Spurs Banter Archive May 31 2013

 

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31 May 2013 17:09:58
Typical Levy transfer window coming?

Receive an extremely exaggerated price tag for Bale of 60m+

Sign a few players for cheap to replace Bale but not fully

Large rumours of a HUGE target ala Aguero, Rossi and Llorente two januarys ago. In this instance Villa, Damiao or Benteke

Seem like a hero for trying to sign these world class players but unfortunately the deal just couldn't get done IE Moutinho

Would Spurs fans take that?

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31 May 2013 16:33:56
david villa wil not be coming to us as he would prefer working with arteta, cazorla and nacho monreal

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When did he tell you this!

How do you know Arsenal want him, did he tell you this as well, proper good mates you to are!

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Pleased really, is he what we want? Good player but ageing!

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Davo - I know where u are coming from, but who do we want/can get when not in top 4 - all I know is we need between 20-30 goals coming from different players other than Bale, we have no goals from the back 4 other that Vert, no goals from Midfield other than Siggs and ended with the worst goal diff in the top 5 so we need GOALS - who can Levy buy for the right money who will score goals in a top 5/4 team?

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01 Jun 2013 01:56:29
yes david villa did tell me this. You are a genious

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31 May 2013 11:54:13
Ok IMO this would be a dream, realistic transfer window in that these would be my favoured ins and outs that could happen:
Ins,
LB: Luke Shaw, (S'ton) or Felipe Luis (Atletico) or Christian Ansalidi (Rubin Kazan). All priced at 7-10 million
CAM: Eriksen (Ajax 15 million) or Pjanic (Roma 10 million)
LM: Bernard (Miniero 10 million) or Tello (Barca 6-8 million)
ST: Villa (Barca 8-12 million) and Damiao (Internacional 15-20 million)

Total, minimum: 46 million with Ansalidi, Pjanic, Tello, Villa and Damiao signed for their lowest prices. After hard negotiation.

Total maximum: 67 million with Felipe Luis, Eriksen, Bernard, Villa and Damiao signed for higher fiures than we'd like but we see it as an investment.

Outs,
BAE (4-7 million)
Parker (3-6 milllion)
Dempsey (5-8 million)
Livermore (2-4 million)
Adebayor (5-10 million)

Total maximum: 35 million, we're laughing.
Total minimum: 22 million, they had to be moved on.

I know transfer windows are massively unpredictable but I hope these players or suitable alternatives are signed and I hope to god these mentioned players leave, although I would like to thank parker for one amazing season.

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Who is going to pay between 3 - 6 million on Scott Parker?!

Other than that cracking post really insightful.

Yid in the Hood

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Thanks mate :). I dunno but Levy has got ridiculous money for Crouch, Palacios and others so you never know

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5-10m for Adebayor? Are you sure?
4-7m for BAE? 400k would be lucky

10m for Bernard? Try 40m

Wow delusion.

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400k lol, a tad pessimistic

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Chill out, this was just a bit of fun,
there's no need for abuse when you don't agree with a hypothetical transfer fee.

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31 May 2013 10:57:06
Liverpool Fan in Peace.

bad days coming to both of us.
real madrid will snatch both bale and saurez. no doubt. perez will throw the money and get the player he wants.
gutted to loose the best players on the planet.
these are the only two players who can fill the boots of ronaldo. both player can score from absolute nothing.
real have lost neymar to barca. so they would do anything to get bale and suarez.
its just the matter of days and price to be set.

93rd min. free kick. 25 yeards out.

only very few. infact very few could hit 9/10 times on the top corner. bale and suarez comes in that list.

I have never bought a shirt of anyother player apart from liverpool
but I bought one for ma Gf of gareth bale.

hard days ahead.

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All the I coming about because Perez wants re electing. I think most of it is just hot air to please the fans.
I'd be surprised if both are at Madrid next season.
I enjoyed your post though.

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31 May 2013 14:14:22
He can pull it. he has already stated it would have cost madrid 150 mill if they signed neymar.
So he can get his man. they will most probably do a swap deals. but with out CL none owuld come to both of us.
Higuain is going to juventus, di maria is a s***, benzema would stay, khadiera would follow Jos eot chelsea, alonso will finsh his career there, varane wouldn't move.
And most impostant, perez won't pay over 50 mill for any player. he knows once club like real madird come calling players heads are turned.
. suarez for us and bale for spurs are irreplaceble.
simple as that.

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Judging by your post, bale stays.
That will do for me.
One big difference though, Suarez wants to leave and has said it, bale hasn't.
I can now see Suarez going and bale staying one more year or he may see who we sign then decide.

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31 May 2013 09:25:02
So Real Madrid have very kindly given us until June 15 to decide how much we want to sell Bale for. How gracious of them! Arrogance personified. Christ, I thought it was only Arsenal, Chelski and United that got on like that.

Anyway, there does seem to be an inevitability about all of this, but whilst I really think Bale will stay at least for one more season, and for the purposes of this post it does raise a question that is worth at least considering - namely, what is the price that would seal Bale's signature? £50m? £60m? Or the £80m that has been bandied around on some sites?

