Lucas Paqueta investigated by FA for alleged betting breaches

TheThirdDeano said:
you’re mental if you think levy wasn’t completely unreasonable
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No. Being "mental" (horrible characterisation) does not come into it. I just disagree with you. Levy had Kane under contract and wanted to keep him. Without a release clause, Levy was not obliged to sell. He sold Modric, Bale and Walker but not without a fight. I don't particularly like the man and think he has failed Tottenham in many ways. But keeping Kane got them Champions League football that season, so there was some vindication in not letting Kane leave. If Real Madrid come in with £170m for Haaland, would our fans think Txiki was being unreasonable for rejecting the offer? No. We are not entitled to sign anyone else's player just because we want them.
 
mattyb said:
I’ve nothing wrong with the signing, it’s the price we’re paying that makes me nervous about the signing.

All the players listed above were pretty risk free in terms of what we paid for them at the time, and we’re all young
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Absolutely not like a chelsea buy. They are completely scattergun in their approach, look at our buys, we buy with a purpose and apart from Phillips I struggle to see a signing that’s not worked out since Mangala. Pep will know exactly what this guy can offer
 
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John Wayne said:
No. Being "mental" (horrible characterisation) does not come into it. I just disagree with you. Levy had Kane under contract and wanted to keep him. Without a release clause, Levy was not obliged to sell. He sold Modric, Bale and Walker but not without a fight. I don't particularly like the man and think he has failed Tottenham in many ways. But keeping Kane got them Champions League football that season, so there was some vindication in not letting Kane leave. If Real Madrid come in with £170m for Haaland, would our fans think Txiki was being unreasonable for rejecting the offer? No. We are not entitled to sign anyone else's player just because we want them.
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You’re wrong, he was unreasonable to the point of not even engaging in conversations with our board.
 
mattyb said:
I’ve nothing wrong with the signing, it’s the price we’re paying that makes me nervous about the signing.

All the players listed above were pretty risk free in terms of what we paid for them at the time, and we’re all young
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So basically your concern is his price, not his ability. Strange take for a fan to have imo
 
I thought Walker was an over rated speedster at the time & 50m was a hell of a lot of money, Stones who had promise but always had a mistake in him & Ake was also seen as exorbitant for a defender who had just gotten relegated.

All 3 of them have improved immensely under Peps coaching & if Paqueta signs, who had similar promise at Lyon & is a Brazilian international, then no one will be quibbling about the fee.

I stopped worrying about transfer fees a long time ago but Mount, Grealish, Caicedo & Rice have set the bar when it comes to fees between premier league clubs
 
mattyb said:
It’s the price we are stumping up for him. He’s going to be the second highest transfer in our history
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I agree on the price and my comments this season is we for many reasons have had a very messy transfer window, which will cost us financially.

The lateness of this deal and the Caceido deal is going to make this deal more expensive then if we had targeted this player in June.

I hope it can be done for the release clause, with Palmer being included for around 35 million. This keeps it around £50 million net. This would represent a good deal all factors considered.

FWIW once we sign them Pep is not dictated to by transfer fees and plays his best team regardless, with both Grealish and Mahrez having to win their place in the team despite their transfer fee.

If we had got Bellingham he’d be looking great value about now.
 
Roy Munson said:
Maddison is a shithouse. Dropped by Leicester in the run in last season because his attitude is wank.

A midtable mentality, hence his transfer to a team of perennial bottlers.
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There have been questions raised over Paqueta’s attitude
 
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