In theory yes. The problem I have is that on past experience, when Levy cashes in, he doesn't necessarily go out straight away and invest on quality replacements. We learned that lesson from the Berbatov and Ratboy sales so I'd much rather keep Bale, than have £80m sitting in the bank and feel frustrated yet again for another season!
what sort of interest rate do you reckon we'd be getting on £80m? Cleverly invested that could be a free £8m player every year. Please note - i do NOT endorse that idea.
How could we re-invest the Modric money?...as we've heard in the past week, Madrid haven't even paid for him in full yet! SSN have just interviewed a bunch of lads outside the training ground, all under the assumption that we'll have 86m instantly to spend....couldn't they interview one person who knows how transfer payments work
£100m (£12m of which is for Modders) up front + Coentrao before the end of the week and i'd be tempted. 2 weeks to spend approx £60m on 3-4 players. Tell AVB he's gotta work hard for the rest of preseason £40m for wages and/or stadium depending on the maths. Have a crack at getting: Pastore/Eriksen/<insert your suggestion> to fill the creative void EARLY. New striker (+ Soldado, assuming he is on way) New winger What else? I think only the creative addition is needed ASAP. Others can be integrated later as we wouldn't be desperate when the season starts.
You'd assume the transfers we'd be looking at could similarly be based around installments so it's possible we could "spend" the Bale money straight away.
Pastore would never come. We'd need a bale replacement for the right of a 4-3-3 - someone young like llamela or the bloke from Fiorentina - Adam llijic is it?. But they'd be the best part of 30 and 20m respectively. Then I'd give baldini 30m to go and get players like hallilovic for 10m (and most preferably a young striker) to be starters in a year or so's time. Creative issue I think can be filled by holtby and sig. Got to give them time. Otherwise we just have too many players in the mid. Still think we should just tell them to bugger off for a year!
I saw today there was an article suggesting there might be a deal for Modric + cash on the table. Would you lot want Modric back? If you got cash and Modric, maybe cash + Modric + Coentrao, brought in Soldado and another wide player and you've have a pretty good team even without bale. Some of these offers being reported for Bale are astronomical - i can't belive that sort of money is on the table and i can't believe it will be rejected. So i recon it's either all hot air, or Bale will be leaving.
Me too, but i'd be tempted. Making Zidane/Perez look like complete idiots has to be worth something surely!? They've been bleating on about Bale for months on the assumption they are getting him, it would be great if they didn't. I wonder if Levy can tie them into a £80m deal (slightly reduced) for next summer assuming no serious injury? Although that does leave us, possibly, with a Bale who is trying not to get injured and with a guaranteed transfer at the end. Hmmm, maybe scrap that. I would say most don't want Modric and also its very debatable whether we even need him with the CMs we have. Just made up by the hacks i would say
Given the circumstances of how he left, no I wouldn't. More to the point, he'd never have the brass front (or desire) to come back here. For him it would definitely be a step backwards.
Rat boy burnt his bridges. I would be peeved to see him leave Madrid though as it will most likely be to the epl
I would actually boo Rat-Boy if he ever had the temerity to pull on the lillywhite shirt ever again. And I'm someone who never boos anyone, not even the pantomime villain.
Your midfield looks physically very strong to me but you could maybe use a more creative player in there? Either way I don't think he'd ever have the cheek to come back
I have Bale on the brain. What can i say? Surely people would have realised that "i would say most don't want Bale" was a mistake?
There's no way Levy would countenance that little weasel coming back to Spurs. He'd only be off again once he saw some "greener grass", anyway.
The Mirror has really outdone itself today, suggesting Modric might be part of the Bale to Real deal, and then saying we're bidding for Suarez! It is to laugh. There is no way, and I mean no way, Modric is coming back here. I would never believe we want Suarez without some kind of evidence, and would be deeply disappointed if there was any. The journalists must feel since the whole Bale saga has been essentially fiction all along, why not stir the pot with anything at hand, like Suarez and Modric. As for the big money from Real: Look, I have no doubt Bale and his agent are doing everything they can think of to get Bale silly wages. But Real, in fact, still hasn't paid us for Modric, have got a huge debt, and have never given any real indication they're offering big money. The deal they're likely to offer is something which is distinctly small money: like Di Maria and Coentrao plus 57 million, as has been reported. That would be them offloading 90 million in contract debt for players they don't want. We'd have it instead so we'd really be 33 million down on the deal, and it would amount to us paying Bale's wages while he plays for Real. My feeling is Real wants to get headlines and maybe get Bale cheap. If they can't, they're happy with the headlines.
