Spurs Updates: Eriksen, Llorente, RB, CB, Skipp
Spurs Updates: Eriksen, Llorente, RB, CB, Skipp
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| Fernando Llorente might still beat Spurs next season |
Right, on with a Tottenham Transfer Talk update.
Christian Eriksen
The club remains rather hopeful that Christian Eriksen will eventually sign a new deal, but it does all depend on what Real Madrid do or want to do.
They could indicate they would like him to join on a free next summer, we'll have to wait and see. I fully understand his desire to go there, it is the biggest club in the world after all.
As a player though, Spurs have made him and he does acknowledge that. Nobody else would take a chance on him and the impression I get is that he appreciates the club should receive a reward in the form of a transfer fee for doing so.
As a player though, Spurs have made him and he does acknowledge that. Nobody else would take a chance on him and the impression I get is that he appreciates the club should receive a reward in the form of a transfer fee for doing so.
He has no problem with the deal offered, finances are not an issue so the deal is acceptable to him and his agent.
We have agreed to him having a release clause in his contract that only applies to foreign clubs. (FYI these are compulsory in Spain).
Don't know the figure but it will be around €100m (£90m - $112.15m) which is clearly a thank-you for his service with us.
If he signs this and my feeling is that he will, it will show the fans he is being fair with us as we are being fair to him too.
We have agreed to him having a release clause in his contract that only applies to foreign clubs. (FYI these are compulsory in Spain).
Don't know the figure but it will be around €100m (£90m - $112.15m) which is clearly a thank-you for his service with us.
If he signs this and my feeling is that he will, it will show the fans he is being fair with us as we are being fair to him too.
Fernando Llorente
I have been writing all summer that Fernando Llorente could sign a new 1-year contract with us unil in ens of the window. It would be on a lower wage, but simply because he has left as a free agent doesn't mean he has gone until then
He has a lot of offers and no doubt will get more. He'll make his decision but Tottenham are not out of the running.
I see it has taken Alisdair Gold a month to catch up with the news, rather shows the press pack doesn't actually know what's going on, only what they are told.
Leak a false story and they lap it up.
Remember we were about to sign Bruno Fernandes, close to Zaniolo? The fake reporting of the offer we were supposed to have made but never did. It was all misreporting and downright lies that all the NewsNow sites lap up.
I left there so I could report what is actually going on at Spurs and have a free hand. You'll note all those sites just report the same thing using different words, read one, you have read them all as they are just copying each other. That's all Football London does with Alidair Gold's guess what is happening.
We have never been close to either, we have discussed a deal with both yes and agreed things in principle, but certain circumstances have to be in place before any deals with either can materialise and it is quite probable that they won't.
Fans are given false hope, then they look for someone to blame in a blameless situation and we all know which easy target gets their totally unjustified anger, which of course they then have to carry with them as they do not like to be shown to be wrong. Too much for their egos to handle.
Yep, you are right, that has got nothing to do with Fernando Llorente but regular readers are used to me wandering off at a tangent, rather shows I'm not one of the press pack thank goodness.
I see it has taken Alisdair Gold a month to catch up with the news, rather shows the press pack doesn't actually know what's going on, only what they are told.
Leak a false story and they lap it up.
Remember we were about to sign Bruno Fernandes, close to Zaniolo? The fake reporting of the offer we were supposed to have made but never did. It was all misreporting and downright lies that all the NewsNow sites lap up.
I left there so I could report what is actually going on at Spurs and have a free hand. You'll note all those sites just report the same thing using different words, read one, you have read them all as they are just copying each other. That's all Football London does with Alidair Gold's guess what is happening.
We have never been close to either, we have discussed a deal with both yes and agreed things in principle, but certain circumstances have to be in place before any deals with either can materialise and it is quite probable that they won't.
Fans are given false hope, then they look for someone to blame in a blameless situation and we all know which easy target gets their totally unjustified anger, which of course they then have to carry with them as they do not like to be shown to be wrong. Too much for their egos to handle.
Yep, you are right, that has got nothing to do with Fernando Llorente but regular readers are used to me wandering off at a tangent, rather shows I'm not one of the press pack thank goodness.
Right-back
Our first choice 19-year-old (20 next January) Max Aarons has signed a new contract at Norwich City (which I revealed to readers a week before it became public knowledge and over 2 weeks before it was announced).
Kieran Trippier has gone to the best defensive manager in the world and arguably the best defensive team in the world and Pochettino is assessing the situation on our pre-season tour while he can monitor in training and in match situations.
We have however made an inquiry for 27-year-old (28 in January) Wolverhampton Wanderers right-back Matt Doherty.
There will be those who ask, if we are assessing Foyth and Walker-Peters, not that Foyth needs assessing quite frankly, then why are we asking about another right-back. Well, you have to be prepared.
If Walker-Peters, in particular, does not impress, then we will look to buy so we need to know the availability of players we are interested in and the chances of us being able to sign them or whether they would be interested in coming to Spurs.
I can tell you Pochettino likes Walker-Peters and we have turned down to offers for him from Crystal Palace and one other who quite frankly I have forgotten for the moment.
