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Paulinho signs for Spurs!

SFCS

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Think about it this way, if England were at the Confederations Cup and a player was asked about a club making a move to sign him, he'd risk upsetting the entire nation by saying he's doing anything other than concentrating on the tournament. It might be that Paulinho's telling the truth, it might be that the guy on Twitter is, it might be somewhere in between. The important thing is that we're in a good position to sign at least one quality player for the start of preseason.
 

AssaTM

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People comparing this to Oscar clearly didnt pay attention to how far along we was with Oscar, it was not this far along with this much "as far as they're all concerned it's done" talk about it, talk we know is legitimate, of course we're all gonna sit here getting antsy waiting for it to be official but earlier ITK before any of this even said that Paulinho wants to come to us as he thinks it'l be best for him, so lets try and relax and hope that whoever finishes second in Group B plays a blinder against Brazil, you never know (Y) :D
 

DFF

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It's blindingly obvious he and/or his agent are waiting for all potential offers, especially after his stellar Confederations Cup, before signing anything. Terms Agreed is a long way off Terms Signed.
 

easley91

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A lot of people on the facebook groups seem to think he isn't coming after the latest quotes. Oh how fickle some of our fanbase can be. :ROFLMAO:
 

AUSpur

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A lot of people on the facebook groups seem to think he isn't coming after the latest quotes. Oh how fickle some of our fanbase can be. :ROFLMAO:

That's befuddling. What exactly do people expect a player to say before a deal is final and he's in the middle of an international competition in his home country?
 

Snarfalicious

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That's befuddling. What exactly do people expect a player to say before a deal is final and he's in the middle of an international competition in his home country?


And, people are already shit-hot considering their protesting.
 

harispurs

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My high school mate lives in Brazil now and he's a big fan of Corinthians.. He text me this morning and congrats me about Paulinho to Spurs.. When I ask him "Official?", he replied "Corinthians has not released an official note but consider as official. My source is good!".

Just passing the info.. Please don't shoot the messenger..

Finger crossed
 

Snarfalicious

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I can't really recall a move that was this far along where we had a fee agreed with the club and also apparently with the player in regards to wages, just to see it fail in the dying moments. I mean, maybe you could consider Damiao similar, but we never really had anything officially agreed like this.
 

Mullers

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Think about it this way, if England were at the Confederations Cup and a player was asked about a club making a move to sign him, he'd risk upsetting the entire nation by saying he's doing anything other than concentrating on the tournament. It might be that Paulinho's telling the truth, it might be that the guy on Twitter is, it might be somewhere in between. The important thing is that we're in a good position to sign at least one quality player for the start of preseason.

I don't think a fraction of the nation would care about the confederation cup, if England were in it.
 

gibbospurs

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I can't really recall a move that was this far along where we had a fee agreed with the club and also apparently with the player in regards to wages, just to see it fail in the dying moments. I mean, maybe you could consider Damiao similar, but we never really had anything officially agreed like this.
Leandro. Diarra.
 

Snarfalicious

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Leandro. Diarra.


Leandro was never officially accepted, though. They may have had a verbal agreement, but nothing to the effect of it being widely reported as officially accepted on both ends.

And all I really remember about Diarra was a lot of speculation. One being a straight up transfer deal and another part of a Modric deal.
 

AssaTM

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What a lot of people are doing here is what so many football fans do, they think any public statement must mean the same internally, you guys do know for wages to be agreed (not signed yet) but agreed Paulinho himself would have had to be spoken to right? Or did his nan answer on his behalf? A player is in the middle of the biggest tournament of his career so far and some of you aren't happy he wasn't streaking around the Maracena with a Spurs scarf on, relax people, to all the major clubs in the world the fact we are close to signing Paulinho wouldn't have been news at all, Roman Abromavich didn't open Bbc sport on his iPhone this morning and suddenly do a spit take cuz of the story on it
 
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