http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-Modric-Craig-Bellamy-says-yes-Tottenham.html Roman Abramovich has launched one last £40million bid to prise Luka Modric from Tottenham and add more guile to Chelsea's stuttering midfield. Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has rejected offers of £22m and £27m but Chelsea's Russian owner is determined to test the north London club's resolve to the limit before Wednesday night's closure of the transfer window. Tottenham are planning a busy week themselves by signing Wales striker Craig Bellamy, 32, from Manchester City, who they play on Sunday at White Hart Lane. Having already taken City striker Emmanuel Adebayor on loan, Spurs manager Harry Redknapp is also expected to bring in midfield reinforcements in the shape of West Ham's Scott Parker and Lassana Diarra of Real Madrid. Leaving Spurs are Peter Crouch and Wilson Palacios (both to Stoke) plus defender Alan Hutton (Aston Villa). Levy is determined to dig his heels in over Modric, 25, offering him a pay increase to £85,000 per week in an attempt to keep the player for another season. It represents a rise of £20,000 per week on the six-year deal that the Croat signed last summer. Abramovich made Modric one of his top targets and the player publicly pushed for a lucrative move to Stamford Bridge and the chance to play Champions League football. Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas saw his side labour for long spells in a 3-1 home win against Norwich on Saturday. When questioned about Modric later, he said: 'If it happens, it happens.' Should Abramovich be rebuffed again, he could even make a move for Inter Milan's Wesley Sneijder, a long-term Manchester United target. Inter want Chelsea winger Florent Malouda plus £27.5m.
The complete confidence with which they make these acertains makes me smile. We should keep this report as an example of the Mails reporting. Unless they are right and in that case bin it and never mention it again.
True or not £40 mill will be hard to resist. I looked at the Chelsea goals and if I were Modric I wouldn't go there. They are not as strong as last season and the match today was a bit of a joke. Their first hit the post and went in,the second a penalty and the third on 100 minutes. They will run out of luck soon and will stutter. Stay LM.
I know if £40million is actually offered it's big money to turn down. It's all well and good saying he isn't for sale but Man Utd did that and then couldn't follow it through when £80million was actually offered. I think if Roman bids £40million then Levy will take it. Hope I'm wrong but just saying.
Drogba has a head injury besides we need somebody younger for the future. Why accept players we've never looked at? Why would any team? But surely it's too late in the window to accept now. The money would be sitting doing nothing in football terms until January. We would never replace him or buy the right players in time. Unless of course Harry and Levy have already said yes and some deals have been done with the money already and we are just waiting to hear.
If he had started at 40 million, Modric would be a Chelsea player now. A man of Roman's means trying to get a player who is obviously key to their plans on the cheap is like the Queen cutting coupons out of the newspaper. An undignified waste of time; One that has probably cost him Modric until January.
I think that's basically the whole point, Chirpy. It's not the fact that Modric wanted to leave so soon after signing a new contract, it's thw WAY the whole thing has been conducted that has seriously pissed Levy off. The Chavs thought by tapping him up via his agent, and using The Fail as it's mouthpiece, that they could snatch Modric on the cheap. Levy, not unnaturally, took exception to being taken for a mug, and has told them all to **** right off. I don't see that changing anytime soon.
The thing about Bellamy is that he's one of the myriad of players we are perpetually linked with (see also: Scott Parker, Lassana Diarra, Joe Cole, Micah Richards), but that's just it - we never actually sign them.
