Benzema for Spurs?

[Misfit]

Why would we swap Bale? Nah, when he leaves, he'll be going for top top money. A huge fee. It will make £30M for Berbatov look like peanuts.

 

[sloth]

Big Old Red Nose may have the horn for Benzama but he doesn't have a pot to urinate in so unless he's chucking Rooney into the deal he doesn't have a cat in hell's chance of gazumping us.

Utd can gazzump us every day of the week. Have you seen what their top earners are on? We're not even in the same game as them.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Utd can gazzump us every day of the week. Have you seen what their top earners are on? We're not even in the same game as them.

That's historic, since the credit crunch they are living with a new reality evidenced by their transfer activity in the last 3 windows. Your point about top earners applies to Liverpool as well but we've seen what havimg owners who fund their purchase via an LBO does to a club's purchasing power. Manure might not be on the brink of administration but that £800mm debt is a significant weight around their necks, one that we just don't have.

 

[sloth]

That's historic, since the credit crunch they are living with a new reality evidenced by their transfer activity in the last 3 windows. Your point about top earners applies to Liverpool as well but we've seen what havimg owners who fund their purchase via an LBO does to a club's purchasing power. Manure might not be on the brink of administration but that £800mm debt is a significant weight around their necks, one that we just don't have.

Sorry mate, but like I say we're simply not in the same league as Utd when it comes to spending power. Utd are a massive business, sure they have much bigger debt than us and sure this year they had to restructure some of that, but it's because they're an order of magnitude larger than us that they can afford that debt.

Think of it like this, your average non-league club might in any given year make a profit; 90% of Premier League Clubs made a loss. Your average non-league club may have debts amounting to 1000s; your premier league club in 1000,000s. Which of them has the bigger buying power?

 

[AngerManagement]

Why would we swap Bale? Nah, when he leaves, he'll be going for top top money. A huge fee. It will make £30M for Berbatov look like peanuts.

Pretty sure I said if Real offered money plus Benzema for Bale

THe question was more about wheter we as fans would accept the sale of arguably our best player in order to sign a player in what some (like me) would consider more of a problem position for us.

For the record I don't know what I would want to do if such a scenerio were presented, I suppose it would depend on how much money was offered too and how well we could replace bale with MOdric/Niko/Rose or whoever

 

[Misfit]

Pretty sure I said if Real offered money plus Benzema for Bale

THe question was more about wheter we as fans would accept the sale of arguably our best player in order to sign a player in what some (like me) would consider more of a problem position for us.

For the record I don't know what I would want to do if such a scenerio were presented, I suppose it would depend on how much money was offered too and how well we could replace bale with MOdric/Niko/Rose or whoever

I wasn't replying to any specific post, which is why I didn't quote one. Some tetchy people on here. Just stating my opinion that Bale wouldn't be included in any swap deal/part-exchange guff. He would be too valuable. Get his max value and go from there with the flithy lucre we would get.

Unless we're talking about a David Villa, it wouldn't be worth the hassle.

I don't think Benzema is anywhere near enough of a game changer to include one of our 2 or 3 best players in a deal to get him anyway.

 

[jonathanhotspur]

Goals change games. NARF!

 

[MilkyBarYid]

Pretty sure I said if Real offered money plus Benzema for Bale

THe question was more about wheter we as fans would accept the sale of arguably our best player in order to sign a player in what some (like me) would consider more of a problem position for us.

For the record I don't know what I would want to do if such a scenerio were presented, I suppose it would depend on how much money was offered too and how well we could replace bale with MOdric/Niko/Rose or whoever

But Bale is proven in the PL where Benzema is not.

 

[Lilbaz]

We are trying to build a team to challenge for the title. We cannot do that by selling our top players.
Keep Bale, and sell off some of our "dead wood" (don't like that term as it is negative towards some players who have done a good job for us i.e. O Harra) in order to raise the cash to buy a top striker. If we can't get one we wait till the summer.

 

[full-frontal-nudity]

We are trying to build a team to challenge for the title. We cannot do that by selling our top players.
Keep Bale, and sell off some of our "dead wood" (don't like that term as it is negative towards some players who have done a good job for us i.e. O Harra) in order to raise the cash to buy a top striker. If we can't get one we wait till the summer.

Sense.

 

[midoNdefoe]

That's key.

Our lone striker needs to have goals, pace, movement, power, intelligence and aerial ability. As a medium-to-long term solution Crouch is lacking in several of those departments.

:rofl: That narrows it down to Drogba....errr.....not many more off the top of my head....

Got a spare £100m we can tempt chelski with....

 

[$hoguN]

:rofl: That narrows it down to Drogba....errr.....not many more off the top of my head....

Got a spare £100m we can tempt chelski with....

Rooney and Eto'o may just fall into those parameters too

 

[matjcole]

Just buy Dzeko, I just did it on Fifa, sold players I wouldn't use and bought for about £35m. Easy. I think Levy is making out that this is harder than it really is!

 

[BPR_U16]

Just buy Dzeko, I just did it on Fifa, sold players I wouldn't use and bought for about £35m. Easy. I think Levy is making out that this is harder than it really is!

Have you established whether he can adjust to the premiership yet??

 

[brendanb50]

Has anyone watched much of Benzema over the past season or so?

At Lyon, i thought he'd be going onto great things, seemed to have a Rooney/Tevez-ish drive about his game but Real seems to have killed that off?

I'm taking this with a huge pinch of salt.

 

[$hoguN]

Not many players adapt to life at Madrid to be honest, so Benzema's form over the last year may not be the best indicator of how he could fit in with us, at Lyon he did look a decent player. Lets wait and see what happens I guess

 

[brett.spurs]

"decent" is underselling him a bit, there's a reason why only a year ago the World's biggest clubs all wanted him and he ended up at arguably the biggest for a fee of £30m .. at the age of 21.

 

[spurious1]

If we could somehow get Benzema it would be a no-brainer like taking vdv. 90% of players flounder at Real, it reflects little on their intrinsic quality. Benzema seems to be regaining some form with the French team, we' ll see how it goes with Jose.

Of course I doubt we could ever get him, but if somehow we could, I'd be surprised anyone would hesitate...

 

[brett.spurs]

If it's possible then it's a deal that suits DL down to the ground, even though we didn't know the "ins and outs" of what happened regarding Fabiano, you'd always get the impression that Daniel wasn't too enthusiastic about the whole thing. Hopefully Benzema doesn't get too much of a chance between now and January, then maybe we'll have the slightest chance of getting him.

 

[am_yisrael_chai]

Sorry mate, but like I say we're simply not in the same league as Utd when it comes to spending power. Utd are a massive business, sure they have much bigger debt than us and sure this year they had to restructure some of that, but it's because they're an order of magnitude larger than us that they can afford that debt.

Think of it like this, your average non-league club might in any given year make a profit; 90% of Premier League Clubs made a loss. Your average non-league club may have debts amounting to 1000s; your premier league club in 1000,000s. Which of them has the bigger buying power?

Sorry to belabour the point but the filth up the road have a bigger turnover and profit than us but less spending power in the transfer market due to the debt for their stadium. Manure have now joined them in that category of big stadium, big revenues, big wage bill, big debt, no transfer kitty.