The award for the first qunt of the off season goes too..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...-leave-Tottenham-ideal-Manchester-United.html
Bale is a Champions League player in a Europa League team. He's done all he can at Spurs and now is the time to get out... he'd be ideal for Manchester United
By Neil Ashton
Autonomy were bought lock stock by Hewlett Packard last year, there is a court case going on at the minute because basically Hewlett Packard say the books were cooked and the company isn't worth the 6 Billion or whatever it was it cost to buy them. Incidently one of the finance companies that said what the company was worth that figure was Investec.. :-k Who has there fingers in Investec... alledgedly. Taken from the news on the internet.
Now moved on to the HP shareholders sueing the HP board members :ross:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...0038071/HP-board-sued-over-Autonomy-deal.html
What if we've accepted that Bale will go within a season, but have decided to spend the money from the sale now? This would make sense as Bale is a draw himself, rather than wait until he goes to try to buy players with the money? If the gamble pays off and we look like challenging for honours he may even want to stay.
What if we've accepted that Bale will go within a season, but have decided to spend the money from the sale now? This would make sense as Bale is a draw himself, rather than wait until he goes to try to buy players with the money? If the gamble pays off and we look like challenging for honours he may even want to stay.
I think it might allow us to spend a little more freely. ("Think" and "might" being the key words here).
I don't think we'll see us spend £40-50m this summer though, with the view to cash in on Bale to cover for that next summer unless we end up performing way above expectations. Would be an interesting gamble, and it certainly would make for a great summer, I just don't think it's likely. Some serious risks involved in taking that strategy.
So how much do you think we'll be looking to spend (net)?
My guess is somewhere in the £15-20m range at most this summer. But nothing more than a guess of course.
Wow....ummm 5th/6th it is then.
How defeatist is that?
Dembele, Vertonghen and Lloris are likely to be better next season after a season to get settled and a full pre-season. Sandro will be back, we still have Bale, I can't imagine our strikers won't total more goals next season whoever they end up being. A couple more signings like Dembele, Vertonghen and Lloris this summer and I think we'll take a really good step in the right direction.
How do you propose we do that with a 15m net spend?