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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Aphex said:
I don't believe Madrid have control apart from telling the player not to move to us.

If we bid enough that Como want to sell, they get a sell on fee and thats it.

But yeah this deal isn't happening.
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I'm a bit hazy on the exact details, but isn't the sell on fee something like 50% and the buy back clause for Real is around 10 million Euros?

At a certain point, when does it just make more sense to sell to us than hold onto him for a year with the damn near certainty he'll be back at Real for cheap (10 million euros).

If we offered £60m, they get £30m. Makes more sense to Como, surely?
 
yes said:
Yeah I know that's what the situation is on paper but my point is that I believe that Madrid, ultimately, will get what they want.

If we're about to sign Paz this summer and Madrid don't want it, they'll offer to pay Como the difference next season. Let's say we offered 50m euros. Como would only get 25m because of the clause, 15m more than they'd get next year. Madrid will likely just offer them an extra 10m to keep him for a year.

Como get to keep a player who is currently on peanuts and they'll still get a pay off next season. But most importantly, they won't have fucked over Real Madrid, a team who will never loan or sell them another player again.
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Yeah you're probably right. I have absolutely no faith we will get this deal done, it'll be BEK sadly.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
Imagine if we somehow got Paz (I know we won't but whatever) as a result of getting gazumped on Eze.

Not PL proven but looks a star and far younger. Would be trolling gooners over it.
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The Paz and Savinho links are so strange.

Who is leading us on? Someone, probably from the players side, is dangling them in front of us.

Doubt there’s a deal to be done but it’s still strange that we’re given inkling there’s a deal to be made.
 
Harrier said:
So why allow Real Madrid to have such a significant say in your future with the buy back clause?!

If you don’t think a few sweet nothings in his ear from the Madrid hierarchy guaranteeing playing time would smooth it over, then you’re extremely naive.

But hey, believe what you want. It makes no difference to me!
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What choice did he have if he wanted to go and play but the buying club made that deal with Real?

And btw fuck knows what those clauses really are. We’ve seen these ITK pricks make up all sorts ofof shit this summer
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
I'm a bit hazy on the exact details, but isn't the sell on fee something like 50% and the buy back clause for Real is around 10 million Euros?

At a certain point, when does it just make more sense to sell to us than hold onto him for a year with the damn near certainty he'll be back at Real for cheap (10 million euros).

If we offered £60m, they get £30m. Makes more sense to Como, surely?
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Exactly. I think that is why it's so complicated. Because not only do we have to convince Como to sell, and the player to come, we also need to convince Madrid, or at least hope Madrid aren't that fussed about Como selling him to us. I mean that in the sense, that Madrid could turn around and say, no we see a future for him here at Madrid, so we will convince the player to stay at Como for one more season.

Basically, we need Madrid not to want him back, Como to agree to our offer, and the player to want to come to us.

I just can't see this happening.
 
yes said:
Yeah I know that's what the situation is on paper but my point is that I believe that Madrid, ultimately, will get what they want.

If we're about to sign Paz this summer and Madrid don't want it, they'll offer to pay Como the difference next season. Let's say we offered 50m euros. Como would only get 25m because of the clause, 15m more than they'd get next year. Madrid will likely just offer them an extra 10m to keep him for a year.

Como get to keep a player who is currently on peanuts and they'll still get a pay off next season. But most importantly, they won't have fucked over Real Madrid, a team who will never loan or sell them another player again.
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Fair logic. There's also no chance he'd want to come to us when he's a heartbeat away from going back to Real. We know what the football pecking order is.

The one caveat is that as of right now with us he could walk into a 'top' Premier League side, based in London, and could very quickly cement himself as the starting 10. That's a rare offer for a 20/21 year old.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
Fair logic. There's also no chance he'd want to come to us when he's a heartbeat away from going back to Real. We know what the football pecking order is.

The one caveat is that as of right now with us he could walk into a 'top' Premier League side, based in London, and could very quickly cement himself as the starting 10. That's a rare offer for a 20/21 year old.
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He’s not a heartbeat from going back to Real though
 
Aphex said:
Exactly. I think that is why it's so complicated. Because not only do we have to convince Como to sell, and the player to come, we also need to convince Madrid, or at least hope Madrid aren't that fussed about Como selling him to us. I mean that in the sense, that Madrid could turn around and say, no we see a future for him here at Madrid, so we will convince the player to stay at Como for one more season.

