Sky Sources: Luka Modric to meet Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy today. On their yellow ticker bar at the bottom and on the right as a 'top' story. Surely if Modric asks to leave, Levy will have to accept it and then try to get the best price.
Fingers crossed that he sticks it out one more season at least. If we get a deal or 2 through we will be going places next season
I'm in two minds, on 1 hand he is a quality player and an important part of the squad and selling to a rival would be horrible to see. On the other if he wants to leave and isn't 100% committed then I don't want him playing for the club and would rather have someone else who is in it 100%. Plus just as he was part of the team that got 4th in 2010, he was part of the team that failed to get it this year.
Luke with all due respect- the press would love to say I told you so. However the sources for a lot of these "exclusives" are hardly reputable- the Mail, the people. As for the stories that they will let him go for 45m- it kind of flies in the face the official statement doesn't it? Harry will get the players he wants.When was the last time Spurs publicly said they were after a player and that player actually signed?
Our midfield is our strongest area by far. Our strikeforce are weak at best. Without Modric we have VDV/Kranjcar/Hudd who can fill that position, all of which most teams would dream of having. Without signing a decent striker, we'll be condemned to watch Crouch, Defoe, Keane and Pav misfire for at least another 6 months. IMO, If selling Modric means a scoring strikeforce, so be it.
Why would we need to sell Modric to fund a new strikeforce? O'Hara's gone for £5m, Jenas, Palacios, Bentley, Dos Santos, Hutton, Bassong (sadly) and pretty much all of our misfiring strikers could all follow. That should raise enough money, easily.
Provided we can find buyers, there doesn't seem to be much concrete interest on any of them, except the ones we want to keep!
There's been supposed interest in all of them, but the window only opened a few days ago, CS. Some teams will be in the same position that we're in and it may take a little more movement elsewhere, before we can offload some players.
Fair point, but I do fail to see anyone actually taking Bentley or Keane for example. I think if we can't sell them this summer, we should mutually release them - saves our already tight wage bill.
We've already had an admittedly crap bid for Keane from Blackburn. I think that he'll sell quite easily. He's a highly experienced international striker, proven in the Premier League and still only 30. He'll do a good job for somebody, if used correctly. Bentley could be a little bit of a problem, but I think that somebody will come in for him. If he doesn't go, then I think that he'd actually link up well with Walker down the right, if they were used together in the Europa league and domestic cups. Redknapp appears to have written him off for throwing water at him, though.
Saying that, I can see him going somewhere like Galatasaray, or at least abroad. He'd probably suit a club in Eastern Europe, he'd be able to finish his career with a bang, like Kenny Miller has. May be the same sort of thing for Bentley too.
Redknapp told Helen Chamberlain on Absolute Radio: “Well I’ve got to be honest, Helen, it was a bit of fun, but I wasn’t best pleased with it, I’ve got to be honest with you. “I just thought it was a bit disrespectful if I’m honest about it, to tell you the absolute truth, you know. “I could never imagine doing that with Ron Greenwood, who was my manager when I was a player, or Bobby Moore doing it to the manager. “But no, David’s a good lad, I just think they got a bit carried away on the night. “You notice it was all lads who didn’t play who did it, it was none of the boys who actually played...” Bentley did actually play the last 20-odd minutes of that game too, coming on with 71 minutes on the clock. Crouch scored the winner with Bentley on the pitch.
Hmm The fact that Redknapp kept saying he had to be honest and tell the truth suggests he was in fact lying and the real reason was something else
Luka has already stated while still on holiday he would meet the Chairman as soon as he got back, to explain and I'm fairly certain I read the word 'apologise', for how this started. So, whats the surprise here?
The SSN "story" is that the supposed meeting is not for Modric to apologise but to discuss his future, with the background that Modric wants to play CL football next season and Spurs are denying him his human rights by not playing ball and letting the status quo continue But of course as we have seen with the West Ham/OLPC story and the NOTW hacking into phones of celebrities and Milly Dowler, the media have a code of ethics which they never break because the PCC will, unlike all the other toothless watchdogs, punish them
