Player watch: Toby Alderweireld

[spursfan77]

Hopefully he’s been locked in his hotel room today with no way of communicating with the outside world!

 

[wrd]

He must be one of the most poorly advised players in world football, by my count assuming he's on roughly 50 and was offered at least 150, he's heading into his 3rd year after that offer was made he's looking at about 15 million he's missed out on. Now you look at the likes of Roma trying to get him, they're not going to be able to cover those losses + additional going forward plus pay 25 million for him. The only chance he has of recouping any of that loss of earnings is if he leaves on a free and gets a mega wage.

 

[dagraham]

Counting down the minutes until this clause expires.

 

[hughy]

Counting down the minutes until this clause expires.

Would help if anyone actually knew when it is. 5pm or 12am?

 

[BedfordshireSpud]

Hopefully he’s been locked in his hotel room today with no way of communicating with the outside world!

Playing a game of football I believe. Mind you, it is against Utd!

 

[piedpiper]

It doesn't matter when it expires.. He would be gone already..... Wouldn't be on the tour or been made captain for the Juve game. How do you guys not see that?

 

[Zammo]

Time for the cleaner to accidentally unplug the fax machine.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

Hopefully he’s been locked in his hotel room today with no way of communicating with the outside world!

Helps that we be got a game today

 

[JCRD]

12 hrs and 40 mins... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand counting

 

[Living Legend Colm G]

Time for the cleaner to accidentally unplug the fax machine.

 

[ardiles]

Would help if anyone actually knew when it is. 5pm or 12am?

According to one of the commentators in the ICC game today, it expires at midnight. Still a few more hours to go.

 

[neogenisis]

Seen lots of reports saying it was 17:00 today.

 

[carmeldevil]

Whether it's 17:00 or midnight, Spurs might be wise to put Toby in a plane now. A plane with no WiFi and isolate him ASAP

 

[Yiddo100]

I’m still shocked he’s still here

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

Whether it's 17:00 or midnight, Spurs might be wise to put Toby in a plane now. A plane with no WiFi and isolate him ASAP

Relax, Daniel’s arranged for this guy to eliminate complications

 

[danny32]

Very suprised that absolutely no one was prepared to meet the buy-out as it was an absolute steal for a player of his calibre. There must be an answer in the inner sanctum of the football world that we will not find out.

 

[thisismyback]

Many of you are making a big deal out of this clause. IDMAS.

He's still here because he is going Bosman. His team sets his wage demands extremely high; if a club accepts, great, Toby gets his last big deal. If not, he goes on a free next year with wider range of options and a big fat signing bonus.

 

[dricha1]

Many of you are making a big deal out of this clause. IDMAS.

He's still here because he is going Bosman. His team sets his wage demands extremely high; if a club accepts, great, Toby gets his last big deal. If not, he goes on a free next year with wider range of options and a big fat signing bonus.

Let’s be honest we all thought he’d be gone by now, so I’m not going to begrudge him his big deal when he moves next year.

Maybe this will serve as a template for how we deal with older members of the squad...i.e. we get 5-6yra out of them on one contract which is probably on lower wages than they’d get elsewhere but we let them run that contract down. Toby, Verts, Vorm and Llorente are all probably underpaid for their level.

 

[hughy]

Many of you are making a big deal out of this clause. IDMAS.

He's still here because he is going Bosman. His team sets his wage demands extremely high; if a club accepts, great, Toby gets his last big deal. If not, he goes on a free next year with wider range of options and a big fat signing bonus.

I think most of us are well aware of this.

The fact is most of us would rather lose Toby on a bosman next year than lose him for £25m this year. That's why we're happy the clause has expired.

 

[nedley]

He must be one of the most poorly advised players in world football, by my count assuming he's on roughly 50 and was offered at least 150, he's heading into his 3rd year after that offer was made he's looking at about 15 million he's missed out on. Now you look at the likes of Roma trying to get him, they're not going to be able to cover those losses + additional going forward plus pay 25 million for him. The only chance he has of recouping any of that loss of earnings is if he leaves on a free and gets a mega wage.

Yep.

His advisors need shooting.