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Vincent Janssen

"If AZ do not, despite the offered amount and Spurs drop out, then that is a blow to me.

"I'm not one to make quick war, but how I will react, I do not know. I therefore assume that AZ realizes quickly that a transfer for everyone is the best."

Those comments remind me of Berahino last summer and how people on here questioned his attitude and professionalism and whether such a player should be welcomed into our dressing room. :D
 
NaijaSpurs said:
"If AZ do not, despite the offered amount and Spurs drop out, then that is a blow to me.

"I'm not one to make quick war, but how I will react, I do not know. I therefore assume that AZ realizes quickly that a transfer for everyone is the best."

Those comments remind me of Berahino last summer and how people on here questioned his attitude and professionalism and whether such a player should be welcomed into our dressing room. :D
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It does. I have to say though, it must be frustrating to not be able to decide over one's own future. It's all part of football, obviously, but I can understand that players react this way. I'd be furious if I was in his place, obviously. :p
 
parklane1 said:
A very small part and that is the choice of the fans anyway.
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Not really a choice, mate. If you were taken to your first game at the age of six, sitting on your father's shoulders, and fell in love with THFC that way...then it becomes very difficult to break that link when you get older, even as the game grows more commercialized and fans (now powerless to decide the fates of their clubs) are increasingly being called 'customers'.

Glenda's Legs said:
We do like to think of it as our money but as with anything you buy, be it a football ticket or shirt, a car, a phone, a sandwich, you touch yourself in exchange for the goods/service you are receiving. I doubt I would get very far telling Apple how to spend their income because I have contributed to it.
Not quite the same thing I know, there is a huge amount of emotion vested in supporting a football club, unlike other organisations from whom we purchase things. We want our club to do well, we feel we are a part of the club, and we want our club to spend to achieve success, and the fact we have contributed financially as well as emotionally means we do have the right to have an opinion on how that success is achieved. It doesn't mean our opinion is always right, however.
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You've hit the tickle my balls with a feather there. It's important to remember that, even when the reality is that fans are being visibly sidelined from the teams they grew up supporting, and turned into simple consumers, there to make the stadium look good and the club look pretty to potential buyers. There's still something about football that makes fans travel hundreds of miles and brave sleet, snow and torrential downpours to show up at some strange foreign ground and pay for the privilege of watching 'their' team, without even a guarantee of victory or satisfaction to assure them that the venture's worth the effort. You wouldn't go hundreds of miles to a tax accountant (for example) and then loudly cheer them on as they file your returns, all the while knowing that there's a good chance that they'll muck it up - that intangible element of support is what keeps football (and professional sports more broadly) at least somewhat connected to the ethos that once visibly distinguished it from the wider business world.

Sure, fans aren't always right about the things they think the club should be doing, but that doesn't mean that they don't have a right to voice their opinion - after all, they are still nominally the reason why the club exists as a professional entity.

Anyway, back to Janssen - if the fans feel Levy's too tight and that he should spend what's necessary to get him in, they have a basis to argue from and a right to do so, no doubt. Plus, no one can really deny that Daniel's legendarily tight, so I'm not sure what the complaint is when people get upset about the million-odd euros (or pounds) that sometimes is all that separates us from acquiring a certain player, but which Levy won't pay.
 
Daisuk said:
It does. I have to say though, it must be frustrating to not be able to decide over one's own future. It's all part of football, obviously, but I can understand that players react this way. I'd be furious if I was in his place, obviously. :p
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Maybe he should have thought about that before signing a 4 year contract in the first place
 
I've been going to Spurs from 1957, season ticket and share holder and I've always been powerless to decide the fate of the club.
 
DubaiSpur said:
Not really a choice, mate. If you were taken to your first game at the age of six, sitting on your father's shoulders, and fell in love with THFC that way...then it becomes very difficult to break that link when you get older, even as the game grows more commercialized and fans (now powerless to decide the fates of their clubs) are increasingly being called 'customers'.
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No one holds a gun to your head to make you go or buy anything from the shop, its a choice a fan makes. And as i say its a very small part anyway.
 
parklane1 said:
No one holds a gun to your head to make you go or buy anything from the shop, its a choice a fan makes. And as i say its a very small part anyway.
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Again, I doubt it's that easy, mate. And as for income from the fans, it makes up approximately twenty percent of club receipts via matchday revenues, and it probably forms a significant (although likely not overwhelmingly large) portion of the income we've classed as 'commercial' - I'd feel confident in saying that the club probably earns about a quarter of its overall income directly from the supporters. Not small, by any means.

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(Credit to the Swiss Ramble, http://swissramble.blogspot.ca/2016/04/tottenham-hotspur-moving-on-up.html )
 
I saw a post on Twitter where an official from AZ went out and said that Janssen wasn't to play their first pre-season match since he'd only had two training sessions so far, which supposedly was the reason for him not featuring.
 
Vincent Janssen informs PSG that he wants Tottenham move

According to today’s edition of L’Équipe, AZ striker Vincent Janssen has effectively rejected a formal offer for his services from PSG by informing the capital club that he prefers a move to Premier League side Tottenham Hotspur.

AZ and PSG had virtually reached an agreement, but Les Parisiens are set to end their pursuit of the player here after receiving a definitive answer from the striker himself.

AZ rejected an €18m proposal from Tottenham, but the Premier League side have made an improved offer and are now confident of signing the player in the coming days.

PSG now turn their attentions exclusively to Alexandre Lacazette.



Good to hear, if true, that he has rejected a bid from PSG, there is no guarantee that this will continue. Eventually he may get frustrated and accept an offer from somewhere else
 
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Come on, do it! Would love to get signings done early this year, wishful thinking perhaps.
 
I know it is very shortsighted to judge a player on youtube but I think I can honestly say I want this guy more than any other player we have been seriously linked to in the last 12 months. I will be really disappointed if we cannot seal this one
 
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Ok. I'll do it. This transfer saga will continue right up to deadline day! (Now watch us sign him before the end of the week)
 
Just imagine the money that was on offer from PSG.

He will get nowhere those sums at Spurs so get gets my full respect for holding out for a move to Spurs.
 
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