This is brilliant, this is a real life manager. https://www.joe.co.uk/football/born-to-manage-mauricio-pochettino-in-his-own-words-221650
So I’ve sold Trippier £28 Mill Davies £20 Mill Aurier £22 Mill Toby £25 Mill Lamela £26 Mill Purchased: Kimmich £46 Mill Sessegnon £30 Mill Varane £62 Mill £15 Mill out of the Chairman’s pocket I’ve just put Lloris up for sale...I’m happy with Gazza as being number 1. Vorm gone. Scout on the lookout for a decent No2 European Chief Scout attending the Lazio game over the weekend.....hmmm...say no more
If Toby really wants to go then get him involved in a bidding war/exchange deal. £25M might be his buy-out clause, but if during a bidding war one of the punters offers £40M then surely we would accept that. If he has decided to go, someone ought to be hawking him at a far higher price now. He is such a good player I'm sure there will be more than one team interested in him.
Why would anyone need to bid more than his buy out clause though. The bidding war for him will come in his wages I suspect.
It depends how much other teams wanted him and whether other bidders were rivals. For argument sake, say Madrid and Barca got into a bidding war for him, the price is likely to rocket because one wouldn't want the other one to have him.
Better quality version here, mate. That really is a belter. Really hope we go back in for him, especially if Villa don't come up, though I just think the ship has sailed from our perspective.
I'm with @KingHotspur on this one. They don't have to compete on price. They will simply compete on wages.
Unfortunately it wouldn't matter, because while Spurs would obviously like to sell to someone offering £40m instead of his release clause of £25m (IIRC), we have to sell to anyone who matches or betters the release clause if they can also get an agreement with Toby, and he's under no obligation to sign for a club who offers more than the release clause if he has a better agreement in place with a club who have just matched it. Of course if Toby doesn't care who he goes to out of say, Madrid or Barca because they make comparable offers, and one offers more to Spurs, we'll get more money. But in reality the player is almost certain to have a preference for one of them for some reason.
Yeah, RE Toby, it's merely who offers him the best package. I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if about 6-8 sides pay his £25m fee, it's the guaranteed bargain of the summer.
After much thought I am not going for wholesale changes Out Lloris, Aurier, Toby (no choice), Rose, Eriksen and Lamela. = Plus the deadwood(Jansen Nkoudou etc) Offer Llorente another year but expect he will leave. In Butland (as Gazza understudy), De Ligt, Digne, Ndombele, Rabiot, Lallana, Calvert Lewin.
I’m not great with the European leagues these days, as I haven’t followed them closely enough to spot any potential gems who’d be good additions to our squad. As for the premier league, I really feel we missed a trick with Ricardo Periera. Every game I’ve watched, he’s looked menacing down the right hand side. He’d be a great addition, even if we’ve gotta pay more now than we’d have had to a couple of years ago. Sometimes you get what you pay for. I’d quite happily see us sell Trippier and Aurier and have Periera and KWP as our RWB options.
I think we see all the faults in our squad because we watch them every week and just the strengths in potential replacements. So I'm against wholesale changes. We don't need three right backs and Aurier is the worst so I'd sell him. Nkoudou doesn't fit so no point in keeping him. Vorm is at the end of his contract. So that is three out. If Wanyama is crocked then he should go too and we would need another midfielder. I'd try to keep Toby and sign a striker and and the nearest thing I could get to Eriksen. If we get a striker then Llorente and Janssen can go, if not I think I'd keep Janssen. Ideal signings Callum Wilson, Isco and Ndombele.
