Why? We've been negotiating for months...why at this stage do we move onto an alternative for the sake of a few million? I agree probably more than what we're prepared to pay but it's not like they're asking for £70 mill like Sandro. Making it a little more lucrative than Walker and then get the bar steward signedIt's walk away time.
I mentioned Txiki in a negative light on here a couple days ago and called an idiot. In early June, right after Bernardo joined, (before Chelsea bid 63m for Sandro and before we paid 50m for Walker) all the talk around Mendy was that 40m pounds would do it. In late June early July, it went up to 45m... Now it's 50m... Yay Txiki!
*All values in pounds
We will eventually get him so why the majority come on here whinge moan I don't know
Bloody AlvesWhat you have just posted is pure speculation.
Transfers have knock on effects, Alves says no, Tottenham decide to raise the price for Walker, Monaco see the price for Walker and raise price for Mendy.
It doesn't matter when and in what order we do our business, it will still have a knock on effect. If Spurs knew we were signing Mendy for £50m+, Walker would have immediately become £60m+.
This morning it was "SAF" in one thread, now it's "CR7" in this. This is not acceptable nomenclature for city fans to use.I don't think so. As far as I know we're in the business to win trophies, not save money. When we have no FBs and when teams know that they'll charge us. Whose fault is it that we were with no FBs? Not mine. Who does the planning here, whose job is it? My job is to pay for tickets, to buy shirts, to support. Whose job is to plan, buy, sell?
A second point is, if you buy the right player today, you won't have to look for other players every year to replace him. Clubs like RM understand this very well. That's why almost every purchase they make is a world record. But they don't look for someone to replace CR7 or Modric every year. And they have the best FBs in the world. They're not in the market every year so desperately to replace them.
If we buy the best FBs available at whatever cost this year, we won't have to shop for new ones every year, we might just look for back ups but not be desperate.
We made the same mistake with centre halves and every fookin season we're breaking a new record on a new centre half to replace the one we got one year before. It's always the unproven, questionable ones that we get. With the money we spent on Otamendi + Mangala for a total of £63.84 mil and instead of still looking for a new centre half, we could've spent £65-70 mil on one of Sergio Ramos or Bonucci and we wouldn't be looking for one to replace them now because they're proven. See my logic here?
Logic should be same with FBs and everyone else.
What you have just posted is pure speculation.
Transfers have knock on effects, Alves says no, Tottenham decide to raise the price for Walker, Monaco see the price for Walker and raise price for Mendy.
It doesn't matter when and in what order we do our business, it will still have a knock on effect. If Spurs knew we were signing Mendy for £50m+, Walker would have immediately become £60m+.
Wonder if Pep knows anyone else!..Didn't txiki only get the job because he knew pep?
There must be someone else who can do a better job.