The Spurs Transfer Wishlist & Scouting Thread

[Krule]

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has been promised he can make some big signings this summer. Link..... (Sun)

Yeah I know....it's the Sun.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

This is exactly what is p*ssing me off with Levy and whoever is involved in our transfer activity. No wonder we don't sign anyone these days, they are clueless.

- We don't deal with super agents.
- We don't deal with Arsenal, West Ham or Chelsea.
- We don't talk to anyone regarding transfers unless the window is open and even then probably not until right at the end.
- We want an absolute bargain for every purchase we make.
- We want to make that bargain purchase in tiny installments over 5 yrs.
- We want to pay the player way less than he can get elsewhere on a 5 yr year deal with an option of 1 more yr.

The above is why we don't get anything done. Until this behaviour stops, don't expect major changes.

to sum up, ENIC just doesn't want to pay

 

[allatsea]

to sum up, ENIC just doesn't want to pay

And why should they ? It is your attitude towards spending that has corrupted football. Clubs should only be spending on players what profits the club makes from football. No outside injections from corrupt countries or from billionaires who stole their fortune.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

And why should they ? It is your attitude towards spending that has corrupted football. Clubs should only be spending on players what profits the club makes from football. No outside injections from corrupt countries or from billionaires who stole their fortune.

football has corrupted since abramovich took over chelski and FFP is just a paper tiger

 

[SugarRay]

And why should they ? It is your attitude towards spending that has corrupted football. Clubs should only be spending on players what profits the club makes from football. No outside injections from corrupt countries or from billionaires who stole their fortune.

If that was the case then Man United would have won the last 10 league titles

 

[mike_l]

This is exactly what is p*ssing me off with Levy and whoever is involved in our transfer activity. No wonder we don't sign anyone these days, they are clueless.

- We don't deal with super agents.
- We don't deal with Arsenal, West Ham or Chelsea.
- We don't talk to anyone regarding transfers unless the window is open and even then probably not until right at the end.
- We want an absolute bargain for every purchase we make.
- We want to make that bargain purchase in tiny installments over 5 yrs.
- We want to pay the player way less than he can get elsewhere on a 5 yr year deal with an option of 1 more yr.

The above is why we don't get anything done. Until this behaviour stops, don't expect major changes.

You definitely are allowed to work on transfers outside of the windows, you just can't transfer registrations until the window opens.

 

[Metalhead]

And why should they ? It is your attitude towards spending that has corrupted football. Clubs should only be spending on players what profits the club makes from football. No outside injections from corrupt countries or from billionaires who stole their fortune.

You can't blame the fans for corrupting football. I get the point that fans don't always understand the economics within football but on the other hand, the reality is that if we want players that will improve the team then we are going to be looking at 60, 70, 80 million pounds to buy them. Obviously there are players out there with potential that can be found without costing the earth and it is sometimes possible to snap up a bargain but the realities facing DL are different to what they were a few seasons ago. Personally, I may be hopelessly optimistic but I think that Poch will be backed in the transfer window this summer.

 

[SugarRay]

Our whole transfer strategy worked quite well a few years ago and got us to where we are. It no longer works in this transfer market - player fee's and agent fees have gone mental and Levy has no no idea how to deal with it. Theres so much money in football now that lower teams don't need to sell their players so you only get them if pay good money. He is more than happy to demand exorbitant fees for our dross, but has no intention of paying the going price for the players we want. This squad needs gutting and rebuilding, but I'd bet good money we'll be watching Trippier, Dier, and Wanyama waddle around again next season.

Thing is, we’ve even seemed to move away from our original transfer strategy. Granted we targeted Grealish and that was the kind of buy that set us in the way to where we are, but it seems we were standing still when Brooks, Maguire, Robertson, Maddison and the likes were on the move.
I’d be happy if we come out and said we can’t afford the elite established so will buy homegrown with big potential. There’s an abundance of talented English youngsters coming through it seems

 

[sunnydelight786]

Thing is, we’ve even seemed to move away from our original transfer strategy. Granted we targeted Grealish and that was the kind of buy that set us in the way to where we are, but it seems we were standing still when Brooks, Maguire, Robertson, Maddison and the likes were on the move.
I’d be happy if we come out and said we can’t afford the elite established so will buy homegrown with big potential. There’s an abundance of talented English youngsters coming through it seems

Grealish it seems was a attempted circumstantial signing. We were only in for him as there was a chance to get him at a bargain price. Even then our owners fucked that up, new owners came into AVFC & they told us to do one. That ship has now sailed as even if AVFC don’t come up they’ll want market rate for him & we don’t pay that!

 

[piedpiper]

Thing is, we’ve even seemed to move away from our original transfer strategy. Granted we targeted Grealish and that was the kind of buy that set us in the way to where we are, but it seems we were standing still when Brooks, Maguire, Robertson, Maddison and the likes were on the move.
I’d be happy if we come out and said we can’t afford the elite established so will buy homegrown with big potential. There’s an abundance of talented English youngsters coming through it seems

I honestly do not understand why we moved away from this model. Everyone of those players would fit into our squad. They all went at reasonable prices. We may not have needed all of them based on what we have but they could help us compete.

