Player watch: Christian Eriksen

[Ron Burgundy]

Basically saying he’s been made to stay at Spurs against his own will. Real Madrid just don’t want you, mate.

He won’t sign a new contract like he said he might (if no club wanted him) and now he’s going to fuck us over in January.

The club have definitely fucked it in this situation but Eriksen has no right to make out he’s a victim.

Totally agree with this. Or at least Real or Barca don't want to pay any money for him. He would have been available for €50m but there were no noises whatsoever. But now where are we?

With that sort of narrative he isn't signing anything and we'll lose him on a free. The club haven't covered themselves in glory, but it's not like we were screwing him over.

If he'd have had a good season last year he'd have had his pick of any club in Europe.

The least he can do now is have a great season for us

 

[Primativ]

Eriksen has only himself to blame for not moving to Madrid. At the end of the day, if some of us were sitting there watching Spurs games last season thinking Eriksen was playing woefully, I'm sure the Madrid hierarchy were too.

Eriksen is a very good player but he has his flaws, and on top of that he's been in terrible form for at least half a year. Probably even longer. Whilst his output in goals and assists remains consistent, his overall team play in the build up/possession phase in games has been really inadequate.

 

[wirE]

All is forgiven. Let's move on

 

[bat-chain]

He will have a load of offers, even if Real Madrid don’t want him they could sign him on a free then flip him for 40-50m after a year. All big clubs have this option with him.

In the age of FFP that’s gold dust. It is quite sad he doesn’t want to be in 'the project' anymore but he has given us most of his best years.

Hope he has an amazing season in the team every week.

 

[punkisback]

Basically saying he’s been made to stay at Spurs against his own will. Real Madrid just don’t want you, mate.

He won’t sign a new contract like he said he might (if no club wanted him) and now he’s going to fuck us over in January.

The club have definitely fucked it in this situation but Eriksen has no right to make out he’s a victim.

If he plays well and gets us Cl with goals and assists it’s worth 50 mil minimum.

 

[Lilbaz]

He will have a load of offers, even if Real Madrid don’t want him they could sign him on a free then flip him for 40-50m after a year. All big clubs have this option with him.

In the age of FFP that’s gold dust. It is quite sad he doesn’t want to be in 'the project' anymore but he has given us most of his best years.

Hope he has an amazing season in the team every week.

He will demand huge wages. Madrid wouldn't be able to flip him for profit the next year. Look at ozil and sanchez.

 

[Shadydan]

They sign them by making them do that. They dont sign thise who do that with no prompting.

Not every player who has his head turned by Real ends up signing for them and it's not because they've gone missing.

 

[Indisguise]

We've had our value several times over from Eriksen and he hasn't been disrespectful in any way, shape or form. If he wants to move on that's just life. People want different things at different stages of their lives and he's more than earnt the right to choose. If he goes, I'll wish him all the best and thank him for the years he helped to get us into the Champions League and for all those spectacular long range goals and his relentless running. No one should have anything to say to Eriksen other than "thanks mate and the best of luck to you". If his leaving also happens to get us a bit closer to signing Dybala at the same time that would be a magnificent bonus.

 

[danielneeds]

If he plays well and gets us Cl with goals and assists it’s worth 50 mil minimum.

Indeed. And we’ve got to remember we signed him for a pittance because he ran down his contract, we’ve been chronically underpaying him for the last three seasons or so because he’s been running down his contract. Put all that on another top four being secured this summer, and it really isn’t all that much of a financial disaster to lose him for nowt.

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

From 2014 and he is still with us , is the transfer market that bad or does he just love us too much and just can't bear a parting of the ways.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foo...Christian-Eriksen-could-be-set-for-Spurs-exit

 

[bomberH]

Best case scenario is that he signs a new deal and all is good.

Second best is if he has a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with the club, signs a new deal but has a clause where he is allowed to leave if Madrid or Barca etc come in for him next year (at a set price). Henry signed a big new contract with Arsenal after intense speculation he was leaving when his contract was almost up... then he signed for Barca a year later. Most were happy because the club got an extra year from him and a good price.

