Lloris to weight things up at the end of the season

[hybridsoldier]

Usual journalist stuff. What player WOULDN'T say that they will think about it at the end of the season?

If I don't my bonus at work because my dept/division has done rubbish then I would think about moving somewhere else too.

Not talking money I am talking ambition, I am sure he wants to play in the CL after being in it every year with Lyon.

Quite how we bought him for £10.8m is still a total mystery to me!!

 

[StartingPrice]

ahh yes, the spurs transfer cycle.

sell lloris, then we can buy a top left back. oh, crap, then we'd need a keeper wouldn't we, well, just sell vertonghen then, but we'd need a top cb then you say? well why don't we just sell sandro

If such a cycle existed the quality of our squad and youth set-up would be the same as it was ten years ago.
Is it your opinion that this is the case?

 

[JonnySpurs]

Pretty sure Ter-Stegen has already agreed to join Barca in summer.

Not gonna worry about Hugo, he'll stick around

 

[yankspurs]

Paraphrase:

Interviewer: Hugo, what is the aim for Spurs this season?

Hugo: To finish in the top 4.

Interviewer: What will you personally do IF Spurs don't finish in the top 4, will you leave?

Hugo: It hasn't crossed my mind, I haven't given it even a second's thought.

Interviewer: Well, I've asked you now, so it has crossed your mind...so, what will you do, will you leave?

Hugo: I'll think about it if it happens.


Cue 847 sensationalised headlines asserting that Lloris is considering future at Spurs, followed by 79.3% of Spurs fans getting their knickers in an almighty twist because we might lose Lloris :giggle:

Discalimer: All statistics accurate at time of publication

Well, I dont think anyone knows that he'll leave. I dont think it was unreasonable to post and I dont think we are sensationalizing anything. We're speculating on possible replacements...

Also, there are players here that deserve to be playing in the Champions League. I'd love them to stay if we dont make it, but we cant expect them to.

 

[Blake Griffin]

If such a cycle existed the quality of our squad and youth set-up would be the same as it was ten years ago.
Is it your opinion that this is the case?

well we're still 5th aren't we?

 

[StartingPrice]

Well, I dont think anyone knows that he'll leave. I dont think it was unreasonable to post and I dont think we are sensationalizing anything. We're speculating on possible replacements...

Also, there are players here that deserve to be playing in the Champions League. I'd love them to stay if we dont make it, but we cant expect them to.

No-one knows that he will leave. No-one knows that he won't leave. Knowledge either way, or even a genuine possibility of same, are irrelevant to the fact that the media have fabricated a story implying that he is seriously considering leaving if we don't get CL based on these comments.

I never said it was unreasonable to post it.

The media are sensationalising it - I never said anyone on here was sensationalising it. I did say that a certain number of fans were getting their knickers in a twist a bit if they got worked-up, especially in regard to a possible player exodus based on the media twisting of these comments. That is something different to senationalising it.

Not everyone is speculating on possible replacement...anyone doing so is fine, as far as I am concerned anyway. The purpose of my comment was to highlight the disconnect between what Lloris actually said and the sensationalised media headlines, and, gently, to have a laugh at the percentage of Spurs fans who will get worked up based on those headlines.

What does deserve to play in CL even mean? A lot of children who deserve good nutrition and shelter will be cold and hungry tonight. Louis Suarez, based on playing ability, deserves to be in a CL team - which is probably why he twisted and turned like a twisty turny thing in an effort to escape Anfield in the Summer - didn't stop Liverpool forcing him to stay, even though there is a pretty good (IMHO) chance that they won't have CL football next season, either. We deserved to be playing CL football last season, didn't stop UEFA conspicuously not doing what they did for Liverpool when there wasn't even any legal reason why they should be in the CL. We have an excellent squad, one of the best any of us have ever known, the first team and bench are full of players good enough, or potentially good enough, to play in a CL team - so maybe, just maybe, rather than bleating about being good enough to play for a CL team and trying to engineer a move if we don't qualify, they should have a good hard long cold look in the mirror. We as fans, and as fans of a highly ambitious club who has assembled a very strong squad, deserve to be watching CL football - will these highly paid folk deliver it for us?

Of course we can expect them to stay if we don't make CL football - they have legally binding contracts. Maybe, just maybe, they might look at the group of players assembled, and the possible boon of not playing in Europe and believe we can give it a good go next season - indeed, I would expect them to.

 

[StartingPrice]

well we're still 5th aren't we?

Finished 4th in two of the previous four seasons - and that is with Citeh being gifted the pot of filthy oil-money gold at the end of the rainbow.

