It's not even officially open until next week is it?
Deals can be agreed now but they're not officially completed until July 1st I believe.
It's been pretty quiet all round to be honest. Done two deals ourselves, pretty much as many as anyone else.
As annoying as he is, I imagine Baldini is pretty discreet when touting players about
I hope he's doing it quietly and effectively. It's the least he can do considering the overall failure of the players he helped bring in.
I am as concerned as you are Ledleys about our transfer activity.
But in two minds. It is easy to go and splash the money on fancy sounding named players, but in the back of my mind is the reasoning that "if they were any good they would be on the radar of the top clubs, here and on the continent."
Perhaps we have had our fingers burned with the recent purchases and Levy is putting his faith in Mitchell and his technology to identify players with real skill and ability but who have yet to feature in the big time. Wimmer and Tripier so far......only time will tell.
Unlike you though, I have seen plenty of rumours concerning outgoing players, Townsend to upteen clubs, Kaboul to others, even Adebayor to Aston Villa. Soldado to (was it) Galatasaray. But of course these might be seedings by agents or even the club in order to get some publicity for them.
I would hate us to go out and spend £30m+ on the likes of Benteke who is overpriced by about half.
I think if we are to be in the market for a keeper, then we ought to be looking at the likes of Krul at Newcastle.
So I am not sure what I want to happen, just something to get me excited. But who wants to live with the humiliation of buying umpteen players who a year later we are trying to shift again.
Perhaps the slowly slowly, softly softly way is the best until we have improved on our league position and can really compete for the top, proven players.
comment by Just me, Bill (U13802)
posted 14 minutes ago
I am as concerned as you are Ledleys about our transfer activity.
But in two minds. It is easy to go and splash the money on fancy sounding named players, but in the back of my mind is the reasoning that "if they were any good they would be on the radar of the top clubs, here and on the continent."
Perhaps we have had our fingers burned with the recent purchases and Levy is putting his faith in Mitchell and his technology to identify players with real skill and ability but who have yet to feature in the big time. Wimmer and Tripier so far......only time will tell.
Unlike you though, I have seen plenty of rumours concerning outgoing players, Townsend to upteen clubs, Kaboul to others, even Adebayor to Aston Villa. Soldado to (was it) Galatasaray. But of course these might be seedings by agents or even the club in order to get some publicity for them.
I would hate us to go out and spend £30m+ on the likes of Benteke who is overpriced by about half.
I think if we are to be in the market for a keeper, then we ought to be looking at the likes of Krul at Newcastle.
So I am not sure what I want to happen, just something to get me excited. But who wants to live with the humiliation of buying umpteen players who a year later we are trying to shift again.
Perhaps the slowly slowly, softly softly way is the best until we have improved on our league position and can really compete for the top, proven players.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes it's true we are heading in another direction in regards to our signings from now on after the farce that was 2013, we're looking at the lower-priced players with potential to grow and develop (a risk strategy but a strategy nonetheless). Would have thought that we'd have had our eye on a couple of bosmans such as Ayew who ended up at Swansea, but it seems not or they'd have probably approached them by now. Maybe some of the players we're after are at the U21 tournament?
As for outgoings, I saw someone post something about Kaboul about a week ago, but other than that I've not seen or heard anything anywhere! Maybe I should switch up my football news outlets! Townsend seems determined to stay at Spurs but I just don't see him progressing.
Not like Spurs to have a lack of activity in a transfer window. Very suspicious that.
My worry is that by the time we get round to looking at attacking options (if we do), all the good ones will be taken.
Chill out!
We've already brought in Dele Alli, Trippier and Wimner.
We'got ages left.
But most importantly, the club will be a lot more aware than we area out who needs to come in / leave. It's not like they'll get to September and think 'Ah - there was something I meant to do this summer'.
It will all be being addressed, just won't be blurted out to the press until it is. Everyone relax
Transfer window opens in a week!
What are we looking at here.....
