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Chris Perry
14m from who? BBC sport / guardian saying Saudi Sportswashing Machine have given up on buying Townsend.
At whichever club paid me (or more pertinently my agent) the most money.
You are preaching to the converted. I agree with your points completely. However the player will sign for the club offering the most money in almost every instance, especially if the money on offer from a particular club is a lot higher than their offer elsewhere. You also have to consider that in many instances the player's ego is typically big enough for them to think that they will walk into the team at the new club anyway.That would depend on age/intelligence
- footballers need to play through certain years to develop, Cheat$ki, Citi, United, Pool have basically caused career genocide for a huge list of "next best things"
- 27-30, sure, show me the money is the rule, but that is typically not who we are targeting anyway.
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- don't think Martinez was ever real
- 14 for Townsend would be brilliant, just hope we spend it on someone coming in
14m from who? BBC sport / guardian saying Saudi Sportswashing Machine have given up on buying Townsend.
Who is Martinez?
The player/manager at Everton.
Jackson.... 29 year old Colombian centre forward that Athletico Madrid paid Porto 35 million euros for about 7 months ago. He has since scored 2 goals in 11 games.Who is Martinez?
To be fair to him it was 3 seasons in a row and not just the single season.No, Jackson Martinez. The crap Colombian forward, who had a 'Marco Negri season' in Portugal, and then has completely flopped in Spain.
To be fair to him it was 3 seasons in a row and not just the single season.
While he hasn't exactly been a success in Spain (only 2 league goals until now this season) I think it is a little unfair to call him a 'flop' already, I think he has only started 9 games so far. I can't dispute that Athletico overpaid for him however. Looks like he may become as expensive a mistake for them as Soldado was for us (both players cost about the same in £s).
Hmmmm - I think you might be making up your own history here? In Defoe's second last season at Spurs under Redknapp he scored 16 goals and was a key part of Redknapp's squad. Modric and VDV then left the club and AVB brought in Soldado and put him in the team instead of Defoe (great move that!)He also looked dreadful for Colombia in the WC. It was like watching Defoe at the end with us in the same team as vdV, Modric and Bale - the whole attack was operating on a completely different level to him.
Hmmmm - I think you might be making up your own history here? In Defoe's second last season at Spurs under Redknapp he scored 16 goals and was a key part of Redknapp's squad. Modric and VDV then left the club and AVB brought in Soldado and put him in the team instead of Defoe (great move that!)
Even having been relegated from the team and playing only the cup games/making appearances as sub Defoe managed to score 10 goals in 22 games in the first half of that season under AVB.
Perhaps when thinking about a dreadful player to compare Martinez to you're confusing Defoe with Soldado?....
Read another board a regular poster claiming ITK on Dembele agreeing personal terms with us
I love the way how you constantly cling to this crap about (our biggest waste of money ever) Soldado "having a football brain", while belittling the contribution of the 5th highest goalscorer in the history of our great club.Ade and Rafa started every game that mattered. Defoe was last 15 minute cameos and easy cup games.
Soldado at least had a footballing brain. He was frustrating because it should have worked. Defoe was frustrating because he didn't have the tools
Thinking about this one a bit more - I wonder whether Athletico might be open to letting us have Martinez on loan for the rest of the season? He must be on very large wages and is not really getting in the team there, so a shop window loan with a reasonable loan fee could be a goer?
Would allow us to cover Kane, have a proven goalscorer on the bench if we need to chase a game and we could then buy Dembele and leave him at Fulham for the rest of the season.
I love the way how you constantly cling to this crap about (our biggest waste of money ever) Soldado "having a football brain", while belittling the contribution of the 5th highest goalscorer in the history of our great club.
The only thing that was frustrating was the fact that Soldado's "footballing brain" wasn't big enough to achieve the twin target of getting the football over the goal line, while also ensuring it went between the two goalposts!
Defoe was 10 times the player for Spurs that Soldado was.... In fact that is a bit harsh... He was more like 20 times the player Soldado was. The only thing that is frustrating is that people like you choose to demean the contribution that Defoe made for us, instead of that of our biggest waste of money ever.