Levy wanted £17.6m for Pavlyuchenko

[Green Valley]

£9 million is equally as absurd as £17.6 million, to be fair

This literally.

They offered us £9mm for a striker we paid £13mm for. So we just added the difference on top of what we paid for him year ago.

 

[michaelden]

Yeah but did the president of Spartak say to Levy, "If I leave here without Pav, you'll never hear from me again"?

 

[Matt C]

Fair price, City have inflated the transfer market, last years 10m is this years 15m thanks to City, we took advantage of Pompey's firesale but generally thanks to City inflating the market a Pav type player now would cost about 17m

 

[sussex.spur]

Fair price, City have inflated the transfer market, last years 10m is this years 15m thanks to City, we took advantage of Pompey's firesale but generally thanks to City inflating the market a Pav type player now would cost about 17m

Look at the price we sold and then signed defoe for - last years price is never a good guide to the current market

 

[gibbs131]

Look at the price we sold and then signed defoe for - last years price is never a good guide to the current market

Oh come on. The price we demanded is nonsense. Everyone is talking bollocks.

Defoe was scoring for fun when we re-signed him.

It's different to Young inflated quote because they truly wanted to keep him. I don't believe it for a second that we quoted it because we wanted to keep him. We were just trying it on and they backed out.

Like some mentioned, we started off in la la land hoping the middle ground would get us our money back.

 

[tRiKS]

i don't believe

 

[kaz Hirai]

is that article writer stupid or just an arsenal or chelsea fan?

we dont want to sell him.

we dont need the money.

so we set a price that would be too hard to turn down if they could come up with it

 

[Mr-T]

Could the lesson here be 'dont try buying players from spurs, levy will wring every last penny out of you as he's one hard-arse ballhead business fart that makes alan sugar look like a pussyhole'?

If this is the lesson then judging by the 'reject' threads I'm guessing its not been learned.

 

[epfou1]

Fair price in the situation imo. If you enquiring about Pav on deadline day then you need to pay over the odds to get him as it doesn't leave Spurs a lot of time to get a replacement.

 

[Destroyer]

I can remember that other Russian team Zenit quoting us £21m for Arshavin (even though he is good) last summer too ?? What goes around, comes around & vice-versa ....

You pay your money you take your chances.

 

[Destroyer]

Show us the money you blood suckers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Houdini]

Kinda reminds me of the Gazza transfer talks with Lazio, every time they phoned up to offer money for him, we put the price up £1m - £2m, i think we got £3.5m more than we initially asked for him!

 

[fazza]

I can remember that other Russian team Zenit quoting us £21m for Arshavin (even though he is good) last summer too ?? What goes around, comes around & vice-versa ....

You pay your money you take your chances.

That went up to nearly £30 million by the way once a fee had been agreed, poxy Russian Maffia.

 

[Dharmabum]

"Or they could get £11.5m through a loan deal - we would pay £1m right away and the rest after a year's time."
Funnily, Russian clubs however wants majority of an transfer fee paid right away when they are the selling club.
I am sure Levy would have said yes to 14-15m if they had come in with an offer in time for Spurs to sign a replacement rather in the last days of the window.