Basically, we need Madrid not to want him back, Como to agree to our offer, and the player to want to come to us.

I just can't see this happening.
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The we need to put in a serious bid off the bat and see what happens.

No point spending all week drawinng up a bid, because we are dicking about. Then if tomorrow they so no, move on. Let them get their 10 mill and lose out.
 
Thin Lilywhite Duke said:
I'm a bit hazy on the exact details, but isn't the sell on fee something like 50% and the buy back clause for Real is around 10 million Euros?

At a certain point, when does it just make more sense to sell to us than hold onto him for a year with the damn near certainty he'll be back at Real for cheap (10 million euros).

If we offered £60m, they get £30m. Makes more sense to Como, surely?
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Yeah but if Real said to the player stay at Como and we'll buy you next season, and integrate you into the squad, he'll most likely stay. Essentially we'd have to convince Real, as well as Como, and they might want more than 30m.

It's complex due to all the parties involved, and not really a transfer we should be attempting with 7 days left, especially if you're looking to knock the asking price down, but this is Tottenham, and this is how we roll.
 
Aphex said:
Exactly. I think that is why it's so complicated. Because not only do we have to convince Como to sell, and the player to come, we also need to convince Madrid, or at least hope Madrid aren't that fussed about Como selling him to us. I mean that in the sense, that Madrid could turn around and say, no we see a future for him here at Madrid, so we will convince the player to stay at Como for one more season.

Basically, we need Madrid not to want him back, Como to agree to our offer, and the player to want to come to us.

I just can't see this happening.
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Would be fascinating to be privy to the conversations behind the scenes.

I find it impossible to believe that we'd still be trying to do a deal for him with a week left in the transfer window in a key position if we didn't have some kind of encouragement from his entourage (and Como). Surely we can't be that incompetent as to go on a wild goose chase after MGW and Eze.

But perhaps 1) we are fucking morons, 2) we know BEK is ours at a moment's notice if we want him, so can do one last roll of the dice for Paz.
 
Richard Arlison said:
Fucking hell

The price of the transfer isn’t fucking £60m you donut. Even if that’s the transfer fee.

You say you get it but then clearly don’t.
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What u talking about? They want 70m euros which is 60m pounds right?

Im talking about transfer fee, idgaf about wages!

All I was saying is that for a 60m transfer fee people are EXPECTING a bonifide top quality player from day 1, Paz is not that player YET.
 
Nobody3 said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty sure you are more au fait with the rights and wrongs, pluses and negatives of PSR than I am, but as I understand it we are 300m in the Black, as long as we don't exceed 105m in the Red over the next 3 years, which I'm fairly sure Enic never would, we could still comfortably afford a Savinho and Paz this window, to back an impressive Thomas Frank, especially with a few loans out and the odd transfer out?
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Cash flow. We dont have it unless ENIC want to put money in which as we all know isn't going to happen.
 
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Aphex said:
Exactly. I think that is why it's so complicated. Because not only do we have to convince Como to sell, and the player to come, we also need to convince Madrid, or at least hope Madrid aren't that fussed about Como selling him to us. I mean that in the sense, that Madrid could turn around and say, no we see a future for him here at Madrid, so we will convince the player to stay at Como for one more season.

Basically, we need Madrid not to want him back, Como to agree to our offer, and the player to want to come to us.

I just can't see this happening.
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I agree.

Madrid will want him to have a banging season, bring him back for 10m euros then probably sell him for 70m next summer.
 
Richard Arlison said:
What choice did he have if he wanted to go and play but the buying club made that deal with Real?

And btw fuck knows what those clauses really are. We’ve seen these ITK pricks make up all sorts ofof shit this summer
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Well if we sign him I’m more than happy to admit I was wrong, but as it stands I don’t see us signing either Paz or Savinho for the reasons I’ve already stated in this thread.

I’ll be ecstatic to be proven wrong.

That’s why I think we should be targeting realistic transfers without all the associated tripwires.
 
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