None of the above is remotely relevant to what I said, you utter ****ing prick. I couldn't care one **** how much you or your chairman think your bang average right back is worth, the point is you incorrectly crow about winding people up on one thread while crying like a pathetic child when someone cracks a one line joke at your expense on another, you dick. Do us all a favour, **** off.
It is, at Swansea. Why the **** would he go to Leicester? Honestly. (Bar cash, obvs, and even Swansea can offer that now)
True...I don't know why he would...they won the League, that's thrown me off a bit plus I'm Fasting...the mind plays tricks. Fantastic player though...Poch said selling him was the biggest regret..was between him and Eriksen. I'm glad he's not on a bench somewhere though...sublime player.
So the Bell quotes £60-70 million for a bang average right back when Hazard only cost £32 million. Clearly the boy Walker has other uses around the dressing room?........
Transfer prices seem to have gone nuts, but £75m for Walker is just laughable. But then it was HIAG who said it I suppose.
The Daily Star reports Real Madrid forward Alvaro Morata is pushing for a move to Chelsea after confirming he won’t join AC Milan in the incoming transfer market window. It is understood Antonio Conte made the Spaniard a main target on his summer wishlist and Morata himself reportedly asked Real Madrid president Florentino Perez to leave the club in order to join the Blues. The 24-year-old, who has struggled to get game time under Zinedine Zidane this campaign, recently said over his future plans: “To return to Madrid and win the Champions League is incredible. We have matches with the national team. After that, we’ll see”.
I'd imagine Sheff Utd are due a windfall from the Walker transfer as smaller clubs often accept sell on clauses when buying players, knowing that they'll more than likely move on if they prove a success. With that said, I reckon the transfer to City will be close to £40m with Sheff United due 25% or so.
No, I am not saying that Walker will sell for £75m, I used that arbitrary figure to make a very simple point - Levy doesn't need the money, and won't be looking to sell Walker to a Prem rival for any sum. If City persist and if Walker is determined to leave, then we have to look to how Levy has dealt with these situations in the past. The last time that Levy sold to a Prem rival was Berbatov to United, in 2008, for £30.75m. This was reckoned, at the time, to be double what the player was actually worth. Modric tried to force a move to Chelsea, which Levy blocked, and the player ended up going to Real. Anyone who believes that Levy will sell to City (even if Walker wants to go there), is an idiot. Anyone who believes that for City to entice Levy into selling them Walker for anything less than a king's ransom (regardless of his true value), is an idiot. I don't know what price Levy would demand for Walker, from a Prem rival, but I am certain that it will be more than the £40m plucked out of the air by the tabloids.
Fresh off the back of back-to-back campaigns netting 20+ goals per season and you believe Spurs valued him at £15m even though a year earlier we'd paid £17m for Anderson You were our feeder club, you got what you were given. Until you start to pay players what the big boys can pay them, Levy will do as he's told.
This ^^^ Said it before on another thread, but if Spurs want to mix it with the big clubs, then they will have to pay the wages of the big clubs. At the end of the day Spurs are owned by ENIC and Levy and Joe Lewis want to see a return on their investment. If somebody wants to buy, they will sell.
If they want sustained success, they simply have to. Maybe the new stadium will give them more income to invest into salaries, who knows? Their current model, even if they win something players will still want away like Kante did with Leics and Mahrez is doing. The difference isn't negligible, add on the sort of image rights and bonuses somebody like Kane could get at United and you're probably talking £10m more per year!
There's a general feeling that Levy is beginning to loosen the strings on the wage budget. I think it's becoming more a myth now that we're ridiculously strict. Our senior key players such as Kane, Lloris and Vertonghen are all pretty much on similar wages to the key players at the likes of Arsenal & Pool (albeit Arsenal are supposedly preparing massive offers for Sanchez & Ozil). It's only Chelsea, City & Utd that pay substantially more and that's because they've got much bigger financial clout. As for the stadium, theoretically it should be 'easier' to pay off over the years than say Arsenal did with the Emirates. The money coming into the Prem (and football in general) is astronomical right now and along with stadium naming rights (which Levy supposedly wants around £150m for), any potential player sales (Walker £40-£50m is a great start, as much as I wouldn't want him to leave) along with other financial measures, we should be able to pay it off without too much hassle. Or I'd like to think so anyway.
Unfortunately there are those here that think Levy doesn't need the money when we all know he'd chop off his wife's legs if the price of bacon went up significantly. Underpaying players the going rate combined with a ten year period of laughable managers and zero success will create a queue at the leaving door.
