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Transfers The Summer Transfer Thread 2025

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MCSpurs said:
How clever is Levy, really? Sanctioning this lot as 20 most expensive signings ever.

I reckon the ones with a 5 stars next to them have justified/paid back their fee, 3 stars have been ok, but probably inconsistent with it. The rest, waste of money.

  • Dominic Solanke: £65 million 3*
  • Tanguy Ndombele: £63 million --
  • Richarlison: £60 million --
  • Brennan Johnson: £47.5 million 3*
  • Cristian Romero: £42 million 5*
  • Davinson Sanchez: £42 million --
  • James Maddison: £40 million 3*
  • Pedro Porro: £40 million 3*
  • Micky van de Ven: £34.5 million 5*
  • Moussa Sissoko: £31.5 million --
  • Giovani Lo Celso: £28.8 million --
  • Steven Bergwijn: £26.7 million --
  • Bryan Gil: £22.5 million --
  • Heung-min Son: £22 million 5*
  • Kieran Trippier: £20 million 3*
  • Roberto Soldado: £26 million --
  • Erik Lamela: £25.7 million 3*
  • Nacer Chadli: £22 million --
  • Ryan Sessegnon: £25 million --
  • Sergio Reguilón: £26 million --
Only 3 top quality signings based on value and performances, plus 6 that have done ok, or ok so far.

Not a great way to spend money, is it?

How are we so bad at signing players / spending money?
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"How clever is Levy, really"?

So Levy is now the manager, chief scout, Chairman and bottle washer?

He supplies the funding and agrees the contracts.

The recruitment since Lange and Paratici arrived has been light years compared to "i hate the January transfer window" Hitchen.
 
MCSpurs said:
How clever is Levy, really? Sanctioning this lot as 20 most expensive signings ever.

I reckon the ones with a 5 stars next to them have justified/paid back their fee, 3 stars have been ok, but probably inconsistent with it. The rest, waste of money.

  • Dominic Solanke: £65 million 3*
  • Tanguy Ndombele: £63 million --
  • Richarlison: £60 million --
  • Brennan Johnson: £47.5 million 3*
  • Cristian Romero: £42 million 5*
  • Davinson Sanchez: £42 million --
  • James Maddison: £40 million 3*
  • Pedro Porro: £40 million 3*
  • Micky van de Ven: £34.5 million 5*
  • Moussa Sissoko: £31.5 million --
  • Giovani Lo Celso: £28.8 million --
  • Steven Bergwijn: £26.7 million --
  • Bryan Gil: £22.5 million --
  • Heung-min Son: £22 million 5*
  • Kieran Trippier: £20 million 3*
  • Roberto Soldado: £26 million --
  • Erik Lamela: £25.7 million 3*
  • Nacer Chadli: £22 million --
  • Ryan Sessegnon: £25 million --
  • Sergio Reguilón: £26 million --
Only 3 top quality signings based on value and performances, plus 6 that have done ok, or ok so far.

Not a great way to spend money, is it?

How are we so bad at signing players / spending money?
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Not sure we can really give Romero and VDV 5*. They have barely played 40% of games - and their constant injuries fucked us over. Porro has played almost every minute and been a stand out player - yet just 3*?

Out of that lot, I'd actually say Son, Porro and Sissoko were the stand outs. Sissoko wasn't pretty, but he put in a good shift and was part of the squad that was key to getting us to a champions league final.
 
harry7 said:
USA's relative flop for ticket sales at the club world club will see them throw money at global stars. The biggest Asian footballer on the planet would be a no brainer and a sound investment. Playing in the MLS would allow Son to have a lite schedule and be fully fit for the world cup - which brings all those lovely Korea fans $$$$.
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MLS is notoriously hard on fitness-challenged players (I wouldn't call Son that tbf) because the travel and weather is so brutal, and the all-time record transfer fee paid by an MLS club is 16M pounds.

Are we accepting a bid that low for Sonny? Why not just let him play out his deal at that kind of price?

Saudi would allow all parties to save their blushes here, and also has the virtue of a shorter flight to Seoul than all other options.
 
ThePreacher said:
Someone explain to me why Kudus would be a bad signing, Johnson will be shitting himself.

I'll wait.


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He wouldn’t be a bad signing but it’s underwhelming that this is where we’re fishing after qualifying for the CL.

He’s just a good PL player. We’ve targeted these in the past and it doesn’t really work to move the needle. We’re targeting him after a bad season for a reason.

I like Kudus but it sets the tone a bit for this window - this isn’t the kind of transfer that gets us closer to Woolwich or Chelsea.
 
Who starts our first game as 10. Aren’t Maddison and Kulu injured and expected to miss the first few weeks? I haven’t seen the medical reports.