My preferred option based on the fact it looks pretty obvious he currently still wants to leave, is a swap deal plus cash with Dybala in January. It’d be the best swap since Sanchez and Mikhitaryan.

 

[dimiSpur]

I wouldn't say the club has fucked it, we've tried to tie him down to a new deal and him having refused to sign I suspect we would have sold had a club from abroad come in for him that he agreed to go to. Don't forget we also are supposed to have let him talk to Manchester United but he turned them down as didn't want to go to another club in England.

It's a weird situation as he wants Real Madrid but they just don't want him.

If they did I suspect he'd be there now and we'd have had an additional replacement alongside Lo Celso.

As has also been said will be interesting as Lo Celso gets up to speed as if he does well he'd be in over Eriksen for me (although I'd also be interested to see them in the side together as would be nice to have a couple of really creative intelligent midfielders in there).

I don't think so.

I think that was the reason Poch was so pissed off. That we had almost 3 weeks of Real Madrid flirting with the idea of Eriksen whoring himself to them, yet with our window closed no ability to react had he gone there.

His comments there are a little silly. Not that we aren't comparable in terms of playing staff to Real Madrid, we are, but I don't think he's "good" or "big" enough for Real. He needs to be careful. If he ends up sidelined and does not have a good season, those "big" offers he expects in January may well be a lot lower than he anticipates and a lot lower than the big money we're currently/have been offering.

This is the first time he's pissed me off a little. I can understand wanting to play for Real Madrid and pushing for a move before the window, but talking shit after the window, when you know you're going to be playing for Tottenham for at least another 12 months, shut the fuck up.

 

[danielneeds]

Best case scenario is that he signs a new deal and all is good.

Second best is if he has a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with the club, signs a new deal but has a clause where he is allowed to leave if Madrid or Barca etc come in for him next year (at a set price). Henry signed a big new contract with Arsenal after intense speculation he was leaving when his contract was almost up... then he signed for Barca a year later. Most were happy because the club got an extra year from him and a good price.

My preferred option based on the fact it looks pretty obvious he currently still wants to leave, is a swap deal plus cash with Dybala in January. It’d be the best swap since Sanchez and Mikhitaryan.

Nah. Juve would only go in for him on a free IMO. It’s their MO. They also want to raise funds to sign a physical CF too.

 

[dimiSpur]

From 2014 and he is still with us , is the transfer market that bad or does he just love us too much and just can't bear a parting of the ways.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/foo...Christian-Eriksen-could-be-set-for-Spurs-exit

He isn't part of his bigger plans, that simple. He's wanted a move to Barca or Real since he was a kid. It hasn't happened for him, mainly due to his own below-par performances last season.

So now he has to buckle up his ideas and just have a good season, targetting either a long-term stay at Spurs or that dream move in the summer. Either way, he has to improve on last season.

I don't buy into this "it's the Club's fault" with Eriksen. The club can't win. We sell our best players, we're labelled a selling club. We try to keep them and now we've "fucked it up". No. We have the most astute chairman in world football I'd say, notorious for fucking everyone over. It's a set of circumstances which has led to this result, which I cannot fault Levy for. If a player refuses to sign a new deal and at the same time only wants to go to Real Madrid, who don't want him, what is Levy supposed to do? Especially when we're talking about one of our most infuential players, whom we heavily rely on.

Even if we get only one more season out of him and he leaves on a free in the summer, £11m for the service he's given the club is still good business. Even with no "financial return" on him as a specific asset. As previously mentioned, if his performances this season help us to another CL finish and another £50-60m in the bank, then obviously it's better business than to sell him now for £30m and be fucked over for this season.

 

[Thewobbler]

Did fans really think he would sign a new deal because no one came in for him.

On a free he will be an attractive signing for a lot of big clubs, does not matter if we don't play him as much.

If real Madrid wanted to they could sign eriksen and de gea on frees in jan and save themselves 150m plus in transfer fees.

