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Good evening. 

This from the Official Site. The Olympique Lyonnais Official Site, that is. This was published at a minute after 2000hrs this evening.

L’Olympique Lyonnais informe ne pas avoir trouvé d’accord avec Tottenham pour le transfert d’Hugo Lloris.

Les propositions transmises ce soir par Tottenham se sont éloignées très sensiblement du principe qui avait été acté le 26 août et qui avait permis d’ouvrir les discussions entre le joueur et le club londonien.

In short the statement says that the proposal submitted tonight by Spurs is significantly different to a proposal that was agreed in principle four days ago. 

To my mind this smacks of everybody, not just Tottenham playing chicken on these transfer deals. The first guy to blink loses.

The Dembele deal is a good example. Not a single ITK had a sniff of it. Because the price was quoted and Spurs told that was the price. Not an opening a price, but that only two bids would be entertained.  A bid at the figure on the swing ticket …or a bid in excess of that figure.

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  • mickspur says:

    another transfer window is passing us by and again levy is letting us down. in levy we trust?????

    • Frontwheel 2 says:

      4 good signings so far,you anti Levy mob would like Tottenham to roll over and show our belly to all.Levy is acting in the good interest of Tottenham,like any good chairman would do.

    • Clarkspur says:

      YEAH! Getting Siggy, Jan, Adey and Dembele is just a complete let down. Only 4 great players…two attacking midfielders, a class CB and top notch forward is a massive let down.

      (now repeat in a very sarcastic tone)

      Honestly, people believe the shit about us buying Hulk, Llorente, Kaka, Ronaldo, Maradona, Messi, Pele, and then moan when it doesn’t happen.

      • Andrew says:

        LOL x 20

        Ade, a top notch forward? Hmm…something doesn’t sound quite right in that sentence. Ade has the potential to be far better than he is currently. Much like Andy Carroll, he loses focus too easily, tends to get very frustrated when things are going his way, also tends to be lazy, work rate not specialm, gets by on being naturally gifted and an imposing figure as a forward. Has decent speed, not the best finishing but not horrible either. Much better than Andy Carroll who has no speed and gets lost on the pitch quite often. This is just my opinion though.

    • Winston wolf says:

      Transfers are dirty business & not for the feint hearted. OL are skint the player has agreed terms now levy & OL will haggle like 2 romanian’s at a horse fare,it was already aledged arsenal had bidded up early as a favour. The only people who 9 times out of 10 “get their man” are the Chelsea’s & Man city’s who can afford & don’t care about their pants pulled down throwing vast amounts around. So far we’ve bought good players & I’m happy. I’d like to see a few more go which would free up funds & wages. Hopefully a couple of players will be joining us tomorrow,I love the madness of deadline day & I’ll be alittle sad if VDV goes but I believe Levy does a good job & we’re moving in the right direction after stuttering under Harry & his very rich dog

      • Andrew says:

        I wouldn’t like to see either VdV or Lennon leaving but we cannot discount the possibility of such a thing happening. If Levy and co. have agreed to terms with other teams for some special players and Spurs realize that teh only way they could acquire these players is to offload VdV, Lennon, Thudd, Dawson and Parker then they will. That’s 5 players, so just tink if they got 3 for thos 5 also counting the Modric Sale. Say Central Defender: Samba, Attacking Midfielder: Pjanic and Striker: Falcao/Llorente; would you think shipping off those 5 good players would be worth the 3 excellent and already established players?
        :ninja:

  • Iver Biggen says:

    Lloris had a medical this afternoon at spurs..i can only assume that doctors might have some saying in this to warrant some reduced offer.

  • 4 Ever Hopeful says:

    They are probably all poker players but it does seem typical Levy. Not sure it is a big loss but the signs in general are not good and made worse by the Defoe contract extension.

  • niyido36 says:

    just checked the line ups for tonites europa league and remy is starting for marseille and lorrente isnt in the squad for bilbao……

  • cincyspursman says:

    Just the sort of thing you want to post when you want to enrage the other guy’s fans and put pressure on Spurs management to sweeten the pot. The deal may or may not be made. But it remains to be seen. 26 hours to go?

    I would be surprised if there were more than two deals in the 26 hours. Maybe one, maybe none. The team has done pretty darn well with the four that have been made.

    I’ll say one deal to come, and it will come out of nowhere, like Dembele.

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