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Spurs phone call haltd Chelsea medical after Everton refused £20m bid

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Back in 2013 Brazilian international Willian had a medical at Tottenham before two Russian bosses colluded, one who needed money after a costly divorce to a chunk of his fortune and who was being chased by the authorities I recall. Willian was instructed to sign for Chelsea.

Move forward four years and Ross Barkley is injured, he can't play football until possibly December or even later. What would be the point of buying him now, when Everton have to pick up his wages during his recovery period and his potential transfer fee goes down in January with just a few months of the season and his contract left.

Everton, who demanded too much money earlier in the window and later on refused to speak with us after turning down our £20 million bid, were stuck with a player they didn't want until Chelsea stepped in and offered them £35 million for him.

So keen was he to leave Everton that he agreed personal terms with them and went for a medical. That is when Spurs did a Willian on them.

While Barkley was undergoing a medical at Chelsea, we made phone calls to ensure him we were going to buy him in January. he agreed a deal with Chelsea because he couldn't be sure we would want him in January, the situation may have changed and we may not have anted him.

We, however, made sure he knew that January was definite. We let him know that Mauricio Pochettino wanted him, that he was our first choice and remained so. He is also deeply unhappy with Everton who refused him his dream move to Spurs.

Armed with the knowledge that he was still going to get his desire to work with Pochettino, whom he feels can turn him into an even better player as he has for other England players, then his decision became easy. Chelsea were no longer an option.

Like Gareth Bale and his desire to join Real Madrid, he wasn't interested in any other team so Ross Barkley isn't interested in any other team if Tottenham want him and are going to buy him. Now he has to recover and wait a few months.



COYS
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45 comments

  1. Chelski are a plastic team with no history. Bought a few trophies but still one big joke.

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  2. now everton dig their heels and dont sell him in january.... which might end up costing Barkley a world cup spot... great going u spuds...
    • Cut your nose to spite tour face, intelligent strategy
  3. Is this really what happened? I'm incredulous if Tottenham really did this and if so It proves that Barkley does indeed want to work with Poch rather than anybody else. However if one of our youngesters suddently becomes good enough for the 1st team in the same positon would we then drop Barkley unless of course we have agreed a pre contract agreement with him.
    As for jdjd Barkley is at present not good enough to get into the England set up for the world cup and if Everton dig their heels in they he leaves for free next summer anyway. That would really be sensible business for Everton .....NOT
    • Barkley already cost everton 15 mil (after he rejected 35 mil) and spurs will pay what 15 mil again for him in jan,,, everton are doing financially well i suppose... ultimately it's Ross who messed up his chance for world cup spot (not the the starting eleven)
    • There isn't a youth player who is going to improve in 4 months for us not to buy him. He is cheap in January and will have received assurances we'll be back for him.
  4. Barkley is not a patch on Alli, and im a bluenose! Getting a stiffy over a psychologically messed up thick footballer with spates of decent play, is funny to watch, yids
    • I think Spurs fans are getting 'a stiffy' over screwing over Chelsea rather than the fact they think Barkley is an awesome player.
    • Perhaps we respect him really wanting to join US, and are prepared to trust our manager on his abilities and role for us.
      I think you're the only 'stiffy' round ere...
    • Exactly why he neds to move to a club that can sort him out and improve him and now we get to do it on the chap too.
  5. This is just fabricated stories, what do you expect when it's coming from a spurs fan. I'm very sure this story isn't true
  6. Barkley is an idiot and should have taken the deal with Chelsea, Spurs are also a little naive to think Farhad Moshiri (Billionaire) is going to lose any sleep with a loss on Barkley, he would probably get greater satisfaction watching Barkley rot in the Reserves for his last year.
  7. "... we made phone calls to ensure him we were going to buy him in January" - "we" being you? You personally made the call for THFC? Wow! I'm impressed that you are doing the deal on behalf of Spurs!
    • Hi mate, supporters identify with their clubs and often use the term 'we' when talking about their football team.

      Happy to help, you must be new to this.
    • Good for you Danny. Someone needs to lend a helping hand for those that are struggling to keep up

      COYS!!
    • Grow up
  8. Stupid reasoning this, what would Daniel Levy have done if he had 2 offers for one of his players £15 million apart, Barkley has stitched Everton up, the Everton fans won't forget this, by the way he wouldn't be good enough to get back into the side now as he's been well replaced, wouldn't let him even take a reserve players place let him train on his own for the next 12 months.
    • Levy would never have got himself into that position in the first place. He's one of the cleverst chairmen around. That sort of schoolboy error is reserved for those at the other end of the competence scale.

      As for Barkley, he hasn't stitched up Everton. He's been perfectly up-front with them from the start. It's Everton themselves who've not managed to deal with the business in a professional way, and even the way they have dealt with it, have bungled it badly.

      You can blame the player if you like but the whole world knows it's just sour grapes for making such a sad hash of the whole situation.

