Player Alex Scott

[Hotspur88]

Would you sell Hjobjerg and buy Scott for net zero cost.
I think i would.

We are still interested at the right price.

 

[sidford]

We are still interested at the right price.

Another contender for our club motto

 

[rawhide]

We are still interested at the right price.

But is he available at the right price?

 

[McFlash]

But is he available at the right price?

It seems like very few players are available for what we consider to be the right price.

 

[philll]

But they're not going to sell him at the "right price" (our interpretation of which always seems to be lower than the actual "right price") so we might as well move on. It's all just a charade to make it look like we're trying.

 

[hutchiniho]

But is he available at the right price?

Guaranteed our 'right price' will be a lot less than the selling club's valuation.

We will never be the big club that pays that little bit more to ensure we sign the player that we want. Tottenham, under Levy, will be out at all the Sunday morning car boot sales, hoping to find a bargain.

Liverpool - we need a top CB to take us to the next level - VDV
Man Utd - we really need a CF to compete, as if by magic, there's a offer that can't be refused on Atalanta's doorstep.
Tottenham - let's try and haggle, with figures miles apart in valuation for months on end, only to fail, miss out, and leave everyone short.

Big club structure, small club attitude to recruitment.

 

[BENNO]

Guaranteed our 'right price' will be a lot less than the selling club's valuation.

We will never be the big club that pays that little bit more to ensure we sign the player that we want. Tottenham, under Levy, will be out at all the Sunday morning car boot sales, hoping to find a bargain.

Liverpool - we need a top CB to take us to the next level - VDV
Man Utd - we really need a CF to compete, as if by magic, there's a offer that can't be refused on Atalanta's doorstep.
Tottenham - let's try and haggle, with figures miles apart in valuation for months on end, only to fail, miss out, and leave everyone short.

Big club structure, small club attitude to recruitment.

Broadly speaking, i don't disagree with that but Alex Scott doesn't fall anywhere near the same category as the players you mention and their importance to the team that signed them. If we signed him, he'd be 'one for the future' and fairly unlikely to see too much game time this season, rather than a player to fill a massive hole and a first XI regular.

 

[rawhide]

Guaranteed our 'right price' will be a lot less than the selling club's valuation.

We will never be the big club that pays that little bit more to ensure we sign the player that we want. Tottenham, under Levy, will be out at all the Sunday morning car boot sales, hoping to find a bargain.

Liverpool - we need a top CB to take us to the next level - VDV
Man Utd - we really need a CF to compete, as if by magic, there's a offer that can't be refused on Atalanta's doorstep.
Tottenham - let's try and haggle, with figures miles apart in valuation for months on end, only to fail, miss out, and leave everyone short.

Big club structure, small club attitude to recruitment.

We are like the opposite of penny wise pound foolish. We often give the impression that we’d rather spend £50m on 3 bang average players to fill a squad than on a potential game changer.

 

[Jemster]

We’re always interested in selling and buying at our ‘right price’. Basically buy at lower than the going rate and sell at higher than the players value. Net result, we mostly miss out on targets and have unwanted players bloating the squad. Year after year…

 

[felmani26]

We are still interested at the right price.

A microcosm of our bullshit recruitment policy

 

[For the love of Spurs]

Broadly speaking, i don't disagree with that but Alex Scott doesn't fall anywhere near the same category as the players you mention and their importance to the team that signed them. If we signed him, he'd be 'one for the future' and fairly unlikely to see too much game time this season, rather than a player to fill a massive hole and a first XI regular.

Yep, I would say Tapsoba is that player for us this window. Scott is a nice to have.

 

[hutchiniho]

Broadly speaking, i don't disagree with that but Alex Scott doesn't fall anywhere near the same category as the players you mention and their importance to the team that signed them. If we signed him, he'd be 'one for the future' and fairly unlikely to see too much game time this season, rather than a player to fill a massive hole and a first XI regular.

You’re quite right. We don’t ‘need’ this guy and Very different to Tapsoba but the rule is still the same.
If Scott is £8m, we’ll offer £5m.
We won’t ever go out and meet a price or yes, more realistically, a figure just below, knowing the selling club are chancing the asking price.

