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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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Double his current basic? He went from PSG (already high wages) to RB Leipzig and is their highest paid player on €12m / year Xavi Simons now the highest-paid player in RB Leipzig history. That's about £10.35m. £10,350,000 (annual salary) ÷ 52 (weeks in a year) = £200,000 per week. Romero is our highest paid player, the absolute max his basic is is probably £250,000/week, but realistically it's probably similar to Simons' current salary (Son was on £190,000/w). He clearly wants a fat pay rise to move to the PL. I don't see us signing him unless he agrees to performance based add-ons, which I doubt he will. Chelsea will probably just hijack the deal anyway.
What source do you have for this as Capology has him on around £100k/week at RBL?
 
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We know how this ends
 
The thing is, why haven’t Chelsea made an offer if they are able to? Makes no sense.

They’ve kept the player hanging all summer clearly because they can’t sign him yet and are prioritising other targets.

Even now we’ve made an offer. They haven’t. They could have made a bid any time over the last weeks and months.

So I understand why we are being aggressive now in trying to beat them to it.

I guess we’ve been clear with the player that we won’t wait and he will need to accept and sign quickly.

I suppose the small optimism I have is, why haven’t Chelsea bid yet? Can only think it’s because they can’t, maybe the price is too high
 
The thing is, why haven’t Chelsea made an offer if they are able to? Makes no sense.

They’ve kept the player hanging all summer clearly because they can’t sign him yet and are prioritising other targets.

Even now we’ve made an offer. They haven’t. They could have made a bit any time over the last weeks and months.

So I understand why we are being aggressive now in trying to beat them to it.

I guess we’ve been clear with the player that we won’t wait and he will need to accept and sign quickly.

I suppose the small optimism I have is, why haven’t Chelsea bid yet? Can only think it’s because they can’t, maybe the price is too high
I think we might be getting him
 
The thing is, why haven’t Chelsea made an offer if they are able to? Makes no sense.

They’ve kept the player hanging all summer clearly because they can’t sign him yet and are prioritising other targets.

Even now we’ve made an offer. They haven’t. They could have made a bid any time over the last weeks and months.

So I understand why we are being aggressive now in trying to beat them to it.

I guess we’ve been clear with the player that we won’t wait and he will need to accept and sign quickly.

I suppose the small optimism I have is, why haven’t Chelsea bid yet? Can only think it’s because they can’t, maybe the price is too high
Waiting for us to set the price so they can swoop in and get everything done in 24hrs, allowing them all that time saved working on other targets.

Obviously.
 
The thing is, why haven’t Chelsea made an offer if they are able to? Makes no sense.

They’ve kept the player hanging all summer clearly because they can’t sign him yet and are prioritising other targets.

Even now we’ve made an offer. They haven’t. They could have made a bid any time over the last weeks and months.

So I understand why we are being aggressive now in trying to beat them to it.

I guess we’ve been clear with the player that we won’t wait and he will need to accept and sign quickly.

I suppose the small optimism I have is, why haven’t Chelsea bid yet? Can only think it’s because they can’t, maybe the price is too high
I had this same thought process with Woolwich and Eze. Why didn't they just pay the 68m release clause in June? Why did they wait until after the season started to sign him for 68m!
 
The thing is, why haven’t Chelsea made an offer if they are able to? Makes no sense.

They’ve kept the player hanging all summer clearly because they can’t sign him yet and are prioritising other targets.

Even now we’ve made an offer. They haven’t. They could have made a bid any time over the last weeks and months.

So I understand why we are being aggressive now in trying to beat them to it.

I guess we’ve been clear with the player that we won’t wait and he will need to accept and sign quickly.

I suppose the small optimism I have is, why haven’t Chelsea bid yet? Can only think it’s because they can’t, maybe the price is too high
Playing chicken with RBL over his fee as clearly don't have the appetite to pay the 70m euro RBL want for the player and were banking on no one else coming in for him, think Woolwich were probably doing similar with Eze but us coming in forced their hand, here's hoping Maresca doesn't fancy him at the cost and they pass on him as feel we are fucked if they decide to match our bid, player has made his preference clear and I don't think we have the stomach to exceed the terms Chavs will offer by enough to entice him here.

Will add that I don't see the player opting to stay at RBL like Paz with Como/RM though, RBL are a mickey mouse club with no real fans and as such I'd say we represent a more attractive prospect than them being a well followed London club with CL football to offer this season. The player has managed to engineer multiple moves from other clubs already in his career so doubt he's worried about getting stuck at Spurs, think he has a lot of self belief and knows he will succeed anywhere he goes, very attractive trait IMO, not worried about his "loyalty" as if we get 2 world class seasons and double our money on him was it not worth buying him because we "only" got him for 2 seasons?
 
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Maddison is out for the season and the transfer window is still open. Any top club would count Maddison as a player out and know he needs replacing. Why are you covering for this incompetence?

We've started well because we have one game a week and a very decent first team. Ange started the last 2 seasons well when he'd one game a week. The real test comes next month when the CL starts and we've a game every 3 days. Thats when our squad will fall short again and its absolutely amazing to me that you can't see this coming.

Revisionism and false infomation.
We fell over first hurdle, drawing with dogshit Leicester from total Romero brainfart.

We were shit throughout the last season.
4 points from 4 games.
Draw. 2 losses and 1 win. Crumbled against Woolwich and Newcastle.
And from first 7 games we got 10 points.

But sure, "started well".
 

Ali with another pretty damning piece on the club and it's "strategy"
Best of the article: “Tottenham have a very good relationship with the German club, as you would if you took Timo Werner off their hands for 18 months”

:mourhandlaugh::mourhandlaugh::mourhandlaugh:
 
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