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Hoopspur

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Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in...

Glad the earlier ITK wasn't true. I really hope we can get Martial included in the Toby deal. Thanks for the info as always, guys.
Everything is so crazy and all over the place that you shouldn’t expect or even hope for anything at the moment. Expect nothing and who knows?
 

punkisback

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Ali Z often pops up with uninspiring ITK in the last couple of days of the window to pour cold water over optimistic stuff about “something big happening” etc.

Just because you don’t like what he says doesn’t mean he doesn’t have sources around the club.

Although I admit his latest bit is weird - if it was accurate then we’d be in the situation that all the supposed major targets ( Grealish, Zaha and Martial) weren’t our first choice/priority :confused:.
I agree, wasn't he one of the only ones who was adamant that Bale would be sold. Obviously people have different sources which may be more relevant on different occasions.
 

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Read an article today that made me realise we signed 5 players in the last week of the window last season, so I am pretty confident we will get at least 3 in this week. There is no way we go into the season with no new players, but we may go I with the usual starting slower as the team gets up to speed due to late business. Grealish, Zaha / Martial and Macguire could be the 3! Think we will go for Bertrand if Rose goes.
 

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The only sense i can make of the Martial news is that DL is toying with United into dropping the price.
Toby <-> Martial plus 20 mil, nah we don't want him you can have 15 million instead.
 

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We should just aim for big foreign signings + hg youngsters from now. Martial would be absolutrly great for us. All those deadwood gotta go.
Man if zaha and martial both happens, imagine having martial zaha son and lucas on the wings. Thats a contender right there
 

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The only sense i can make of the Martial news is that DL is toying with United into dropping the price.
Toby <-> Martial plus 20 mil, nah we don't want him you can have 15 million instead.

If Levy really is being ballsy enough to bluff Man U into giving us Martial when it means he risks keeping Alderweireld for a further year and missing out on £25m-£30m you'd have to say that's a gutsy thing to do.

Point of the post is that most of us are slagging off our coot in a suit but we don't really know what the hell is happening behind the scenes. I've decided to wind my neck in until the window closes (bites lip uncontrollably) :confused:
 
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SpunkyBackpack

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It's not just that either. Every source will have an agenda of their own. I can remember being told something a couple of years back from two separate sources. One made it sound like the best thing since sliced bread, the other like it was the craziest idea in football history yet it was basically the same info

It was the stadium on stilts in the water wasn't it? I'm still annoyed we never got that.
 

Lighty64

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This has been one messed up window, so confused. Appreciate the ITK info guys, either way you guys have been awesome to keep us all up to date. Not long till we see the final outcome of the window.

the end can't come quick enough, thank god January is very short and A&C doesn't always open up so early due to being busy checking out the turkeys in Iceland
 
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We should just aim for big foreign signings + hg youngsters from now. Martial would be absolutrly great for us. All those deadwood gotta go.
Man if zaha and martial both happens, imagine having martial zaha son and lucas on the wings. Thats a contender right there

Deadwood will always be a thing for clubs. You have to look at some of the N'jie and N'koudou signings in context, and your Ousmane Dembeles and Riyad Mahrez type players were similar punts at one point. Hopefully Steve Hitchen having come back will correct some of our transfer deviations a bit.

The key thing is to make them tertiary signings, for a bit of depth and a punt - not key signings.

I guess Martial probably would have been a successful punt had we got him for the values we were linked with (a few years ago), before United went mad with their offer. If we manage to swap Toby for him that'll go a way towards smoothing that over, though, as in theory we paid only around £12m for him, so with amortisation he probably is only valued at around £4m on the books, so we'd technically be quids-in with some sort of exchange deal, even if it's £20m on top (which I severely doubt).

Obviously that's based on the pure optimism that we actually get this one down the line.
 

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With a site the size and recognition of this place . Is there a chance that agents and oher clubs media teams etc read the threads. And try to gather some idea as to our strategy. If so. Is some of the ITK deliberately vague. Or potentially throwing them off the scent?

If they are. And therefore they have as much a clue as we currently have. Bravo Tottenham. And agent Levy. Bravo. ?

What do you think?

*waves to Donna*

If this is true and important people from the club do read these forums, then all we ask for is Martial, Kovacic and fleshlights attached to the seats at the new ground.
 

Lighty64

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Roll on saturday, it’s football I miss.

Couple of signing would be great but let’s get going with the season already starting with an August goal or 3 for Kane.

glad I stay out of the match day threads, imagine no signings and then going behind v Newcastle:whistle:
 
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If this is true and important people from the club do read these forums, then all we ask for is Martial, Kovacic and fleshlights attached to the seats at the new ground.

P.S. - Donna, if you don't know what a Fleshlight is, please don't Google it.
 

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And darkness descends bringing another quiet day to the SC house....
 
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