Moutinho

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I've searched briefly and can't see an outstanding Moutinho thread...

Anyhow I convinced myself watching Portugal in the Euros that this lad would be a perfect fit with us, looked like he had lots of very good aspects to his game...thought nothing of it after that. However a conversation in work today ended with a colleague saying we're supposedly looking at him? Has there been any talk of this that i've missed?

I'd be very very happy with him coming in, looks like the playmaker we need and does his share tracking back too.
 
Yes there is paper talk linking Moutinho to us recently.
 
rofl what did you search with?

We should of got him in like 2009. Porto got an epic bargain, they'll never let him go cheap themselves.
 
Zen said:
rofl what did you search with?

We should of got him in like 2009. Porto got an epic bargain, they'll never let him go cheap themselves.
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Not as rolfy as it seems, opened transfer forum;search this forum;searched moutinho;found no thread.

But yeah if he was available for that we should have jumped on it, hindsight though is what that's all about
 
Porto usually sell one player a season don't they? The Hulk news seems to have died down and Rodriguez is only 20 so maybe Moutinho is attainable.
 
At €10m Porto paid for him only two seasons ago or even double that he'd be a good purchase. After Anderson and his doubtful contribution here I'd be very careful about spending €30m+ on a midfielder like Moutinho, it could go either way and it's a huge amount of money. Before Euro no one had even considered him.
 
Were we linked with him some years ago?

It's a huge amount of money but we really need a midfielder. If we cannot het Modric and we are not interesting in Sahin and Banega than maybe this is a good move for us.
 
He's a good player but surely if we were to spend that high we'd just go and meet Martinez buyout clause and try get him.
 
Nope, Josu Urrutia (Bilbao President) said he would only let Javi Martinez leave if his buyout clause of £32m was met.
 
gaz1185 said:
Nope, Josu Urrutia (Bilbao President) said he would only let Javi Martinez leave if his buyout clause of £32m was met.
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Looks like he's staying then. I can't see bayern paying that for a defender??!

Moutinho not too fussed, was their best player against Spain. We just need a midfielder won't be to hard to improve on our options as there pretty limited.
 
Cina said:
Martinez isn't a defender
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I think his best position is a deep lying midfielder but he looked effective at CB for Bilbao in the games against United....

in the English league he'd be under a lot more pressure defensively - he could certainly play CB for Barcelona though
 
Cina said:
Martinez isn't a defender
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Yeah I said that as a bit of a wind up. However he has been really impressive as a CB last season and I don't think it's a given his new club if sold won't use him there too.
 
Why spend big on a not so sure Portuguese (Moutinho) when you can spend a similar amount and get a sure shot Spanish talent (Martinez)!
 
André Villas-Boas starts life at Spurs by targeting João Moutinho

"André Villas-Boas has made the acquisition of the Portugal midfielder João Moutinho a priority for Tottenham Hotspur as he plans an expensive overhaul of the squad at White Hart Lane.

... Villas-Boas is prepared for Modric's exit, however, and has identified Moutinho as his main transfer target. The pair enjoyed a glorious season together at Porto in 2010-11 – when Villas-Boas led the club to the league title with an unbeaten record, the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League – and the midfielder, who enhanced his reputation at Euro 2012, is keen on a reunion with his former coach. "AVB is one of the best coaches I've worked with," the 25-year-old said recently. "I'd work with him again tomorrow."

United have also been linked with Moutinho and Levy would have to sanction a club-record fee for Spurs to sign the Portugal international. Porto value him at €35m (£28m) and even a compromise fee would dwarf the £16.75m Tottenham paid Dinamo Zagreb for Modric in 2008.

Tottenham stand to make a lucrative profit on Modric and have moved for the Hoffenheim midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, who has rejected a £6.8m transfer to Swansea City and is stalling on a deal with Liverpool over personal terms. They also hope to complete the £9.5m signing of the Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen, despite problems over his release from the Amsterdam club, and the Internacional midfielder Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior. They also need to improve a strikeforce that currently amounts to Jermain Defoe. Emanuel Adebayor remains a target after his successful loan last season but his £170,000-a-week wages at Manchester City are beyond Spurs.

Villas-Boas, who has been scouting in Brazil this summer, admires the Internacional striker Leandro Damião and Spurs have a sporting partnership with the Brazilian club. Gonzalo Higuaín and Ricardo Carvalho could also be used in a player-plus-cash deal with Real Madrid for Modric ...."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/03/tottenham-andre-villas-boas-manager


Well, Moutinho, Vertonghen, Sigurdsson, Oscar, Higuain, Adebayor and Damião .... I could settle for this and happily say "Luka who"? :)

But just to be generous I'd let RM keep Carvalho
 
Looked very good at the Euro's but they is always the trap of buying of the back of tournaments e.g Kleberson.

I think he'd be a good addition for anything less then £20 mill.
 
GlastonSpur said:
André Villas-Boas starts life at Spurs by targeting João Moutinho

"André Villas-Boas has made the acquisition of the Portugal midfielder João Moutinho a priority for Tottenham Hotspur as he plans an expensive overhaul of the squad at White Hart Lane.

