Would you sell Huddlestone...?

A report in the Daily Star (I know, I know) links him with Utd:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/football/view/160502/Alex-Ferguson-s-50m-swoop/

Regardless of the rumour's veracity, would you sell him? How much? And if there was a choice, who to?

Or would you see it as a loss to the side akin to Berbatov or Carrick? Would you want silly money? Or point blank refuse to sell to a Premier League rival?

Absolutely would not sell him, he's got his best years ahead of him and we need those years to be spent at Tottenham Hotspur.

However, if he wanted to go, there would be no point in keeping him, so £30m+ would soften the blow.

Um... we sell another young, top CM to Man Utd and get our old one back as make-weight... No thanks. And stick the £20m in the darkest place of your lillywhite ass.

I think this is another article put about by the press as we are due to play them. It seems that these rumours always come out just before a game with the club

Unless its a crazy offer, we should not be a selling club any more. No point breaking down the best Spurs squad that I can remember.

Huddlestone is part of what we are building, so definately NO!

Tommy has this knack, which all top players have, he makes the game look so easy, only when he is out, do we really appreciate what he does.

Absolutely not, he's become a midfield lynchpin for us and has at least 5 years before a player of his type enters his prime. Even if we were to sell it should never be to a premier league rival, and not for less than £20m at the least.

No. Man U can go fuck themselves.

We need to keep this squad together, and Huddlestone would be so hard to replace as he's almost unique in the role he plays. It would be a massive step backwards if we sold him.

spurs_girl_tasha said:

No. Man U can go fuck themselves.

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Eek Sweet lil' Tash is a potty mouth

No. Quite simply.

spurs_girl_tasha said:

No. Man U can go fuck themselves.

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:clap: nicely put.

oh..after we fuck em tomorrow...

spurs_girl_tasha said:

No. Man U can go fuck themselves.

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University has changed you Tash :grin:

If they paid £16m plus I'd sell him. I think he has many qualities but a few structural deficits which no matter how hard he tries he's only ever going to be able to compensate for. I also think we have within the squad potential replacements.

So, if the money was right I'd sell him and I wouldn't mind to who.

spurs_girl_tasha said:

No. Man U can go fuck themselves.

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THIS

wheter or not you believe Huddlestone is over rated or the future of our club we need to become a team that builds and sells on our terms, not because 'bigger' clubs come in for our players and we are forced to sell.

I (and we all) have had enough of Utd buying our players, we are not broke (don't need to sell) and there is no reason we should be selling members of our first team or first team squad (we have plenty of 'dead wood' players to sell first)

All we really need is a top draw striker to complete our squad options and then let everyone grow and gel together over time to become a consistant unit.

F**k man u, they can keep their hands of Bale, Modric, VDV, Defoe, Lennon , hudd and anyone else they feel to eye up.

haxman said:

Unless its a crazy offer, we should not be a selling club any more. No point breaking down the best Spurs squad that I can remember.

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I think this is the main thing. If we have players that are first team regulars (or even important squad players), we should not be selling them.

I know this isn't always possible, and we all know that players can kick up a fuss to get a move if that's what they really want, but at the very least we need to make sure it is known that we will not sell good players to rivals.

If players really are keen to get more money elsewhere, tell them we'll only consider selling them abroad.

As much as I rate Huddlestone, the main problem I have with this rumour (which after all, is all it really is), is not the problem of losing a good player (because if this did happen, we have other players that can step up), but the message that the club would be sending out.

I can count the number of transfers between the traditional top 4 clubs on one hand. If Huddlestone goes to United it makes us look like nothing but a feeder club or a stepping stone.

sloth said:

If they paid £16m plus I'd sell him. I think he has many qualities but a few structural deficits which no matter how hard he tries he's only ever going to be able to compensate for. I also think we have within the squad potential replacements.

So, if the money was right I'd sell him and I wouldn't mind to who.

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Doesn't the fact that the suggestion of Manchester United being interested in him get you thinking - "hang on, maybe there's something I'm missing here with Huddlestone."

When you consider Barry left Villa for £25m - there's no way Hudd will go for anything less if indeed his head is turned and wants to go or you are right, and Tommy is surplus to Spurs requirements.

