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Spurs ready to double Eriksen's wages and offer him new £200,000-a-week deal

buckley

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This situation with Eriksen I believe that it is very unlikely to occur with the likes of Kane / KWP /Winks / as they have the club in their heart and in my opinion are unlikely to sour there legacy with such a stance........ I hope .
 

Metalhead

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I get that but you have to ask yourself why he didnt sign them surely?
If they were wonderful why wouldnt he?
Money talks. Anyone who says otherwise is kidding themselves.
I think that it's also ambition to win silverware. Of course money is important but players also want something to show for their careers.
 

Shadydan

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Eriksen ain't signing. Whilst we could get more money if he did, we paid peanuts for him.

If I was Eriksen, I'd be running that contract down so I can pick what team I want to join on a free transfer cos you can guarantee all the top teams will be talking to him. Giving him a £20m signing on fee and £200k per week.

Yep, this is exactly what I would do and I believe that what he intends to do, I think we need to get used to the idea that he's not signing a new contract and this is his last season with us which is fair enough.

Erisken will have the power in his hands come next summer, he'll have a number of suitors as he'll become a free agent and he can demand what he wants and get a massive signing on fee as well, chances are that Barca and Real will be looking at him next summer because of that (who wouldn't want to sign a free player of his quality)

Poch's job is to get his head right and focused for the season and TBH I don't think he'll have much trouble doing that, it's Eriksen's best interests to get his head down because he needs to attract potential suitors and he'll want to be fit for Denmark for the Euro's so he needs to play and play well.

We are of course going to miss him either way but the club need to prepare for his departure either way, whether that's identifying a player who directly replaces him or identifying the player who has the x factor.
 

Sir Henry

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His 'putting himself in the shop window' performance against Villa is what we should have been seeing week in week out. Turning it on when he wants to, or wants a move is not good for the club. Move him on and get someone in who will give 100% week in week out.
 

Metalhead

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Bit tenuous I appreciate but I guess that as he is unlikely to sign a new contract then the club will save themselves the difference in wages and hopefully that can be put to good use next summer.
 

Japhet

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The whole wages issue is a bit of a red herring anyway. We can't possibly offer what other clubs would on a Bosman without destroying our wage structure. Eriksen can't be on more money than Kane (or probably Dele, Son). The Juve model of picking up good players on Bosmans but having to entice them with gargantuan wages isn't, IMO, something we should be trying to compete with. Our only chance of keeping Eriksen is to convince him that we can start winning stuff. We have 6 months to do that.
 

Shadydan

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The whole wages issue is a bit of a red herring anyway. We can't possibly offer what other clubs would on a Bosman without destroying our wage structure. Eriksen can't be on more money than Kane (or probably Dele, Son). The Juve model of picking up good players on Bosmans but having to entice them with gargantuan wages isn't, IMO, something we should be trying to compete with. Our only chance of keeping Eriksen is to convince him that we can start winning stuff. We have 6 months to do that.

Don't think he cares either way, from what I've continually heard/read he wants to go to Spain and play fo either of the big two, it's a lifestyle choice and something he already had planned out in his head at the beginning of his career.
 

shelfmonkey

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Don't think he cares either way, from what I've continually heard/read he wants to go to Spain and play fo either of the big two, it's a lifestyle choice and something he already had planned out in his head at the beginning of his career.

Always thought we were a stepping stone for him.
 

Jamturk

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If he leaves on a free, we will have to sell players with 2 years left on their contract as a deadline.
 

Japhet

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If he leaves on a free, we will have to sell players with 2 years left on their contract as a deadline.

If it's a trend that continues to gather pace, we should have a fair choice of decent player to bring in as free agents ourselves. Players seem to be taking the initiative and ensuring that they get a bigger piece of the cake, rather than clubs splashing hundreds of millions around amongst each other.
 

Sir Henry

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If it's a trend that continues to gather pace, we should have a fair choice of decent player to bring in as free agents ourselves. Players seem to be taking the initiative and ensuring that they get a bigger piece of the cake, rather than clubs splashing hundreds of millions around amongst each other.

I dont think even if they are free we would pay the wages. I mean would you pay 400k for Ramsey ? I'd struggle to pay 40k for him.
 

