Spurs 2016/17

JimB said:
Alli's nowhere near a £60-70m player yet - even in such an obscenely distorted market as this - but he has the potential to be worth that and more eventually.

All of which is fairly meaningless, really. All that matters is that he is on a long contract at Spurs and that they have no desire to sell. Consequently, even a bid of £80m wouldn't land him.
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Any bid of £80m would definitely get him. That is twice his real value. Levy would rightly accept that. The buying club (City, Real Madrid whoever) would get a player who probably will be worth £80m one day but mostly they would be sending out a statement that they have the resources to buy any player they want. Levy will take some stick in the short term (like with Bale, Modric, Berbatov) but he knows it will soon be forgotten when he buys the next Paulinho to replace him.

And another chunk of the stadium will be paid off. Like it or not, selling players like Spurs and Arsenal have to do to pay for (part of) their stadiums is a very good long term business model if there is no outside investment. Liverpool's failure to invest properly in their infrastructure will mean that they will have to become a "plastic club" and seek significant outside investment if they are to compete. I doubt that "the most knowledgeable fans in the World" will issue any apologies to other clubs that they have criticised for developing in this way.
 
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Great player, undoubtedly. But a ticking time-bomb. Like a more talented Joey Barton, you just get the impression he's about to kick-off big time. If he played for us he'd have more red cards than assist/goals.
 
KentBlue said:
Great player, undoubtedly. But a ticking time-bomb. Like a more talented Joey Barton, you just get the impression he's about to kick-off big time. If he played for us he'd have more red cards than assist/goals.a
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I don't think he is as bad as people make out. Bar a few incidents he keeps his cool for the most part. Teams try to get to him at the beginning and most times he just gives the verbal back. Last time Valdes and his defence tried it from the begining but in the end it was Valdes grabbing him by the face and slapping him because he couldn't get a good reaction.

Compared to previous players we've had he's nowhere near as bad as Tarrico, Freund, Thatcher, Michael Brown or even Hutton
 
JPBB said:
Any bid of £80m would definitely get him. That is twice his real value. Levy would rightly accept that. The buying club (City, Real Madrid whoever) would get a player who probably will be worth £80m one day but mostly they would be sending out a statement that they have the resources to buy any player they want. Levy will take some stick in the short term (like with Bale, Modric, Berbatov) but he knows it will soon be forgotten when he buys the next Paulinho to replace him.

And another chunk of the stadium will be paid off. Like it or not, selling players like Spurs and Arsenal have to do to pay for (part of) their stadiums is a very good long term business model if there is no outside investment. Liverpool's failure to invest properly in their infrastructure will mean that they will have to become a "plastic club" and seek significant outside investment if they are to compete. I doubt that "the most knowledgeable fans in the World" will issue any apologies to other clubs that they have criticised for developing in this way.
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Nope. A bid of £80m most definitely would not get him. Paying off the stadium? That will only take care of itself if Tottenham continue to enjoy comparative success on the pitch. And that will not happen if the Allis of this world are exchanged for Paulinhos.

You're not looking at the bigger picture. Levy has never sold Spurs' best players just to make a profit. He has only ever sold them when the player has given him no other choice. Other than Levy, who do you think, is the most important person at Spurs right now? Mauricio Pochettino, by a huge margin. He has transformed the mentality of the club. Turned it from a perennial also-ran into a genuine challenger. All without needing to splash out in the transfer market. He is the manager that Levy has been searching for since he first took the helm. He's not going to risk that for a short term profit.

He knows that Pochettino has form. If the club starts selling its best players, Pochettino will look to fulfill his ambitions elsewhere. That's the deal and well Levy knows it. Keeping Poch happy is his highest priority for the foreseeable future. It represents the club's best chance of taking the next step.

So, no........£80m does not get Alli. Nor £100m for that matter.
 
JimB said:
Nope. A bid of £80m most definitely would not get him. Paying off the stadium? That will only take care of itself if Tottenham continue to enjoy comparative success on the pitch. And that will not happen if the Allis of this world are exchanged for Paulinhos.

You're not looking at the bigger picture. Levy has never sold Spurs' best players just to make a profit. He has only ever sold them when the player has given him no other choice. Other than Levy, who do you think, is the most important person at Spurs right now? Mauricio Pochettino, by a huge margin. He has transformed the mentality of the club. Turned it from a perennial also-ran into a genuine challenger. All without needing to splash out in the transfer market. He is the manager that Levy has been searching for since he first took the helm. He's not going to risk that for a short term profit.

He knows that Pochettino has form. If the club starts selling its best players, Pochettino will look to fulfill his ambitions elsewhere. That's the deal and well Levy knows it. Keeping Poch happy is his highest priority for the foreseeable future. It represents the club's best chance of taking the next step.

So, no........£80m does not get Alli. Nor £100m for that matter.
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Poch be gone before Ali does probably this summer
 
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