Tottenham Talk on Sunday 8th Aug
Tottenham Talk on Sunday 8th Aug
There are plenty of fans who want players in early and complain when that doesn't happen, yet a large number of transfers are completed in the final two weeks of every summer transfer window.
Most clubs like to line up a replacement when they have negotiated the sale of a player and that's when the media stating spinning the 'it's getting closer' rubbish and even suggest negotiations and offers are being made.
Clube will feed the media rubbish so other clubs do not know they have money to spend, as prices then go up.
This is what Pep Guardiola recently said;
"We spent on Jack Grealish and he will wear number 10 because we convinced about him... and thought Leo would stay. Now Messi is NOT in our plans.”
That is an example of failing to wait, partly because Aston Villa gave them a timescale but in fact City could have waited as long as they like to trigger his release fee.
Had they done so then they would probably now be trying to sign Lionel Messi.
He then went on to show Spurs disrespect by talking about another teams player and even saying they would like to sign him.
“He is a Tottenham player. If Tottenham don’t want to negotiate it is finished. If they want to negotiate, many clubs would like to sign him, we are not an exception. We are very interested in him, of course we’ll try.”
You'll tend to find most, in fact nearly all, managers will simply say he is another clubs player, often even saying it would be disrespectful to talk about another clubs player.
But you simply can't trust a manager who pleads poverty and then spend £100m to trigger a release clause for an England fringe player.
The Kane situation must surely demonstrate to you that clubs we are trying to buy from may not want to sell and do what Tottenham are doing.
That's just another example of why deals are done in the final two weeks and not early.
Yet you fans want to moan at Levy for these situations that are out of his hands and when you have a manager that wants only specific players who their clubs don't release and refuse other options, you can't buy.
Doesn't suit the agenda though.
If you applaud Levy's stance with Kane, then you have to applaud other clubs who refuse to sell to Spurs.
Harry Kane
As the lead graphic is Harry Kane's statement, perhaps I had better explain something.
Assume Spurs make a verbal bid for a player and the players club then say they have received no bids, who is right?
Both are.
A verbal bid is not an official bid, which is in writing stating all the terms and conditions etc.
It's all in the wording.
Harry Kane has never refused to train, in other words he has never communicated with the club and said he refuses to train.
But, he didn't seek permission to be a week late back either and you note the statement came out AFTER Manchester City activated the release clause in Jack Grealish's contract and spent £100m.
Is that significant, is Harry Kane building bridges?
It's all in the wording.
Harry asked the club for an extra week off, the club refused and he took it anyway.
It's all in the wording.
Dávinson Sánchez became the first current member of the Tottenham first team squad to like Harry Kane’s statement.
Toby Alderweireld, Érik Lamela, Dennis Cirkin, and Joe Hart all commented and liked the post in support… recently transferred players and a soon to be transferred player!
We know from previous social media output that Son Heung-min disagrees with Kane being absent from the club last week.
As I asked in a previous post, how are the players going to react to his return?
Contracts
Let's quickly talk contracts.
I explained the situation in some details with talk of Kane's contract on Friday (Kane Contract Talk).
Now news from Catalonia, Spain that Sergio Aguero's legal team are trying to find a way out of his contract and terminating it is one option being explored.
Aguero signed from Manchester City with the sole intent of playing with Lionel Messi.
The Argentinian striker signed a 2-year contract with a €100m release clause. In Spain release clauses are paid by the player, not a buying club, although obviously in most cases, they are reimbursed.
Commercial Partnerships
Getir UK are now an official global partner of Tottenham Hotspur. What do we have in common? Perfect delivery, endless goals and passionate fans. Stay tuned - it’s set to be an exciting year!Chief Commercial Officer Todd L. Kline take a bow. It is thought the stadium naming rights deal will be completed in a week and their will be related deals in the future.
Spurs Backroom Staff (some of them)
Aiden Mullally - Head of Business Development
Adam Pollington - Commercial Manager
Ross Dickson - Partnerships Manager
Jade Finch - Commercial Marketing Manager Ticketing, Women's Football & GFD
Sam Colley - Senior Partnerships Manager
Nina Reinsberg - Business Development Manager (International Tours & Exhibition Matches)
Simon Felstein - Head of Communications
Claudia Tavaré - Partnerships Executive
Nick Hoyle - Head of Partnership Development
Donna-Maria Cullen - Executive Director
Jon Babbs - Stadium Director
Paul May - Head of Stadium Operations
James Butterworth - Head of Commercial Marketing
Tony Stevens - Head of PR
Fran Jones - Head of Partnership Services
Cristian Romero
The official Atalanta FC website says that Tottenham Hotspur have purchased Cristian Romero on an initial loan deal, with an option to make the move permanent.
