop, but there’s more to being a winger than this.

As an example - Peak Wanyama was also a brilliant shield in front of the back 4 . He was also deceptively twinkle-toed, able to throw drop his shoulder, body swerve his way out of pressure and carry the ball upfield. He did it at a much higher level than Palhinha.

If Palhinha was as good as you say, surely Fulham would have felt it? They replaced him with Sander Berge (relegated with both Sheffield Utd and Burnley) and retained a comfortable midtable position.
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Parallel with Traore is awful. Because with him it is simple - his attribute on isolation is worthless. You can dribble but if you cannot find an assist or goal or even cannot pass it to someone who will, then this has been waste of time and energy. Dribbling on it's own has zero value.

Ability to win the ball back from opposition is so very clear value - you stop their attack. You stop them from scoring. And that is my other point, Palhinha is no Wilson Palacios. He also has good ball control, he is strong and tall and can keep it as well. And he has decent passing. Again - not Pirloesque - but not nearly as poor as some make it out to look. He can win AND keep the ball under pressure and deliver it to teammates who can make the magic happen. Again - it is teamgame. One person does not have to block opposition shot on goal line, dribble past all opposition players and carry the ball 95 meters to finish it off himself. It is teamsport and Palhinha is best ball winner and defensive shield this side has seen since Dembele.

I don't even try to embarrass myself about speculations about Fulham. I can admit - I know fuck all how their tactic changed, who else left, who they brought in etc.
 
Nobody3 said:
Didn't know anything about this boy, but took a look on youtube (yeah I know) and with his moneyball stats, this signing for 60m euro would definitely excite me, composed, strong and strikes the ball really well. :thumbup:
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Got Vincent Janssen vibes.
2 goals in 51 appearances for Werder Bremen
0 goals in 3 for WBII
10 in 31 in 3rd division
12 in 28 for VFB

Extremely poor stats.
£15-£20m tops.
 
Richard Arlison said:
If I’m Romero I’m watching the club very carefully this summer. 2 years left so no need to rush into extending if they won’t put quality around him.

He was very close to Son and identified with him as one of the players with a CV to respect in the squad. Son has gone now as well
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You're not wrong... I actually feel sorry for him. He should be competing at the highest level not making up the numbers. Would imagine he refuses any new deal and forces a sale next summer.
 
_mehstg said:
You're not wrong... I actually feel sorry for him. He should be competing at the highest level not making up the numbers. Would imagine he refuses and new deal and forces a sale next summer.
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It’s looking increasingly likely that Romero won’t be at Spurs long-term. The way the club is being run is deeply concerning.

According to Capology, we've cut around £30 million from our annual wage bill in recent years. In contrast, Woolwich have increased theirs by a similar amount over the same period.

This kind of financial strategy raises serious questions about our ambition and competitiveness. If we continue down this path, it’s hard to see top players sticking around.
 
coughymachine said:
I don't think we're going to be better than Newcastle over the course of this coming season as it stands (though losing Isak might change that).

I think what bothers me more is that we seem to be in a sort of 'post-Fergie' denial stage, when the reality is there's a real dislocation between where we think we're entitled to be and where we actually are. We sometimes seem to talk about teams like Forest, Brighton, Bournemouth, Brentford, Fulham and Palace as if they're a tier below us. But those teams occupied positions 7 to 12 last season, with the lowest, Palace, finishing 15 points ahead of us. I appreciate last season was an anomaly (or, at least, I sincerely hope it was), but it doesn't change the fact that this, in my view, is the group we're realistically competing with next season.
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Ah thought you were saying the opposite. Fair enough.

It's a disgrace how much we've let these so called lesser sides catch up and be out level. From the best side in the league for probably 18 months to this on the space of 6/7 years is just appalling. How anyone can defend that is beyond me.

City, Liverpool and Chelsea/United were our peers, we were ahead of the scum. Now they're a different stratosphere away, and teams who were in the championship back then are who we are competing with now. This after spending a ton of money on transfers (although transfer spending is a stupid metric unless you pay the wages to go with it, which we don't). It's an absolute joke.
 
yes said:
We’re living in a mansion but all of our furniture is from charity shops.

I wonder if Levy adopts this approach in his own house.
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This transfer window thus far has been nothing short of an utter disgrace. Our sqaud reeks of mediocrity, especially the forward line. Only two players of any calibre added while losing Son and Maddison. Jesus Christ. Even by Levy's incompetent standards this has been something else.
 
:frankshock2: This is obviously so far not a good window for us.

In terms of where we where at this point last year

Forster was back up goalkeeper
Spence didn't exist as a Spurs player
Dragusin 3rd choice cb
Johnson only right wing option
No holding midfielder

Feel like the club addressed those issues so far in January and this window

The current issues

Number 10 by a million miles the priority, as big a priority signing as we've ever needed under ENIC

Need another RB/LB (Spence does the other) kind of thought Gray might be used as right back but we've not seen that at all in preseason.

Losing Son and moving Brennan there hasn't worked but there's time, think Udogie would suit Brennan more on that side of the pitch when fit.

Bentancur with a year left on his contract needs sorting, feel like he's going to be a very important player under Frank.

Romero probably being our club captain and letting the 2 years of his contract dwindle down is a massive issue.

Feel like we'll finish around 7th but it's in the hands of the gods when it comes to injuries, feel like we've had 2 phenomenally bad years in terms of injuries, got to stop at some point
 
LEGO Boy said:
This transfer window thus far has been nothing short of an utter disgrace. Our sqaud reeks of mediocrity, especially the forward line. Only two players of any calibre added while losing Son and Maddison. Jesus Christ. Even by Levy's incompetent standards this has been something else.
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Literally what 90% of posters put in this thread every single window
 
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