Didn't he just leave with the Spurs squad for pre season?
Luka Modric / Signs for Real Madrid
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Spurs react to Modric's transfer request :
Any truth to these reports?
Harry is so fecking quick to give a media interview.
Aren't people getting bored of constantly using that picture yet? Hmm, guess not.
Aren't you bored of always having something to argue about?
Yep, but there's plenty of scope for constant SSN updates, for example:
* Modric steps off plane in S. Africa
* Modric steps on team coach outside airport
* Modric arrives at team hotel S. Africa
* Modric is brushing his teeth in preparation for getting into his jim jams and going to bed.
It's all riveting stuff.
SSN is a nightmare, a yellow ticker this morning "Luka Modric arrives in South Africa"
Next it will be "Luka Modric transfered himself to Chelsea on FIFA 11"
Robbed from twitter...
Luka's transfer request
Luka's transfer request
I can't stand Levy and Redknapp, horrible cnuts.
Robbed from twitter...
Luka's transfer request
"No like play with tall circus man"
Oh, poor Glaston.
Whether he stays or not, I don't see how the transfer request makes it any more likely that Modric will leave? He's already told Levy he wants to leave, he's been spouting off in the media for 3 weeks or so now that he wants to leave.
How exactly does putting that request, that every man and his dog already knows about, into writing change anything?
Has it now gone from 'I want to leave' to 'I WANT TO LEAVE'? Levy will be cowed I'm sure.
It Doesn't change a thing. He'll be at Spurs unless he starts acting like a child and generally brings down the team.
Actually, what happened when we sold Berbatov and Keane was an 11th place finish, following an appalling start to the season. Then an 8th place finish, following an even worse start to the season.
If you have a little glance at our current front four, you'll realise that we haven't signed someone 'almost as good'.
You seem to be insistent on this theory that if we dare hold onto Modric, good players won't want to join us in the future. Players go where the money lies and where they think they can play. Its quite clear we're not actually putting Modric in the reserves (like I said, we don't even have a fecking reserves team) and that we'd only put him on the bench if he played like shit. If he's still here 1st September, he'll knuckle down and play.
What I am more worried about is what players, current and potential, will think if we sell another top player at the first sign of another club coming along? Why would Bale, VDV, Sandro want to stay if we take one step forward, 7 steps back? Why would good potential players want to join us if other clubs offer similar money but are clearly more ambitious?
Not to mention the fact that you and many others seem to be missing. It is Chelsea.
More than selling Modric - Spurs players should be questioning why they aren't able to bring in a very good striker. If the club is in such a good position financially then the one thing the club needs is a goal scorer and Spurs don't seem to be bending over backwards to make that happen and if they are and none of the top strikers want to come to Spurs - then that in itself begs the question is how will Spurs compete for CL spots if they can't score goals? And as importantly stop conceding goals as there need for reinforcement in defense.
I know Tribalfootball is a horrible source for football news, but Alex, Sturridge and Mikel could make things really interesting. In fact, Spurs would be a lot better with 3 of them being more than capable of starting for Tottenham, as well as addressing the lack of depth in their squad.
GlastonSpur, would you do a deal for the three of them?? Honest reply please.
Alex and Sturridge plus cash would be big for Spurs. They'd address defensive and striker need plus have cash to reinforce further. Harry should be biting their hand off for a deal like that.
They're going to lose him sooner or later so it would be a good deal for them.
is it any safer in here compared to the floundering sneijder thread, can we sign modric? is there any hope? what say you tards?
Stay loyal to Sneijder bloody hell.
Top players go where the big money is and a realistic chance to win trophies is. Tottenham offer neither. Spurs made it into the CL once and with ever increasing competition for the top four places your chances of getting back into it, let alone establishing yourselves as a consistent CL participant are very small. Modric knows it, and so do others.
It's not as simple as that. Of course Tottenham can force Modric to stay and fulfill his contract. No team wants to sell its key players, especially if they harbor big ambitions, like Spurs. Problem is, player power is something every club has to deal with these days. Every footballer out there would view this situation from the player's point of view because any one of them can potentially end up in the same boat as Modric, so to speak.
If Spurs were consistently in the CL, winning or at least competing for trophies on a regular basis and paid competitive wages, most of their players would have no problem sticking around and ignoring the outside interest. But that's clearly not the case.
Wait till you fail to make it into the CL next year and see how content Bale and VDV will be with their careers.
No.I know Tribalfootball is a horrible source for football news, but Alex, Sturridge and Mikel could make things really interesting. In fact, Spurs would be a lot better with 3 of them being more than capable of starting for Tottenham, as well as addressing the lack of depth in their squad.
GlastonSpur, would you do a deal for the three of them?? Honest reply please.
I prefer the long-term gain that's achieved by forcing Modric to stay and thus crushing "player-power" syndrome at Spurs. Otherwise we'll remain locked in a destructive cycle that will see, at the first sign of choppy water, additional players (e.g. perhaps Bale and Sandro next summer) imagining they can leave whenever they want.
