Summer Transfer Gossip

pleasant Co. · 29-07-2011 5:27pm

Antisocialiser wrote: »

Looks like Adebayor is away to Real Madrid! Would have been a great signing for us

Sweet, he's a talented striker no doubt about that...but what a cancer he would have been...a team is a team...it's not just Ade + 10 others.

everdead.ie · 30-07-2011 12:58pm

17m bid for LLorente submitted and 22m for Mata as well, Although Mata is supposed to prefer Arsenal if they make a bid.

I think we really need to loose a few players fast though.

everdead.ie · 30-07-2011 1:14pm

everdead.ie wrote: »

17m bid for LLorente submitted and 22m for Mata as well, Although Mata is supposed to prefer Arsenal if they make a bid.

I think we really need to loose a few players fast though.

If we were to pick them up this summer we could have a team line up like

Gomes
Walker/Charlie--Dawson--King--BAE

Sandro/Hudd

Mata

Modric

Rafa

Bale

LLorente

subs--Cudicini,Lennon,Rose,Kaboul,Pav,Defoe

wellboys · 30-07-2011 1:51pm

everdead.ie wrote: »

17m bid for LLorente submitted and 22m for Mata as well, Although Mata is supposed to prefer Arsenal if they make a bid.

I think we really need to loose a few players fast though.

No way would Atletico accept 17m for a regular Spanish international and their star player? It would want to be around 30m at least!

BERBA · 30-07-2011 1:52pm

everdead.ie wrote: »

If we were to pick them up this summer we could have a team line up like
Gomes
Walker/Charlie--Dawson--King--BAE
Sandro/Dawson
Mata
Modric
Rafa
Bale
LLorente

subs--Cudicini,Lennon,Rose,Kaboul,Pav,Defoe

no Hudd in there?

everdead.ie · 30-07-2011 1:54pm

BERBA wrote: »

no Hudd in there?

Ya I just changed it there a minute ago meant to be hudd/sandro

Leinstersqspur · 30-07-2011 2:01pm

Reports we are closing in on Afellay also:
http://www.caughtoffside.com/2011/07/30/tottenham-on-the-verge-of-completing-7m-barcelona-star-signing/

He looks an exciting prospect, at PSV he scored 35 in 160games, 1:5 as a midfielder...! Considering Barca are the best team in the world a 'Barca reject' could be a Tottenham legend!

Kiith · 30-07-2011 3:05pm

Watching the Villa/Chelsea game...why the **** didn't we buy Given?

everdead.ie · 30-07-2011 6:05pm

Thudd to see a specialist about his ankle. not good

BERBA · 30-07-2011 6:10pm

everdead.ie wrote: »

Thudd to see a specialist about his ankle. not good

even more of a reason not to sell modric , btw what was wrong with modric today?

everdead.ie · 30-07-2011 6:12pm

BERBA wrote: »

even more of a reason not to sell modric , btw what was wrong with modric today?

He was sick

BERBA · 30-07-2011 6:32pm

everdead.ie wrote: »

He was sick

hope he's not gonna do a BERB on us:(

tomo75 · 31-07-2011 1:14am

everdead.ie wrote: »

He was sick

How sick was he?

He is in bed with his sister - now that's sick!

jobeenfitz · 31-07-2011 1:26am

sick enough to go to chelsea?

everdead.ie · 31-07-2011 1:54pm

I'd prefer to buy one top quality striker and sell a few players then sign bobby Zamora and half the other targets we have been linked with.

Kiith · 31-07-2011 10:11pm

I wish Chelsea would just **** right off. I'd hoped we'd heard the last of this. It's be insane to let him go at this stage, with no decent signings (that we know of) on the horizon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14360000.stm

BERBA · 31-07-2011 10:46pm

Kiith wrote: »

I wish Chelsea would just **** right off. I'd hoped we'd heard the last of this. It's be insane to let him go at this stage, with no decent signings (that we know of) on the horizon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/14360000.stm

the cnuts should be reported , they were told twice that under no circumstances would we do business , stand your ground Levy

jobeenfitz · 31-07-2011 11:33pm

chelsea may cnuts, but its all about money. If we had the money that chelsea or City had then we would be the cnuts and loving it. It could have been that way only for Daniel Levy told Abromavic where to go before he took over at Chelsea. Just think what could have been. If Harry cant get money to spend at the lane nobody can. There is definitely is a lot of dead-weight to be moved on. Cant see them getting rid of Keane again unless they let him go cheap.

everdead.ie · 01-08-2011 1:37am

Harry saying in the gaurdian that its the wages we haven't been able to compete with but the transfer funds are there to be spent.

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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp dismayed by 'crazy' wages of players

• We cannot compete in an inflated market, Redknapp claims
• 'Transfer fees available but wage structure holding Spurs back'

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Harry Redknapp
Harry Redknapp at Saturday's pre-season friendly with Brighton & Hove Albion, which Spurs won 3-2. Photograph: Tom Dulat/Getty Images

Tottenham Hotspur are powerless to compete in a transfer market inflated by Manchester City and the other members of last season's top four, according to Harry Redknapp. The Spurs manager is eager to add to his squad and retain key players, notably Luka Modric, but he has been frustrated as other clubs invest heavily before Uefa's financial fair‑play rules come into force from 2014.

