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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025
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And what London salons is his girlfriend now following? Are they on the High Road or Kings Road?
Well lucky for you everyone else thinks we ain't getting him!!70 million for Simons...Too much money for this (young) guy and salary demands will be enormous.
He is talented and showed he's skills in the Dutch Eredivisie. But: avoid dueling and his workrate - defensive - is bad. He is a kind of lazy '10' and what Frank showed in his first matches everybody most full 90 minutes. Also in the national team he is at most a reserve.
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I don't like his attitude either. In Dutch football programs, they always call him a "crybaby."
No, THAT is SO 2013.... Even WE can't repeat the same trick 22 years later...?It's happening again isn't it
Can we....?
CAN WE??
Lowball offer to get the "we tried" press..
Leaving ample room for a welcome gazump.
Rinse, repeat.
Ali Gold
Now comes another potentially painful move for another attacking midfielder who previously looked to be off the table in 22-year-old Xavi Simons.
The Dutchman has looked all summer like he would be leaving RB Leipzig for Chelsea only for that transfer trail to grow somewhat cold.
On paper Simons ticks plenty of boxes for Frank and Spurs in that he can play as a No.10 and also on the left wing so in essence he's a replacement of sorts for both Maddison and Son, but Tottenham are aiming to bring in another player for those roles as well.
Simons also falls into the category of being experienced despite his age, having played 137 games of senior football, across spells at PSG, PSV Eindhoven and RB Leipzig after coming through Barcelona's academy. He has also turned out in 13 games in the Champions League, with four goal involvements. Spurs are back in that competition and await their league phase opponents on Thursday.
Simons racked up 11 goals and eight assists in 33 appearances last season for Leipzig despite missing two months in the middle of the season with an ankle injury. When he returned to the side, he registered 14 goal involvements in 18 games in the Bundesliga.
Tottenham have a good relationship with the German club, as would you if you took Timo Werner off their hands for 18 months. However, that's not the relationship they must be wary of when it comes to this potential transfer.
It's the relationship between Simons and Chelsea, for they appear to have been his preferred option all summer. There are some suggestions that the Blues must sell first before coming in for the Netherlands international, but Tottenham heard this all before with Woolwich and Eze and that ended in embarrassment.
The difference perhaps in the Blues' case is that they must comply with a UEFA punishment which states that they must end up with a positive transfer balance with last season's Conference League-winning squad to be able to register new signings for their coming Champions League involvement.
Leipzig have given permission for the skilful Simons to miss training "until further notice" and travel to London with his representatives to sort his future out one way or another.
Tottenham sense an opportunity and are believed have lodged a bid close to the €70million (£60.4million) that Leipzig are looking for and that has been done with the hope that a deal will get done amid those Chelsea fears.
Still sore about Werner
Now comes another potentially painful move for another attacking midfielder who previously looked to be off the table in 22-year-old Xavi Simons.
The Dutchman has looked all summer like he would be leaving RB Leipzig for Chelsea only for that transfer trail to grow somewhat cold.
On paper Simons ticks plenty of boxes for Frank and Spurs in that he can play as a No.10 and also on the left wing so in essence he's a replacement of sorts for both Maddison and Son, but Tottenham are aiming to bring in another player for those roles as well.
Simons also falls into the category of being experienced despite his age, having played 137 games of senior football, across spells at PSG, PSV Eindhoven and RB Leipzig after coming through Barcelona's academy. He has also turned out in 13 games in the Champions League, with four goal involvements. Spurs are back in that competition and await their league phase opponents on Thursday.
Simons racked up 11 goals and eight assists in 33 appearances last season for Leipzig despite missing two months in the middle of the season with an ankle injury. When he returned to the side, he registered 14 goal involvements in 18 games in the Bundesliga.
Tottenham have a good relationship with the German club, as would you if you took Timo Werner off their hands for 18 months. However, that's not the relationship they must be wary of when it comes to this potential transfer.
It's the relationship between Simons and Chelsea, for they appear to have been his preferred option all summer. There are some suggestions that the Blues must sell first before coming in for the Netherlands international, but Tottenham heard this all before with Woolwich and Eze and that ended in embarrassment.
The difference perhaps in the Blues' case is that they must comply with a UEFA punishment which states that they must end up with a positive transfer balance with last season's Conference League-winning squad to be able to register new signings for their coming Champions League involvement.
Leipzig have given permission for the skilful Simons to miss training "until further notice" and travel to London with his representatives to sort his future out one way or another.
