Barca have reached the point where their sources are making up all manner of bollocks to try and convince themselves the club isn't staring into the face of FFP Armageddon Case in point, if you scroll up the page you'll see a couple of weeks back one of their sources insisted we were willing to pay €75m for Raphinha in January - yet not a single Spurs insider reported this, or for that matter Romano or DiMarzio
We have just taken players desitined for Bayern and Barca. We are the richest club in London. We are clearly the new Man City.
I wonder how the economics will play out. Tis difficult at the moment for a Euro club/agent to try and seriously inflate a player PL transfer fee by saying a club from league X is offering more, when we know that X is in a financial squeeze. I guess they can only try to get an intra-PL bidding war going, but even that is being tested with the PL FFP starting to align its limits to those of UEFA.
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It's obviously bollocks, but his wages aren't really as high as they're suggesting. He's on about £300k pw, but he's getting deferred wages from before on top. Barca pissing about due to their financial difficulties, again.
DM Watch Bilge claim that we're pushing the boat out to attract Boris Lum from Hertha Berlin, with him being a guest for our win over Bournemouth back in December and given a tour of Hotspur Way, in preparation for triggering his €5m release clause - and it's suggested that Hertha may accept a lower offer for the Germany U17 captain due to being short of cash So what's the catch, I hear you ask? He turns 18 on 2nd October, which is a slight issue as thanks to people listening to slogans painted on the sides of buses that means if we do sign him he will remain at Hertha until he turns 18 Which will be on 2nd October 2025...
LW Watch Fotboll Direkt claim we're looking at signing Hammarby's 20-year old Montenegrin winger Viktor Djukanovic, with a fee that's a shade under £12m being bandied about Best way to describe him? The best way to describe him is he moves the ball like Erik Lamela, but at the speed of Brennan Johnson or Manor Solomon and a right foot-cum-traction engine much like former linkee Ruslan Malinovskyi so he can wallop them into the far corner Certainly has the strength and bloody-mindedness that Bryan Gil likely will never have at this point, so consider me sold
Reports in the Croatian press say that Luka Modric was offered a job on Carlo Ancelotti's backroom staff but turned it down as he wants to play football for another one or two seasons, and is willing to leave Los Ladrones this summer when his contract ticks over to achieve that Widye?
Wid 100% , for almost any wage. Wouldn't fit in Ange's system but just having someone like that around the training ground can be transformative. Imagine what the likes of Sarr and Bergvall could gain learning from one of the greatest of all time in their position.
TBH while I wouldn't expect him to be starting every game, his workrate is still insanely high - not just high for a 38 year old, but puts to shame some players in our squad ten years younger than him - so he certainly has it in his legs to come into matches to help us see them out for the last 10-15 minutes, and against teams we expect to play busparquet he can start as a No6 receiving the ball from the defence, leaving anyone pressing him on their backsides, and splitting the lines with a perfectly-placed through ball to our pacey players
Would not, unless Spurs are in the CL (as I would have for Bale in 2022-23) . Perhaps his end story is to return to Zagreb, and help make them a CL group stage regular.
As things currently stand he'd be getting off to a bad start, as Dinamo are currently in the Conference League places (or third, as it's commonly known) Fun fact about the Croatian league: there is no Europa League places allocated, as winning the league gets a place in the second round of CL playoffs, yet the teams who finish second or third are in the second round of the Conference League playoffs, meaning the only way an HNL team can play in the Europa League is either losing at various points in the CL playoff rounds, finishing third in their CL group, or winning the Conference League That's a bit odd, isn't it?
Very strange. But at least the team they send to the Champions League are actually the champions, not some also-ran who finished 20 points off the top *cough cough*.
I've just checked and they can't even qualify via their domestic cup. The winners of that go into the conference, too. Rijeka are currently top. This is their stadium: please log in to view this image Capacity of a little over 8,000 and average attendance of less than 5,000. That's less than Chesterfield, Oldham and Southend in the 5th tier.
In heartbeat. Would be just as exciting as Bale’s return if it happened. My favourite ever player to watch. Wouldn’t get many full 90s from him nowadays in the Prem but he’d probably be the best Spurs player - arguably best overall player - for 20-30 mins a game. As CK said too, he’d be incredible for the likes of Sarr, Bergvall, Devine, Hall etc to watch and learn from. I can see him doing a Perisic though should he leave Madrid and return home to Croatia for his last hurrah.
Ornstein has said we are interested in Pedro Neto. Circa £80m fee apparently. Very versatile attacker who is developing superbly under O'Neil, but for that price I'm not sure, unless we see him as a long term successor for Son...but does he tend to play LW?
He did primarily play as a LW when he was breaking through at Wolves, but he's mainly been a RW for the past 2-3 years If that wasn't reason enough to be cautious, there's a damn good reason to look elsewhere 2019-20 - missed 10 games due to various calf and muscle injuries 2020-22 (not a typo) - missed 52 games due to a knee injury 2022-3 - missed 27 games due to an ankle injury 2023-4 - missed 9 games due to a hamstring injury, and there's half a season to go If people think Lo Celso's ability to pick up knocks is bad, we absolutely should not be looking at someone with an injury history that bad when they were between the ages of 20-23 - especially for that pricetag
