Luka Modric / Signs for Real Madrid

If you read the thread Gladston most of us are simply saying the transfer would only be possible if Modric forced Spurs hand.
 
GlastonSpur said:
* Spurs had not tasted CL football wth Berbatov, but now they have and the desire for a repeat is very strong: Modric is the heartbeat of the current Spurs side - needed if they want to get back into the top 4.
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Champions League has always been your target, the fact that you played in it this year doesn't change much. If anything, it will make your players more eager to leave because they know how fancy and good that competition is, and they may never taste it again at Tottenham - in spite of what you would like to think, you are not title challengers and haven't been in ages, United, Chelsea and Arsenal are far ahead of you in terms of quality and you will find it very difficult to catch up with City given their financial power. Besides, there is a difference between just playing in Champions League and playing to win it, the likes of Modric and Bale could win it elsewhere, they will not win it at Spurs.
 
Kraftwerker said:
Do you think Modric should be wasting his time in the embarrassment that is the Europa League, regardless of what Levy says?...
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More importantly, Modric will also be playing in the league campaign to regain a top 4 place.

He also signed a new, 6 year contract only last summer and has again recently said that he's happy to stay.

All the evidence - the club's healthy financial state, the player himself, Levy's statement etc etc - points to him still being a Spurs players next season and precisely nothing points towards the opposite.

Kraftwerker said:
.... It's the oldest trick in a book by a chairman - say your player is not for sale under any circumstance - then sell them.

It's not nailing your colours to the mast, it's posturing.
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I'm willing to bet that it's not.
 
Modric will never leave Spurs this summer, especially for anyone in England. United are no longer the force they were in the transfer market, it seems.
 
alastair said:
Modric will never leave Spurs this summer, especially for anyone in England. United are no longer the force they were in the transfer market, it seems.
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Agree with the first part. The second is horseshit.
 
Lance Uppercut said:
Agree with the first part. The second is horseshit.
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I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
 
GlastonSpur said:
More importantly, Modric will also be playing in the league campaign to regain a top 4 place.
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Oh yipee.

When your ambition is to finish 4th, you're already a loser.


He also signed a new, 6 year contract only last summer and has again recently said that he's happy to stay.

All the evidence - the club's healthy financial state, the player himself, Levy's statement etc etc - points to him still being a Spurs players next season and precisely nothing points towards the opposite.


I'm willing to bet that it's not.
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I'm not saying he'll definitely leave, but if he has an ounce of ambition (beyond finishing 4th), he will entertain a move.

Chairmen should never be listened to - no chairman ever comes out and says yea we're no longer CL so we'll probably have to sell someone. It's suicidal because buying clubs will hold you to ransom.

A healthy financial state, but the looming burden of a new stadium hanging over you, which looks further away than ever. Plus being in the Europa League which yields hardly any income and harms the prestige of the club.
 
alastair said:
I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
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So basically, you are saying the some players will go where they can get paid the most? That has always been the case.

If a player's primary priority is to win things, they will come to us.
 
alastair said:
I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
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I don't think you know anything about United in the transfer market, none of us really do, because we haven't found ourselves in a situation where we need to make big moves in the market, until perhaps now.

Though last time we went head to head with City for a player, we got him. I reckon we could go toe to toe with Chelsea. We've got both clubs beat all hands down if the player isn't a total mercenary, and actually wants to play for a club with prestige.
 
alastair said:
I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
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Well Chelsea blew the market open.. but yet we still Blew Money on Rooney, Carrick, Hargreaves, Berbatov and Tevez. The values haven't really changed so don't know where your going with that statement. Kind of blew it out your arse!!!
 
If Modric wants out he'll get out regardless of what Daniel Levy says to to the world, players have the power not the clubs, you can give him a 10 year contract tomorrow if he decides next week hes had enough and wants to play at a higher level theres feck all you can do to stop him, unless you want another Berbatov situation.
 
alastair said:
I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
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We can sign a player or two that they are also interested in once in a while, although what they've done to prices means we can no longer get anyone we want. For example, some time ago I would be confident of getting Sanchez AND a midfielder this Summer and probably pay around £15m for him and £20m for a truly world class midfielder, but their increased financial power and our decreased ability to spend money means we will likely have to give up on some players because they are being priced out, and we will have to pay circa £35m for either of them instead of both.
 
noodlehair said:
Hopefully Chelsea will get him, or he'll stay put.

We need a midfielder, but not one with even less bite than Carrick.

People at the moment have got a bit of a thing for midfielders who dick about and look clever on the ball, whilst almost never doing anything useful with it. I blame Wenger
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Largely agreed - thought it would be useful to have a player like him playing off the left and cutting in.

