Totally agree. There is no grand conspiracy, we're just rubbish at identyfying targets and going all out to get them. Everything seems to be half hearted and on the hoof. Its all about market opportunities at any given time , there is never a plan. Its mistaking lacklustre incompetence for a conspiracy theory.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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If that rumour is even true I think it’s just his camp trying to smoke out a Chelsea gazump, he’s been trying to get there all summer
There's a reason you always see those shows on Sky Sports where they are tracking all the activity just before the transfer window closes. Not sure I completely understand why, but things do seem to shake out late in the windows. To me, it looks like poor planning, but it could also be that teams wait for things to develop that never come together and then pivot too late. I think that's the case with Spurs. I think, too, teams get too much aligned with certain agencies and agents and lose flexibility. That's my worry with Paratici. I think he has blinders on and doesn't see opportunity outside the areas he is comfortable with. At any rate, I'm guessing a lot of time gets wasted chasing deals that were never possible to begin with.
Yea and they are comfortable with this continued incompetence because it keeps the hordes placated.
You forgot Daniels bitch himself....
People thought Le Parisien was the Paris Baguette Chap , but I saw you in Pret A Manger with your Jambon and Brie roll , plus you have just been to Normandy
The prosecution rests
Didn’t you get the memo?!
You’re supposed to leave common sense at the door before entering here!
Get with the program!
Another day of no signings, a few days left, shaping up to be an absolute cluster fuck.
Why do spurs keep trying to do deals for people that dont want to move to them?
But like even if you do believe they tried or they didn’t the only thing that matters is getting the deal done,
My point is I don’t believe the club thinks fans will feel better about the fact that ‘we tried’ because it’s clearly not the ‘trying hard’ and failing only makes everyone angrier than if it all happens behind closed doors and none of us are any wiser
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Towards the end of the Inside Spurs video I posted earlier, Jay Bothroyd said Brentford identified squad requirements and transfer targets 18 months in advance!
Could go some way to explaining Thomas Frank’s comments earlier in the window!
My opinion is that we had targets lined up that, pre-Maddison injury, would have covered our first team weaknesses quite nicely, clearly we had Kudus earmarked to sort out the right wing, MGW would have been a perfect 8/10 upgrade and then we had half of July and all of August to make a decision on a LW/CB. My real issue is that there seems to have been virtually no contingency planning beyond our 2 primary targets in Kudus/MGW. All of our pursuits since have this air of being targets the club thinks the fans expect them to target, but with a myriad complications to getting a deal over the line, Savinho with the ever-growing transfer fee and contingency on Rodrygo moving to City, Paz and his grossly inflated valuation plus RM ambitions, Eze who had had the gooners in his ear all summer.
We seem to have very intentionally avoided more "doable" transfers (Akliouche is staring us in the face on an easy package re fee/wages, BEK is a very Odobert level signing of a player who can cover while Maddison is injured and be his depth and understudy for the last couple years of Madds' prime) in favour of getting a "wow" factor target and may have left it too late now to even get 2 "doable" targets in for the LW/AM slots, even if you accept the idea that Tel/Odobert/Kudus/Johnson is adequate depth for the wings this season there's simply no excuse for having not got a BEK type deal done as soon as Madds' injury was confirmed with a view to getting a Simons/Eze big money deal done as well. Pool, Chavs and Arse don't let £20-40m high potential young signings get in the way of shelling out £60-100m on big money players, why can we seemingly only buy that profile of player or strengthen the first team with big money signings in one window rather than doing a mix of both like every other top club?
I think I can sway Jennifer Love Hewitt into marrying me too
Shady 2.0How dare this club try and show ambition
Back and better than ever
Johan Langes step dad
"With optimism growing every time another call takes place" followed by
"No contact with Leipzig yet"
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These cunts are calling themselves FFS. That's where the optimism is coming from . Levy is offering Levy 50m for Simons and Levy is accepting.
Still baffling to see men whos been hired to deal with transfers said "I hate IT". Levy fall in love at interview I guess