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murichej

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Well how much would GB actually cost you think?

Let's say he is 70mio. Add 40mio for proper CM and 40mio for proper CB and sum is 150mio.

Sell Dembele, N'k, Janssen and Lamela for 60mio. Use 20-30mio of this amount creatively on positions like RB/CM. Leaves us withnet spend 120mio.

Sounds like a plan?

Edit: also, sell Toby, forgot it.. sound like a plan even more.
 
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PhezTHFC

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I don't get this at all. Ali z first says that he knows bale would prefer us, but then questions his love for Spurs and says he would prefer to join one of the Mancs. Are both these quotes definitely from Ali Z?
Yeah I was wondering that my self as it contradicts himself
 

wrd

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Remember as well Poch was asked a while ago would he love to sign Messi to which he replied he'd rather find the next Messi and help turn him into a superstar. I'm sure Poch is just like everyone else if money was no object and he could get Bale plus the others he would jump at the chance.
That's just my opinion though.

Feels like with Bale even to afford the fee we would have to add 1-3 players onto the sell pile to get the money available
 

Spurs4CL

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I don't get this at all. Ali z first says that he knows bale would prefer us, but then questions his love for Spurs and says he would prefer to join one of the Mancs. Are both these quotes definitely from Ali Z?
reread the comment. Ali Z is responding to Montyspur saying bale would rather go to manchester
 

Trix

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How about we just keep Toby for one more season, that'll sort the centre back issue...:whistle:


;);)

Poch and Toby haven't been on the same page for months. Not sure it's fixable even if we did decide to play it that way. Would he be motivated? Would Poch back down and bring him back into the fold? Would he drop Sanchez who he see's as the future, and if not why keep him anyway?
 

George94

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Poch and Toby haven't been on the same page for months. Not sure it's fixable even if we did decide to play it that way. Would he be motivated? Would Poch back down and bring him back into the fold? Would he drop Sanchez who he see's as the future, and if not why keep him anyway?

Yeah I totally get where you're coming from, I was speaking more tongue in cheek :rolleyes:
 

Fidget

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As good as Levy is at negotiating, we are talking about a player that would probably start an auction. If another club just offers £10mil more all the clever negotiating in the world just isn't going to help.
are you saying that a player
As good as Levy is at negotiating, we are talking about a player that would probably start an auction. If another club just offers £10mil more all the clever negotiating in the world just isn't going to help.
are you saying that players like bale, ronaldo, are still just pawns to be bought and sold to anywhere and anyone just on a call by their team. no. not on his level. i don’t believe that is true at all. if he really wants something he can sort it out. especially if we have indeed this first offer scenario.
 

Dougal

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All this is leading up to a September of stories confirming that we tried but couldn’t get it done for reasons.
 

Keefo

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Would poch be be Happy with us getting only bale and not strengthening other positions like CB and Cm?
Dunno why that would be the option. ITK have been saying we have 150-170 to spend so it would leave more than enough for CM and CB.
If we only have say 100m total to spend then forget Bale or close to his level attacker as after a quality CB and CM there'll be barely anything left.
Bale wages would also change the scenario.For example we have 50m to buy martial but could we afford to pay him and Bale at the same time?I think not.
 

Pedro

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reread the comment. Ali Z is responding to Montyspur saying bale would rather go to manchester
Ahhh I get it now, thought the bit at the end was whitestreak's own comment about the Itk, that makes a lot more sense. Cheers for the correcting me.
 

ebzrascal

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I guess it depends on how much you rate De Ligt. I personally think our options in forward areas are better than at CB and that’s taking into account if we only ever play a back four. I also don’t think Wanyama/Dier Winks Eriksen is a midfield that’s going to win you the league even if you’ve got Bale in your team. Again I don’t know the budget for transfers so if we could improve our weaker areas and add Bale on top, then great.
where are we weak at CB ? We have Dier Sanchez Verts Foyth and CCV plus if we sell Toby that’s extra funds for a new CB if you believe ITK not part of the original pot
 

ButchCassidy

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Think far too many people are trying to work out how Bale would fit into our net spend. That seems like the easy part. It’s the wages that would hurt the most, even assuming he takes a massive pay cut, and worse it’s the change to our wage structure that then affects what other players and agents ask for. How can we justify not paying Kane nearly as much on his next contract? Then Lloris, then Christian... everyone still here seems to have agreed to the idea of progressive smaller pay rises as our finances improve, and dumping a new player in what would have to be at least 150k/wk if not closer to double that could upset things seriously - even one of Bale’s quality.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Bale wages would also change the scenario.For example we have 50m to buy martial but could we afford to pay him and Bale at the same time?I think not.
Who the fudge would want Martial AND Bale?
I respect all opinions, that is all opinions that are remotely valid and somewhat thought-through. However, I wonder about the aggregated level of opposition to the idea of signing Bale. I can't help but thinking that if a different player on the exactly same level as Bale and in the same position but who had never played for Spurs before, if such a player had an interested of coming to us, would we not all want that player, almost no matter subsequent consequences? So why is it then that because it's Bale, we keep coming up with rationales for not sining him?

It's a type of a player that we could never sign. NEVER. Yes, once every decade maybe we develop a player internally who reaches that level, but never could we dream of sining such a player from Real Madrid. Yet here we are, talking about the serious possibility of it. And about why we must turn it down and move on. :wideyed:
 

ebzrascal

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Bale wages would also change the scenario.For example we have 50m to buy martial but could we afford to pay him and Bale at the same time?I think not.
Don’t think we would take both plus Utd will not sell Martial to us
 

am_yisrael_chai

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Think far too many people are trying to work out how Bale would fit into our net spend. That seems like the easy part. It’s the wages that would hurt the most, even assuming he takes a massive pay cut, and worse it’s the change to our wage structure that then affects what other players and agents ask for. How can we justify not paying Kane nearly as much on his next contract? Then Lloris, then Christian... everyone still here seems to have agreed to the idea of progressive smaller pay rises as our finances improve, and dumping a new player in what would have to be at least 150k/wk if not closer to double that could upset things seriously - even one of Bale’s quality.
Bale is a global star on a level above any of our current squad. If we want to be serious challengers we are going to have break this socialist notion that all the players get paid the same. Even if we don’t sign Bale then I would suggest that Kane’s next contract will put him apart from everyone else, just by force of simple market economics.
 

tiger666

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Bale is a global star on a level above any of our current squad. If we want to be serious challengers we are going to have break this socialist notion that all the players get paid the same. Even if we don’t sign Bale then I would suggest that Kane’s next contract will put him apart from everyone else, just by force of simple market economics.

Who's saying all players should get paid the same? That's not at all what he was suggesting in his post.
 
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