Good morning.
That old devil called Luka Modric again and the first out of the traps are The Mirror with a cobbled together piece that wants deconstructing and putting back together in a more logical order. Let’s kick off with the valuation of the pocket sized Croatian.
£22m they say. Now before the first of you screams the place down with er… screams of, ‘£40m and not a penny less!’ take a moment and consider two things. Firstly the valuation of fans is rarely in tune with that of football clubs. And by that I refer equally to under-valuations as well as the over estimates.
Secondly, Levy & Co. kept an uncompromisingly straight bat when it came to Modders. The boy has a contract with us with what, four years or whatever on it to run. There’s no buy out clause and there’s no gentlemen’s agreement.
Next to be factored in are the purchases made by the the supposed vultures themselves. Manchester United have just bought Shinji Kagawa. This is undoubtedly a player Slur Alex has bought to operate in a space that Modders could occupy.
“He’s simply a great footballer his movement is insane. I wouldn’t like to play against him.” Mats Hummels
“Kagawa can keep the ball in the smallest of spaces and is a quick decision-maker” Ryo Miyaichi
The most real threat is potentially from Chelsea. The Blue Racists are shopping with some gusto buying gifts galore for their new manager; but arguably have yet to buy a player that so obviously duplicates Modric.
And so to Leighton Baines. We should buy him. The fact that Slur Alex is whinging about the price is neither here nor there. United talk a big transfers but the reality is they are under enormous financial constraints. £15m is probably ‘toppy’ but we have a card up our sleeve here.
The Pienaar deal stank and indeed still stinks to high heaven. We bought him and yet it was painfully evident not only we didn’t know what to do with him, but his heart belonged to Goodison.
The wiseacres will chip in here, ‘but we bought him to make a quick buck on!’ But this is clearly rubbish. From who? Only Everton and nobody else in the whole wide world want him …and they’re skint members.
I don’t know the truth of why this all happened but what I do know is we have an excellent bargaining chip in relation to Baines.
Why Baines? Well, he’s very good at playing football would be the first box I’d check and second of all is the choice he would give us. Benny divides opinion and this is born quite rightly out of frustration. He’s the coolest left back in the west, but he’s not routinely the greatest.
Next season will be a tough campaign. If Arry manages to survive last season then it’s likely he’ll only be offered a contract of token length. Hence the out and out punt taken by a couple of papers yesterday in relation to this.
Champions League qualification will therefore be non negotiable despite what blabberchops has to say on the matter. There too will be the Europa and dare I even suggest it, domestic pots and pans to chase.
In conclusion, it will be fascinating to see what Levy & Co do upon their return to business next week. I have a suspicion they won’t be mucking about.
You gotta love a raunchy president.
Freidel
Walker
Baines
Vertonghen
Kaboul
Sandro
Modric
Bale
Lennon
Ade
Berbatov
Physical tight away games insert Parker for Modric
VDV for Lennon or Bale
Baines would be a cracking addition to the squad. Can we get him? Probably not. We rarely buy established/young (ish) English stars. I think Levy does not see the value in it. When you consider we spent 8mil on VDV, 15mil for Baines seems steep. Levy prefers his English players young and cheap.
Redders is really trying to turn the screw on Levy. I think he is too stupid to play this game and should stick to being good at, whatever it is, he is good at.
Let’s wait until Daniel Levy gets back and deals with ‘Scrotum Face’. I feel he might have managed his last game and I sincerely hope so. Levy was dealing with the Vertonghen signing prior to his Mothers death and that should be done when he gets back. Then if we get a new Manager (and I think Martinez is nailed on) who knows the EPL we will have to see what he wants. As long as Levy deals with Redknapp severely and kicks him out of the club I will be happy. Otherwise it’s going to be ‘same as’ shite for at least another season.
Theres no way that Harry’s recent actions will have surprised Daniel Levy. He would have been waiting for Harry to pull some ‘media’ stroke seeing as the contract seemed to go into a moratorium. I’d say Harry was fucking bad company on holiday and ‘old sandra’ took an ear bashing when he got especially twitchy. To appoint Paul Stretford, Harry must be under a lot of pressure. Hope the bastard gets what he deserves as well as Bond and Joe and we can move on with a new Manager and an improved squad.
His public clawing for an extended contract really is sorry. What would the use be? So he would get a fat pay-out if he fcuk’s up the next season and gets the boot. No other reason for it. He says that the players will all go funny if they think he might be leaving, quite apart from the well documented contradiction with his earlier remarks, it shouldn’t escape many pundits attention that one Pep Guardiola did pretty well and his players responded in kind with the exact same rolling contract that is on the table for Redknapp.
What Levy has put to him is simple: you have a year’s contract, if you come up with the goods then we extend it for another year. The only reason King Scrote doesn’t like that is because he’s hedging his bets that he will fail to achieve the top 4 and in that case he would want the big pay off that would come with getting sacked from a 3 or 4 year contract.
After being publicly harassed at a most sensitive time, I do hope that Levy comes back and throws the fool out on his arse immediately. The guy is trying to extort future compensation for his future failures, let’s do away with this nonsense at once.
Spot on. Rolling 1 year contract is the best option.
Brilliant!!