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Mateo Kovacic

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Sam Lee, Tier 1 for city just said today they aren't interested.
I feel like Kovacic is exactly the sort of player a club like Spurs hope will become available at the end of the window once all the big boys have done their business. The only problem is this window doesn't end when the PL window does.
 

classwell

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This has got to be about the longest transfer thread in SC history about a player that we don’t even have a tenuous half-link to...

I think it just makes too much sense, slots straight into an area of need and he seems to want out.

Didn't we supposedly bid last summer?
 

daryl hannah

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Didn't Gards suggest he was a target on twitter - same time he confirmed Zaha before he said Zaha deal was officially off?
 

JayB

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I seriously doubt Modric is going anywhere.
I agree, but he and his agent are obviously using the threat of Inter's interest to negotiate for a better contract. I doubt Perez will be willing to sell Kovacic until Modric's new contract is sorted, which could very well stretch on past Thursday.
 

rossdapep

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Too many big players will be interested in him and it may explain why we haven't been strongly linked.
 

Mr Pink

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But he wants out of Madrid, primarily because he doesn't start enough - so what would be the vast difference at City. Sure he may get a better contract but this guy wants to play.

He'd walk into our midfield, not City's.
 

LexingtonSpurs

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Too many big players will be interested in him and it may explain why we haven't been strongly linked.
How many big players? United is out. Barça is a non-starter. City does not make any sense - if he wants out to play more.

Who is bigger right now? Not Chelsea nor Arsenal. Liverpool have no money to spend.

I could see him wanting to go back to Italy - but that is not the same as a bigger club pushing Spurs out of the way.
 

dtxspurs

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How many big players? United is out. Barça is a non-starter. City does not make any sense - if he wants out to play more.

Who is bigger right now? Not Chelsea nor Arsenal. Liverpool have no money to spend.

I could see him wanting to go back to Italy - but that is not the same as a bigger club pushing Spurs out of the way.
We'd be a better option than any team in Italy bar Juve and I think they're likely done this window.
 

scat1620

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I think the lack of any credible links to him is because a player of his calibre would be too rich for our tastes. Not necessarily too rich for our means, but for our tastes.
 

dtxspurs

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Could see a Pogba swap if he wants out at United
I actually think a swap for Courtouis is a possibility but these swap deals just so rarely actually happen.

That is if Chelsea are looking to add their 4th CM in the past year.
 

LexingtonSpurs

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I think the lack of any credible links to him is because a player of his calibre would be too rich for our tastes. Not necessarily too rich for our means, but for our tastes.
tenuous link in ITK thread

"kovacic would be nice"

Definitely sounds like this is a done deal...
 

LexingtonSpurs

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Has anyone put together a "Welcome to Liverpool" video? that would be the next sign that Kovacic is on a Ryan Air flight to London.
 
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