We lack a central midfielder with authority and bite, as you say, but also creatively I think we've missed a bit of spark in the final third this season - especially away from home.
 
Please god let this transfer happen!

Spuds had their day in the sun and are clearly still not good enough. But Luca is.

Time to leave the B-team and step up to the big time, son.

Join United. Feel what being a champion is like. ;)
 
Salvation said:
If anything, the second part of Alastair's post is easier to agree with than the first.
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Can you give examples of us 'being a force' in the transfer market, and us struggling to do so?
 
alastair said:
I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
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We never were able to automatically get all the players we wanted (see Shearer, Gascoigne, Cech and the rest of them).
 
I think any sane player would prefer a move to OT over any club in the country. But money eh? plays a huge part.
 
Apart from Torres, Chelsea haven't tended to sign many players from inside the Premiership in the last couple of years. I expect Modric would pick United as his prefered choice, because let's face it, to work under SAF at United is the best chance of success. Plus he has seen Carrick and Berbatov make the step in recent years and turn into world class players
 
Brwned said:
Can you give examples of us 'being a force' in the transfer market, and us struggling to do so?
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In England, there was a time when United made and broke all transfer records and no other club in the Premiership could compete with. Even in Europe, probably second only to Real. That construes as being a force.

It no longer is the case now with Chelsea and City. Cases in point being Robben, Cech, Essien, Tevez. Which is struggling to do so.
 
The guy in the studio with Knapp and Souness said something about us making a move for Modric during the celebrations.
 
alastair said:
I don't think you'll compete with City or Chelsea any longer - gone are the days when if United wanted a player, they'd automatically get him. That's not to say you're not an attractive club, but more that the competition has increased. If Modric put in a transfer request, would he definitely go to United? Five years ago, yes, now, no. In my view, of course.
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Last time we went head to head with City for a player, we won, and got Bebatov.
 
Salvation said:
In England, there was a time when United made and broke all transfer records and no other club in the Premiership could compete with. Even in Europe, probably second only to Real. That construes as being a force.

It no longer is the case now with Chelsea and City. Cases in point being Robben, Cech, Essien, Tevez. Which is struggling to do so.
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I'm pretty sure we spent over £30m on a player a couple of years ago, and he's the only big name player we've felt compelled to buy (and the only position we've really needed to spend big money in)? And I think that was when we bought a player that City wanted to buy, and a player that is currently at this club.
 
Brwned said:
We're the ones holding the current British transfer record aren't we? And I think that was when we bought a player that City wanted to buy, and a player that is currently at this club.
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Torres to Chelsea is the British transfer record. Andy Carroll also went for more.

I think Berba got gazumped by Robinho as the British transfer record on the same day as well.
 
Salvation said:
Depends on the definition of sane, Spoony. I'd say footballers who opt for money over success are saner in the longer run considering a professional's shelf life.
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It does indeed depend on the definition of sane. Shocking as it may be for you to hear, there really are people in the world who have priorities in life other than earning as much money as humanly possible. I tend to think they're more sane than those who care about nothing more than the size of their pay-cheque.
 
Ole'sbodyguard said:
Torres to Chelsea is the British transfer record. Andy Carroll also went for more.

I think Berba got gazumped by Robinho as the British transfer record on the same day as well.
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Yeah I wasn't quite sure about the Robinho transfer, I think it stayed undisclosed? I just completely forgot about the other two for some reason!
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It does indeed depend on the definition of sane. Shocking as it may be for you to hear, there really are people in the world who have priorities in life other than earning as much money as humanly possible. I tend to think they're more sane than those who care about nothing more than the size of their pay-cheque.
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This attitude will never make a mod rich
 
180K a week or 280K a week. Christ, they'd be struggling to get by on the former wouldn't they?

I always wanted to play for United. In fact, I was well and truly deluded at one point.
 
Brwned said:
I'm pretty sure we spent over £30m on a player a couple of years ago, and he's the only big name player we've felt compelled to buy (and the only position we've really needed to spend big money in)? And I think that was when we bought a player that City wanted to buy, and a player that is currently at this club.
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After Berbatov, United did seem to make moves for Benzema, Villa and Sneijder and neither were fruitful. Tevez went to City over United.
 
Pogue Mahone said:
It does indeed depend on the definition of sane. Shocking as it may be for you to hear, there really are people in the world who have priorities in life other than earning as much money as humanly possible. I tend to think they're more sane than those who care about nothing more than the size of their pay-cheque.
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:confused: What does that impromptu life-lesson have to do with the discussion?
 
Salvation said:
After Berbatov, United did seem to make moves for Benzema, Villa and Sneijder and neither were fruitful. Tevez went to City over United.
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Tevez probably had no say in his move to City. Just like he's most likely not got any say in his next move... to where ever. Show me the money, baby.
 
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