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dimiSpur

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What is strange is that a meeting doesn't sort out the fact that Eriksen & co are in the contractual situation they are in. So something was said, or done, or happened which has changed Poch's mood. There has been some development which has lifted his mood. I enjoyed his honesty in that post match interview. He explained that he's been agitated and he's not a clown, who can smile for the sake of it. He was upset and could not hide it.

The questions are what was he upset about in the first place (which can be easily deduced as we all had the same grievances) and more importantly, what has been said or done that's made him happy again?

One would assume, at the very least, that we will enjoy Eriksen for another season at least.
 

Stamford

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Interesting how he wanted certainty the day after the CL final. According to him, if we’d won he may not have even been here! Good to see him positive again though.

Yeah. Conveniently forgotten
 

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Glad to have Eriksen and Jan back in the team, hopefully this was not because we met Arsenal and against Palace they're back at the bench again. I hope that it was a vote of confidence that we're keeping both

Poch all smiles at the press conference was also good to see
 
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EastLondonYid

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You seem to be ignoring the player in all this. What if the player won’t agree to a transfer ?

Yes i get that, but if you listen carefully to Pochs comments yesterday, the issues seem to be about strategy not players not moving.
Levy and Poch seem to have sorted out whatever was bothering Poch, and it can only be DL accepting we must not allow contracts to run down.
 

dimiSpur

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Yes i get that, but if you listen carefully to Pochs comments yesterday, the issues seem to be about strategy not players not moving.
Levy and Poch seem to have sorted out whatever was bothering Poch, and it can only be DL accepting we must not allow contracts to run down.
It's unlikely that his mood changed that dramatically with Levy just saying "don't worry I won't do it again".

Something more substantial has happened. I would assume, Eriksen is staying and that's been ironed out. He was mentioning things like it's hard not knowing the squad we'll have this season.

Perhaps with only a year left and us waiting to see if Real Madrid will come in for Eriksen, we were in limbo as to whether we'd have him come September 3rd. I assume that's what he was referring to and I assume the club has explained Eriksen isn't going anywhere, at least for now.
 

Trotter

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People say what was Levy supposed to do, but then conveniently forget what Eriksen's agent says.

"Last season there were 3 clubs, 2 English and 1 foreign that were interested in paying huge amounts to Spurs for Christian. For the club it was a no-go area, and for Christian not a must have"

This does not reconcile with the "there was nothing Levy could do" narrative.
 

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Reading into it he's issue with levy I believe is allowing the club to be in the position of players running down their contracts and basically having us by the balls.

None of the below is aimed at EastLondonYid, just an opinion re Poch's issues.
But what can Levy do?
The players know they are the best in their position at t he club.
They know they will get a massive signing on fee and a better wage.
They also are all multi millionaires now, so an career ending injury is not really a problem.
Poch and Levy (plus all other managers/chairmen) cannot send players where they do not want to go.
This really is the changing way of the game, Poch (plus the others) have to adapt.
Players will stay if paid vast amounts of money and/or the club are winning things on a regular basis.
It is a job to them, we continue stagnating and winning nothing and i believe Kane will start looking around.
 

Ronwol196061

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I think Levy did the right thing. He bought NDombele and had his finger in the Lo Celso/Bruno Fernandes/Dybala pie awaiting the decision from Eriksen.When he saw Eriksen wasn't signing for us or anyone else and the Dybala situation was futile he bought Lo Celso. That coupled with NDombele etc was the best he could do at the time. I think he will strengthen again after Eriksen leaves.Its not perfect but I think it was all he could do.
Poch can react or whatever,we don't know what he really wanted but nothing was easy

Re Pochs Press Conferences he just seems to react this way or that way. He is hard to figure out what he expects and he seems to change his mood frequently without really explaining it so we understand the way he thinks.
 

Shadydan

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People say what was Levy supposed to do, but then conveniently forget what Eriksen's agent says.

"Last season there were 3 clubs, 2 English and 1 foreign that were interested in paying huge amounts to Spurs for Christian. For the club it was a no-go area, and for Christian not a must have"

This does not reconcile with the "there was nothing Levy could do" narrative

I don't understand why that makes a difference really..

If we sold Eriksen last year then we would have had to got a replacement, it's not obvious that Poch would have been happy with that scenario and again would Eriken want to have left? It's all well and good getting offers but need to be for the good of the club and the player.

I find it hard to be critical of the way we deal with player contracts especially since we've always been proactive and managed to tie players down to long term contracts. All of a sudden since two players are going rogue the club do bad business in terms of contracts? nah I'm not buying that.
 

Trotter

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I don't understand why that makes a difference really..

If we sold Eriksen last year then we would have had to got a replacement, it's not obvious that Poch would have been happy with that scenario and again would Eriken want to have left? It's all well and good getting offers but need to be for the good of the club and the player.

