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Even with Lloris going in the opposite direction, we would still be needing to stump up a good £50 million to bring Bale here. Anyways that's complete fantasy, the lad is in his prime and will likely only go somewhere where he will get UCL football and a wage packet comparable to what he has at Madrid. In fact because of that, I'd not expect to see him join us ever unless it's on a free with him getting a massive signing on fee.
 
£20m for Lloris? Keepers are cheaper than outfield but not that much.

Whenever our top players go it is for an inflated fee and £20m ain't it
 
Cochise said:
Even with Lloris going in the opposite direction, we would still be needing to stump up a good £50 million to bring Bale here. Anyways that's complete fantasy, the lad is in his prime and will likely only go somewhere where he will get UCL football and a wage packet comparable to what he has at Madrid. In fact because of that, I'd not expect to see him join us ever unless it's on a free with him getting a massive signing on fee.
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Totally agree that there is no chance of that deal happening in any window, let alone this one.

We all know if that offer is true Levy will just see the pound signs, plus the fact we will have made a nice profit and so its bye-bye Hugo. Vorm becomes our new number one as most of us expected/feared and we continue to become the Real Madrid feeder club
 
I know he is a CB but if Luiz goes for £50m then Hugo must be worth almost that if not more, Luiz is a buffoon
 
paxtonwolf said:
Totally agree that there is no chance of that deal happening in any window, let alone this one.

We all know if that offer is true Levy will just see the pound signs, plus the fact we will have made a nice profit and so its bye-bye Hugo. Vorm becomes our new number one as most of us expected/feared and we continue to become the Real Madrid feeder club
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At 20 million, not a chance. 30 and we might be talking. Some times a profit is too big to turn down. Players come and go and there money we have, the more attractive we become.
 
We could get 100 mill for him still wouldn't spend the money on anyone to improve his position or any other position on the pitch.
 
paxtonwolf said:
Totally agree that there is no chance of that deal happening in any window, let alone this one.

We all know if that offer is true Levy will just see the pound signs, plus the fact we will have made a nice profit and so its bye-bye Hugo. Vorm becomes our new number one as most of us expected/feared and we continue to become the Real Madrid feeder club
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Myth.

Levy doesn't want to sell our best players. Short term profit is of no interest to him. His payoff will come only when he sells the club. And he will get a far better offer for it if Spurs are successful. And that means, if at all possible, keeping our best players.

The problem is that that is easier said than done. Football is a food chain. And Spurs, while near the top, are still preyed upon by the very biggest clubs. We've lost four players that we didn't want to lose in Levy's time at the helm - Carrick, Berbatov, Modric and Bale. Not a huge number in 14 years, really. Arsenal, by way of comparison, have lost many more than that over the same period......and they should surely be in a far better position than us to hold on to their best players? Truth is that if they can't resist the might of the very biggest and richest clubs, then we have no chance.

Levy doesn't welcome interest in our best players but, once it becomes inevitable that they will leave, he will screw every last penny of profit that he can out of the the club that forces his hand. And that is a good thing for Spurs.
 
WestBerkshire said:
We could get 100 mill for him still wouldn't spend the money on anyone to improve his position or any other position on the pitch.
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Levy will reinvest the money. He always has. It's up to the football people within the club to ensure that the money is spent wisely.
 
Levy doesn't welcome interest in our best players

Depends entirely on who you listen to. According to Bales agent the club started negotiating the deal the day after spurs failed to finish 4th. That to me doesn't sound like a chairman/club hell bent on keeping their best more like someone who wants to sell and bring as much in as possible
 
WestBerkshire said:
Levy doesn't welcome interest in our best players

Depends entirely on who you listen to. According to Bales agent the club started negotiating the deal the day after spurs failed to finish 4th. That to me doesn't sound like a chairman/club hell bent on keeping their best more like someone who wants to sell and bring as much in as possible
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Sure, there was contact between the two clubs about Bale as early as May 2013. But Spurs didn't initiate negotiations. The club merely responded to Real Madrid's interest. Madrid made a bid. Spurs turned it down. Madrid made another bid. Spurs turned that down too. And so on, throughout the summer. Eventually, it became perfectly apparent that Bale was desperate to leave and that he was prepared to agitate for it. And when that happened, there was a decision to be made as to whether, in the long term, the club would be better selling and reinvesting in a better overall squad rather than keeping an unhappy player at the peak of his powers whose form might dip; who might get badly injured; or who might poison the dressing room atmosphere as a consequence of having been denied a dream move to the biggest club in the world.

Now of course, with hindsight, the money wasn't reinvested especially well. But, at the time, the vast majority of Spurs fans (and fans of other clubs) and respected football pundits reckoned that Spurs had done fantastic business and would become a better, more balanced team as a consequence. No more relying on the one player to provide the end product. Predictions of title challenges abounded. So it is nothing less than revisionism to accuse Levy of mere profit chasing now that it hasn't turned out well.
 
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