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Manchester United told Eric Dier will cost £50m

mawspurs

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Manchester United have been quoted a £50 million valuation of the Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Eric Dier, whom Jose Mourinho wants signed in time for the new season.

Read the full article at Telegraph
 

millsey

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Can see Dier wanting this move but poch loves him. If we sell we may as well give up.
 

Jenko

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gotta be worth more than Pogba.

Don't believe that shit anyway.... Levy would never low ball like that.
 

N17Jack

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Dier does provide fluidity on the pitch, allowing us to seamlessly switch from 5-3-2 to 4-4-2 not an easy role to fill. I love Dier, but I could see this happening unfortunately. For the two DM spots we have Wanyama, Dembele, Winks and Onomah. If they want to free up cash for players like Lemar, in the same way Walker has Trippier and Walker Peters behind him, it might be part of the plan. That said Walker is 27 and Dier is only a baby. Glad I dont run a football club, but Poch knows best.
 

1882andallthat

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Absolute bollocks ! I find it difficult to believe that Daniel Levy would be so open about the price he is available for especially to a Premier League rival, and what kind of statement would this send out ? We might as well be saying, alright, if Dele Alli wants to join his mate at Utd then he too can go for £X. Ridiculous journalists optimism.

We would immediately weaken and undermine any strategy for growing as a club and maintaining a sustained challenge to rival teams at the top, because teams like Utd would just think, "oh it doesn't matter if Spurs finish above us this season, we will simply cut their momentum dead by buying and unsettling their best players, and they will never sustain this momentum and properly challenge for top honours".

Utter rubbish, if we deployed this strategy we might as well be saying to Utd, we are your Southampton, as Southampton exist to simply serve Liverpool and to some extent us, so just come and get our best players when the mood takes you.

Has this ridiculous strategy served Southampton well ? If your ceiling is 7th or 8th, then maybe it has, but frankly adopting this approach will be as good as it gets for them.

Do the media seriously think that were investing in state of the art training facilities and a new ground with a significantly increased capacity just for this, so we can serve the Top 4 ?

In conclusion this is nonsense or if it isn't it should be.....
 
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Shirtfront

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Sorry, but people on here seem to have very short memories. Levy has a long and illustrious history of selling our best players to United. Now, perhaps he has learned the error of his ways; perhaps he really is prepared to back Poch in a way he has never backed another manager. But let's not fool ourselves that this is simply a case of "do one".

While I wouldn't buy Dier for £50m personally, I also wouldn't sell him. The instability it would cause at just the wrong time, together with giving United a massive leg up, make that bad business.

As discussed previously, we should hold on to absolutely everyone for a couple more years and then take stock. We don't need to sell so we shouldn't. Try and add one or two more gems at reasonable prices, but no selling our existing gems in the hope we might buy a shinier one....
 
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