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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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What is sticking out here for me is that bit about Forest saying our bid didn't meet all the clause requirements apart from the fee.

If we knew the details of the clause, which they are claiming, then surely we'd have met them all no?

Also, if the clause was a secret, then surely the only thing we could do to trigger it was bid the right amount, or more than that?

Surely it should go like this;

1. Spurs bid an amount that triggers the clause and allows us to talk to the player,
2. Player advises Forest that he wants to move,
3. Forest then advise Spurs of the remaining details of the clause, then it's up to Spurs to either meet them or not.

How can you refuse a bid for not meeting all clause details when those details are a secret?
Nah, 'cos that's like cheating in a test and giving yourself 100%...
When everyone knows if you're gonna cheat in a test or exam, slip under the radar with a creditable pass of between 75-80%

I learnt that when I got my Statistics 'A' Level, passing with 77.5% :sarrthink: knowledge!
 
A few years after Bale transferred to Madrid, I happened to talk to one of the (many) professionals involved in the deal.

He told me the deal had been agreed in principle between both clubs and player (and his agent) a little over 3 weeks before it was actually announced - with the 3 weeks being spent by the parties (and their professional advisors) fine tuning everything for the effects of currency movements, tax differences between UK and Spain and a 1,001 other things,

But the 'headline' financials didn't change and nor did Bale's wages post tax in Spain change - although many details necessary to complete the contract did.

So 'deals' can be agreed in principle with handshakes all round but signing a contract takes a lot more time - and the time between agreeing a deal and contracts being signed filled in the social media space by lots of fabricated stories of multiple bids etc made up by people who have no clue as to what's really going on. And that includes journalists who are never going to be told 'the deal is done' by the clubs until shortly before its announced ....... and they have column inches to fill so are all part of the 'transfer window circus'

This is exactly where I think we are with Eze and maybe even Savinho. Savinho is complicated by the fact that City need to agree with Rodrygo first as well.
 
Palace and City would definitely ratfuck us just to be clear. Move the goalposts on us or accept another bid.

I do not trust either chairman as far as I can throw him. Parrish is a Levy clone and City hates us for the Kane saga. They’d love nothing more than to screw us over if they get another bid.

I’ll believe it when I see it. Big money deals like this are very complex and can fall apart at the drop of a hat. Leaving both to the last weeks of the window is unconscionable.
I get what you're saying but we have consistently bought players around the 50-60m range in recent years i think we're capable of going up to the 60-70 range
 
Nah, 'cos that's like cheating in a test and giving yourself 100%...
When everyone knows if you're gonna cheat in a test or exam, slip under the radar with a creditable pass of between 75-80%

I learnt that when I got my Statistics 'A' Level, passing with 77.5% :sarrthink: knowledge!
You're missing my point, which is that for them to claim we knew all about the clause, we'd have had to have known all of the secret parts of it in order to trigger it fully. From what I can make out here, all we've done is put a bid in that was sufficient to trigger what appears to be just stage 1.

The fact that they are claiming it wasn't accepted, because it didn't meet with all of the other aspects of the "secret" clause, is surely proof that we DIDN'T know what the clause was.

Basically, any other club, who'd bid a similar amount, would have been in exactly the same position, as they wouldn't have met all of the clause requirements either.

In other words, how the fuck can you possibly trigger a release clause if there are requirements you must also meet, above just offering the right sum or more, if they are kept secret?
 
Here Gold is saying that the club did inform them of the bid beforehand. I’m really starting to think we didn’t know about the release clause and just made a bid that coincidentally was at the number.


View: https://x.com/alasdairgold/status/1956310578697298258?s=61&t=lOJ_HDnbTWvSuVGs5km_Hg

Some other good bits in here.


When i was at school, we were playing softball in the gym for PE one day. A kid in my class smashes the ball straight down the middle of the gym, off the backboard and into the basketball net.
That was us triggering MGW's release clause.

We probably wanted Eze but thought "fuck it, let's stick a cheeky bid in for MGW and see what happens"

phew GIF
 
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