If those quotes are true that is poor form from Villa Boas criticising an own player in public, keep it in-house. While it may have happened that seems to be the sort of thing great managers like Fergie and Mourinho prefer to keep to themselves, staying loyal to the team rather than blabbering and complaining to journos.
AVB on Modric & Daniel Levy
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It is optimistic but surely Chelsea would jump at a swap deal. Torres would thrive playing in a faster team. Money talks too and yep I agree £38m is a lot as been quoted for hulk but we have the funds and the ambition! Our strikers for the USA trip consist of defoe and Kane!
Ribble
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Given Modric has shown no loyalty to the team whatsoever why should AVB show him any in return?
neogenisis
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Someone should come out and tell it like it is, pussy footing around the little shit.
$herringham
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Two wrongs make a right? Taking the high road could be an admirable treat, and the same way that what happens on the pitch should stay there, what happens inside a team should probably stay there, trust etc.
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No, it puts the pressure back on the Modric camp. exposing him for using poor tactics. AVB didn't say all that just for the fun of it.
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I wouldn't want Torres, he was a great striker at Liverpool, however his confidence had clearly deserted him and to me he would represent too much of a gamble.
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Maybe they were being tactful before as they intended to keep him, now there's no need.
Also, I would like to see them make some kind of stand against obstreperous behavior. It's pretty clear they want to sell him, but they shouldn't have to accept a considerably lower fee as he wants to leave. Consider the Tevez debacle, players need to understand the potential implications of signing their contracts and that this kind of pouting accomplishes nothing.
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This.
I, for one, will be praying that by some miraculous train of events, he joins Real, they win nothing next year while we qualify for the CL and the following year we win the bluddy thing.
That or a space ship lands with the richest oil baron on the planet Zog desperate to invest in us, and we start paying an average wage of £50 gaillion billion trillion per week
SelbYido
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I really don't know what Modric thinks he's going to achieve by taking this stance. Last year I could see the point, even though it made me angry - he wanted out, we wanted him to stay. This time, we're perfectly happy for him to leave as long as we get paid. So...does he think this course of action will make DL roll over & accept whatever fee Madrid will pay? Is he fucking tapped, seriously...? We'll blatently thrash out a deal eventually so he'd be better of just shutting the fuck up & letting the negotiations take their course instead of spitting the dummy & turning a tough bargaining situation into open hostility. He's either being very badly advised by someone with a buck to make or he learnt absolutely nothing from last summer. Play ball & so will the club, don't & it might not end with the outcome he's after...
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Real playing dirty tactics over him, they are threating us to look elsewhere if we didn't agree THEIR terms, the player is really interested to go for them, and fears his move to bigger club to collapse for another year, yet the board is yet show him things make him happy, we are yet to improve the squad, signing Vertonghen is upgrade on King, but Sigurdsson not what we needed.. not exciting for a player linked with Chelsea & Real Madrid !!
his heart on another place, so he can't train ..
it was reported we wanted £40m at first, and now £35m, i don't know how it's fair to offer only £29-30m since the player left his unproven league for £16.5m plus 5% sell clause ..
The board is right to defend their assest, so we can't blame the board for waiting for the right offer, and we can't blame him for wanting away, his heart on another place so he can't train, the only ones are to blame Madrid, i don't know how they want such top player for cheap, in that time they paid over the odds for other players.
his heart on another place, so he can't train ..
it was reported we wanted £40m at first, and now £35m, i don't know how it's fair to offer only £29-30m since the player left his unproven league for £16.5m plus 5% sell clause ..
The board is right to defend their assest, so we can't blame the board for waiting for the right offer, and we can't blame him for wanting away, his heart on another place so he can't train, the only ones are to blame Madrid, i don't know how they want such top player for cheap, in that time they paid over the odds for other players.
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Sorry mate I totally disagree with this. AVB is the manager and therefore the boss. Think how Bill Nic would deal with Modric. He would totally agree with AVB. At the end of the day Spurs is bigger than Modric. Who the fuck does he think he is.
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First of all, Chelsea is no longer a viable out for Modric and his agent (s). Abramhovic has bought Hazard and Marin and is also close to Oscar so modric would be a squad addition at best if he did go.
Secondly when a player is agitating for a move away, particularly if promised a move precisely a year ago, the buyers out there will manage the selling price, not the seller. The alternative bears no thinking as can be witnessed at the beginning of last season where Modric refused to play for two matches until the Manager managed to get him and levy agree to the mechanics of a move at the end of this season.
Levy should withdraw from his usual stance and his reputation as a hard baller will even so remain intact, and let the poison drain from the Club. His one remit though should be that Modric leaves the country to ply his trade.
Secondly when a player is agitating for a move away, particularly if promised a move precisely a year ago, the buyers out there will manage the selling price, not the seller. The alternative bears no thinking as can be witnessed at the beginning of last season where Modric refused to play for two matches until the Manager managed to get him and levy agree to the mechanics of a move at the end of this season.
Levy should withdraw from his usual stance and his reputation as a hard baller will even so remain intact, and let the poison drain from the Club. His one remit though should be that Modric leaves the country to ply his trade.
neogenisis
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I prefer AVB saying these things rather than
- Hes a triffic lad
- Not a moments problem
- I avnt got an issue with the lad
- he comes and trains like a true pro.
- Hes a triffic lad
- Not a moments problem
- I avnt got an issue with the lad
- he comes and trains like a true pro.
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