Laporte rejected us…good. He is not the quickest so unsuitable for Angeball.
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And obviously they can't force him in a literal sense.
But sometimes loyalty to the club means accepting a move the club needs.
It was the exact same story with selling Kaka to Real Madrid as I recall. He didn't want to go but the club convinced him they needed the money so he accepted it for their benefit.
We made the club irresistible to Ndombele. We beat Juve and PSG to his signature, we paid the 60 mill that Lyon wanted, we signed him before pre season started, we made him joint top earner with Harry Kane on 200k a week......didn't we do well
It's the only player I've heard actively discuss the stadium.
I think if we think objectively, who would a young hot talent rather join, Chelsea or spurs......the disappointing answer says alot.
They'd pick shoddy ole Stamford bridge
We could have Bentancur…Madison…Bissouma and I’d prefer Son…Kane….Dejan up front then Newcastles front 3.
Says the little green dude that was terminally blagged by the dark lord and went into hiding for decades to quietly die a peaceful death.
He won in the end.
Came back from the dead and guided the good guy that he had trained to win.
He was fine for Pep who plays a very similar system.
In his first year Sanchez was pretty good, what happened? See links with Gleason Bremer again today…..superb player.Sanchez 42 mill all those years ago, that was big big money.....my word the fans were happy when we signed him from Ajax, the same reaction many would have now if we signed this Tapsoba chap for 60 mill........be careful what you wish for
He's a Gooner and has nothing positive to say about his time here despite it being by far his biggest ever club.
We made the club irresistible to Ndombele. We beat Juve and PSG to his signature, we paid the 60 mill that Lyon wanted, we signed him before pre season started, we made him joint top earner with Harry Kane on 200k a week......didn't we do well
Is this an argument against making the club irresistible to genuine talent or simply highlighting our appauling scouting system that didn't bother to check the daily mail comments section highlighting his attitude when we was first in for him
We definitely didn't give Inter enough of a reason to force him out...
Unlike Newcastle, we actually had Conte waiting for him. And London to live in.
I'm sure those with your mindset will do that - for the rest of us, able to appreciate the context and personal circumstances involved, it seems highly probable that Bastoni simply wasn't going to come under any circumstances.
By all means you can keep banging on your often empty barrels about other 'failed' transfers, but for the Bastoni one specifically there is lots of evidence to suggest that his refusal was genuinely the reason he didn't come. (I'll never for the life of me understand why you and your lot don't focus on the actual bad things that ENIC / Levy have done instead of focussing on made up ones - it costs you so much credibility and probably so many supporters).
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What about the other point though. What do we do to make club irresistible to players with a reputation of being a talented footballer
I bet you're a scream when you're stoned!
No club lands every player. For a variety of reasons.
But you can sense inability to convince the player creeping back in as a reason Spurs transfers don't come through, after many years of having put that problem behind us.
I only intervened to deride Bent, but seeing as you asked........
Dunno... .Even the biggest and richest of teams have their money refused at times.
This idea, unfortunately, isn't compatible with the idea that we had no way to get Conte's most important signing at CB.
Oh the London argument........like Milan and its surrounding areas is a shit hole? Conte loved living in his London hotel didnt he. If you get the chance ask Conte why he lived alone in a hotel his whole time here and why his wife and kid remained in Italy
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