Player Watch: Hugo Lloris

[E17yid]

I would be shocked if Lloris is still here next year.
Looks a certainty to leave and who could blame him.

It's far from being a certainty, IMO.

Levy will want a world record fee for a GK to go along with his world record fee for Bale. £50m sounds about right and no way will anyone pay that. PSG perhaps?

 

[DaSpurs]

We've all seen this movie multiple times over the last few years, I think we all know how it ends.

I would be shocked if Lloris is still here next year.
Looks a certainty to leave and who could blame him.

I know it seems the typical outcome, but where's he gonna go? I don't think he'll go back to France just yet (if they can even pay for him with FFP), Madrid will not want to pass on making their annual "shiny new toy" a Spanish one for the first time in years, and it would take a stupid sum of money capable of altering the stock market of Beijing for Levy to sell Lloris to Man U in the event of de Gea making the move. I know it all sounds like the standard plot we've seen in recent years, but I just see no viable option who can a) afford him and b) be desirable enough to him.

 

[Bulletspur]

Not really. Sterling has rejected several contract offers of eyewatering sums, Lloris signed a five year contract in the summer and has made no intimations of wanting to leave and has publicly stated his support for Pochettino.

So what if he has publicly backed Poch? Sorry to burst your bubble but it has been intimated that he Lloris is considering his options for next season in light of interest from PSG which sounds very credible. As much as I want him to stay, I wouldn't be surprised or begrudge him if he goes in all honesty

 

[nightgoat]

So what if he has publicly backed Poch? Sorry to burst your bubble but it has been intimated that he Lloris is considering his options for next season in light of interest from PSG which sounds very credible. As much as I want him to stay, I wouldn't be surprised or begrudge him if he goes in all honesty

@yido_number1's nailed this.

Quite, anything other than what comes out of his mouth is bull shit. The stuff on the facebook pages is pure bullshit... funny how we get linked with a big player and it is instantly dismissed as bullshit yet people are willing to accept anything said about one of our players leaving...

There's no substance to any links with PSG. It's just being assumed that because he's French they'll be after him.

 

[danielneeds]

I love him, but I don't think losing him would be as big a blow as Bale, Modric, Berba etc.

If he decides he really wants to go and a CL club offers North of £25m I would be fine with it as long as it is reinvested in the team.

Pretty sure we can find a very good keeper at a very decent price with the new scouting network.

 

[DaSpurs]

I love him, but I don't think losing him would be as big a blow as Bale, Modric, Berba etc.

If he decides he really wants to go and a CL club offers North of £25m I would be fine with it as long as it is reinvested in the team.

Pretty sure we can find a very good keeper at a very decent price with the new scouting network.

I don't think he'll go this summer, but I agree with this. His loss would pale in comparison to your list, and for the fee we would receive I suspect we would be able to bring in a very good replacement (if we even needed to in the immediate time frame given having Vorm).

 

[danielneeds]

I don't think he'll go this summer, but I agree with this. His loss would pale in comparison to your list, and for the fee we would receive I suspect we would be able to bring in a very good replacement (if we even needed to in the immediate time frame given having Vorm).

I don't think Vorm is good enough. Very good backup, but I can see why Swansea fans were saying his performance levels were way down from his debut PL season.

 

[markdadude]

Eh? wtf am I reading?
Why does everyone talk like it's his decision if he wants to leave? Its down to the club, not him. He has over 4 years remaining on his contract.
If we don't sell him, he continues to play for spurs.

Every fucking time our greedy board want to cash in on some player and prepare the fans for disappointment whilst absolving themselves of blame, they inform the journos to write their same old champions league spiel - like the club is absolutely helpless to do anything about it and we have to let this player go due to his ambitions etc.... Bullshit!

Just where the fuck has selling our best players gotten us so far - backwards! I am very confident we will sell Lloris because every time we see one of these stories it is followed by the inevitable. If the board continue to show no ambition I won't give another penny directly or indirectly to these idiots. It's miserable being a spurs fan.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

I don't think he'll go. Especially with the fee Daniel will demand for him. The only clubs that could afford him would much rather focus their efforts on more sexy areas of the team like strikers and attacking mids than spend big money on a goalkeeper. And with FFP no club is going to be able to go massively crazy in the market without first selling some players.

 

[EZSpur]

I don't think Vorm is good enough. Very good backup, but I can see why Swansea fans were saying his performance levels were way down from his debut PL season.

Tbh, we haven't seen a huge amount of Vorm - and the times he has played, he's looked decent (...bar the brainfart against Leicester in the cup).

Truthfully though, isn't it less a question of getting a like-for-like replacement for Lloris (IF he goes) and more a case of strengthening our defence so the GK doesn't have to do so much??

 

[danielneeds]

Tbh, we haven't seen a huge amount of Vorm - and the times he has played, he's looked decent (...bar the brainfart against Leicester in the cup).

Truthfully though, isn't it less a question of getting a like-for-like replacement for Lloris (IF he goes) and more a case of strengthening our defence so the GK doesn't have to do so much??

I've watched Vorm in the flesh this season and wasn't impressed. Doesn't talk to the defence enough, flapped at crosses. Ok it's hard to come in after not playing much, but he's an experienced pro.

