My problem is they'll want our best players, whereas we'd want their fringe players. That clearly gives them the better end of the deal.
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Real madrid partnership announced
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My problem is they'll want our best players, whereas we'd want their fringe players. That clearly gives them the better end of the deal.
again, it is highly unlikely that first team player transfers have anything to do with this deal - if it does then id possibly agree with you
Levy would be mad to include anything suggesting they can come in and pick off our best players any time they want. They'll have to through 3 months of negotiations like anyone else. The partnership is about other things.
How many years has he been trying now, 3? 4? Damn you Levy for dragging this out and robbing the world of his talent.
jts1882
Dean Richards
Unfortunately, we are not in competition for the same players. If we sign someone who becomes good enough to interest them, chances are they get him (cf. Modric), while players who don't fit in with them can come to us and be one of our best players (cf. van der Vaart). A deal between the clubs wouldn't change the former and might facilitate the latter.
So we could benefit from shared scouting information as we are targeting different players. More interesting, perhaps, given our new training centre, we have some sort of cooperation or interchange between the coaching and medical departments.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Midfield Maestro
Gheorge Popescu
South Korea would be a great market to exploit
linnet_spur
Pascal Chimbonda
Other than the fact that any first refusal deal has not been mentioned, people do realise that first refusal doesn't mean a club can just turn up and say "we'll take him thanks"? All it means, is that IF a team decides to sell a player, the club with first refusal gets the option to make an offer first. They also have to make an offer that has to be accepted by the other club. If Bale and Sandro eventually go, they will go. This partnership makes no difference to that, and if we do lose them in the future, I'd rather it was to Madrid than anywhere else.
jts1882
Dean Richards
Ha-ha.
They do seem to have a close relationship with Barca and City. Overmars, Petit, Hleb, Henry, Fabregas, Song. Adebayor, Toure, Clichy, Nasri. Wenger doesn't even put up a fight now. He just let Song move to Barcelona.
Other clubs don't like dealing with Levy. If we have a deal with Real, a club we are not in serious competition with, then we can use it to advantage. Players good enough for Real can move on but at a price. We can use it to show we don't lack ambition, but accept a few elite clubs are ahead of us. I feel there is an advantage, but can't express it coherently, so I'lll stop now.
Thai_Spurs
Neale Fenn
grasshopper
Dave McEwen
Thought the same thing myself.
Well we have a partnership with inter and it didn't give us first refusal on Oscar, and nor has it let us get Leandro on the cheap so I doubt that's the case
Probably just means we'll get to sell our shirts in their shop and play regular friendlies, no club would agree to give away their assets cheaply.