Modric

[THOWIG]

40 mil plus McEachran or nothing for me.

 

[Batspur]

It will probably be 35m

 

[Jamturk]

Evening Standard are saying that chelsea will now made a bid of £27million. I'd take it, and put an end to the whole sorry episode, plus £27million could buy some decent players. Remember, when we finished 4th, Modric missed a lot of that season, and we coped pretty well without him.

Your pathetic, 1st sign of trouble and you take 27m. Where's your backbone?

 

[Bill_Oddie]

40 mil plus McEachran or nothing for me.

That would work. I'd personally like Sturridge or Drogba too so perhaps they should cut a deal on that.

I still remember Levy getting 5m out of Roman for Frank Arnesen. If he can do that for a club scout on gardening leave, he can certainly get 40m for one of the world's best midfielders.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Evening Standard are saying that chelsea will now made a bid of £27million. I'd take it, and put an end to the whole sorry episode, plus £27million could buy some decent players. Remember, when we finished 4th, Modric missed a lot of that season, and we coped pretty well without him.

Do people not get it?? Why would you only take 27million?

There are wider implications to this transfer saga. If we do bow to pressure than spurs will never be a top team. Everytime we have a bit of success then the richer sides will just poach our players. We need to stay strong and make him rot for atleast half a season. Then if he is still intent on moving on then sell him abroad. We're trying to close the gap between us and Chelsea not making it wider. Just giving in and letting Chelsea take him from us makes them stronger and us weaker. Why would we want to do that?

If we let him sulk even for a whole season then his value will not depreciate. Whilst not playing him for a season makes us arguably weaker the key is that it won't make Chelsea stronger. Levy and club need to stay strong on this. It is a matter of principle.

 

[Stoof]

Do people not get it?? Why would you only take 27million?

There are wider implications to this transfer saga. If we do bow to pressure than spurs will never be a top team. Everytime we have a bit of success then the richer sides will just poach our players. We need to stay strong and make him rot for atleast half a season. Then if he is still intent on moving on then sell him abroad. We're trying to close the gap between us and Chelsea not making it wider. Just giving in and letting Chelsea take him from us makes them stronger and us weaker. Why would we want to do that?

If we let him sulk even for a whole season then his value will not depreciate. Whilst not playing him for a season makes us arguably weaker the key is that it won't make Chelsea stronger. Levy and club need to stay strong on this. It is a matter of principle.

We could set a very good trend here. We really could.

I do hope we stay strong on this. Keeping our best players also encourages better players to come in. And if better players come in, our best players will feel more contented.

 

[StartingPrice]

Evening Standard are saying that chelsea will now made a bid of £27million. I'd take it, and put an end to the whole sorry episode, plus £27million could buy some decent players. Remember, when we finished 4th, Modric missed a lot of that season, and we coped pretty well without him.

Let's just say I agree with everything everyone has said above in disagreeing with you, esp. Justin.

 

[theShiznit]

Evening Standard are saying that chelsea will now made a bid of £27million. I'd take it, and put an end to the whole sorry episode, plus £27million could buy some decent players. Remember, when we finished 4th, Modric missed a lot of that season, and we coped pretty well without him.

and prepare for a life of being bent over and fucked every time we get a player who looks like breaking us out of the mediocrity we have become so accustomed to...

 

[mattylad77]

Hmmm, looks like my chelscum supporting workmate typed this in whilst I was away from my desk. Moral of the story = lock computer even when going for a piss.

 

[StartingPrice]

Hmmm, looks like my chelscum supporting workmate typed this in whilst I was away from my desk. Moral of the story = lock computer even when going for a piss.

:rofl:

 

[theShiznit]

Hmmm, looks like my chelscum supporting workmate typed this in whilst I was away from my desk. Moral of the story = lock computer even when going for a piss.

ah, and it becomes clear... explains this part too.

Evening Standard are saying that chelsea will now made a bid of £27million

sit him in front of a window a watch him :drool:

 

[Ribble]

Even if/when he is sold it should have to be the day after a cold snap in Hell for us to consider selling to the Chavs.

