Ben Yedder wants to play for a big club
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As with any targets, other clubs are interested and weighing up their own options, what players they might need, what players they would like to offload.
January though is an expensive time to make changes. You buy in January if what you have put together in the summer isn't working as you would like thus it is more buying to rescue a season or to do something to avoid an impending relegation. Players therefore are at a premium price, they still have 6 months of that years contract to go keeping their price inflated.
Clubs therefore search around for players in their last year of a contract so the club they are with can at least get a return instead of letting a player leave for nothing at the end of June. Others players have a desire to leave a club or a club happy to let them depart so they can bring in alternatives themselves.
Take Tottenham. Under Premier League rules we can only name 17 non-home grown players and we have 17 in the squad, unless they are under 21 no other non-home grown player can play. Reports suggest we are interested in Wissam Ben Yedder of Toulouse. The short 24-year-old striker plays for Toulouse in Ligue 1 and has a contract until 2017. If we are genuinely after him and want to sign him we have to offload a non-home grown player first, we can't just sell Townsend or Lennon.
In Ben Yedder's case Roma are also after him with reports suggesting they have made him a priority according to Le10 Sport.
Barcelona are suggested as another suitor with him scoring 10 goals in his last 12 Ligue 1 games and scored in the last four on the trot. What is impressive is his 6 goals in 9 games this season have all come in different games, he hasn't scored a glut in one game distorting his figures, the more games a striker scores in the better. He scored in 11 Ligue 1 games out of 38 last season, the previous season it was 12 out of 34 games so he is on a goalscoring run at the moment and his stock is high.
The fee of £5 million keeps getting bandied about but that sounds awfully cheap. Reports say both Tottenham and Barcelona have watched him several times this season, Fiorentina and Milan are reported as being interested in him in the Italian press also. Ben Yedder would like to play for a big club and makes no secret of that.
But back to Ben Yedder, if the fee is anywhere near correct then he has to be seriously considered, we could do with a goalscoring bargain.
January though is an expensive time to make changes. You buy in January if what you have put together in the summer isn't working as you would like thus it is more buying to rescue a season or to do something to avoid an impending relegation. Players therefore are at a premium price, they still have 6 months of that years contract to go keeping their price inflated.
Clubs therefore search around for players in their last year of a contract so the club they are with can at least get a return instead of letting a player leave for nothing at the end of June. Others players have a desire to leave a club or a club happy to let them depart so they can bring in alternatives themselves.
Take Tottenham. Under Premier League rules we can only name 17 non-home grown players and we have 17 in the squad, unless they are under 21 no other non-home grown player can play. Reports suggest we are interested in Wissam Ben Yedder of Toulouse. The short 24-year-old striker plays for Toulouse in Ligue 1 and has a contract until 2017. If we are genuinely after him and want to sign him we have to offload a non-home grown player first, we can't just sell Townsend or Lennon.
In Ben Yedder's case Roma are also after him with reports suggesting they have made him a priority according to Le10 Sport.
“Roma have made Ben Yedder one of its targets for the next window of the transfer market."They claim that Roma have already approached him to discuss the possibility. The usual agents PR speak to appease any fans of course, 'he is happy at Toulouse' but that effectively means nothing if the agent is happy to speak to other parties.
"The player is very happy in Toulouse and is determined to make a great season."
Barcelona are suggested as another suitor with him scoring 10 goals in his last 12 Ligue 1 games and scored in the last four on the trot. What is impressive is his 6 goals in 9 games this season have all come in different games, he hasn't scored a glut in one game distorting his figures, the more games a striker scores in the better. He scored in 11 Ligue 1 games out of 38 last season, the previous season it was 12 out of 34 games so he is on a goalscoring run at the moment and his stock is high.
The fee of £5 million keeps getting bandied about but that sounds awfully cheap. Reports say both Tottenham and Barcelona have watched him several times this season, Fiorentina and Milan are reported as being interested in him in the Italian press also. Ben Yedder would like to play for a big club and makes no secret of that.
"The interest of Barcelona ? It really means something. I think that my work is followed. I tell myself that I'm not far, in their eyes, this level- there. The FC Barcelona is the dream of everyone. Do not leave next summer? No, it would not be a failure. Now it is clear that I want to leave a big club one day, yes."The keen among you will know Barcelona are banned from doing any transfer business until January 2016, you may also know they have appealed against that and believe it or not want it delayed so they can make signings. Quite why a club thinks it should be able to determine when a penalty takes affect so it can do all it's business meaning it has little or no affect is incredible. Man City have complained that Barcelona haven't been punished further and want their own punishment reduced as a result.
But back to Ben Yedder, if the fee is anywhere near correct then he has to be seriously considered, we could do with a goalscoring bargain.
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