Tottenham sense an opportunity and are believed have lodged a bid close to the €70million (£60.4million) that Leipzig are looking for and that has been done with the hope that a deal will get done amid those Chelsea fears.
Still sore about Werner
Plenty of braindead on this forum so yes I'd imagine so
Agree. I also have a feeling Chelsea can’t afford the fee we may be offering, but that could just be wishful thinking. I hope we’ve gone in and basically matched what they want and that has fucked Chelsea because they’ve already spent so much and need to sell to buy right now
Well lucky for you everyone else thinks we ain't getting him!!70 million for Simons...Too much money for this (young) guy and salary demands will be enormous.
He is talented and showed he's skills in the Dutch Eredivisie. But: avoid dueling and his workrate - defensive - is bad. He is a kind of lazy '10' and what Frank showed in his first matches everybody most full 90 minutes. Also in the national team he is at most a reserve.
Edit:
I don't like his attitude either. In Dutch football programs, they always call him a "crybaby."
No... THAT is SO 2013.... Even WE can't fuck up repeat the same trick 22 years later...?It's happening again isn't it
Can we....?
CAN WE??
Gold talking shite againAli Gold
Now comes another potentially painful move for another attacking midfielder who previously looked to be off the table in 22-year-old Xavi Simons.
The Dutchman has looked all summer like he would be leaving RB Leipzig for Chelsea only for that transfer trail to grow somewhat cold.
On paper Simons ticks plenty of boxes for Frank and Spurs in that he can play as a No.10 and also on the left wing so in essence he's a replacement of sorts for both Maddison and Son, but Tottenham are aiming to bring in another player for those roles as well.
Simons also falls into the category of being experienced despite his age, having played 137 games of senior football, across spells at PSG, PSV Eindhoven and RB Leipzig after coming through Barcelona's academy. He has also turned out in 13 games in the Champions League, with four goal involvements. Spurs are back in that competition and await their league phase opponents on Thursday.
Simons racked up 11 goals and eight assists in 33 appearances last season for Leipzig despite missing two months in the middle of the season with an ankle injury. When he returned to the side, he registered 14 goal involvements in 18 games in the Bundesliga.
Tottenham have a good relationship with the German club, as would you if you took Timo Werner off their hands for 18 months. However, that's not the relationship they must be wary of when it comes to this potential transfer.
It's the relationship between Simons and Chelsea, for they appear to have been his preferred option all summer. There are some suggestions that the Blues must sell first before coming in for the Netherlands international, but Tottenham heard this all before with Woolwich and Eze and that ended in embarrassment.
The difference perhaps in the Blues' case is that they must comply with a UEFA punishment which states that they must end up with a positive transfer balance with last season's Conference League-winning squad to be able to register new signings for their coming Champions League involvement.
Leipzig have given permission for the skilful Simons to miss training "until further notice" and travel to London with his representatives to sort his future out one way or another.
Tottenham sense an opportunity and are believed have lodged a bid close to the €70million (£60.4million) that Leipzig are looking for and that has been done with the hope that a deal will get done amid those Chelsea fears.
Still sore about Werner
She is starring in the next season of Made in Chelsea... make of that what you will
apart from the levitating cup and saucer . . .Looks real!!!!
I wonder what they are all staring at.
Missing out may be worth it to get rid of a few "ITKs"
Previous generations had the great depression, the blitz, post-war rationing
Our generation had Levy. Yet we survived
Our forefathers would be proud of us
The issues started when we employed Ange, not after we beat Everton 4-0
Xavi's stats are pretty mouthwatering in terms of goals, assists, dribbles, chances etc.
Looks like the No10 we need.
Now we can't force any player to sign for us, but if we don't bid as much as Chelsea (within reason) then that would be scandellous.
Looks like the No10 we need.
Now we can't force any player to sign for us, but if we don't bid as much as Chelsea (within reason) then that would be scandellous.
I do think this is different to the Eze deal IMO, I think Chavs are totally unwilling to move on Simons if or until the price comes down, the player is only contracted to 2027 and I think they have had a word with his agent about lucrative personal terms as we've been hearing about how keen Simons is on the move since the start of Summer, so they were banking on no one coming in and offering similar terms AND matching the price RBL want this summer, a Jan move is virtually unheard of for players of that squad status so that would leave them going into summer 2026 as the frontrunner in a race for a player with 1 year left on his deal. They've been quibbling for weeks over Garnacho with Utd so I really think they are at or around the PSR ceiling, though I said this about Eze and then what happened happened so not going to get my hopes too high.
