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The transfer window thread.

Bishop said:
Heung Min Son.

We were first interested when he was at Hamburg at looked into signing him the same window Bale left but chose not to then signed him anyway 2 years later.

There have been other examples of players we scouted but didn't buy at the time because we were unsure who then went on to prove themselves to the extent we could no longer buy them.

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We were also interested in Maddison from Coventry
 
Danishfurniturelover said:
Wonder whether the new manager chooses the targets or if we will back our scouts.
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Depends on who it is ..

- despite the "shock" of some people, this has been coming.

My best assumption

- We had a discussion with our potential replacement/s
- The budget and targets expected would have been part of the discussion/negotiation
- The more high profile the incoming manager, likely the more leverage they had on expected signings

I'm sure people will jump in and say Spurs/Levy never spends money, but today's Spurs is not last years, or the Spurs of 3 years ago ..
 
Raziel said:
Depends on who it is ..

- despite the "shock" of some people, this has been coming.

My best assumption

- We had a discussion with our potential replacement/s
- The budget and targets expected would have been part of the discussion/negotiation
- The more high profile the incoming manager, likely the more leverage they had on expected signings

I'm sure people will jump in and say Spurs/Levy never spends money, but today's Spurs is not last years, or the Spurs of 3 years ago ..
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That’s the key
People seem to think we’re skint
We have huge income now and no capital projects to eat it up that haven’t already been funded (currently)
i think with a Portuguese manager coming in we will sign a great Portugal midfielder who scored the other night and Lisbon want to sell
 
Bedfordspurs said:
That’s the key
People seem to think we’re skint
We have huge income now and no capital projects to eat it up that haven’t already been funded (currently)
i think with a Portuguese manager coming in we will sign a great Portugal midfielder who scored the other night and Lisbon want to sell
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People have always confused Levy's money management with Skint/stupidity, you don't build the stadium/facilities we did if either of those were true.

The project costs are final/known, the debt has been refinanced very favorably and we can calculate our income (plus the additional things like NFL) much clearer now. If we want to, we can invest significantly to either protect or progress or push on.
 
Raziel said:
People have always confused Levy's money management with Skint/stupidity, you don't build the stadium/facilities we did if either of those were true.

The project costs are final/known, the debt has been refinanced very favorably and we can calculate our income (plus the additional things like NFL) much clearer now. If we want to, we can invest significantly to either protect or progress or push on.
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The issue isn't that we are skint, the issue is that we still can't pay the going rate for the very top talents and in demand players. If there is a bidding war, we will not win and likely won't even compete, that has not changed.

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Bishop said:
The issue isn't that we are skint, the issue is that we still can't pay the going rate for the very top talents and in demand players. If there is a bidding war, we will not win and likely won't even compete, that has not changed.

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But it's never that simple is it?

- Yes, we are probably not going to buy Mbappe but then neither is anyone else bar two or three clubs
- Somehow in a much worse position financially as well as less likely to win trophies we have managed to buy a lot of very good players in last 10-15 years.

A respected manager, a side that a top player will likely start in (very important distinction vs some of the people who could outbid us), great facilities, we aren't the ugly girl at the party anymore ..
 
Bishop said:
The issue isn't that we are skint, the issue is that we still can't pay the going rate for the very top talents and in demand players. If there is a bidding war, we will not win and likely won't even compete, that has not changed.

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We will not compete with Madrid/Barca and PSG and United
We can compete with everyone else though
Our transfer record fee isn’t far off city’s Dont forget
And big clubs don’t do bidding wars, desperate ones do.. hence why city dropped out of the deal for Maguire
 
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