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Roberto Soldado

inkpenspur said:
I think this can be turned around... look how joining Spurs has lead to stellar things for former players... Berbatov to Man U, Modric to RM, Bale to.... this is a club that transforms players into megastars... I'll have some of that thanks very much.
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Yep, there are two sides to the tag "selling club"

The positive spin is, do you want to be the next Bale, Modric, Berbatov, Carrick? then Spurs is the place for you, vs. a City/Cheat$ki/etc where you are likely not to get game time and you career could stall.
 
Jeez, things can't be going well if even he doesn't know whats going on! Can't quite work out if what he said was a good thing or bad thing, either we've got him signed and told him not to say anything until we announce it or he is stalling to find out whether or not Bale will be here next season..
 
Raziel said:
Yep, there are two sides to the tag "selling club"

The positive spin is, do you want to be the next Bale, Modric, Berbatov, Carrick? then Spurs is the place for you, vs. a City/Cheat$ki/etc where you are likely not to get game time and you career could stall.
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ive said this elsewhere - it may not be the best view from a fans perspective but if you're a young player with potential a move to Spurs and the names which we have moved on to the highest level must appeal - the hope will be that we get enough of them together at one time to build a top top team ourselves
 
Tinneth said:
Jeez, things can't be going well if even he doesn't know whats going on! Can't quite work out if what he said was a good thing or bad thing, either we've got him signed and told him not to say anything until we announce it or he is stalling to find out whether or not Bale will be here next season..
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I doubt he doesn't know whats going on, just makes no sense to talk about it before it's completely closed. Older player with a little more sense and media savvy.
 
Maybe Bale has signed for Madrid but is still going to play and train with us, bit like Saldado...
 
DubaiSpur said:
Eh? Pre-2009, we had an average net spend of 16 million quid a season, if memory serves. With the reported fee being bandied around for Soldado (25.6 million quid), if we do sign him we'll probably hit the 50 million quid mark transfer-fee wise this summer. Now, do you honestly think that we won't be able to raise 34 million quid from the sales of Ade, Hudd, Parker, Gomes, Townsend (possibly) et al, plus the 25 million-odd increase in our TV revenue? We've already reportedly clawed in about 3.5 million quid as a sell-on fee for Dos Santos, so if we do shift all the aforementioned players out, we'll probably raise enough to allow us to use the new TV deal money to cover the rest, which will leave us as stable as we were before this summer. So I'm not at all worried about this deal financially. My only concern is that we can't just buy Soldado and expect him to last the entire season: getting another striker is essential, to ensure we don't end up with Defoe and Dempsey as our two forward options.
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I understand what you are saying but i am not talking about breaking even or balancing books. there are a multiitude of ways to do that, but i will say this though, why butcher your squad and try desperately to recoup money in the first place?

at what point have you actually known us to throw money away? We have always used our squad as a sort of security / bank. You start commiting funds of the magnitude to something that has all the likle hood of a downward trajectory then that basically means that what you have to start thinking about is damage control. even possible future earnings on the commodity...the value of the squad and therefore wealth of the club goes down day by day. you cant speculate upwards with people approaching 30.

i'll believe it when i see it personally but for all intents and purposes it looks like it is going to happen.

i would still be shocked
 
Bostock signed for us but trained with Palace for a month so I don't know how you can use that excuse :lol:
 
Kingdawson said:
Mumorn's source says Medical yesterday or today so still 4 hours to go.
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actually i was going to give you a holla about that

you know me. i enjoy a good spot of itk bashing as much as the next guy. to a point of illness i might add, but i have to say though that i dont see the need to attack one of ours

Mumorn is about as GG as anyone here...and if he says so. Then we really should take it on face value that he trusts his source

then there is the chance he is telling porkies. might as well laugh it off

i think both you guys have sort of boxed each other into corners somehow and neither of you want to back down

having said that Mumorns position is now heroic in that he is getting hounded by us ITK haters ...so he is already a martyr sticking his neck out.

if it doesnt come good, al people will focus on is him getting attacked. if it does happen!!! I think Mumorn will retire like Micheal jordans last shot against the Jazz in Byron's fudging FACE
 
Mumorn said:
Bostock signed for us but trained with Palace for a month so I don't know how you can use that excuse :lol:
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Not sure we risked a £25 million pound player playing kick abouts with his old team mates risking injury on this one though!!
 
africanspurs said:
actually i was going to give you a holla about that

you know me. i enjoy a good spot of itk bashing as much as the next guy. to a point of illness i might add, but i have to say though that i dont see the need to attack one of ours

Mumorn is about as GG as anyone here...and if he says so. Then we really should take it on face value that he trusts his source

then there is the chance he is telling porkies. might as well laugh it off

i think both you guys have sort of boxed each other into corners somehow and neither of you want to back down

having said that Mumorns position is now heroic in that he is getting hounded by us ITK haters ...so he is already a martyr sticking his neck out.

if it doesnt come good, al people will focus on is him getting attacked. if it does happen!!! I think Mumorn will retire like Micheal jordans last shot against the Jazz in Byron's fudging FACE
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What do you mean IF?

He said his source stated it would be announced Friday, Saturday or Sunday = Fail

He said his source stated the medical will be monday or Tuesday = Fail on monday and 4 hours from a fail today.


Those were the 2 bits of ITK and neither has happened.
 
Mumorn said:
pretty sure he's training alone.
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So Salvo said it aint done, Soldado doesn't know what's happening as everything is up in the air but 'Mumorn off GG' says different! TBF it looks like this one might happen but nothing you have said has happened yet, so to be confident in your ability is a big shout!!
 
bainz said:
So Salvo said it aint done, Soldado doesn't know what's happening as everything is up in the air but 'Mumorn off GG' says different! TBF it looks like this one might happen but nothing you have said has happened yet, so to be confident in your ability is a big shout!!
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Mumorn isn't the only one to say it's done, pretty much all the ITK are saying it's done.


Soldado said he wasn't allowed to comment, not that he didn't know what was happening.
 
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