Quality CB (Alderweireld)
Wide Striker (Salah/Remy)
New Striker (Berahino)
DM (Schniederlin)
CM (Cabeye)
These are just my suggestions and I think that little lot would make us pretty competitive with better options on the pitch and the bench, and with pace.
You'd have to expect that all of those players are attracting interest from a lot of clubs, many offering UCL and better wages. We wont be the first choice for a lot of them, they will all be waiting to see what offers they get.
As a team that cannot offer UCL, it is hard to do early deals, so our choice is to make an offer that cannot be refused (full asking price & wages) or play the long game and hope to pick up players later in the window.
You also have to consider that our sales will effect the targets we can get.....so if Llrois were to be sold then that could add the cost of Begovic for example (£10m) and another +£20m to the kitty, meaning we might be able to make that offer that cannot be refused for say Schniederlin & get that deal done.
I suspect a classic Spurs transfer deadline day this summer.
comment by NotSoMagicJuande (U1913)
posted 9 minutes ago
Chill out!
We've already brought in Dele Alli, Trippier and Wimner.
We'got ages left.
But most importantly, the club will be a lot more aware than we area out who needs to come in / leave. It's not like they'll get to September and think 'Ah - there was something I meant to do this summer'.
It will all be being addressed, just won't be blurted out to the press until it is. Everyone relax
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Ages??????
You do realise that the new season starts on August the 8th, that's about 5/6 weeks away.
It would be nice to get players in who are going to feature who would have spent sometime training and getting to know what is expected of them in the coming campaign. Just so that we are up and running before Christmas for a change, because we all know we tail off from February onwards................
Trippier, Alli & Wimmer is a better start than most clubs in the league really.
The way I see it (and bear with me) we can forget about big named signings like potentially Moutinho, Aguero, Damiao, I'm sure that Poch and Mitchell will trust in our very good youth system to promote within, this also has a knock on effect with Levy who will most likely see assets formed from development.
Like Tripper, Wimmer and potentially Alderweireld it's good solid players surrounded by other young talented lads hungry to play, once we can rid the deadwood of players chewing up the weekly wages we can then look to move forward.
I honestly can't see another huge signing at the club
Levy said in the FB live chat most of the deals will take place during the last two weeks on the window so keep calm and stay patient.
We've got ages left?
Doesn't the season start on August 7th something like that? That would mean the players are probably back for pre-season training within the next 10-14 days. Ideally I'd like our players present for the majority of pre-season where possible, although due to summer tournaments I'm aware that's a tricky one. I despise the last-minute shopping as I believe it's imperative that players get used to their new teammates etc.
Quality CB (Alderweireld)
Wide Striker (Salah/Remy)
New Striker (Berahino)
DM (Schniederlin)
CM (Cabeye)
I doubt we'll be spending that sort of money in one summer unless we get some really good offers in for our unwanted.
First of all, forget buying from Chelsea. They'll try and rip us off, and they're sçum anyway.
I'd reckon the rest of that lot would set us back approx £80m, mainly due to the inflated PL tax we'd have to deal with. Saying that I don't expect us to get Schneiderlin unless City and Arsenal both snub him.
Like the manager and chairman have said it's easy for fans to say "let's buy him for £9million" when you have 4 parties involved
The buying club
The selling club
The player
The agent
Fee agreed, personal terms agreed, agent fee agreed and relocation organised plus a medical and registration.
No player has a "set fee" so to speak.
You know there is very little going on when Sports Mole has a headline of "Queen travels to Germany in old 'Tottenham plane' owned by Daniel Levy"...Wow
comment by LukaBrazi (U6949)
posted 14 minutes ago
Levy said in the FB live chat most of the deals will take place during the last two weeks on the window so keep calm and stay patient.
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I hope he's lying otherwise that fills me with no confidence whatsoever. While I don't know if there's any scientific proof to back it up, I'd imagine that the team cohesion and new player's understanding of the tactics would be better if they arrived earlier?
