Player Watch Player Watch: Pedro Porro

double0 said:

Let's not blame Sporting in this. This bulls / hold up is squarely down to Tottenham.

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freeeki said:

Is this ITK or did someone on The Twitter say it

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bobbof said:

Probably the finance cost from a third party so that Sporting can get the fee at once, while we are paying installments.

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wpd659 said:

Seems there could be movement soon. Sporting are posturing as replacement price is more than expected we feel is the issue.

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Gpnash84 said:

A vintage meltdown. Let's see what transpires everyone. Very few of us on here have any insight into what's going on and are reacting to media rumours. The £2.6m line is likely a briefing from Sporting's end to heap pressure onto Spurs to pay more than was agreed by portraying us as reneging on the deal. I trust the club will get it sorted as they've invested a lot of time into this. It's always at times like this I wish I had a spare house to sell some of you lot as you seem to spend others money very well.

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jimbo said:

I've been following the thread and there is contrasting information. On the one hand, it's Sporting who have moved the goalposts, on the other hand it sounds like we verbally agreed to pay the cost of financing and have now reneged.

For Levy not being involved, I take that as he's not directly involved - but he will have set the parameters for the intermediaries, obviously they wouldn't have carte blanche and nobody would expect them to. My suspicion is that the parameters set are very tight - which would seem to be supported by the <£3m quibble on which the deal now appears to hang.

In the end, whatever does or doesn't happen with this particular deal, there seems to be a critical problem at the club in terms of strategic direction, this transfer window is a symptom of that. It was encouraging to read that we have 'realised that plan b/c/d doesn't cut it, doesn't improve the quality of the squad' - that is very welcome, but you then really do have to go out and get your plan a.

The two extremes are Chelsea, who will happily go out and overpay to get the players they want, and Brighton, who are smarter operators with a fully integrated club structure, who plan and recruit coherently with great success in replacing the players/manager when poached. Whereas we seem to be caught between two stools, strategically incoherent, flitting from one approach to another, lacking courage to stick to a defined plan (assuming we have one), failing to commit to a direction and often panic buying as a result.

Ultimately, when you're the leader of the organisation then final responsibility rests with you - you hire the intermediaries, the sporting director, the manager, sign the players etc. Not directly necessarily, but as the figurehead they are seen as your decisions. As it should be.

To the poster above, you said 'read the thread'. To Levy I might say 'read the room'.

That's why there's so much frustration at the moment - we don't know what we are trying to be, and I fear Levy doesn't either.

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rossdapep said:

Good morning, everyone! ?

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Finchyid said:

But porro wasn't Contes 1st choice

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Gpnash84 said:

A vintage meltdown. Let's see what transpires everyone. Very few of us on here have any insight into what's going on and are reacting to media rumours. The £2.6m line is likely a briefing from Sporting's end to heap pressure onto Spurs to pay more than was agreed by portraying us as reneging on the deal. I trust the club will get it sorted as they've invested a lot of time into this. It's always at times like this I wish I had a spare house to sell some of you lot as you seem to spend others money very well.

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Trix said:

It's quite amusing how many ways this has been taken out of context. Just because he wasn't Conte's first choice, does not mean he wasn't plan A.


For clarification, he very much was/is.

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Trix said:

It's quite amusing how many ways this has been taken out of context. Just because he wasn't Conte's first choice, does not mean he wasn't plan A.


For clarification, he very much was/is.

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freeeki said:

Is this ITK or did someone on The Twitter say it

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robhumphreys said:

This is exactly right. We always seem to have a sudden issue with the other club and blame them. It's Levy trying it on possibly with the hope that the deal falls through. I am sick of it

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Japhet said:

I'm surprised we didn't didn't have something absolutely concrete tied up when we agreed to let them play Porro at the weekend. To take that level of good faith and then piss about like this is pretty poor from Sporting, but we should have got it all sealed up when they wanted something from us.

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Finchyid said:

Exactly, my understanding was Porro was not 1st choice but conte accept it as part of the bigger plan as you say. If thats incorrect, I misread it

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RobjDerby said:

When you look at this transfer (Club willing to sell, set price and Player wants to come), and how simple it should be for everyone.

And you then see HOW hard we've made this, how long we've dithered and acted like amateurs, you see why clubs dont want to deal with us, why we are so often left at Happy Shopper and not Waitrose.

Its just negligence and incompetence, with a culture set from the top.

Lessons are NOT learned, leaving your No1 target to the final week leaves you distracted from opportunities NOW.
Countless players missed, using the same BS Tactics.

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double0 said:

When you see other clubs operations and getting deals concluded or Bournemouth out bidding you for a player we've been linked to for two years... you can question your club. This site is a means to voice your concerns opinions and also be educated.

Levy is a share holder and figure head of the club. When thing ain't going well his name will be called.

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