January Transfer Talk

Mr. Guappa

I thought we could do with this thread to contain all the transfer rumours leading up to the January transfer window.

Spurs agree deal for South Africa defender: http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/South-Africa-international-defender-Bongani-Khumalo-has-agreed-to-join-Tottenham-in-January-in-a-1-5m-deal-article586869.html

Tottenham have agreed a £1.5million deal to sign South African World Cup star Bongani Khumalo.
The SuperSport United captain will move to White Hart Lane in January after impressing boss Harry Redknapp during a trial last month.
Swaziland-born Khumalo, 23, flew to London yesterday [Thursday] to discuss personal terms. His advisor Glyn Binkin has already held talks with Spurs officials.
The 6ft centre-back played in all South Africa's games at the World Cup finals, and scored in their 2-1 win over France.
His fee, 17 million Rand, is a record in his home country.
A source close to the deal said: "Tottenham have requested that Khumalo be allowed to train with them again when the SuperSport fixture calendar allows him to travel to England.
"SuperSport's next game is on October 16, and that is why they allowed him to take the trip to England."

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Fúck! Real are after Bale - apparently!
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b62hL
We can do better than £20 million though.

And I know its nothing new but this looks promising:
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b62hN

Also, Jake Livermore and Adam Smith have been loaned out to Ipswich and Bournemouth.

kakee

What we really need is a top striker. Why not go for Torres or Aguerro even at €30,€40 million.

mickman

THFC wrote: »

Fúck! Real are after Bale - apparently!
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b62hL
We can do better than £20 million though.

And I know its nothing new but this looks promising:
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b62hN

Also, Jake Livermore and Adam Smith have been loaned out to Ipswich and Bournemouth.

lot of rumours going around saying that we got vdv so cheap cos we will give real first refusal on bale. thats bad news if its true

therecklessone

kakee wrote: »

What we really need is a top striker. Why not go for Torres or Aguerro even at €30,€40 million.

Were you drinking early yesterday?

We won't pay their level of wages, and €30m spent would see us make a loss, which Levy will not countenance. Regardless, neither would come to us until we are an established CL side, and we have a long way to go before that happens...we are not City or Chelsea who can/could at least promise to break into the top tier on a regular basis while paying sh1t loads of wages.

Hatch99

kakee wrote: »

What we really need is a top striker. Why not go for Torres or Aguerro even at €30,€40 million.

Be realistic pal, not a hope of us getting such a player at the moment. Our best chance of us getting one, is if we buy him young and he turns out to be a star, which is unlikely, as the top clubs tend to have the pick of any up and coming promising young lads.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

We could offer Bale for Benzema? Benzema dosen't get played much now anyways so I'm sure he's dying to leave, only problem is would he come to us?

Kold

THFC wrote: »

We could offer Bale for Benzema? Benzema dosen't get played much now anyways so I'm sure he's dying to leave, only problem is would he come to us?

I would hate if this happened. I'm happy it won't.

Hatch99

THFC wrote: »

We could offer Bale for Benzema? Benzema dosen't get played much now anyways so I'm sure he's dying to leave, only problem is would he come to us?

Why in lords name would we want to offer bale for anyone. He's the best left sided prospect in the British game since another welsh man, mind boggling to even consider it.

Mullo76

Hatch99 wrote: »

Why in lords name would we want to offer bale for anyone. He's the best left sided prospect in the British game since another welsh man, mind boggling to even consider it.

Amen to that.

Can we buy a decent left and right full to go with this centre half please, and if not both then a left full first.

2nd Row Donkey

kakee wrote: »

What we really need is a top striker. Why not go for Torres or Aguerro even at €30,€40 million.

Too much football manager/championship manager 2010 me thinks!:D

2nd Row Donkey

A Benzema loan deal in January if we are still in the CL would be great but cannot see it happening

kakee

Lads, I didn't mean signing Torres or Aguerro per se. What I meant was if we are going to be playing 5 in midfield we need a striker that can play up front on his own. Of course all the top strikers come with a big price tag and most demand big wages and that is the reality.
The major problem is that all those top strikers have played in European competitons already so wouldn't be eligable even if they joined in Janurary.
I think the type of striker we need is like Darren Bent or Kenwyne Jones but I don't think either club would do business on those. Maybe Abonglahor from Villa or Kevin Doyle from Wolves.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Hatch99 wrote: »

Why in lords name would we want to offer bale for anyone. He's the best left sided prospect in the British game since another welsh man, mind boggling to even consider it.

