I suppose our scouts and Southamptons will be seeing a lot of each other for the next year or two...
Sitting on my porcelain throne using Fapatalk
Tottenham scouts were at Benfica’s game against Vitoria Guimaraes on Saturday evening, with Nico Gaitan rumoured to be the target of the scouting mission.
The Argentina international, aged 26, has been frequently linked with a move to Spurs in recent months, with Manchester United also credited with a long-standing interest in signing him.
It was the north Londoners who were keeping tabs on Gaitan yesterday. Champions Benfica emerged with a 3-0 victory.
Portuguese newspaper O Jogo reports that representatives from Spurs were present at the game, with Barcelona, Bayer Leverkusen, Sevilla, AC Milan, Everton and Southampton scouts also in attendance.
This is the best I could find. It is normally a very solid news source.Any chance of a URL?
On 11 November 2014, he extended his contract with Benfica until 30 June 2018 and set a buyout clause of €35 million.
http://www.slbenfica.pt/noticias/de...renovou-contrato-com-SL-Benfica-ate-2018.aspx
So, no chance in hell that will happen unless we sell off quite a bit first.
What kind of player is Gaitan?
dangerous winger, quick, low centre of gravity. Done well against us last year for Benfica and he was only on for about 20 mins. but seriously hed improve us greatly and sort of player we should be going for.
Thought he went to Russia?
We won't be paying that kind of fee£23,000,000 and hed be ours
we had scouts at benfica watching gaitan.
yes please, what a player.
Starting to become more clear we aren't likely to buy anyone this window especially as we are almost half way through the window and haven't offloaded any dead wood
Starting to become more clear we aren't likely to buy anyone this window especially as we are almost half way through the window and haven't offloaded any dead wood
Potential buyers know our situation and will try to take advantage of it. Like Leicester's 3 million bid for Naughton. 5 or 6 will get him, but they'll try for less and time passes.
I don't think we were ever likely to buy anyone anyway (though I still have a feeling about Moreno, though again we probably want Chiriches and/or Kaboul out first).
But I agree it is a bit concerning none have gone and we are getting on for ½ way through - especially as there's up to 10 we need shot of. Fernandez banning Redknapp from buying anyone hasn't helped us.
I predict Naughton and Carroll to Swansea for about £12m will be the first outs. They'll need to do something to appease their fans, and while we have far worse players, these two are quite sellable due to their age and nationality.
If the story is true and 23M is the asking price you'd imagine he'd have to be better than, say, Depay.
Who would he play instead of? Chadli, Lamela or Townsend?