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If Suarez is off to Madrid and Higuain is off Napoli I fear who'll come in for Soldado...and it aint lolerpool.
Quote from the Evening Standard:
Villas-Boas said: “He’s just one of the players we are interested in. It’s not a lie to anybody that we’ve been looking for a striker to strengthen our squad.
“Roberto is one of the players we have been following and his career speaks for itself. He’s a great striker. But there isn’t a deal being struck at the moment, it’s just interest and conversations.”
So maybe we do have other options to look torwards if Soldado does not happen.
Villas-Boas said: “He’s just one of the players we are interested in. It’s not a lie to anybody that we’ve been looking for a striker to strengthen our squad.
“Roberto is one of the players we have been following and his career speaks for itself. He’s a great striker. But there isn’t a deal being struck at the moment, it’s just interest and conversations.”
So maybe we do have other options to look torwards if Soldado does not happen.
It's basically a game of musical chairs, except no-one is willing to leave until there is a spare seat.
Cavani to PSG is one of the kick start moves to be confirmed so far.
Fuck knows how long the next one will drag out for. But it may well be a while until THFC take their empty chair to join in the game.
Or maybe it's just posturing, just like the supposed deal being "off".
Are we being Levy'd?
Are we both trying to Levy each other?
Could this result in a total collapse of any monetary form on a global scale?:avbshock:
Or are all our funds going to be spent on coffee and panini's for Franco in a little Spanish bar, that unbeknownst to us is owned by Valencia, thus our billions of negotiating hours and subsequent drinks and snacks lead to the complete decimation of all Valencia debt, leaving them free to keep their captain and launch a bid for Bale.
Are we both trying to Levy each other?
Could this result in a total collapse of any monetary form on a global scale?:avbshock:
Or are all our funds going to be spent on coffee and panini's for Franco in a little Spanish bar, that unbeknownst to us is owned by Valencia, thus our billions of negotiating hours and subsequent drinks and snacks lead to the complete decimation of all Valencia debt, leaving them free to keep their captain and launch a bid for Bale.
If we don't sign Soldado we will go for Lisandro Lopez who for me is not quite the quality we want. Not a patch of Soldado.
Baldini returning from Valencia doesn't mean we've pulled out, we just now know what they want and I imagine negotiations will continue...
Either that or I'm just lying to myself to hide the fact that its probably not going to happen.
Baldini returning from Valencia doesn't mean we've pulled out, we just now know what they want and I imagine negotiations will continue...
Either that or I'm just lying to myself to hide the fact that its probably not going to happen.
Sounds well spursy
Also a deal may have been done, but if you are Valenica you don't want it announced yet because you have to go buy a replacement and font want prices to go up because of the cash in your account now!
Lets wait and see.
At 28 years young Valencia are going to sell this summer, else the value drops too much and they can't afford not to have a pay day. But they also don't care who they sell to and they need a replacement as they need CL qualification and the money that brings. The only question is whether we sign him or someone else, IMO. If you're Soldado you'd prefer to go to Spurs over pool. Valencia signing a replacement may well be a factor IMO.
Completely agree, but they will hold out for the very most they can get so I don't think they will tolerate any of Levy's negotiations and stinginess purely because they don't need to. Somebody will bid the £26m or whatever it is that they are demanding. I just hope Levy hasn't and doesn't let this one collapse.
The way I read it, is they would ideally have him stay until retirement because they don't need to sell, even though they could do with it (basically they're still in debt but not crippling to the point of urgently having to get rid of players like with David Villa/David Silva/Juan Mata).
There's two ways of reading the story, either we've lowered the price because they have another striker lined up so the deal has fallen through, or we may have agreed a deal but keeping it secret until they can get a replacement for decent value (as Super Jan said). Either way, Spanish sources (not sure whether that includes Fran Guaita) say we have to have met the release clause/agreed a deal by August 3rd which is the only part of the story I believe is true.
Also, this is the first business of the recently-elected chairman Amadeo Salvo who took over from Manuel Llorente who had terrible reputation with fans for selling players off cheaply. Looks like he might be a Levy-style guy who is 'my way or no way' because from what I read, we offered €26m plus €4m in 'easy to achieve' clauses, but they want €30m straight up. Interesting deal, desperately want it to go ahead.
There's two ways of reading the story, either we've lowered the price because they have another striker lined up so the deal has fallen through, or we may have agreed a deal but keeping it secret until they can get a replacement for decent value (as Super Jan said). Either way, Spanish sources (not sure whether that includes Fran Guaita) say we have to have met the release clause/agreed a deal by August 3rd which is the only part of the story I believe is true.
Also, this is the first business of the recently-elected chairman Amadeo Salvo who took over from Manuel Llorente who had terrible reputation with fans for selling players off cheaply. Looks like he might be a Levy-style guy who is 'my way or no way' because from what I read, we offered €26m plus €4m in 'easy to achieve' clauses, but they want €30m straight up. Interesting deal, desperately want it to go ahead.
Bit of food for thought.
While originally I couldn't believe that we'd sanction a move for a 28 year old that broke our club transfer record, does anyone reckon levy and lewis might have loosened up on the chequebook partially because of the inflation that will no doubt come about next transfer window after the increase in premiership tv prize money?
While originally I couldn't believe that we'd sanction a move for a 28 year old that broke our club transfer record, does anyone reckon levy and lewis might have loosened up on the chequebook partially because of the inflation that will no doubt come about next transfer window after the increase in premiership tv prize money?
We signed him yet?
NEXT window? dude, it's already happened, the increase happened this summer...
