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Pedro Neto (to Chelsea)

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matty74

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Be interesting to see what other options we have to go for .


Surely our new look scouting team will have 2-3 others and ground work may already have been made .

Raphinha is the obvious one premier league experience and probably surplus to requirements at Barcelona. They have many options now
 

funkycoldmedina

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WLB said we were prepared to pay the same money? Surely that begs the question, why don’t we match their bid? I mean we still could right? After all, WLB also said that Neto was Ange’s no. 1 choice.
Because Mendes only wants to deal with Chelsea because of all the future trades he can be involved in? It's never about the one deal for Mendes.
 

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Only silver lining is we weren’t strung along so late that we’d be scrambling for an alternative and most likely ending up with crap. Yes it’s relatively late but there still time to get a good player
 

robotsonic

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Tell the manager no IMO
But if we have a second choice lined up that we now go for, what have we lost? If we've lost out on other players trying to jerk off Mendes, sure we shouldn't have bothered, but if we haven't then it's absolutely right to try if it's the player that's the best fit imo.

As it stands the only difference between telling Ange no from the start and potentially having an issue there, and where we find ourselves now, is a few griping Tottenham fans blaming Daniel Levy (even though we've been advised that it's nothing to do with him), and that's just the history of the Tottenham.
 

Ginola+Tonic

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Be interesting to see what other options we have to go for .


Surely our new look scouting team will have 2-3 others and ground work may already have been made .

Raphinha is the obvious one premier league experience and probably surplus to requirements at Barcelona. They have many options now
Cannot see us stumping up what it would take to get Raphinha in wages and transfer fee, he’s 28 in December.

Although that could be the more complicated one alluded too.
 

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But if we have a second choice lined up that we now go for, what have we lost? If we've lost out on other players trying to jerk off Mendes, sure we shouldn't have bothered, but if we haven't then it's absolutely right to try if it's the player that's the best fit imo.

As it stands the only difference between telling Ange no from the start and potentially having an issue there, and where we find ourselves now, is a few griping Tottenham fans blaming Daniel Levy (even though we've been advised that it's nothing to do with him), and that's just the history of the Tottenham.
I just think that if a manager identifies a Mendes player we say 'find an alternative'.

His players aren't unique
 

GlennHuddlestone

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Cannot see us stumping up what it would take to get Raphinha in wages and transfer fee, he’s 28 in December.

Although that could be the more complicated one alluded too.

Neco Williams seems more likely than him. Especially with athletic refusing to do a deal with Barca
 

jackson

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Reading this helps…


But then you have to ask yourself why are we spending the summer pursing in the first place?

No matter his injury record, we/Ange wanted him, its' a fuck up as we didn't agree a fee with the club in order to stand a chance of signing him, we were still cycling through creative variations to get near the fee.

Maybe a player chooses to go to a club prepared to pay what's asked as they're showing they really want him rather than hope we eventually make an acceptable bid? Works both ways.
 

McFlash

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Only silver lining is we weren’t strung along so late that we’d be scrambling for an alternative and most likely ending up with crap. Yes it’s relatively late but there still time to get a good player
We've now had itk from two separate sources (@Hercules and Prof from COYS) saying we're already quite far along with at least one mystery name.

So it seems as though we may have actually learnt from previous Mendes dealings and not put all our eggs into one net(o).
 
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