SEANSPURS1975
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Well, we overpaid for Soldado about £10m!...
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Well, we overpaid for Soldado about £10m!...
RJ1882
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It is and it isn't. He's bloody awful, yet a fairly established prem league player. I'd think we were bonkers if we were paying it, but as a selling club it sounds right.
He isn't as good as Livermore for instance, or Hudd so can we expect a similar fee?
Zeb
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26mil which included a shitload of add-ons (which I doubt he will hit) for someone who was scoring for fun the previous 4 years in la liga ?
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I want naughton out asap, however with Walker out it leaves us with no right back at all, yedlin wont be ready for the PL hit the ground running, so unfortunatley keep naughton till at least Jan, then help move on. It wouldnt be a TW deadline day without us making moves and helping Sky sports news! I dont think its a bad thing, apart from RB we have players in place now, so no manic moves but right player at right price is what im sure most teams would be doing, even chelsea, difference is i think we know who we want and its a waiting game which Levy loves so he will be playing 
Mr Pink
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No, he really isn't.
He's a decent RB at this level and actually is pretty experienced now. Plenty of years ahead of him to.
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Jamturk
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Not yet we ain't, he's nowhere near the add ons
THFCSPURS19
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Well, the Deadline Day thread will be epic then. We haven't had a big deadline day since Summer 2012. That day was good and bad at the same time...
CockOnBall
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Where did this notion of add ons for Soldado come from? The UK media are at odds with the spanish media who at the time clearly reported that soldado's fee is staggered across 3 years of 8 to 9m but they're fixed. Think about it logically, why on earth would Valencia make such a large percentage of their star player's fee performance related? Doesn't make sense to me.
Naturally I'd like the add on theory to be true but I doubt it.
GeneralBurk
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If Yedlin wants it enough then what stops him behaving like MS, Bale or Modric?
sloth
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I think the problem is that all we have to go on is the media and they only report the headline figure and never anything about the deal's actual structure. Basically there's no way for is to know what the truth is unless someone like JJ comes along and tells us.
HappySpur
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He's not technically owned by Seattle. He's owned by the league and therefore Seattle isn't forced to deal with any bullshit on his end. If he acts up, they can send him to Columbus in a trade that he has no say so in and be forced into a situation that makes Seattle look like the best deal ever. He could get sent here, to New England, where he will play in front of a half empty stadium which the fans are mostly 10 years old. And the owner doesn't care all that much about football. And nobody will know who he is. Clint could easily warn him of the shithole that is the Revs as that's where Fulham rescued him from. So Yeldin is better off playing good and letting this settle itself.
There are some banner clubs to play for in the MLS and there are some that make Bath FC seem like Barcelona. Seattle is probably #1 on the former list.
CockOnBall
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That's true in the UK but in Spain there is a culture of revealing the fee and the structure (unless you're Barcelona!). I agree, we cannot be certain though.
coyspurs18
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Actually it isn't really up to Seattle. All players are owned by MLS and they are the ones that handle the transfers. I think Seattle would only stand to get $650k of the reported fee.
Edit: Just saw that @HappySpur beat me to it
WalkerboyUK
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I very nearly typed Seattle/MLS but removed the MLS part as wasn't entirely sure how it stands these days.
Barry Mead
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SandroClegane
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New England wasn't that bad compared to the rest of MLS when Dempsey was playing there. They were one of the best teams in the league (went to and lost two straight MLS cups) and attendance at Gillette was pretty comparable to the rest of the league. Once they added all the pacific northwest teams and football started to see its popularity rise in other cities the team fell apart, and the Krafts were more concerned with the Patriots to do anything.
LiamJM10
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Why would he act like that though?
He'd be coming to Spurs as 2nd choice. And in all likelihood, him joining in January on a pre-contract has been on the cards since day 1.
GeneralBurk
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Without knowing the lad's character it's difficult to anticipate, however footballers offered big moves with significantly higher wages and an agent in his ear tend to behave the same.
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