Tottenham Tittle Tattle Tonight

I recently brought you quotes from the president of the French league suggesting 50% of clubs will go bankrupts.

Burnley are not extending the contracts of players whose deals end 30th June, so they will lose them before the season has ended, which could affect results while Southampton have put their leading goalscorer up for sale.

Burnley sit 12 points above the relegation places and Southampton 7 points above.

In that vein, Michel Vorm has agreed to stay at Spurs until the end of the season past his 30th June contract while Jan Vertonghen has been asked if he will stay until the season is completed.

M'BAYE NIANG

M'Baye Niang, the Senegal striker, as I wrote the other day IS negotiating with Marseille to move there and is willing to take a pay cut to achieve it.

Get French News are trying to suggest it is fake news but it seems they have not looked into the story.

Their fake news claim is fake news itself. They have assumed that as Marseille have no money they can't acquire him. The are wrong, have they never heard of a loan to buy deal?.

First, here were his stats from the comparison chart.

The percentages represent the starts (when he was available),mins played and goal participation figure. After that are his goals and assists, followed by his price as given by Transfermarkt.

M'Baye Niang

Stade Rennais

Senegal 15 - 4

25

Dec

86%

85%

31%

10

2

£12.0m

Here is the bullet pointed information from the article.

• M'Baye Niang is a 25-year-old (26 in December) Senegalese striker (15 caps, 4 goals, 2 assists) playing for Stade Rennais.
  
  Spurs have been watching him for years and his goal participation rate of 31% is good relative to his cost.
  
  Stade Rennais are in advanced negotiations to sign 20-year-old Scottish attacker Fraser Hornby from Everton.
• League goal every 213 minutes.

If you research French websites you'll find his wife is from Marseille and wants to live there. The pair have been house hunting there and have reportedly found a villa in the city’s 7th arrondissement that hey want to buy.

That is unrelated to the Canal Football Club piece where they say Niang has told them he is willing to take a pay cut of his roughly €220,000 a month salary to join Marseille.

Marseille need to sell players, well they need to sell players every season, it's how French football operates to survive, it doesn't stop them bringing in players.

I hear the fee suggested is €15m rather than the €20m being put about, even though his release clause is €30m.

Marseille have offered the striker a 5-year contract worth €2.5m a year.

That equates to €208,333 a month.

Yes Spurs are talking to his agents, but Marseille is very much his preferred choice but no agreement has been reached as yet.

Unfortunately, you have Twitter accounts just regurgitating news without doing any research,which is why I have such a problem with journalists and Twitter accounts. They give out too much false information.

Marseille are actively trying to sell players but clubs know they can wait until nearer the end of June to bring prices down,just as Marseille can when they buy from other French clubs.

Marseille had to sell players last summer and they finished second in Ligue 1.

The French season was cancelled so they are guaranteed UEFA Champions League football and the financial boost that brings next season.

I don't think anyone else has taken into account yet so their forward projection they have to submit with their accounts will look healthy.

It would seem to me, that all Marseille have to do is sign him on a loan deal this coming season and pay for him the following season.

It isn't rocket science how they can afford him, they just have to get Stade Rennais to agree a loan fee that helps them out a bit.

All the Spurs a plotting a M'Baye Niang swoop are a bit old hat, they obviously don't read this blog!

On that amusing note I'll leave you for this evening and perhaps see you tomorrow.

Before I go I would high recommend you read this article from yesterday, you won't find it's like on other Spurs websites I can assure you, nor in the press.
Anti-ENIC, Anti-Levy, Intelligence - Combined

Also there are links to the comparison charts with a goal participation percentage to help judge players against each other.

You can of course just return to the home page and select another article.

Good night all.

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