Confirmed Signing Tyler Dibling

[COYB75]

We charged the same for Gordon so I can’t whinge about it but still feel it’s too much. Can get two players for that fee.

And Gordon’s a s**t end.

 

[matty1878]

I’d be surprised if there isn’t any others interested and if there ain’t it’s a flag anyway. If it was being done can’t help think the opportunity for us may have passed.

all a decoy

to get who we want

 

[Neiler]

The problem is, our track record in these types of deals is patchy at best. Most of the players we’ve signed for £25m or more have been huge wastes of money and end up leaving for nothing or sold at a huge loss. We aren’t Chelsea- we can’t afford to buy 4 or 5 players per window at £40m plus and just take the hit that most of them won’t work out. If we’re pushing towards £45/50m for a 19 year old who may or may not become a superstar that’s a hell of a risk when we don’t have the financial fair play wriggle room the sky 6 have.

That not a problem mate thats incompetence, there is a difference.

Whether we care to embrace it or not. Football is a game of investment as much as it is an organized sport, one enables the other.

We can afford to spend significantly - more so then most teams in the league, we are three or four times the size of clubs like Fulham, Brentford and Brighton - who have significantly outspent us in recent years - that shouldn't happen.

If you get your recruitment your right PSR or cashflow arent an issue.

If you sign the right players success becomes success. £30 mill was a lot for Pickford back in the day, its a bargain now.

Make no mistake the last 7 years is the worst we've been run in our history, those times are over, we need to move away from the fear that your post conveys.

Its time to start and enjoy again.

 

[Somerset Blue]

all a decoy

to get who we want

We’ll see, I personally wasn’t sold on this deal anyway! But it ain’t my dosh.

 

[Neiler]

He must be Bale level to worth 100m.
Honestly what are the chances?

Or Grealish.........he has every chance.

Hes a bit special in my opinion.

 

[Kirkles]

He's on 5k at Southampton apparently. So can't imagine we'd be offering him more than 40k a week. Got to factor that in aswell.

 

[COYB75]

Are you actually being serious?! So we should have been tapping up our targets all along? Are you not aware of the legal challenge that Forest have just threatened to Spurs over MG-W?

Possibly the most ignorant post on this thread to date.

Crikey that’s a bit of a strong attack. Not sure you can accuse MikeH72 of being ignorant. Players agents 100% speak to other agents.

 

[Neiler]

Would people feel better if we say we spent 65 mill on Ndiaye and Dibling combined?

Big clubs spend big money. This was the whole point of moving to a new stadium and getting new owners. We’ve had 27 out the last 30 years selling to buy, going with what we’ve got, knife to a gun fight. It’s about time we started making a couple of statements.

You spend money to make moneny mate, i think TFG understand this.

This all isnt just about right now its also about future, developing players and getting a return:

Barry 22
Charly 23
Aznou 19
Travers 26
Dibling 19

All these players have been chosen purposely to hold resale and ultimately make profit.

Even KDH, i think has been picked to support the pathway of Armstrong eventually - who will be in his early 20's when we might look to move KDH on or when we need to decide whether we renew his deal or not.

There is a plan being executed here if you care to see it.

We've moved on from deals we can do, to doing deals we should do.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Except Dibling is 10 years younger, plays in a position we need and will have a resale value.

I meant more that we are biding against ourselves. If we had a target price and we've gone past it we should move on regardless of the potential.

We've bought young players that we thought had good resale value and haven't got anything back for some of those. No guarantees in life.

I didn’t like Gylfi at all because I thought he ran like he was in treacle and had a fat first touch. That midfield of him Gueye and Schneiderlin was a literal toilet seat.

That being said he was in the team under multiple different managers and had decent goal and assist contributions at a time when a lot of other players couldn’t perform at all.

As you say Gylfi as a player for us was okay, he just cost too much to start with and then what we would have got for him that window went up in smoke and probably caused a points deduction.

 

[Drico]

You spend money to make moneny mate, i think TFG understand this.

This all isnt just about right now its also about future, developing layers and gettign a return:

Barry 22
Charly 23
Aznou 19
Travers 26
Dibling 19

All these players have been chosen purposely to hold release and ultimately make profit.

Even KDH, i think has been picked to support the pathway of Armstrong eventually - who will be in his early 20's when we might look to move KDH on.

There is a plan being executed here if you care to see it.

We've moved on from deals we can do, to doing deals we should do.

I think that's a pretty fair, if optimistic, analysis.

The age profile of targets is definitely noticeable now. Keeping 23-year-old Branthwaite underscores that, too.

The club has probably decided that if they are going to go big, do so on young players who could give us a huge upside - or hold their value if they fail.

 

[hashbike]

We should bid for Hutchinson to show Saints there’s plenty of fish

 

[toffeeblue9]

We should bid for Hutchinson to show Saints there’s plenty of fish

I'd rather we didn't, just in case Ipswich said yes and we signed him

 

[Fonzy]

Southampton playing dangerous game here

They want spurs/Newcastle to come in. If they don’t and we walk away

They have an unhappy player who will not sign a deal and walks away for free or isn’t the talent they think he is and this was the high water point to sell.

 

[BigDunc'sFod]

Our better signings have been rookies. Branthwaite, Calvert Lewin, Stones, Richarlison, and then of course our own academy products of Rooney Barkley Rodwell Gordon.

It’s when we’ve paid for ‘proven’ talent that we’ve normally fallen foul. Schneidelrin, Klaasen, Siggurdson, Rooney second time, Tosun, Walcott etc.

Branners was 1m. Stones was 3m. DCL was 2m.

Only richarlison commanded that kind of fees but he'd just ran the show at Watford the prior season and we were throwing all our money at every wall having just spent 200m the season before including 20m on Tosun, Walcott, a bit more for Klaasen I think and 50 for The Pest

 

[matty1878]

Southampton playing dangerous game here

They want spurs/Newcastle to come in. If they don’t and we walk away

They have an unhappy player who will not sign a deal and walks away for free or isn’t the talent they think he is and this was the high water point to sell.

if nobody buys him this window he will goe in the nxt one