Cheers.I personally doubt anyone is going to pay the propertied fee he is believe to want. By all accounts there is a willingness from the player.
From the little I have seen of him in actual matches and some of the 'better' footage on youtube he looks a good player, but I don't think he's worth some of the numbers banded about as his supposed 'worth'.
& before people start yelling at me about 'going' rates etc the markets are set by those who want to get paid. Doesn't always make them right,
Hytner is pretty reliable for Spurs info from what I can remember, and it's a negotiation for a reason. Levy isn't Ed Woodward who would go in and pay the asking price immediately, he's trying to negotiate the price down slightly, but with Poch wanting him so badly I'd be surprised if he didn't pay close to the asking price anyway.
but why not make a competitive first offer? I understand our "valuation" technically isn't an offer but why not start with a 6 in front of the number if they value him at 75m?
What if we only value him at £50m though? They say you never accept the first offer so if we were to offer £65m as you've suggested it automatically leaves us paying far more than we think his value is already. What if we'd offered £65m and they said £85m, would you be saying why not just offer £75m as a starting bid? It's a lot of money and we will have the numbers, statistics and personal references on him to roughly know his worth to the team.
Low balling can act as an insult on some occasions, other occasions it can act as a good thing. I'm not suggesting £55m is a low ball, I'm just saying that the one spending the money holds more risk than the team selling for such figures and that risk needs to be taken into account
I find it hard to believe that we would value the player at only £44m. In today's market that will simply not get it done.
I could believe it may have been our opening offer - whether that was "officially made" or not.
I'm sure one of the ITK's once said that these types of articles are a few weeks behind what's actually going on and things will have moved on significantly since this. JJ has been positive so far so I'm hopeful we're far closer to an agreement than this article suggests.
Best way to look at this is if Spurs were willing to buy Frenkie de Jong and the probable amount it would have taken then I think they can be in the mix for dembele - thing is, is dembele worth more than de Jong?
Yeah, totes.Dembele is coming back ????
because if we start with a 5 at the begining we will end up with a number starting with 6 if we start with a 6 we end up with a number starting with a 7 Simples, but I can understand your thinking as its not your money.but why not make a competitive first offer? I understand our "valuation" technically isn't an offer but why not start with a 6 in front of the number if they value him at 75m?