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
I'm sure some itk's will show up soon and tell us who we're getting
Blue and yellow
Gents, am I the only one who's a bit concerned or alarmed at what seems to be a lack of activity in regards to selling or buying players this summer? I know we've already purchased Trippier and Wimmer, but seemingly not much else seems to be happening.
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not many prem transfers have happened have they?
infact at 2 signings we have probably been one of the most active so far...
and the window isn't even open yet....
comment by Ledley's knee surgeon: Football Manager legend - The Barca MSN... Treble 2015!!! (U20121)
posted 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
comment by LukaBrazi (U6949)
posted 14 minutes ago
Levy said in the FB live chat most of the deals will take place during the last two weeks on the window so keep calm and stay patient.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope he's lying otherwise that fills me with no confidence whatsoever. While I don't know if there's any scientific proof to back it up, I'd imagine that the team cohesion and new player's understanding of the tactics would be better if they arrived earlier?
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
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problem is that the calibre of player we want is also the calibre of players that bigger / richer clubs want...
so its in the players interest to sit tight and see if a bigger club comes in. same as its in the clubs interest to hold out to see if a bigger offer comes in.
that's why not just for us, but for most deals, they don't happen until the end of the window as everyone plays the waiting game...
the way to not play the waiting game is to go in with huge offers in both fee and wages... and we are not in a position to do that...
it wouldn't matter anyway... say us and man u wanted the same player... and we made a move and offered a big offer, say 30 mill... if united wanted him they would come straight over the top of us and get him anyway....
at our level often we need to wait for the bigger clubs to act.. and then we act...
OR
buy young promising players and develop them.. which is what we are doing.
take MS... rumours that arsenal and Chelsea are sniffing.... why the hell would he come to us now.. when he could go to them... then at the end of the window if they didn't come in, maybe he would consideder us....
I don't understand why so many spurs fans cannot understand this and just get all agitated about it.
I understand clearly, but realistically are we really competing with Arsenal and Chelsea for players? I wouldn't imagine so seeing as they have much larger transfer and wage budgets as we do. The only time we'd probably be competing with them would be for someone with a relatively low buyout clause or a wonderkid who's not that well-known and hasn't got a big price tag.
As for being 'agitated', no I'm not really as it's almost what I expect from Levy and Spurs. I'm thinking of it from a footballing point of view in that preparation is key. As a manager I'd want the business done early on so team cohesion etc can be worked on during pre-season, as I believe pre-season is as much about the prep as the money-making. LVG believes that too hence why he's tailored their tour in order to reduce upheaval and travelling time so the team can prepare properly.
I said about 6 weeks ago or so that I wasn't expecting much in the coming season and that our transfer business wouldn't be a success, hoping I'm proved wrong this summer.
Schneiderlin won't come to us. I'll bet my account on that 👍🏻 He's CL level.
The main reason why someone like City or Chelsea will got for Schneiderlin is because he's homegrown and their quotas are facked. Arsenal probably want him for footballing reasons!
comment by Thudd!!!!! (U1029)
posted 3 hours, 50 minutes ago
The way I see it (and bear with me) we can forget about big named signings like potentially Moutinho, Aguero, Damiao, I'm sure that Poch and Mitchell will trust in our very good youth system to promote within, this also has a knock on effect with Levy who will most likely see assets formed from development.
Like Tripper, Wimmer and potentially Alderweireld it's good solid players surrounded by other young talented lads hungry to play, once we can rid the deadwood of players chewing up the weekly wages we can then look to move forward.
I honestly can't see another huge signing at the club
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This is spot on. And I agree with the policy too.
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posted on 24/6/15
It's not even officially open until next week is it?
posted on 24/6/15
Deals can be agreed now but they're not officially completed until July 1st I believe.
posted on 24/6/15
It's been pretty quiet all round to be honest. Done two deals ourselves, pretty much as many as anyone else.
