- Jun 29, 2003
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Tottenham Hotspur manager Jose Mourinho has admitted he is happy with the way the club dealt with the sale of Christian Eriksen.
Source: Sempreinter
Source: Sempreinter
I think we know that. There was a limited number of clubs that Eriksen would move to - that represented anything like a step up for him.Looking forward to the books that might explain why we didn't sell him much sooner.
Go read the Eriksen thread, it's been examined and explained in there numerous times.Looking forward to the books that might explain why we didn't sell him much sooner.
Go read the Eriksen thread, it's been examined and explained in there numerous times.
Looking forward to the books that might explain why we didn't sell him much sooner.
Amazing that people can spend so much time here and still think clubs can just sell players when they feel like it. Doesn't work that way.
Also amazing that people can spend so much time here and think that selling your most valuable and sought after players at the time when they are most valuable and sought after will ever be a popular move with supporters.
I answered your question already.Maybe not, but do you believe we tried to sell him last summer?
We didn't sell him in the summer because only United showed interest. He didn't want to go there.Care to enlighten me?
Yeah but Levy wanted £30m when Utd wanted to pay £29m so the deal fell through. Think about this and not get scared: grown men actually believe that bollocks.We didn't sell him in the summer because only United showed interest. He didn't want to go there.
We wouldn't sell him before that because we no longer have to sell our best players, and were maybe under the impression that we could get him to sign a new contract still.
We sold him now because he realised that his dream move wasn't happening and he'd kind of painted himself into a corner.
It wasn't that complicated a situation.
We didn't sell him in the summer because only United showed interest. He didn't want to go there.
We wouldn't sell him before that because we no longer have to sell our best players, and were maybe under the impression that we could get him to sign a new contract still.
We sold him now because he realised that his dream move wasn't happening and he'd kind of painted himself into a corner.
It wasn't that complicated a situation.
Go back to the summer of 2018 and Eriksen was on a high. He'd performed consistently to a high standard and was one of the highest chance creators in Europe. His performances at international level was very good as well.IMO, Eriksen hung on til the end of the Summer window expecting RM or Barca to snap him up. For that reason and probably a fair bit of loyalty to our fans, he wasn't at all interested in Man Utd. When Inter came in for him in January and there as still zero interest from Spain, it became the only viable option for him since the fans were getting on his case. Levy somehow managed to squeeze 17m out of it when I thought he'd be lucky to get 10.
IMO, Eriksen hung on til the end of the Summer window expecting RM or Barca to snap him up. For that reason and probably a fair bit of loyalty to our fans, he wasn't at all interested in Man Utd. When Inter came in for him in January and there as still zero interest from Spain, it became the only viable option for him since the fans were getting on his case. Levy somehow managed to squeeze 17m out of it when I thought he'd be lucky to get 10.
I don't disagree that is the most likely description of events. Still would be interesting to me to hear some reflections from Pochettino, Eriksen etc on what their thought process was throughout. If I remember some ITK correctly our view was that Eriksen played us.
Find it a bit funny that I am told this is all known when it clearly isn't. In any case since this is so obvious I am happy to see that we will never again complain about Levy only thinking about money - he then clearly isn't.
We, as fans, don't really 'know' anything.How do we know only United showed interest? And based on what price level? If we told clubs 80m then of course few would "show interest".
The second paragraph aligns with ITK through the window, but there was still time at the point Eriksen didn't sign. As for not selling that is just closing our eyes to reality. If we are going to $&÷^; away money so that we the fans can be let believe we are bigger than we are - then we are soon just another West Ham.
Complicated or not. I think it was a lot messier than you believe. I am quite sure we had many internal conversations over the summer how to deal with this. If your description is correct I certainly don't agree with Mourinho that Levy should be praised. If so he rescued a bad situation he partly created. Another thing for PR reasons of course it always makes sense for Mourinho to praise his boss. And now if fans are buying it then all the better.
And I'm not a Levy hater. I believe he has been brilliant for the club, but this one I think he handled poorly.