alky313 said:
1.Spursprinter1,
2.Do you think Spurs would break their wage structure to give Hazard 80-120k type deals? Do you think that Modric, Bale, Lennon, Walker and VdV will all maintain their same wages in the in the next 12 months.
Because personally I can't see a situation where Hazard makes more money than Bale or Modric. 3.He is the hottest commodity in European football at the moment. I personally think that he is doing all he can to get the best deal possible. His agent brought up United in January, dropped City hits later in the month and then he mentions Spurs.
4.I don't think Spurs have what's capable to make their entire side of comfortable with the idea of overpaying a single player on plaudits won by the good of the squad. We're talking about a massive fee (30-35) with wages that will likely be 24-28 mil over 4-5 years. That a serious amount of change. Lennon is worth about 10-15 mil and the ship has sailed on him as being the next big thing. Niko Kranjcar is worth 8-10 million but then the club will need to find a replacement for a fixture congestion. Sandro might be worth something to someone...
5.But the club has some incredible amount of thinking to do. On top of the fact that goalkeepers are going for about 15-25 mil. Unless Brad Friedel is going to play until he dies then I don't see them getting any resale.
6.Buying Hazard would be a luxury buy for a club who don't have the funds available to make luxury buys. If I'm Spurs admin I'd eyeing up a longterm replacement for Ledley King. Ledley has been the best English centrehalf next to some guy named Lescott. But he hasn't the knees nor luck to see it through a Champions League filled season.
7.Your club is notorious for "fallen deals". Lose out on 22 million pound Remy, take Saha on a free. They have a tendency to play up massive transfers only to buy bit part players. I think you better hope the Hazard deal falls through for the sake of what it could do to your club over the next 4-5 years.
8.Chelsea will outspend you, Arsenal will out-develop you, Liverpool's owners will outbid you, City will outspend, United will outspend. You are the odd man out in the money game. Your club needs to be smart. Hazard isn't a smart move.
1.There is no printer involved!!! ARRRGH!!!! ;)
2. This does seem to be a commonly used theory, but I don't believe players and agents are having a word with each other finding out who earns the most and then storming in to Levy's office to renegotiate. It's up to each agent to work out a deal which works best for the player they represent and the club and I doubt Levy lets any
match highest earner clauses in to proceedings.
Once again, I don't think Hazard is about the money, or at least not in the short term. He knows that if he goes to City Chelsea Barca Madrid he will probably land a bumper contract for five years on big wages, but there is a greater chance of him not succeeding at these clubs due to a supposed higher quality of player at these clubs, therefore in the long run getting a 5 year deal at a club like Spurs which will be easier to gain a starting place and therefore a better reputation will make it more likely to earn much more lucre over the course of his career as opposed to earning shitloads at the start then fizzling out.
3. Perhaps but ever the optimistic I'm hopeful his thinking is that of what I posted above. As one of europe's hottest talent he knows he has to make a wise move or he'd regret it, like Eriksen did with you guys, coming to City in the summer wouldn't have been good for his career in my opinion.
4. It's a lot of money but we have been fairly prudent in recent times. I don't see why we can't have Lennon Bale and Hazard in the same squad, hopefully over the course of next season we'll play 60 games or so, there's plenty of time and depending on who you believe our financial situation is looking pretty good although I don't pretend to know much about that side of things. Sandro is worth a hell of a lot in my opinion, although I'm hoping he doesn't leave in the near future, he's just been unlucky with injuries so far this season.
5. We're not going to attempt a De Gea splurge, that kind of money for a keeper isn't justifiable. Whatever we do we'll have to be savy, but every season bargains are available especially with contracts running down with less major money signings due to the impending FFP rules, Adler looks to be leaving his club on a free off the top of my head. Gomes looks to be doing the same....
6. I'm not sure whether you've watched Swansea much this season but Caulker looks the real deal, I don't want to over hype him but it's hard not to. Sent down to league one, is their best player and takes a clean sweep of the awards, sent to the championship, does exactly the same, sent to the premiership, an unfortunate injury but he's getting a football education and looks a real player.
7. Some ambition was shown but we were knocked back, I wasn't disappointed as there is so much pressure on big January signings to come in to a new culture and hit the ground running. Our signings in january were to get fresh faces in and allow disgruntled players to leave either permanently to bring funds in or to play football.
8. I'm not sure how buying one of Europe's hottest talents at 21 isn't a smart move, you can't have too much quality and he seems to be interested judging by the quotes.