*Waits for BC* :lol:

rebrab said:

*Waits for BC* :lol:

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Statistically BC takes an average of 14 minutes to respond to a Huddlestone post, which probably proves something somehow.

haxman said:

Unless its a crazy offer, we should not be a selling club any more. No point breaking down the best Spurs squad that I can remember.

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AngerManagement said:

THIS

wheter or not you believe Huddlestone is over rated or the future of our club we need to become a team that builds and sells on our terms, not because 'bigger' clubs come in for our players and we are forced to sell.

I (and we all) have had enough of Utd buying our players, we are not broke (don't need to sell) and there is no reason we should be selling members of our first team or first team squad (we have plenty of 'dead wood' players to sell first)

All we really need is a top draw striker to complete our squad options and then let everyone grow and gel together over time to become a consistant unit.

F**k man u, they can keep their hands of Bale, Modric, VDV, Defoe, Lennon , hudd and anyone else they feel to eye up.

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Spurger King said:

I think this is the main thing. If we have players that are first team regulars (or even important squad players), we should not be selling them.

I know this isn't always possible, and we all know that players can kick up a fuss to get a move if that's what they really want, but at the very least we need to make sure it is known that we will not sell good players to rivals.

If players really are keen to get more money elsewhere, tell them we'll only consider selling them abroad.

As much as I rate Huddlestone, the main problem I have with this rumour (which after all, is all it really is), is not the problem of losing a good player (because if this did happen, we have other players that can step up), but the message that the club would be sending out.

I can count the number of transfers between the traditional top 4 clubs on one hand. If Huddlestone goes to United it makes us look like nothing but a feeder club or a stepping stone.

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I don't know about you guys, but I always thought a selling club was one which had to sell players to pay the bills, smaller clubs who'd already reached their level and whose sole goal was to remain where they are and hope something might come along one day to give them a boost.

Under those criteria I think we can safely say we're not a selling club!

But not being a selling club is not the same as being a club which doesn't sell players. And saying that every player has his price is a simple truth. As is pointing out that not every sale is going to have been engendered by us.

We have an objective and that is to build a bigger stadium which will provide the revenue which in turn is a platform for sustainable success. Higher revenue means we can afford better players and a better, larger stadium means will be an added attraction to current and putative players.

How do we afford to build a stadium? How can we keep bidding for the stars of the future? Is the answer to buy big and sell for less? should we never sell the players which command a good transfer fee and only sell those that don't? If we say this should be our strategy, then where does the money come from? Do we borrow money?

The truth is that if clubs were run by fans we'd all be like Newcastle or Leeds, we'd say we're never selling so-and-so or whatisname and then so-and-so would get a bit older or lose form and whatisname get an injury or whatever and we'd be clamouring for the next signing, but the money wouldn't be there because we'd be spending it all on interest payments, because we only ever buy big and sell for less.

None of which makes the case for selling your best players and there are some you simply have to ring-fence and say "no way!", but in order to keep hold of the Gareth Bales of this world you have to say that there are other high-value players for which there might be a price. You've got to be strategic about it, but we've also got be realistic.

In short then, player trading is legitimate as long as it's working towards the long-term success of the goal and the opposite, refusing to do business at decent prices for fear it makes us "selling club", will in the long term harm our prospects.

Fortunately Daniel Levy's our chairman.

EastLondonYid said:

Huddlestone is part of what we are building, so definately NO!

Tommy has this knack, which all top players have, he makes the game look so easy, only when he is out, do we really appreciate what he does.

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Agree entirely. As somebody else has already pointed out, it would be criminal to start selling our palyers to rivals within the top 4 - it really doesn't happen much.

What irks me is that we seem to have gained little respect for our endeavours last season with media still linking Bale, Hudd etc...to United repeatedly, ok you can understand Bale as he will have a lot of admirers.

If we sell to them this progress we have achieved will be nothing more than temporary as it will support the notion to everybody else that we our a feeder Club.

Absolutely critical that the Club stand strong and keep their best players. The truth is that United etc do actually see us becoming serious competition - thats what this is about.

They say we are nervous about hanging on to Bale, I say they are nervous with our increasing threat.