Player Watch Player Watch: Radu Dragusin

[Archibald&Crooks]

Fuck being in the trenches with some of you lot

 

[13VanDerBale13]

Ridiculous how long this is being dragged on for, that’s the price you pay for doing so.

 

[Cornpattbuck]

So Bayern have gone from "Dier's on our list, as well as some other low fee sorts to add depth to the squad" to "we're going to chuck 30m on the table for our fourth choice centre back"? Smells fishy.

 

[Pochemon94]

Honestly, all I can do is laugh at this point. You know what, it is what it is, if he doesn’t want to come to us, then so be it, we had an offer accepted, but something has been holding this up. This just screams agent using us to figure out a fee and terms then present to Bayern to get them to match

 

[SpursSince1980]

If Spurs, it's best to just tell Genoa and player, to give us an answer tonight, or we're off to search elsewhere. As this is ridiculous.

 

[Wig]

The terms had been agreed with the player and Genoa last night/this morning.
Why didn't he sign?
Can only mean he was waiting for Bayern.

How do you know he hasn't agreed to come to us. It could be just as likely that Genoa haven't signed to agree our offer as they're waiting for a competitive/bigger bid from Bayern first.

 

[Aleks]

I've no idea why, but no we haven't. We've been extremely complacent and foolish.

Levy is a good negotiator when he holds the leverage, and a liability when doesn't.

The problem is his ego seems to make him unable to tell the difference.

Genoa named a very reasonable price weeks ago.

We tried to be too clever and took to long trying to squeeze the pips for a signing we've been desperate for at least 5 months.

Arguably for the last 4 permanent managers (and 2 interims).

Dragusin also doesn't owe us anything either.

IF he takes it it's our fault for allowing a bigger club the time and opportunity to try to sway him with better career option and/or terms.

If this was always going to happen anyway, we'd have been better off to find out last December.

But as I've said, we shouldn't be in this position anyway, as it was an essential requirement last summer.

it was 1 week ago. We agreed a fee, they were always going to stall and bayern or another club would have come in. These deals do not happen in a vacuum

 

[Tezza1978]

It's de ja vu from yesterday

 

[SpursSince1980]

Honestly, all I can do is laugh at this point. You know what, it is what it is, if he doesn’t want to come to us, then so be it, we had an offer accepted, but something has been holding this up. This just screams agent using us to figure out a fee and terms then present to Bayern to get them to match

BINGO!

 

[Darth Vega]

I've no idea why, but no we haven't. We've been extremely complacent and foolish.

Levy is a good negotiator when he holds the leverage, and a liability when doesn't.

The problem is his ego seems to make him unable to tell the difference.

Genoa named a very reasonable price weeks ago.

We tried to be too clever and took to long trying to squeeze the pips for a signing we've been desperate for at least 5 months.

Arguably for the last 4 permanent managers (and 2 interims).

Dragusin also doesn't owe us anything either.

IF he takes it it's our fault for allowing a bigger club the time and opportunity to try to sway him with better career option and/or terms.

If this was always going to happen anyway, we'd have been better off to find out last December.

But as I've said, we shouldn't be in this position anyway, as it was an essential requirement last summer.

The speed doesn't matter. If we had a bid accepted a week ago then his loudmouth agent would've just contacted Bayern and a myriad of other clubs then and they would've made their move knowing exactly what the acceptable offer was.

The exact same thing happened with the Luis Diaz move and people complained about the same thing then as well. The biggest criticism of Levy isn't the details of this deal - which may or may not collapse - it's why we're doing it in January when it should have been done in July.

 

[usspur]

25 pages in 12 hours. I would call that a record, but we have done better with the likes of Willian, Leandro Damião, Hazard, Moutinho, Hulk, Berahino, etc

 

[Misfit]

What's Tapsoba up to?

/Old skool

 

[Pochemon94]

Bayern has the prestige and the trophies, money is probably similar.

Even when I take off my Spurs glasses, I would think that Bayern isn't the best move for a 21 year old defender. Bayern have 3 of the top 11 most valuable centre backs in the world (according to Transfermarkt which isn't perfect but at least it's objective).

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De ligt has been rumored to be leaving in the summer, so he prob sees himself as someone that could compete with Kim and upamecano

 

[the yid]

They can't have Djed Spence then

 

[rightwayup]

Can’t be too fussed about this. If he chooses us over Bayern then we have a very committed asset. If Bayern turns his head it’s probably best he doesn’t bother with us.
Either way when we tonk Bayern in the UCL it will be very satisfying

 

[SpursSince1980]

@lswilson99 Speak up, buddy. Share your thoughts.

 

[JamieSpursCommunityUser]

What makes you think a club is willing to negotiate in December when the windows isn't open? It rarely happens

Clubs negotiate in December. At least the broad strokes.

There is absolutely no reason this couldn't be ironed out late Dec other than we thought we could chip a few pennies off.

Genoa are a selling club.

They're selling their best player mid season because they are confident they'll have more opportunity to re-invest in several players.

This has more benefit to do this early Jan, when they can also steal a march on rival bidders with less cash up front.

 

[mil1lion]

They can't have Djed Spence then

They can have Ndombele instead

 

[RobjDerby]

Ryan Nelsen is available

 

[George94]

Bayern think they're funny, but we'll have the last laugh with this - we'll refuse to sell Eric Dier to them.

That'll teach them to mess us around.