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Transfer speculation

milo said:
I think that the only one that stacks up there is wages and i would hope that wouldn't be a problem with a youth player.

United have a history of selling to competitors and i don't see why, if we can agree the terms of a deal, they would be any more reluctant to sell to us than they would Chelsea or Arsenal.

I don't buy the United hate us because of Berbs or Mourinho has it in for us because of Modric. They were business deals and we were acting in the best interests of our club at the time. They might not have liked it but they will have understood it.

Our fans sound like paranoid, teenage, conspiracy theorists sometimes.
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Say that again when we actually buy someone from United. Until then, I won't stand corrected.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Massively unreliable journalist. Had an insight at Spurs when Baldini was our DoF, but no longer has any insight.

Alderweireld does indeed have a release clause in his contract, but it doesn't come into effect until Summer 2019 (when he has a year left on his deal) so it's not really worth the legal paper it is printed on.

My guess is that Toby will sign a new deal this Summer that will pay him around £100k a week.

Worth mentioning that this story is to fuel a rumour in the Italian media that Inter Milan want to sign Alderweireld and Walker. While I have no doubt that Inter would love both of them, I cannot see why any player would swap Spurs for Inter right now.
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Possibly if Inter get Simeone as manager in summer?
 
afsoc4life said:
Rumour on Toby: BREAKING: @DiMarzio reports that Toby Alderweireld has a €28m (£23.4m) release clause, and that he has told Spurs he won't sign a new deal.
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IIRC, this was a very time-sensitive clause meaning that if we headed into the final year of his contract then we'd be guaranteed a reasonable sum for him if a club wanted to buy him rather than us having to accept £10m or nothing.
 
Pirate55 said:
Say that again when we actually buy someone from United. Until then, I won't stand corrected.
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I'm not asking you to stand corrected. We are both speculating. I just think that the paranoia amongst Spurs fans gets a bit much. Every other club hates us. The media are out to get us. All the referees have it in for us. We sound worse than the Scousers sometimes.
 
afsoc4life said:
Rumour on Toby: BREAKING: @DiMarzio reports that Toby Alderweireld has a €28m (£23.4m) release clause, and that he has told Spurs he won't sign a new deal.
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Big friend of Chelsea asked to do them a favour and try to stir us up 3 days before the game as they are so brick sacred of us
 
[QUOTE="milo, post: 913582, member: 122" The media are out to get us. All the referees have it in for us. [/QUOTE]

Sing it Brother it is the truth.
 
gungy said:
Possibly if Inter get Simeone as manager in summer?
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Simeone was the one that let him go from Atleti. You think he'd be interested now?

In any case, I don't see this happening. We'll offer him what is needed to stay and I don't see Inter being able to offer significantly more, no matter how much money is pumped in. FFP and all. Not to mention he'll miss Verts.
 
milo said:
I'm not asking you to stand corrected. We are both speculating. I just think that the paranoia amongst Spurs fans gets a bit much. Every other club hates us. The media are out to get us. All the referees have it in for us. We sound worse than the Scousers sometimes.
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Where did I say those things? I certainly don't believe that nonsense. I am certainly not paranoid. However, I just don't think , for the reasons I gave, that United will sell us any players. Why do you find that to be some conspiracy theory?
 
milo said:
I'm not asking you to stand corrected. We are both speculating. I just think that the paranoia amongst Spurs fans gets a bit much. Every other club hates us. The media are out to get us. All the referees have it in for us. We sound worse than the Scousers sometimes.
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Victimspurs?
 
milo said:
I'm not asking you to stand corrected. We are both speculating. I just think that the paranoia amongst Spurs fans gets a bit much. Every other club hates us. The media are out to get us. All the referees have it in for us. We sound worse than the Scousers sometimes.
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Do you remember last season?

Every other club did hate us, or so it seemed - given how eager they were to stop us versus how freely they rolled over for Leicester. There were Madrid fans on r/soccer saying the same thing when Poch made his 'the team everybody tried to kill was Tottenham' statement, so that perception wasn't confined to us alone.

You remember Lasagnagate? Would the same events have occurred if it were Arsenal instead of us that had fallen victim to food poisoning? Would it pass into history as just another humorous anecdote, the way it did with us?

The paranoia amongst Spurs fans is, to my mind, largely justified - and, even in the unlikely event that it isn't, it helps in terms of building a siege mentality at the club. I'd rather our fans scream at every injustice, real or perceived, than desperately slaver after the approval of a football world that at best doesn't give a damn about us or what we stand for, and at worst actively conspires against us when we go up against their anointed narratives. The time to treat adversity with equanimity or pretend to even-handedness when up for public ridicule or scorn has long passed.

Liverpool don't give a damn about the fact that everyone calls them out on their perpetual need to play the victim - and it helps them coalesce around a shared mythology and identity that resonates from the Kop and puts almost every other club in England to utter shame when YNWA rises into the air in a deafening crescendo. But for us, we're still possessed of a lingering need to be impartial and even-handed in our approach to how the footballing world views and portrays us - and, conversely, that does us no favors whatsoever, because it doesn't stop us being relentlessly bantered anyway whenever we finish below Arsenal or Spurs things up.
 
I do not follow closely enough German football is Dahoud still doing well out there, he was heavily linked with a move to England.

Karol Linetty maybe we could do a double deal with Sampordia and sign that lanky striker as well.
 
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