Spurs have signed one senior player this summer – the 40-year-old goalkeeper Brad Friedel on a free transfer – and while funds have been made available for transfer fees, the club's strict wage structure has held them back. Their £22m bid for the Valencia winger Juan Mata on Friday may only bear fruit if Spurs remain sole bidders. Redknapp joked: "We were interested in Sergio Agüero but he wanted £250,000 a week in wages. We were only £220,000 short."

Redknapp's concern is that after missing out on Champions League football this season, the club's situation will only worsen as they struggle to match Chelsea's and City's cash resources, or Arsenal's and Manchester United's ability to generate funds through vastly bigger stadiums.

"You're looking to be a top‑four team and it's difficult; we can't pay the wages that those clubs pay basically," the Spurs manager said. "The chairman [Daniel Levy] runs the club well, you get 36,000 people, you're not going to put the club in hot water.

"I think the wages have gone crazy. That is the problem. It's gone beyond all belief in the last little spell. We're well set up for financial fair play but it doesn't help when you look at what you're up against. It's like when you're a kid and they give you the most improved player of the year award – you're useless."

Warding off interest in the club's leading players has also proved to be a challenge. Interest in Gareth Bale has been tentative but is expected to increase over the next year, but Modric's future has been hotly debated over the close season.

A throat infection kept the Croatia playmaker out of Spurs' 3-2 friendly win over Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday, although Redknapp is optimistic that Modric will remain a Spurs player beyond 1 September.

"Obviously Chelsea have made it plain they wanted Luka but we want to keep him, and I'm sure we will," he said.

"I think we will bring one or two more players in, too. The chairman's trying, desperately. So we might get a bit stronger. But you know [Sir Alex] Ferguson has come out and said that there are five teams in [the title race]. What's he including? He didn't mention Tottenham, and probably with what Liverpool have brought in that's the way it will be."

jobeenfitz · 01-08-2011 1:54am

playing in the europa cup is a big downside in qualifying for CL. Spurs had no distractions when last qualifying for CL. With Chelsea and City having squilins to spend it looks like we have to dislodge Man U or da gooners(preferably) if we to get into top four.

KingdomYid · 01-08-2011 12:07pm

Well said Harry, wages are a bloody joke now. City and Chelsea have basically monopoly money to throw around. I for one am glad that Levy is not throwing the club into financial hot water, even if this means not signing the top players who demand these high wages. I think for anyone to make an impression now it requires massive investment from foreign billionaires

positivenote · 01-08-2011 12:18pm

once again harry talking in the media about stuff that doesnt really concern them.

seperate issue, im hearing Villa in with a 9.5m bid for hutton and keane... bite their hand off would be my advice.

pleasant Co. · 01-08-2011 4:01pm

positivenote wrote: »

seperate issue, im hearing Villa in with a 9.5m bid for hutton and keane... bite their hand off would be my advice.

Would be a great deal, very possible that it could happen I'd imagine.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 01-08-2011 4:10pm

Arsenal agree Mata fee. He said he was only going to Arsenal or Barca anyways.

galinka · 01-08-2011 4:47pm

Zamora would be a signing too far for me - Shane Long would be a way better one
English Int - my arse!!

wellboys · 01-08-2011 4:50pm

THFC wrote: »

Arsenal agree Mata fee. He said he was only going to Arsenal or Barca anyways.

Really? Guillem Balague has said today that the player had a clause that if a team met the €25m fee before the 1st of August they could speak to the player. Arsenal did but the money never arrived. So no his price has risen to €60m!:eek:

I read that Lass Diarra turned down a move to Galatasaray because he's hoping for a return to England. Link up again with Harry? Could be a very good addition if Palacios leaves. I still think Adebayor on loan might happen...

Antisocialiser · 01-08-2011 4:55pm

Juventus have signed Mirko Vucinic for about £13.5m.

Saab Ed · 01-08-2011 4:56pm

positivenote wrote: »

seperate issue, im hearing Villa in with a 9.5m bid for hutton and keane... bite their hand off would be my advice.

100% no go and thats from a ITK at Villa.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero · 01-08-2011 6:17pm

wellboys wrote: »

Really? Guillem Balague has said today that the player had a clause that if a team met the €25m fee before the 1st of August they could speak to the player. Arsenal did but the money never arrived. So no his price has risen to €60m!:eek:

I read that Lass Diarra turned down a move to Galatasaray because he's hoping for a return to England. Link up again with Harry? Could be a very good addition if Palacios leaves. I still think Adebayor on loan might happen...

Must have read something wrong. That's a ludicrous price. Looks like he'll be staying at Valencia for a while so.

2nd Row Donkey · 01-08-2011 8:56pm

Bond has come out and practically invited Chelsea to bid for Modric again.

Very Clever.... Neither Levy nor HR will look bad but now chelsea will be encouraged to make a 3rd offer. P1sses me right off this kinda sh1te.

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Chelsea are weighing up whether to make a third bid for Spurs playmaker Modric, having already seen two offers rejected this summer.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has insisted the 25-year-old is not for sale "at any price" but that was contradicted this morning by Bond, who told Talksport: "We desperately don't want to lose him, but everyone has a price.

"If somebody came along and the money turns your head and he did go - although the chairman is adamant he doesn't want to sell him - then we'd have to get on with it."

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