They’re not pleading poverty with Emerson, they just feel they can get him for a cheap price because it’s well known Spurs want him gone. It’s sensible by them and what negotiations are all about.
Milan Technical Director Geoffrey Moncada has literally pleaded poverty in interviews They're playing the exact same card in negotiations for Matty Cash, too
Don't know if we should laugh or pity AC Milan when their RB targets are Emerson and Cash. The very club that had arguably the best RB of all time play for them.
Considering they paid €13m for Morata last week, it makes their pleas of poverty all the more ridiculous Reasonably sure they have credit in the bank after last summer too, given they rinsed the Saudis for €70m with Tonali which offset the lion's share of last summer's spending
€13m for Morata is very good business, I hadn't realised they paid so little for him, does turn 32 in October though I guess.
€202m in total transfer fees, so far. That's about £170m. Nearly €1m per career club goal. He's scored 217 in 589 games.
There was once a conspiracy that he was part of a money laundering op between Juve/ Atleti etc for the prices he kept going for. It actually sounded so plausible too . Decent striker all in all though I’d say, had a fantastic career too in terms of trophy haul.
He's scored a decent amount of goals, despite having quite questionable finishing for a top striker. His workrate, holdup play and aerial ability are why these clubs want him, though. He brings other players into the game and will do whatever his manager asks of him.
Exactly, their bid might be low but it’s the best bid Spurs have had so far and I don’t think any other club is interested in him
Most Spanish supporters I know fill swear boxes every time they see his name in the team sheet! As I recall, Chav fans had a similarly low opinion of him, although they're not necessarily the best judges of talent.
Yeah he’s a player I’ve never ‘got’ How he keeps getting moves to these big clubs and in the Spain squad I don’t know.
It's because he does stuff like this: The man's won 4 league titles, 6 domestic cups, 2 Champions Leagues and a Europa, plus the Euros with Spain. Some of the top managers around want him in their teams, despite his dodgy finishing.
Still get a few casual nightmares over the fact at one point our RB options were him and Matt Doherty. Severe low point for this club from the last 20 years.
He was absolutely integral to Spain's success at the Euros. His work rate and tireless running were astounding. He wore the armband because he was the most selfless player in the side. All technically brilliant teams need a packhorse doing the dirty work. It's very, very unusual for that to be the lone striker, but bizarrely: it worked really well. Morata kept dropping deep into midfield tracking runners and disrupting moves, and most opposition teams (England included) didn't know what to do. Second only to Southgate's lack of tactical imagination, this was England's biggest problem. The impression I got was eleven players who all wanted to be Billy Big Bollocks and take the limelight, no one willing to sacrifice the acclaim and do the dirty work for the team.
Southgate's successor could easily mimic their system with Kane doing the same job but with quality finishing on top. Saka/Bowen, Gordon/Rashford, Foden/Bellingham/Palmer playing in the 3 behind him but allowed to go ahead of him when he drops. I do disagree about England's failings, though. There was easily enough hard work in that side. The problem was a lack of creativity and balance, plus some fitness issues due to squad selection, in my opinion.
There's a difference between working hard running around a lot and working hard in a tactically focused way. Morata has the experience to deliver the latter. His role was very defined and he had a very specific list of unglamorous tasks. That's why it worked and is also why it wouldn't or didn't work under Southgate. His interpretation of the role would have almost certainly been it's simplistic form: run around a lot.
