Lennon and Miralles update
I wrote last summer about the fact that there will be more and more swap deals mooted and repeated that in January. This summer they seem to be all the rage.
Right at the beginning of January I wrote a piece saying Aaron Lennon only wanted to leave Spurs for four clubs and he would wait for one to come in for him. I then reported that that club would be Everton and that we would try a swap deal for Kevin Mirallas.
Aaron Lennon did end up at Everton as we know, scored a couple of goals, was credited with turning their season around and kept Kevin Mirallas out the team. Everton would like to keep the pacey 28-year-old winger but are refusing to meet our £6 million (US$9.46m - AUS$12.26m - €8.42m) asking price. Lennon only has a year left on his contract and is not interested in joining a club who will possibly be fighting relegation, he wouldn't for example want to go to one of the promoted clubs.
Everton, quite naturally, want to get Lennon on the cheap, they don't want to pay what his value might be and we naturally want as mush as we can get. This is not a Tottenham thing, it happens at every club, Everton quoted us higher figures for Mirallas, despite he also having only a year left. Everton fans will point out the club have the option to extend it, but each player has a veto option to that so for transfer price calculations, it's irrelevant.
Regular readers will know there are certain transfer stories I'll generally steer clear of and leave the reporting of them to others. Anthony Martial was in that category when that story broke I didn't believe a word of it, the figures were all wrong to fit within our transfer strategy. There have been plenty of stories over Tottenham considering a move for Kevin Mirallas this summer.
This is an easy story because we tried for this swap in January, but our criteria has been set and Kevin Mirallas doesn't fit it. Wingers are ten a penny out there at the moment and a 27-year-old (28 in October) doesn't fit the bill, neither does he price relative to how we perceive his actual value.
There seems, as far as I can find out, to be nothing to this story at all, we do not appear to be interested in Mirallas, we have moved on. As for Lennon, this is a game of chicken. Everton will hang on and wait until his price comes down later in the window, we will be hoping that their need to have the player training will force them to pay more than they want, earlier in the window.
With our need to offload him you would expect the deal to happen at a lower price later, for now Lennon will just sit tight at Tottenham and wait.
Right at the beginning of January I wrote a piece saying Aaron Lennon only wanted to leave Spurs for four clubs and he would wait for one to come in for him. I then reported that that club would be Everton and that we would try a swap deal for Kevin Mirallas.
Aaron Lennon did end up at Everton as we know, scored a couple of goals, was credited with turning their season around and kept Kevin Mirallas out the team. Everton would like to keep the pacey 28-year-old winger but are refusing to meet our £6 million (US$9.46m - AUS$12.26m - €8.42m) asking price. Lennon only has a year left on his contract and is not interested in joining a club who will possibly be fighting relegation, he wouldn't for example want to go to one of the promoted clubs.
Everton, quite naturally, want to get Lennon on the cheap, they don't want to pay what his value might be and we naturally want as mush as we can get. This is not a Tottenham thing, it happens at every club, Everton quoted us higher figures for Mirallas, despite he also having only a year left. Everton fans will point out the club have the option to extend it, but each player has a veto option to that so for transfer price calculations, it's irrelevant.
Regular readers will know there are certain transfer stories I'll generally steer clear of and leave the reporting of them to others. Anthony Martial was in that category when that story broke I didn't believe a word of it, the figures were all wrong to fit within our transfer strategy. There have been plenty of stories over Tottenham considering a move for Kevin Mirallas this summer.
This is an easy story because we tried for this swap in January, but our criteria has been set and Kevin Mirallas doesn't fit it. Wingers are ten a penny out there at the moment and a 27-year-old (28 in October) doesn't fit the bill, neither does he price relative to how we perceive his actual value.
There seems, as far as I can find out, to be nothing to this story at all, we do not appear to be interested in Mirallas, we have moved on. As for Lennon, this is a game of chicken. Everton will hang on and wait until his price comes down later in the window, we will be hoping that their need to have the player training will force them to pay more than they want, earlier in the window.
With our need to offload him you would expect the deal to happen at a lower price later, for now Lennon will just sit tight at Tottenham and wait.
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