Have faith, I'm sure Wenger will nearly sign him.Originally Posted by Maestro
my thoughts exactly. would love us to sign him, but don't think wenger is even looking in that direction.
Have faith, I'm sure Wenger will nearly sign him.
my thoughts exactly. would love us to sign him, but don't think wenger is even looking in that direction.
He'll have a buyout clause so it shouldn't make too much difference on that side of it.
How Spurs coped after the deal is not the point. We’ve already mocked them for blowing the money on flops. The point is, when a big club came knocking, they’ve milked them for every penny. They sold two of their star players (Modric and Bale), neither of them major internationals or Champs League players and they received a sum that dwarfs the sums we’ve sold for. They received £35m for Modric and that’s more than what we got for Cesc, Nasri and RVP. Throw in what they received for Bale and off the back off two transfers they’ve made more money than what we’ve received collectively off the sales of RVP, Song, Nasri, Cesc and Ade.
I'd say the figures we've got from selling have also been circumstantial, RVC and Nasri were in the last year of their contracts and we held on to Cesc for as long as we could with Barca and only Barca sniffing around every summer, they knew they held the cards in that deal.
As for Spurs, they were fortunate enough to have Real Madrid chasing their players, a club renowned for paying whatever it takes to land a player they fancy.
Last edited by Marc Overmars; 14-05-2014 at 08:54 AM.
That is about the size of it yes. The fact remains, Nobody would have moaned had we sold Cesc for 80 million. As it turned out he went for less than his worth and hardly extortion. Nasri was fine but him and Cesc at the same time crippled us and we were tardy in replacing them properly.
Not to mention those clubs didn't sell to the red devil or domestic rivals.
I think it's very relevant. Levy was so determined to make sure they received a world record fee for Bale that he dragged it out for as long as he could to make it happen, regardless of how it is actually going to impact them for the season ahead. I'm not even talking about who they bought necessarily, I'm talking about how the determination to get a world record fee left them very little time to get any replacements in and by that time the destabilising affect on the club may have already sunk in substantially.
I think the Cesc one can go up to £35 million but that's three years ago now, I'm hoping we're now in a different era.
Taking it back to the premise of my point...my suggestion is that we cannot sell the best AND fail to replace them, whether or not people think we sold under duress or coerced into it. If we want to be competitive we have to not sell or replace and quite possibly both. I hope that is in line with the clubs intentions now.
How was it not going to effect them or impact their season? Would it have been better for them to sell earlier at a cut down price? It’s not as if dragged it out to the last minute, got the money but didn’t buy replacements. They bought replacements but bought badly. I don’t know if AVB had a say in who was bought but the managerial side of things had an effect on their season also. That club in general is a joke but they at least made sure they were paid well for their star players. I think our rivals have taken our star players on the cheap and too easily. We’ve had contract issues and that’s not helped the transfer fees but we shouldn’t be allowing players to run down their deals anyway. In fact, Cesc had years left on his deal but we still sold on the cheap when we should have taken Barca to the cleaners or told them to piss off.
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