"Funnily enough, this is also doing the rounds: https://twitter.com/hashtag/freeschneiderlin" As powerful as Levy is, even he would not be able to get Scheiderlin on a free transfer.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/capoue-to-watford-060715/ Another one down. Being pretty quick getting rid of the players we don't want, for once. Actually quite refreshing.
Pretty much condemning Watford to relegation if the sales of Sandro, Caulker, Huddlestone, Dawson and Livermore are anything to go by. Sorry Watford.
According to a post on Twitter, we've now made £21.5m from the sales of Holtby, Paulinho and Capoue... Remarkable considering all three done pretty much jack **** for us.
Varying reports now stating Alderweireld is in London for a medical. If this does indeed go through, something tells me that even that slightest bit of possibility of us doing business with Saints for Schneiderlin is now well and truly quashed .
We would never have a chance with Schneiderlin anyway really, he wants CL football and other clubs who want him can offer that and more money to boot. I think that would trump the Pochettino connection for him.
Oh yeah I know mate, just saying that slightest bit of optimism we may have had is well and truly gone now. Although I am surprised there's not been much movement from other clubs for him, Utd keep getting linked but I haven't seen any concrete info floating about to suggest he'll be off any time soon, Arsenal seem intent on getting Vidal, City I don't think have been interested, Liverpool signed Milner who I presume will partner Henderson in a midfield two, Chelsea have Matic and so you do wonder where that leaves him if Utd don't offer the asking price or choose to look elsewhere.
It was the plan. I was skeptical, considering it was always the plan, but it never actually happened. Now I really am pleased. So what if we sell players at a loss, when selling them both brings in money and cuts payroll? They were bought with Bale windfall money, or near enough we can look at all sales as profits, really. Paulinho got us 10 million. Podolski got Arsenal 1.8 million. It’s amazing. I’ve criticized Levy in the past, and will do so again, but 21.5 m for Holtby, Paulinho and Capoue is something like genius.
I think even Levy knew that recouping the amounts for players like Paulinho, Capoue and possibly Soldado will have been impossible, so getting the best possible offers plus cutting them off the payroll was the next best thing. We did manage to make a profit on Holtby though, which truly astounds me, I know we signed him nearing the end of his contract but to still make a £4m - £4.5m profit (depending on what sources you read) for a player who was more known for his Twitter love and passion rather than footballing ability is just incredible.
Have updated the OP for Capoue. Another one ticked off the list. Still on mine are: Kaboul, Chiriches, Adebayor and Soldado Stambouli is also expected to follow Capoue to Watford. Re. Schnerdlein - some say he's stalling to see if Man Utd qualify for the group stages of the champions league
Ade is like a recurring boil on your arse, I don't think he'll ever go away...certainly not voluntarily, anyway. Re Scheiderlin, talk is he fancies joining The Goons. Problem is they haven't bid for him.
While we've lost money on a couple of those players in terms of fees (although losing just €2 million on Capoue who only made 36 appearances for us isn't too bad at all in my opinion), its worth remembering that we turned a profit on the Bale transfer window and will probably turn a profit or at least come very near to breaking even in this one too. While we're losing some money on individual players you do, I think, have to view the transfer business in terms of all the players moving around, not just on individual deals. It's be great to turn a profit on every player but that isn't always going to happen, especially when you take the apparently scattergun approach to transfers we took when spending the Bale money, and that Liverpool took spending the Suarez money. Your point about wages is important and of course clubs spend huge amounts of money on paying players. That said, Spurs don't have many if any truly massive earners (in footballing terms at any rate), and its fair to say that most of our top players could definitely earn more elsewhere. Rightly or wrongly, I think many fans think of transfer fees in one bracket of comparison (thats definitely how I simplify it all the time), and assume that wages are financed differently. This is probably a little fairer, if still inaccurate assumption at Spurs because nobody is earning stupid money like Rooney, for example, although the way that all clubs finance transfer fees and wages and all other costs is surely far more complex than simply keeping fees in their own bracket and pulling in wage money from a different part of the budget.
£13m net loss? Where did you get that from? Paulinho - signed for £17m sold for £9.9m Capoue - signed for £9m sold for £6m Holtby - signed for £1.5m sold for between £4.5m - £6m depending on what reports you believe. So approximately £10.1m was lost on Paul and Capoue, minus the profit on Holtby and it's nowhere £13m, more nearer to around £7m - £5.5m depending on what we got for Lewis. As for wages, I couldn't care less if I'm honest, when they were on the books it was presumably within our wage budget and now they're off it's freed up space for any potential new signings.
It's less than that. Paulinho and Capoue would be slightly less and we made a profit on Holtby. Edit: SoS beat me to it.
One thing that hasn't been included is the sell-on fees we've already received this summer, namely... £1.5m for Massimo Luongo moving to QPR £1.07m for Iago Falque moving to Roma Add to that the speculation about Paulinho's deal being paid in Brazilian real, which had an exchange rate of 3:1 with the pound when we signed him a couple of years ago but 5:1 now, so with the fee being paid in installments that means we ending up paying less than the quoted £17m for him.
It should also be remembered that media always quotes our transfers as the absolute maximum we can pay if you include a number of bonuses that are always included. With us not qualifying for the champions league or actually winning any trophies the triggers for these bonuses have probably not been met, so we have probably lost even less on these players than has been quoted.
