Kyle Walker

[domalino]

The same could of been said about Philip Lahm who started off as a left back and a midfielder.

Kyle Walker is not Philip Lahm. Not even close.

 

[domalino]

Fabinho 40m
Ricardo Pereira 20m

Id rather pay 60m for these 2 players.

And neither of them could play because we have too many foreign players.

 

[TonyM]

There are precious few English players worth the effort or money or hype. Walker's In the top bunch. I'm not sure there's an alternative out there in any position that wouldn't be even more of a waste.

I'd prefer to sign anyone for relatively low (non-internationals/youth) or promote from the academy.

 

[SWP's back]

And neither of them could play because we have too many foreign players.

In a nut shell

 

[RayCTID]

Did you mean Semedo ?

If we can get Semedo for less then yes.

 

[RayCTID]

Kyle Walker is not Philip Lahm. Not even close.

Lahm is the better out of the two. If you are talking £60m for a full back Sandro is the better bet (even if we can convert him as an emergency right back) along with Dani Alves and add another domestic base transfer. If we can get Walker for 40-45m then fair enough but there has got to be a cut off point.

 

[TRUE BLUE NO1]

How do you know this?

common sense mate!;) our shelves are empty and Spurs/Monaco know this....in my opinion, this is the main reason why agreeing a fee is seemingly so difficult. Txiki playing a game of poker in which we showed our hand when the summer transfer window opened. (releasing 4 fullbacks- if you include Navas) If we want both Mendy and Walker is seems very likely we'll have to pay above market value, that just how I see it! Having 4 fullbacks, who's contracts all end in the same window and then loan out your only "young" backups, is just asking for trouble...Not trying to have a go at the way we do business but we've dug our own hole in this situation. Hopefully when/if Alves signs it might put alittle more control back into our corner, as we can use the fact we have our starting RB already in the squad and might make Spurs worry about us pulling our offer...

 

[mosssideblue]

common sense mate!;) our shelves are empty and Spurs/Monaco know this....in my opinion, this is the main reason why agreeing a fee is seemingly so difficult. Txiki playing a game of poker in which we showed our hand when the summer transfer window opened. (releasing 4 fullbacks- if you include Navas) If we want both Mendy and Walker is seems very likely we'll have to pay above market value, that just how I see it! Having 4 fullbacks, who's contracts all end in the same window and then loan out your only "young" backups, is just asking for trouble...Not trying to have a go at the way we do business but we've dug our own hole in this situation. Hopefully when/if Alves signs it might put alittle more control back into our corner, as we can use the fact we have our starting RB already in the squad and might make Spurs worry about us pulling our offer...

What makes you so certain that we haven't already agreed terms some time ago and were just awaiting the announcements?

 

[nmc]

If Levy is demanding £60m - just walk away and leave him with an unhappy player. I want Walker but we have to protect the integrity of our future transfer dealings - paying roughly double what a player is worth will haunt us for a long time. We must have a plan B - so we'd best dust it off.

 

[BongoCityzen]

And neither of them could play because we have too many foreign players.

Sell Fernando.