Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

Very few of the commentators seem to understand the hard financial limits we are up against. I noticed one claim that our budget was limited to £25m this window which sounds a bit low but there is no way we can spend £100m unless we do something insane like sell Kulusevski for £50m which would create a lot of profit which we could spend 5 or 6 times over

 

There’s talk of Girona making Bryan Gil permanent this month, that would surely help increase any limit wouldn’t it.

 

With the decisions this club’s made in recent years, that’s probably not as insane as you might think!

 

Selling Kulusevski for £50m would generate £12m in profit.

Just about enough to sign Sam Johnstone.

 

Wouldn’t surprise me if he wants out in the summer, he’s good enough to play for a CL side.

Pep always talks highly of him and City need a rebuild. He could easily play for them imo.

 

Said to my mate’s dad literally a few days ago I wouldn’t be entirely shocked to see City launch a January bid for him. The way he’s playing at the moment will have all the big fish sniffing.

 

There's a demonstrable track record of O'Queef getting it hopelessly wrong in his transfer takes, which tends to happen with frauds

...which is why I've made no reference to Fiyako Tomori rumours, as so far only talkBALLS are linking us with him

 

...oh yeah, Diario AS say that Girona are preparing to trigger the €15m option to make Bryan Gil's loan permanent

 

I don’t think the club will sell him this month but in the summer it wouldn’t surprise me to hear he wants out. Spurs are on course for a bottom half finish which means no European football. If City want him then it’s a no brainer on his side to go there and work with Pep and realistically compete for trophies.

 

Wrong.
It would generate £30m in profit allowing us to sign 150m worth of players on 5 year deals.

 

Have faith....the EL is in the bag, so CL here we come next season! And when we win the FAC that will just be the back up!

 

Yes. As far as I can see, Gil had a four year contract which means he is fully amortised this season so any fee is pure profit. So we could spend 5x that fee without changing our EBITD

 

Still hungover from new years?

 

I believe the agreed fee is £15million isn’t it. Let’s hope they make it permanent this window.

 

Somewhat predicted as such but wouldn't expect to see Yang any time soon according to Ange:

"No real plan or timeline. Let him settle. He's still very young and he's coming from the other side of the world where the level is nowhere near what he'll face here."

Funnily enough, No Real Plan should replace To Dare Is To Do.

 

I think their plan for him is to train and get up to speed for the rest of the season and then to hopefully push for minutes next season. Hopefully he doesn’t go on loan in the summer to a league where the style isn’t comparable to the PL.

Veliz for example has had a couple of poor loan moves now and his Spurs career is in danger of never really taking off.

 

Yeah we seem to have this thing of sending young players out to clubs that really don't need them. This season's been a slight improvement thankfully, still been a few that's struggled for game time but Phillips, Vuskovic, Devine, Keeley, Donley and Abbott are having great individual seasons even if some of their teams ain't.

Should recall Veliz and send him to the Championship, guaranteed game time at a lower level is far better than no or little game time at a higher one.

 

Spurs have an illness

 

Espanyol are reportedly considering sending Veliz back to us this month

The good news is that, with half a season in his legs, we might be able to sort him out with a good loan to someone who can play to his strengths - unlike in the summer, where Espanyol were the only takers due to him missing half of last season

 

"Non est verum consilium"

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