He wouldn't have said that unless the deal was very close to completion. Unless it's a last minute change of heart Moutinho is a done deal for Spurs.
Maybe it's a clause in the contract at Spurs where you have to feed the medias with transfer gossip
I'd be happy with either Modric or Moutinho. Our midfield would look much better on paper with a top quality player like either.
With all these stupid prices being quoted i understand why Fergie is reluctant to buy a proper CM.
Yeah but if everything goes according to what should be expected, in two years we'll be left with a 34-year old Carrick and injury prone Cleverley as our only two midfielders. What a perspective.
That's a bit silly Sarni. Yes we may be lightweight in midfield, but it's obvious SAF has not pushed a centre midfielder through when Giggs and Scholes still have a lot to give. You also forget Powell who I expect should be competing in and around the starting line-up in two years, and Cleverley has been unlucky rather than injury-prone. Anderson is either going to be kept or shipped out to make way or a new player. The outlook is not as bleak as you care to make it.
With all these stupid prices being quoted i understand why Fergie is reluctant to buy a proper CM.
Anderson will leave sooner rather than later, I think, and we've lost Fletcher, Hargreaves and Scholes over the last year without replacing any of them. We're extremely short in midfield and that's a fact. Jones isn't a midfielder.
The longer we wait the more we'll have to pay too. Clubs already know how much we need a midfielder and that's always going to drive the price up.
We're not short on quantity, just quality. You said that we would be left with two midfielders. Clearly that will never, ever be the case. And selling clubs can't just dictate like that either when they more than likely need the money and the player wants to move.
Yeah but if everything goes according to what should be expected, in two years we'll be left with a 34-year old Carrick and injury prone Cleverley as our only two midfielders. What a perspective. No doubt in the meantime we'll spend £40m on wingers, £40m on forwards and £60m on central defenders. There's no excuse really, we just paid £16m for Young last year.
He's not worth 25 million. 15-20 yes but he's no more a better footballer than Valencia, Young or Kagawa
He's not worth 25 million. 15-20 yes but he's no more a better footballer than Valencia, Young or Kagawa
He's not worth 25 million. 15-20 yes but he's no more a better footballer than Valencia, Young or Kagawa
3 strange choices, seeing as Kagawa and Valencia are brilliant and Young is nowhere close to them.
Valencia would easily be worth 25m now and we only got Kagawa so cheap because his contract was running down.
Aaaanyway, I too am disappointed we're not in for him, not surprised though.
Valencia was not worth 25 million when we signed him, Kagawa is probably worth around 20 and that's the same Young that contributed 8 goals and 12 assists last season? His contribution was a massive two goals less than Valencia.
"he's no more better", present tense. Valencia right now is worth 25m+.
You don't genuinely believe Young was as good as Valencia last season, or is as good a player as him, do you?
I think you've seriously underestimated Kagawa.
If we're gona generalise so much it could be said Moutinho is far superior technically to both Young and Valencia.
Its true to a degree but ultimately it means feck all in reality....much like comparing various unrelated players for the sake of it!!!
Young is solid enough player and outside of Nani and Valencia, arguably the best winger in the league. He's not as good as Valencia no, but he's in no way a massively inferior player. I would certainly put him along with Valencia and Kagawa within a similar bracket.
He's not in the same league as those two and certainly isn't the third best winger in the league. Bale and Mata both shit all over him, he's a pretty standard winger.
the same Young that contributed to 18 goals last season in 32 games. In comparison to Bale who played 42 games contributed to 27 goals and Mata who contributed to 33 with 21 more games. I'd say They're all fairly close at the moment, or atleast Young would be within 5 contributions to Mata after playing the same amount of games.
I think your horribly under rating young, he is nowhere near as bad as your making out.
Ok perhaps his top ability might not be quite on the level of those 2, but he is consitently good, and he works his ass off every game.
Stats aside, any idiot can see that Mata and Bale are far superior players.
There is nothing far superior about either of them. One relies so heavily on pace that once that goes, he'll get shown up for just how limited he really is, and the other was invisible after February for Chelsea. Both will develop in to a better players than Young, but at this current point in time, they're all consistently scoring goals and assisting at a similar rate.