Maybe we've just been told by Modric's agent that he isn't interested in signing for us?
Luka Modric / Signs for Real Madrid
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Yeah that's the most likely scenario. He preferred Chelsea over us last summer, he certainly has no great desire to join us.
This isn't the issue, because Modric has no choice in the matter in any case.
I've already said (in this thread) that Levy has long since determined that Modric won't be sold to a Prem rival club, whether it's you, Chelski or anyone else competing for a top 4 finish.
Just sell him to Real for £30-35m and we will buy Sahin from Real for £15m - good business all round.
but Levy being Levy means he will try to get water out of a stone.
but Levy being Levy means he will try to get water out of a stone.
Benzema in goal? Ozil at centre back? Khedira up front?? Not to mention that's 12 players!!
:trollface:
So if United bid £50 million and Real bid £30 million, Levy would reject the higher bid out of principle?
Levy is a business man first and foremost and will look to get the very best price for your football club regardless of where that bid comes from.
I'm intrigued by how Glastonspur has such an insight into the mind of Daniel
Levy. Glaston, what is Levy's favourite colour?
Levy. Glaston, what is Levy's favourite colour?
Lilywhite
United can't afford to bid 50m and Levy won't sell to RM for just 30m, so your question is entirely academic.
I know that United wouldn't bid that much, the question was purely hypothetical.
Ok, lets say City bid £50 million for Modric, would Levy reject that because they play in the same division?
I understand it's a pride thing to not sell to another team in the league but it's not like we're rivals...
Gold.
Benzema in goal? Ozil at centre back? Khedira up front?? Not to mention that's 12 players!!
:trollface:
ten players, trollface failed.
I'd hope it is this and not financial constraints.
Fergie has had to get used to a lot of rejection these past few years with our wage cap and our rivals deep pockets. Bizarre really. To think it would be like this 5 years ago!
Yeah, sure.
Benzema in goal? Ozil at centre back? Khedira up front?? Not to mention that's 12 players!!
:trollface:
I don't care what he says either, fat Ronaldo is past it, and he'd never make a Left Back anyway.
That would depend on how much any club outside the PL had bid in comparison. If the gap was huge then Levy would have to think hard ... or decide not to sell at all.
What I'm essentially saying is that there is a minimum price for Prem rivals - a price that's designed to deter bids - and another (lower) minimum price for clubs outside of the Prem.
In other words, in this instance Levy is prepared if necessary to take a financial hit in order to sell outside the Prem.
But come the event I don't think he'll actually need to take a hit - and we shall very soon see - because I don't think a Prem club will bid more than what has already been bid from elsewhere.
DO YOU DOUBT THE ALL CONQUERING POWER OF LEVY?!!!
Are PSG still linked, or is just Real? Regardless I doubt Real Madrid will be pushed beyond £30m - he won't be a player they'll go out to get at any price imho.
I doubt that Levy (or AVB) agree with this view any more, and perhaps you under-estimate the scope of ambition at Spurs.
Times change ...
So often on this board there are MUFC muppets who reckon they know what is (and what isn't) going to happen with particular Spurs players - when they'll be sold, who they'll be sold to and how much for.
They only want to hear what they want to hear. And so they never listen -and rail against it - when I relay the true situation. Some even make foolish bets against what's been relayed.
What I said about Berbatov proved right two summers running. What I said about Modric proved right last summer. And what I've relayed about Modric this summer will prove right again.
Take it or leave it ... I'm not much bothered either way, and anyhow we'll see what happens within a short while.
That's because you're talking bollocks. The reason why Modric won't leave for another PL side won't be that he has no choice. We were never going to sign him and Chelsea came in too late last Summer and were quoted too high a price so they opted for cheaper alternatives.
And why would it make any difference to you if he was sold to City or United? They're not Spurs competitors.
Bollocks you did GlastonSpurs. You said Berbatov wouldn't be sold... and if he did it'd be over your dead body. Or something.
You've always spread lies. Always.
If we got him now, it would be so shockingly orgasmic and so unexpected.
Every year we hope for a top central midfielder, and Fergie decides to troll us.
In this case though, I think it's way beyond what the glazers are willing to give him.
Every year we hope for a top central midfielder, and Fergie decides to troll us.
In this case though, I think it's way beyond what the glazers are willing to give him.
You're so full of shit GS.
Are you a bit "special"?
As for Modric, for the money it would take to get him, I hope we pass.
What gives you so much more insight to the workings of Tottenham and Levy himself, over and above those 'MUFC muppets.'
