Please excuse my language, but that's nonsense. He didn't disclose any club, could very well be Chelsea and seems the most likely one tbh.
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Please excuse my language, but that's nonsense. He didn't disclose any club, could very well be Chelsea and seems the most likely one tbh.
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thanks worcestersauce. I am only passing on what i saw on national Belgian television yesterday. If it was a journo or someone unrelated to Anderlecht, I wouldn't even bothered to post, but Paul Van Himst really really is in the know with everything happening to Anderlecht so.
Apart from whether it's true or not, we would be the ideal club for him in England. Sure any fan would say that, but I've seen this guy play numerous times and he's not the finished article yet. He is not Didier Drogba. Tons of potential yes, but some flaws as well (mainly his technique/first touch and he's emotionally 'vulnerable'). I doubt he would walk into the starting 11 at Man utd, Man City, Arsenal or Chelsea, so it would/could be a perfect match.
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He didn't disclose any club? It went like this:
Paul Van Himst: 'I think Lukaku has a pre-agreement with one of the English clubs already'
Journo: Do you think it's like that, that Lukaku has an agreement with Tottenham?'
Paul Van Himst: 'I think it's them yeah, I think so'.
Listen, I just thought it was exciting enough to share it with you all. Take it or leave it OK?
As someone else has already pointed out in this thread, no link comes up concerning Tottenham + Paul van Himst + Lukaku.
My Anderlecht friends are saying that van Himst did state (on the 16th, so last week) that Lukaku has an pre-agreement with an English club, but he didn't state which one.
What show/program was that interview from so I can check for myself?
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That link is irrelevant to the threadstarters claim that Paul van Himst said Spurs have a pre-agreement with Lukaku though.
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It sure counts a whole shedload more than that of those who have only seen him on YouTube. I strongly suspect they're the overwhelming majority.
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I haven't seen Lukaku at all, although I have a Belgian friend who says he's a beast but has the technical skills of our average centre back .. then again he does support Liege.
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Oh come on. You know the best way to approach a transfer window is to see us linked with a big money move for a foreign striker, hear dan ashcroft tell us he would improve us beyond recognition, watch a couple of youtube videos and go into mass hysteria mode when we fail to sign him. Right? Oh, not forgetting the cherry on top of that cake: seeing said striker look like a useless pile of dung for Manchester City when they splash £27m on him...
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One of the papers saying that Liverpool are attempting to push through a deal for him. Cant see a possible better strikeforce than lukaku, carroll and suarez
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If we've had a serious chance of Carroll, Suarez ("come and get me Spurs"), and Lukaka and the non-CL Scousers get all three I really will feel sick as a bluddy pig.
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Goes to show you don't need CL to attract top talent though. Just money.
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Is it even that?
It's just having the gonads to go up to the fittest girl (or the girlie equivalent) at the party and say "get your coat, you've pulled":grin:
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Obviously that too! I think the 'presitige' factor definitely comes into play too, hence Pool being an attractive team to sign for.
Great, just what we need an attacking right back that can't defend, in a team that leaks so many goals already.
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Yep "prestige" most certainly comes into it too. Liverpool is still a huge name in world football, the pull is certainly still there for them.....
Do you think having a man soley in charge of transfers, DOF, makes a difference too? He can get on the case of the player/agent and be buttering them up months in advance, whereas a manager has a team to manage first and foremost...... I do think we miss that. It's not like we are a huge name like say Man Utd/Liverpool/Bayern Munich where a player dreams of playing for us, hence we have to butter them up to maybe swing it our way. That is what we done with Berbatov as Utd and Liverpool were both after him, but our persistence via our DOF swung it our way.....
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Never seen him play, but would just urge us that if we are going to sign him, we HAVE to get a more experienced player in as well-would be so typical of us to just throw a 17 year old into the lions den and expect him to smash 25 goals in his first year-he'll need to be gradually introduced into the team if we're going to get the best out of him, regardless of how good he is already
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I think in terms of signing top players, the DOF system can work wonders, and Comolli, particularly in retrospect, signed some great ones for us (Bale, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto, Modric, Gomes, Berbatov).
I do think that on the pitch the DOF system can work less well. Would Redknapp want someone choosing players on his behalf? Probably not; it can cause tension. In a way it worked out nicely for us in the sense that Comolli snapped up some great players and then Redknapp got to work with them.
You definitely have a point when it comes to sorting out transfers while the manager focuses on the team though. There's no way we'd see a Modric style signing before the end of the season now
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I have to say that I was a critic of Commoli at the time, but given our performance in the transfer market since he's gone I think there is a lot to be said about retaining him when Ramos got the boot.I think in terms of signing top players, the DOF system can work wonders, and Comolli, particularly in retrospect, signed some great ones for us (Bale, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto, Modric, Gomes, Berbatov).
I do think that on the pitch the DOF system can work less well. Would Redknapp want someone choosing players on his behalf? Probably not; it can cause tension. In a way it worked out nicely for us in the sense that Comolli snapped up some great players and then Redknapp got to work with them.
You definitely have a point when it comes to sorting out transfers while the manager focuses on the team though. There's no way we'd see a Modric style signing before the end of the season now
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I was outspoken on the quality of Comolli's signings at the time...but said then, and say again now - it wasn't the signings he made, but those he didn't, and the fact that it was at his insistence and on his head that Ramos was hired, that did for him.
Besides, don't agree with the wholly negative assessment of 'Arry's transfer activities, either.
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