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Player watch: Christian Eriksen

ralvy

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Think Kovacic will go to Chelsea, they want to keep him and if they finish top four i dont see why he would want to go to another Pl club and start from scratch. Chelsea will probably offer him more as well. As for Eriksen to RM, makes sense, they will be able to get him for relatively cheap in the summer and we will have very little wiggle room unless we can start a bidding war. Assuming he doesn't sign a new contract. Saying that, i would rather he goes to RM then City or another English club. At this point i would be amazed if he did commit long term to Spurs. The best we will maybe get from RM is Ceballos in return. Im sure it will be spun massively if it does happen mind, especially if Kovacic ends up at Chelsea.

Really? I would probably prefer him joining freaking Arsenal than feeling yet again like we're Real Madrid's bitches. How can we pretend to be a big club when a club like Real Madrid feels like they are entitled to every amazing player that goes through our ranks? If Eriksen goes there, what's stopping them from coming for Kane or Dele after?
 

dtxspurs

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Really? I would probably prefer him joining freaking Arsenal than feeling yet again like we're Real Madrid's bitches. How can we pretend to be a big club when a club like Real Madrid feels like they are entitled to every amazing player that goes through our ranks?

We can pretend to be a big club when we start acting like one.
 

Ghost Hardware

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Really? I would probably prefer him joining freaking Arsenal than feeling yet again like we're Real Madrid's bitches. How can we pretend to be a big club when a club like Real Madrid feels like they are entitled to every amazing player that goes through our ranks? If Eriksen goes there, what's stopping them from coming for Kane or Dele after?
The Eriksen situation is different to Kane and Alli. Eriksen only has two years left on his contract so Levy will look to sell if he doesn’t renew or we could loose him for nothing. Kane and Alli will be off the market all together. Also, Liverpool who are bigger global brand then us where pretty much strong armed into selling Coutinho to Barca. Unfortunatly we won’t be getting the same sort of money for Eriksen. At present we are far from being a elite club. We might have the stadium and training grounds but we don’t have the coin purse. Until we have the money to spend we will be forever outside looking in.
 

dtxspurs

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The Eriksen situation is different to Kane and Alli. Eriksen only has two years left on his contract so Levy will look to sell if he doesn’t renew or we could loose him for nothing. Kane and Alli will be off the market all together. Also, Liverpool who are bigger global brand then us where pretty much strong armed into selling Coutinho to Barca. Unfortunatly we won’t be getting the same sort of money for Eriksen. At present we are far from being a elite club. We might have the stadium and training grounds but we don’t have the coin purse. Until we have the money to spend we will be forever outside looking in.
We'll finally have money to spend though... haha fucking hell.
 

ralvy

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We can pretend to be a big club when we start acting like one.

Well, I don't know to you, but to me building a brand new state of the art stadium, while holding onto important assets such as Kane and Pochetino seem to me like the moves of a club aiming at becoming big.
 

ralvy

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The Eriksen situation is different to Kane and Alli. Eriksen only has two years left on his contract so Levy will look to sell if he doesn’t renew or we could loose him for nothing. Kane and Alli will be off the market all together. Also, Liverpool who are bigger global brand then us where pretty much strong armed into selling Coutinho to Barca. Unfortunatly we won’t be getting the same sort of money for Eriksen. At present we are far from being a elite club. We might have the stadium and training grounds but we don’t have the coin purse. Until we have the money to spend we will be forever outside looking in.

Look, I agree. But I think selling yet again to RM would send a very wrong message. I really hope PSG or Barca show any interest in Eriksen,
 

slartibartfast

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It comes with the territory of having very good players. I remember thinking when Berbatov left 'thats us fked.' Then Modric. Then Bale. You get the idea. With a 62,000 seater stadium and more money than ever coming in we'll not only have a better shot at keeping our players but replacing them with quality. If tight arse finds his fkin cheque book that is.
 