As annoying as he is, I imagine Baldini is pretty discreet when touting players about
posted on 24/6/15
I hope he's doing it quietly and effectively. It's the least he can do considering the overall failure of the players he helped bring in.
posted on 24/6/15
I am as concerned as you are Ledleys about our transfer activity.
But in two minds. It is easy to go and splash the money on fancy sounding named players, but in the back of my mind is the reasoning that "if they were any good they would be on the radar of the top clubs, here and on the continent."
Perhaps we have had our fingers burned with the recent purchases and Levy is putting his faith in Mitchell and his technology to identify players with real skill and ability but who have yet to feature in the big time. Wimmer and Tripier so far......only time will tell.
Unlike you though, I have seen plenty of rumours concerning outgoing players, Townsend to upteen clubs, Kaboul to others, even Adebayor to Aston Villa. Soldado to (was it) Galatasaray. But of course these might be seedings by agents or even the club in order to get some publicity for them.
I would hate us to go out and spend £30m+ on the likes of Benteke who is overpriced by about half.
I think if we are to be in the market for a keeper, then we ought to be looking at the likes of Krul at Newcastle.
So I am not sure what I want to happen, just something to get me excited. But who wants to live with the humiliation of buying umpteen players who a year later we are trying to shift again.
Perhaps the slowly slowly, softly softly way is the best until we have improved on our league position and can really compete for the top, proven players.
posted on 24/6/15
comment by Just me, Bill (U13802)
posted 14 minutes ago
I am as concerned as you are Ledleys about our transfer activity.
But in two minds. It is easy to go and splash the money on fancy sounding named players, but in the back of my mind is the reasoning that "if they were any good they would be on the radar of the top clubs, here and on the continent."
Perhaps we have had our fingers burned with the recent purchases and Levy is putting his faith in Mitchell and his technology to identify players with real skill and ability but who have yet to feature in the big time. Wimmer and Tripier so far......only time will tell.
Unlike you though, I have seen plenty of rumours concerning outgoing players, Townsend to upteen clubs, Kaboul to others, even Adebayor to Aston Villa. Soldado to (was it) Galatasaray. But of course these might be seedings by agents or even the club in order to get some publicity for them.
I would hate us to go out and spend £30m+ on the likes of Benteke who is overpriced by about half.
I think if we are to be in the market for a keeper, then we ought to be looking at the likes of Krul at Newcastle.
So I am not sure what I want to happen, just something to get me excited. But who wants to live with the humiliation of buying umpteen players who a year later we are trying to shift again.
Perhaps the slowly slowly, softly softly way is the best until we have improved on our league position and can really compete for the top, proven players.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Yes it's true we are heading in another direction in regards to our signings from now on after the farce that was 2013, we're looking at the lower-priced players with potential to grow and develop (a risk strategy but a strategy nonetheless). Would have thought that we'd have had our eye on a couple of bosmans such as Ayew who ended up at Swansea, but it seems not or they'd have probably approached them by now. Maybe some of the players we're after are at the U21 tournament?
As for outgoings, I saw someone post something about Kaboul about a week ago, but other than that I've not seen or heard anything anywhere! Maybe I should switch up my football news outlets! Townsend seems determined to stay at Spurs but I just don't see him progressing.
posted on 24/6/15
Not like Spurs to have a lack of activity in a transfer window. Very suspicious that.
My worry is that by the time we get round to looking at attacking options (if we do), all the good ones will be taken.
posted on 24/6/15
Chill out!
We've already brought in Dele Alli, Trippier and Wimner.
We'got ages left.
But most importantly, the club will be a lot more aware than we area out who needs to come in / leave. It's not like they'll get to September and think 'Ah - there was something I meant to do this summer'.
It will all be being addressed, just won't be blurted out to the press until it is. Everyone relax
posted on 24/6/15
Transfer window opens in a week!
posted on 24/6/15
What are we looking at here.....