If I had my way he wouldn't be going anywhere either but he's gonna go eventually so why not? He's not from London so he has no loyalty to us. Might as well get a top class striker for him...

Hatch99

THFC wrote: »

He's not from London so he has no loyalty to us.

And players from London do have a loyalty to us :rolleyes: my back side they do.

Remember he has only performed at this level for approx 9 months...

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Hatch99 wrote: »

And players from London do have a loyalty to us :rolleyes:

You know what I mean! Bale is eventually going to want to go to a bigger club, probably along with Modric, just like Carrick (and Keane:p!) did. The longer we keep him the more we risk losing him on a free, and yeh saw with Ozil that even the summer before he can go for a fraction of his value.

Hatch99

THFC wrote: »

You know what I mean! Bale is eventually going to want to go to a bigger club, probably along with Modric, just like Carrick (and Keane:p!) did. The longer we keep him the more we risk losing him on a free, and yeh saw with Ozil that even the summer before he can go for a fraction of his value.

If we keep such an attitude of selling our best players we will never become a CL regular like we all want to us to be. To say Bale Modric and the likes will leave soon is so negative. I might be wrong, maybe Utd will offer 30 for bale next summer and Levy will snap at it again, but one good thing about Harry (i hope) is that he will pull out all the stops to keep our best players.

And another thing, I can guarantee you we will never get stung again like we did on Judas as regards losing a top player for nout. If Bale/Modric for example have a contract with 18 months left and they dont want to discuss a new one, they will be shipped out I would imagine if it means us making 30m instead of him walking for free.

mickman

united were interested in modric during the summer. all they needed was for modric to show an interest and they were in with an offier. he wasnt interested and either was bale, thats why they both signed new contracts

ruiseal

Hatch99 wrote: »

And players from London do have a loyalty to us :rolleyes: my back side they do.

Remember he has only performed at this level for approx 9 months...

........Sulzeer Jeremiah "Sol" Campbell born in East London.......

keane=cock

ruiseal wrote: »

........Sulzeer Jeremiah "Sol" Campbell born in East London.......

is that name not banned? should be.......

everdead.ie

I really would love to see Dzeko come to us in January I think he'd be a huge signing Wolfsburg not in Europe this year either

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Looks like we're still in with a shout for Fabiano. We desperately need him!
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b673y

And here's another striker we're showing interest in, only 19 though.
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b673D

Also, Juve join the race for Pienaar. Even if I wasn't a Spurs fan I think I'd rather go to Spurs.
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b673B

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Anyone else get these bleacher reports??
Here's one that will make a lot happy, Pav back to Russia in a swap deal?
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b69hQ

Balfie

has everyone forgot that bale and modric only signed new contracts in the summer? 5 years both of them, don't see them goin anywhere...

Cianan2

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11675_6417549,00.html

Gareth Bale vs Ashley Cole... Who would win?

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Got another bleacer report lads.

Looks like we're gonna be making a bid for Muntari:
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b6f5g

And Niko might be leaving us soon;
http://bleacherreport.com/tb/b6f5m

mickman

according to twitter :-)

woodgate has had an operation and will rejoin the squad in january. the op was a 100% success

everdead.ie

mickman wrote: »

according to twitter :-)

woodgate has had an operation and will rejoin the squad in january. the op was a 100% success

Wow that is great news he's a top class CB

everdead.ie

So many reports linking us with Muntari now but you have to ask do we need him we have so many midfielders as is?

No way would we swap Bale for him by the way that would be a crazy deal

Kold

No point in Muntari, Midfield is solid. We need CBs and a striker.

Hatch99

Kold wrote: »

We need CBs .

But do we really, or have we just had a rotten time with injuries to all of our CB's. If they were all fit, we'd probably be saying we have too many.