Firstly we should fine him if what he said in the press is true, how dare he name the club he wishes to join - that hurt. We are the bigger club, they are the richer club. Rather than sell him I say swap the little girl for Parker on a season long loan swap deal ! Lets see how in enjoys playing long ball in a Fat Sam team, still least he will get to stay in London.
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Rout-Ledge
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This whole thing reeks of a naive footballer being told exactly what to do and say by his agent/advisors. Why come out and say you don't intend to force a move and then hand in a transfer request pretty much immediately afterwards? We need to hold firm here, and I honestly can't believe most people on here are now wanting to sell. That's exactly what Modric, his agent, and Chelsea wanted to happen. It's not the right option, and it's fucking obvious that that's the case too.
brett.spurs
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Leo
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DJS
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I might give this a try, never tried nothing gained... :hump:
Gilzeanking
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Ha ha reckon you're right SS .
I was only on about the style with which Levy handled the crucial meeting . Not the content .
I don't reckon Modric had planned to come out of the meeting and say Levy was 'cold and arrogant' . I believe that was a genuine comment from him on the style of the meeting . The ...'you'll spend the season in the stands' , Levy comment....helpful d'ya think ? even dimwit Mods knows this.
It adds to the original transfer problem cos it now has a personal aspect .How the fuck does that help ?
This , however much the testosterone filled neg reppers don't want to hear it .....looks like a badly handled meeting.
We really want Modric playing for us with enthusiasm at least til January
best to focus on this . All else is secondary .
StartingPrice
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I agree with this.
I suspect he doesn't have a scooby the impact of his statements is having - fuel to the fire that footballers are totally removed from reality, nowadays. I suspect he's been led into it, obviously tapped up and coached in what to say. As I have said elsewhere, I strongly suspect he has been sold by Levy on the plan to make us a top-table competitive side, and that someone (possible that rodent, Jorabchian) has got in his ear, after he left England, whospering that that is now impossible because of Citeh's money, that our CL appearance was our moment in the sun, and the only way for him to play for a competitive team is to move to somewhere like...Chelsea (conveniently enough, as that is the team he was assigned to tap him up for). No consideration of the fact that we are so close to them now, or that we could overtake the Goons. Just whosper, whisper, whisper...there's no point staying there...whisper, whisper, whisper.
Something Sloth said earlier, too, they've probably whipped him up into such a frenzy that his cause is right and just and proper and Levy is trying to prevent him from furthering his career, that he hasn't actually had time to reflect on the fact that the minute he gave any interview which compromised his employer's bargaining position, he was completely in the wrong, and deserved to be talked to the way he was.
As I said in response to your original post on this, GK, we don't really know how the meeting went down. And in any case, Modric compromised Levy's position by giving that interview, as his employer, Levy had a right, almost a duty to lay down the law to him.
And you are so concerned about Modric's feelings. What about the way Levy must have felt? What about the fact that when BerbaGit and Keane left, the FA dismissed his appeals for justice even though we had United and Liverpool bang-to-rights. They allowed Beetroot Face to make his infamous he's different parting shot, ridiculing Levy. And now, when Levy has finally got the team almost recovered from that, and is thinking he has covered all his bases by getting key players on extended contracts, Modric stabs him in the back by undermining his bargaining position, totally. I would be inclined to be crisp and exact with my words, too. he also had to make it absolutely clear, and avoid ambiguity, lest Modric walked away thinking there was some chance that he could leave.
As I said, we don't actually know how it went down - Modric could have continuously interjected with "well, I could do this...and I could do this...and I could...on and on and Ariston", until eventually Levy made it clear what the bottom line of that type of reasoning was, just to clarify the point for him, and that "in the stands" was all that stuck in Modric's (apparently) unsophisticated brain. So, why so keen to just accept the Modric turn on events?
Viva la Tottenham
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transfer request pffftt I hope Levy wiped his arse with it after his morning shit then gave it back
rez9000
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I have to say that I'm amazed at the number of people who seem to have been present at the meeting between Modric and Daniel Levy. I mean everyone is speaking with such conviction about how Levy mistreated Modric.
This just shows how crap the media really are. They keep talking about the meeting between Modric and Levy. If they had any respect for accuracy they should be calling it the Modric-Levy-Spurs Fan Conference 2011.
This just shows how crap the media really are. They keep talking about the meeting between Modric and Levy. If they had any respect for accuracy they should be calling it the Modric-Levy-Spurs Fan Conference 2011.
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Did you not get the live feed like the rest of us Rez?
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Greedy little bastard..."my dream is to play for a big club" ..you already are you little twat,chelsea bigger than spurs..not in my lifetime,just more money thats all...
fkin chelsea i dispise them.
fkin chelsea i dispise them.
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Well when Levy told Modric he'd leave him in the stands I did get a semi but I reckon you were better off yeah.
Ziege
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He signed a contract and I think he should honour that, but if he really doesn't want to play for the club anymore than I say sell him and pocket the cash. Spend it on a player who actually wants to wear the shirt.
It is sad now that players sign for 3, 4, 5+ seasons and then want out. I understand things may not be as you expected, but you did sign on the dotted line knowing that may be a possibility, so.....:shrug:
It is sad now that players sign for 3, 4, 5+ seasons and then want out. I understand things may not be as you expected, but you did sign on the dotted line knowing that may be a possibility, so.....:shrug:
bigturnip
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I say leave him to rot. So on the face of it it might not seem like the most sensible idea, we end up with a next to useless bench warmer and we don't get any money, but it sends a powerful message out to the footballing world and our other players, we are no longer a selling club. To make that step up to the next level we need to keep hold of players, at the moment they know they can leave whenever they want to, they hold all the power, Levy needs to take a short term hit on Luka for the long term benefit of the club.
Caco
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The reality is he will be sold. But if for example, we were to push Chelski to £35m, which isn't too unreasonable, i'd be happier to sell him to a club in Italy or Spain for say £30m. I reckon the £5m difference will work out in our favour in the long term as we won't be strenghtening teams around us. We should be going out now and buying his replacement, Steven Defour IMO, now because if we go trying to buy late on in the window with a big bag of cash we won't get value for our bucks,
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