Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

So, I've now read the last 5 pages of this thread and it's all been Lillywhite on Lillywhite action, Croydon's customary rudeness to fellow Spurs fans and all of you arguing like Children. And there's been not 1 transfer . When I saw the unread pages here, I settled down to adult conversation about where our new signing would be playing (5 pages, there has to be one, surely), who he would replace and whether he improves the team. Nada.

 

Being a Spurs supporter in recent times is an angst-ridden nervy saga,
mainly because of the phenomena that is known as "Spursy" .

When greatness or better days beckon on, something, somewhere,
somehow within THFC will find a means of effing things up with
serious detrimental effects.

The business end of this season, I felt I was watching a slow motion
repeat of 2012 from behind a plate glass screen that I could not smash
thru to try and change what I saw unfolding before my eyes.

And how utterly Spursy it would have been to lose CL football the moment that
new WHL comes online and has to be paid for.

We know the club is on several knife edges, where doing the "right thing"
commercially does not get repaid in kind (despite my pleas to Nemesis) ,
and the sadly fickle/ingrate financial nature of players today.

In my trade a phrase is sometimes used : constructive destruction.
You put something up there, and you try to destroy it with a view to preventing
something bad getting thru, or to make it better.

Not to pander to your ego, or your petty grievances/feuds.
The likes of gobsb*tes such as Baddiel Hotspur are NOT constructive destruction.
Do not allow yourselves to be infected with those poisons.

 

Fan, shortened form of the of the French word fanatique. Fanatic in English.

 

I think we can all agree that we all want what is best for the club. Opinions regarding how we progress, who we buy and sell, etc. will differ from person to person. Some will appear less palatable than others but this would be a pretty poor forum if we get to the point where posters are reluctant to speak their minds for fear of being rounded upon.

 

Poch could have done things different in Madrid, but he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. He was always going to be wrong if the result went against us and a genius if we had won.

 

Being a Spurs fan just means you’re someone desperate for heartbreak and wanting 10-15 years shaved off your life expectancy.

Love it.

 

Well that would explain why you want to sign Grealish and CK forever wanted to sign Nasri.

< team rcl >

 

It has also been Gooner behaviour, certainly under Wenger, to hold onto certain favourites well beyond their sell-by-date.

 

Here we go again...

So, Christian Eriksen is beyond his sell-by date?

 

If you read back, I said that if Eriksen signs a new long-term contract and plays like we know he can then I'll happily eat my words

 

It's true. Samir Nasri is the future and solution to all our problems. RCL called it 4 years ago, it has just taken us lesser men this long to see the light.

 

So, currently, "Yes"?

 

Currently, angling for a move away and if he intends to run down his contract and we'll get nothing for him next summer, "yes"

 

So if he doesn't sign a contract this summer, you believe that we won't move heaven and earth to sell him on, rather than allow him to run his contract down, as Arsenal have been doing, and this because he is a favourite of someone at the club?

 

Griezmann rejected their approach, Pogba wants out, now Eriksen’s rejected them... On the plus side, Phil Jones and Ashley Young did sign new contracts - winning!

 

I'm wondering whether putting an inflated price-tag on him will even allow us to move him on and we're left with no option but to let him run his contract down.

 

Who says we've put an inflated price tag on him?

 

Various news outlets have reported anything from "the same as Hazard" all the way up to
https://www.footballinsider247.com/eriksen-price-tag-revealed/
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2019/03/...d-asking-price-for-christian-eriksen-looks-d/
https://thisisfutbol.com/2019/01/transfers/levy-names-his-price-for-eriksen/
https://en.as.com/en/2019/03/31/football/1554016819_936274.html

If any of those a re true then it's unrealistic for a player entering the final year of his contract

 

Speak for yourself...I am one hell of a happy clappy mo fo

 

Would rather keep him one more year and he go on a free than sell him now with no replacement