There will be those who ask, if we are assessing Foyth and Walker-Peters, not that Foyth needs assessing quite frankly, then why are we asking about another right-back. Well, you have to be prepared.
If Walker-Peters, in particular, does not impress, then we will look to buy so we need to know the availability of players we are interested in and the chances of us being able to sign them or whether they would be interested in coming to Spurs.
I can tell you Pochettino likes Walker-Peters and we have turned down to offers for him from Crystal Palace and one other who quite frankly I have forgotten for the moment.
If you look at the ages of some of the full-backs we are interested in they do shout stop-gap to you while we either look for a younger target, develop Kyle Walker-Peters or wait to see the fate of Max Aarons in the Premier League next season. If Norwich City were to be relegated he would become available.
Centre-back
I am hearing that we are now going to keep Cameron Carter-Vickers. Don't know how true that is though but if a right-back and a centre-back have an injury together then we could get stretched over an extended period.
We will get linked with plenty of centre-backs as we will probably need to bring in two next summer.
Toby Alderweireld will be in the last year of his contract and leave for free next summer if he doesn't leave this summer. As I have reported many times now he has told the club he will not sign a new deal and that new deal has been taken off the table, it is no longer available to him, not even for the rest of this window.
He made his position very clear and his advisors have totally messed up. We get the use of a good centre-back for a season but we lose any transfer fee when he goes so it, therefore, costs us more to replace him.
Ben Davies has signed a new deal and Ryan Sessegnon will provide cover at left-back, despite some of you guys thinking he isn't a left-back. He can cover other positions and gives us the flexibility Pochettino likes in formations.
Danny Rose I have spoken about several times, you all know he is looking for a club and his head is not at Tottenham. We don't want players not committed to the club.
Jan Vertonghen is in his last year so we will have work to do next summer.
Jan Foyth will be covering centre-back and right-back together with Kyle Walker-Peters, who can cover left-back too and Serge Aurier who has played there also.
I got ridiculed for reporting the statistical evidence that a player in his third season with a new club produces his best form. Those stats suggest this will be the season Serge Aurier wins over some of our fanbase, we'll see.
Oliver Skipp
Poch wants to keep him, but former Spurs defensive midfielder Scott Parker, the manager at Fulham, wants young Skipp on loan as part of the Sessegnon deal. I expect Pochettino to win the battle to keep him or Daniel Levy will.
We have offered them Georges-Kevin N'Koudou, Victor Wanyama, and Josh Onomah.
Like I said previously, I doubt Wanyama will want to drop to the Championship and West Ham United are very interested in him as a replacement for Pedro Obiang who wants to return to Italy.
Again, one deal is linked to another deal and one transfer involves many different clubs and involves clubs lining up replacements for departing players. Like a house buying chain, so you have a transfer chain.
Centre-back
I am hearing that we are now going to keep Cameron Carter-Vickers. Don't know how true that is though but if a right-back and a centre-back have an injury together then we could get stretched over an extended period.
We will get linked with plenty of centre-backs as we will probably need to bring in two next summer.
Toby Alderweireld will be in the last year of his contract and leave for free next summer if he doesn't leave this summer. As I have reported many times now he has told the club he will not sign a new deal and that new deal has been taken off the table, it is no longer available to him, not even for the rest of this window.
He made his position very clear and his advisors have totally messed up. We get the use of a good centre-back for a season but we lose any transfer fee when he goes so it, therefore, costs us more to replace him.
Ben Davies has signed a new deal and Ryan Sessegnon will provide cover at left-back, despite some of you guys thinking he isn't a left-back. He can cover other positions and gives us the flexibility Pochettino likes in formations.
Danny Rose I have spoken about several times, you all know he is looking for a club and his head is not at Tottenham. We don't want players not committed to the club.
Jan Vertonghen is in his last year so we will have work to do next summer.
Jan Foyth will be covering centre-back and right-back together with Kyle Walker-Peters, who can cover left-back too and Serge Aurier who has played there also.
I got ridiculed for reporting the statistical evidence that a player in his third season with a new club produces his best form. Those stats suggest this will be the season Serge Aurier wins over some of our fanbase, we'll see.
Oliver Skipp
Poch wants to keep him, but former Spurs defensive midfielder Scott Parker, the manager at Fulham, wants young Skipp on loan as part of the Sessegnon deal. I expect Pochettino to win the battle to keep him or Daniel Levy will.
We have offered them Georges-Kevin N'Koudou, Victor Wanyama, and Josh Onomah.
Like I said previously, I doubt Wanyama will want to drop to the Championship and West Ham United are very interested in him as a replacement for Pedro Obiang who wants to return to Italy.
Again, one deal is linked to another deal and one transfer involves many different clubs and involves clubs lining up replacements for departing players. Like a house buying chain, so you have a transfer chain.
COYS
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Both of you have been wrong on occasions, but I don't see him slagging you off when you are wrong. Also, quit reminding us of how you have previously predicted correctly on some transfer or the other.