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Spurs sign Luka Modric

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Well i'll take a guess and speculate while they have the same players they had 2 seasons ago (minus Carrick) they have bought poorly. Villa, Everton, Blackburn, West Ham, Man City & Pompey have all bought better players.thats why they are above Spurs. kinda obvious when you think about it.

    How many of these teams have any silverware this season? Spurs were in the running for three trophies this year and got one of them. We've had a lousy season where a keeper went off the f*cking rails, our defence was makeshift and confidence was low due to boardroom trouble. We got a great manager in, we've bought fantastically this season and financially, we're pretty sound. We've secured a UEFA spot, we know we weren't going to grab 5th due to a ****ing diabolical early season. Can you honestly say that those teams are better off than we are going into the next season?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭invincibleirish


    Kold wrote: »
    How many of these teams have any silverware this season? Spurs were in the running for three trophies this year and got one of them. We've had a lousy season where a keeper went off the f*cking rails, our defence was makeshift and confidence was low due to boardroom trouble. We got a great manager in, we've bought fantastically this season and financially, we're pretty sound. We've secured a UEFA spot, we know we weren't going to grab 5th due to a ****ing diabolical early season. Can you honestly say that those teams are better off than we are going into the next season?

    Well we'll see after the summers transfer spending? there are more clubs then ever with lots of TV money to spend, much like last summer, and thats not counting the top 4 who get first pick of the best players, if any big name club in Europe were serious about signing him (Modric) then do you think he would have picked Spurs ahead of a Barca or Bayern? (or Newcastle in Premiership money terms) .

    Im going to Guess Spurs, Man City, Newcastle, West Ham(if they get a new manager), Villa, Blackburn and basically all the rest of the Premiership will be scrambling for the same type of players (cast offs from the top 4 and other big Euro clubs as well as those not wanted by the top 4).

    I think Euro 2008 will be the catalyst for this spending orgy with every big thing like Modric heading the Premier Leagues way so next season should be quite interesting.

    Portsmouth are in the Cup Final.

    Modric will be a Berbatov or a Younas Kaboul.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,661 ✭✭✭✭Helix


    Melion wrote: »
    If they can keep Berbatov they will be a serious threat to the top 4 next season

    no they wont

    not with their current defence


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Has anybody asked how spurs are going to afford him. By selling Berbatov i think!:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    Helix wrote: »
    no they wont

    not with their current defence

    We need a banging your head against a brick wall smilie on boards.

    Of the current back 5, only 2 will start next season.

    New GK
    New CB partner for Woodgate
    Bale at LB in place of Chimbonda/O'Hara/Tainio

    How long the two new faces take to bed in will be key.

    p.s. I'm not claiming we will challenge for a CL place btw.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    jank wrote: »
    Has anybody asked how spurs are going to afford him. By selling Berbatov i think!:cool:

    Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, when we signed Bent...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭Prufrock


    Great buy. Well done Spurs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,303 ✭✭✭✭event


    dc69 wrote: »

    Il admit he was very good against benfica but he doesnt do anything week in and out.

    so you have seen him play week in, week out then?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    Bale, Woodgate and Hutton are pretty good defenders imo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    Just heard from a good source that there are three bids on the table for Berbatov, all from outside the PL.

    Mr Levy is determined not to do business with another English club apparently. I'm sure he can have his arm twisted for the right amount though...;)


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Just heard from a good source that there are three bids on the table for Berbatov, all from outside the PL.

    Mr Levy is determined not to do business with another English club apparently. I'm sure he can have his arm twisted for the right amount though...;)
    Where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, when we signed Bent...

    Well you really know how to dig a hole!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    jank wrote: »
    Well you really know how to dig a hole!:D

    Was my earlier statement incorrect?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    Was mine?:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    jank wrote: »
    Was mine?:)

    Until he's sold then it was mere supposition...:p

    I don't get this train of thought from people, questioning where Spurs have got our money from. We spent £40m last Summer without selling Berbatov, another £16m or so in the transfer window, now Modric is in for over £15m.

    The club is well run, we've 12k on the ST waiting list and we're looking at a price increase of c. £100 per ST this coming season. Good deals for shirts and sponsorship, extended cup runs the last few seasons, European football...it all adds up.

    Even the bad signings don't look so bad when they are sold on...:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,778 ✭✭✭✭Kold


    The thinking here is that we have to sell him. We don't have to sell him at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Berbatov will only go to another English club if he himself demands it. IMO it's dead cert he'll leave this year.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭jank


    As a matter of interest what are the finances of spurs like?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,825 ✭✭✭Charlie


    jank wrote: »
    As a matter of interest what are the finances of spurs like?

    There a bleedin bunch of Jews, so what do you think?*







    *This post is in no way racialist


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    jank wrote: »
    As a matter of interest what are the finances of spurs like?

    Turnover was £103m year ending June 2007

    Profit after transfers was £19m.

    Deloitte and Touche puts us at 11th in the Football Money League.

    98%+ of seats full for league games, not so good with the cups this year though. Some of the most expensive tickets in the league (up to £71 to see us roll over for Newcastle...;))

    I should add, I expect profit to be down this at the end of this coming financial year due to transfer dealings. Turnover should have risen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    People forget that Spurs have no trouble selling out their stadium which is 36k big and do so at much higher prices than those in the North.

    That said, imo Modric being signed for that sorta cash would suggest to me Berbatov is leaving, because there's only so much you can spend, and Ramos surely knows that the money needs to be spent at the back and in central midfield.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Smegball


    They would need to sign another striker then aswell most likely seeing as Defoe is gone now aswell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,372 ✭✭✭✭Mr Alan


    I wouldnt imagine so. How much has he been signed for 15 million? tis hardly massive money in this day and age.

    i'd imagine buying modric is kinda one step forward, and selling berba is two steps back. Wouldnt be a good sign. the fact that modric joined Spurs over the other clubs interested would say to me he thinks they are going places. selling berba doesnt really tie in with that.

    i've also heard whispers Berba aint the striker that might be on his way


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,213 ✭✭✭✭therecklessone


    Mr Alan wrote: »

    i've also heard whispers Berba aint the striker that might be on his way

    Alluding to the possibility of "there's only two Keanos"? ;)


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