Summer 2018 transfer window

[FightingIllini]

The squad has holes.

Rose is a shadow and I don't care if he leaves. Dier and Wanyama were both poor and Dembele is a worn out horse.

You may be right on Rose and Dembele. And if so, we should be proactive about bringing in the best possible replacements. For me, there's still quality in Rose and I'll take whatever number of games Dembele's fitness allows over any of the proposed replacements.

I guess my view of the ambition would be that guys like Alli, Dier, Sanchez, Kane, perhaps Eriksen and Son, hopefully Trippier and Davies, they are all at an age and a point in their careers where they are likely to have their peak as players in front of them rather than behind them. We push on just by keeping the squad together, plus gain yet more advantage of stability and experience with each other and within the system. The team we already have is one of the best in Europe, is only getting better, and I have a hard time seeing most of our transfer targets cracking the first XI when everyone is fit and in form.

Keeping those players together isn't just about humbly accepting a lack of transfer activity though, it's about smashing the wage structure and locking those guys into contracts that establish them as cornerstones of an ambitious future for the club. That's what I'm eager for this summer. Pochettino and Kane are done, now lock in the rest.

 

[Bill Madrid]

Kovacic - a key member of the Croatia squad that reached the World Cup final has an asking price of £80m which is considered too high.

His release clause is €50 million

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

Hazard is a good player, but he won't give them 20+ goals every season, because imo he isn't selfish enough.
A player like Hazard would be ideal to elevate another superstar in the team, but he won't be it himself

Hazard is world class. In the Spanish league playing for Real Madrid he would score a good 20 goals for season.

 

[Airfixx]

Worlds most boring transfer window for Spurs ?

Good job it's purpose isn't to entertain then, innit.

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

Worlds most boring transfer window for Spurs ?

Since last year. Yes.

 

[Airfixx]

True. We should at least sell our star player to united or buy an unproven winger from france to spice it up a bit.

Shame we can't sell YOU.

This pretending not to be a melt routine must be killing you on the inside.

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

Grealish and Martial only would still constitute a good window btw - we will not be signing 5-6 players - people need to be realistic

Add in a good midfielder plus Toby signing a new deal and is easily a 9/10 window.

 

[SchmoodSpur]

Hmmm, so when Pochettino said: "It's so important today to identify our targets for next summer. If we wait until May and sell before signing, it's so difficult to bring in players that can help. This season is a very good example. We signed good players but it was so late, with no preseason and then they have to play. You need six or seven months for the players to adapt themselves to the team, the dynamics, everything. And that is always against us. We were talking about how important it is to identify our targets and on 3 July, when we start preseason, have them here. If not, it's so difficult for them to help the team. And during the season, you're going to pay" he actually meant the opposite.

Interesting take

How do you know we haven't identified our targets?

 

[Macch]

Add in a good midfielder plus Toby signing a new deal and is easily a 9/10 window.

I'd also be happy to see Sissoko, Jansen, GkN all get shipped to the Turkish leage

 

[coughymachine]

How do you know we haven't identified our targets?

Even if we have, we didn't have them here by July 3rd, which I think is the thrust of the argument.

 

[John Thomas]

What i won't do is bitch and moan and whine and gripe and argue and melt on here over and over again to complete strangers on the internet when we have very little idea what is actually going on behind the scenes and ULTIMATELY it has absolutely zero bearing on how the club is run anyway.

The irony is, you posted this paragraph at the end of a full blown novel where you bitched and moaned and whined and griped and argued and melted to complete strangers on the internet.

 

[Airfixx]

But he is so much more than good and like Rooney his unselfishness should not be seen negatively.

In our side in any of the last 3 years we would have won the league twice. I am sure of that.

...Well it would have fucked Chelsea in 16/17 for starters. :

Seriously though, the prob with that assertion is that we had the like of Son & Deli clocking up similar numbers anyway and you'd have to deduct a lot of those to accomodate Hazard's playing time.

...Plus the cunt goes on strike bi-annually.

 

[bk_spur]

So you are on holiday, but you're still on here?

In defense of Sammy, I’m on holiday too lol
Can’t be in the water all the time! #TFC

 

[GlosYid]

Not sure where this €50 million info has come from, this says otherwise.

 

[hiatus]

Not sure where this €50 million info has come from, this says otherwise.

No idea, but €50 million seems in line with the current market, where as €90 million (£80 million) is bonkers.

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

I'd also be happy to see Sissoko, Jansen, GkN all get shipped to the Turkish leage

That’s the 10/10 mate.

 

[Boltonspur]

Not sure where this €50 million info has come from, this says otherwise.

Do these greedy fuckers actually need any more players or is it just a case of sweeping up everyone else’s targets to wipe out the competition? Fucking loathesome cunts they are.

 

[GlosYid]

No idea, but €50 million seems in line with the current market, where as €90 million (£80 million) is bonkers.

Not sure what you would call Isco's at over 600 then.

 

[pleb]

Gomes

Not sure what you would call Isco's at over 600 then.

Insanity!

 

[Stanley]

Hazard is world class. In the Spanish league playing for Real Madrid he would score a good 20 goals for season.

Yes he is world class, but I think that Real's most expensive incoming player this summer will always be seen as the natural heir to Ronaldo, and Hazard will never be that goal scoring machine, so although he will be a great playmaker in that XI, Real will still lack a goal scoring machine to compensate the loss of Ronaldo.