Interesting stats, would be good to show this around to the fans who want to go out and spend big on a striker, the last one was Defoe and you aren't happy with him now. Not about spending big just about spending the right amount on a decent player. Cite the examples of Vertonghen for £9m and Lennon for £800,000. Also makes me so happy reading "Tom Carroll, £0" the boy will be a legend one day.
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Such an underrated player by non-Spurs fans (and some Spurs fans) too.
Can't believe he's not being called up for England atm.
I hope he will.
I can, our England squads are largely dictated by the media and then partly by the current manager asking his mates.
I don't believe that Roy actually goes to watch football matches otherwise we would be seeing a very different squad. I actually have it on good authority that Lewington, Pearce and Neville take it in turns to travel to grounds with a grey haired version of this in tow:
Wasn't the up front, initial fee for Bale £5 million? With appearences and bonuses contributing to the rest? But then in 2008-09 season we gave them another £2 million up front to help with their financial situation? So technically his TRANSFER fee was probably 5 million. As the other £2 million was actually just an extra contribution to get it out of the way sooner and to help the Saints. Correct me of I'm wrong, which I probably am!
He does not. Wingers need to score goals as well and 2-5 goals a season is far from enough...
Fair point.
Though I'd make allowances for that if he was producing telling and varied deliveries from the majority of opportunities he has to get the ball in. I also fear that he doesn't have confidence in his own abilities to deliver a ball, (I've never seen him anywhere near a free kick for example) hence he doesn't shoot when you are screaming at the tv for him to just hit it.
:lennon:
I'm not a Lennon hater by any means (the fact that his new smiley has replaced his old one when Bentley is still in 'current smilies' must be an admin oversight, surely (#@Caseout), just want to see more than the by line pull back or chip to the back post that he usually delivers.
When we signed Bale we paid £5m and Southampton had a 25% of next sale clause. When they hit financial difficulties and Bale looked like shit we bought that clause for £2m. That clause is now worth about £15m.
No, you're spot-on.
I always include all potential "add-ons" in the transfer fees quotes (both incoming and outgoing) as you never really know what activates these clauses or if they were ever paid or not.
In Bale's case, there was a further £5 million to be paid, but Southampton needed cash quickly, so Spurs paid them £2 million as an early and final payment, making the total transfer paid £7 million.
I bet Levy still haggled over the 25% sell on clause at £2m and tried to get them down to closer to £500k. 
Why on earth did we try and sign that clown for an ungodly sum of money when we already had him at the club, absolute bullshit.
sort of right.
the original deal was circa £10 mil 5 up front with add-ons up to another 5mil. yes they hit financial difficulties, but we settled (and i believe removed the sell on clause) for a total consideration of £8.6mil.
(I used to work with a very dull saints fan who is a little bit 'rain man' about their annual reports)
either way you look at it, he's turned out to be an adequate acquisition.
he's no lennon, but he's one we might want to hold on to.
this!
Liverpool would prob be more interesting than chelsea or man city (as you expect both to be very high anyway)
Yeah especially when you factors in that they spent £75 million combines on Henderson, Downing and Frankel
Carroll - £35m
Suarez - £22.8
Downing - £20m
Johnson - £18m
Henderson - £16m
Allen - £15m
Sturridge - £12m
Borini - £10.5m
Coutinho - £8.5m
Aspers - £7.7m
Reina - £6m
Skrtl - £6m
Enrique - £5m
Agger - £5m
Lucas - £5m
Assaidi - £2.4m
Jones - £2.3m
Shelvey - £1.7m
Yesil - £1m
Sterling - £600k
Ward - £100k
Gerrad - £0m
Coates - £0m
Suso - £0m
Kelly - £0m
Coady - £0m
Flanagan - £0m
McLaughlin - £0m
Ibe - £0m
Sama - £0m
Wisdom - £0m
Sinclair - £0m
Morgan - £0m
Jones - £0m
Pacheco - £0m
Spearing - £0m
Toure - £0m
Total: £200.6 million
OK, so that list is going by their squad list on Wikipedia and using Soccerbase for transfer fees. I've been very lenient as some of those squad members are pretty spurious as many of them have not really featured and I have not bothered to look for some of the smaller "nominal" fees.