It is irrelevant if Levy isn't selling. If he's 100% sure that Modric isn't going for less than £40m and won't listen to offers lower than that, it's tough shit.
Luka Modric / Signs for Real Madrid
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It's not practical to run a football club like that though. If your top players despise you because you lock them into their deals and reject good offers for them then other players, players like Hazard, for example, are going to think twice before joining Tottenham, because they don't want to be the Luca Modric of 2015.
As was the case with Ronaldo.
If United and Arse can't keep Ronnie and Fabregas more than one season against their will, I don't see how or why Spurs would.
It would be self-destructive to keep Modric against his will again in the face of bids from clubs who are looking to double his wages and offer him chances for trophies.
Levy and Spurs would be wise to cash in for anything around £30m.
Exactly 30m for Modric is good money, money they could easily spend getting the much needed centre forward they've been crying out for for the last god knows how many years (probably since they sold Keane & Berbatov)
My inner muppet says 50mil plus Berbatov for Sandro and Modric.
I think Fergie could make Sandro into a top player.
I think Fergie could make Sandro into a top player.
I'd take Dembele over Sandro actually I'd take Parker over Sandro, really dont see what the fuss is about him
It would be unwise of Spurs to keep Modric against his will for another year. The player would feel justified in dogging it, and there would be a huge risk of bad feeling poisoning the dressing room.
If he still wants to leave, and they get a decent offer - £30M+ - even Levy will probably let him go.
If he still wants to leave, and they get a decent offer - £30M+ - even Levy will probably let him go.
What a wierd dilemma he would be in though. He could possibly be leaving spurs to join chelski but there would be a chance he would be leaving a team headed for CL football for a team thats out of it.
I wonder how much influence that would have on his decision to leave the club or not. Or maybe money talks.
Well he sure as hell isn't headed to Chelsea or Arsenal. City don't need him, and are we going to stump up?
He's staying at Spurs
He's staying at Spurs
he could head to chelsea if they beat Bayern.
As for City not needing him, that wont really stop them. Besides they could just get rid of De jong who wont sign a new contract.
De Jong is a defensive midfielder, they will replace him with a defensive midfielder not playmaker. They've been in the market for one for a while and will eventually land one in the Summer I guess. Modric would have to take Yaya's place and that isn't going to happen.
Modric to United will not happen lads. Too expensive an I now feel a little too old.
Move on.
Move on.
Agreed. If he was 25, maybe we could push the boat out but we won't at his age. No resale value makes the Glazers no happy...
He's 26 not 34.
What has resale value got to do with it? Since when did we start selling our best players at the age of 29 or 30?
Nobody knows what the Glazers views are. Or how much input, if any, they have into who we sign.
That's KingMingers's specialty
Any quality player under 25 will sign for City.
Any quality player over 25 will not sign for United, as the "Glazers" won't sign for resale value despite us signing Young last season when he was nearly 26.
Or Berbatov.
stfu about resale value ffs he is 26 not 102.
1) Not true
2) He's 26, with several years left staying at peak.
3) IF
4) That's unknowable ... just as it was unknowable that Man. Utd would win nothing this season.
5) Again IF. He got squashed flat last time he kicked up a fuss and he still has 4 years left on his contract. With a lucrative contract increase on offer - and IF we qualify for the CL - his incentive for kicking up a fuss is a lot less now than it was last summer.
I'm not saying that Modric won't be sold this summer, but once again you can bet it will take an eye-watering offer to persuade Levy ... especially if we qualify for CL group stages where the potential earnings are huge and a player like Modric will be key.
United have briefed the papers several times about their transfer strategy since the Berbatov deal. This strategy was agreed between the Glazers, Gill and Sir Alex. Of course most of the papers ignore the information, linking us to a number of high priced older players which we are forever on the verge of signing but surprisingly, never quite manage to do the deal.
Personally, I can't see why United would be interested in Modric even at a more sensible price. We already have Anderson and Cleverley who can perform the role to a similar standard.
Modric is quite possibly the best true CM in the Prem. 30m may be your idea of good money, but I strongly doubt Levy shares the same view.
Besides Spurs can easily afford to sign a quality striker without selling Modric or any other star player.
Not practical? It's doubtful that Spurs have finished in the top 4 if they'd sold Modric last summer - Levy was smart enough to realise that the profit to be gained from selling Modric was outweighed by the potential earnings from CL football if we could qualify (and we still might).
The arguments put forward on here by some are truly amazing and amount to saying that Spurs will be better off by selling their best players when they don't need to either financially or contract-wise.
We're a football club. Football clubs progress by keeping their best players and adding new ones.
Why haven't you then?
So we're going for the 25 and a half sweet spot?
Got a feeling we will pay 35 mill for this guy as our major summer signing. Fergie is a huge fan and will go for him but don't be surprised if shitty try to gazump us.
I will be.
We won't sign both him and Kagawa and Kagawa looks like a priority now. Rightly so because between Modric for £30m+ and Kagawa for around £10m the choice is simple.
They don't play the same position though.
Exactly! If Kagawa was a central midfielder then happy days but he isn't.
Because it's much harder to attract the better players without CL football to offer.
You had UCL football last season and you didn't get anyone then either.
As I said earlier whether you are in the Champions League or not is irrelevant in such cases, it just so happens that title chasing sides are normally in the Champions League but the reverse, that a team in the Champions League by default of that position is challenging for the title is never necessarily true. Tottenham are tentatively in the competition but are not likely at all to be in the title race next season, as such if you are unable to attract the best players that will be the reason why.
We Still need a player like him, I'm feed up of Rooney trying to be that player. Sticking him up top and make him score 30+ thats what we need from him.
He did that this season playing the role he has done
this.
It has been widely reported that since the Berba deal we are not looking to invest big money in older players.
Yeah he did kind off. Shame he created nothing for others though. Which is my main point.
Except you won't pay a quality strikers wage demands
There are good quality strikers out there earning less, or no more, than Spurs would pay them.
Add in the lure of playing in the Prem, living in London, playing in the CL (if we qualify), playing alongside some very good players, having a new training complex (opening this summer) that's as good as any in Europe ... and we are an attractive prospect for many.
You might have said the same for quality players in other positions ... but that didn't stop us signing Modric, VdV, Bale, Sandro, Walker etc.
Yay Glaston is back to tell us why Spurs will win the league next season. Again. 