If Juve are about to sign Vlahovic, surely we should make a cheeky bid to sign Dybala now? He's not going to sign a new contract and after splashing £75 mill I'm sure they would rather get something for Dybala and get him off the wage bill.
You were wrong about Moutinho and Grealish. We wanted Moutinho when he was about 24 and in his prime, club failed to get him. 7 or 8 years later at around 31 he came to the Prem after having won league titles in Portugal and France and been one of the most consistent midfielders in the league, still going pretty strong at 35. You’ve been shown multiple articles of failed bids for Grealish, along with interviews from Bruce and Grealish too, yet refuse to acknowledge the club messed up with him. I guess you’re also implying Levy was an idiot for making multiple bids for the player if he couldn’t have been sold…
Looks like Amrabat has said yes to joining, I doubt he’d say no to be honest seeing as he’s barely played for Fiorentina this season. Also conflicting stuff of Diaz. Some saying he’s not interested in joining us, others that Porto are just wanting more dough. Toon also closing in on Bruno Guimares. Briefly been linked with us but a lot more with Arsenal in recent times.
Be careful, that’s almost a critical comment about Spurs. You’d lose your place in the boardroom if Levy saw that
Well it wasn't me who said it, it was Ally Gold who is as close to an unofficial social media mouthpiece for the club as is humanly possible and rarely critical of club policy - and when he is, it is certainly not to the same degree as 'just another' fan. So if he's concerned about it, I'm also inclined to be concerned about it. And I stopped my list short at players we actually made a concrete approach for. The true extent of the list stretches back across decades and includes players like Mane, Suarez, Diego, Cahill and Hazard.
At the time we made the bids for Grealish the takeover talks were only rumours. So there were two scenarios....Villa were desperate so why bid high or Villa couldn't sell so why bid at all. A low bid definitely was worth a punt. Even if I concede those two, it is two mistakes in 20 years.
All of whom joined clubs who could pay more than us in a bidding war. Everything is consistent with us having more limited funds than our competitors. ENIC are literally the only recent owner who have improved that.
We made around 4 bids. The first being £3m plus Josh Onomah, the last being £25m+. If we’d offered closer to the latter earlier on, he would’ve almost certainly been a Spurs player.
Only if the new owner who declined the later bid had given the green light to it while they were in talks! Grealish and Bruce thought that at the time because they didn't know the talks had started.
We had the money for Grealish but Levy can’t help himself thinks he’s smarter than he actually is and happily gambles with our fortunes on the pitch for his own ego terrible mindset for an owner of a football club
I'd be really surprised if Dybala was interested in leaving Juve before the summer. Any fee Juve get, would be money straight out of his pocket, in terms of a signing on fee. If we're really interested in having him at Spurs, forget Juve and offer the bloke a vast sum to come to us in the summer and we might, just about, have a chance. Personally, I can't see him ever coming to us, because of our wage structure and lack of sporting success. He could end up at Arsenal, as they'll pay him double what we would - not that I'm saying that's a sensible thing for them to do.
The trouble with making such initial derisory bids is that sellers will eventually think that any opening bid Levy makes will be derisory (even if it's not) and they'll just push their prices up. It's a variation on the boy who cried wolf.
We still made bids during the takeover period. So one of two things are correct: Levy’s an idiot for making bids if Villa couldn’t/ wouldn’t sell the player during talks. Grealish was still for sale while takeover talks were happening. I’m more inclined to believe the latter, because regardless of whether people on here like Levy or not, the man isn’t an idiot and wouldn’t have made offers for a player that was off the table.
Dan Kilpatrick's saying that Porto only own 80% of the rights to Diaz... https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/fo...ham-latest-transfer-news-updates-b978863.html Next!