Atalanta activated the purchase option from Juventus for €16m and then moved him on to Spurs for a profit.
Quincy Promes
Quincy Promes is a 29-year-old (30 next January) Holland international (50 caps, 7 goals, 7 assists) left winger who Spurs have been following for a number of years now.
He currently plays for Spartak Moscow and would make an experienced foil for Bryan Gil if we were to sell Steven Bergwijn.
He was sold by Ajax to the Russian side in February of this year for £7.56m (€8.92m - US$10.49m - AUS$14.27m).
Tottenham have begun talks with 32-year-old (33 in September) centre-back Jérôme Boateng to assess his interest in joining Spurs and the sort of financial deal he would be looking for.
The right-footed German international (76 caps, 1 goal, 5 assists) free agent last played for Bayern Munich.
Asmita Ale
Tottenham Women have signed defender Asmita Ale from Aston Villa after she turned down their offer of a new contract.
Ale had been at Villa since the age of 8 and came through the Villa youth system.
She is a versatile defender capable of playing anywhere across the backline.
The 19-year-old (20 in November) has signed a 2-year deal with Spurs and played for Spurs boss Rehanne Skinner for England-19's.
Mikkel Damsgaard
Sampdoria rejected Spurs initial offer for Mikkel Damsgaard and after Sampdoria President Massimo Ferrero offered the winger to Roma, Mourinho's team have been quiet and made no offer, even informally for the Dane.
Transfer Window
Time for a quick round-up of the Ins and Outs at Tottenham so far this window.
In
- Pierluigi Gollini from Atalanta loan (initially)
- Bryan Gil from Sevilla £21.6m
- Cristian Romero from Atalanta loan (initially)
Total Expenditure £21.6m
Out
- Juan Foyth to Villarreal £12.8m
- Danny Rose to Watford Free Transfer
- Shilow Tracey to Cambridge United Free Transfer
- George Marsh to AFC Wimbledon Free Transfer
- Érik Lamela to Sevilla (swap as part of Bryan Gil transfer)
- Toby Alderweireld to Al-Duhail for £11.09m
- Troy Parrott to MK Dons loan
- Kion Etete to Northampton Town loan
- Joe Hart to Celtic £1m
- Jubril Okedina to Cambridge United undisclosed fee
- Jamie Bowden to Oldham Athletic loan
Total Income £24.89m
Laura Kenny
Congratulations to Laura Kenny on winning her 5th Olympic title and becoming the first British woman to win gold at three Olympic games.
She is a Tottenham Hotspur fan.
Ezri Konsa
Another potential deal Fabio Paratici has lined up is with 23-year-old (24 in October) Aston Villa centre-back Ezri Konsa.
At least, that is what is being reported, but Konsa only signed a contract extension in April to keep him at Villa until 2026 with a one-year option.
Don't see it myself, although clearly the lad must have potential.
Dennis Cirkin
Tottenham are in negotiations with Sunderland and we wish to have a buy-back clause in the contract and a sell-on clause. That makes more sense than a straight £1.3m as he is a talented lad.
Matthew Hoppe
Schalke have now set a price on US international striker Matthew Hoppe, who could be a second striker back-up option for Spurs.
Spurs, Everton, Arsenal are all following his situation.
Having been relegated with the Gelsenkirchen club, Sport Bild suggest the Die Konigsblauen will accept an offer around the €8-10m range (£6.78m - US$9.41m - AUS$12.79m) to (£8.48m - US$11.76m - AUS$15.99m).
Hoppe has just won the Gold Cup with the US team.
Bernardo Silva
Manchester City are looking for a fee in the region of €55m (£46.63m - US$64.7m - AUS$87.95m) for Portuguese international midfielder claim reports in Spain.
His wages are £7.8m per year which is £150,000-a-week (€176,934 - US$208,125 - AUS$282,940), that will be before bonuses.
Wouldn't he be a good addition behind the strikers.
Have we spoken to him, yes we have, however he doesn't want to stay in England, he wants to play in Spain.
Player Sales
For some, player sales is an issue. By that I mean we have to keep an eye on our homegrown quota.
The Premier League is in a better financial situation than the rest of Europe who have been hit a lot harder by Covid than we have, but it has still been significant here.
In France for instance, they cancelled the season early so lost proportionately a lot more revenue than Premier League clubs did.
This all has to looked at proportionately across the top European league and that will tell you where there is a depressed market and where the bargains are to be had, where the teams are in the most trouble and need to sell for the money.
It would seem France and Italy are the two main areas to shop in.
Steve Hitchen is a French expert and Fabio Paratici is an Italian expert so Spurs are well placed to take advantage with, it appears, a naming rights deal soon to be kicking in.
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