I’d like to point out again that we should be getting another 10 AS WELL as a RW and DMF. I don’t believe we can’t afford it. It’s just the will of ENIC and Levy is lacking.
We know Maddison is only going to play 60-80% of games at best.
Kudus (who I’m not against, he has that Brazilian samba boy about him, but he can’t be our only decent signing. )
Kudus $50m
Eze $68m
Hjulmund $40m
Tel $30m
Takai $5m
Danso $21m
For a total spend $214m

Sell Romero (if he won’t sign new contract) $60m (minimum imo)
Richly $30m
Son $30m
PEH $17m
Biss 20m if any takers
Plus one or two others like Veliz
Should get around $100 mil

Net spend $114 mil or thereabouts and we get three quality players. Wouldn’t mind raising that to $150 mil and get a striker.

Point is it’s doable for a club like Spurs. We can afford the wages also.
Levy talks the talk about winning the epl and ecl but he refuses to walk the walk by taking the required actions to get such success. It’s ironic when you think about it because success brings financial rewards that helps pay for itself. He can’t see that, or doesn’t believe it.
 
FightingIllini said:
Richy has been a decent-ish contributor when fit for three years, has a place in the squad going forward if he's determined to have one, and has frequently been the subject of bids for real money from elsewhere.

No way he belongs in the 1-star bucket (those guys were rapidly unwelcome in worse teams than this one) and 0 is absurd.

Kinda the same story for all four 2-star guys. Try-hard squad players we paid star money to acquire for no apparent reason.
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His fitness is what puts him in 1 star
 
Amstrad said:
Need to jump in with both feet and snag Mbuemo - overnight we become title challengers!
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I wish Spurs could sign him, but he wants the Man United deal. Probably down to the fact Man U pays far more than Spurs. If it were just a matter of meeting the transfer fee it would be achievable. I really like Mbeumo, but the only hope at this point would be if the deal between Man U and Brentford broke down, which probably won't happen.
 
MCSpurs said:
How clever is Levy, really? Sanctioning this lot as 20 most expensive signings ever.

I reckon the ones with a 5 stars next to them have justified/paid back their fee, 3 stars have been ok, but probably inconsistent with it. The rest, waste of money.

  • Dominic Solanke: £65 million 3*
  • Tanguy Ndombele: £63 million --
  • Richarlison: £60 million --
  • Brennan Johnson: £47.5 million 3*
  • Cristian Romero: £42 million 5*
  • Davinson Sanchez: £42 million --
  • James Maddison: £40 million 3*
  • Pedro Porro: £40 million 3*
  • Micky van de Ven: £34.5 million 5*
  • Moussa Sissoko: £31.5 million --
  • Giovani Lo Celso: £28.8 million --
  • Steven Bergwijn: £26.7 million --
  • Bryan Gil: £22.5 million --
  • Heung-min Son: £22 million 5*
  • Kieran Trippier: £20 million 3*
  • Roberto Soldado: £26 million --
  • Erik Lamela: £25.7 million 3*
  • Nacer Chadli: £22 million --
  • Ryan Sessegnon: £25 million --
  • Sergio Reguilón: £26 million --
Only 3 top quality signings based on value and performances, plus 6 that have done ok, or ok so far.

Not a great way to spend money, is it?

How are we so bad at signing players / spending money?
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Trippier was £3.5m, where’d you get £20m? Incredibly worth it even if his 18/19 is one of the worst seasons I’ve ever seen any player have. (Tottenham seal Kieran Trippier signing from Burnley on five-year deal)

Lucas Moura cost £25m (Lucas Moura joins Tottenham from Paris Saint-Germain on five-and-a-half-year deal) and wasn’t on this list for some reason, got 39 goals in all comps over 5 years, whilst Lamela only got 37 in all comps in 8 years.

While I’m on the topic as well, Lamela to me is a 2* at best; he was always injured, had basically no goal threat (be honest him scoring was always a surprise) and he cost £30m when that type of money at the time could get you a Hazard or Mane. He was on the ‘will sell for the right offer’ list for like 5/6 summers but no one in Europe wanted to come close to what we spent, and rightfully so.
 
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Deuterz said:
Our recruitment still sucks. We have a really bang average squad which we can expect to finish top 8 but no higher.
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Is our squad really that bad?

Vic
Porro - Romero - VDV - Udogie
Bentancur - Sarr
Kulu - Madission - Son
Richarlison

I'd consider all of those to be top players - unfortunately last season we could only keep 3 of them fit on a consistent basis. And when the backups are Grey, Werner, Odobert, Bergvall, Moore, Davies, Reguilon, Dragusin, Bissoma - you can seem why we fell off a cliff last season.
 
harry7 said:
Not sure we can really give Romero and VDV 5*. They have barely played 40% of games - and their constant injuries fucked us over. Porro has played almost every minute and been a stand out player - yet just 3*?

