Chelsea paid 35m for Danny fucking Drinkwater.
I think Levy has had his fingers burnt by the Eriksen saga. By all accounts CE was offered new deals repeatedly but refused all of them. This seems to be the way things are leaning now in football with players wrestling a bigger slice of the pie away from the clubs. People are now saying that we fucked up by not selling him at 130m or whatever 18 months ago. To bring that up to date, we should now be entertaining big offers for the likes of Kane, Son, Dele, but I'd imagine there would be pandemonium if we did - reminiscent of the scenes when Liverpool sold Coutinho, and we all know how that panned out.
I think delving into the loan (with option) market is a sensible way to go for now. Those players are generally out of favour with their clubs but that doesn't necessarily make them bad players. We'll see how Gedson pans out. I also think we should be targetting players who see us as a step up, rather than a step down, but I'm not sure those types of players particularly fit Mourinho's template.
This is a good example of what the OP is saying about selling a player at a premium time. Drinkwater was Championship player of the year, a mainstay in their title winning side then put in a decent season and played in the CL. This was the premium time to sell and Chelsea bought a player not of the quality they required.Chelsea paid 35m for Danny fucking Drinkwater.
I think Levy has had his fingers burnt by the Eriksen saga. By all accounts CE was offered new deals repeatedly but refused all of them. This seems to be the way things are leaning now in football with players wrestling a bigger slice of the pie away from the clubs. People are now saying that we fucked up by not selling him at 130m or whatever 18 months ago. To bring that up to date, we should now be entertaining big offers for the likes of Kane, Son, Dele, but I'd imagine there would be pandemonium if we did - reminiscent of the scenes when Liverpool sold Coutinho, and we all know how that panned out.
I think delving into the loan (with option) market is a sensible way to go for now. Those players are generally out of favour with their clubs but that doesn't necessarily make them bad players. We'll see how Gedson pans out. I also think we should be targetting players who see us as a step up, rather than a step down, but I'm not sure those types of players particularly fit Mourinho's template.
No it doesn't in the slightest mean that we should be entertaining offers for Kane, Dele and Son and that would be comparable to Eriksen.
They all have 3 and a half years or longer on their contract, not 18 months and unwilling to sign a new one.
However any player with less than 2 years left we should be actively trying to sell, if they have value, or have actively been offering new contract to.
I was using Kane, Son and Dele as examples of players that would be highly sought after and would attract big fees. I wasn't saying we should be looking to shift them now, but if you want to interpret it that way and give me a 'doh' rating I guess that's your business.
Did we actually have a legit 130m bid for Eriksen? From who?
But totally missed the whole point (in fact only point) people are saying Eriksen should have been sold was length of contract remaining, and you then said that the current comparable situation was with players with 4 or 5 seasons left, whereas the current comparable situation is any player with 18 months or less left on their deals.
It was a "doh" moment from you, and rightly got the rating it deserved.
Not as far as I am aware, we reportedly had bids/enquiries from Man U, Chelsea and Real Madrid for around the £100m mark 18 months ago and turned them all down though, with his agent saying club were totally unwilling to entertain offers, and it wasn't a must have for Eriksen, so he didn't kick up a fuss.
Levy could have stuck with Poch or hired a manager of a similar mould. Instead he hired Jose. Jose certainly isn't expecting us to spend as much as Man Utd did when he was there. But there's no chance there aren't some serious funds available to spend in order to rebuild.
Unless of course Jose thought the squad was better than it actually is before agreeing to join, which I strongly suspect was the case, and therefore believed he'd only need half the amount he needs now to rebuild the squad, which will lead to problems between him and Levy.
Only time will tell.
I thought we quoted them that price when they enquired rather than them bidding.Not as far as I am aware, we reportedly had bids/enquiries from Man U, Chelsea and Real Madrid for around the £100m mark 18 months ago and turned them all down though, with his agent saying club were totally unwilling to entertain offers, and it wasn't a must have for Eriksen, so he didn't kick up a fuss.
I thought we quoted them that price when they enquired rather than them bidding.
Haven't cleared it with Rob and A&C yet but I'm gangsta so don't mind taking the consequences of sharing some ITK I have on this subject re: Spur's current, medium- and long-term strategies in relation to this:With this mind, I wonder how clubs, particularly ours are shaping their future transfer / retention strategies