 

[brendanb50]

This whole situation is now becoming tiresome. My disappointment is painful as Modric has been my favourite player since he joined us and he is, indeed, worthy of medals and club titles because he is incredibly talented. The gloss and shine on him has dulled for me and I'm really sorry about it.

It cements my belief (knowledge even) that loyalty for a club among footballers hardly exists nowadays. The one-club footballer is almost as rare as hens' teeth.

It reflects society's greed for instant gratification which is a pity, as building and working towards something actually gives you far more pleasure in the long run, even though it takes longer than the grab-it-now success option.

I already made a musical analogy about the difference between football as it is now and that of yesteryear and now I'll make a different one about footballers in this situation: if you've ever grown your own produce, which takes time and effort and nurturing, and tasted the difference between that and a fruit or vegetable that has been sitting on a supermarket shelf, you'll know which tastes sweeter.

Luka, Luka... yet another talented but shallow footballer. What a shame.

Great post. :clap: Was discussing this at training yesterday, there seems to be no gratitude to the club, no sentiment or loyalty shown these days.

Perhaps a true legend, Gary Mabbutt needs to sort him out?

 

[Stoof]

Great post. :clap: Was discussing this at training yesterday, there seems to be no gratitude to the club, no sentiment or loyalty shown these days.

Perhaps a true legend, Gary Mabbutt needs to sort him out?

Playing Devil's Advocate for a second, and borrowing the AWOL jimbo's argument ... how dare we demand loyalty to the club from players, when our loyalty to them is just as fleeting.

I agree there's no love in football today, aside from the love of money - but let's not try and take too much of a moral high ground here; we're as guilty as anything for not supporting the players as soon as they hit a bad pass, let alone a bad half or full game.

 

[sloth]

But Sloth, to a degree this was us at various times in our history. The difference was our sugar daddies were millionaires not billionaires. If Irving Scholar was a billionaire he'd have done exactly the same.

I don't like seeing teams like Chelsea and ManC wielding this ludicrously surreal financial muscle, but we do it too, and we have in the past.

Morally I don't see what the difference between what we do to smaller clubs and what Chelsea and ManU have done to us ?

Can you see a difference between Man U and Man C?

 

[TaoistMonkey]

We are sooooo going to get mugged off :-(

 

[StartingPrice]

Playing Devil's Advocate for a second, and borrowing the AWOL jimbo's argument ... how dare we demand loyalty to the club from players, when our loyalty to them is just as fleeting.

I agree there's no love in football today, aside from the love of money - but let's not try and take too much of a moral high ground here; we're as guilty as anything for not supporting the players as soon as they hit a bad pass, let alone a bad half or full game.

I didn't realise we were demanding loyalty, I thought we were asking a massively paid player with 5 years left on his contract, who we neither need nor want to sell, to hnour the aforementioned contract.

Does that answer your Devil, Mr Advocate?

 

[Viva la Tottenham]

Playing Devil's Advocate for a second, and borrowing the AWOL jimbo's argument ... how dare we demand loyalty to the club from players, when our loyalty to them is just as fleeting.

I agree there's no love in football today, aside from the love of money - but let's not try and take too much of a moral high ground here; we're as guilty as anything for not supporting the players as soon as they hit a bad pass, let alone a bad half or full game.

Yeah but the thing is we're paying him a shat load of money each week, so we should be shown alot more gratitude. We took him out of Croatia when alot of people thought he was too slight to make it in England and as soon as he does undoubtedly prove all the doubters wrong he's ready to fark off to one of our biggest and most hated rivals. I understand him wanting to go but the fact he's trying to force a move to chelski is sickening and shows he couldn't give a feck about the fans who have supported him these past 3 seasons. THFC have paid this guy alot of money so we deserve better than the tantrum he's throwing.

 

[Stoof]

It was just a general commentary on "loyalty" needing to go both ways is all.

 

[StartingPrice]

It was just a general commentary on "loyalty" needing to go both ways is all.

It does.
We show loyalty by continuing to pay players wages while they are injured. We have done that for a lot of players, We did it for Woody. We do it for Ledley. We did it for Modric when he had a bad injury.
He didn't show us any loyalty when he gave those interviews rather than seeking ot have a quiet chat with Levy, when the offer was wholly derisory and my so doing is massively damages Levy's bargaining position (both of which he must have known).