 

[Cel]

You’re quite right. We don’t ‘need’ this guy and Very different to Tapsoba but the rule is still the same.
If Scott is £8m, we’ll offer £5m.
We won’t ever go out and meet a price or yes, more realistically, a figure just below, knowing the selling club are chancing the asking price.

But he's not 8m, wolves have allegedly bid 32m. Should we be offering 35?

 

[Stoof]

But hang on, we paid up on Porro and Maddison - who everyone almost unanimously thought were priced correctly.

I don’t think we overpay but we don’t necessarily underpay. We’ve also accepted an offer of £12m for Sanchez - who most would say that’s low. We’re holding out for a bit more for Hoj and HK as the bids that have come in are low.

I’d love to collate the responses of the “just sell for whatever they’re offering” and the “just pay up Levy” posters to see if there’s a connection.

 

[BENNO]

You’re quite right. We don’t ‘need’ this guy and Very different to Tapsoba but the rule is still the same.
If Scott is £8m, we’ll offer £5m.
We won’t ever go out and meet a price or yes, more realistically, a figure just below, knowing the selling club are chancing the asking price.

Honestly we are definitely not the only ones, i've been speaking to my Fulham supporting dad this morning and their fans are going mad at them for ffering Chelsea £4m for Hudson Odi when Chelsea want £8m. That sounds a lot like Spurs doesn't it !

 

[funkycoldmedina]

But hang on, we paid up on Porro and Maddison - who everyone almost unanimously thought were priced correctly.

I don’t think we overpay but we don’t necessarily underpay. We’ve also accepted an offer of £12m for Sanchez - who most would say that’s low. We’re holding out for a bit more for Hoj and HK as the bids that have come in are low.

I’d love to collate the responses of the “just sell for whatever they’re offering” and the “just pay up Levy” posters to see if there’s a connection.

There's no room perspective any more on here. It's such a shame but almost every bit of transfer news just comes with a tirade of anti-Levy rhetoric whether it's warranted or not.
Scott is a prime example of the type of transfer we should be doing but unfortunately a poor transfer strategy over the last few years has meant major surgery is needed yet again. Hopefully we can get on an even keel in future and start picking these type of players up again

 

[rabbikeane]

Would you sell Hjobjerg and buy Scott for net zero cost.
I think i would.

We'd have to sell other more attacking midfielder first. Not comparable with Højbjerg. We would ruin his talent with lack of game time the size of our current squad.

 

[BENNO]

There's no room perspective any more on here. It's such a shame but almost every bit of transfer news just comes with a tirade of anti-Levy rhetoric whether it's warranted or not.
Scott is a prime example of the type of transfer we should be doing but unfortunately a poor transfer strategy over the last few years has meant major surgery is needed yet again. Hopefully we can get on an even keel in future and start picking these type of players up again

I'd be the first to put my hand up and say i'm more pro Levy than anti, but i'll also happily admit that when i see some of our transfer stuff, particularly the list of recent wing backs , it looks very very bad. Once we chose Ange, as tough as it would have been, i'd have backed out of the Porro deal , whose a good player but with no position in and Ange team. That would have bought Alex Scott and paid his salary for a couple of years.

 

[THFC_is_my_life]

I’d love us to sign Scott.

Personally feel like we will regret it in a few years if he’s playing for somebody like Brighton and tearing it up.
We used to take punts on this sort of transfers a lot - sometimes they’d work and it’d be magical (Bale, Alli), sometimes they wouldn’t (Sessegnon), but they’re more exciting for me than dropping £60m a known quantity like Richarlison.

Scott has an extremely high ceiling, supports the Club, is home grown, has been quoted as saying his international team mate Devine is one of his “closest friends” and can play multiple positions. For me at least, it’s a no brainer and exactly the sort of player profile that we should be looking to build for the future with (alongside Devine, Udogie, etc).

 

[Yid-ol]

We'd have to sell other more attacking midfielder first. Not comparable with Højbjerg. We would ruin his talent with lack of game time the size of our current squad.

Gil, Lo Celso and Nfdombele, or at least 2 of these also I would guess.