Arek Milik and Transfers
Arek Milik is wanted by José Mourinho and the Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis is unhappy with what he calls the jackals trying to feed off the Napoli carcase.
Napoli had a bad season, they failed to qualify for the Champions League having finished second the previous season and even then he was complaining that Juventus get helped because they are the biggest team in Italy.
He also explained that a club can't be run as fans would like it to be run, buying star names.
"Napoli fans want us to beat Juventus, but they've always been helped because they're the rulers of Italy. I appreciate the fans, but I don't share their thoughts: for them we must get into debt by signing (Mauro) Icardi and (Lionel) Messi.
"We don't have the same resources as Juventus and the city of Naples doesn't have the resources of Turin. They make €5m in gate receipts against Ajax with 35,000 seats, while we make €2m with 40,000.
"You need to have balls and brains to do certain things. I appreciate the fans and it's right that they reason in their own way, but I don't share their way of thinking: for them we must get into debt by buying Icardi, Messi and so on."
That's two Italian presidents or CEOs (brought you Gazidis at AC Milan this morning) telling the fans you can't run a football club they way fans expect.
There is a section of our fans who need to understand that message and the realities of the real world.
A 26-year-old player, not a champion, but there are certainly worse strikers around.
Napoli tried to renew his contract but wouldn't give him a pay rise and he therefore wouldn't agree.
With less money coming in Napoli have to cut their cloth accordingly, just as Spurs have to.
Milik had an agreement with former Juventus head coach Maurizio Sarri, but he has now left to be replaced by Andrea Pirlo who would rather make Eden Dzeko the second most expensive 33-year-old in history than buy Milik.
Milik, therefore, has his suitcases packed and nowhere to go.
Whoever wants Milik and that clearly includes Spurs are offering what De Laurentiis feels is little or nothing.
This is the problem with buying a players replacement before you have sold him.
Everyone knows Napoli need to sell him because they have spent €70m on Victor Osimhen.
If Roma sold Dzeko to Juventus, and they want €20m, then there would be a space at Roma but for Milik that would be a step down from Napoli.
Roma are in the Europa League like ourselves and Milik wants to play in the Champions League.
The fact Spurs are the 8th richest club in the world is meaningless in that scenario.
The only light for us is that we can pay more wages than Roma to play in the same competition, however Italy is a league he knows and has been successful in, the Premier League isn't.
Napoli have the same problem with Allan that we have with Danny Rose.
You don't have to sell a player when another club wants them but you have to look to the future, you have to use your crystal ball tti see what might happen.
You have to assess the good path and the bad path, then make a decision.
Napoli turned those advances down.
Allan in January 2019 was worth a lot, after a year and a half with the Magone he is now worth less than a third and once more, everyone knows he is for sale, so his price in buyers eyes plummets.
You'll remember Manchester United and talk of buying Danny Rose for £50m.
With hindsight, that offer should have been taken, look at how poisonous he has become since.
There must have been signs surely that all was not right and surely if we were using sports psychologists, these matters would have come to light a lot sooner and we would be in a better position to decide a players future at the club.
Do you sell a player at the height of their value and buy a replacement or do you keep them and potentially their value sinks making it more expensive for you to replace them, thanks to receiving less money for them?
It is a balancing act that nobody is ever going to get right every time.
The time to sell a player is when there are plenty of clubs interested, that pushes the price up, but when only one is in the running the price goes down below expectations.
People complain about Daniel Levy but inside the game agents know what offers have been made and who are just making enquiries.
Enquiries do not push a price up, they are merely a request for information not an expression of a desire to buy.
A buying club needs to know whether a player is interested and the financial outlay it would take to acquire their services,from fee, wage, agents fees, everything.
We enquire about amnay players. We enquire about those on our list and so our jigsaw puzzle with the available funds.
Only one club wants to buy Serge Aurier so they are in a strong position, we are in the weak one.
We will listen to offers for Erik Lamela but there isn't a queue so again we are in a weak position.
Bournemouth have many suitors for Callum Wilson so can keep the price higher, with penty interested we are again in a weak position to drive the price down.
Milik currently has few suitors so we are in a strong position, napoli in a weak one but the player himself will wait until the end of the window I expect, in the hope that a Champions League side comes in for him.
If they don't then he'll consider his Europa League options.
That is the nature of transfers every window, yet fans who don't understand moan we aren't signing.
The real world is far different from the fans world.
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