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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3660 on: July 09, 2025, 08:19:33 PM »
Kudos under the right manager could be very good, he’s got bags of talent, but he also can look terrible and goes missing and a liability.
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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3661 on: July 09, 2025, 08:30:59 PM »
As Chelsea’s new £50M forward smashed in two goals at the CWC and Spurs lash out £55M on Kudus I just watched a tumbleweed roll by B6.

It was a glorified friendly. Spurs have a LOT of catching up to do.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3662 on: July 09, 2025, 08:40:53 PM »
As Chelsea’s new £50M forward smashed in two goals at the CWC and Spurs lash out £55M on Kudus I just watched a tumbleweed roll by B6.

It was a glorified friendly. Spurs have a LOT of catching up to do.

I know people don’t like the event but it’s not a friendly at all. The clubs are playing their best players because of the incredible money on the line.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3663 on: July 09, 2025, 08:54:16 PM »
Kudos under the right manager could be very good, he’s got bags of talent, but he also can look terrible and goes missing and a liability.

Who is their manager?

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3664 on: July 09, 2025, 08:57:57 PM »
As Chelsea’s new £50M forward smashed in two goals at the CWC and Spurs lash out £55M on Kudus I just watched a tumbleweed roll by B6.

It was a glorified friendly. Spurs have a LOT of catching up to do.

I know people don’t like the event but it’s not a friendly at all. The clubs are playing their best players because of the incredible money on the line.

Ok then…he scored two, in a competition with serious money involved, against a team that finished 13th in the Brazilian league last season.


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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3665 on: July 09, 2025, 09:08:41 PM »
A team that beat European Cup finalists Inter Milan 2-0. I’m not here to shift your opinion of the competition. Just correcting your assertion the game was some sort of exhibition where half the side has been rotated and the manager is experimenting. Which is what happens in friendlies. And furthermore I hope PSG continue to take it seriously, do what they are doing to Real Madrid right now and batter Chelsea in the final.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3666 on: July 09, 2025, 09:18:23 PM »
And I was just saying that a Chelsea player scoring two goals and Spurs signing an ok player, after finishing 4th from bottom, shouldn’t cause us any undue worry. More than 5 weeks before the season starts.

I also think this competition is the final nail in football’s coffin and I haven’t watched a kick. But that was just a sly dig I wanted to get in.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3667 on: July 09, 2025, 09:20:59 PM »
I haven’t watched a kick either, can’t really see the interest. Football needs to actually stop sometimes.

As for our transfer activity, the squad clearly needs improvement but there’s plenty of time and clearly we need to tread reasonably carefully.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3668 on: July 09, 2025, 09:25:07 PM »
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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3669 on: July 09, 2025, 09:30:03 PM »
Kudos under the right manager could be very good, he’s got bags of talent, but he also can look terrible and goes missing and a liability.

Who is their manager?

To be honest I have got a clue? I’ve forgotten! Who is it again?

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3670 on: July 09, 2025, 09:30:58 PM »
I haven’t watched a kick either, can’t really see the interest. Football needs to actually stop sometimes.

As for our transfer activity, the squad clearly needs improvement but there’s plenty of time and clearly we need to tread reasonably carefully.

When does 'plenty of time left' change to 'Shit, all those we see as rivals are strengthening their squads while all we have managed is a teenager on a free that most people have never heard of'?

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3671 on: July 09, 2025, 09:32:36 PM »
I haven’t watched a kick either, can’t really see the interest. Football needs to actually stop sometimes.

As for our transfer activity, the squad clearly needs improvement but there’s plenty of time and clearly we need to tread reasonably carefully.

When does 'plenty of time left' change to 'Shit, all those we see as rivals are strengthening their squads while all we have managed is a teenager on a free that most people have never heard of'?

50 days I suppose depending when the window finishes in August.

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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3672 on: July 09, 2025, 09:34:42 PM »
I haven’t watched a kick either, can’t really see the interest. Football needs to actually stop sometimes.

As for our transfer activity, the squad clearly needs improvement but there’s plenty of time and clearly we need to tread reasonably carefully.

When does 'plenty of time left' change to 'Shit, all those we see as rivals are strengthening their squads while all we have managed is a teenager on a free that most people have never heard of'?

When the window shuts?

Could be one of those windows where a lot of action for us is in the last few days…let’s face it most of those we want to unload are not likely to be top targets for buyers with cash & we will be looking to buy players at best prices not paying the premium to get things done quickly.


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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3673 on: July 09, 2025, 09:34:44 PM »
I haven’t watched a kick either, can’t really see the interest. Football needs to actually stop sometimes.

As for our transfer activity, the squad clearly needs improvement but there’s plenty of time and clearly we need to tread reasonably carefully.

When does 'plenty of time left' change to 'Shit, all those we see as rivals are strengthening their squads while all we have managed is a teenager on a free that most people have never heard of'?

*Two teenagers that most people haven’t heard of

I don’t know what the worry cut off is, but has to be less than 5 and a half weeks before the season starts.


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Re: Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.
« Reply #3674 on: July 09, 2025, 09:42:26 PM »
Kudos under the right manager could be very good, he’s got bags of talent, but he also can look terrible and goes missing and a liability.

Who is their manager?

To be honest I have got a clue? I’ve forgotten! Who is it again?

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