John Percy today confirmed that Leicester bid £13m for Gabriel Sara, which was rejected by Norwich. He then went on to sign for Galatasaray for around £20m. Sara was the type of player we are desperately short of after selling KDH - a CM who can play as a 6 or high 8, who is creative and has good goal and assist stats.
We have now agreed a fee of around £20m (rising to £25m) with Tottenham for Oliver Skipp who, whilst an improvement on what we have, does not have Sara's creativity, is another CDM to add to Winks, Ndidi, Choudhury and Soumare (and Ricardo who played that dual RB-CDM role last season), and is not a creative player, who will not score or assist.
Meanwhile, we have bid for £20m for Hlozek and £23m for Ioannidis, both of which have been rejected either by the player or the club. We have put a bid in of £4m for Jordan Ayew from Crystal Palace instead, who has 62 goal involvements in 275 games. We go in to tonight's game with no fit strikers except Tom Cannon.
So far, we have signed Bobby Reid on a free, Buonanotte on loan, Atalanta's 5th choice CB for £15m and a young kid from Chelsea, who is not ready for the first team, for £5m.
Can someone please try and help me understand what exactly our transfer strategy is, because I feel like I may be having a fever dream and losing what little sanity I have left? Can anyone understand what we are trying to do here? We have gone from a club with one of the best transfer strategies to one of the weirdest and worst.
Our haphazard transfer 'strategy'
posted on 19/8/24
Winks at 20m supposedly rising to 25m is the worst signing of the summer.
A very expensive plodder.
posted on 19/8/24
its complete panic and desperation mode. there is no long term plan, the hierarchy are incompetent. this season has the potential to be really damaging to the clubs reputation for many years to come. who would want to sign for us?!
posted on 19/8/24
comment by Foxy Boy (U20186)
posted 14 minutes ago
its complete panic and desperation mode. there is no long term plan, the hierarchy are incompetent. this season has the potential to be really damaging to the clubs reputation for many years to come. who would want to sign for us?!
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From my point of view, hopefully Skipp
To be fair Skipp and Winks will dominate in the Championship - I do wonder if that’s the true strategy, build a squad for next season
posted on 19/8/24
I think I’m going to have to unfilter Mersey at this rate - I’m genuinely intrigued at what even he would say about the ownership 😂
It’s funny how the most staunch defenders of the Top regime have gone missing on this board since we’ve started to unravel. Only last year when Top moved some of money around (otherwise known as writing off the debt) they were saying we had the best owners in the world
posted on 19/8/24
It may have been more than a year since Top did that in fairness! Does make you think of that infamous “Faith in our Owners” article from Mersey when we were riding high under Maresca.
posted on 19/8/24
May be off topic, but have never started a season (even under Taylor)with such apathy and disinterest as i feel tonight.
Cant even be bothered to go as i think we could really get found out.
We are in a real bad situation,and Spurs are usually good starters.
Expect Madison to play well and possibly score,and only remember too well Bolton first game of season, many years ago.
posted on 19/8/24
comment by thorneyfox (U5061)
posted 1 hour, 5 minutes ago
May be off topic, but have never started a season (even under Taylor)with such apathy and disinterest as i feel tonight.
Cant even be bothered to go as i think we could really get found out.
We are in a real bad situation,and Spurs are usually good starters.
Expect Madison to play well and possibly score,and only remember too well Bolton first game of season, many years ago.
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The worry for me as a Spurs fan is that this is the most confident I have been going into a game since the Poch days - which is unusual. Your problems are well documented and then we’re at home to Everton on Saturday - normally means a kick in the teeth, I just can’t see how.
As for your season, I feel for you, it does look like with a points deduction on as well that you don’t stand a chance and to be honest I don’t blame anyone for not going - who wants to watch a side when the ownership aren’t even giving you a fighting chance at survival.
posted on 19/8/24
Well, I'm attending. Just wondering if I'll be able to stand it until the end after Spurs' fifth?
posted on 20/8/24
Well that was eventually a pleasant surprise. I thought Buonanotte looked quite encouraging given he's only 19. Soumare is already on the plane though (has he ever been with us?).
posted on 20/8/24
Not sure on Buononotte. I doubt he’s Coopers idea for a first choice no.10 and my hope is we get a much needed creative midfielder in this window to be the starter. I think he showed some good touches and the pass for Vardys attempt was great but also gave the ball away a lot and struggled with his touch at times