With three years left and on about £200k a week (I think it’s a little more, plus bonuses) it’d cost him north of £32m I think to do that. City would just give him a £32m signing bonus though. I don’t know if that’s true or not though but if that ever happened he’d manage to go from Spurs poster boy to arguably the next Campbell. I’d like to think for as much as he’s seemingly doing to force a move he wouldn’t stoop that low but this is football and we never know what’s round the corner. Having said that, The Sun is the source so we can likely rule it out.
Apparently we’ve made a bid for Damsgaard. North of €20m but not near the €40m Sampdoria supposedly want. This potential signing surely only happens if one of the current wide players leave? Likely Bergwijn? Otherwise it feels like we’re over stacking.
If he did that then football signings would change forever. Kane would have to go into hiding and would likely never be able to set foot in Tottenham again.
Every club taps up players, including us. Last season, Hojbjerg was wanted at Everton...and they'd probably have paid more than us...but we'd tapped the guy up months before, when we were rumoured to be trying to sign him in January. We did the same with Southampton with Big Vic...and probably most other domestic signings. Get the player to say that he'll only sign for Spurs and we don't get caught up in a potential auction. Everyone's at it. We've got as much blood on our hands as anyone else. The Abramovic v Levy problem goes back to Levy refusing to sell the club to the Russian and then exploiting the tapping up of Arnessen and a potential points deduction for 'them' to get Abramovic to pay Levy a significant sum in hush money. It's been rumoured to be as much as £10m...and more recently, Chelsea tried to muscle Spurs out of leasing Wembley during our build, so that they could do exactly the same. Abramovic isn't in the business of letting bygones be bygones...and neither is Levy. I wouldn't expect any negotiated sale between the 2 clubs whilst the ownerships remain unchanged. There's too much history and bad blood.
Agreed. We seem particularly bad at it though, even since Mourinho was caught having his lunch date with Ashley Cole back in 2006. The Obi Mikel saga was a joke aswell, something stank to high heaven about that one
It's the ones that we back out of that always come back to haunt us. This guy will get the winner against us in a crucial NLD.
None of those are cases of us tapping-up players, though We definitely tapped-up Juande Ramos, since a club delegation just so happened to bump into him in a Seville hotel when the club was playing in a completely different country at the time so there's no way to suggest we did anything else, and given the size of the compo package Sevilla agreed with that assessment Wanyama was a simple one: we had a manager he thrived under while Arsenal didn't, and sometimes that's how these things work out. Hojbjerg, on the other hand, was helped along by Southampton wanting KWP so were open to our offer, and let's not forget we had a manager who won things a decade ago which did open a few extra doors On the other hands there's definitely a few times we've done clubs dirty - Toby is an obvious one given we went to gazump them after having him on loan and clearly turned his head, although it does have to be said that Southampton could have simply triggered the clause to make his loan a permanent and didn't until less than two weeks before his loan came to an end as they were too busy moaning about us to the press, by which point his head had been turned - John Bostock is certainly another iffy one, as we made an offer (IIRC £1m) for him when he was in the last few months of his contract, but Simon Jordan spent more time mouthing off to the press instead of either extend his contract or accept our offer, so Bostock's contract expired with his head turned - Willem Korsten was one where we did Leeds pretty dirty too, as I remember David O'Leary being asked if Leeds wanted to turn his loan into a permanent move and he really had a go at us, so obviously we were getting our gazumping going early as that was with at least a month to go of the season Underhanded? Certainly, but none of those were illegal approaches And this is the problem, whenever a club does do underhanded things in the transfer market they get thrown at them like a rock by teams who are breaking the rules, for example the various Man Utd fans on Old606 throwing Bostock at us like a rock after kidnapping Berbatov, which means that people confuse being a ****ehouse in the transfer market with doing something which is illegal in the transfer market And I'm sure they didn't do that on purpose...
Indeed, same as letting another club pay for a customers flight, accommodation and medical expenses before swooping in and offering him an extra 30k pw and signing him on the snide isnt illegal per se, but dirty as ****
Best of luck, Jubril. Enjoyed a good loan with them last season. Their fans seem really happy about it too.
Apparently Messi and Barca have a hit a snag in his contract negotiations so he’s still a free agent. Ally Gold has also said Messi was trying to get Barca to sign Romero. So if Messi wants to play with Romero then I reckon he should just join us. Simples.
Absolutely Citeh. They don't have enough midfielders after all. Grealish to play every third week? And when they get it wrong and bizarrely don't have enough players - like they seem to have run out of decent centre halves a couple of seasons ago - the pundits go on about how unlucky they are with injuries despite (1) under the same circumstances saying a club like ours should have a stronger squad and (2) forgetting how much they paid for the centre halves they still had.
I think this is a dig at Romano who was insistent Barca were never interested. Journo wars, gotta love ‘em.
Mundodeportivo are claiming this is what caused Messi's change of heart about his new contract. We made Messi leave Barca!
