When it's City or PSG arguments about value are basically irrelevant though aren't they. Their owners are a whole other tier of rich, to the point where even 150m is toy moneyOriginally Posted by -james-
When it's City or PSG arguments about value are basically irrelevant though aren't they. Their owners are a whole other tier of rich, to the point where even 150m is toy money
It'd make him the third most expensive player of all time behind Neymar and Mbappe.
Yeah but probably the 5th most expect by next year and the 8th in a couple of years. Prices are only going up.
Club captain, England captain, simply being English. It all adds up to a mental valuation.
I don't think this is true. Mbappe and Neymar were a few years ago now and quite unique cases. I reckon the Neymar record will stand for a long time.
Yeah I doubt it. Neymar was 2017 and the last fees in the top 10 are from 2019.
Money fell out of football's arse last year with no fans and rollover on TV rights. The situation has definitely changed.
Yet Arsenal pay fifty million pounds for a Brighton defender.
Billionaire owned Arsenal pay £50m for a highly rated 23 year old English defender. Brighton turned down £40m from Leeds last season I think?
Tottenham are fining Kane. Not sure what that's going to achieve.
Letting his representatives know they may think again.
That must be the first time 'billionaire owned Arsenal' has been used to justify them spending the big bucks.
They spent £72m on Pepe but only because they were having their pants down by the crafty Spaniard who brokered the deal.
I like to think of it as the evolution of those two guys pretending to be Herrera's agents.
Kane has chosen to do this at about the worst possible club.
He's got 3 years left of that 6 year deal he signed of his own free will. I get why he wants the move. He's 28 now and is starting to pick up more injuries as the time goes, so this is really his last chance of a mega move. Unfortunately for him, Levy will happily chain him up in the basement until something ludicrous gets put to him.
If he thought when he was 24 that Tottenham was a club going places, he really should have been reading the likes of me and Giggles on TTH all this time.
He always plays as well. At a club like Spurs, he hasn't really got cover. City can have someone capable deputise.
I predicted a few years ago that silly transfer fees would incentivise basketball/rugby contracts where players just sign for three years with extra years in their favour, but obviously the agents brains trust haven't twigged. What sort of idiot signs a basic six year deal at anywhere other than a Big Club or somewhere paying you overs on your way down?
It's a really bad idea to do this though because it will absolutely affect whether talented players want to join them in future.
Matheus Pereira has put out some Trashford essay tweet sayin he wants to leave and his manager is a cunt. Fucking hell, Jurgen, come the fuck on.
If you think Perreira is a monster than that's all I need to know about stat-driven transfer strategy.
It's nonsense anyway. Bale, Berbatov and Modric all pulled this trick and got their move. Levy has never (that I can think of)refused to sell in favour of letting the player rot in the reserves. It would make no sense for him to even entertain it. He's emotionless and pragmatic to a tedious extent.
I'd like to send personal thanks to Harry Kane for moving the circus on for a day.
All of those were when they weren't pretending to be a big club. Also, Modric hates Levy for the same reason Kane will: https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-a4528156.html
I mean, selling his best player to Chelsea is a no go for a Tottenham Chairman. He'd be lynched.
Is Joe Hart to Celtic at 15k a week good business?
I'm not quite getting 'hates' from that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58068429
This summer is going to be great if it just ends up being Chelsea and City throwing lol money at teams and still getting rejected.
£85m Lukaku bid rejected
Ah, proper formatting cost me the scoop.
This is why you're not tier 1, Niko.
I get all my transfer news via Niko and apparently Beckham is going to Madrid.
Kane bottling it and going into training
Look here you, I was lord of the Rumour Mill (god rest its soul) before Fabrizio Romano had even heard of the internet.
Lukaku was crap under Mourinho in part because he needs five chances to score, and Mourinhoball doesn't provide them. What does he want to be going to this dour Chelsea for?
Chelsea bidding £85 million for a prolific centre forward, what could possibly go wrong.
Eh? Chelsea’s problem is nobody can score any chances. They create more than most teams, Lukaku would have a field day against the minnows who they usually struggle with. Doubt he starts in their big games but I’m not sure they really need him for that.
Well the surgeons never got a chance to work their magic the first time and they're still aggrieved about it.
Kaio Jorge signing for Juventus while Ronaldo is still there is pretty mega for him.
I'm a twit
Good signing.
5.5 on FPL, we reckon?
I'm a twit
He looks like someone but I can't put my finger on it.
185cm Argie
To me he looks like a bustling all rounder with three ODI caps for India.
Diego Costa's better looking younger brother.
I think that's it. It's like he had a baby with Amir Khan.
Fabinho has signed a new 5 year deal at Liverpool
Oof
Muto’s off to Japan. At least he had a tidy finish against United once.
All the reliable reports about Pogba are saying United would rather keep him and lose him on a free next year than sell for less than 75m this summer
And this is bad because? If Pogba stays, he'll get used. They at least know what they have with him. If they sell him, they'll need a replacement. Is £75m getting them another Pogba before the window shuts?
Given we've spent, what, 5 years roundly failing to convincingly fit Pogba into the team I don't think "another Pogba" is a good idea (if one even exists).
£50m would definitely give us enough to get an upgrade on Fred or McTominay for the two behind Bruno.
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