Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

Both sides of it is annoying yes. Some want a marquee signing every window which isn’t realistic and others worry about the wages of a free transfer

 

Good point. I've edited my post. It isn’t what the owners want that matters it is doing the right things to achieve it. Scholar did almost everything wrong.

 

I do wonder if Scholar told Keithy that the "grand plan" for the plc era THFC
involved trying to start a new Adidas + property investment, and dour
Yorkshireman that he is, went : right, I'm off.

 

Take your pick:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019–20_Watford_F.C._season#Loans_out

The Pozzos own Granada and Udinese, too.

 

Happy Birthday mate, have one on me! - mine tomorrow 57th,

 

Bloody hell , thought it would be a choice of 1 or 2 , my brain hurts

 

Local Norwich journalists are saying Skipp’s loan to Norwich is complete.

Other reports saying we’re getting in excess of a £1m loan fee.

 

Aaaand right on cue:


Gwaaaaarn Skippy!

 

“I spoke to Max Aarons before coming and he only said positive things about the club.”

Oh did you now?

 

Heres how i see ENIC. They would like to grow the club and are keen businessmen. They would rather take small risks than big ones which you can see in their model for buying young hungry players with potential or players who have a name but not at big prices.

I can understand why certain spurs fans are frustrated as every year the team should be supplemented, especially now that spurs are significantly wealthier. As people have alluded to, this doesn't mean splashing out like chelsea or city or man united. I don't think its unreasonable to be spending within your means as the worse thing to not trying is trying but having the club go under. At the same time, it doesn't mean that tottenham should be spending as if they are in the greek division 2.

The big ENIC fans will point to the fantastic facilities that have been put in place, something that no one could argue about. The question is, should ENIC contribute to this as well rather than having the club finance it all themselves. If ENIC were true fans and wanting to achieve trophies with spurs, should they not at least invest some of the cash into the building of infrastructure (this does not count towards FFP) and invest into the team which has gone southwards of recent note.

Here is summary of ENICs transfer spend and the net as well as operating profits for the past ten years (note 19/20 havent been filled in yet as the reports aren't out).



That's a lot of money that HASN'T gone back into the team and presumably gone into infrastructure.

 

We definitely need another holding midfielder now. Somebody short-term or even a loan would do it.

 

Agree, I’m not sure why the club have loaned out Skipp. I hope it’s part of some big plan but imo it’s another risk and a needless one

 

That's all pretty fair. From Levy's comments I think he doesn't see a big correlation between us spending big and the end result on the pitch. That doesn't matter if you can buy 3 £50m players a year but spending an extra £20m a year might still have made a difference

 

If he plays regularly for Norwich, then I think it's the right move, especially if they do well and play decent football.
It's better than him being in the squad every week and playing the odd ten minutes here and there.
Grabbing up someone like Gueye from PSG to bridge the gap would be perfect.

 

Happy Birthday Stokey old chap!

 

Skipp definitely needed this and I back the club’s/ Jose’s decision to sanction it, would’ve been pointless keeping him around when he didn’t get enough games last season and his spot has now been beefed up with the Hojbjerg addition.

The club might feel that Dier can be used as a DM at times should Hojbjerg need rotating, plus Winks too as I’m hoping he won’t be in the XI much any more, albeit he’s not a DM. Would be pretty good if we got a Davids type in for a season though.

Alternatively, in certain Europa matches, there is the option of Marsh or Bowden if they’re not loaned out (or sold in Marsh‘s case). Bowden has been rumoured as potentially going out on loan.

 

The thing is that around twenty years ago Arsenal fans were certainly doing mental arithmetic about signings due to the salary cap that they had in place that George Graham was particularly determined to enforce and Wenger certainly stuck to for the first five years of his time as manager, which was only really loosened by more regular CL campaigns - which were brought by the CL allowing two, then four, Premier League teams in to allow it. The problem for them was that, just as they were able to flex their financial muscle a bit more to close the gap on Man Utd, Uncle Roman showed up in Fulham to completely change the definition of money in the Premier League

This is why I really don't get the "splash the cash we don't have" mob: there's some clubs you simply cannot match penny for penny and if you try you are going to lose, because not only can they gazump us by offering a larger fee (which saw us miss out on Negredo and Batshuayi) they can simply shrug and offer significantly higher wages (which saw us miss out on Mane), so if we try and slug it out with them at this moment in time it's going to look like this

It's especially bizarre this year, with them taking the piss out of people concerned about the wages for players coming in, even though this is a perfectly valid concern considering the club hasn't made a penny on the following things since March
* Ticket sales
* Food & drink sales
* Concerts and other events at the stadium
* Dim Sherwood memorial gillets

 

With these sort of profit numbers why couldn't levy splash a bit more?

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Bleacher Report...

...report that we'll be signing Zeki Celik as soon as we offload Aurier, although Milan are still veering between "Umm" and "Ahh" in that regard