He would be a good buy for Madrid and slot right in alongside Alonso but he's not worth £40M, more like £25M. He'd be an even better buy for Man Utd mind you.
Luka Modric / Signs for Real Madrid
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As I've said before, even for that price I'm just not so keen on him. He'd improve our midfield and is a better player than Carrick, but if I was spending £25m then I'd at least want a player who can help us solve all of our major midfield problems: being able to cope under high pressure being the main one in there.
Nah, he doesn't control games, he's a DM with a superb passing range - much like Carrick (who also doesn't control games).
Ozil, Khedira, Alonso, Kaka, Lass, Sahin, Granero to name a few. I don't see how it would be considered a good idea to buy another midfielder for 40mil. We can play 4-6-0 like Spain did if we want ffs.
With that I agree. It's not because we have cash to spend that we should buy anyone available. Modric is a fantastic player but I'd rather have Martinez because he's more versatile. We could post him at CB if needed.
Ozil is an AM, Khedira and Alonso are DMs, Kaka is fecked, Lass is a shit DM... the other two I don't know enough about but judging by starts they're not it, are they? You don't have creativity in CM, that's what Modric addresses.
Madrid should give us Sahin. It's only fair.
Alonso has the ability to control games but Real isn't the team best suited for him to do that or for any midfielder, which is why Alonso played better for Liverpool and Khedira plays better for Germany imo.
Kaka was pretty good last season and Lass is a very good DM, very underrated, runs for 90 mins and has the sharpest tackles. Khedira isn't that much better than him, he really isn't.
Good post.
The Madrid press think RM have bid 30m Euros and would go to 35m, but won't match a PSG offer of 40m Euros. The speculation is that they're trying to come up with a cash+ swap or loan deal to get him.
However, Lass has already said he's not moving, because he'll be on a free next summer. Sahin doesn't want to go, but may be forced into a loan deal (though whether he wants to be forced to go to Spurs on loan is a different question).
A deal involving Kaka might explain where the Telegraph's "more than 40m pounds" comes from. He's supposed to be ready to move, "if Madrid will ease the way," presumably by making the transfer fee low in order to give him a chance of matching his current wages. Whether he wants his way to Spurs eased though is a matter of guesswork. People were assuming he wanted to go back to Italy.
However, Lass has already said he's not moving, because he'll be on a free next summer. Sahin doesn't want to go, but may be forced into a loan deal (though whether he wants to be forced to go to Spurs on loan is a different question).
A deal involving Kaka might explain where the Telegraph's "more than 40m pounds" comes from. He's supposed to be ready to move, "if Madrid will ease the way," presumably by making the transfer fee low in order to give him a chance of matching his current wages. Whether he wants his way to Spurs eased though is a matter of guesswork. People were assuming he wanted to go back to Italy.
FFS why aren't we in for him? Fergie has openly loveboned him.
Real Madrid will batter us if we meet them this year in the CL.
Shame as just 3 years ago it would have been the other way round.
Shame as just 3 years ago it would have been the other way round.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/real-madrids-40m-pounds-offer-modric-paves-way-070439807.html
So we will probably miss out on both Modric and Moutinho.
Thats how football is...
Do you think in 2012 that £25m is high for a quality footballer these days?
Put in perspective, that is about 7-8% of our turnover in 2011. Rio's £29m fee was around 20% of our turnover when we bought him, i.e. around £60m in equivalent.
Partly. And also it is a reflection our failures to get our main transfer targets about 6 or 7 times in a row. And offloading two of our best players of course.
So we're not in for him, but we are in for him and have failed? Brilliant
It is high for a player like Modric, who is overrated and is not a world class central midfielder like some seem to say he is out of desperation. £40m for a player like him is simply ridiculous, whether it's in the modern day game or not.
Modric is a class act. It's nothing to do with desperation...
Admittedly 40 million quid is too far the other way.
As I said to you in the midfielder thread, take a look through my posts in this one to see where I'm coming from. You probably won't agree but it's what I personally think.
Forget it. Levy doesn't want to sell to another English club and Fergie wouldn't pay £40m anyway.
Why would Real spend so much on the player who they don't really need, then again, it's what they've done so many times in the past.
Building from a position of strength?
Filling out the squad with even more talent?
Why wouldn't you? They don't exist to make profit.
Modric is the type of player that despite their glut of midfielders they don't really have.
Modric it is then.
Who are we supposed to drop for Modric though? Ozil? Khedira? Alonso?!
Or are we paying 40m+ for a benchwarmer?
Or are we paying 40m+ for a benchwarmer?