 

[Havre]

We've had our value several times over from Eriksen and he hasn't been disrespectful in any way, shape or form. If he wants to move on that's just life. People want different things at different stages of their lives and he's more than earnt the right to choose. If he goes, I'll wish him all the best and thank him for the years he helped to get us into the Champions League and for all those spectacular long range goals and his relentless running. No one should have anything to say to Eriksen other than "thanks mate and the best of luck to you". If his leaving also happens to get us a bit closer to signing Dybala at the same time that would be a magnificent bonus.

So then the implication is it is OK for him to leave on a free?

By that logic selling Kane for 10m would be fantastic.

 

[Indisguise]

So then the implication is it is OK for him to leave on a free?

By that logic selling Kane for 10m would be fantastic.

In an ideal world no decent player would leave on a free but it's not an ideal world is it? We paid buttons for Eriksen and have received several times his weight in gold back. There's very little to complain about if he goes on a free.

 

[Timberwolf]

He isn't part of his bigger plans, that simple. He's wanted a move to Barca or Real since he was a kid. It hasn't happened for him, mainly due to his own below-par performances last season.

So now he has to buckle up his ideas and just have a good season, targetting either a long-term stay at Spurs or that dream move in the summer. Either way, he has to improve on last season.

I don't buy into this "it's the Club's fault" with Eriksen. The club can't win. We sell our best players, we're labelled a selling club. We try to keep them and now we've "fucked it up". No. We have the most astute chairman in world football I'd say, notorious for fucking everyone over. It's a set of circumstances which has led to this result, which I cannot fault Levy for. If a player refuses to sign a new deal and at the same time only wants to go to Real Madrid, who don't want him, what is Levy supposed to do? Especially when we're talking about one of our most infuential players, whom we heavily rely on.

Even if we get only one more season out of him and he leaves on a free in the summer, £11m for the service he's given the club is still good business. Even with no "financial return" on him as a specific asset. As previously mentioned, if his performances this season help us to another CL finish and another £50-60m in the bank, then obviously it's better business than to sell him now for £30m and be fucked over for this season.

This. If a player is absolutely determined to run down his contract there's nothing the club can do to stop them. It would be one thing if we'd been complacent and not offered him a lucrative new contract, but we've clearly been trying to tie him down for years. Barring making some absurd Sanchez style contract offer, what else were we meant to do?

Nor does this make Eriksen a bad guy. If he'd been teasing us all summer promising he'd sign a new deal, that's one thing, but given his comments after the CL final I'd say it's crystal clear all along what his intentions were. As fans it's hypocritical to be annoyed at Eriksen for wanting to leave for a bigger club where he can win trophies, when everyone was more than happy to sell Trippier at the first opportunity when he wanted to stay and fight for his place. The same fans then criticise Trippier for explaining his side of the story.

This is just how football works - sometimes you lose a player you want to keep, sometimes you sell a player who wants to stay. Does every player who doesn't do what the fans want have to be labelled a scumbag?

 

[Lilbaz]

This. If a player is absolutely determined to run down his contract there's nothing the club can do to stop them.

Nor does this make Eriksen a bad guy. If he'd been teasing us all summer promising he'd sign a new deal, that's one thing, but given his comments after the CL final I'd say it's crystal clear all along what his intentions were. As fans it's hypocritical to be annoyed at Eriksen for wanting to leave for a bigger club where he can win trophies, when everyone was more than happy to sell Trippier at the first opportunity when he wanted to stay and fight for his place. The same fans then criticise Trippier for explaining his side of the story.

This is just how football works - sometimes you lose a player you want to keep, sometimes you sell a player who wants to stay. Does every player who doesn't do what the fans want have to be labelled a scumbag?

Some fans actually think of players like they're in some sort of relationship with them. When they leave they feel like they have been dumped, feeling rejected and get angry.
They have no trouble dumping the player for something better though.

 

[fortworthspur]

we have him for another season. people should be happy.