Player Watch: Pierre-Emile Højbjerg

[FibreOpticJesus]

Why the hell would the club let a player of PEH’s ability go for £20m. He has got to be worth £35-40m in this market. I hope a big #### off has been texted to Madrid.

 

[spursfan77]

He’s on £5m a year and this is the last window we can realistically get a decent fee for him. Whilst I think he is worth more than €25 million, that could easily be €15 million in 12 months time. Take it now it’s late in the window and move on.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

Why the hell would the club let a player of PEH’s ability go for £20m. He has got to be worth £35-40m in this market. I hope a big #### off has been texted to Madrid.

he has 2 year left in his contract, if we don't sell him this year his value will further depreciate

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Why the hell would the club let a player of PEH’s ability go for £20m. He has got to be worth £35-40m in this market. I hope a big #### off has been texted to Madrid.

Tbh I think they would probably be willing to pay more they just don’t have the money until Felix goes. Also worth noting PEH only has two years left on his contract so whatever his price is now it will be a good bit less next summer assuming we don’t extend his contract.

 

[yido_number1]

Why the hell would the club let a player of PEH’s ability go for £20m. He has got to be worth £35-40m in this market. I hope a big #### off has been texted to Madrid.

Because that's all he's worth. He doesn't excel at anything, is getting older and only has 2 years left.

We should just be moving these out.

Add his wages to Kane's, Lucas Moura and Winks and we're covering what has come in. Lloris nearly gone will be another big one and then it's progress

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

he has 2 year left in his contract, if we don't sell him this year his value will further depreciate

Tbh I think they would probably be willing to pay more they just don’t have the money until Felix goes. Also worth noting PEH only has two years left on his contract so whatever his price is now it will be a good bit less next summer assuming we don’t extend his contract.

Exactly 2 years. Player is in his prime. Danish first teamer. It’s a giveaway price. What will he cost to replace? Are we going to do the same with our other players on 2 years left on their contract? Just doesn’t make commercial sense to me.

 

[coy-spurs1882]

Exactly 2 years. Player is in his prime. Danish first teamer. It’s a giveaway price. What will he cost to replace? Are we going to do the same with our other players on 2 years left on their contract? Just doesn’t make commercial sense to me.

yes if they are not in the long-term plans of our manager, otherwise we should offer them new contracts

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

Because that's all he's worth. He doesn't excel at anything, is getting older and only has 2 years left.

We should just be moving these out.

Add his wages to Kane's, Lucas Moura and Winks and we're covering what has come in. Lloris nearly gone will be another big one and then it's progress

Don’t agree with your view on PEH. However, he is not on a big wage and our squad will be weaker without him. There at least six players that need to be shifted before him.

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

yes if they are not in the long-term plans of our manager, otherwise we should offer them new contracts

So we sell them all off cheap then

 

[coy-spurs1882]

So we sell them all off cheap then

we don't have a choice do we?

 

[Trix]

Exactly 2 years. Player is in his prime. Danish first teamer. It’s a giveaway price. What will he cost to replace? Are we going to do the same with our other players on 2 years left on their contract? Just doesn’t make commercial sense to me.

We can't be picky if we want this rebuild to fully go ahead. He's a good Premier league quality player but certainly not anything special. We either want the players Ange doesn't want out, or we don't. Over pricing fringe players is why we are in the mess that we are, we just need them gone and off the wage bill simple as that.

 

[Trix]

we don't have a choice do we?

No, not if we want them out the door we don't.

 

[carpediem991]

Exactly 2 years. Player is in his prime. Danish first teamer. It’s a giveaway price. What will he cost to replace? Are we going to do the same with our other players on 2 years left on their contract? Just doesn’t make commercial sense to me.

What are our options though? If there are no higher offers we can obviosuly keep him. But its obvious he is like 6th in the pecking order of the midfielders and Bentancur still to join the pack. That won't help his value when he has one year left next year. I agree he should have takers for around 30m, but if not you need to consider 20m.

 

[worcestersauce]

Think it would be in our best interest for him to stay 'till the end of January, with AFCON to keep in mind. Sarr and Biss will both be gone for a while, and who knows what state Bentancur will be in by then (hopefully up to speed).

Also -- you never know how teams needs will shift during a season due to injuries. So, there could be a lot more interest in someone with his skillset in late-January, willing to pay what we think he's worth.

That's quite an expense to cover what will probably be a couple of games.

 

[yido_number1]

Don’t agree with your view on PEH. However, he is not on a big wage and our squad will be weaker without him. There at least six players that need to be shifted before him.

What does he excell at? Pace, strength, technique, shooting, headers? He's an average premier league player and Bissouma this year is showing what we've missed since Hojbjerg joined.

He's not fit to lace many of our previous cm boots. Wanyama, dembele, modric, Carrick, Sandro pre injury, and others all had something relative elite about them. Hojbjergs biggest strength is not getting injured

 

[greavesy461]

I think if he was clearly in our first team and likely to be played regularly we would hold out for more but I think if we can get £20m+ for him and wages off the books we have to do it. Remember we only paid £15m I believe? We do seem to be terrible at selling players - bad relationships with agents maybe?

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

We can't be picky if we want this rebuild to fully go ahead. He's a good Premier league quality player but certainly not anything special. We either want the players Ange doesn't want out, or we don't. Over pricing fringe players is why we are in the mess that we are, we just need them gone and off the wage bill simple as that.

I agree to a certain extent. Not many of us, if any, have an understanding on how much money we have to spend and the £20m might be worth a lot more in value if we got a better player in. I have been there many times in business. My personal view is I would rather keep him than keeping the others who need shifting first. Keeping Ndombele and selling PEH just would not sit well with me.

 

[FibreOpticJesus]

What does he excell at? Pace, strength, technique, shooting, headers? He's an average premier league player and Bissouma this year is showing what we've missed since Hojbjerg joined.

He's not fit to lace many of our previous cm boots. Wanyama, dembele, modric, Carrick, Sandro pre injury, and others all had something relative elite about them. Hojbjergs biggest strength is not getting injured.

I obviously hold him in higher regard than most of you. I never said he was a must stay and would rather keep him more than others. He has always given his all and should not be sold off cheaply whist keeping those who have less to give to this squad.

 

[14/04/91]

I agree to a certain extent. Not many of us, if any, have an understanding on how much money we have to spend and the £20m might be worth a lot more in value if we got a better player in. I have been there many times in business. My personal view is I would rather keep him than keeping the others who need shifting first. Keeping Ndombele and selling PEH just would not sit well with me.

You’ve mentioned £20m a few times but the article, assuming it’s correct, intimates that whilst AM have bid that amount (€25m) they will likely have to increase by at least 20%.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

I agree to a certain extent. Not many of us, if any, have an understanding on how much money we have to spend and the £20m might be worth a lot more in value if we got a better player in. I have been there many times in business. My personal view is I would rather keep him than keeping the others who need shifting first. Keeping Ndombele and selling PEH just would not sit well with me.

Keeping Ndombele shouldn’t even be an option tbh so in that regard I agree 100%.

Re PEH, ultimately he looks like he would be a back up this season and I certainly doubt we will be looking to renew his contract. Whatever he is worth now he will be worth half that after a season spent playing mostly from the bench with one year left. It’s not even about how good a player he is on paper, it’s about how he fits in with what Ange is trying to build.

I honestly have zero dislike of him, but if Ange doesn’t see him fit then it’s pointless keeping him around as a bench player. Ultimately it would be better to sell him now and use the money and his squad place on a player Ange does think fits his system as his price will only be going down.