Might actually get some service into the box
Solanke
Sav Kudus Johnson again
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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Solanke
Sav Kudus Johnson again
At Forest he often played upfront in a front 2. They built their attack around him and always had him coming centrally.
Under Ange, we always played him wide. His goalscoring ability is elite, the numbers speak for themselves! But he's bang average as a winger, in fact below average. His 1v1 dribbling is poor and he has very poor numbers for successful take ons. He also has a poor crossing ability where going low and hard is his only real option. Basically he is very very easy to nulify on the wing for an opposing fullback. They want to see Brennan out wide as he's little threat. And don't forget that we played with inverted full backs for the last 2 seasons so Brennan has always had to stay wide and hold the width for 90% of games which never suited his style.
However, if Frank plans to use him more centrally, either running behind Solanke or else in an inverted wing role (think Mbeumo at Brentford who rarely hogged the touchline) then we could have a really really effective player on our hands who can score even more goals as won't be stuck on the touchline trying to play as a winger during the game where he is totally ineffective.
So I disagree that he's gotten worse then he was at Forest. I think he's always been a very poor touchline winger and from now on he should be used much more centrally. I think Frank will get the best out of him. He's one player I'm not concerned about at all. I think he's the most underrated player on this forum.
Not in numbers...we do need to trim the fat ie Biss, Bentancur, Richarlison, Solomon, Bryan Gil, Drag (in January)...
Need a better 9 more like. I do like Dom and respect how hard he works, but he really shouldn't be a starter for a club like ours. Quite fragile too.
If it's to sign a Bilal or McAtee, no thanks. Levy should just swallow it, phone Marinakis, apologise & beg, and offer 80+ mil.
Savinho, Tel, Odobert, Richy if he stays...we aint getting another one.
Starting LB...even when Udogie is fit again.
Sounds like Romano might have gone early on this again as City don’t want to sell according to other reports. I wouldn’t get too excited yet and please nobody start a thread!
Danny boy going for a deal that can’t be done surely not .
Fun while it lasted.
Agreed - the guy has a natural talent for timing runs to perfection, rarely caught offside and getting himself into very, very good goalscoring opportunities.
The Venn diagram of people who shit on Ange for being the worst manager to have ever lived and also having extreme Brenna hate is an almost complete overlap - these people don't even understand their own footballing opinions.
You do need to go talk to someone about that JT obsession, pal. That's getting old & boring.
Come on, you've got much better material in your locker.
I very much doubt it - similar to the first couple of PL games before the registration deadline which is after end of transfer window (1 September) where the rules seem to be 'if you have signed them, you can lay them and there are no limits on squad size, HG players or anything else - all that staff only applies when the squad is being registered after end of transfer window.
And UEFA squad registration date also after end of transfer window.
None of our 9 are the level, pal. So yeah it's a major concern.
Get it done before Chelsea get him just for a laugh
Whip round to send him on a day trip?
He’s been on holiday the last few days
Yup. Was really hoping we'd move for Robinson. A top club recognises that Udogie is still raw and we can't just assume he'll develop into a top left back. By not signing a big left back we've left our whole season dependant on Udogie staying fit for 90% of games and being really good. Neither are guarantees.
A top club signs another left back who's good enough to start and has them both competing with eachother. May the best man win. Worst case scenario you end up with 2 really good left backs and you feel bad for the one who's sitting on the bench! I can think of a far worse scenario by not signing a top left back and it includes Ben Davies starting champions league games!
Page 2000!!!!!!!
His estimated worth is €50 mil, about £43 mill
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To be honest, my main issue with that kid is that he doesn't give his all off the ball. If he starts busting a gut on the defensive end, I'll respect him a ton more.
I think solanke is fine personally. Yeah he's not world class and never will be but there are only 2 world class strikers in the whole league. Isak and Haaland.
I don't see who we can sign now that is better than Solanke? I just think thats the least of our worries. We've far bigger fish to fry than worrying about a new 9
No, you can't just sign a player 10 minutes before kick-off and them put them into the team for any match.
The Super Cup may be more lax I'm not sure, but even for the PL games before the deadline you still have to have a player signed and registered as your player by midday on the Friday or something.
The only difference pre-window closing for PL is that anybody registered to the club can be selected on matchday (so Chelsea for example can choose from any of their army of players), whereas post-deadline you have to whittle that down to your max of 25.
And just seen this elsewhere:
Spurs 22-man squad list for PSG UEFA Super Cup final confirmed as eight absent
Tottenham had to submit their squad list last week for Wednesday's UEFA Super Cup final against PSG
www.football.london
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Aw but I like engaging with him. He normally goes quiet for a bit afterwards which is lovely.
But I shall have a few days off just for you.