Quality CB (Alderweireld)
Wide Striker (Salah/Remy)
New Striker (Berahino)
DM (Schniederlin)
CM (Cabeye)
These are just my suggestions and I think that little lot would make us pretty competitive with better options on the pitch and the bench, and with pace.
You'd have to expect that all of those players are attracting interest from a lot of clubs, many offering UCL and better wages. We wont be the first choice for a lot of them, they will all be waiting to see what offers they get.
As a team that cannot offer UCL, it is hard to do early deals, so our choice is to make an offer that cannot be refused (full asking price & wages) or play the long game and hope to pick up players later in the window.
You also have to consider that our sales will effect the targets we can get.....so if Llrois were to be sold then that could add the cost of Begovic for example (£10m) and another +£20m to the kitty, meaning we might be able to make that offer that cannot be refused for say Schniederlin & get that deal done.
I suspect a classic Spurs transfer deadline day this summer.
posted on 24/6/15
comment by NotSoMagicJuande (U1913)
posted 9 minutes ago
Chill out!
We've already brought in Dele Alli, Trippier and Wimner.
We'got ages left.
But most importantly, the club will be a lot more aware than we area out who needs to come in / leave. It's not like they'll get to September and think 'Ah - there was something I meant to do this summer'.
It will all be being addressed, just won't be blurted out to the press until it is. Everyone relax
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ages??????
You do realise that the new season starts on August the 8th, that's about 5/6 weeks away.
It would be nice to get players in who are going to feature who would have spent sometime training and getting to know what is expected of them in the coming campaign. Just so that we are up and running before Christmas for a change, because we all know we tail off from February onwards................
posted on 24/6/15
Trippier, Alli & Wimmer is a better start than most clubs in the league really.
posted on 24/6/15
The way I see it (and bear with me) we can forget about big named signings like potentially Moutinho, Aguero, Damiao, I'm sure that Poch and Mitchell will trust in our very good youth system to promote within, this also has a knock on effect with Levy who will most likely see assets formed from development.
Like Tripper, Wimmer and potentially Alderweireld it's good solid players surrounded by other young talented lads hungry to play, once we can rid the deadwood of players chewing up the weekly wages we can then look to move forward.
I honestly can't see another huge signing at the club
posted on 24/6/15
Levy said in the FB live chat most of the deals will take place during the last two weeks on the window so keep calm and stay patient.
posted on 24/6/15
We've got ages left?
Doesn't the season start on August 7th something like that? That would mean the players are probably back for pre-season training within the next 10-14 days. Ideally I'd like our players present for the majority of pre-season where possible, although due to summer tournaments I'm aware that's a tricky one. I despise the last-minute shopping as I believe it's imperative that players get used to their new teammates etc.
Quality CB (Alderweireld)
Wide Striker (Salah/Remy)
New Striker (Berahino)
DM (Schniederlin)
CM (Cabeye)
I doubt we'll be spending that sort of money in one summer unless we get some really good offers in for our unwanted.
First of all, forget buying from Chelsea. They'll try and rip us off, and they're sçum anyway.
I'd reckon the rest of that lot would set us back approx £80m, mainly due to the inflated PL tax we'd have to deal with. Saying that I don't expect us to get Schneiderlin unless City and Arsenal both snub him.
posted on 24/6/15
Like the manager and chairman have said it's easy for fans to say "let's buy him for £9million" when you have 4 parties involved
The buying club
The selling club
The player
The agent
Fee agreed, personal terms agreed, agent fee agreed and relocation organised plus a medical and registration.
No player has a "set fee" so to speak.
posted on 24/6/15
You know there is very little going on when Sports Mole has a headline of "Queen travels to Germany in old 'Tottenham plane' owned by Daniel Levy"...Wow
posted on 24/6/15
comment by LukaBrazi (U6949)
posted 14 minutes ago
Levy said in the FB live chat most of the deals will take place during the last two weeks on the window so keep calm and stay patient.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope he's lying otherwise that fills me with no confidence whatsoever. While I don't know if there's any scientific proof to back it up, I'd imagine that the team cohesion and new player's understanding of the tactics would be better if they arrived earlier?
