Saints reluctant to do business with Spurs, patience snaps over Wanyama

[Smokinhotspur]

The whole Zeki Fryers move could simply be that Standard Leige fancied the player at £250K and bought him then Spurs offered Leige a chance to tripple their money in a short period of time. Of course you could think that Levy contacted Leige and whispered his sneeky plan in the CE's ear and they all laughed the way to the bank. Actually I think that idea is a little far fetched and it just happened the way it did. But when you throw Levy into the mix the papers like to bend to the image that has been created of Levy.

As a bussiness man what exactly has he done wrong? IMO not a great deal, he wants the best deal for THFC and is willing to do deals for player, and spend big. Recently look at our deals for Paulinho and Son, even N'Jie was a relivively big outlay for a young player. Levy can do a deal with very little fuss when everyone is agreeing but he will stand hos ground and wont offer over the odds of what he deems acceptable.

Of course people will want to voice their opinion and say Levy is this or that, but what is most telling about Levy himself is that doesn't feel the need to speak about transfer dealings openly no matter how much provocation he gets. He will get a booting from the press and a fair few other owners/chairmen but IMO stays professional about the job. To say hes unethical or that he brings down the public perception of the club in my opinion is both wrong and very niave.

Ha ha ha - do you actually know the reported story behind this deal? Fryers was training with us the summer after his Man U contract expired and after months of wrangling we refused to pay the £6m United wanted as compensation for him. Out of nowhere he signed for Standard Liege where he had played on loan earlier in his career and who had previously admitted they couldn't afford him. All of a sudden the player is homesick in November and desperate to return to the UK after playing a handful of games and voila he joins the club he had been training with the summer before who were desperately trying to sign him. Each to their own so guess it's ok to believe what you want.

 

[Donki]

Ha ha ha - do you actually know the reported story behind this deal? Fryers was training with us the summer after his Man U contract expired and after months of wrangling we refused to pay the £6m United wanted as compensation for him. Out of nowhere he signed for Standard Liege where he had played on loan earlier in his career and who had previously admitted they couldn't afford him. All of a sudden the player is homesick in November and desperate to return to the UK after playing a handful of games and voila he joins the club he had been training with the summer before who were desperately trying to sign him. Each to their own so guess it's ok to believe what you want.

As u say its all opinions, and we draw our own, you chose to believe Levy is sneaky and underhand, I don't, I believe he has what is best for our club at heart.

 

[Donki]

Je;avic is just a name I plucked out because I was asked the question. You don't have to do a one year deal like I said it could have been only until Jan as cover for less important games and I am sure our scouts could come up with more crediible options.

What makes you believe Son can do a job upfront or is that just blind hope as that's all we've got at this point. He has hardly played there for Leverkusen as Kiessling is the main man there. Do you think Chelsea planned to take the Nantes defender as first choice? They were forced into it when they clearly weren't going to get Stones. It's what you do as a responsible football club because you never leave yourself short especially in specialist positions where you need more than somebody who may be able to do a job.

What Chelsea can afford to do is very different to what we can, we have only managed to clear a lot of "deadwood" this season so don't see why we would just buy any player as back up. Its not blind faith, its faith in Poch, he is our manager and I believe he knows what he is doing. He has always talked about players covering a number of positions.

 

[UbeAstard]

..... Out of nowhere he signed for Standard Liege where he had played on loan earlier in his career and who had previously admitted they couldn't afford him. .

Where can this be read that SL had said they couldn't afford him and what were the fees being quoted to them?

 

[Misfit]

As for the Zeki Fryers thing - fuck yanited. No way was he worth £6m but they had their best buds at the FA or wherever rubber stamp that bullshit. For once those manc ****s didn't get the system they openly rigged in their favour to work for them.

I would laugh such a hearty laugh if that entire fucking club disappeared completely. No mourning. English football would be better for it. And take Liverpewl with them as well.

 

[Nebby]

The idea that another club won't deal with Levy is just stupid. These are businessmen, not children. The only truth is the first sentence of the last paragraph: they don't want to sell to a club they consider to be a rival. The rest is just puff.

 

[Spurslove]

Southampton are adamant that they will not sell Victor Wanyama to Tottenham Hotspur next year for any price and have also become extremely reluctant to do business with Spurs for any player.

Read the full article at Telegraph

I really do find it funny when clubs say they won't deal with us. It just shows them up as a bunch of brainless yokels who'd much rather put any personal feelings about us before good business for their own clubs.

Southampton are a joke, a mickey mouse club, and if I were a Southampton fan (my God, can you imagine...) I'd be ashamed to admit it.