Lloris to weight things up at the end of the season

[Armstrong_11]

Not really too worried, he is enjoying himself at the moment. Normal for the media to go sniffing around for a tranfer related story as this has been a quiet window & Lloris is having an excellent season.

I also don't see much places for him to go, maybe PSG, BVB, Barcelona or Arsenal maybe... And we will command a very high price for him. Maybe a swap with Madrid for their current 2nd choice? Haha!

 

[fatpiranha]

Even if we take Lloris' quotes at face value and not as reading too much into an innocent remark it might not mean that he is desperate for Champions League football but rather that he knows (as I suspect we all do) that if we don't qualify for the CL then there will be a new manager coming in. The new manager may well have a very different ideas regarding how we set up tactically.

As we all know Lloris is a very good GK but an absolutely exceptional sweeper/keeper. If we don't play a high line there are other keepers who will do just as good a job for us. It would be a waste of his talents not to play with a high line but apart from Walker (and a pre-injury Kaboul) we don't have the pace in our defence to truly employ that tactic to its best effect.

If we abandon the high line then I would be prepared to see Lloris move on with no hard feelings. He would attract a very high price from the right team and it would be unfair to keep him if we were not utilising his greatest asset.

 

[StartingPrice]

You are, of course, right. But stories like this play to people's instincts and pre-conceived thoughts

Lloris, due to his awkward start at Spurs, perceived quality in context to the rest of the world and generally so-so demeanour, would be high on many's lists for wanting out should the opportunity occur. So him saying something that even hints at that, however throwaway, plays into the arms of the sceptical more than, say, Dawson saying it would.

But genuine LOL at the last paragraph. As if that's how it works. Ever.

Of course stories like this play on folk's instincts...the meeja have been honing down their skill at playing on this for hundreds of years. doesn't mean none of us are going to, or should, point out just how sensationalist it is, to the point of being scaremongering - if for nothing else but for balance

I wouldn't read all that much into it, i.e. slow start et al. We all know he is a very good goalkeeper, one we were lucky to get and, particularly, lucky to get at the price. And we all know all players (apart from Steve Bull...and Alan Shearer according to United fans) want to play at the very highest level possible. I would have thought the same of Bale, and I, for one, still believe that time will show we spent the money we got for him pretty well). My disappointment was that I did believe we could reasonably keep him for one more season and then sell for pretty much the same price - but a hell of a lot does go on behind the scenes, don't it!

Genuine LoL at the last paragraph is fine...I was being deliberately tendentious in answer to a particular post. One extreme, ala, oh poor lickle us, we is sheeeeeeeeeee-ite and everyone is better than us and no-one (apart from Noone, apparently) will want to play for us and everyone will steal our players who won't want to play for us anyway because they are all greed and power driven automatons, deserves, IMHO, to be met with, fark orf, we are the dog's bollocks and can even get advantage from not qualifying for Europe and players are all wholly logical and reasonable folk who may consider that, and the quality of the squad, and ponder upon a possible title challenge I do, of course, realise, as stated above, that in a general sense players aim as high as their talent will take them.

I do believe fatpiranha (fat...from eating all those little kinders...the bastard! ) has the general sense of it. It isn't that I want to desperately convince the unbelievers that there is no way on Earth that Lloris will abandon us, just that this comment isn't any indication of it, really, and, I am sure, it won't necessarily be the end of the World if it happens.

Anyway, we ill finish third, above the Goons ;-/