You won't be dropping anyone so much as rotating them with Modric. Khedira is the most likely candidate for that.
That's my point, I don't think we need him. We would be better off splashing money on Maicon or Martinez.
Benzema
Ronaldo-----------Ozil----------Di Maria
Modric----------Alonso
Higuain
Ronaldo-----------Kaka-----------Di Maria
Sahin---------Khedira
Ronaldo-----------Ozil----------Di Maria
Modric----------Alonso
Higuain
Ronaldo-----------Kaka-----------Di Maria
Sahin---------Khedira
And they still have Granero and Lass to be used in useless games.
Yeah but would khedira want to be a squad player? If Modric were to go there, one of them would be a squad player. Tbf Khedira is exactly what we need imo, would be happy if they got Modric and we got Khedira at a decent price. Won't happen though.
Well, you're supposed to sell us Khedira, obviously.
You don't need to splash money on Maicon, €15m at most should do the trick.
http://in.news.yahoo.com/real-madrids-40m-pounds-offer-modric-paves-way-070439807.html
So we will probably miss out on both Modric and Moutinho.
We're like...the Frank Spencer of the transfer market
Say what you like about him, he spent most of his time hanging out of the back of Betty.
Completely agree, he looks perfect for them. Creativity in the centre that doesn't sit deep like Alonso but links the play higher up the pitch. Comfortable enough defensively to hold his own in the middle in England & internationally, technical enough to play in Spain & importantly with the mobility to get forward (can't find distance covered stats but he definitely completed the most passes in the opposition half out of anyone in the league last season). A CM+AM as you say, which they don't currently have.
Don't know enough about Madrid as to best guess how they'd line up but a rotation between Modric/Alonso/Khedira (or whichever ball winner) in a 2 man midfield, or dropping Di María or Özil for a midfield 3 in other games seems to make sense.
He's a type of player that is very, very scarce.
If you got another Ronaldo lying around we can start the negotiations
Oh ok, pocket change
feck, it was looking so much more promising. Until Real Madrid got linked.
If it's true, we've got a very small chance.
Real are a bigger catch than us at the moment.
I don't think it's a massive problem for Levy to sell to us. He's a smart cookie, he knows that we're going to be ahead of them for years to come. But he's certainly going to expect us to stump up the cash, as he has done. In fact, if Modric is sold, you can bet it'll be for over 30 million quid.
I don't know if SAF has, or is willing to part with that much for Modric. If it was 20-25 million, Modric would already be here, going by how much SAF seems to admire him, and how rare a player that functions like Modric is.
Modric, Carrick and Kagawa would dominate and control the centre of midfield. Add to that Nani, Valencia (and Young), who are all very hard-working wingers, and Rooney as a striker, we'd have a very hard working set of players to help the winning back of possession, and actually keeping possession incredibly well. All of those players are brilliant passers (often keep it simple, but also, Carrick, Modric, Nani and Rooney are especially capable of the long precise ball), and I think we'd really be able to have our CB's on the half-way line a lot more if we got Modric, and played him with Carrick.
Simply said, we'd be competing for CL glory every year with a realistically very good chance of winning the damn thing; 3rd favourite easily imo, if we had him, for the next 4-6 years, provided an adequate replacement for Carrick was found in that time, and a LB stepped up.
If it's true, we've got a very small chance.
Real are a bigger catch than us at the moment.
I don't think it's a massive problem for Levy to sell to us. He's a smart cookie, he knows that we're going to be ahead of them for years to come. But he's certainly going to expect us to stump up the cash, as he has done. In fact, if Modric is sold, you can bet it'll be for over 30 million quid.
I don't know if SAF has, or is willing to part with that much for Modric. If it was 20-25 million, Modric would already be here, going by how much SAF seems to admire him, and how rare a player that functions like Modric is.
Modric, Carrick and Kagawa would dominate and control the centre of midfield. Add to that Nani, Valencia (and Young), who are all very hard-working wingers, and Rooney as a striker, we'd have a very hard working set of players to help the winning back of possession, and actually keeping possession incredibly well. All of those players are brilliant passers (often keep it simple, but also, Carrick, Modric, Nani and Rooney are especially capable of the long precise ball), and I think we'd really be able to have our CB's on the half-way line a lot more if we got Modric, and played him with Carrick.
Simply said, we'd be competing for CL glory every year with a realistically very good chance of winning the damn thing; 3rd favourite easily imo, if we had him, for the next 4-6 years, provided an adequate replacement for Carrick was found in that time, and a LB stepped up.