Wharton went to Palace in the Feb for £18M and we spent £40M on Gray a few months later. Wharton is 3 years older. Only time will tell who will be better.
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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025
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Think set option was around 50m but spurs have already made it clear they aren't going to exercise it. Bayern will accept 45m. Spurs trying to get him for closer to 35m.
The Sane stuff is just Spurs letting Bayern know they have other options and will pull out if Bayern don't lower the price.
Let's not play the fool. City had Sane before and are selling Grealish this summer. A Sane return on a free would make sense and they could offer him the same wages grealish was on.
City are not interested. They've moved on. They want bigger and better. We should be the same. We should be all in for Eze or Mbeumo!
Players have agency.
So if he moves to a PL side and wants guaranteed playing time as a midfielder, that probably wasn't Spurs.
Gray at 18 happy to move to a Pl club with no guarantee of playing time - played a lot in his first season (but due to injuries to other players, not planned) mainly in a position (CB) that he's never played before. Would Wharton have been happy to play CB for Spurs ?
But Sane plays for Munich, I don’t see any leverage on our side?
My concern js the wages. Will Levy sign 2/3 players this window who all want 200k+ a week. Sane will want at least 250k a week.
Eze will want 200k. Romero when signing a new contract will want to be the highest paid player at the club so do we bring him up to Sane's wages.
It breaks the current model. I'm just being realistic. Sane will take up a spot and levy won't be willing to go in big again on wages.
If they are trying to bring the age of their squad down, why are they selling Tel? Other than he wants to go obviously.
Tel will get more chances at Bayern without Sane.
Spurs showing they want Sane instead of Tel. It'll be one or the other.
Bayern likely to give us Tel cheaper if they think we'll pull out.
City not Bayern in response to the question why City dont want him back.
All 3 of our young wide players have been poor this season, Moore , odobert and tel.
But Out of the 3 young wide players we've seen this season Tel has looked the closest to being ready at premier league level imo .
It's just the price tag needs seriously working on.
We'll see how Yang min gets on
Hopefully this season on 38 points has woken him the fuck up to the fact it’s not 2015 and you can’t survive in the PL without some top earning forwards.
Exactly my point. Gray may look back in 3 years time and wish he'd signed for Brentford instead. And we, as a top 6 club with significant revenues, might want to consider spending a bit more on players once established and be prepared to spend £70/£80m on players like Wharton.
But I guess it worked with Bale, Dele, Dier (to name a few) so maybe Levy never will change.
If we'd signed Doue two years ago there is no way he'd be the player he is today. He'd he stuck in our reserves or loaned out at Leyton Orient.
Or closer in time, Bergvall looks like £8.5m well spent - and not a 3 year wait
1 problem, he wants to win everything
We should but we aren’t - Beggars can’t be choosers
Sane is FREE - Mbeumo is 50M or more - which transfer do you think Levy is more interested in? FREE bruv
Apparently Eze interest perhaps because he has a release clause that only ECL clubs can unlock so maybe Levy thinks he’s getting a deal.
Yeah that set of attackers has everything you could want. Pace and trickery in Sane, Eze and Odobert. Creativity in Maddisson, Kulusevski and Moore and it's future proof with 3 or 4 of those with 10+ years left in the game.