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Levy prepared to push Alderweireld's price up to £40m as buyout clause nears expiry

Sid Tottenham

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What? So if no one meets the super low buyout clause we’re gonna make it about market rate hmm ok
Meanwhile we got a top defender earning relative peanuts for a year?he’s had a mare with that contract fallout years ago it’s cost him so much money.
I feel bad that he’s agents an idiot he ain’t poor but wtf how did it end like this?
 

davidmatzdorf

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Before the expiry of the clause interested clubs don't have to outbid one another. In theory you could have fifty clubs all offering £25mil and Spurs have to accept each and every offer, leaving it up to the player and his agent who he wishes to speak to and ultimately sign for.
That's pretty close to the point I was making.
 

Bulletspur

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Why set at 40? If the time expires, and he wants to keep him, Levy can now set price as high as he wants
 

dannythomas

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Probably, because they'll give him massive wages.

So if it’s only about money then you would have thought we would have offered him a vastly improved deal. It seems odd that we are apparently so rigid about improved contracts once a player reaches 30. Its very arbitrary, he has at least another 3 years playing at a high level.
 

Smokinhotspur

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If they aint meeting the release clause they aint paying higher. Non story.

Not so simple. Utd paid higher than the release clause for Fellaini six years ago because they let it lapse and had to go back in for him on deadline day when it was clear they could not get their preferred target over the line hence jacking up the price. Same could happen with Toby in reference to the Maguire deal.
 

Johnny J

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So if it’s only about money then you would have thought we would have offered him a vastly improved deal. It seems odd that we are apparently so rigid about improved contracts once a player reaches 30. Its very arbitrary, he has at least another 3 years playing at a high level.
We did offer him an improved deal, according to the ITK, which was all but agreed. Apparently he then demanded more, which is where the problems started.
 

pedrodelawasp

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That's pretty close to the point I was making.

I must have parsed your post differently than you intended as I read it as though you were suggesting a club may try to outbid another while the buy-out clause was still valid.
 

newbie

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We would be hard pressed to find a better CB, I hope he sorts out his spurs future would love to have him a couple more years at least.
 

whitesocks

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Very odd that no-one has come in for him.
For all his brilliance on the field he must be somehow sending the wrong messages when it comes the business side of things.
 

Japhet

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Very odd that no-one has come in for him.
For all his brilliance on the field he must be somehow sending the wrong messages when it comes the business side of things.

Maybe other teams have been in touch with his 'people', found out what he wants and backed hastily out of the door.
 
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