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Captain Hugo for £11m in 2012 was incredibly good business.
VdV was definitely the biggest discount we ever got relative to a player’s obvious value at the time.
Madrid were just sick of him and wanted rid and the money meant nothing so they pawned him off for 8 mil on deadline day because who cares?
This was the football culture Levy dominated. A bygone era. An era when a domestic talent like Bale cost 5M plus 5M in incentives because he was just 17. Imagine what Southampton would ask for a guy like that now.
There was just free money lying around if you were clever enough to grab it.
Kyle Walker for £4m.
Made the PFA Team of the Year a couple of times and we sold him for £50m.
Made the PFA Team of the Year a couple of times and we sold him for £50m.
There is a lot of fairly justified talk of how piss poor our transfers record is but I’d like to know what we think is the best club transfer of the last twenty years?
My vote goes for Modric, my reasoning is four fold:
- Finding a quality cm is like finding a needle in a haystack.
- It was a gamble as Modric is a very slight guy who you’d think wouldn’t be suited for the league.
- He was scouted from a little known league so even more of a gamble.
- He excelled at Spurs and went on to become one of the best midfielders in football history.
My second place is Ben Davies
.. no but for real my runner up is Hugo.
My vote goes for Modric, my reasoning is four fold:
- Finding a quality cm is like finding a needle in a haystack.
- It was a gamble as Modric is a very slight guy who you’d think wouldn’t be suited for the league.
- He was scouted from a little known league so even more of a gamble.
- He excelled at Spurs and went on to become one of the best midfielders in football history.
My second place is Ben Davies
.. no but for real my runner up is Hugo.Hopefully the next one.
I think Modric is the player that elevated us to a new level. Without him I don’t think our evolution over the last 10-12 years would have happened. He made it possible for us to play football on the level of the top clubs, without him we would never have been relevant.
I think Bale beats Modric comfortably due to that frankly ridiculous, almost nonsensical final season (Has any team ever been such a one man show? So many worldies in one season, so many get out of jail free cards .. we were terrible) and the insane fee we got for him. When we sold Modric we got nowhere near what he was really worth.
Yeah, think it's Lloris for me too! He's on 396 appearences in all comps and will become only the 12th Spurs player to play over 400 games all comps. Pat Jennings (590) and Ted Ditchburn (452) the only two goalkeepers that have played more for us. £11m for a top class goalkeeper that plays for this long is just insane business
Very good shout
Also says "Lyon also receives 20% of Lloris's future transfer profit"
Toby for £11m
In his prime one of the best centre-backs in Europe and his (long range) passing was extraordinary.
In his prime one of the best centre-backs in Europe and his (long range) passing was extraordinary.
1.Bale
2.Son
3.Jan
2.Son
3.Jan
For price relative to the price inflation level of the time, Christian Eriksen for 11 million in 2013 was pretty unbelievable and tough to beat.
Jan Vertonghen for 9.5 also springs to mind.
Though we aren’t in position to go on either summer’s big spree if not for Modric and Bale of course, so it’s all a bit of a chain.
Jan Vertonghen for 9.5 also springs to mind.
Though we aren’t in position to go on either summer’s big spree if not for Modric and Bale of course, so it’s all a bit of a chain.
Definitely Harry was a great manager for him, but the ability there was frightening. That kind of athleticism and technical quality combined = perfect premier league player. It's a real shame he had bad injury issues, because he was absolutely one of the very best players of his generation.
