Spurs ready bid £35m for Fulham’s Ryan Sessegnon

[Sweetsman]

To be fair, Matt Law is a good journo with some pretty extensive contacts. The telegraph are usually pretty conservative in their rumour mongering. We have been linked with Sessegnon extensively over a number of years, so I have no doubt we have put some sort of offer in.

To my mind, we have agreed to sell Rose to United (hence he is hardly playing - like Walker at the end of last Season). Sessegnon has been identified as the like for like replacement (Davies giving him time to mature). I would have thought £35m was about right (we will probably get £50m for Rose).

In terms of whether we could land him. If you assume he wants to stay in England for now and go to a "Big 6" club: United are buying Rose so they won't be in for him; Liverpool have unearthed Robertson in that position so won't be in for him; City/Chelsea could outgun us, but he would worry about getting first team chances and the plight of their other local talent. Arsenal just bought Koscelniak (sp?) and, well, they are Scum. I figure we must a pretty attractive proposition if we pay the right price?

Apart from Burt, I'm not sure how good the Torygraph is anymore. Winter and Liew left, which meant a big drop in the standard of writing. That said, just before Winter left, there was a bizarre article promoting Sherwood as the brightest star in the English managerial firmament, something that has not been borne out in fact.

 

[Khilari]

I think we've missed the boat here, sadly. He's really quite the prospect - but an awfully expensive one which I think Levy & Co would be happy to invest in for us but he's now likely to attract big wages from the usual suspects.

Of course I'm biased when I say we'd be the better option for him to grow as a good footballer, but the likes of City, Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea are very likely to be able to outgun us here.

Rumours are we have some sort of agreement, but everyone knows these don't mean anything until he's signed on the dotted line.