But that wasn't what I asked. You implied that a cycle exists of selling one good player to buy another good player. If that were the case, the quality of our squad would never improve. Considering a large amount of our development has been at the level of the youth set-up, I felt it pertinent to include that in the discussion. And so, I asked if you consider the quality of our squad and youth set-up to be the same as it was ten years ago?

 

[absolute bobbins]

DL is doing the same with Tim . why can't Hugo?

Because he has ambition, wants to challenge himself on the highest stage and prove beyond all doubt that he is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe.
Tim may well be incapable of offering him that opportunity to do that so prudence dictates that he and his team explore the options available to them.

Oh and OP, you should add Carl Darlow to the list, it seems that someone at Spurs has a chubby for him

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

If he's got at least 3 years left on his contract he won't be going anywhere IMO.

 

[SugarRay]

Wait and see what LVG wants to do.

After all, if we dot finish top in the top 4 and Hugo wants out, he will have to tell LVG as he will be our new manager!

 

[danielneeds]

We're gonna be a precarious position every summer, as long as we keep signing good young players, and then keep changing managers and not having CL. Nothing new here.

If it happened I would add Willy Caballero to the list. Brilliant every time I see him for Malaga. They're still skint too.

 

[Kiedis]

Not sure what top teams that are in search of a keeper. Barcelona probably, but Lloris har poor distribution, so that's probably not a match made in heaven. Even if he is among the best at sweeping.

 

[PT]

Has David James dyed his hair again? ^^^

 

[danielneeds]

Not sure what top teams that are in search of a keeper. Barcelona probably, but Lloris har poor distribution, so that's probably not a match made in heaven. Even if he is among the best at sweeping.

PSG, perhaps? Monaco?

 

[Macspur261]

Player wants to play in CL , massive story, shock horror.
Nothing to worry about as far as I'm concerned.

 

[DFF]

He's one of the top 5 keepers in the world. We're lucky to have him in the first place.

 

[guiltyparty]

No-one knows that he will leave. No-one knows that he won't leave. Knowledge either way, or even a genuine possibility of same, are irrelevant to the fact that the media have fabricated a story implying that he is seriously considering leaving if we don't get CL based on these comments.

I never said it was unreasonable to post it.

The media are sensationalising it - I never said anyone on here was sensationalising it. I did say that a certain number of fans were getting their knickers in a twist a bit if they got worked-up, especially in regard to a possible player exodus based on the media twisting of these comments. That is something different to senationalising it.

Not everyone is speculating on possible replacement...anyone doing so is fine, as far as I am concerned anyway. The purpose of my comment was to highlight the disconnect between what Lloris actually said and the sensationalised media headlines, and, gently, to have a laugh at the percentage of Spurs fans who will get worked up based on those headlines.

What does deserve to play in CL even mean? A lot of children who deserve good nutrition and shelter will be cold and hungry tonight. Louis Suarez, based on playing ability, deserves to be in a CL team - which is probably why he twisted and turned like a twisty turny thing in an effort to escape Anfield in the Summer - didn't stop Liverpool forcing him to stay, even though there is a pretty good (IMHO) chance that they won't have CL football next season, either. We deserved to be playing CL football last season, didn't stop UEFA conspicuously not doing what they did for Liverpool when there wasn't even any legal reason why they should be in the CL. We have an excellent squad, one of the best any of us have ever known, the first team and bench are full of players good enough, or potentially good enough, to play in a CL team - so maybe, just maybe, rather than bleating about being good enough to play for a CL team and trying to engineer a move if we don't qualify, they should have a good hard long cold look in the mirror. We as fans, and as fans of a highly ambitious club who has assembled a very strong squad, deserve to be watching CL football - will these highly paid folk deliver it for us?

Of course we can expect them to stay if we don't make CL football - they have legally binding contracts. Maybe, just maybe, they might look at the group of players assembled, and the possible boon of not playing in Europe and believe we can give it a good go next season - indeed, I would expect them to.

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.

 

[Booney]

Lloris is a great player but not as difficult to replace as some of the other players we've lost in recent seasons.

With AVB and the high defensive line gone it's less crucial to have the goal-keeper as a sweeper. I'd be gutted to see him go but it does make the pool of potential replacements a whole lot bigger.

 

[tototoner]

Does this surprise anyone, Levy should rename the club Tottenham Hotspur Player Trading Exchange, because that is all we are to him.

 

[Dharmabum]

PSG, perhaps? Monaco?

Monaco have apparently more or less agree a deal with Victor Valdes (who's state he will be leaving the club). Which means Barca will be looking for a new goalie. They have their eye set on Casillas (highly unlikely) and ter Stegen, but should Lloris become "available" they may go for him due their high line defense and "need" of a sweeper goalie.