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Just spouting his usual guff....
We already have the poster-boy of SK football...
Didn't we beat Newcastle to his signing?
$3m gap between them is not so big
HA HA! do they know who they're dealing with?
Their chairman will be left sobbing into his webcam; wishing he'd taken the initial 15m offer as he didn't even want Luke Amos and a pre-season friendly vs Spurs ladies, let alone instead of the cash...
I thought barca was sniffing around at the time but didn't persue it as hard as we did. it was quite a coup for us at the time considering.
He's got the look of a Korean Harry Macguire. He looks decent in the air which is what i suspect Jose thinks we are lacking.
Yeh Wenger was close to signing him but thought he was a bit lightweight physically. Glad we took the chance, one of my favourite ever Spurs players.
How Newcastle rejected Luka Modric before he joined Tottenham
By Benjamin NewmanPublished: September 23, 2018 9:47 am
Last Updated: September 23, 2018 9:49 am
Newcastle, Tottenham & Luka Modric
Writing in the Guardian over the weekend, journalist Daniel Taylor has turned back the clock for Newcastle, Tottenham and Luka Modric.
The following story about Modric has come out with respect to Kevin Keegan’s new autobiography. Daniel Taylor helped Keegan write the book.
It’s now come to light that Newcastle had the opportunity to sign Luka Modric before he joined Spurs.
However, in classic Newcastle style, the Magpies shot themselves in the foot.
Daniel Taylor tells the following story:
Keegan set up a meeting with Luka Modric’s agent with a view to signing one of Europe’s outstanding players, then aged 22, only for (Tony) Jimenez to decide he knew better.
An agreement was close when Jimenez, according to Keegan, turned to the agent and said "Can I come in here?'"he said. "I don’t think Luka is good enough for the Premier League. He’s too lightweight. He’s decent, but he’s not good enough to play for a club with Newcastle’s ambitions."
Which must have been crushing news for Modric when he was decorating Tottenham’s midfield, winning all those European Cups with Real Madrid and other minor achievements such as being named the outstanding player of the last World Cup.
By Rob Stewart
12:01AM BST 24 Apr 2008
Newcastle are close to buying highly-rated Croatia midfielder Luka Modric in a £12 million deal with Dinamo Zagreb.
Dinamo vice-president Zdravko Mamic met Newcastle representatives at the city's Malmaison hotel this week for talks over the playmaker who will be a key member of Slaven Bilic's Croatia side at Euro 2008.
It is understood the deal has been spearheaded by Newcastle's director of football, Dennis Wise, and should Modric, 22, sign it would represent a significant coup as he has attracted the attention of Chelsea, Tottenham and Woolwich.
Mamic, who oversaw Eduardo da Silva's move to Woolwich, has informally confirmed that Modric is near to finalising a move to Newcastle, where manager Kevin Keegan is short of midfield creativity.
That photo is misleading... it was actually taken to highlight the dangers of playing with superglue!They are quite tender with each other
He scored an own goal against a quite weak Northern Ireland side about 2 years ago (Korea lost 2-1 in Belfast despite dominating the ball), remember watching the highlights, but didn't go as it was a quite early kick off on a Saturday.
If he's not as good as he's hyped to be then why are we signing him?
I'm sure he has matured quite a bit in two years, if Jose thinks he is ready that's good enough for me.
I'm talking about fans talking up the player before he's even kicked a ball at Premier League level or even signed.
Bollocks.
This thread is the perfect example of open minds vs the "he must be shit" crew.
No fans here are hyping him up.
Let's give him a chance to put on a spurs shirt first, I actually think he will be good for us should he sign.
We need some physicality in the side, at times we are a soft touch Jose has identified this and has acted quick on it.
It seems completely wrong for any club to lose a player for up to two years and that could have easily happened with Son.
A club spends millions on a player, has him under contract and he has to fuck off for two years.
It just seems grossly unfair but, despite that, the club should know about this before going ahead with the signing.
I would have thought a high profile South Korean footballer would be doing a greater service to his nation by continuing with his career (unless he's a fucking good soldier and a beast like Superman or the Terminator).
Wouldn't it be better to exempt top sportspeople from national service and just let them represent their country by doing what they do?
I guess I'd be liking us to sign players that are clearly good enough to make an impact from day 1.
I'd never heard of him before but he looks like the type of player we need.