£40 million for Bale, £50 million for Tevez, £30 million for Sanchez...I wish we had their money.
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£40 million for Bale, £50 million for Tevez, £30 million for Sanchez...I wish we had their money.
Many City paid £24 million for Joleon Lescott. Fact.
That doesn't mean they will offer £40 million for Bale.
Agreed. I would be shocked if Spurs sell Bale for 30Million.
Personally think City would get Sanchez, while Bale will remain at Spurs.
Mancini's already got two overhyped Brit wingers, I doubt he wants a third.
£40 million for Bale, £50 million for Tevez, £30 million for Sanchez...I wish we had their money.
Summer is a painful time for us United fans
my god you must be jokingSummer is a painful time for us United fans
i just hope we win the champions league to soften the blow
No he's deadly serious. Nick is an idiot, he claimed he wanted to nuke Estonia before.
Summer is a painful time for us United fans
Stop feeling sorry for yourself. Think about the poor stupid Jews!
Like Abramovich for example
No - but it does show that if they want a player they'll pay pretty much whatever is neccessary to get him, rather than haggling and risking the player moving elsewhere.
Bale is very talented and could potentially be one of the world's top players in his position - as well as being home grown. Easy to see why clubs would be interested.
With the price young players are moving for these days Spurs would get £30 miilion for him easily and I'd say they would pay the "Man City" premium to get him.
Spurs income this season will have grown by something like 50% due to CL involvement .... and the club wasn't exactly skint before that. Currently we have plenty of spare cash.
It's nothing more than wishful thinking to believe that Spurs need to sell even one of their best players in order to stay afloat financially.
Don't want Bale, too injury prone and he will lose his pace in a couple of years by then he will be worth no more than £10m..
gareth bale is a kick and rush footballer. not worth more than 25 million.
How much has your wage bill risen though? Fanny Fart and Pienaar didn't come cheap.
I guess secretly Levy would love to sell him whilst he is allegedly worth £25m plus...
I don't know, but it won't have risen by anything close to the extra income gained from the CL and our much improved sponsorship deals.
Plus we had many players out on loan (and thus off the wage bill), including big earners like Keane, so this will have partly offset high wages paid to VdV, Gallas etc.
Overall the club will certainly post a profit come the year end accounts on June 30th.
Can't afford a new stadium though. And the wages continue though the CL is gone.
Levy is a sly dog, I wouldn't be surprised if he did that.
Spurs could raise around 45m just by selling off some of the squad's fringe players plus some of the players who have been out on loan. And that's on top of the profits we'll have made this season.
With such sales, plus probably not offering a new contract to Woodgate, I doubt if our overall wage bill next season will pose any great problem even allowing for new incoming players.
My original point stands: Spurs would only consider selling any of their best players this summer if truly silly money were offered ... and not because they even remotely need the cash to stay afloat.
Maybe they should sell him before everyone realizes how insanely overrated he is. He's got great potential, but he's not the BPITW like some people want to think.
The point I was responding to was the ludicrous suggestion that Spurs will sell any of their best players because the club is (or will be) supposedly short of money.what if players kick up a fuss because you lot are out of the CL.
IF any of these best players want out and IF silly money is offered then that's a different kettle of fish.
Don't they need the money to fund the rebuilding of White Hart Lane and redevelop the surrounding dump of an area?
The only thing that's relevant here is that Bale or Modric won't be sold unless either player wants to leave and silly money is offered .... in that event almost any club will sell any player.
I think most of this has come from an article a few weeks ago suggesting Spurs were struggling finiancially. Given Harry's track record it wouldn't exactly be a huge surprise if true. I doubt that it is though.
I didn't see the article but I can't imagine any solid grounds for its basis.
In the most recent set of accounts (for the 6 months ending Dec. 31st 2010), the club's interim results showed income soar by 49%. Revenue increased to £79.8m compared to £53.3m for the same period last year and Spurs posted a profit.
If anything, we will have earned more money in these final 6 months (ending June 30th 2011) than we did in the first 6 months .... because of the steep rise in CL income the further you progress.
Spurs need may yet be determined by Levy's greed! Selling Modric for £35m would see Spurs make a £20m profit if im not mistaken, and that would certainly go some way to replacing the potential revenue lost by not qualifying for the CL for next season.
Consider that businessmen who make significant profit one year, expect at the very least to do no worse the year after. Spurs imo will have to strengthen in 3 or 4 areas to mount a serious challenge on the CL places next season, and that will not come cheap.
In a year where there will be no revenue from the CL and without serious investment the chances of qualifying again looking increasingly remote, if you believe a shrewd businessman like Levy will easily dismiss the opportunity to make a £20m profit, then it may prove to be you whose thinking is wishful.
The Levy/Lewis plan is to flog Spurs for a whacking profit. They're probably more attractive with their best players even if the feck up over stadiums has killed the chance of a mega-profit.
Maybe so but not yet, surely the time to sell Spurs for a whacking great profit would be when they were qualifying with regularity for the CL season upon season.
They will not achieve that with this current squad, they didn't qualify this year, so there is little reason to suspect that (without serious investment) they will be any more capable of qualifying next season.
They missed their window - if they'd got they Olympic stadium while they were still in the CL it was quids in.
Quite possibly, Spurs problem in my view is that they have some very good players, but the back up is nowhere near that level. It is the strength of their squad that they have to improve, as their first team is pretty good.
Even Chelsea have found to their cost this season, that you simply cannot rely on only a handful of players to perform week in week out. Sooner or later players lose form, suffer injury or suspension and results suffer as a consequence.
Nowadays the back up must be at least good enough to ably substitute for the first choice players if CL football is to be a serious and achievable ambition.
Gonna dig this up just for the helluvit. Bale may be overrated and overhyped by the typical British media, but he is just as much underrated on here. The lad has looked quality all season and for the second half of last season too, he has experience playing at LB so puts in a good defensive shift for his team.
For me he is essentially a left sided Valencia (which wouldnt be a bad thing at all if that was it) but who also poses more of a goalscoring threat and some flair.
He is exactly the kind of player we have a history of signing, and would fit perfectly into our team if one of our first choice wingers were to leave.
This isnt a "sel Nani sign Bale" post, but if Nani were to be sold, or even if we simply had Giggs retire and Obertan and/or Bebe released, that would easily leave us with space in the squad for another winger, especially one who can cover for Evra at LB when needed.
For me he is essentially a left sided Valencia (which wouldnt be a bad thing at all if that was it) but who also poses more of a goalscoring threat and some flair.
He is exactly the kind of player we have a history of signing, and would fit perfectly into our team if one of our first choice wingers were to leave.
This isnt a "sel Nani sign Bale" post, but if Nani were to be sold, or even if we simply had Giggs retire and Obertan and/or Bebe released, that would easily leave us with space in the squad for another winger, especially one who can cover for Evra at LB when needed.
If Bale wants to leave, I have it he'd opt for us.
I doubt its this summer though, he still has time on his hands. However, if Spurs are unable to qualify for Europe next season, I'm sure he'll be thinking of a move.
Like Glaston said, I"m sure Spurs aren't down financially, but they will definitely sell before buying.
I doubt its this summer though, he still has time on his hands. However, if Spurs are unable to qualify for Europe next season, I'm sure he'll be thinking of a move.
Like Glaston said, I"m sure Spurs aren't down financially, but they will definitely sell before buying.
He is a good player but overhyped and not worth anywhere near the £35-40m he has been put up for. Not a penny over £20m because he is still young and can improve.
Bollox he's underrated on here. Most posters get it bang on, cracking winger, tonnes of potential, unplayable on his day.
But overrated to feck by the media.
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