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
posted on 24/6/15
I'm sure some itk's will show up soon and tell us who we're getting
Blue and yellow
posted on 24/6/15
Gents, am I the only one who's a bit concerned or alarmed at what seems to be a lack of activity in regards to selling or buying players this summer? I know we've already purchased Trippier and Wimmer, but seemingly not much else seems to be happening.
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not many prem transfers have happened have they?
infact at 2 signings we have probably been one of the most active so far...
and the window isn't even open yet....
posted on 24/6/15
comment by Ledley's knee surgeon: Football Manager legend - The Barca MSN... Treble 2015!!! (U20121)
posted 1 hour, 42 minutes ago
comment by LukaBrazi (U6949)
posted 14 minutes ago
Levy said in the FB live chat most of the deals will take place during the last two weeks on the window so keep calm and stay patient.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hope he's lying otherwise that fills me with no confidence whatsoever. While I don't know if there's any scientific proof to back it up, I'd imagine that the team cohesion and new player's understanding of the tactics would be better if they arrived earlier?
Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
problem is that the calibre of player we want is also the calibre of players that bigger / richer clubs want...
so its in the players interest to sit tight and see if a bigger club comes in. same as its in the clubs interest to hold out to see if a bigger offer comes in.
that's why not just for us, but for most deals, they don't happen until the end of the window as everyone plays the waiting game...
the way to not play the waiting game is to go in with huge offers in both fee and wages... and we are not in a position to do that...
it wouldn't matter anyway... say us and man u wanted the same player... and we made a move and offered a big offer, say 30 mill... if united wanted him they would come straight over the top of us and get him anyway....
at our level often we need to wait for the bigger clubs to act.. and then we act...
OR
buy young promising players and develop them.. which is what we are doing.
take MS... rumours that arsenal and Chelsea are sniffing.... why the hell would he come to us now.. when he could go to them... then at the end of the window if they didn't come in, maybe he would consideder us....
I don't understand why so many spurs fans cannot understand this and just get all agitated about it.
posted on 24/6/15
I understand clearly, but realistically are we really competing with Arsenal and Chelsea for players? I wouldn't imagine so seeing as they have much larger transfer and wage budgets as we do. The only time we'd probably be competing with them would be for someone with a relatively low buyout clause or a wonderkid who's not that well-known and hasn't got a big price tag.
As for being 'agitated', no I'm not really as it's almost what I expect from Levy and Spurs. I'm thinking of it from a footballing point of view in that preparation is key. As a manager I'd want the business done early on so team cohesion etc can be worked on during pre-season, as I believe pre-season is as much about the prep as the money-making. LVG believes that too hence why he's tailored their tour in order to reduce upheaval and travelling time so the team can prepare properly.
I said about 6 weeks ago or so that I wasn't expecting much in the coming season and that our transfer business wouldn't be a success, hoping I'm proved wrong this summer.
posted on 24/6/15
Schneiderlin won't come to us. I'll bet my account on that 👍🏻 He's CL level.
posted on 24/6/15
The main reason why someone like City or Chelsea will got for Schneiderlin is because he's homegrown and their quotas are facked. Arsenal probably want him for footballing reasons!
posted on 24/6/15
comment by Thudd!!!!! (U1029)
posted 3 hours, 50 minutes ago
The way I see it (and bear with me) we can forget about big named signings like potentially Moutinho, Aguero, Damiao, I'm sure that Poch and Mitchell will trust in our very good youth system to promote within, this also has a knock on effect with Levy who will most likely see assets formed from development.
Like Tripper, Wimmer and potentially Alderweireld it's good solid players surrounded by other young talented lads hungry to play, once we can rid the deadwood of players chewing up the weekly wages we can then look to move forward.
I honestly can't see another huge signing at the club
----------------------------------------------------------------------
This is spot on. And I agree with the policy too.
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