Player Watch Player Watch: Pedro Porro

[robertgoulet]

So what's the source ?

"It was revealed to me in a dream"

Apparently the same Portuguese TV that broke Vinicius to us.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Tottenham paga cláusula de Porro: saída do ala direito iminente

Promessa dos ingleses ao Sporting, com quem vão reunir hoje para fechar negócio de 45 milhões

www.record.pt

Tottenham pay Porro clause: departure of right winger imminent​

Promise of the English to Sporting, with whom they will meet today to close a 45 million deal​

rest is behind a paywall but Record is the reliable Sporting paper if I'm not mistaken

Would be brilliant if so but if so then why didn’t we just meet it weeks ago ? yes I get the trying to negotiate but if they were adamant then we’ve just wasted weeks as usual.

Anyways if we can get him he’d make a huge difference so fingers crossed.

 

[Jules77]

Bit of a difference nicking a star player from the clutches of PSG compared to shafting Everton for an out of favour loanee. Although our little Gordon gekko probably disagrees.

Also would have some implications for our budding QSI ‘relationship’.

 

[Jules77]

Would be brilliant if so but if so then why didn’t we just meet it weeks ago ? yes I get the trying to negotiate but if they were adamant then we’ve just wasted weeks as usual.

Anyways if we can get him he’d make a huge difference so fingers crossed.

We had to try to negotiate, surely? We may have always been prepared to pay the release, but we’d always work up to it and see if they’d bite on something less.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

We had to try to negotiate, surely? We may have always been prepared to pay the release, but we’d always work up to it and see if they’d bite on something less.

I just think there are times and places to negotiate and when a club have a reasonable release clause set for a very very specialist player that we are desperately in need of then instead of spending weeks negotiating and potentially losing the deal just go and pay the release clause straight away and get it done.

Now I’m not saying take that approach every time but in certain situations like this one I think it would’ve been a better approach and it’s not like we don’t have any money anyways, we can easily afford this one.

 

[Jules77]

I just think there are times and places to negotiate and when a club have a reasonable release clause set for a very very specialist player that we are desperately in need of then instead of spending weeks negotiating and potentially losing the deal just go and pay the release clause straight away and get it done.

Now I’m not saying take that approach every time but in certain situations like this one I think it would’ve been a better approach and it’s not like we don’t have any money anyways, we can easily afford this one.

It’s not an unreasonable position. But I think we’d always negotiate.
We may well have agreed early on price, but almost every deal nowadays is paid over time and that’s certainly how we structure deals (even more so with now having the first year as a loan with a lot of moves). Release clauses tend to be all upfront cash. So that is the part we may have been negotiating on?
It could have very significant knock on effects, paying $45m now on one player vs $45m now on three signings that we’re paying off at $15m/year. Worth a few weeks of talking in the grand scheme of things.

 

[Hotspur88]

Barring a disaster, we are now extremely close ??

I've said it all along, but the club are very confident ??

 

[Russ1201]

Barring a disaster, we are now extremely close ??

I've said it all along, but the club are very confident ??

Brilliant news to start hump day.
Many thanks for passing info on.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

not optimistic with this deal at all, you all know this club is the expert of failure and will always fuck up

 

[Pochemon94]

not optimistic with this deal at all, you all know this club is the expert of failure and will always fuck up

honestly im just waiting for man city to just buy him for 19 mil and screw us once we agree everything

 

[thelak]

Brilliant news to start hump day.
Many thanks for passing info on.

Don’t get too excited

He said “barring a disaster”

At Spurs that puts it 50:50 at best!

 

[mattspur1986]

Barring a disaster, we are now extremely close ??

I've said it all along, but the club are very confident ??

*daniel levy enters* “what’s up bitches”

 

[Russ1201]

Don’t get too excited

He said “barring a disaster”

At Spurs that puts it 50:50 at best!

True I always fall into Levy's trap ever year fs!

 

[spursfan77]

great.

 

[Russ1201]

Brilliant news to start hump day.
Many thanks for passing info on.

@jondy1 you disagree you not want him?

 

[EastUpperDK82]

Patience ??? ?‍?‍???

 

[double0]

Suppose we get Porro, we have wasted so much time, most probably damaged our negotiations reputation. Levy though will obviously see things differently. Levy needs to change or sell.

 

[Dannyspur]

Another problem with negotiating right up to the deadline is that eventually (even if you offer the full amount) it leaves the selling club no time to spend the money on a replacement.

 

[Tyler24durden]

Barring a disaster, we are now extremely close ??

I've said it all along, but the club are very confident ??

Be nice to get this over the line and then spend £20m on skriniar who inter want to sell this month.

danjuma, Porro and skriniar would be a good January as 2 x first team players.

 

[carpediem991]

Another problem with negotiating right up to the deadline is that eventually (even if you offer the full amount) it leaves the selling club no time to spend the money on a replacement.

I think usually they prepare something were they can just pull the trigger.