No way do Benfica turn down £61m for a 19 year old. Looks like a nice player but I'd be disgusted if we ended up lumping that kind of dough on a player like him. Footballs gone a little bonkers, we have to wait until the bubble bursts with all of these silly boy transfer fees
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No way do Benfica turn down £61m for a 19 year old. Looks like a nice player but I'd be disgusted if we ended up lumping that kind of dough on a player like him. Footballs gone a little bonkers, we have to wait until the bubble bursts with all of these silly boy transfer fees
We're not a small club. We're a very, very, big club. A very wealthy club, and a very well supported club.
But we act like a fucking small club with our transfer policy and still fucking complain when the media take fookin piss!
Fuck knows, but it's one that has kept cropping up for, what, 3 years now?
Seems like Poch loves him.
Probably not.
I think he’ll just wait to the Summer and then sign a big contract somewhere.
Is that the same thing the guy had in Diving Bell and the Butterfly?
None other.
A pretty terrifying thing for a young boy to see happen to his dad.
He was shown around Hotspur Way about 5 years ago.
If Lucas and Aurier rumours started from the same newspaper so why not? I think its real
ITS HAPPENING BOYS
Not really though
Going to agree.
It just baffles me how we think we can get to this place called success unless we show the requisite ambition.
Lets see what the next 8 days bring.
We surely need somebody of worth.
Look on the bright side the acountants will have less work to do later this year levy also looks after those boy's never over worked that's called being brave.So, we need to be brave meant sign nobody
What did he mean when he said we can't continue to compete or challenge for titles while spending small money ??
We need to spend no fucking money
Is obvious
Oh, there will be plenty trying to excuse it, Nabil.
From what I remember, his Mum (no photos), who is also his agent, was very keen on him joining Spurs as he would have a great chance of playing weekly.
It's the same with Loftus-Cheek. His Dad said if he had his way he would have done everything to get him to join a club like Tottenham.
I think we stand a great chance in signing Rabiot, because we can offer him what he wants. First team football and to be loved. Would he really get in Barca's midfield ahead of Rakitic, Busquets, Arthur, Coutinho, Vidal, De Jong and now Boateng?
You have to look at the way ENIC operate as an investment company their MO is to purchase low as possible then maximise the margin at a later date.
Player's for an example we don't or won't over pay or what they consider over pay but instead opt for cheap punts, then after some development and polishing up they are ready to be sold off for big money the same as when we are selling but if we are buying then the opposite is true.
That's why we should not be dissapointed when players like de jong choose club's like Barcelona over us because of bigger wages and success nothing we can do unless ENIC go and serious investors come in to take it on with a more ambitious approach.
The apologists you mean....
I believe the only thing stopping us from signing him years back was PSG promising him first team football.He's since made about 150 appearances for them.
Wouldn't get my hopes up though.
