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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Leaked photo of the cash injection size:

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While there are some absolute fools here…

If the trade was: Guarantee Savio+El Khannouss vs. Chase after Eze and faff about with a 40% chance of getting neither him OR Savio

That’s actually a decent question. It all depends how doable the Eze deal actually is in reality. Obviously he’s a better player than BEK in a vacuum but if chasing him requires significant time and money and we lose out on Savio as a result, maybe it’s not the worst idea to bin Eze and just focus on Savio tbh.
I think Savio needs to be target No.1. I'd take him over Eze if we only pick one. If we can't get Savio, I'd try for Eze as an inside winger. Not a lot of scenarios where I think Eze is the ideal 10 tbf. With that being said, I'm not super excited about the of an immediate impact by El Khannous either. I'd almost punt the open 10 and try to get MGW next season or someone with immediate impact like him. Bring in Eriksen or another one year rental that can do the job short term and focus those funds on a CB or LB.
 
So as a group, having spent ages saying we need to buy players for the ‘now’ to actually be competitive, some would rather bin those players off and go for the unproven, previously relegated youngster in the hope he comes good.

El Khannouss may one day be a top player, but to say, in our position we should go for him over someone like Eze currently is just remarkable in how utterly ridiculous it is.
I think it's more the fit than the players themselves.

We need a player that can quickly, accurately answer progressively move the ball on to link defence/midfield with the attack.

El Khannouss does that, Eze doesn't. If we had someone in the double pivot that did it, Eze would be a great signing for the #10. Maybe Bergvall and Gray will be able to in the future but at the moment they can't.
 
If we sign both Savinho and Eze, I fully expect all the Levy haters to change their forum name for this season, to:

Daniel Levy King of the Yids
(you might need to add a number due to the huge demand)
Hope not....my opinion of them would not change one iota. The ENIC haters/lovers are as bad and as tiresome as each other and consider their agendas more important than what happens on the field of play....lifeblood of any forum though providing reams of endless repetitive type.
 
This was a bit of a head scratcher for Grok 4...

ENIC's direct equity injections into Tottenham Hotspur since the 2001 takeover have been limited, focusing on self-sustainability until 2022. Early funding was minimal (£25m over two decades, including a 2004 share issue), followed by draws from a £150m facility announced in May 2022, and additional equity in 2025. By end of 2023-24, total injections reached £122.1m, rising to £157.6m by January 2025. A further unspecified cash injection occurred in summer 2025 for transfers. This averages £5-6m per season, with loans (e.g., £637m for stadium) separate and repayable. Initial purchases (2001 £22m, 2007 £25m) went to sellers, not the club.

| Date | Amount (£m) | Description

| January 2004 | 15 | Share issue for capital/stadium needs |

| June 2022 | 97.5 | Initial net draw from £150m convertible preference shares facility for operations and investments |

| 2023-2024 | ~24.6 | Additional draws from £150m facility (cumulative total to £122.1m by June 2024) |

| January 2025 | 35 | New equity funding via ordinary shares, increasing ENIC stake to 86.91% |

| July 2025 | Unspecified| Cash injection for summer transfers (e.g., supporting ~£115m spending)
 
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