Good evening.
This just in from superdeporte.es who believe that a rebuffed bid went in for Valencia’s Roberto Soldado.
If I’m reading it right, the suggestion is that an initial bid of €25m went in, then €30m to hit the release clause figure for the player. I don’t cut and paste this for mocking effect as I believe the language communicates the that rare emotion of ‘protection’ in football,
The refusal of the VCF, the next move was to communicate their willingness to reach 30, the Soldier buyout. But they have found a player tremendously involved in this project, it would not be the one forced to leave the machine, and the refusal of Manuel Llorente to negotiate the exit.
So, the day of the presentation of the template, Valencia made out to ‘9 ‘last to receive the applause of Mestalla, showing that is your true icon in the eyes of technicians and managers of Tottenham, guest computer that night at the Mestalla. Shelve the issue.
So yes, another one bites the dust, but more proof that Levy & Co. are absolutely on the case. Keep it Tottenham. Ah …remember the Blitz, stuff like that…
Hmm, a sharp reminder that we are not offering top dollar to the player or CL football.
Same was supposedly quoted with Gaston Ramirez where the fee was agreed but there was no salary increase or CL football so he opted to stay with Bologna.
Harry Kane was looking OK though. We might have to see just how good he is in the next few weeks.
I put my house on berbatov moving back on August 31st
How many bedroom is it?
1 bedroom with an outside toilet no parking facilities
Is it N17?
Sounds, erm, quaint, as an estate might call it.
Yeah levy offered me a pint and two packs of crisps to refurb it into a 60 thousand seater stadium with a sainsburys
Me too lol.
Desperation from BOTH parties I think xD
Ade will be playing Saturday @ 17:30…..trust me, I’m ITK….
You are ITK which is why most of the Spurs faithful DO NOT trust you.
What about KFA…..that would probably be as much as every other knows Im sure
In To Knobs…??
is your name Hugh G Rexshan
Only on Friday nights.
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If, and it’s a BIG IF, we have bid 30Mil, then you have to wonder why we’ve not seen other confirmed bids for the likes of Llorente, Osvaldo and Lewandowski – all of whom were supposedly priced at around 30mil.
because we might get one of them
Mick, that would be just lovely. But you know how it with Spurs. Flirt with the big names and likely to sign Clint Dempsey at 1158 on 31st Aug.
Harry I love your optimism, but facts are 48 hours before the season opener and we don’t have a number 9. A year’s notice to buy a striker yet the last striker bought was Peter Crouch 3 years ago!
I’m a big supporter of Levy but this is a monumental f*ck up and there’s no excuse. It was trying when we didn’t sign one in Jan, but I could see the argument with the Harry quandary.
We’ve sold £25m of striker in the past year and not re-invested. Modric money doesn’t come into it. We’ve been complacent that the Ade deal would get done, and we could do a Spurs Supermarket sweep special on August 31st. Now we’re caught with our pants down. SORT IT OUT!
That was directed at THFC board, btw – clearly..!
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LOL supermarket sweep!
Let’s have Dale Winton on Sky Sports Deadline Day!
I can see it now – Levy running round Spain with a trolley trying to kidnap Llorente and then finding a clue to another La Liga striker on Llorente’s shorts. However, he’ll only come back with an inflatable cactus he stole from the beachfront :)
spot on fella.
I think your summary is very unfair on Levy. I mean, yes its a bad situation to be in but it isn’t his fault because the main reason has been that prices and wages are vastly over inflated.
It seems we can’t find a decent striker for less than £20 million we’re being quoted silly money for players unproven in a serious competition. Look at Moutinho he’s never played outside the Portuguese league and we’re expected to pay more for him than we’re allegedly getting for Modric! I’m not saying he’s a bad player but looking good for your country isn’t an indication of being able to play to that level week in week out, especially when in Portugal he doesn’t have to. Remember Chris Wickham, who has done precisely nothing since signing for Sunderland? £10 I think was the price we quoted. In the end the club decided it wasn’t worth pursuing because Kane is a better player.
Almost every time a club like Spurs become interested in a player his agent thinks it can be used as leverage to angle for a move for City or Chelsea- that’s the level we’re seeing of ambition. We’re now at a level where agents bracket us with the top teams because they know that if the player is good enough to challenge for a place in our first 11, then he’s also good enough to do likewise at the likes of City, Chelsea, Arsenal or Utd but we can’t compete with these teams when it comes to wages or transfers (exclude Arsenal).
We were in for Aguero he chose the wonga on offer at City. The same thing with Dzeko and Johnson. Look at our other recent targets; Hazard, Marin, Mata all at Chelsea.
We have some very good youngsters so maybe we should just push them into the first team a little faster. I’m sure they have potential to be good players.