      COYS!!
    • Barkley hasn't stitched Everton up at all, he made it known which club he wanted to join and in the end stuck to it. He had less than a year left on his contract and isn't therefore worth £35m. Everton shouldn't have tried to be greedy, they shot themselves in the foot. Barkley does not have a duty to make the most money for Everton and does not have a duty to go to the club who will offer the most money.
  9. "... we made phone calls to 'assure' him..." not 'ensure' him.
    I'm not sure that that really did happen though!
    • Korrect
  10. He'll sign his contract and still be sold for 35m next summer. Spurs won't have been in touch as that would be "Tapping Up". Ross's biggest flaw has always been his decision making and it looks like that applies off the field as well.
    • "Spurs won't have been in touch, as that would be tapping up" - bless :)
    • Not true, clubs had permission to talk to Barkley so there is no tapping up issue
  11. This article is total BS, unless the writer of this article spoke to Ross Barkley or Pochettino and confirmed this to be true.
    • Others have and passed it along
  12. I'm a Spurs fan and even to me this smacks of the fiction of a teenage fan who can't proof read their own articles.
  13. In the words of Donald (thats Trump not duck)
    Fake news ladies and gentleman. Fake news

    But did make me chuckle ;)
    • Afraid it isn't, comes from a reliable source of mine
  14. its a shame that this great site is now infested with other clubs scummy fans all wanting to moan about their own clubs failure just get over it SPURS ARE GODS OWN TEAM C.O.Y.S
  15. All very jolly and all that, but Chelsea have a list of trophies as long as your arm and we don't.......
    • yer all bought by a dodgy Del boy with funny money before him they were a joke club
    • So what
  16. Barkley can't leave on a free, will go for a tribunal fee and probably a record one given his England caps. The current record is £6.5m plus £1.5m in add ons for Danny Ings.

    Spurs might get him in January, he might have recovered from injury by then but he will be very rusty and not match fit, as Everton will not be playing him. He will be a gamble for someone now, whereas if he had been sold someone would have had him in and training. Are you sure Spurs have played this as cleverly as is claimed?
    • A good point and a fair question. Consider these points though :

      1. Barkley is currently unavailable to play due to injury and operation. This would very likely affect any tribunal fee.
      2. Even at £8M he's going to be a lot cheaper than our latest (I believe) offer of £20M.
      3. Being injured it's 'very unlikely' we could have had him in and training before January anyway.
      4. Currently Everton are paying him while he recuperates.

      In view of the above points I think it's clear that Spurs have handled the whole situation intelligently. I suspect we were prepared to take the last point off their hands and pay a premium as we must have decided he's worth that. To be able to pick him up for far less as well as not having to do so until he's further recuperated seems clearly to be a massive advantage.

      So, you may say we got lucky to a certain extent, in that Everton have so badly mismanaged the whole situation, but yes - Spurs seem to have handled the whole situation…
    • Thanks for the reply Adrian. Barkley tied our hands to a huge extent when he decided not to stay with us. We now (appear to) know that one club felt it was worth paying £35m for Barkley so Everton would have been foolish not to have at least tried to ensure they got that for him.

      I'm not sure recovering from a groin strain is going to affect a tribunal valuation. I certainly don't think it should do.
    • Always pleasant to have a reasonable and informed conversation about football - even when that's with supporters of other clubs Paul.

      I accept that Barkley made his intentions clear which put the club in the position of having to deal with the situation. I also accept that trying for £35M was the right thing for them at the time.

      However, Barkley, to be fair to the lad, made his position quite clear a long time ago. This put Everton in a position of having to consider how best to handle the situation, but with a fair while for consideration. I suspect most people in football appreciate that players' values drop quite considerably as they near the last year or so of a contract. I don't believe Everton conducted themselves responsibly and seem to have allowed themselves to drift on to a lee shore in this respect.

      Certainly go for £35M if you can get it, but for goodness sake have a contingency plan. Maybe even talk to the boy. What we've been hearing (Just grapevine s…
    • Sorry. The tribunal evaluation issue.

      I may be wrong but I'd be surprised if an injury that causes him to miss a large part of his previous season, even if it's not the injury per se but just the fact of missing so much football, didn't result in a much reduced tribunal valuation. Look at how long it's taken Wilshere to recover from his. I don't intend to gloat over his misfortune but he's simply a good example of what happens to many such players after long-term injuries. Coming back is far from easy. It takes a lot of guts and determination in most cases.

      COYS!!
    • How can he train somewhere else if he is injured! Yes he has a tribunal fee in the summer but a deal can be done in January, also as a free agent next summer he can choose who to join without interference from Everton, who don't get a say in the fee. Not having played much in a year by then, his tribunal fee will have to take that and his fitness into account, keeping it lower perhaps.
  17. God's own team haha, he must hate the thought of you ever winning the league then, deluded yid
    • at least we didnt buy it rent boy
    • The idea of psycho-analysing God does seem amusing, I must admit. He (She/It whatever)'s an inscrutible chap mind. Very few (apart from the clinically mad and possibly even the spiritually super advanced) have ever been able to attribute sensible planning accurately to his decisions.

      All that said - things are looking a lot better for us going forwards. Will it be down to God when we next win the league? Naaaah.

      COYS!!
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    • I imagine the time and effort you put into informing us all of this 'fact' are equally a waste of your life. One can only wonder why you might choose to do so.

      COYS!!
  19. Clubs had permission to talk to Barkley so it isn't tapping up