Enforcing the club's authority is priceless is so many ways. When that long-term gain is coupled with keeping Modric as part of one of the very best midfields in the Prem, then it's a no-brainer for me.
its a witch-hunt you know....
I'm more interested in the here and now, which includes watching with amusement as Chelski flail around desperately in pursuit of the unattainable, against the backdrop of a crocked Essien and an ageing Lampard.
Hopefully you'll keep up this futile, increasingly panic-stricken exercise all summer, whilst your other options dwindle away one by one.
I kind of hope that happens as well and we give our youngsters a chance.
I'm not talking about signing the established world class players, of course we're not going to be signing those players. There's only so many players the top clubs can sign though. I'm talking about players like Modric, Bale and Sandro, when we first signed them. Big potential but none of the top clubs were willing to take a risk on them for the prices we were. It is these players I am talking about, not players on the level of Modric or higher.
I have said multiple times in this thread, for me, its not simply about 'player power'. It is the attempts by Modric to engineer a move to a close rival. Seemingly engineering a move with said club to take other clubs out of the running and lower the price that they have to bid.
I am not saying I expect to hold onto all our players, especially without CL or offering big wages. But I certainly do not expect us to bend over as soon as someone comes along offering a fiver, especially when that someone is a local rival. Modric the slave can bear the pain of playing in North London for another season.
And I really don't think players are that intelligent. If we come along and offer 20k a week to a spotty 20 year old Croatian/Argentinian/Englishman, he'll follow that. He won't care in the slightest how we've treated former players. Same with managers. AVB didn't mind screwing over the club he's supported as a kid to follow the money. Ramos didn't mind coming to Spurs, in full knowledge of the way that Jol was being treated at the time. And future players will do likewise, simply follow whoever dangles the most cash in front of their noses.
so i guess we dont stand a chance with modric at all then? feck it
Back to the Sneijder thread!
Back to the Sneijder thread!
Are you Peterstorey by any chance?
I don't have a monopoly on despising you pathetic cnuts. Most of the league is at it.
Your vocabularies are strangely similar...
No point in mining the 800,000 words in the OED when 'cnuts' springs appositely to mind.
Am I the only one here that respects their stance with Modric?
It's just the typical Levy play of make them hand in a transfer fee, waive the rights to part of the fee and make him look like the good guy.
I still want us to bid for him, that £35m that is apparently going on Sneijder would be much better spent on Luka.
I still want us to bid for him, that £35m that is apparently going on Sneijder would be much better spent on Luka.
I respect Spur's stance on the whole fiasco but would Modric staying really benefit the team? Seriously, it is a cycle that would repeat again and again, as long as Spurs are not capable of challenging seriously for the league title and CL qualifications. From the looks of things currently, it's almost certain the 4th CL spot would be a fight between Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs. There is no incentive in a huge cash outlay from the transfer of Modric as Spurs are simply not capable of attracting top quality players. What would do best is to insist on a few squad players from Chelsea to boost their overall quality, yet spending some money on up and coming players from clubs of similar stature, or even worldclass players looking to resurrent their careers elsewhere, ala VDV. Only then could they be taken seriously as a contendor and keep their current crop of players happy and ambitions fulfilled.
Think most respect it - it's their right to. Whether it's the smart thing to do long run for them is in question. Especially if the verbal agreement was made.
I can't help but feel Modric deserves all he's getting now. Which idiot goes on to sign a long term new contract with only verbal assurances of leaving, when you should know that quite a few clubs will be interested in you in the summer (the noises were already there during the season)
Not saying you are wrong, but your views are very idealistic which isn't practical in the real world. I mean, right now, the immediate goal of Spurs is to establish themselves as a genuine and consistent team in the Champions League. A player like Modric, while superb, is more of a luxury than a necessity for Spurs. By that, i mean should the sale of Modric, comes with the likes of Alex, Sturridge and Mikel in return, then Redknapp should grab it. Modric is a starter for a title winning team, but there is no point in having a worldclass player in one position, while remaining relatively weak in the 8 other positions (except Bale, Sandro, Dawson). I think the smart thing at this juncture is to rob Chelsea of as many players whom are capable of bringing up the overall quality of Spurs in as many positions as possible, and use the existing transfer funds to seek a replacement. Afterall, replacing Modric in midfield is a lot easier than having quality players of all postions accepting to play for Spurs, if you know what i mean. Simply put, if the sale of Modric means losing a start midfielder, but gaining a starter defender, midfielder and striker in return, it would be a +2 in overall terms.
IMO people should be a bit careful when they state that Spurs should let him leave and they understand all what Modric is doing. First, he has a long term contract with the club, and that should be the first thing to respect. 2nd, let us just remind ourselves to the Ronaldo saga when we also claimed that Ronaldo should stfu and honor his contract and cant force a move away.