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Transfer Window Reality


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Pochettino and Levy navigating the transfer window at Spurs

There seems to be plenty of Spurs fans on Twitter starting to panic and rant because they only know what the papers tell them and don't believe anyone can know more than they do as a result.

Panicking is a failure trait, it has no place at Spurs and should have no place amongst supporters who want success and just to clarify, by success I do mean trophies.

You hear the usual cries that everyone else is buying (except they aren't) and that Levy is always leaving it late, ignoring that 47% of all transfers are done in the final 2 weeks of a window and that 37% of those are done on the last day.

Just look at this.

Major Players Signed
Man City - 1
Liverpool - 0
Chelsea - 1
SPURS - 1
Man Utd - 1
Arsenal - 1 loan

Does that bring a bit of reality to the situation?

Giovani Lo Celso isn't due back to Real Betis until tomorrow so he would n't have been able to integrate or train or do pre-season or do anything until this week, until tomorrow.

You all know Ryan Sessegnon has had a hamstring injury and has not been training with Fulham or played in any pre-season games. He has been to the training ground, yes, but not to train.

Despite what the hordes think, every club usually makes purchases later in the window than earlier.

Players naturally wait to see what offers they are going to get this selling clubs who need to buy replacements can't get those sorted until later in a window thus delaying the sale of their own players.

Why is that so difficult for people to accept?

2 comments

  1. Most people believe what they're told as long as it is consistent with what they already believe (and sometimes even when it isn't if they're told often enough). Critical thinking is not taught nowadays. The criteria for believing is simply based on how often they get told. That's why, for most people, the press is such an enormously powerful instrument for billionaires.

    Billionaires are, as a general rule, good at making and acquiring money. They don't buy newspapers for the fun of it. They know that control over how & what people think can mean millions for them.

    Most regurgitation sites and the general press sell a massive story about how transfers work which, with a little bit of consideration, call it critical thinking, would be very obvious to be rubbish.

    For most people this story is told so many times and, for them, that's a stronger argument than irrefutable evidence is to those that actually look at evidence, and are capable of weighing it up.

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  2. You are just looking at the current transfer window. Because of the lack of activity over the last 4 windows we need to be far more active than other clubs.