Daniel Levy educates Jeremy Pearce
Saido Berahino is still an unhappy WBA player who has clearly been told one thong when another has happened, it seems pretty certain that he was told he could leave and it is known Pulis wanted him sold.
His chairman though has kept everyone in the dark, even his manager, as to the situation and apparently refused to take phone calls. There will no doubt now be some smoothing over and we'll see some PR coming out about misunderstandings, knuckling down, only want to play football comments. It will all be carefully worked out and Berahino and the club will agree a public stance for the fans benefit, behind the scenes it may well be quite different.
We have these issues ourselves with players we can't get rid of, Emmanuel Adebayor for instance, another who doesn't answer his phone and spouts garbage to the press about not playing for money. A previous post showed those protestations in their true light.
Pearce has accused Tottenham of deliberately unsettling his player, almost suggesting we put him up to saying he wouldn't play again. We have it done to us, think Luka Modric, Gareth Bale to name just two, but I doubt clubs actually push players to do these things, more the agents do. It is for the agenty to get the best for his client and if that entails putting pressure on that decision will come from the agent employed by the player not an external force insisting a player takes certain actions. I bidding club will always get the blame, of course, but that may not be accurate.
Berahino didn't make his statement with no reason, it isn't just a case of not being allowed a transfer, but more what he has been told and the reneging of that that has caused the frustrated outburst. He is in a difficult situation now and much is being made of Euro 2016 simply to put pressure on him to perform, pressure from WBA I expect.
A word to the press that it is his ambition to play there and stories abound that he has to knuckle down to achieve that. It is all a part of the PR machine and the first steps in convincing him to play and score goals for WBA. For him, the international window has come at the right time and instead of reporting back on Friday with everyone else he reports back on Monday which will then be taken up with meetings.
WBA hierarchy will want pictures of him smiling and training in the public domain as quickly as possible, again simply more PR for the fans. It has been an interesting saga to follow, a fairly predictable one when you view everything as part of a negotiation process and not individual incidents.
After the Jeremy Pearce statement that some would say was pulling the wool over WBA fans eyes, Daniel Levy has made a few general points about transfers that clarify how they are structured, they are not simply in a lump sum as many assume.
That is a carefully worded statement that contradicts Jeremy Pearce's claim that no offer was made reflecting his true value. Journalists who have dug have said Tottenham did, in fact, offer £25-million for Berahino, but WBA turned it down because it was in staged payments (instalments) over the term of his proposed contract.
That, of course, is not news to my regular readers who have been well aware the problem all along was the structure of the payments and not the amount.
You can get yourself into so much hot water when you release statements about transfers. especially when those statements stretch the bounds of credibility in the manner of the WBA statement. he would have been better not to have said anything or been honest and said we didn't believe the structure of the payments was beneficial to WBA.
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His chairman though has kept everyone in the dark, even his manager, as to the situation and apparently refused to take phone calls. There will no doubt now be some smoothing over and we'll see some PR coming out about misunderstandings, knuckling down, only want to play football comments. It will all be carefully worked out and Berahino and the club will agree a public stance for the fans benefit, behind the scenes it may well be quite different.
We have these issues ourselves with players we can't get rid of, Emmanuel Adebayor for instance, another who doesn't answer his phone and spouts garbage to the press about not playing for money. A previous post showed those protestations in their true light.
Pearce has accused Tottenham of deliberately unsettling his player, almost suggesting we put him up to saying he wouldn't play again. We have it done to us, think Luka Modric, Gareth Bale to name just two, but I doubt clubs actually push players to do these things, more the agents do. It is for the agenty to get the best for his client and if that entails putting pressure on that decision will come from the agent employed by the player not an external force insisting a player takes certain actions. I bidding club will always get the blame, of course, but that may not be accurate.
Berahino didn't make his statement with no reason, it isn't just a case of not being allowed a transfer, but more what he has been told and the reneging of that that has caused the frustrated outburst. He is in a difficult situation now and much is being made of Euro 2016 simply to put pressure on him to perform, pressure from WBA I expect.
A word to the press that it is his ambition to play there and stories abound that he has to knuckle down to achieve that. It is all a part of the PR machine and the first steps in convincing him to play and score goals for WBA. For him, the international window has come at the right time and instead of reporting back on Friday with everyone else he reports back on Monday which will then be taken up with meetings.
WBA hierarchy will want pictures of him smiling and training in the public domain as quickly as possible, again simply more PR for the fans. It has been an interesting saga to follow, a fairly predictable one when you view everything as part of a negotiation process and not individual incidents.
After the Jeremy Pearce statement that some would say was pulling the wool over WBA fans eyes, Daniel Levy has made a few general points about transfers that clarify how they are structured, they are not simply in a lump sum as many assume.
We have never, as a club, spoken about another team’s players and I am not about to do so now. However, I do want to make a few general points regarding transfers.
“Firstly, there is hardly a transfer concluded across Europe which doesn’t include staged payments. This is particularly so when significant amounts such as £20m-£30m are involved – players don’t come cheaply these days.
“Secondly, we do not make anything personal. None of the proposals, discussions or negotiations we undertake involve any personal elements or ego – everything we do is in the interest of what is best for our club.
“Thirdly, we never make anything public, particularly in the best interests of the players involved. Making aspects such as transfer requests public is wholly disrespectful to a player.”
That is a carefully worded statement that contradicts Jeremy Pearce's claim that no offer was made reflecting his true value. Journalists who have dug have said Tottenham did, in fact, offer £25-million for Berahino, but WBA turned it down because it was in staged payments (instalments) over the term of his proposed contract.
That, of course, is not news to my regular readers who have been well aware the problem all along was the structure of the payments and not the amount.
You can get yourself into so much hot water when you release statements about transfers. especially when those statements stretch the bounds of credibility in the manner of the WBA statement. he would have been better not to have said anything or been honest and said we didn't believe the structure of the payments was beneficial to WBA.
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WBA Statement on Berahino
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8 comments
The fact remains that Peace made it public that both Spurs and Berahino were told that he was not for sale, days bbefore the windows closed, but it seems both chose to ignore the statement and try to force a deal through.
Levy bid late, got player to act unsettled so he could pressure Peace so he would get a lower price and better terms. Peace didn't blink and called his bluff.
He has 5 strikers and his ambition is to not get relegated. Levy has 1 striker and he wants top 4. Make no mistake only one Chairman won this.
I am a Spurs fan. I am highly appreciative of ENIC and the stability and average league position they have brought to Spurs. I remember the pre-ENIC days.
But I'm not about to call a massive defeat as some sort of righteous moral victory. Spurs have already dropped 7 points in first 4 games because key areas of striker and DM weren't addressed and Levy just blew up his only chance of making them up later.