Good morning ladies.
Interesting bitta Tweeting going on from some chap called @karlsentk who describes himself as football analyst, (ex?) chief scout & sporting director, writer & opinionista. all views expressed are mine, not those of any employer/club i may represent.
‘As suggested over the past few weeks: spurs have made a bid (£8.5 million) for the Internacional front man Leandro Damiao’
‘the Spurs bid is quite likely to be accepted, according to sources close to the deal…’
‘has recently polished his finishing skills (scoring for fun in the state league), aggressive… still raw, needs to develop overall game’
‘great work ethics, tracks back, creates space, always has to play at 100% of his ability to make a difference’
‘Leandro Damiao would still require a work permit, as far as I know he doesn’t have a european passport’
Our very own Sandro has said of him…“He is a very strong guy, he is the perfect size for English football, he can do very well here. Not only do Spurs want him, we read that other sides are also interested in Leandro Damiao.
Damiao is a guy who is globally known. He’s got quality. The directors always talks to me about Brazilian players. They asked me about Leandro Damiao and I told them he’s a fantastic guy of high quality. Hopefully we will knock on the door of Inter [Internacional] very soon.”
My concern in my capacity as harbinger of doom and dark foreboding monger is quite simply, ‘is the the boy any good?’ The Grauniad and others have suggested he’s been on the radar of Real, Barca, Liverpool & Yanited with suggested RRP of £15M.
I guess a good few hadn’t really heard of Modders or Sandro prior to their arrival and they are two of our best players…
Damiao? scoring against part time post men, and raising his hands to half empty stadiums? sounds like bob keane
When does the transfer Windee open ?
In England, I think it opens tomorrow, Brycie, but the 1st of July on the continent.
I’m hoping we can slop out all the muck to English clubs by tomorrow afternoon, and have all English incoming activity already tied up and completed by tea time. All foreign deals done and dusted by brekkie on the 1st of July.
No doubt we’ll be foraging through the bargain baskets of the world come September.
I think domestic transfers can take place as soon as the season ends, but international transfers will have to take place a little later, whenever the respective countries’ windows are open.
What usually happens is early agreements are made and then the paperwork is processed on 1st July.
So it may as well be open anyway…
please lets have a decisive transfer window with our business done early.
My fear is that new talent wont be bought in till all dead wood is gone as it lowers the selling price and raises the buying.
Fuck it, lets just do what needs to be done.
Without playing games for a month to try and squeeze an extra million here and there.
finger out daniel.
No offence to all you Damiao detractors (whose sole expereience of the fella so far is a couple of You Tube clips) but if Sandro says he can cut the mustard that’s more than good enough for me.
And Sandro is a nasty hard barsteward who’ll want to know why people have been dissing his mate… Just sayin’ it weren’t me… Right!?
:whistle:
Damiao out! :winke:
:-D :-p