Shadydan

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Big club or not, Real Madrid or a bigger club still have a high chance of poaching our players if they want to go, it's just the way it is.
 

doctor stefan Freud

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Well, I don't know to you, but to me building a brand new state of the art stadium, while holding onto important assets such as Kane and Pochetino seem to me like the moves of a club aiming at becoming big.
We’re achingly close to edging into that territory but keeping Poch is crucial to this trajectory and any transfer fuckwittery from Levy will disrupt this movement in a number of nuanced ways. It’s hard to fault Levy for the way we’ve developed as a business but he had a howler of a transfer window last summer and this can’t happen again. It’s like having a hair transplant and then opting for a skinhead thereafter
 

dtxspurs

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We’re achingly close to edging into that territory but keeping Poch is crucial to this trajectory and any transfer fuckwittery from Levy will disrupt this movement in a number of nuanced ways. It’s hard to fault Levy for the way we’ve developed as a business but he had a howler of a transfer window last summer and this can’t happen again. It’s like having a hair transplant and then opting for a skinhead thereafter
And the summer before that... and the summer before that.
 

mpickard2087

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Big club or not, Real Madrid or a bigger club still have a high chance of poaching our players if they want to go, it's just the way it is.

Yep. And also that is almost certainly likely to be the case if we clear that final hurdle and a win a cup, even the league title. A lot of fans give the impression to me they think that if we do that then it's 'game over, completed it' and bask in eternal glory. The reality would be that the four/five other clubs in our league would outspend us, as much as ever, immediately in order to try and leapfrog us, and with our players becoming more attractive as winners we'd have certain mega clubs (who'd still guarantee more success than us) around Europe waving the chequebook with even more noughts on the end of the promises. The next season would be as hard as any, maybe even harder.

Fans should live in the now, take it season by season, be realistic and know the place in the food chain, and not look too far ahead.
 
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doctor stefan Freud

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Big club or not, Real Madrid or a bigger club still have a high chance of poaching our players if they want to go, it's just the way it is.
Agree but a club with huge aspirations and showing palpable signs of those aspirations stand a better chance of holding those players. We are so close to that, but I can’t help but speculate that the dearth of (quality) signings in the summer has impacted on us being that thing
 

doctor stefan Freud

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Think Kovacic will go to Chelsea, they want to keep him and if they finish top four i dont see why he would want to go to another Pl club and start from scratch. Chelsea will probably offer him more as well. As for Eriksen to RM, makes sense, they will be able to get him for relatively cheap in the summer and we will have very little wiggle room unless we can start a bidding war. Assuming he doesn't sign a new contract. Saying that, i would rather he goes to RM then City or another English club. At this point i would be amazed if he did commit long term to Spurs. The best we will maybe get from RM is Ceballos in return. Im sure it will be spun massively if it does happen mind, especially if Kovacic ends up at Chelsea.
Chelsea have a lovely central midfield
 

yiddo

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Chelsea have a lovely central midfield

And they managed to get that by beating the champions to Jorginho and persuading Real to give them Kovacic. All on the back of a bad season where they were apparently "a shambles".

In the transfer market it is not only the actual spending that we are failing on but the negotiating with clubs & agents that is essential these days seems lacking to say the least. The likes of Baldini and Commoli may have been seen as flops by many but we at least seemed to be able to get deals done when they were around.
 

JimmyG2

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I don't subscribe to the
'we are fucked because we didn't buy anyone'
philosophy
We have been outspent for several years
by several clubs
sometimes to the tune of 100's of millions of pounds.

Our recent record
and current position
shows that another way is possible.
We are building a squad
steadily and slowly
under, for us, a steady management.
with the emphasis on our own and young players.
This is where we need to continue to invest

Every season the doom-mongers
predict that unless we jjoin the big spenders
our development is doomed.
Lloris has been leaving us for several years.
he's still here.
Now it's Eriksen, or Dele or Kane, or Pochettino.

Don't let the Media agenda
divert you from the true path.
 

allatsea

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And they managed to get that by beating the champions to Jorginho and persuading Real to give them Kovacic. All on the back of a bad season where they were apparently "a shambles".

In the transfer market it is not only the actual spending that we are failing on but the negotiating with clubs & agents that is essential these days seems lacking to say the least. The likes of Baldini and Commoli may have been seen as flops by many but we at least seemed to be able to get deals done when they were around.

The flaw in your argument as I see it is they weren't trying to sign players of the quality of Jorginho. Plus they were bot doing business for Spurs before transfer fees, salaries, and payments to agents, went completely bonkers.
 
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