Of course, none of us can answer that question - not even the in-the-know con artists like the Oracle - so I'm going to suggest what I think might be the minimum requirement.

Bear in mind, Spurs own Bale and as such, all of the cards are in our favour. End of. Madrid has no bargaining power apart from trying to twist our arm through the temptation of cash. If I'm Daniel Levy, I tell them that the asking price starts at £75m. If that doesn't put them off, fine. Let them stump up the cash. Every player has his price, and every player is a single tackle from a career-ending injury.

Personally, I'd want £50m and two players - with wages paid, or at least partially paid - and I'm thinking someone like Coentrao, Higuain, di Maria, or hell, even the return of Luka as some have suggested. I might even insist that they take Bentley, Gomes and Livermore as part of the deal too! Now, I'm sure you're all laughing at that statement, but we are the ones in the box seat here, not Madrid. Yes, they want their galacticos signing, but we are under no compulsion to sell off the family jewels. They need to impress us with their offer, not leave us standing there looking at the takings thinking did we get enough for him? They are the ones - not us - who must bend over backwards to appease our demands, however astronomical they are, and regardless of this mickey mouse 'special relationship' we allegedly have with them (and which seems to benefit us as much as that one with Damiao's crowd, but that's another story. )

Fortunately, I have just enough faith in Levy to know that he will push that boat out as far as he can, and I read something this morning quoting a Spanish newspaper, supposedly quoting Levy as saying the starting point is £100m, which is comforting and seems to back up what I've said above.

Think about that for a minute. That is an incredible amount of money, and it really takes the breath away. Not to press the point too much though, but for once, it is Spurs who have the advantage here. Let's not blow our chances with this if we do cave in and decide to cash in on our biggest asset.

Jeez, that solitary point behind Arsenal is worth a lot more than a Champions League spot, isn't it?

Just a few thoughts. Roll on 16 June. with Bale still on the roster, please. !

BigBird72 COYS

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You're right that everybody has their price but, unless we get some players as part of the deal, nearly all the money will be going into club infrastructure (i. e. stadium) and so will be a long way from seeing any real fruit from it. The trouble is, that's all very well but look at how far down the Woolwich-mob have fallen to balance the books. They were 1st and 2nd every year for almost ten years, then for the next ten they've been 3rd and 4th at best (and by very narrow margins, several times). Starting from a higher point they've dropped and still hung onto Champions League football. We've still not cracked the top 4 consistently, albeit twice in 4years and by just a point here and there but, our drop would be down to 6/7th and even more obscurity.
We have a very small squad already now and our 'spare' numbers are dead-wood or kids that have had very little first-team experience.
As much as the stadium is a necessity and going to be very expensive, we have to address the striker situation at least, if Bale goes then we need 2 very good strikers and an Eriksen/Modric level midfielder to come in at a minimum and that won't necessarily make us any stronger than now when losing Bale.
A difficult balancing act but, what will be the point of a new 55,000 seater stadium if we've fallen back to a very average team for years and the crowds aren't there anyway?
Simmo

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One of the ed's mentioned that the majority of the players that RM want to offload, want Champions League football so are unlikely to come. Personally I think £50-60m will be accepted or £30-35m +player. Certainly not going to get £60m + a player. Also won't get anything near what Utd got for Ronaldo.

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Spurs aren CURRENTLY in the driving seat.

Just wait until Bale steps onto Uruguayan TV and states he wants to leave and that RM are the best option blah blah

Then 40m would be an accetable figure for him. IE Modric/Suarez

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If Levy was really interested in building a long term sustainable future then he would focus more on success and silverware. In 1992, at the beginning of the Premier League the club with the highest revenue was. Spurs. We were the richest club.

Now 20 years later we are 6th. Let's excuse Chelsea and Man City from that list as they were bought and paid for. Why are Man Utd, Arsenal, and Liverpool richer than us? Because they were successful in the 90's.

Humans are fickle, and kids even more so, but generally once people have a team they stick with it. Kids are hugely glory hunters and will tend to identify with the teams that are successful. And a decade or so later these kids now have their own money and they are spending it on their club. It's a similar story with overseas success and global branding - much easier if you have won something.

I live on the south east coast now and there is no Prem team near here. When I look at the 20 to 25 year olds that I work with they are almost exclusively Manchester United and Arsenal fans. That means that they were 10, and probably just getting into club football, in the late 90's.

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31 May 2013 03:09:10
are our transfers going to wait until the technical director is in?

RY

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01 jun 2013 01:54:47
bale staying, bale going, yes it would be a hugh wrench if he left, but if invested in 3 - 4 good players, we would not have to worry in case the whole team fell apart cause one player may get injured. the thing that gets to me, every paper we read spurs are in for this player or that player, we get excited and hopeful, but is it headlines just to sell more papers, where do these stories begin from, surely abv is not going to stand on a street corner and blap abt who he wants, we all know where we are short who needs to go and who needs to stay, but i'm going to stop reading headlines, cause if all that the papers say are true, we will have so many new faces next season they might as well give us every trophy now. so let's wait and see who we do sign and not get carried away by daft jounerlism. in avb we trust, barb

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