Nicolò Zaniolo

[DodgyLasagne]

That’s absolutely fine.

We should walk away then if that’s how much they’re demanding.

€60m is outrageous.

It’s outrageous if we ONLY considered his actual output and talent level.

Then taking his injuries into account - it moves from outrageous to downright insulting.

That being said, an obligation instead of an option would surely be cheaper and negotiable.

 

[glacierSpurs]

€50m option for me is fine. It's the €10m loan fee that is a bugger. FFS

 

[CockOnBall]

The kit man will know the starting line up before it's released as will anyone in the medical team. or people in the IT department. Yet it would be more difficult for me to find that stuff out, and by the time I did it wouldn't be news.

Personally I don’t like it when our fans leak team news in advance. There’s such little value in knowing it in advance and serves the opposition. I appreciate you could say that about transfer news but that’s less black and white then knowing someone has failed a covid test on the eve of the game. That’s just me though. Everyone has a line I guess

 

[Trix]

Personally I don’t like it when our fans leak team news in advance. There’s such little value in knowing it in advance and serves the opposition. I appreciate you could say that about transfer news but that’s less black and white then knowing someone has failed a covid test on the eve of the game. That’s just me though. Everyone has a line I guess

I don't see a problem with it tbh. I mean it's literally a very short time in front of the official announcement and won't make much difference as the other team won't change game plans they've been working on for days an hour before kick off.

 

[worcestersauce]

€50m option for me is fine. It's the €10m loan fee that is a bugger. FFS

€10m loan fee that becomes a first payment if we exercise our option for a further €40m making €50m

 

[Trix]

Could be bull but who knows

The financials are a little off, but apart from that it's fairly close to the truth.

 

[Scot-Spur]

The financials are a little off, but apart from that it's fairly close to the truth.

I assume they are open to selling if we are continuing to negotiate. Personally think it gets done.

 

[Wick3d]

The state of the market right now. European clubs want a premium for everything but when it comes to buying they offer peanuts

 

[Breezer]

€50m option for me is fine. It's the €10m loan fee that is a bugger. FFS

Why? Are you paying for it? ?

 

[Trix]

I assume they are open to selling if we are continuing to negotiate. Personally think it gets done.

They want a sale or straight up obligation. We would rather not go that way and want to make sure he is over his injuries. Our compromise to a straight loan with an option, was to include clauses to make it mandatory. We will just have to see how it pans out because I believe that offer was a couple of days ago.

 

[mark87]

Roma can charge whatever they want, his their player and would rather keep than sell, so I'm not surprised at their supposed demands.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Transfer news latest: Timo Werner set for RB Leipzig return while Tottenham have Nicolò Zaniolo bid rejected

Timo Werner is on the verge of a return to RB Leipzig, two years after he joined Chelsea for £47.5 million.The 26-year-old forward has been keen to return to Ge

www.thetimes.co.uk

Tottenham Hotspur have made an offer to loan the winger Nicolò Zaniolo with an obligation to buy for £20 million, which has been rejected by Roma. Tottenham hope to permanently offload Giovani Lo Celso to Villarreal, where the midfielder was on loan last season. The Spanish club would prefer a second loan.

 

[DodgyLasagne]

They’re asking £50m total, we offer £20m

If anyone had any doubt on who’s running the deal - it’s definitely Levy who’s taken the wheel now LOL

 

[HildoSpur]

That’s absolutely fine.

We should walk away then if that’s how much they’re demanding.

€60m is outrageous.

Is it your money? I couldn't give a crap what he costs if he is the player Conte wants.

 

[CockOnBall]

Sounds similar to Deki’s loan. Can’t remember the exact details but we paid a high loan fee (believe it was 10m?) plus 35m (?) euros to trigger the permanent deal. Within that he had to play a certain percentage/number of matches or we get CL qualification to make a mandatory purchase. Which I am guessing we are obligated to do at the end of this season, given he has achieved those. I remember at the time those fees felt quite high. Not anymore!

 

[robspur]

Sounds like they want €50m option, we offered €20m obligation.

i assume the difference between an option and obligation could be €20m as the risk is on us?

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Transfer news latest: Timo Werner set for RB Leipzig return while Tottenham have Nicolò Zaniolo bid rejected

Timo Werner is on the verge of a return to RB Leipzig, two years after he joined Chelsea for £47.5 million.The 26-year-old forward has been keen to return to Ge

www.thetimes.co.uk

Tottenham Hotspur have made an offer to loan the winger Nicolò Zaniolo with an obligation to buy for £20 million, which has been rejected by Roma. Tottenham hope to permanently offload Giovani Lo Celso to Villarreal, where the midfielder was on loan last season. The Spanish club would prefer a second loan.

If that figure is true then no wonder they turned us down.

 

[CockOnBall]

Seems the sensible thing is to agree on a 20m fee to purchase (no loan) with significant add ons based on appearances, ramping it up to an eventual 40-50m deal. That way, Roma get a commitment up front with the likelihood of getting the whole thing, and our risk is reduced. If we are that worried about his knees, maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t be Interested.

 

[EastUpperDK82]

They’re asking £50m total, we offer £20m

If anyone had any doubt on who’s running the deal - it’s definitely Levy who’s taken the wheel now LOL

So you believe The Times rumours and not Gazzetta/Football Italia... different offers from us ? ... think we will have to wait and see who is right on the money

 

[Hercules]

Don’t listen or read into everything coming out of Italy. Some journalists just becoming creative. There is still an impasse. Ball is in their court. What we have offered is very fair. And Trix already mentioned that in his last post. We are talking to them on another matter also, which is not for this thread, so let’s not change this into a Japhet thread ?