Why would United sell their closest rival for a CL spot last year a striker they want? (Edit) I’ve gone back and forth now on little chickpea. At this point, a 27 year old with some pace and an impressive scoring record strikes me as very useful, and a lot better than only having one striker, even if he doesn’t fit our system. In any case, it’s a good thing we have Chadli. What a Chadli pre-season it’s been, incidentally: impressed nobody with his overall play, and everyone with his ability to put the ball in the net. That left-footed strike from range, cutting in from the right, reminded me of somebody, but I can’t think who...
...And Lamela is the exact opposite; good overall play - apparently allergic to shooting on target. What a weird team we are...
The Mirror's linking us with Charlie Austin, but it reads like utter speculation. They're suggesting that we'd pay what QPR are asking (£15m-ish) and offer to loan them a player, too. They're short at centre-half, trialing our released defender Grant Hall, so Veljkovic would be favourite for that role.
And they're still in for Lloris, too. Whoever we're playing on the weekend will hope that they're both off their game and distracted... Edit: Did a little digging and the Kane speculation is all based on something that a commentator said during our game today. He suggested that Kane had been left out of the squad because of this bid from Man Utd. Kane was in the squad. He was on the bench, being rested after playing 86 minutes yesterday.
The only way we will sell to united is if kane demands to go and if he did he'd look a bigger twat than delph does. This speculation is why it's called twatter imho
£40 million is an insult to Tottenham and to Kane. Levy will tell Manure that they should relocate their off to where the sun don't shine and that none of our players will be sold to them, apart from Adebayor.
As PNP said, that link came from Kane not playing yesterday and the dickhead commentator spouting nonsense (who knew absolutely nothing about us for the record!), so I suppose Barcelona or PSG should be lining up a similar bid for Eriksen seeing as he also didn't play, right? Speaking of the commentator, he said near the start of the game that those who started yesterday were likely not going to start/ play vs Utd, which I found funny, because he clearly hadn't watched Spurs before and known that Chadli, Bentaleb and Vertonghen are nailed on first teamers, with the likes of Lamela and Trippier being in with good shouts. Would be nice if the club could announce something before/ by Saturday, ideally in the striking department. Chadli is actually a good player to use as cover in the striker role but we need someone who's going to keep Kane on his toes, I know nothing about this Werner kid who's been brought up a few times but his record isn't really exciting (though he is only 19), Berahino is probably my preferred choice if we can strike a deal with WBA, reports seem to differ as to whether WBA will sell or not, so I hope we can persuade them. If Chicharito is available for £12m then I think that's also something worth pursuing.
And, of course, Utd have just denied the whiole story! What s waste of time & space!! ****in Twatter & Facebook
With the speculation that Illaramendi is surplus to requirements in Madrid, we should surely be all over this and trying to get a deal done we must me able to match anything that Liverpool can offer
It's the dickhead commentators who wind me up. Instead of commentating on the game, who has the ball etc we are treated to a constant diet of their uninformed or biased opinions and speculation about the next game that they decide is important. I should turn the sound off really but you also lose the atmosphere from the stadium.
I do watch with the sound off, lack of atmosphere or no. The commentators usually wind me up. The Audi Cup commentators seemed to have been picked at random from a selection of village idiots. The best moment, surely, was when they cut away from the game to watch the Bayern bus sit motionless in a garage. Its door opened, slowly. Another tremendous pause, and then one person started clapping half-heartedly. Gripping stuff.
Do you really think he's worth more??? Anyway, seems you're in for Austin. £15m would be a steal IMO.
As has been said many times. If we were willing to sell, then £40m is a bit high. But he is worth more than that to us. He's our only striker at the moment, so £40m doesn't get us an improved position.
But in theory you get Austin who really isn't as big a downgrade as some Spurs perhaps think with £25m in the bank for another couple of players.
We sold Bale for 2 1/2 times that amount. It cost Levy and ENIC money. We dropped two places in the standings and lost our main marketing attraction. Now we have another big marketing attraction and a 600 million dollar stadium to both pay for and fill. Selling Kane for 40 million would end up costing Levy and ENIC a fortune. Kane is under contract for five years. We haven’t sold anyone we wanted to a PL rival for seven years. How likely do you think it is that we would sell him to United for 40 million? It will happen as soon as Levy decides he doesn’t care about money and that the fortunes of Man U are more important to him than the club he partly owns.
