Martinez confirms he is leaving.
Good luck and thank you for the great run of form that helped us win the cup.
Martinez confirms he is leaving.
Good luck and thank you for the great run of form that helped us win the cup.
Bit sad about that but he's too good to sit on the bench and if Leno has been declared our Number 1 then understandable he'd want to go somewhere and be first choice.Originally Posted by Marc Overmars
Martinez confirms he is leaving.
Good luck and thank you for the great run of form that helped us win the cup.
Wish him well.
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Brilliant news about Auba! And it’s really come out of the blue too! Literally no hint that it was coming whatsoever.
Delighted he’s stayed and committed though. I’m a big believer in good coaching and collective performance being more important that individuals, but there’s no question that world class players are difference-makers when it comes to those fine margins that win games, and Auba is certainly that.
We need to pitch this as a massive show of faith in the project, and use it to convince our other targets that this is the place to be.
OK... fair enough.
Most of the spurs fans I know think they desperately need a new central defence, fullbacks, central midfield and play-maker, but I guess if you lack all of those things then you might as well not have them AND have someone like Bale up front.
As an Arsenal fan, obviously I hope this saddles then with their own Özil, and causes no end of problems on Kane’s next contract negotiation - no idea how much of his £600k/wk they’re going to be covering, but I would imagine he’d be coming in as their best-paid player by some margin.
Unfortunately, negotiation is all about leverage, and everyone knows we need dollar bucks, fast!
Tbh, I don’t actually think it’s an unreasonable fee for a 2nd choice keeper who, at nearly 28, still only has a limited number of first team appearances under his belt - we’re all convinced that he’s the real deal, and if we could have kept him for another year to prove it then I think we’d have been talking closer to double that fee, but as it is I can understand the price getting haggled down.
Edit: is it a max £17m, or are there add-ons?
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17mil isn't bad for someone who was worth nothing 6 months ago.
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Clearly a good guy and grateful for how he stepped up last season, but he's averaged less than 10 games a season his entire career. 17m is good money.
That’s assuming he even shows up on the day! The biggest issue for me is that I never know when he’s going to cry off sick - why would you spend all week building a game plan around him when you know there’s a 3/4 chance he’ll phone in on the day with a tummy ache or crick in his neck (and on the 1 in 4 games he does show up for there’s a 50-50 chance he won’t be arsed)?
If I were the coach, I’d want to be as sure as possible about the players I’m working with going into a match, and Özil is just way too erratic and unpredictable to be useful for me - that one moment of magic every 8-10 games isn’t worth it...
The illness thing is clearly just a cover, to reduce the controversy of his not ever being picked - though whether it's him or the club that's responsible for the hralth stories is less clear
No-one (apart from one or two people on here apparently) believes it, if he started being picked the illness would be gone...
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