Luka Modric / Signs for Real Madrid

Chelsea probably backed away from this move after they signed Mata anyway, no point negotiating with stubborn Tottenham when Valencia just sold them an equally good player for much less than Tottenham would have asked for.
 
Shame. This guy was/is the perfect fit for us. High energy player with good technical ability and is better than what we already have in CM.

Fergie must not have wanted him, because if he did then money would have been no object in the pre-Glazer days for a player Fergie wanted.
 
GaryLifo said:
Shame. This guy was/is the perfect fit for us. High energy player with good technical ability and is better than what we already have in CM.

Fergie must not have wanted him, because if he did then money would have been no object in the pre-Glazer days for a player Fergie wanted.
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That is bullshit. We had plenty of restrictions pre Glazer.

As for Modric, the guy did not want to join us. He wanted Chelsea. Spurs refuse to sell anyway. It was impossible
 
If Chelsea had of pushed it Spurs would have sold him today for sure.

I was suspicious of Harry with what he said about Modric post City game. Seemed to me like he was lining him up for the sale by turning fans against him further. Modric may have asked to be dropped but it should have stayed private, why wasn't it?
 
Randall Flagg said:
That is bullshit. We had plenty of restrictions pre Glazer.

As for Modric, the guy did not want to join us. He wanted Chelsea. Spurs refuse to sell anyway. It was impossible
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Well we've been told many times there is 180 million sat in the bank if the manager needs it. The manager hasn't signed that top class CM Scholes replacement he mentioned several times during the summer.

Ergo, the manager has decided he doesn't need/want a new CM or he does, but he isn't allowed to spend the cash required to get one of these players.

He has made two fantastic signings in Jones and Young who have slotted in like they've been here all their lives. He's also invested in the best goalkeeping prospect in Europe who will take a little longer to settle but I'm sure will be class.

We are still missing a top top class CM player in the calibre of a Scholes, Robson, Keane, Crerand etc that a club of our stature should always have room for.

It bothers me that we have not made a marquee signing in this position over the last 3 seasons.
 
None of that has anything to do with whether or not it was a lack of funds that prevented us signing Modric.

Unless you think Abramovic is just as stingy as the Glazers? I mean, Chelsea had the added advantage of the player actually wanting to play for them. If they couldn't seal the deal we had absolutely no chance, Glazers or no Glazers.
 
GaryLifo said:
It bothers me that we have not made a marquee signing in this position over the last 3 seasons.
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I think Veron and Berbatov has perhaps scared Fergie away from marquee signings.


Before anyone says that is my usual dig at Berbs. Its not, if anyone really thinks this is how Fergie thought it would turn out for him they are lying through their teeth
 
Spurs have got big problems with Modric IMO, because he's not going to just magically fix his attitude once the window closes. They should have squeezed Chelsea for forty million and improved their entire squad.
 
Well done Glaston, you called it, I got it wrong. On a break at the moment, will sort out a transfer through Paypal when I get back.
 
I'm guessing they didn't want a repeat of the berbatov transfer since it would damage the reputation of the club.
 
This is a shit move tbh...

ok, you keep him. What next?

He'll sulk. The team will suffer and he'll feck off in 6-12 months time.

Just sell him for 40 million and be done with it.
 
How close are they to getting the £40 million for fringe players Glaston told us they would get? He wasn't quite as keen to take a bet on that.
 
acnumber9 said:
How close are they to getting the £40 million for fringe players Glaston told us they would get? He wasn't quite as keen to take a bet on that.
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As far as I can recall, Glaston was never as clear cut as you appear to be suggesting on them getting £40m. In fact, I suspect the way he phrased it has turned out to be correct. I tried to find his quote but couldn't find it.

Crouch and Palacios to Stoke - 16-18m maybe
Hutton seems to be the on the way out - 3m
O'Hara went to Wolves - 6m ?
Robbie Keane - 3.5m
Bentley on loan so nothing for him
Giovanni not sure what's going on there
Jenas another loan deal so nothing unless a loan fee involved

That looks like at least 28.5m and could be over 30m once we know all the details.
 
kundalini said:
As far as I can recall, Glaston was never as clear cut as you appear to be suggesting on them getting £40m. In fact, I suspect the way he phrased it has turned out to be correct. I tried to find his quote but couldn't find it.