I find it hard to be critical of the way we deal with player contracts especially since we've always been proactive and managed to tie players down to long term contracts. All of a sudden since two players are going rogue the club do bad business in terms of contracts? nah I'm not buying that.


Well based on the agent's comments, sounds like Eriksen would very much have been interested in going last summer, but wasn't going to kick up a fuss about it.
The club do well on keeping players to long term contracts, however it very much looks like we would not sell a player coming close to end of contract, at a time when we could get very good recompense for him.

So very much looks to me that we took that decision, and one of our best assets will go for nothing, and to me there certainly was something the club could have done about that, if we had wanted to.

Certainly not a case of player going rogue at all.
More a case of club biting off nose to spite its own face, if getting a return for the player was the intention.
 
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Shadydan

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Well based on the agent's comments, sounds like Eriksen would very much have been interested in going last summer.
The club do well on keeping players to long term contracts, but in this case (and others where contacts are not extended), it looks like we would not sell a player coming close to end of contract, at a time when we could get very good recompense for him.

So very much looks to me that we took that decision, and one of our best assets will go for nothing, and to me there certainly was something the club could have done about that, if we had chosen so wanted to.

Certainly not a case of player going rogue at all.
More a case of club biting off nose to spite its own face, if getting a return for the player was the intention.

We offered him a new contract this summer which totally contradicts that, we let him speak to Man Utd during the transfer window. We had every intention of getting money for him and come on as if Levy's gonna let a player walk away for nothing especially an asset like Eriksen.
 

Trotter

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We offered him a new contract this summer which totally contradicts that, we let him speak to Man Utd during the transfer window. We had every intention of getting money for him and come on as if Levy's gonna let a player walk away for nothing especially an asset like Eriksen.

One year too late (and priced him out of a move as quoted £80m, for him),
If we were interested in getting a good return for the player, we needed to do it before we were basically scraping the barrel with the player holding all the cards into his last year.
 

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People say what was Levy supposed to do, but then conveniently forget what Eriksen's agent says.

"Last season there were 3 clubs, 2 English and 1 foreign that were interested in paying huge amounts to Spurs for Christian. For the club it was a no-go area, and for Christian not a must have"

This does not reconcile with the "there was nothing Levy could do" narrative.

We obviously didn't want him staying in the Prem, but the agent seems to have conveniently forgotten that a deal with Barca was on and he f......d it up, as advised by recent ITK.
 

thebenjamin

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And when he didn't sign it that should set off the alarm bells, and "huge" offers that apparently came in should have been entertained, if we wanted to get a return. We didn't entertain, so our fault the situation is as it is now.

But if we'd sold him Levy would've been accused of putting money before the team.
 

he is you know!

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And when he didn't sign it that should set off the alarm bells, and "huge" offers that apparently came in should have been entertained, if we wanted to get a return. We didn't entertain, so our fault the situation is as it is now.

I posted this on august 6 2019:

This should be ITK eventhough it is some time ago. Nearly from the horses mouth.

Evren Sihan and Bayram Tutumlu made a deal for CE to Barcelona for some time ago. Martin Schoots fucked that one up. Levy and Schoots should not get along that well after that.

Pinch of salt and all that
 

Trotter

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But if we'd sold him Levy would've been accused of putting money before the team.

Wishful thinking but even Levy would surely not have sold a player for £100m plus and not adequately replaced him last summer.
We took the risk, and it has backfired on us.
 

thebenjamin

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Wishful thinking but even Levy would surely not have sold a player for £100m plus and not adequately replaced him last summer.
We took the risk, and it has backfired on us.

Maybe they looked at getting a replacement but couldn't find anyone they thought was good enough, so stuck with Eriksen. Or maybe Poch insisted they accept no bids for CE, and Levy didn't want to antagonise the manager. Or maybe, just like this summer, there were no concrete bids for Eriksen. Just clubs tapping him up.

It's really kind of pointless criticising the club for the Eriksen situation as we've offered him big money to stay but we can't force him to sign a deal, can't force him to move, and can't force other clubs to bid for him. Right now we still have the player, which is surely a good thing.
 

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People say what was Levy supposed to do, but then conveniently forget what Eriksen's agent says.

"Last season there were 3 clubs, 2 English and 1 foreign that were interested in paying huge amounts to Spurs for Christian. For the club it was a no-go area, and for Christian not a must have"

This does not reconcile with the "there was nothing Levy could do" narrative.

Yes and no. I guess your implication is that Levy should've sold him back then rather than risk losing him for free now, but the other side of the coin is that if we had sold him then we may have missed out on top 4/CL qualification and we probably wouldn't have got to the CL final, so the cost of those things may have been greater than the cost of not getting a transfer fee for him.

Also can you imagine the meltdown on here if we'd sold Eriksen? "I thought we weren't a selling club any more, nothing has change" etc. etc. It's a bit of a no-win situation for Levy to be honest.
 
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