Luka expects to be at Spurs till the summer

[nightgoat]

A little dissappointed by those comments but lets get real...its modern day football at the end of the day.

Bottam line, we still hold the power in this situation and if anybody thinks Levy is going to compromise our best ever potential finish to a Premier League season they're on drugs.

He won't be sold in January, that is clear. I guess he's saying lets see where we finish come June and what sort of contract I'm offered as a result if we finish top 4 again. Fair enough.


So yeah I would say it depends on three things:

1) where we finish
2) the strength of a new contract offer from ourselves
3) what other offers he receives

If we finish third and offer him over 100k a week I think he'll stay, obviously if we don't finish top four we'll be entertaining offers this time round.

He shouldn't be receiving any offers unless we accept a bid... If he does then it'll be another transfer embargo for the Chavs...

 

[DJS]

Who cares if his heart isn't 100% with Spurs.

He's on quite a long contract with us still, binded to us by law. So we just refuse to sell him as we did last summer and then he'll continue playing well on the pitch.

Although I'm not such a fan of Modric the man anymore, he has the kind of personality on the pitch that he'll bust his guts to give consistent 8 or 9 rated performances whether he's dreaming of Chelski's souless club or not.

We'll just have to get used to being tense every summer. :lol:

 

[nedley]

I've seen the original translation and whichever way you translate it - he's still covering himself for an exit at the end of the season.

On the flipside, for example, Bale has publicly said [months back] he's staying with the club, with no cover-speak - and that's the difference between the two.

If results don't go our way this season, Modders + agent(s) will kick up a big stink next summer.

And I wouldn't blame him one little bit. He was wrong to ask for a move last summer and IMO owed us to see through the current season.

The club should be finishing in the top 4. If we fail to do that I wouldn't begrudge him the move at all. He's kept his head down, played fantastic and we head into 2012 looking like a force to be reckoned with.

If we finish in the top 4 again, and Levy continues to do his business by backing Harry with further funds and offers Modric a contract that he deserves...

I can easily see Modric staying. So standing firm will have lookied to be the right thing to do back in August/Sept.

 

[DJS]

Actually reading the article again Modric does sound (if those were he's actual words) a bit of a nob "I'm staying until June and then we'll see".

But hey-ho, if Levy can do it again just tell him he's on a long-term contract and just to keep performing as he has been on the pitch like a good lad.

 

[Hot-Spur]

Actually reading the article again Modric does sound (if those were he's actual words) a bit of a nob "I'm staying until June and then we'll see".

But hey-ho, if Levy can do it again just tell him he's on a long-term contract and just to keep performing as he has been on the pitch like a good lad.

He does sound like a spoilt brat alright but yet looking at him you would think butter wouldn't melt :evil:

 

[DJS]

He does sound like a spoilt brat alright but yet looking at him you would think butter wouldn't melt :evil:

When Sky Sports were at the lodge talking to players and asking them if they had any Christmas messages for the fans he was a right miserable git then too. :lol:

 

[Hot-Spur]

When Sky Sports were at the lodge talking to players and asking them if they had any Christmas messages for the fans he was a right miserable git then too. :lol:

I don't think i've ever heard him speak though I could believe that. He is different to the likes of VDV alright, who just ooozes charm and charisma.

 

[3Dnata]

Via Ross on Glory Glory

Headlines of tommorow's SN (biggest Croatian sports papers)

Luka Modrić: I don't intend to leave Spurs now. I'm certain we'll be playing CL next year.

Niko Kranjčar: I'm not leaving Spurs.

Ultra Yeahs allround on this post.

 

[StartingPrice]

Yes, yes and yes to answer your top 3 points. He doesnt seem to be a negative influence no but we dont know all the little conversations that go on between players. He makes us tick yes. Football clubs always need the money mate. What has he EVER said that makes you believe he'll stay with us if we are in the CL?

Im actually asking btw as Ive not read anything like it.

My point is that if a player wants to leave, as I believe he does deep down, its pointless keeping him.

Yeah, it's a good job for us and the other challengers that United took that stance with Rooney, too, isn't it...oh, wait a minute :eh:

I don't think i've ever heard him speak though I could believe that. He is different to the likes of VDV alright, who just ooozes charm and charisma.

Another victim for Hottie's shed, from the sounds of it mg:

 

[dvdhopeful]

Thanks for your input Luka, much appreciated

/hands Luka a contract with his signature on

Enjoy your stay.

 

[Blake Griffin]

he comes across as quite cold, but i can't help but love him when he jumps 3 feet in the air everytime we score.

