With your reality, very. He lives a very different life to you.
Why wouldn’t he prefer Spain to England? Many English people do and they were born here. I imagine his wife and family can’t wait to get the fuck out of here.
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Why wouldn’t he prefer Spain to England? Many English people do and they were born here. I imagine his wife and family can’t wait to get the fuck out of here.
We are so far from being worried about PSR.
True, but it's the general principle of the modern transfer market.
Don't cling to a situation with Romero that has and will continue to have its ups and downs when such a good exit ramp is available. The old fear of being a "selling club" no longer applies. Everyone is a selling club now.
They can lower their bids all they want but they won't get any change out of Daniel Levy.
Levy might be able to cover that £80m with off season events at the staduim.
How much Tottenham are set to earn from non-football events per year
How much do Tottenham earn from non-footballing events at their stadium per year? That figure is about to go up!
The best thing about it is that is equidistant between london and Norwich.
Not for their best players they aren’t. You think our rivals would entertain selling Palmer, Caicedo, Rice, Saka etc?
They’ll sell of course.. especially if they’re forced to like Woolwich might be with Saliba, but they will fight it all the way. And will mostly make sales on mid tier players in the team and to Saudi.
Nobody is selling their best footballers to stay in line with PSR other than a team like Villa who are in dire straits.
A Madrid might sell a Rodrygo but only because they have Mbappe and Vini.
Nah Tony that BS. They are loaded millionaires. London is the most geographical connected place in the world. Between October and March my lady becomes unbearable. "I need to see the sun! How can people live like this!" Makes out like it's dead horse Alaska, I stick her on a plane to dubai for ten days or some other winter sun spot she's right as...well rain. These people are incredibly privileged they should put on a news channel for 30 seconds. This is simply Romero's agent agitating on behalf of his client now the no ECL football lever is stuck. And for the record my woman is Mediterranean and would not choose Spain or Italy over living in England.
Some media reports stating we could get "up to 39 million" for him.
Wonder if they confused Romero for this fella.....
Leave "best" players to one side.
Is Romero in the group we're willing to bet big on to be a core, week-in, week-out top performer for the long term?
There has to be some doubt of that, right? Fitness, discipline, focus, the Argentina of it all across all those domains.
Why not cash in while we're ahead?
I think we need to step back a bit and think who we could get who is as good.
He is an outstanding centre half, and I can't think of anyone we could attract as good if not better.
He’s absolutely in the core of our best players no matter what you think of him. Most reliable probably not but we don’t win the final with Danso instead of him imo.
And we won’t get huge money for him. The club after him are not rich and are Spanish. If we were looking at 80m+ then you’d have to approach it differently but realistically we aren’t.
Compared to Italy where he was at Genoa and Atalanta i think there is a big difference. I don't know when he got married and in which country but by the looking at his wife I'd say that for such a fierce competitor he's well under the thumb.
Atleti spend big all the time, and if we're not getting a big fee then no deal, I'm with you there.
And Romero is class, don't get me wrong. If we sign him to a big contract extension I won't complain. But we all know it's a gamble.
The reinvestment of a big Romero fee could really kick us on in other areas.
We paid £42.5M for him.
Why on earth would we sell him for a loss at this point?
Why on earth would we sell him for a loss at this point?
They spend big on shiny forwards, they aren’t doing it for a centre back. Even Madrid don’t do it on defenders.
If they are willing to pay, fine. But I highly doubt it. And I don’t think there’s that much interest in him outside Atletico.
True.
Per Transfermarkt, Atleti's record transfer for a defender was £29-£30M for Le Normand (Real Sociedad) last summer... where they also spent £63M on Julián Alvarez and £35M on Conor Gallagher.