I agree that morally they should do as you say, but in practice, the player and their terms are agreed before there is much, if any dialogue between clubs. Not many complaints occur because they all do the same things.
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Transfers The Winter Transfer Thread - 25/26
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Definitely can’t see them adding a passing cm until the summer.
Bergvall becomes the question because Frank won’t be here and any sensible coach will re-profile him as an 8 instead of this bollox that Frank has been up to in the 10.
Sarr will be 24 this year. We need to stop acting like he is still kid.
For God' s sake we desperately need a passer in midfield. It really isn’t complicated.
Yet this club seems obsessed with signing the same midfield profile every single window. We are genuinely the only club in the Premier League that consistently struggles to recruit a proper deep-lying playmaker. The last time we actually did it was Modrić in 2008 — nearly 20 years ago. How is that even possible?
This isn’t bad luck, it’s lazy scouting and incoherent squad building. You look at this team and see an overload of ball carriers, runners and pressers, and somehow conclude that Conor Gallagher is the solution. How? What problem does that actually solve?
We give Bentancur a new contract for some reason, fail to land Nørgaard, bring Palhinha in on loan, and then decide Gallagher is the midfielder we want. What is the plan here? Why are they so adamant we need the same type of player, what are we trying to do?
What makes it even more baffling is the complete contradiction in recruitment logic. In the summer, the identified target was Gibbs-White — a ball progressor who can receive between the lines and move the game forward. Six months later, we’re settling for Gallagher. Those are not remotely the same profiles, it's fucking ridiculous.
This recruitment team had six full months to assess this squad. Six months watching a midfield that struggles to progress the ball centrally, struggles to control tempo, struggles to play through pressure, and this is the best solution the club can come up with and it's not even a coup, we've been after Gallagher for 2 years.
Fans have every right to be annoyed. Not because Gallagher is a bad player — he’s clearly better than Bentancur at this point — but because he’s the wrong profile. He doesn’t fix the core issue, he adds to the imbalance.
It's incredibly stupid the way this culub is ran and I don't understand why fans lap this nonsense up.
How about waiting those 2 weeks before becoming angry?
There is still time for getting passer. With Benta and Bergvall injuries and with Villa interest we had to act quickly with Gallagher, but it doesnt close the door for other incomings on the midfield.
If we dont buy passer before end of window - that's other story then.
We have been waiting 18 years for a ball progressor, forgive me in thinking that we wont get one in in 2 weeks...
Take it you failed to notice most of our midfielders are fucking injured for most of the rest of the season?
I agree we need a progressive passer too but Gallagher IS an upgrade.
We just need far more than just him. Which we won’t get.
Story of ENIC. Reactive and opportunistic instead of calculated and ruthless.
This is why the squad will always be imbalanced.
SO WHY DO WE HAVE TO REPLACE LIKE FOR LIKE?
What's the point of buying the same type of midfielder if it's not going go enhance the squad?
People complained about the Palhinha/Bentancur double pivot of doom all season and somehow suddenly bringing Gallagher into the equation is going to make a difference, like what?
It's simply shit and lazy squad building
I swear half these ITK cunts just come on here to get their "sources"
Spurs fans: ‘If we want a player, I wish we would just stump up the money and stop these long drawn out negotiations’
Also Spurs fans: ‘Oh. That feels expensive’
Fuck me. You lot are killing me.
Mate, if we had signed prime Messi there would have been TFC experts telling us why it was a bad deal. Too small, too expensive, doesn't track back enough etc etc etc
I'd have to agree with them though, Messi could never do it on a clod winters night in Burnley!
Don't you bloody shout at me fella. He does enhance the squad though.
Just we definitely need to also buy a passer. It's not that complex, lad.
Mate there's so many crybabies on here, their tears would double the volume of water in the atlantic ocean.
Ok, so we are all agreed that we need a passing CM. There is always something we desperately need and don't have. Then we change the coach and the thing we desperately need changes.
We are going to change this coach before next season starts. Probably we still need a passing CM but if the new coach is Poch, did he ever play with a progressive passer or deep lying playmaker in his double pivot?
Poch used combinations of Eric Dier, Victor Wanyama, and Moussa Dembele in his double pivot. Occasionally Winks would be there to pass the ball but he was an extra.
At Chelsea he used Caicedo and Gallagher.