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Kyle Walker

NaijaSpurs said:
I have said it before and I will say it again, there is zero chance of this incarnation of Spurs under the stewardship of Daniel Levy selling a key player like Walker to one of our rivals. We are on the verge of moving into the best stadium in the country and our currently the most inform side in the league, and if Emirates Marketing Project want him then Emirates Marketing Project can Foxtrot Oscar cause in life we do not always get what we want
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Cop out.
 
I think we all accept that neither Levy nor Poch will sell any of the present squad to any of our rivals but the question is what happens if one of them falls out with Poch and/or decides they want to go to one of the mega clubs abroad? We saw it with Bale, once a player goes into revolt mode it becomes extremely difficult to hold onto them.

Of course Levy will do his damnedest to keep all our top players this summer and such is the excellent spirit at WHL chances are he'll succeed, but things can change very quickly without warning so I for one will be just that little bit nervous from now until until !st September 2017.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
I have said it before and I will say it again, there is zero chance of this incarnation of Spurs under the stewardship of Daniel Levy selling a key player like Walker to one of our rivals. We are on the verge of moving into the best stadium in the country and our currently the most inform side in the league, and if Emirates Marketing Project want him then Emirates Marketing Project can Foxtrot Oscar cause in life we do not always get what we want
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Spot on. Selling someone like Walker should only happen if he forces a move by refusing to play, making a real stink etc. And even then he'll have to find a club outside England and they'll have to pay a ridiculous amount of money for him.
 
Dont bite, papers are writing *****

We are not a selling club.

Keane wanted out and we got way over the odds for him and made £15mil (memory) for a 6month loan
Berbatov pretty much went on strike and flew himself to Utd
Modric went on strike and was made to stay another year and then was sold cheaper to RM
Bale was convinced to give us one more year and was sold cheaper was a world record to RM

Players only go when the really force their way out and even then since Berbatov almost 10yrs ago we havent sold to a rival.
 
imcallingbullsh*t said:
Dont bite, papers are writing *****

We are not a selling club.

Keane wanted out and we got way over the odds for him and made £15mil (memory) for a 6month loan
Berbatov pretty much went on strike and flew himself to Utd
Modric went on strike and was made to stay another year and then was sold cheaper to RM
Bale was convinced to give us one more year and was sold cheaper was a world record to RM

Players only go when the really force their way out and even then since Berbatov almost 10yrs ago we havent sold to a rival.
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Well, Bale wouldn't have gone for 80m in 2012 - that price was entirely off the back of his 2012-2013 form. Other than that, I agree with you.

I still remember the Guardian laughably printing up a long, detailed article back in January 2011 that claimed that we were deep in discussions to sell Bale to.....Inter Milan. Maybe even as early as that summer. Apparently they had it from extremely reputable sources in Italy that we were willing to consider selling for 40m or something like that, and that the player's head had been turned by the star power of Inter - despite the fact that we'd just d*cked them 3-1 at the Lane and were heading into the CL knockout rounds on our first try, while they were labouring under Rafa Benitez and rapidly losing steam in an increasingly unattractive league.

That was utter flimflam - looked like it, smelt like it, probably was entirely fabricated based on Paolo Bandini needing to make a deadline. But c*nts at work were telling me that the Guardian was gospel and that this meant that he was off in the summer for 40m to Serie f*cking A.

The papers sometimes hit the tickle my balls with a feather in terms of indicating what the club's transfer plans are, the *general* (very broad) approach is, and so on. Very occasionally, they quote people directly related to the player or the club and that gives it more heft. Sometimes, they pick up on the player's (or club's) own public outbursts/statements.

In this case, direct quotes in the story are absent. There are directly attributable statements that suggest a bit more solidity than a random 'Walker wanted by United' article (I.e, the meeting with Poch after last week's disappointment and so on), but that still isn't much to go on.

So, long story short, the press are the press. I cut them more slack than most here, and I generally trust them a wee bit more than I perhaps should at times - but they are still wedded to their narratives, their lazy, occasionally very biased snapshots of the world as it should be. And that includes the notion of us being a 'selling club', which, as you say, died a cold, grim death in the real world at about the same time that Levy told Chelsea to f*ck off and stay f*cked off in 2011 when they were throwing money at us trying to get Modders.
 
My view is that for the kind of money we could expect to recoup for Walker, we could buy an upgrade. Imagine having a fast, defensively capable right back who could actually deliver a decent cross more than once every ten attempts.
 
awesome dawson said:
My view is that for the kind of money we could expect to recoup for Walker, we could buy an upgrade. Imagine having a fast, defensively capable right back who could actually deliver a decent cross more than once every ten attempts.
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Whom do you imagine who would be an upgrade who would play for Tottenham wages and fit Poch's paradigm?
 
Robbo said:
Walker has as many PL assists this season (5) as Zlatan, Dele and Hazard. And he's only one goal behind "assist kings" Ozil and Coutinho. No other defender have more assists than Walker.

Just saying.
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Exactly. He might have the occasional brain fart, but he's by far the best right back in the country, and very likely one of the best in the world. There's a reason for Bayern Munich supposedly wanting him. No way are we just going to find a replacement or upgrade on him.
 
Daisuk said:
Exactly. He might have the occasional brain fart, but he's by far the best right back in the country, and very likely one of the best in the world. There's a reason for Bayern Munich supposedly wanting him. No way are we just going to find a replacement or upgrade on him.
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I agree with you. The only way we could do well out of it was if we identified the "next Walker" however that has a lot of risk in it and also there would be a transition period whilst they settle
 
I'm not a premier league club scout, but if there isn't a player in the world who can cross better than Walker as well as defend then I'd be very surprised. Our wages aren't that bad, we'll clearly go up to 100k for the right player, plus have champions league to offer as well as the Poch influence.

I'm sure one of the championship manager gurus on here can suggest a few players currently plying their trade in Spain, Croatia or Italy. We're hardly Sunderland in terms of attracting good players.
 
awesome dawson said:
I'm not a premier league club scout, but if there isn't a player in the world who can cross better than Walker as well as defend then I'd be very surprised. Our wages aren't that bad, we'll clearly go up to 100k for the right player, plus have champions league to offer as well as the Poch influence.

I'm sure one of the championship manager gurus on here can suggest a few players currently plying their trade in Spain, Croatia or Italy. We're hardly Sunderland in terms of attracting good players.
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I'll admit that one can survive on 100k a week, but when you can go somewhere and easily trouser 200-300k in the country soon to be formerly known as Great Britain 100k doesn't seem as much. But I'm no mathematician.
 
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