David Luiz went for £50m.
So £51m or fuck off.
'Cos there's no way David Luiz is a better defender than Jan.
Verts isn't taking too long to announce anything...
Nope, still can't see it happening. If Barcelona offered that then we might have sold him- but to United? I can't see it in a million years.
Do people actually think we'd sell to United? Don't bother telling me about Berbatov and Carrick because it's irrelevant. Have we sold one of our main players to a rival since 2008? No, we haven't and we never will after the Berbatov and Keane shit.
One reason is that Spurs - apart from Bale and Modric - haven't had players that interested the top EPL big time.
If you think the Carrick Keane and Berba cases are irrelevant then you know little about football playes and their agents. The reason why Modric was not sold to Chelski (they were the one's who turned his head in the first place) was that Real M. came in with a better bid the following season.
A reliable journalist on Twitter said he actually has 4 years left because of the way we do contracts...This has been worrying me for a while. I reckon this is possibly the hold up with Vertonghen. He's been made aware of possible interest of Utd and this has delayed the signing of a new contract.
Hasn't he only got 2 years left on his current deal as well ? Means we won't be getting top dollar for him either.
Why, are they looking for a LB?Sherwood is odds on for Palace job. Worried they may bid for Vertonghen.
A reliable journalist on Twitter said he actually has 4 years left because of the way we do contracts...
Edit: And ITK says he's actually already signed it.
So weird that his contract hasn't been announced. Surely multiple ITKs couldn't be wrong about a contract? But why would we take weeks on weeks to announce it? Strange
I guess so. Just seems weird how so many ITK's were so adamant. I know ITK should be taken with salt but it's a contract which you'd guess would be easier to know than a transferThe only valid argument to this post...is because it ain't signed...IMO.
Another possibility could be that whilst we haven't announced Verts contract, teams looking for a CB will consider signing him rather than our target(s), maybe a week after we get a CB (or the the transfer window closes) this will be announced.We had some itk that said we play the media game now and announce stuff at a time that gets maximum exposure. Maybe we're waiting until jan is ready to play in the first team again ie announce it Friday/Saturday before qpr on Sunday for maximum feel good factor.
Just an theory, if not that then as others say it's a bit strange.
What would we have to gain by announcing straight away?If he'd signed a new contract, I'm pretty sure we'd know about it.
What would we have to gain by announcing straight away?