Sure, you watch Spurs play, but how does give any more insight into what's going to happen off the pitch, in terms of the financial dealings? I'm sure that anyone here with an opinion on what's going to happen to Modric, has read as many, if not more, 'transfer news' on Tottenham, as you have.
Or are you 'in-the-know?'
By the way, I love your choice of diction. 'Relay' which indicates you are actually carrying a legitimate message from your ITKness, to us (as it means literally, receive and pass on (information)).. You sound as if you are the brave and important messenger, Hotspur (Henry Percy) himself, who relays the decisions of the King (Levy), to all of us fat peasants (Falstaffs).
You might want to curtail your ITK aura.
Relay makes it sound as if you have received, and then passed on legitimate information. When in reality, it's just your hunch (or ITK).
The thing is Glaston, it's hard to take any prediction you make or any opinion you have seriously if it involves Spurs, because it always favours them so it's not made because you're wise or know your stuff, it's just because you always favour Spurs and you'll be bound to be correct some of the time.
If you were at least balanced in your views then some of us could take you seriously then.
If you were at least balanced in your views then some of us could take you seriously then.
Finally, someone else who shares my views on the matter!
I'd love Modric at the club, he's perfect for us.
But...
He isn't worth 40million and frankly if we had 40million to spend i'd rather buy 2 cheaper alternatives and get a CM and a LB. It all seems like a moot point anyway as Modric seems Madrid bound.
they are actually 12, math failed
10 in the team, go suck a feck.
Awfully difficult to get a quality midfielder for 20-25 million, that can do what Modric can do. You're paying for proven class, and a player whose reaching his peak years, proven in your own league. A player that can play in a way that few midfielders in the world can play. Plus, the ones who can, even if they are a bit better, are all off the market, and probably too old anyway.
Yes, LB and CM are our problem position, and you can argue that getting a 'carrick' type (defensively sound DLP) player to provide cover for carrick (for which, like the LB position, we have no cover for), and also the same player could play alongside carrick. i.e. Instead of a playmaker like scholes (Modric), we get another defensively sound DLP (i.e. Martinez, Song) who can both cover for and play alongside carrick (Modric can only do the latter), but Modric would be so jizztastic when with Carrick (More so than a Javi Martinez), that it would be worth at around 30~m, even for us.
I don't see how a Moutinho type player would benefit us more. He'd cost around 25 million quid, slightly lower wages, but unproven in PL, and probably lower quality than Modric anyways Plus, Moutinho is just 366 days younger than Modric. From what you guys have said about him, he's a class below him anyways. That's what you get for 20-25 (Even though it is Porto, who squeeze every clubs balls even more so than Spurs).
Javi Martinez 32 million too. You just can't win in todays market; you need to spend high.
Not true, just as most such attempts to put words in my mouth are not true.
The first summer of real Berbatov-to-MUFC speculation I said he wouldn't be sold - and he wasn't. In the following summer I said he'd only be sold if the price was very, very high, much higher than bollox-prices being mooted by the majority of Caftards.
Go back and check the threads if you don't believe it: either put up or shut up.
Both times I took a lot of flak for my assertions, but both times events proved me right.
Mere assertion doesn't make it so. Where's the evidence?
Prices quoted for Berbatov transfer on the Caf were mostly around £25m which everyone thought we were going to pay for him. We ended up paying 20% more which isn't much higher to be fair.
One of the Spanish TV channels (Cuatro) reckons that a deal is close, with negotiations going on today between Real Madrid and Spurs. Somewhere around 40m (though there seems to be some debate whether that's £s or €s )
If Levy has decided that he won't sell to a PL club, then it's pretty damn obvious that Modric has no choice in the matter: it's Levy who holds Modric's contract and not the other way around.
I've no idea what you mean by "we were never going to sign him". Fergie's admiration for Modric is well known and you've one of the highest incomes in football.
And as for Chelski, they didn't come in "too late" (in fact their interest was signalled pretty much as as soon as the season ended), but they did waste their entire summer pursuing the unobtainable. Nor were they "quoted" a price, whether high or low, because Levy simply had zero interest in selling to them. Levy just said was "not interested" in response to any and all offers that Chelski made.
But in any case, we're supposed to be talking about this summer, not last year's.
PS. You may regard Spurs as a non-competitor if you wish. Such a view cuts no ice with anyone at Spurs ... and in this instance it's the Spurs view that counts.
Around about the time when Essien fecked us off to join Chelsea, Robben did the same and Ronaldinho cock-teased us before signing for Barca.
Not to mention Shearer and Gascoigne turning us down long before that.
Aye, who would have thought we could ever miss out on a transfer target 5 years ago - back when we always got exactly when we wanted.
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