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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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First XI is basically Kudus in for Son with Johnson shifted to the left and Palhinha in for Maddison with Sarr moved forward. Depth-wise we're still worse than last season. We're basically a Kudus injury away from having no spark in the final third, a Sarr injury away from having no options at AM and a CB injury away from a back 3 no longer being on the table. Even got fewer keepers than last season.
 
_mehstg said:
The thing is, we massively overate our youngsters. Take Mikey Moore. I'm sorry, but I don't see a generational talent. I see a young lad who was bigger/stronger than everyone in his age group and probably the group above and was able to dominate. Once that advantage is eroded he is just another young player struggling to make an impact on loan. When he was thrown into action, he didn't really shine with the caveat being nobody really shined under Ange. What is exasperating all of this, is watching Woolwich produce MLS, Nwaneri and now Dowman in the space of two season. Throw in Madueke leaving and the Chavs benefiting to the tune of 55m and quite frankly our academy needs a complete overhaul. We've produced two quality talents from our academy in 30 years (King and Kane). That's it.
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We have though also from time to time produced the odd solid/not spectacular player who's had a brief stint in the first team squad and then been sold for a really healthy fee.

That we haven't clocked that and then used the academy to fill out the squad and give the occasional rest to the first teamers is baffling, instead we bloat the squad with average signings who don't move the needle, don't force their way into the team, and are only given minutes once the first choices breakdown completely, blocking the path of youngsters who could provide the same output for much less outlay and much greater reward in the long run.

Our leadership are so crippled by indecision that they can't even take the cheap route with conviction.
 
Notabadsquad said:
No need to look here until September 2nd then.

Nobody whatsoever knows what will happen between now and the end of this window

I think the one likelihood is that it brings significant change of transfer policy, because whatever we want to call our approach., it just seems flawed and incoherent at every level.
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I think we all know the likely outcome post TW closing....there will be the usual inquest, heads will roll if necessary but the person responsible, the person wielding the axe the one constant that never changes, will still be at the helm. Time to go.🤔
 
Matt1882 said:
But the cost matters.
They do impact this seasons budget.
You can't ignore that when whining about us not spending.
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I agree with you, but I didn't mention cost, what I did say is that those players are not new to us fans, they were playing for us last season. Kudos and Palhinha (loan) are the only additions to our first team, that's what the majority of us will measure this window on.
 
Rebrov_Likes said:
I mean, it sounds like we’ve bid or are prepared to bid £65-70m. The point is they won’t sell unless Pep tells them to get rid.
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I don't even think that works.
He's lost the aura at City. They won nothing last season and their slide was alarming. They're probably looking at Rogers and Palmer doing well now and questioning his judgement as well as whether he will even outlast the players now.
 
Football Chap said:
First XI is basically Kudus in for Son with Johnson shifted to the left and Palhinha in for Maddison with Sarr moved forward. Depth-wise we're still worse than last season. We're basically a Kudus injury away from having no spark in the final third, a Sarr injury away from having no options at AM and a CB injury away from a back 3 no longer being on the table. Even got fewer keepers than last season.
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Front 4 options are definately weaker than the start of last season. We had AM Maddison, Kulusevski. LW Son, Odobert, Moore and err Werner, RW Johnson/Kulu. Centre forwards the same.

So basically from last September Kudus and Tel in, Son, Moore, Werner and Maddison (for this season) out with Kulusevski crocked until January. Its mind boggling.
 
harry7 said:
It's not a 10/10 window - but it's far from a disaster. Spurs have improved the starting 11.

Romero signed a new deal - We all expected him to leave.
Danso is quality rotation at CB.
Kudus looks like a decent first 11 signing.
Palhinha looks like a decent first 11 signing.

We haven't seen enough of Tel to judge him. 30m a lot to pay for a player that isn't first team ready, but if he is given the chance to get some games under his belt, I think we will start to see why Spurs signed him.

Losing Son and Kane was never going to be easy. Spurs aren't able to buy ready-made replacements of that quality - they have to buy young and develop.
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I agree with a lot of that. I always knew Romero would sign and said so all summer. And I especially agree on Tel. I've had my eye on him for years and thought he was going to be one of the best. He just needed a home and a place to develop, I think he'll prove a lot of people on here wrong.

We still need a 10. we needed one before Kulu and Maddison injuries. We really need one now. I don't think Paz is off the cards. But I honestly don't know who we'll sign. I'm pretty confident we'll get someone in and we'll all be excited about it
COYS
 
Herclueless said:
We have though also from time to time produced the odd solid/not spectacular player who's had a brief stint in the first team squad and then been sold for a really healthy fee.

That we haven't clocked that and then used the academy to fill out the squad and give the occasional rest to the first teamers is baffling, instead we bloat the squad with average signings who don't move the needle, don't force their way into the team, and are only given minutes once the first choices breakdown completely, blocking the path of youngsters who could provide the same output for much less outlay and much greater reward in the long run.

Our leadership are so crippled by indecision that they can't even take the cheap route with conviction.
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The Signing Tel for £40 million after he was shite on Loan to then send Moore to Scotland for the season sums us up, surely as a Club we take the risk with Moore this season and use that £40 million to ensure Frank has all his targets in before the season starts , even if that means paying a bit more.
 
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Korky said:
I agree with you, but I didn't mention cost, what I did say is that those players are not new to us fans, they were playing for us last season. Kudos and Palhinha (loan) are the only additions to our first team, that's what the majority of us will measure this window on.
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It's a grey area.
Yes of course they have already been here a few months so aren't "new"
But they have to be counted in this seasons budget.
And due to that, we are one of the biggest net spenders this summer.
Man United and Arse are well out in front but suspect they both have a lot of sales that need to be made. We're 6th for now at £86m net. If we do spend this £60m off quid we seem desperate to spend, it would put us at £146m net, comfortably 3rd. And then we would have to see what Arse and United sell.
 
Matt1882 said:
For the sake of accounting, they are 25/26 signings.
Either you add them to last seasons spend, which was pretty large considering £65m for Solanke and £40m for Gray. Or you add them to this season.
Given the actual transfers were completed in this financial year, then it's this season.
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Oh, right enough, I follow Spurs mainly for the balance sheets, the football comes second.

Whether we kicked the can down the road to put off paying for them for 6 months is irrelevant, they were signed in January of last season, they’re last season’s signings, end of story.
 
Sunderland have invested more in their team than we have this window.

It’s embarrassing to watch Levy operate in this market, he is targeting proven players but he simply cannot get the deals done. The question now is whether he will just give up and sign nobody or dip into his favourite market of relegated/French players and sign a couple of players on the cheap.
 
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