... Villas-Boas is prepared for Modric's exit, however, and has identified Moutinho as his main transfer target. The pair enjoyed a glorious season together at Porto in 2010-11 – when Villas-Boas led the club to the league title with an unbeaten record, the Portuguese Cup and the Europa League – and the midfielder, who enhanced his reputation at Euro 2012, is keen on a reunion with his former coach. "AVB is one of the best coaches I've worked with," the 25-year-old said recently. "I'd work with him again tomorrow."

United have also been linked with Moutinho and Levy would have to sanction a club-record fee for Spurs to sign the Portugal international. Porto value him at €35m (£28m) and even a compromise fee would dwarf the £16.75m Tottenham paid Dinamo Zagreb for Modric in 2008.

Tottenham stand to make a lucrative profit on Modric and have moved for the Hoffenheim midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, who has rejected a £6.8m transfer to Swansea City and is stalling on a deal with Liverpool over personal terms. They also hope to complete the £9.5m signing of the Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen, despite problems over his release from the Amsterdam club, and the Internacional midfielder Oscar dos Santos Emboaba Júnior. They also need to improve a strikeforce that currently amounts to Jermain Defoe. Emanuel Adebayor remains a target after his successful loan last season but his £170,000-a-week wages at Manchester City are beyond Spurs.

Villas-Boas, who has been scouting in Brazil this summer, admires the Internacional striker Leandro Damião and Spurs have a sporting partnership with the Brazilian club. Gonzalo Higuaín and Ricardo Carvalho could also be used in a player-plus-cash deal with Real Madrid for Modric ...."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/jul/03/tottenham-andre-villas-boas-manager


Well, Moutinho, Vertonghen, Sigurdsson, Oscar, Higuain, Adebayor and Damião .... I could settle for this and happily say "Luka who"? :)

But just to be generous I'd let RM keep Carvalho
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For those Levy would send Modric in his own private Helicopter :lol:
 
You're looking at £100m+ there, Spurs cannot afford it.
 
Sarni said:
You're looking at £100m+ there, Spurs cannot afford it.
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You might be surprised ...

Net spend during 2012 so far = minus 19m (i.e 19m banked)
Modric sale = let's say 40m

That's 59m already.

Selling fringe players:

Dos Santos = a rumoured 8m deal to Atletico Madrid on the cards. Let's call it 6m.
Bassong = let's say 4m
Jenas = let's say 4m
Pienaar = let's say 4m
Bentley = let's say 4m

That's another (probably conservative) 22m. So we're up to 81m in total now.

Levy bumps in another 30m on top (which Spurs can afford to do) to give AVB a flying start. Now we're up to 111m.

Now you can quibble here and there with some of the figures if you like. But overall it's clear that Spurs are in a position to spend very, very big this summer if they so choose. And I think they will so choose.

However, I'm not saying that Spurs will sign all of the players listed in the Guardian article ... that would be expecting too much.
 
Hypothetical prices.
Modric won't go for 40m, probably more like 25m.

Moutinho will also come for 25m.
Only a clinical retard will pay 4m for Jenas, Bentley and Bassong. I suppose Spurs will sell them at cheap prices to knock off their wage budgets.

Oscar will be more than 20m, that I'm sure of. He's pretty highly rated in Brazil.
 
Yeah, you'll sell the dross, buy a defender, midfielder and a foward, perhaps one or two utility players too, and that'll be it.

Verthongen looks like a realistic target, then a Modric replacement if he leaves, some decent target man (should have a look at Llorente although I doubt he'd go to Spurs), and obviously Sigurdsson etc.
 
KM said:
Hypothetical prices.
Modric won't go for 40m, probably more like 25m.

Moutinho will also come for 25m.
Only a clinical retard will pay 4m for Jenas, Bentley and Bassong. I suppose Spurs will sell them at cheap prices to knock off their wage budgets.

Oscar will be more than 20m, that I'm sure of. He's pretty highly rated in Brazil.
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Yeah, can't imagine anyone shelling out more than £2m for each one of those when you factor in the wages.

Oscar was signed for £5m, I imagine Internacional will want to make a rather big profit.
 
especially as he'll have other clubs interested too.

Spurs can also

-champions league money

-money for Bale's new contract

How much did spurs spend when they qualified for the champions league again?
 
I'm reading the Mail so you don't have to:

Manchester United are continuing to monitor Porto midfielder and Tottenham target Joao Moutinho.

The Red Devils are understood to have opened talks with the Portuguese club over a deal for the attacking midfielder, who is rated in the £25million mark

After bringing Nick Powell and Shinji Kagawa to Old Trafford in the close season, Sir Alex Ferguson told MUTV earlier this week that he hopes to add two more faces - with Moutinho widely rumoured to be a top target.

'We're working on one or two things but there's nothing really to tell you to be honest.

We always try to get our work done at the end of the season – we spent a good deal of time sorting the deal with Shinji and we'd agreed a deal with Nick Powell before the play-offs which was a good move by us because the boy had an outstanding final at Wembley.

'When you don't get deals done immediately and you're negotiating with a club over a long period, then you can't expect to just snap your fingers and get it done,' he said.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ntinue-pursuit-Tottenham-target-Moutinho.html
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