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The Daily ITK Discussion Thread - The Get in There!/Oh Woe is Me Edition 28th August 2013

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Archibald&Crooks said:
And so SC's Mood-o-Meter swings upwards again. Fuck the transfers, watching some of you lot plunge into the depths of despair and thirty six seconds later become as high as Pete Doherty in a smartie factory is by far where the real value is at.
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I was always confident! :whistle:
 
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minesadouble said:
Updates to my various posts last week. A bit more info. Basically Bale’s is not only the largest transfer in football history it is proving probably the most complex transfer to negotiate and document, partly due to existing commercial activities, partly due to the goalposts inevitably being moved by all sides and circumstances, partly due to the linked transfers potentially involved.

Last Thursday I posted a summary of RM’s financial position. This appears to have been resolved by bank guarantees covering any future payments to Spurs, but RM still has to raise cash quickly either to fund the down payment, or to repay any extra short term loans RM take out. RM has had to use all its political clout to get their banks to play ball. The financial situation of Spanish football (taxes owed, club debts, split of TV income) is a much bigger issue than I can cover here and I expect the Bale transfer to be looked back on one day as a defining moment in Spanish football. The record may well be Bale’s for a long time.

The headline price RM pay will be the £ number that the media, fans and football world will focus on. But a chunk of the ‘value’ in the deal may only come out later. I can’t say more than that at this stage. Suffice it to say Spurs do not want to burn bridges like they did with a couple of ex-players. It’s not just a question of haggling over 100m v 85m v 75m or even how long RM has to pay for him. That’s the easier bit. Make no mistake, this now seems to be a transfer that the player and both clubs want to happen this year. But it is still not 100% it will get done. I have no idea whose faces would then have most egg on!

Last Friday I commented ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’. This is the interesting part. Relations between some of the individuals involved in Bale negotiations remain tense. But the move for Willian by Chelsea was widely disliked and it pushed parties together. As I said last Friday, there is something called the Law of Unintended Consequences. It’s 50:50 but the consequence of Chelsea’s cleverness might just be that a better player than Willian turns up at WHL, at least for one season. Just to be clear, this would be on top of Lamela.
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Thanks for the info. Hope you'll be posting whatever you cannot divulge at this time at some future date.
 
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minesadouble said:
Updates to my various posts last week. A bit more info. Basically Bale’s is not only the largest transfer in football history it is proving probably the most complex transfer to negotiate and document, partly due to existing commercial activities, partly due to the goalposts inevitably being moved by all sides and circumstances, partly due to the linked transfers potentially involved.

Last Thursday I posted a summary of RM’s financial position. This appears to have been resolved by bank guarantees covering any future payments to Spurs, but RM still has to raise cash quickly either to fund the down payment, or to repay any extra short term loans RM take out. RM has had to use all its political clout to get their banks to play ball. The financial situation of Spanish football (taxes owed, club debts, split of TV income) is a much bigger issue than I can cover here and I expect the Bale transfer to be looked back on one day as a defining moment in Spanish football. The record may well be Bale’s for a long time.

The headline price RM pay will be the £ number that the media, fans and football world will focus on. But a chunk of the ‘value’ in the deal may only come out later. I can’t say more than that at this stage. Suffice it to say Spurs do not want to burn bridges like they did with a couple of ex-players. It’s not just a question of haggling over 100m v 85m v 75m or even how long RM has to pay for him. That’s the easier bit. Make no mistake, this now seems to be a transfer that the player and both clubs want to happen this year. But it is still not 100% it will get done. I have no idea whose faces would then have most egg on!

Last Friday I commented ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’. This is the interesting part. Relations between some of the individuals involved in Bale negotiations remain tense. But the move for Willian by Chelsea was widely disliked and it pushed parties together. As I said last Friday, there is something called the Law of Unintended Consequences. It’s 50:50 but the consequence of Chelsea’s cleverness might just be that a better player than Willian turns up at WHL, at least for one season. Just to be clear, this would be on top of Lamela.
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Top post and ties into hints of us getting a real star name
 
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Please no questions of the back of this. I've been told (via source) i've been giving too much detail away and that some comments have found their way back to the client.

We are gearing up for three signings to go through at the push of a button, at three different monetary levels. One you known, one's been mentioned, one is a suprise.

comically, i had no idea Lamela was done so tap that salt shaker, but the info is unquestionable.
 
Gb160

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Atlanta Yid On COYS Re:Bale
Today, 05:40 PM
Said the deal for Bale is Staggering between 90 to 100 million based some what on performance
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Archibald&Crooks said:
And so SC's Mood-o-Meter swings upwards again. Fuck the transfers, watching some of you lot plunge into the depths of despair and thirty six seconds later become as high as Pete Doherty in a smartie factory is by far where the real value is at.
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There is no rating on the forum to justify the awesomeness in this post. I salute you Squire
 
Archibald&Crooks

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I met a devil woman, she took my heart away
She said I had it comin' to me, but I wanted it that way
I think that any love is good lovin'
And so I took what I could get
 
spursfan77

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Scutch said:
Atlanta Yid again:



His man being Joe Lewis or a very close associate.
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Scutch, AY said on COYS a while ago how he knows Joe Lewis. It would make his info at least 3rd hand I would have thought. I'm not saying its 100% accurate but I always have an open mind with his info. Hes a good poster though so i've nothing against him.
 
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