The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Hurt Feelings Edition 31st July 2013

[spursfan77]

Perhaps of the 3 incoming players JJ talks, assuming 1 is Soldado, the other 2 could be from Madrid as part of the deal. Plenty of links to players there.

I suspect the 3 are the ones we've already signed.

 

[Sum Monsterism]

Know of any other special players we have that are being linked to moves? Know of any other way we can afford 3 top quality incomings, not including 17m Paulinho, without Bale money?

There's a difference between guessing and using common sense. Course I hope he's referring to Adebayor or Defoe etc but what are the chances of that?

Using common sense, but ultimately still not 100% so it remains a guess - or a guesstimation. I'm not knocking your "informed onion" but still, you saying "JJ confirms the worst" when he didn't or hasn't confirmed anything is a bit... incorrect and very very inflammatory.

 

[thePessimist]

If not bale it's got to be adebayor he's refering to

 

[Bware]

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...open-tottenham-real-madrid-start-negotiations



Thanks for the spam You three should pay more attention to the author

 

[kitchen]

I just don't understand how we can keep buying players without selling/offloading some...

ITKs have already stated how AVB wants a smaller squad and yet now we're bringing in 3 more players? (plus wages of course). JJ has already said that Levy's asking price for our outgoings is astronomical but if we don't sell some of the deadwood we'll be losing a hell of a lot of money paying the wages of players we don't want in a bloated squad.

 

[dudu]

JJ has just us told that LLM gets good info and LLM has been saying that Bale's not leaving this year, so I'd hazard a guess that it isn't Bale that JJ's referring to.

this is what my heart wants to think

 

[Riandor]

We will NOT sign Suarez. Period.
For one, why the hell would Suarez come to us when he clearly wants CL as a minimum and ideally in a country other than UK. Yes he MIGHT accept Arsenal over Liverpool, but why the hell would he go to Spurs?
And to spend 45-55M on him??? No way. Not happening (assuming we had Bale money to even do it).

 

[Cavehillspur]

My "agree" is for the second half of your post.

When JJ commented about LLM, first thing I thought was that LLM was defiant Bale would not be sold so im confused by JJs post to say the least, hope you're right!

 

[punkisback]

Dafuq is going on?

What did JJ say about LLM and had someone made up a rumour about Suarez fire shits and giggles?

Sorry phone fingers!

 

[Gilzeanking]

Cruel post designed to cause the maximum hurt

 

[Mr Pink]

JJ didn't say "Bale". Let's not jump to conclusions.

He clearly means Bale though - we only have one truly special player at the Club.

 

[Sum Monsterism]

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...open-tottenham-real-madrid-start-negotiations

it's goal.com **checks liverpool list of inappropriate terms** Man up.

 

[Kirito]

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...open-tottenham-real-madrid-start-negotiations

Greg = JJ?

I doubt goal would be the first to know about this.

 

[Danners9]

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892...open-tottenham-real-madrid-start-negotiations

wait, what..

However, Real's concerted campaign has borne fruit in the last couple of days, with their most recent tactic - a warning to Bale and his advisors that it is 'now or never' for him to force a move - prompting the 24-year-old to privately declare in a meeting with Levy that he wants to join the Spanish giants.

Then...

Despite telling Spurs of his desire to leave the club for Real, Bale has been keen to underline his happiness at the north Londoners and could yet play a part in a behind-closed-doors friendly against a non-league opponent on Thursday.

Wants to leave but happy to stay. Then...

Further still, should negotiations with Madrid break down, it is still expected that the former Southampton youngster will play a full and committed part under Villas-Boas in the 2013-14 campaign as Spurs aim to claim a place in top four of the Premier League.

So, er, they are saying nothing except there is some meeting scheduled for a week's time. Maybe.

 

[stormfly]

I really hope the special player isn't Bale! Sends out all the wrong messages if we just let Madrid take the piss and then give in a sell him to them. Please don't start telling me about all the money we'll receive. If I gave a toss about the 'business ' aspect of things I'd support TESCO or McDonalds! I know we got our record points haul last season but if we had a team that consisted of Bale, Modric, VDV and Berbatov i'm sure we would have done much better. We have to stop selling our best players!

 

[yawa]

I just don't understand how we can keep buying players without selling/offloading some...

ITKs have already stated how AVB wants a smaller squad and yet now we're bringing in 3 more players? (plus wages of course). JJ has already said that Levy's asking price for our outgoings is astronomical but if we don't sell some of the deadwood we'll be losing a hell of a lot of money paying the wages of players we don't want in a bloated squad.

Bentley and Gallas who were probably both on fairly good wages. Id expect Parker to go at least and that would free up considerable cash.

 

[yawa]

I really hope the special player isn't Bale! Sends out all the wrong messages if we just let Madrid take the piss and then give in a sell him to them. Please don't start telling me about all the money we'll receive. If I gave a toss about the 'business ' aspect of things I'd support TESCO or McDonalds! I know we got our record points haul last season but if we had a team that consisted of Bale, Modric, VDV and Berbatov i'm sure we would have done much better. We have to stop selling our best players!

Its really not that easy when the 2 biggest clubs in the world (Man U and R MAdrid) come a long and want our players. We dont offer regular champions league and thats where the big players want to play.

 

[We'llWinThePrem]

 

[Bware]

it's goal.com **checks liverpool list of inappropriate terms** Man up.

I thought the consensus was Greg gets good information?

 

[lcclash]

How much monies would it take for schalke to part with draxler? Wishful thinking, perhaps.