Crouch and Palacios to Stoke - 16-18m maybe
Hutton seems to be the on the way out - 3m
O'Hara went to Wolves - 6m ?
Robbie Keane - 3.5m
Bentley on loan so nothing for him
Giovanni not sure what's going on there

That looks like at least 28.5m and could be over 30m once we know all the details.
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Yeah, but he listed his 'fringe' and certainly Crouch and possibly Palacios weren't in it.
 
So how many people had a bet with Glaston? And how much will he make?

I wonder if everyone will pay up.
 
kundalini said:
As far as I can recall, Glaston was never as clear cut as you appear to be suggesting on them getting £40m. In fact, I suspect the way he phrased it has turned out to be correct. I tried to find his quote but couldn't find it.

Crouch and Palacios to Stoke - 16-18m maybe
Hutton seems to be the on the way out - 3m
O'Hara went to Wolves - 6m ?
Robbie Keane - 3.5m
Bentley on loan so nothing for him
Giovanni not sure what's going on there
Jenas another loan deal so nothing unless a loan fee involved

That looks like at least 28.5m and could be over 30m once we know all the details.
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No he was quite clear in his wording. He said Spurs will raise £40 million selling fringe players. I'm not sure a player who played most if there games last season can be called a fringe player either. Even with Crouch he was still nowhere near.
 
acnumber9 said:
No he was quite clear in his wording. He said Spurs will raise £40 million selling fringe players. I'm not sure a player who played most if there games last season can be called a fringe player either. Even with Crouch he was still nowhere near.
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Here is one of Glaston's many statements. I'll try to find some more. Added another.

GlastonSpur said:
The players that Harry will be looking to sell are the likes of O'hara, Keane, Naughton, Hutton, Bentley etc, plus one or two of our current strikers.

It's foolish to believe that Modric and Bale will be on offer and nor is there the slightest indication that either wishes to leave.

Both players will certainly be at Spurs next season .... barring some amazingly jaw-dropping bid from a mega-rich sugar-daddy club.
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GlastonSpur said:
As I've said already in this thread, this summer Spurs will be posting annual income results that will be something like 50% higher than their previous best.

This alone will provide plenty of spending cash (should Spurs choose to splash out), quite apart from the 40m+ that could - and probably will - be raised by selling off some of our fringe players/players who've been out on loan.

Spurs have zero need to raise cash by selling Modric.
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No need to get abusive. Some of us still believe in honouring agreements.
 
Team Brian GB said:
The biggest story that came out of deadline day as I am sure many will agree, is Redknapp seemingly confirming that they rejected a Chelsea offer of £40 Million for Modric.

I was always lukewarm bordering on happy that we were after him, but never hoping that we would get him. I think Tottenham has done us a big favour by turning that down because he cannot justifiably be valued at such a figure which if he joined us on would put huge pressure on him, and set a dangerous precedent for us in transfer sagas in the future.

The Arteta deal today has held my interest, especially the figure of £10 Million, whilst Modric is better than Arteta, is he worth four times as much as Arteta?

Tottenham turning down £40 Million for a midfielder wanting away is quite bizarre, when Arsenal caved for less than that on Fabregas and Man United were not willing to go that far on Sneijder - Nasri cost Man City nearly half of that. One thing is for sure, which is that they will not get that sort of offer again, just like Newcastle wouldn't get an offer of £35 Million for Carroll more than once.

I hope for Tottenham's sake they know what they are doing, not selling Modric for a huge fee, and not coming to terms with Bolton over what we can assume will be a difference of opinion of a few million for Cahill who would have strengthened them immeasurably. Not to mention that they are short on strikers.
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I suppose with him on £60k a week at Spurs, Chelsea didn't have to make a huge wage offer, so could afford to throw a bit more at spurs?
 
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