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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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bonaspur23 said:
Maddison is done for the season and kulu half the season. And neither is a nailed on starter once they return.

Dibling may not be good enough yet but I wouldn’t worry about a 28 year old maddison coming off acl surgery and kulusevski blocking any sort of quality player.
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Yeah but thats a real worry that a player who was struggling to start for Southampton last season is now our starting 10? I don't even think Dibling starts over Sarr or Bergval in the 10 personally. He doesn't strenghten our team. Just another young squad player with potential.
 
Spursidol said:
I would disagree with you about Kudus and Palhinha, both of whom have looked good in playing time so far. Both improve Spurs squad - I doubt if too many fans would agree with you

I didn't think that Tel had shown enough on loan to be a purchase at the level we needed him to be - imo Odobert has more experience (one season in top French league and one in PL with Burnley), and although frustratingly injured most of last season looks a better player than Tel. So whilst good forwards are neither plentiful nor cheap, so Tel being immediately available with 'great potential' had attractions, I'd have passed and looked for a better player (even if a top player not available directly after season ended).

IMO the Eze deal fell apart through lack of integrity on the part of the player and/or Palace - by all accounts Eze had agreed terms with Spurs and it was Palace delaying saying they wanted him to play tonight plus wanted to haggle over small items in contract as a delaying tactic. So all Woolwich did was to come in and agree to take similar terms to Spurs (or minimal change) in last few days whilst Palace/Eze stringing Spurs along saying 'deal still on, but it nedds to be after Thursday's match ......

That is unethical behaviour by business standards. Not criminal.
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I agree. Unfortunately, its not an environment where ethics count for much. It's nothing Levy wouldn't have done to another owner if he had the chance so Spurs can hardly complain about Parrish's behavior. The Premier League is a club where Levy has burned a lot of bridges.
 
LeParisien said:
Either one of those and Savinho would still be an unbelievable transfer window.
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Yeah it would be decent, but Akliouche is the only realistic one.

Paz has an incredibly delicate contract situation with Real’s buy back option and his coach is Cesc Fabregas.

Savinho plays for a stronger, richer club who don’t want to sell him. Levy has never made a signing of that type before, when he buys from big clubs it’s only ever players they want rid of. Add in the lingering acrimony from the Kane saga and how hard Levy has pushed the PL to punish City for cheating, they will not want to deal with him.
 
Como (led by that Gooner cunt Fabregas) are going to laugh in our faces, and failing that, Madrid will step in as they have part ownership. Paz will not happen.

Monaco are also a CL club this year and with Pogba in the team they’ll be going for it. Akliouche will not just be an easy deal to do, they’ve resisted Bayern and Inter already this window.

Please pick realistic targets. Please.
 
StripiestPilot said:
Yeah it would be decent, but Akliouche is the only realistic one.

Paz has an incredibly delicate contract situation with Real’s buy back option and his coach is Cesc Fabregas.

Savinho plays for a stronger, richer club who don’t want to sell him. Levy has never made a signing of that type before, when he buys from big clubs it’s only ever players they want rid of. Add in the lingering acrimony from the Kane saga and how hard Levy has pushed the PL to punish City for cheating, they will not want to deal with him.
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Fair comment
 
JDefoe said:
Como (led by that Gooner cunt Fabregas) are going to laugh in our faces, and failing that, Madrid will step in as they have part ownership. Paz will not happen.

Monaco are also a CL club this year and with Pogba in the team they’ll be going for it. Akliouche will not just be an easy deal to do, they’ve resisted Bayern and Inter already this window.

Please pick realistic targets. Please.
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Why do that when you can target players you never intend to buy, knowing the deal likely won't happen.

And if it is likely, you can just long it out until it disintegrates or another club parachutes in to nab 'em.
 
Don Pedro said:
Dibling is not ready to offer our first team any boost. He'll be a squad player at best and wouldn't start for most midtable teams in the prem! Thats the reality.

Nice kid I'm sure. Big potential (same as Gray, Bergval, Odobert and Moore) but not going to have any impact on our season. Might be a good long term signing- who knows. But its another Archie Gray type signing and that's why it'll be so uninspiring after missing out on Eze.
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Like I said, we can't just sign him, there needs to be someone else to come in and be the immediate number 10 starter.

I do have a distinct feeling of FOMO with Dibbling though, I think if we don't get him this window someone else will and we'll end up looking back and feeling we missed out.

Had a similar feeling about Olise and Eze when we were consistently linked with them from the Championship for very reasonable fees.
 
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