 

[daryl hannah]

Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino has been promised he can make some big signings this summer. Link..... (Sun)

Yeah I know....it's the Sun.

Must be season ticket renewal time....

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

How much would Bournemouth be looking for Frazier?

Contract until next June, value on transfermarket is £16.9m ( so probably £20m-ish to get him? ). Great little player.

Brooks is the only player we should sign from Bournemouth.

Why? How come the guy with the highest assist rate in any of Europe's top leagues, including players called Messi & Hazard, shouldn't be considered?

 

[Deleted member 27995]

Must be season ticket renewal time....

People base their ticket renewals around reports in the Sun and other such publications?

Banter.

 

[FITZ]

Lower clubs that can’t afford expensive players. Wanyama has managed to get some minutes on the pitch in recent weeks. Hopefully that might help to get some clubs to have an interest in him.

Even if his fee is low, we’d still get some money back plus we would save on his wages.

West ham , have in the past, bought players with poor injury records. Not saying that they would want him but there might be other clubs who would take a punt if it’s not of a huge loss, financially , for them.

Let’s hope there will be club/s interested in him in the summer as I do not see him having a career with us beyond the summer.

On this point...

Yes they can and many at the bottom are over stretching to be able to stay in the PL. when this years accounts come out next year. You’ll see the rises in wages at the bottom end of the PL.

 

[spursfan77]

I’d give Dele another season and keep an eye on Winks’ fitness.

There’s too much deadwood there to shift in one window- look how much we struggled to offload GNK and Janssen last summer

Yep. It’s all well and good wanting to sell players but as last summer showed, there needs to be clubs who want the players and also at the prices (assumingly unrealisic) we want to sell them at.

With so many who could potentially go and our approach to transfers (which is pathetic) I will be surprised if it’s any different to last year.

 

[ILS]

Contract until next June, value on transfermarket is £16.9m ( so probably £20m-ish to get him? ). Great little player.




Why? How come the guy with the highest assist rate in any of Europe's top leagues, including players called Messi & Hazard, shouldn't be considered?

no
Because he really is not that good. Yes he has had a purple patch season crossing a football, but genuinely he is a top 10 player at best.

 

[LeParisien]

This is exactly what is p*ssing me off with Levy and whoever is involved in our transfer activity. No wonder we don't sign anyone these days, they are clueless.

- We don't deal with super agents.
- We don't deal with Arsenal, West Ham or Chelsea.
- We don't talk to anyone regarding transfers unless the window is open and even then probably not until right at the end.
- We want an absolute bargain for every purchase we make.
- We want to make that bargain purchase in tiny installments over 5 yrs.
- We want to pay the player way less than he can get elsewhere on a 5 yr year deal with an option of 1 more yr.

The above is why we don't get anything done. Until this behaviour stops, don't expect major changes.

Super agents are parasites who should be regulated out of the system. The amount they charge and the factors that influence their advice have very little to do with football and a lot to do with making as much money as possible. I’m proud we don’t deal with some of these leeches.

The London clubs don’t buy much from each other now do they ? Man Utd don’t buy much from city. Liverpool don’t but much from Everton. The top 6 don’t buy much from each other. That’s rivalries for you.

Point 3 you have no idea about but made it anyway.

Most transfers are paid over a number of years.

I think we now pay competitive wages and have done for at least a year. We also have strong performance related bonuses which is sensible. Can you think of anyone in our squad who is underpaid and hasn’t been offered significantly better wages ?

 

[spursboy2008]

This is exactly what is p*ssing me off with Levy and whoever is involved in our transfer activity. No wonder we don't sign anyone these days, they are clueless.

- We don't deal with super agents.
- We don't deal with Arsenal, West Ham or Chelsea.
- We don't talk to anyone regarding transfers unless the window is open and even then probably not until right at the end.
- We want an absolute bargain for every purchase we make.
- We want to make that bargain purchase in tiny installments over 5 yrs.
- We want to pay the player way less than he can get elsewhere on a 5 yr year deal with an option of 1 more yr.

The above is why we don't get anything done. Until this behaviour stops, don't expect major changes.

This!. 100% spot on

 

[mike_l]

I honestly do not understand why we moved away from this model. Everyone of those players would fit into our squad. They all went at reasonable prices. We may not have needed all of them based on what we have but they could help us compete.

Sheer arrogance, home many times over the last few years did we read the line that our squad was so good it was difficult to find anyone to improve it as an excuse for lack of signings? At least we should he safe from that one this summer.

 

[Deleted member 27995]

This!. 100% spot on

You even agree with the not doing deals with Arsenal and West Ham bit? Outside of Rice, who would you want from either of those teams?

Hyperbole is strong with complete rando's on here.

So much banter.