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SamR

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Well news is now just breaking that tonight we've agreed to sell Bale for £86m. Jason Burt is reporting it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...ve-from-Tottenham-Hotspur-to-Real-Madrid.html :(

As much as I would love to keep Bale that is a ridiculous sum of money for a footballer. The world has gone mad quite frankly.

If that's the fee I'm happy. With the other transfers out we have about another 60 million to spend before we start to go beyond the net.

If we sell BAE that's 70 million. Even signing Lamela and Vlad leaves a big lump on another mystery player. How exciting and what great business.
 

mill

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As much as I would love to keep Bale that is a ridiculous sum of money for a footballer. The world has gone mad quite frankly.

If that's the fee I'm happy. With the other transfers out we have about another 60 million to spend before we start to go beyond the net.

If we sell BAE that's 70 million. Even signing Lamela and Vlad leaves a big lump on another mystery player. How exciting and what great business.
Still rather keep Bale
 

hugrr

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Madness.

Strong, quick (enough), tricky, intelligent, tracks back, team player.

Will get goals and assists and will always help out defensively.

Great signing.
Yep, he's another powerful player, and he has a great cross on him, something we've been hit and miss (mostly miss) with for far too long, I wish Rose had given it to him a lot more during the match today.

How come everyone's frothing over Hulk, can't see anything in the ITK, are people just going by random newspaper articles?
 

scat1620

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Not been all that much ITK come in since the Willian transfer was hijacked. Big hitters all deliberately laying low so that any other prospective transfers don't go the same way, or simply not much to tell at the moment?
 

ButchCassidy

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Yep, he's another powerful player, and he has a great cross on him, something we've been hit and miss (mostly miss) with for far too long, I wish Rose had given it to him a lot more during the match today.

How come everyone's frothing over Hulk, can't see anything in the ITK, are people just going by random newspaper articles?


Burt wrote about our interest in Hulk. Burt often gets info from AVB.
 

Knarf44

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Respect the fact that AVB obviously did well with Hulk at Porto but every time I seen him play I've been underwhelmed. He's not the most intelligent of players and simply relies on his strength and fierce but often wasteful shooting. Think we could do better with a more technical player.
 

loz123

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Worse - and you won't believe I'm not making this up. This is from The Guardian's Said & Done:

Romania: new last week from Gigi Becali, currently running Steaua from prison: 1) Agreeing by phone to sell Vlad Chiriches to Spurs for £7.5m; 2) Facing a prison inquiry over claims he used other inmates' phonecards without permission.


You meet such lovely people doing this transfer stuff, don't you?
Still an upgrade on Abramovitch and the chavs though
 

Mouse!

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Probably been mentioned already, but Brian Lamela (Erik's brother) is now following SpursOfficial on Twatter.
 

Snarfalicious

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Probably been mentioned already, but Brian Lamela (Erik's brother) is now following SpursOfficial on Twatter.


I hate that I can't allow myself to be excited. I immediately think he's toying with us. Why can't I believe that we can have nice things?
 

CanadaSpurs

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I must say, AVB's conduct when asked about willian is pure class.

That is what I love about supporting Spurs, all class, all glory. :D

COYS
 

Gedson100

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I hate that I can't allow myself to be excited. I immediately think he's toying with us. Why can't I believe that we can have nice things?
1. He's leaving Roma, if he wasn't he'd have played tonight
2. No other club appears to be in for him
3. His agent isn't Kia Joorabchian
4. Lennon appears to be for sale

:)
 

etchedchaos

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I must say, AVB's conduct when asked about willian is pure class.

That is what I love about supporting Spurs, all class, all glory. :D

COYS

Contrast it with a typical 'arry quote.

Reporter: How do you feel about Chelski stealing Willian from under your noses?
'arry: I wouldn't know 'bout dat, the Chairman takes care of that business, but if you ask me, Willian would be a fool to turn down Chelski, no doubt, they're a big club, competing for trophies, who can blame him?
 

hugrr

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1. He's leaving Roma, if he wasn't he'd have played tonight
2. No other club appears to be in for him
3. His agent isn't Kia Joorabchian
4. Lennon appears to be for sale

:)
After the Willian scenario, I'm pessimistic about this deal, as he's a player that could be at any of the top teams tasked with scoring/supplying goals, therefore no matter how positive it looks, no matter how many times I hear "done" from an ITK, this is one I'm going to wait for.

Vlad on the other hand, welcome to Spurs. (y)

*Uploads Vlad Montage with the title welcome to Spurs on Youtube*
 

etchedchaos

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We should upload Lamela videos with 'Welcome to *insert club here*' in the title to jinx the potential usurpers.
 

hugrr

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We should upload Lamela videos with 'Welcome to *insert club here*' in the title to jinx the potential usurpers.
We should do "Welcome to Liverpool" video's for every potential signing, though I'm sure they're all on there already, considering how we scout targets ;)
 
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