 

[Roy1983]

Well Rooney questioned United's title winning ambitions....then got a huge pay rise!

That got him what he wanted alright! I dont believe he was ever going to leave United just a bid to get more money. All opinions of course.

 

[onthetwo]

i guess all else being equal, (meaning we qualify for CL, Harry stays and we pay Luka what he's worth) the key thing that he will stipulate get him to sign (the new contract) is a mega buy-out clause, presumably around the 50m mark?

 

[StartingPrice]

Well Rooney questioned United's title winning ambitions....then got a huge pay rise!

That got him what he wanted alright! I dont believe he was ever going to leave United just a bid to get more money. All opinions of course.

You conveniently miss the point. If you had been a United fan, one minute before the news leaked that he ahd signed that contract extension you would have been advocating selling Rooney, too.

Essentially, your argument is illogical, as I have shown.

 

[Roy1983]

Different circumstances. I dont think Rooney came out with the stuff Modric said in regards to leaving did he? He questioned United's ability to sign top players IIRC.

Lets agree to disagree you win etc..

 

[StartingPrice]

Different circumstances. I dont think Rooney came out with the stuff Modric said in regards to leaving did he? He questioned United's ability to sign top players IIRC.

Lets agree to disagree you win etc..

Oh, yeah, different circumstances.

Yeah, right, agree to disagree.

I don't want to win for the sake of winning...I have explained why I think your attitude is completely illogical, and you didn't provide an answer. I subsequently explained that I wasn't being emotional, again with no response. If you want to believe that only responding to those questions you believe you have an answer (largely by being evasive) is you defending your opinion, by all means do so, and, therefore, you can retain the mythology in your own head that your opinion is a valid one, by all means do so. I don't really care - because, thankfully, you have no say in the running of the club.

 

[Adam456]

Here we go :roll:

 

[Roy1983]

Well thankfully you dont either because, along with myself and every other Spurs fan, we'd probably run it with our hearts opposed to our heads wouldnt we?

Theres nothing illogical about my argument fella just as there's nothing wrong with yours. Its all about opinions.

My over-riding thought on the whole Modric saga is that THFC, as an organisation, are better off without players who want out. If his attitude is first class, and neither you nor I can judge that that comes from Redknapp, then I think he is superb as a player and of COURSE we're miles better with him.

Naturally, if he does go then Id prefer him to go abroad opposed to an English team.

 

[StartingPrice]

I made a post questioing the logicality of your opinion - you didn't make any response.
I made a post explaining why I didn't consider my attitude to be emotional - you didn't make any response.

It makes your attempt to maintain your opinion with logic seem suspect.

Selling Modric to the team who destabilized him, almost definitely illegally, at all, and especially for the type of price you suggest, would hurt us and help our rivals, set an incredibly bad precedent, harm the prestige of our club, and, basically, make the club appear second rate.

If there was absolutely no choice but to do it, fine - but only at the expense of Chelsea knowing full-well that they have publicly been seen to bleed almost to death and obtaining him basicly added a player at the expense of ruining the club as an effective force. Anything less would be a crass capitulation by a club of our stature holding as many cards as we do.

Let me be clear about this. Several posters holding opinions similar to yours argued this out in the Summer - usually with the, at least understandable, excuse that they thought Levy would cave in at the last minute and so we should sell now to at least get the use of the transfer fee. Perhaps you should read through them first, before make us rehearse the saem arguments again - only with the infuriating lack of justification that Levy didn't cave in, and that we are actually above Chelsea in the league. Then, if you still insist on holding this bizarre opinion that we should give Chelsea, Jorabchian-rat, his agent and him exactly what they want - and at minimal expense to them, I can just not debating with someone who seems bent on holding a perverse opinion just for the sake of it.

Just in case you haven't figured it out - I find the idea of selling Modric to Chelsea for anything, but especially anything remotely close to £30 million perverse and unacceptable. Especially when he has knuckled down, we are 3rd in the table with an excellent chance of CL football next season, we still have him on nearly five years of contract, and negotiations are ongoing on extending that contract.

 

[Roy1983]

In reply Id have to disagree that a £30m offer is "Perverse" what an odd choice of word? Id love to bleed them for a lot more but £30m is a hell of a lot of money and could be put straight back into the team.

In regards to what was discussed in the summer I couldnt care less about as I wasnt here then.

Let me make this clearer to you. I dont want Modric to go to Chelsea. Id prefer him to stay if he wants to. I cant forgive him for what he said in the summer but thats my problem.