Spurs Summer transfer window 2025 - roundup and review

[Muttley]

What does concern mean is the lack of homegrown talent we have in the squad. To fulfill the quota for the premier league and European squads (need 8) I think we have 7, and a couple of those are injured. Notably Madders. Solanke could be out longer than stated, and Davies being past his best. Our best youngsters are out on loan. Surely this should have been on the radar of those making transfer decisions?. Harvey Elliott would have been perfect.

I believe we have addressed it but it's taking time to materialise.

In the PL HG quota we have
Spence
Davies
Madds
Solanke
Johnson
Danso
Austin

So we're one short of having 8 but we also have Gray, Odobert and Bergval as U21 free picks. They will naturally become homegrown along with about another 8-10 U21's like Mikey in due course, if they make the grade.

Eze and MGW are HG so we were trying. We showed some interest in Wharton but seemed to pull back. I have a feeling we've considered others like Morgan Rogers as well. As you say, Elliott's name was there somewhere as well.

I might be wrong, but I think we only have 16 overseas players in the PL squad. Takai would be the 17th in the future but he's still U21 as well.

So one short on both homegrown and overseas, but more than compensated by a bunch of talented U21s. It's a big squad nowadays.

It definitely feels like the trend is in a good direction to me.

 

[Gutter Boy]

I think it's between B and C. Not so much the targets , all of whom I like, but for how late the transfers were done which means lost points.

Also two loans probably means we are short of funding and making palhinha and kolo permanent will eat into next seasons transfer budget.

And while we shifted many players, we still could shift bissouma and Solomon. Yeah we won Europa, but finishing 17th probably doesn't make our players more attractive and valuable.

But target remains champions league position and I think 5th is an achievable target . ( We can forget about top four unless we have funds to recruit in the winter.) We absolutely need to be better than Villa, Saudi Sportswashing Machine and Man U.

We've got 7 points from 9. That's a pretty great start. I'm not sure getting Muani and Simons in 2-3 weeks earlier would necessarily have got us those 2 lost points. We've also ended up longer term with better players than we would likely have got if we'd moved earlier

 

[glorygloryeze]

We've got 7 points from 9. That's a pretty great start. I'm not sure getting Muani and Simons in 2-3 weeks earlier would necessarily have got us those 2 lost points. We've also ended up longer term with better players than we would likely have got if we'd moved earlier

2 wins and a defeat gets 7 points now??

 

[Gutter Boy]

It's always going to be difficult to sign HG player as there are so few to pick from and the best will go to the top 6 clubs or highest wages.

Its also CT we need, not HG (though getting Danso has been a bonus on HG). The likes of Grey, Bergvall, Lankshear, Odobert and Vuskovic came in young enough that they will help us big time with that in the coming years

 

[braineclipse]

What does concern mean is the lack of homegrown talent we have in the squad. To fulfill the quota for the premier league and European squads (need 8) I think we have 7, and a couple of those are injured. Notably Madders. Solanke could be out longer than stated, and Davies being past his best. Our best youngsters are out on loan. Surely this should have been on the radar of those making transfer decisions?. Harvey Elliott would have been perfect.

The main problem is in Europe, where we can't register everyone. We don't really have a problem with home grown players, but with club trained players.

That issue has been on the radar and addressed by the people in charge of transfers I believe. Think players like Bergvall, Gray and Vuskovic will end up as club trained. Others like Odobert I think will end up home grown.

But it takes time, they have to be here 3 years to get that. They also have to be here for two years to be on the B-list. So from next season it will be way less of an issue.

When those players get older and have to be included in the 25 for the PL they will be home grown.

So problem solved, assuming those players develop and progress as we hope. But it should be a continued focus to some extent.

 

[SirPercyHotspur]

Pretty good window with best bits saved to last .
Be glad when the PL & CL squads are announced now the window is shut , need a university degree to work it all out .

From the updated PL squad announced after the January window closed we had a 24 man squad from which we have lost Forster HG, Reguilon, Robson HG , Werner, Whiteman HG , Sonny and we don't know about Biss , the following were all on the PL U21 list, Kinsky, Bergvall, Gray, Odobert and Tel.

 

[Muttley]

Here's the chronology of the incomings:

Vuskovic - deal agreed in Sep 23, joined for pre-season
Danso - obligation to buy was made in January
Tel - 15 June the conversion of loan to purchase was confirmed by the club
Takai - 8 July deal confirmed
Kudus - 10 July deal confirmed
Palhinha - 3 Aug loan confirmed
Simons - 29 Aug deal confirmed
Muani - 31 Aug loan confirmed

Perhaps the questionable timing was Simons. I can imagine us all being a little more chilaxed if that had happened a month earlier. I wonder what was the reason it couldn't have concluded earlier. That still makes me think that we were his second choice or he wasn't our main man for the role. We obviously kept reading the Chelsea links but who knows what to believe anyway. We got our man, that's the main thing.

 

[Gutter Boy]

The main problem is in Europe, where we can't register everyone. We don't really have a problem with home grown players, but with club trained players.

That issue has been on the radar and addressed by the people in charge of transfers I believe. Think players like Bergvall, Gray and Vuskovic will end up as club trained. Others like Odobert I think will end up home grown.

But it takes time, they have to be here 3 years to get that. They also have to be here for two years to be on the B-list. So from next season it will be way less of an issue.

When those players get older and have to be included in the 25 for the PL they will be home grown.

So problem solved, assuming those players develop and progress as we hope. But it should be a continued focus to some extent.

We can use Scarlet and Craig to pad out the CT numbers if we want, as neither could secure moves away (unless they are going abroad to places with different windows)

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Its also CT we need, not HG (though getting Danso has been a bonus on HG). The likes of Grey, Bergvall, Lankshear, Odobert and Vuskovic came in young enough that they will help us big time with that in the coming years

Sorry I haven't a clue what CT means, I'm just use to football the rest is just ideas to make the game complicated and screw someone.

 

[Chrissivad]

Sorry I haven't a clue what CT means, I'm just use to football the rest is just ideas to make the game complicated and screw someone.

Club trained

 

[Silly McSilly Face]

Very good window but i'd have liked a top quality left winger/inside forward and a centre back. Rome wasn't built in a day and I think the key things are that we have added three players in Muani, Kudus and Simons that can really take the game to the opposition in a way that those in our existing squad couldn't. You could see agsinst Bournemouth how easy it was to stop us playing - just double mark Kudus and there was no other threat. Hopefully from now on that will change. Paulinha gives us that no. 6 we have been crying out for forever. Probably since the Dier/Wanyama days.

 

[Kandi1977]

This transfer window has meant that for our next game, against West Ham, we could be fielding an attack of Kudus, Muani, Simons and Solanke.
That's going to frighten their defence.
And once these players starting gelling and understanding each other and Frank's demands...we could see some very special games.

Frightening on paper, but if I was west ham, I would not be scared. That quartet has played the square root of feck all together. Will take time to get on the same page, and they might never gel.
We just have to hope they're a good match for each other.

 

[K.D.D.D.D.Soc]

Club trained

Oigi