Player Watch Player Watch: Pedro Porro

[Montalbano]

Fuck.

 

[cst310]

On the west coast of the US so I have the luxury of sleeping through the next few hours of this mess but my gut reaction is just exhaustion with this club.

While it sounds like this is Sporting’s doing we ultimately had a hand in this for letting it go so long and we are ultimately responsible for the consequences of going 2 transfer windows and not getting a key piece of our coach’s game plan in place.

I’m just really getting tired of caring about this team. I hope I wake up to better news.

 

[Mattspurs1982]

No matter who's fault it Is, there's always a big risk leaving it this late.

It’s Levy's negotiating style that is the wider problem I'm afraid.

as we all said a month ago, a big club just comes in and pays the clause if it’s a critical top target, priority position and someone the manager wants. Sigh.

 

[Hotspur88]

Why? Hardly our fault if, and it's a big if, it's true. These journalists have proved over and over they don't know what is going on with this one, so I'm not overly worried just yet.

I've heard nothing so don't know if it's true but the reason for my post is we've messed around with this deal for weeks and weeks now and left it until 48 hours before the close of the window to finally strike a deal. This deal could have been done long before this weekend.

 

[srups34]

Ah well at least we allowed him to play in the Cup final

 

[mattspur1986]

i mean yes, it seems sporting have done us over. but bloody hell, because we yet again leave it so late, its gonna do us in again. as others have mentioned, itll be so toxic now. levy has no where to hide.
this is why we should had just paid the release clause early on. THIS was the number 1 target, and we're missing out yet again.

 

[Scott Spur]

Levy: I’d like to buy that watch please, I’ll give you £20 for it.
Assistant: Sir, that watch is a Rolex, it priced at £20k.
Levy: Ok, I’ll give you £1000
Assistant: Sir, I’ve already told you it’s £20k, not a penny less.
Levy: Ok, I’ll come back later, maybe you’ll feel differently
Assistant: We close at 6pm Sir

5:59pm
Levy: I’d like to buy that watch please, I’ll give you £10k for it.
Assistant: Sorry Sir, the tills have been closed a tad early for a software update, you’ll have to come back tomorrow……

That’s why it’s Levy’s fault.

 

[Hotspur88]

Ps it's clear Sporting are the ones moving the goalposts here so of course they're the party to blame but it is so frustrating that this deal has taken so long to finalise. I can't see us dropping out of the deal when we've spent so long on it so I'm still confident. I pray we can salvage it because otherwise the fan backlash will be huge.

 

[H-SF]

Fuck.

Still hope maybe

 

[Tractorspur]

Spursy

 

[mattspur1986]

Nothing is a shock when it comes to Spurs but man, wasn't expecting that this morning

really? how long have you supported us.? you know nothing surprises us anymore. im not even shocked.

 

[deanostheyido]

I'm sure there'll be another couple of meetings in Portugal to try sort this out....

 

[Clark28]

Didn't want another RWB anyway

 

[Mr Pink]

as we all said a month ago, a big club just comes in and pays the clause if it’s a critical top target, priority position and someone the manager wants. Sigh.

Absolutely.

This is what Levy fails to understand. Its the same MO everytime.

Sometimes, you just have to pay up. Especially for a top target, in a critical position that could transform our play.

The gain of that, potentially, far outstrips any meagre financial gain he'd get from his old haggling approach.

Yes secure the best deal for the Club, but not to the point of losing out on game changing players over negligible amounts we might save.

This guy will never see the wider footballing picture.

 

[chas vs dave]

Spursy

I wish our own fans wouldn't resort to using this trite bullshit. It's bad enough hearing it endlessly from the glory hunting bantersauruses.

It's a crap phrase, and embarrassing.

 

[cider spurs]

We aren’t allowed anything nice are we

Dunno, depends how we're defining "nice"

I've had an extra spoonful of Sugar Puffs for breakfast, and a wicked morning Arsenal.

 

[HildoSpur]

It's the brinksmanship that is so frustrating isn't it - trying to shave off a million or two (yes it's a lot of money but a drop in the ocean in football terms) and messing about for weeks get's us into these situations.

 

[the yid]

Sporting clearly moved the goalposts to get bit more money, fully expect this to still happen personally. The issue here is if we'd have paid the money 3 weeks ago l ike we easily could have we wouldn't be in this situation now!

 

[Scott Spur]

Ps it's clear Sporting are the ones moving the goalposts here so of course they're the party to blame but it is so frustrating that this deal has taken so long to finalise. I can't see us dropping out of the deal when we've spent so long on it so I'm still confident. I pray we can salvage it because otherwise the fan backlash will be huge.

What with Chelsea able to sign a whole team of players in January alone and Arsenal sitting top of the league, that may be an understatement.

 

[Whazam]

Levy: I’d like to buy that watch please, I’ll give you £20 for it.
Assistant: Sir, that watch is a Rolex, it priced at £20k.
Levy: Ok, I’ll give you £1000
Assistant: Sir, I’ve already told you it’s £20k, not a penny less.
Levy: Ok, I’ll come back later, maybe you’ll feel differently
Assistant: We close at 6pm Sir

5:59pm
Levy: I’d like to buy that watch please, I’ll give you £10k for it.
Assistant: Sorry Sir, the tills have been closed a tad early for a software update, you’ll have to come back tomorrow……

That’s why it’s Levy’s fault.

Except, from the information we have gotten it's nothing like this. More like:

Assistant: We want £20 k up front.
Levy: I can give you £20 k in instalments?
Assistant: OK, that's fine.
...
5:59pm
Assistant: Just kidding. Sorry, now we're closed!