I've come to the conclusion that blood tests are part of our medical, hence it took so long between us agreeing the transfers for Paulinho, Chadli and Soldado and the announcement they had signed.
More and more I am starting to believe that a deal for Bale has been agreed with Madrid and they are waiting until we finish our transfer business before announcing it. Too many things are pointing towards this, Bale`s supposed injury and failure to feature in pre season and our uncharacteristic spending make me feel a deal is likely. Our `special relationship` with Madrid could mean they have agreed to keep quiet until we finish our transfers so we are not ripped off and facing inflated fees. I hope I am wrong.
the spending isn't too much of an issue though. let's bear in mind that we've hardly spent anything over the last few years (net spend). we've recouped a lot of money on players, whilst contunuing to get stronger. we've spent £50m so far, but we've had 15m of that wiped out by the sales of Dempsey + caulker. Then there's the TV money. I'm not sure of the figure, but it's a decent chunk of cash. If coentrao is heading this way, it's likely it won't impact us financially, as they owe us for Modric. Then there's the dead wood/players AVB doesn't want that we can sell. Parker - £2m or 3m, Ade £5m, Huddlestone £5-6m, Benny £5-6m. Before you know it, our spending isn't actually very much at all.
We do mini-medicals on our players when they return to the club after International duty, and I believe that also includes a blood test. Think it's to cover medical insurance criteria.
I said on another thread wouldn't it be great if the French Tank Capoue gets announced today at the game. What a little present that'd be for us fans returning to WHL. Talk on Twitter from French Journo's (which are no doubt more knowledgable than the lying ****ing scum ones over here) claim he's passed his medical and announcement is imminent.
Yep, I keep reading that Capoue's done - so let's do it - aaarrghhhhhh Must be patient, must b patient. It's possible of course we're buying 'early' to sell Bale later. I sincerely hope not. I'm hoping that ENIC are showing real ambition and spending some of their own money rather than just spending ours. My estimate of them will go up greatly if that is the case. Sept 2 will tell us so much more about them and our chances.
Few rumours circulated that Joe Lewis dipped into his pocket too and gave Levy a figure between £30m-£50m (different reports) to spend on targets, which, as of right now, seems pretty viable to me.
Any truth to the rumours that Pjanic from Roma is on our radar? [video=youtube;OLaB8-2tjNg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLaB8-2tjNg[/video] Apparently Baldini may be able to get this one done. He looks like a top player. Great finesse, composed in front of goal and good vision. Yes please!
This is why i don't get how there's so many people convinced that bale will leave due to financial reasons. if he's put £50m up front, he's done it because he wants it spent, surely? As I pointed out in my previous post, by the time everything is considered including player sales, we won't have spend hardly anything. Even if you include Capoue, it'll still only be a net spend of about 10-15mill or so. therefore if Bale is sold, we're about £70m+ up, meaning he's not invested £50 mill at all. I think Bale will go, just not this summer.
Would rather Eriksen of Ajax if we're looking for a creative spark. Pjanic looks a good player though so wouldn't say no to his signing. Also being/ have been linked to his team mate - Lamela, who looks a very talented player.
I'm thinking the same thing. I'm wondering if Levy is trying to negotiate a deal where we keep Bale this season and RM get first refusal next year? As for Joe Lewis putting his hands in his pockets, I'm all for it... looks like it could be a massive season for AVB now he's building his own team. Let's hope he gets the balance spot on.
Yeah I agree Roo. I've said I always thought Bale will stay this season (did get a little worried at one point but my confidence returned after AVB's comments and then Perez's comments). As for Joe dipping his hand in, I think he realised/ realises how close we are from being a top side now and so to have taken us up a level, it needed a mass injection of cash to bring in the sort of player(s) that are actually better than what we currently have in certain players and luckily for us, Joe/ Daniel/ Andre/ Franco have all contributed to have done that. The signings we've made are what teams like Utd/ City/ Chelsea would arguably have loved to have made, so to me, that shows the ambition of the club to be able to attract such talent.
I know "ITK" isn't much to go on, but Adam suter is convinced bale is staying. He's been saying it all summer and tweeted the other day saying "Bale is staying so get used to it". People replied saying "is that your opinion". he said "not opinion. I can't put out specifics of what I have been told*. Take it or leave it". *which coincides with this lockdown/silence we've been told regarding bale's situation. To let him go now would be ridiculous anyway. We'd have to find some top talent to replace his attributes and it'd cause major disruption. i think if we were going to sell, we'd have got some players in by now who look like they could be his replacement, before letting him go. -But we haven't done so and the season starts in a week.
To let him go full stop would be ridiculous mate in my opinon. I appreciate some Spurs fans see the more optimistic side of selling Bale in terms of money for the club and then getting more players but I just don't see the logic of selling what I consider to be the 3rd best player in the world right now. We've massively strengthened this summer and adding those signings to a side with Bale in the team is far better than one without. Selling Bale now, would likely mean we'd have to get in 2 maybe 3 to replace his sort of contribution, with already having signed 3 (soon to be 4), that'd mean a potential team with 5 or 6 new players... THEN, that would likely result in our 478th transition here at Spurs and continue the vicious cycle of being nearly there to back to square one with players needing to gel.
