Transfer discussion thread

[Art Vandelay_]

Where’s the Liverpool fans saying they are always skint and can’t compete?

Spurs snubbed again.

Being the 8th richest club means little if you’re the 5th richest in England behind Liverpool, City, United and Chelsea.

The moment we’re ambitious enough to target someone good enough to make us better, one of them is likely to be interested, and a far more appealing proposition having had recent success.

Both North London clubs now stuck on the same loop on the same set of train tracks. Stuck buying ‘nearly’ great players, that then become hard to shift after a large outlay, but ultimately don’t get you closer to the top.

We’re in the wrong country.

 

[jd2010]

Being the 8th richest club means little if you’re the 5th richest in England behind Liverpool, City, United and Chelsea.

The moment we’re ambitious enough to target someone good enough to make us better, one of them is likely to be interested, and a far more appealing proposition having had recent success.

Both North London clubs now stuck on the same loop on the same set of train tracks. Stuck buying ‘nearly’ great players, that then become hard to shift after a large outlay, but ultimately don’t get you closer to the top.

We’re in the wrong country.

 

[SM]

Think he's pretty spot on.

 

[jd2010]

Think he's pretty spot on.

I think leaving our moves until the 27th and 28th of the month doesn't help just as much as what he has said.

 

[jd2010]

The notion that Spurs and Arsenal can't sign great players BS. West Ham have signed Bowen. Leeds have Raphina. Both massive upgrades on guys like Pepe and Lo Celso who were signed for probably 5-6 times as much.

The problem the two clubs have being rich but not that rich is they think they're too good to go shopping in the 15-20m price range and get caught up going for what appears to be a glamour record signing

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Think he's pretty spot on.

I’m on a spurs forum currently consuming 80 pages a day on transfers and at present there is 1000 pages dedicated to Levy/ENIC. Fair to say it is a very negative minded message board towards ownership.

Just made a similar remark there, hit with nothing but agrees so far. From an anti-ENIC crowd. But JD gonna JD.

So blinded by my refusal to blame everything on ownership (that I want gone btw after the ESL farce) that apportioning blame or reasoning onto anything but ENIC must be wrong.

I stand by only a couple core principles and beliefs and they hate it

1. We are a wealthy club that should operate within its means, and does not need funds from its owner.*

2. Spursy, hoodoo’s and whatever other coping mechanism’s they can think of are mumbo jumbo nonsense. We lose cup finals/semi finals because we run into teams that are better. They are better because they have more ease signing quality players.

*more broadly this folds into my hatred if blank cheque clubs that buy success with gay abandon spending from their owners. Not good for the game and sets bad examples for lower divisions that ultimately see clubs go under. I hate it so much.

chef says Conte may hate this, he might. He came here knowing who we are, and what we are. Ornstein yesterday did say Diaz was just one name on our list and a few more would appear over the weekend.

The notion that Spurs and Arsenal can't sign great players BS. West Ham have signed Bowen. Leeds have Raphina. Both massive upgrades on guys like Pepe and Lo Celso who were signed for probably 5-6 times as much.

The problem the two clubs have being rich but not that rich is they think they're too good to go shopping in the 15-20m price range and get caught up going for what appears to be a glamour record signing

What you’re describing is Poch era turning good players into world class players that bigger clubs wanted to buy off us.

The moment that growth took us to the point Poch needed established stars we couldn’t get them and settled for slightly less with Lo Celso, Ndombele and Sanchez (all Poch choices).

Bowen is now becoming a player that a bigger club could be interested in. Wasn’t when West Ham signed him. Ditto Raphinha. We’ve never had issues signing from that rung on the shelf. Diaz, Dias, Fernandes, Hazard, Suarez. Arguably the only time a genuine star turned down a bigger club for us was Gascgoine turning down United.

 

[RossFC]

Where’s the Liverpool fans saying they are always skint and can’t compete?

We might sell some players in the next 2 windows to cover most of it, got a bunch of players with 18 months left.

 

[SM]

The notion that Spurs and Arsenal can't sign great players BS. West Ham have signed Bowen. Leeds have Raphina. Both massive upgrades on guys like Pepe and Lo Celso who were signed for probably 5-6 times as much.

The problem the two clubs have being rich but not that rich is they think they're too good to go shopping in the 15-20m price range and get caught up going for what appears to be a glamour record signing

You're preparing a 15m bid for KLP supposedly so exactly that strategy.

 

[chef]

Where’s the Liverpool fans saying they are always skint and can’t compete?

They'll probably sell one or more of Salah, Mane, Origi and Firmino in the summer.

 

[wadistance]

The notion that Spurs and Arsenal can't sign great players BS. West Ham have signed Bowen. Leeds have Raphina. Both massive upgrades on guys like Pepe and Lo Celso who were signed for probably 5-6 times as much.

The problem the two clubs have being rich but not that rich is they think they're too good to go shopping in the 15-20m price range and get caught up going for what appears to be a glamour record signing

If football manager taught me anything, it’s that spending big on scouting pays off in the long run


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[pantskyle]

Spurs could have had the deal done weeks ago. I can understand the fans frustration.

 

[jod23]

Spurs have money, their biggest problem is scouting and buying the right players. We didnt break the bank for guys like Mo, Mane, Bobby, Robbo, Fabinho, Jota, Henderson, Gini, Matip, Konate etc etc...

The only two guys where we really pushed the boat out on was VVD and Alisson and that was Coutinho money.

 

[jd2010]

You're preparing a 15m bid for KLP supposedly so exactly that strategy.

I'll be very happy if we go back to that sort of signing. Believe it when I see it

 

[jd2010]

He is probably listening to List Cloggers. Our squads got a fair few

 

[SM]

Spurs could have had the deal done weeks ago. I can understand the fans frustration.

Could they?

 

[Zidane98]

Where’s the Liverpool fans saying they are always skint and can’t compete?

Have to keep up with the big spenders at Leeds somehow.

You will find if this happens Minamino, Origi & Nat Phillips will all be sold to fund it.

 

[ADL9798]

Ha. Don’t even need him. Sucked in Spurs.

 

[RossFC]

 

[joop]

Ridiculous. Smallest squad in the league with one of the biggest injury lists and we won’t buy in a position that we’ve needed for 3 seasons.

 

[RossFC]

 

[DBAH0]

Caroll and Dike up front, is Fat Sam still managing the Baggies? Sean Dyche would be jealous....

 

[RossFC]

 

[RossFC]

 

[DBAH0]

Matt Law trolling....

 

[RossFC]