 

[Mullers]

Eh? wtf am I reading?
Why does everyone talk like it's his decision if he wants to leave? Its down to the club, not him. He has over 4 years remaining on his contract.
If we don't sell him, he continues to play for spurs.

Every fucking time our greedy board want to cash in on some player and prepare the fans for disappointment whilst absolving themselves of blame, they inform the journos to write their same old champions league spiel - like the club is absolutely helpless to do anything about it and we have to let this player go due to his ambitions etc.... Bullshit!

Just where the fuck has selling our best players gotten us so far - backwards! I am very confident we will sell Lloris because every time we see one of these stories it is followed by the inevitable. If the board continue to show no ambition I won't give another penny directly or indirectly to these idiots. It's miserable being a spurs fan.

It is his decision, its not down to the club, contracts don't mean shit.
If a player wants to leave he will leave.
We couldn't keep Bale, Modric, Berbatov, Keane or Carrick and Man Utd couldn't keep Ronaldo.

 

[yankspurs]

I love him, but I don't think losing him would be as big a blow as Bale, Modric, Berba etc.

If he decides he really wants to go and a CL club offers North of £25m I would be fine with it as long as it is reinvested in the team.

Pretty sure we can find a very good keeper at a very decent price with the new scouting network.

Lloris and Kane are legitimately the only reasons we are in 6th and have a positive goal differential. Even with Kane, I shudder to think where we'd be without Lloris. He's one of the best keepers in Europe and we need him given our very poor defensive record.

Losing Lloris this summer is going to be a huge blow. I'll be very surprised if we replace him with someone whose even almost as good.

 

[EZSpur]

I've watched Vorm in the flesh this season and wasn't impressed. Doesn't talk to the defence enough, flapped at crosses. Ok it's hard to come in after not playing much, but he's an experienced pro.

That's interesting! I've always thought he's looked quite assured, although I haven't seen him in the flesh.
But then the bigger problem is, WHO would we bring in to replace Lloris?
..Personally I think we're lucky to have Vorm.

 

[Ribble]

[QUOTE="nightgoat, post: 4566951, member: 6442]

There's no substance to any links with PSG. It's just being assumed that because he's French they'll be after him.[/QUOTE]

Especially as he left Ligue 1 from a CL regular to move to us. Why on Earth would he go back when he chose to come to the PL?

 

[EZSpur]

The only clubs that could afford him would much rather focus their efforts on more sexy areas of the team like strikers and attacking mids than spend big money on a goalkeeper.

Bang on!! - Its crazy to think that only attacking players are seen as 'sexy' purchases.
But hey, if it stops Lloris from going anywhere then I'm all for it

 

[DaSpurs]

Lloris and Kane are legitimately the only reasons we are in 6th and have a positive goal differential. Even with Kane, I shudder to think where we'd be without Lloris. He's one of the best keepers in Europe and we need him given our very poor defensive record.

Losing Lloris this summer is going to be a huge blow. I'll be very surprised if we replace him with someone whose even almost as good.

I agree that in the context of this squad Lloris has certainly helped keep us in the position we're in (not really even worth "agreeing," as it's bona fide fact when you see his save counts along with our goals conceded), but for the fee someone would have to drum up I think we could bring in options such that we aren't being put in those precarious positions nearly as often.

Keep in mind, I don't think we'll sell him this summer and I do think we can make plenty of additions without spending much and especially not to any amount such that we'd need to sell Lloris, but I don't think his loss would be on par with Bale, Berbs, and especially Modric'.

 

[yido_number1]

I don't think he'll go. Especially with the fee Daniel will demand for him. The only clubs that could afford him would much rather focus their efforts on more sexy areas of the team like strikers and attacking mids than spend big money on a goalkeeper. And with FFP no club is going to be able to go massively crazy in the market without first selling some players.

I agree with this... the player has just signed a 5 year deal and has publicly come out and said he wants to stay with the clib. I don't get the pessimism regarding it?

http://tottenhamlive.com/threads/ll...ts-but-this-is-the-club-i-will-stay-with.429/

 

[SpursDave88]

Make no bones about it, losing Lloris will be a huge blow. It's not his individual ability of course, he has two arms and two legs just like the rest, but he will be a key player in the dressing room and the departure of yet another big name will only serve to confirm our status as also rans/never-rans. I admire the optimism of some, the mental gymnastics people do considering whether club x or y will be able to afford him or, where his contract is long enough that it's up to the club if he stays or goes. At the end of the day the clubs hold little power over players in reality and if they want to go they will, it is simply a matter of time, so it is up to the club whether to sell now or at best, a year later for less money. We are not competitive with the top clubs domestically, we have actually been falling further behind them since Redknapp left and we don't have the financial firepower to right the ship. Lloris will see this and following another season of abject failure will rightly feel he deserves better. This being the case, post our recent collapse, if he has anything about him, he would have instructed his agent to start searching for a potential suitor, hence the Guardian article. I think we have all learned that there is indeed no smoke without fire and that press speculation is normally orchestrated by agents at the behest of their clients, the players.

 

[sparx100]

Would be a huge blow to lose him. It's just speculation at the moment. I would understand him leaving but replacing him would be a big ask.