Out of that lot, I'd actually say Son, Porro and Sissoko were the stand outs. Sissoko wasn't pretty, but he put in a good shift and was part of the squad that was key to getting us to a champions league final.
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Not often I can say I agree with you, harry7, but I do here. People often rate these players on what they can occasionally produce rather than what they consistently do (or have). And I say that with Micky being a player I love to watch (when he's fit) - he's excellent in some aspects but has a fair bit to improve when it comes to e.g. his box defending, using his physical presence, not going to ground too early. Still 24yo so has the time to keep developing.

Porro's greatest asset besides his passing is his fitness. Hopefully Frank plays his fullbacks wide to get the best out of them - the inverted nonsense was painful at times.
 
Distaste for scouse said:
I love it when people throw this line out like it's somehow a trump card..

I'm not part of Spurs transfer/scouting team. I don't know how much money we have, who is leaving how Frank wants to set up or what he feels he needs.
I also don't know who is available as I don't circulate in the world of chairmen and agents.
Me telling you who I want would just be an exercise in wish listing.

All I can tell you is what I've already told you. Kudos fell off a cliff last year. His stats are concerning and when West Ham fans want rid you should probably take that as a sign.

We would be gambling and we can do better
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buddy I ain't trying to catch you out. Since you're so vehemently against Kudus, I'm fascinated in knowing who you'd target.

I personally think both/either Semenyo and/or Kudus, would be great signings, and I prefer them both over Eze.

My knowledge of the world game is limited, but I can't think of many players with better attributes for what we need, attainable or unobtainable.

So who would you target?
 
Distaste for scouse said:
I love it when people throw this line out like it's somehow a trump card..

I'm not part of Spurs transfer/scouting team. I don't know how much money we have, who is leaving how Frank wants to set up or what he feels he needs.
I also don't know who is available as I don't circulate in the world of chairmen and agents.
Me telling you who I want would just be an exercise in wish listing.

All I can tell you is what I've already told you. Kudos fell off a cliff last year. His stats are concerning and when West Ham fans want rid you should probably take that as a sign.

We would be gambling and we can do better
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It's not really a trump card, for the sake of the debate there ought to be someone on your wishlist who in your opinion is a viable alternative, it's not a gotcha and you don't even have to be a pro scout or an agent to name another player.

If you really think we 'can do better' who do you have in mind?
 
Jaynola said:
He's 28yo, English, a classy and experienced player who can score, pass, cross, run. Pretty much always fit, no big injuries. Disciplinary record is good and sounds like a decent fella off the pitch too. Yeah he's West Ham and banging that twat's daughter, but it ain't like he's Chelsea or Woolwich eh.

If we were a serious club and our chairman wasn't talking shite about winning the PL & CL, we'd put 60-80mil on the table for that kid as opposed to 50ish for fucking Kudus who is nowhere near Bowen's level.

But Levy.
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And Bowen is not going to stay at Wham forever

Throw in £80m plus CL and decent wages he will be agitating for a move

So Wham who need to sell offer us a player they do not want and the little bald one is all over the deal

Levy doesn't see that Bowen is a game changer in term of goals/assist and would transform our front line.He is not a football man ,all he see is price/wages/age/sell on value

So Kudus it is ...doesn't matter he is a average inferior player but should be enough to placate a restless fan base that will lap up any signings

These people just never learn
 
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DadHeungMin said:
Trippier was £3.5m, where’d you get £20m? Incredibly worth it even if his 18/19 is one of the worst seasons I’ve ever seen any player have. (Tottenham seal Kieran Trippier signing from Burnley on five-year deal)

Lucas Moura cost £25m (Lucas Moura joins Tottenham from Paris Saint-Germain on five-and-a-half-year deal) and wasn’t on this list for some reason, got 39 goals in all comps over 5 years, whilst Lamela only got 37 in all comps in 8 years.

While I’m on the topic as well, Lamela to me is a 2* at best; he was always injured, had basically no goal threat (be honest him scoring was always a surprise) and he cost £30m when that type of money at the time could get you a Hazard or Mane. He was on the ‘will sell for the right offer’ list for like 5/6 summers but no one in Europe wanted to come close to what we spent, and rightfully so.
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Lamela’s injury’s were a massive issue but he was an excellent team player. Yes he didn’t score goals but did a good job closing gaps, winning the ball and moving it quickly to better attackers. Moura was just a maverick, erratic and unpredictable
 
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