My biggest fear with Modric is not that we may ultimately sell him. My biggest fear is that Chelsea will slow-play Levy for the next 4 weeks before finally stumping up the required 40 million (or thereabouts) transfer fee, knowing full well that Spurs won't be able to resist that cash and that we won't have time to properly spend that money.
If Levy does that, it will be completely indefensible. He needs to decide in the next week whether he is 100% committed to keeping an angry Modric, or whether he wants to sell him, but for the proper fee. The direction we are headed is the worst of both worlds. We sell him late for a huge fee that isn't re-invested in replacements, while we also are so distracted with this ongoing saga that we ignore the need to add a top shelf goal-scorer or two. Like with Berbatov, our club ultimately loses our best player, no replacement is brought in, and eventually guys like Bale, Sandro, and VdV become primary January targets for Inter, United, Madrid and others.
Levy needs to take a chance on just one major signing in the coming weeks, irrespective of outgoing transfers. If you were making 35 million pound offers in January without an outgoing transfer of various players, why can't we make them now, especially since we are likley to recover at least that sum with Modric eventually leaving?
The policy (as mentioned by ITK's and Redknapp) of having to sell numerous players no one really wants (for exhorbitant fees, too) before we can bring anyone of quality in is a disaster waiting to happen.
We are truly on the precipice here. On the one hand, we could see bold leadership and a calculated risk from Levy that may result in us taking a chance on a proven goal-scorer like Rossi at a very high price, while also keeping Modric, no matter what. On the otherhand, we can stand pat demanding ridiculous fees for our deadwood, sell our best player late in the window, and hope our depleted team can cope with a very difficult stretch of games to start the season. I guess, though, there is a third option, whereby we sell Modric and rush in replacements along the lines of Odemwinge and Parker.
If Levy does that, it will be completely indefensible. He needs to decide in the next week whether he is 100% committed to keeping an angry Modric, or whether he wants to sell him, but for the proper fee. The direction we are headed is the worst of both worlds. We sell him late for a huge fee that isn't re-invested in replacements, while we also are so distracted with this ongoing saga that we ignore the need to add a top shelf goal-scorer or two. Like with Berbatov, our club ultimately loses our best player, no replacement is brought in, and eventually guys like Bale, Sandro, and VdV become primary January targets for Inter, United, Madrid and others.
Levy needs to take a chance on just one major signing in the coming weeks, irrespective of outgoing transfers. If you were making 35 million pound offers in January without an outgoing transfer of various players, why can't we make them now, especially since we are likley to recover at least that sum with Modric eventually leaving?
The policy (as mentioned by ITK's and Redknapp) of having to sell numerous players no one really wants (for exhorbitant fees, too) before we can bring anyone of quality in is a disaster waiting to happen.
We are truly on the precipice here. On the one hand, we could see bold leadership and a calculated risk from Levy that may result in us taking a chance on a proven goal-scorer like Rossi at a very high price, while also keeping Modric, no matter what. On the otherhand, we can stand pat demanding ridiculous fees for our deadwood, sell our best player late in the window, and hope our depleted team can cope with a very difficult stretch of games to start the season. I guess, though, there is a third option, whereby we sell Modric and rush in replacements along the lines of Odemwinge and Parker.
