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Leandro Damiao

fatpiranha

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We should just bid £25+ for Benteke in January. No fucking about.

I'm positive Defoe will be making noises for a move and if he's in good form we could still get £8-10m for him. We have the money to stump up the rest.


I'd rather we tested Chelsea with a £25M bid for Lukaku as Jose doesn't seem to fancy him, but I wouldn't say no to Benteke or Traore either.
 

YidNick

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I'd rather we tested Chelsea with a £25M bid for Lukaku as Jose doesn't seem to fancy him, but I wouldn't say no to Benteke or Traore either.

Lukaku would never come to Spurs as long as AVB is in charge... Pretty sure Lukaku hates AVB for the way AVB treated him during his time at Chelsea.
 

Ghost Hardware

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Lukaku would never come to Spurs as long as AVB is in charge... Pretty sure Lukaku hates AVB for the way AVB treated him during his time at Chelsea.

That fact alone always worried me a little considering Lukaku's incredible natural ability. But Chelsea would never sell him to us, ever, even if he put in a transfer request. We would have more chance of getting Mata... which we have no chance at all of.
 

only1waddle

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I think the major beef Lukaku had with AVB was keeping him at Chelsea and not playing him, rather than loan him out to develop. I think we have to take the Torres factor into account, Roman at that stage wouldn't have accepted Torres being benched, Di Matteo suffered from the Torres debacle too.
Not that Chelsea would ever sell him to us.. :mad:
 

Snarfalicious

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Just looking at where Benteke and Lukaku came from prior to their current clubs, the Belgian/Jupiler Pro League, there's already a talent there that compares pretty favorably to Benteke/Lukaku in Michy Batshuayi. 20 years old, 10 goals in 16 matches for Standard Liege already this season. The odds of us getting Benteke and Lukaku are incredibly slim. However, the odds of us landing a player like Batshuayi are fairly high. We just have to show some strong interest.
 

eddiev14

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Jan 18, 2005
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Damiao has had a 2013 to forget. 20 appearances for Inter and only 4 goals.

I bet the chairman wishes he'd sold him for the 15m we offered in January. He'll never get more than that now...
 
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