Morgan Gibbs-White

[Muttley]

I would say the complete opposite. The Nuno confrontation thing, complaints about referees and other incidents make him look a fool.

So they kept a player they didn’t want to sell. Happens every other week. Move on, we’ll sign someone else.

Don't agree on the PGMOL part actually. I want more and more clubs to remind that organisation to put in some corrective action and start following the laws of the game again. They are a weakness in the overall football system.

 

[parklane1]

We move on, funny how DUBAI SPUR turned up again once this news came out.

 

[Lilbaz]

We move on, funny how DUBAI SPUR turned up again once this news came out.

Probably just been on holiday in kumb or arsemania.

 

[JerusalemMan]

So Levy got Levied...

By a chairman who's probably threatened to kill MGW.

 

[Gazza]

Don't agree on the PGMOL part actually. I want more and more clubs to remind that organisation to put in some corrective action and start following the laws of the game again. They are a weakness in the overall football system.

It’s called allowing corruption and it’s the norm from the very very top of the sport

 

[Silly McSilly Face]

Looks like we've been taken for a massive ride by CCA here.

 

[Grays_1890]

Looks like we've been taken for a massive ride by CCA here.

That, money, I weirdly think the child birth/issues a week ago didn't help and NF pushed out the help for him, so plays on loyalty, I doubt their owner is hardly shy at using intimidation/emotional blackmail to his favour either.

We move on, you have to hope we knew a week ago that the deal was dead and we have others on boil.

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

I don't know why it needs to result in such dramatic inward reflection. There's likely dozens of players we approach every year who for, one reason or another, don't end up signing. This time it happened to play out in the press a bit. Unless it comes out that Spurs actually did do something illegal/immoral or whatever, I don't think there's much to see here.

We booked a medical for this player thinking that we’d met a release clause. And we failed to sign that player because the owner on the other end of the deal accused us of doing some underhanded stuff. That owner successfully resisted our interest and got that player to sign a new contract.

I get that as Spurs fans we want to play something down where we’ve taken our licks. But this very obviously is not the sort of thing that happens every year. Someone, somewhere along the line has miscalculated something on the Spurs end. I don’t think we actually did anything illegal, but I do think if we actually wanted this player then we made a complete hash of it.

Like, the silence from the club afterwards was taken as a ‘we obviously have a plan and we’re just letting it all play out in a professional way’ and actually it looks like once we shot our shot, we just backed off! I genuinely think this was Levy being interested because the price was so good relative to the player. And it was a punt to see if we could rush it through. We did not act like a club that actually wanted to get this deal done.