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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Never said it was a conspiracy. Doesn't need to be.

I've leveraged other offers several times throughout my career to improve my compensation, benefits, or position. Each time I would have taken the other offer if I needed to, and felt content with it, but my end goal was to extract the improvements I wanted. This isn't some secret tactic, its well worn negotiating from an advantage.

If there's anything that puts Levy's position in jeopardy, its this - being seen as weak in negotiations, that others can take advantage of him.
Liverpool wanted Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz and Ekitike...they got?

Woolwich wanted Zubimendi, Eze and Gyokeres...they got?

United wanted Cunha, Sesko and Mbeumo...they got?

City wanted Ait-Nouri, Reindeer and Cherki...they got?

Chelsea wanted all the letters in every single alphabet know to man and ETs...they got?

That's just this season btw.

Spurs...we win stupid prizes cause we play stupid games. We get killed cause we go into a tank fight with a plastic butter knife. We're fucked cause we are insanely clueless and cheap. It ain't cause Mister Marinakis is a big bad wolf or cause Eze is a two-timing little bitch.

We're a glorified West Ham despite some of our fans seeing us as the English Real Madrid. Our owners/directors are Tranmere Rovers level despite thinking of themselves as the best execs ever all sports combined.
 
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Yep, 100%

Even more so now. Look at the wording, Eze now not playing after he's spoken to Glasner. SO when it was Spurs, he obviously sad to Glasner he wanted to play one more game (obviously hoping to delay the move), now it's Woolwich, he's saying he can't play. Wanker


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Tbh i was more gutted hoddle left us for monaco. And gascoigne for lazio. Im not gutted we didnt sign a crystal palace player whos a gooner fan.


I wanted to sign Eze definitely but he's not a top top player he is 27 and has barely played for England.
I'm disappointed and angry at ENIC/levy.
I want us to sign players to take us forward now and it's clear that we will scrapping the barrel again.
After MGW if we wanted Eze then we should have gone for him then and set a deadline to allow time to move on to the next target
 
You know when someone is stringing you along they tend to not tell you the truth, yeh?

How long should we have waited once we met the asking price? It feels like we got played.

But the o only thing that matters now is how we react, because the rest is largely irrelevant.

10 days and news of Kulusevski not being fit until the New Year only adds to the need.

Given the glory of 3 months ago, we really should have used that as a springboard. New manager but too much of the same nonsense.

It has to improve, and knowing which targets want to come to your club and then securing the deal is part of that.
 
So fuck playing nice now...
We met the MGW buyout until Marianakis took him hostage...

We learnt from that and played nice with Palace, agreeing to him playing tonight, then The Arse muscle in and TELL Palace Eze isn't playing tonight!

Great.

Eze's a Gooner and was there as a Youngster so HAS to sign for Woolwich... So was Madueke destined to come back to us because we met him go when he was younger....? Course not, he's a GOONER as well now. Fuck knows who he supports... Probably NOT us?

...let's all just sign players who support Spurs from now on....

...and every other club can ONLY sign players who support them... Is THAT the rule now?
Wish they'd applied that logic when Gooner Darren Bent was available!

Fuck this window....

Bring back May!!! Things were great back then!!!! Can't wait to push on and REALLY take advantage of that EUROPEAN TROPHY!
 
I wanted to sign Eze definitely but he's not a top top player he is 27 and has barely played for England.
I'm disappointed and angry at ENIC/levy.
I want us to sign players to take us forward now and it's clear that we will scrapping the barrel again.
After MGW if we wanted Eze then we should have gone for him then and set a deadline to allow time to move on to the next target

WHAT?!?!
 
Have said all along. This is just the way our cuntish chairman plays to get everyone excited instead of spending time to criticise him. Right up to the final minutes of deadline day.
To be honest though ......as much as I get disappointed when we're not linked with any new transfers, I'm pretty sure I get 100 percent more pissed off when we ARE linked with players and then we don't end up signing them .



If one week ago there were no Eze rumours and constant updates on how the transfer was progressing, I'd be a lot less pissed off than I am now.

I think ignorance is bliss when it comes to THFC transfers as 99 percent of everyone were linked with never happens.
 
Hard to disagree.

Between now and the end of this window. Only when a player is in the short can anyone believe it's a done deal.

And that will probably be AI-generated.

It is not without impact all this, even if it is only football. The club's hierarchy need to understand that.
We'll end up with some cunt on loan who some other team can't be fucked with.

Maybe we'll be able to compete with Fulham for a top signing.
 
Liverpool wanted Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz and Ekitike...they got?

Woolwich wanted Zubimendi, Eze and Gyokeres...they got?

United wanted Cunha, Sesko and Mbeumo...they got?

City wanted Ait-Nouri, Reindeer and Cherki...they got?

Chelsea wanted all the letters in every single alphabet know to man and ETs...they got?

That's just this season btw.

Spurs...we win stupid prizes cause we play stupid games. We get killed cause we go into a tank fight with a plastic butter knife. We're fucked cause we are insanely clueless and cheap. It ain't cause Mister Marinakis is a big bad wolf or cause Eze is signing two-timing little bitch.

We're a glorified West Ham despite some of our fans seeing us as the English Real Madrid. Our owners/directors are Tranmere Rovers level despite thinking of themselves as the best execs ever all sports combined.
to be fair

Liverpool still want Isak and Guehi

United still want Baleba and Donnaruma

Chelea still want Garnacho, Simmons and a CB
 
I think we're kind of talking about different time periods here.

At the moment Maddison got hurt, Woolwich had genuinely cooled on the deal, and Eze's head was turned in our direction. If we make our move aggressively at that point, it's possible that it spurs Woolwich back into action, but it seems likelier that they'd have let it go.

But once there was the purported framework of a deal but Eze still started at the weekend, Levy should have smelled the rat.

The criticism of Spurs being much less rapid and purposeful in responding to the Maddison injury than Woolwich in responding to the Havertz injury definitely has merit here.
Well, again, the injury-response angle is perception. Reports woolwich had agreed to a deal preferred by both Palace and Eze 10 days before Havertz was injured certainly makes it look like they were more responsive - but they were clearly ideally positioned to do so.

Anyway, per your 2nd paragraph we're generally aligned.

And, again, its not a defence of Levy or the club. Getting played like we did over Eze is worse than missing Grealish because we were cheap.
 
Liverpool wanted Frimpong, Kerkez, Wirtz and Ekitike...they got?

Woolwich wanted Zubimendi, Eze and Gyokeres...they got?

United wanted Cunha, Sesko and Mbeumo...they got?

City wanted Ait-Nouri, Reindeer and Cherki...they got?

Chelsea wanted all the letters in every single alphabet know to man and ETs...they got?

That's just this season btw.

Spurs...we win stupid prizes cause we play stupid games. We get killed cause we go into a tank fight with a plastic butter knife. We're fucked cause we are insanely clueless and cheap. It ain't cause Mister Marinakis is a big bad wolf or cause Eze is signing two-timing little bitch.

We're a glorified West Ham despite some of our fans seeing us as the English Real Madrid. Our owners/directors are Tranmere Rovers level despite thinking of themselves as the best execs ever all sports combined.
Yes, we're the only club that's ever missed out on a transfer.

:pocheyes:

Anyway, I'm done discussing in this thread as the usual has happened: unless you're all "oi, fuck Levy cheap cunt" then you're somehow defending him even if you're literally saying what he's done is worse than being cheap.

Its not an oxbridge scholars debate league or anything, but the discussion around here is often pretty shit.
 
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