Roberto Soldado

[Misfit]

Well now, if Soldado is unhappy, it would make things easier for everyone (maybe not his or his agent's bank account) to conclude this deal quickly with a TR. Valencia can say, our hands were tied, Soldado and Spurs are the villains of the piece. Poor us, sniffle.

 

[Jamturk]

Cobra:

Soldado apparently not happy. This is the second time that he has agreed terms with us and he wants to leave

Not happy with whom?

Us or Valencia?

 

[allatsea]

Well now, if Soldado is unhappy, it would make things easier for everyone (maybe not his or his agent's bank account) to conclude this deal quickly with a TR. Valencia can say, our hands were tied, Soldado and Spurs are the villains of the piece. Poor us, sniffle.

Can't see him giving up his Valencia 'loyalty bonus' unless we pay it as an addition to his wages/signing on fee

 

[Lilbaz]

Well now, if Soldado is unhappy, it would make things easier for everyone (maybe not his or his agent's bank account) to conclude this deal quickly with a TR. Valencia can say, our hands were tied, Soldado and Spurs are the villains of the piece. Poor us, sniffle.

Do they have transfer requests in spain? Thought the buyout clause covered that.

 

[TheGreenLily]

Read it again, it clearly points to him having the hump with Valencia

He wants to leave comment, I guess?

 

[cjsimba]

What did I do?!

U made Mattyspurs very very upset, thats what you did. Now go to your room!

 

[Misfit]

Can't see him giving up his Valencia 'loyalty bonus' unless we pay it as an addition to his wages/signing on fee

Which we might very well find a way to do...

 

[muppetman]

50 pages since I looked at this last night!

 

[Spurs Lodge Kittens]

I don't think Soldado would want to leave on those terms. He's their last remaining hero after the departures of Mata, Silva and Villa - he might just simply need to have a 'heart-to-heart' with the president, rather than demanding he's allowed to leave.

By the way - the earlier suggestion that the board has asked the Valencia to 'reconsider' our offer. Is that to mean they want the bid accepted, or want the president to hold on to him?

 

[Misfit]

Do they have transfer requests in spain? Thought the buyout clause covered that.

Well fine, if you're going to bring in facts and stuff.

Gaw!

 

[Cavehillspur]

Not happy with whom?

Us or Valencia?

Valencia.

 

[easley91]

I assume he is unhappy with them, seeing as we have agreed terms with him twice fairly easily (it would seem).

 

[Misfit]

I don't think Soldado would want to leave on those terms. He's their last remaining hero after the departures of Mata, Silva and Villa - he might just simply need to have a 'heart-to-heart' with the president, rather than demanding he's allowed to leave.

By the way - the earlier suggestion that the board has asked the Valencia to 'reconsider' our offer. Is that to mean they want the bid accepted, or want the president to hold on to him?

The way I understood it, they wanted the chairman to look at our offer again and not dismiss it out of hand.

 

[only1waddle]

Can't see him giving up his Valencia 'loyalty bonus' unless we pay it as an addition to his wages/signing on fee

Which we might very well find a way to do...

Nectar points to use at the new Sainsbury

 

[dk-yid]

Well now, if Soldado is unhappy, it would make things easier for everyone (maybe not his or his agent's bank account) to conclude this deal quickly with a TR. Valencia can say, our hands were tied, Soldado and Spurs are the villains of the piece. Poor us, sniffle.

I thought Liverpool had that patented ...

 

[dagraham]

Well now, if Soldado is unhappy, it would make things easier for everyone (maybe not his or his agent's bank account) to conclude this deal quickly with a TR. Valencia can say, our hands were tied, Soldado and Spurs are the villains of the piece. Poor us, sniffle.

I hope so. I have the horrible feeling though that Levy will just believe he has additional leverage, making him more umwilling to come to a compromise and instead play the waiting game.

 

[playboypaul]

its 30m euros, about 25m pounds. The amount we were about to bid for Benteke. Soldado is worth that, Benteke not

30m for Soldado is madness imo.

?

 

[C0YS]

I'd say 50/50

I dated to say he hasn't done anything that another chairman couldn't do earlier. Some one sails who else has done what he has.

Man United.
Arsenal.

Neither of them were run by billionaires. They were/are run by proper business men. They have both built/increased their stadiums. They have both had sustained periods of success. They are constantly in the top 4/winning titles.
They have little problem (usually) signing world class players and they recognise that to be winners you have to push the boat out. Neither side won anything without world beaters in their squad.
Arsenal have been sleeping for a number of years because they actually built their stadium rather than pontificating about it for overt a decade. Now their finances are balanced they are in a good position.

In all this time what have we done? Yes we're better than we were.
But the fact is we've still only won a couple of league cups in the last 22 years. We're still a long way off a league title push. And we're in spurs danger of being left behind soon.


So no. Levy hasn't got it right 95% of the time.

Man utd is in massive debt and has more than twice the income we do. Arsenal again has a considerably larger amount of money we do, and many fans there are frustrated by percieved failures in the transfer market. We shouldn't even be close to these teams, on fact financially we are behind liverpool and only spend fractionally more than Aston Villa (although villa are terribly run, particularly in what they pay in wages.

 

[playboypaul]

Could one of our Spanish speaking contingent have a scoot over to a Valencia forum and see what gives pls? Hopefully they have some ITK's as well.

 

[easley91]

I thought Liverpool had that patented ...

Liverpool will somehow have already agreed a fee with Valencia, yet Soldado wanted to come here. So those two cubs will be the victims, while we're riding high in the top 4 not giving a f***..