Japhet

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I dont think even if they are free we would pay the wages. I mean would you pay 400k for Ramsey ? I'd struggle to pay 40k for him.

I think the market for free transfers will probably get a lot bigger in the near future as players see the financial rewards some are getting. It will then become subject to market forces and the supply will start keeping up with demand as players cotton on. This will then drive the wages back down. As you say, Ramsey on 400k or whatever, is ludicrous, but when you get a player for no transfer fee it's an option. I don't know how well it goes down with other players in the Juve squad though, and it's always seemed like we are very wary of keeping wages tightly in line and very much dictated by seniority. It seems we dare not venture outside of our concrete pay structure, for better or worse.
 

buckley

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If Eriksen does go on a Bosman that is his choice and within the rules but what I have a problem with is Juventus who seemingly have a record of tapping up players to leave their parent club on a Bosman . This allows them to pay a large signing on fee and wages .
The overriding ploy is to get around FFP as lets say player (A) market value £100mil but is out of contract I.E. on a Bosman you can give him lets say £40mil signing on fee and pay the going rate for wages thus saving £60mil on transfer fees and they have got this ploy down to a fine art . It is still cheating FFP and a way to help circumvent FFP. Some might say "very clever or well played " and all this shenanigans by a club that can afford to pay exorbitant transfer fees wages but chooses to do the dirty on opponents .
So if Eriksen goes on a Bosman I am fine with that as that is the rules but if it transpires he has been tapped up like the Juventus model than I would be very unhappy but somehow Eriksen comes across as a man with integrity and would not get involved in such a ploy but you never know as money talks.
 

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The whole wages issue is a bit of a red herring anyway. We can't possibly offer what other clubs would on a Bosman without destroying our wage structure. Eriksen can't be on more money than Kane (or probably Dele, Son). The Juve model of picking up good players on Bosmans but having to entice them with gargantuan wages isn't, IMO, something we should be trying to compete with. Our only chance of keeping Eriksen is to convince him that we can start winning stuff. We have 6 months to do that.
I think there is a red herring also in looking at the wage amount in isolation, when for a club like Juventus it's a method of giving a massive signing on fee to a free agent but paid in monthly/weekly instalments over the course of the contract rather than an up-front golden handshake. For the optics of Spurs not wanting to look like they're smashing our wage structure, it would look better to pay the big signing on fee up front and then pay a weekly wage in line with our structure.

How much would it cost to buy a player to replace someone like Eriksen, or to put it another way what is Eriksen's transfer value (if he was signed up to a long contract)? 100M say? So if we really want to keep him, then why not offer a new contract for 200k pw plus a huge up front signing bonus? It's cheaper than having to buy another player worth 100M from somewhere else to replace him.
 

Shadydan

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If Eriksen does go on a Bosman that is his choice and within the rules but what I have a problem with is Juventus who seemingly have a record of tapping up players to leave their parent club on a Bosman . This allows them to pay a large signing on fee and wages .
The overriding ploy is to get around FFP as lets say player (A) market value £100mil but is out of contract I.E. on a Bosman you can give him lets say £40mil signing on fee and pay the going rate for wages thus saving £60mil on transfer fees and they have got this ploy down to a fine art . It is still cheating FFP and a way to help circumvent FFP. Some might say "very clever or well played " and all this shenanigans by a club that can afford to pay exorbitant transfer fees wages but chooses to do the dirty on opponents .
So if Eriksen goes on a Bosman I am fine with that as that is the rules but if it transpires he has been tapped up like the Juventus model than I would be very unhappy but somehow Eriksen comes across as a man with integrity and would not get involved in such a ploy but you never know as money talks.

On the other hand Eriksen has chosen to not extend his contract meaning that he's still on around £75k a week, if he had signed up then he'd probably be earning what Kane earns now so I don't think it's all about money with him, that's not being greedy , that's being sensible. I'd rather he do that then sign a contract worth big money then throw his toys out the pram a year later and demand a move like Zaha, Mahrez or Arnautovic. He's actually saved us millions in not signing up, obviously we would have got more if he left this summer but nonetheless this situation doesn't reflect badly of him IMO.
 

Japhet

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On the other hand Eriksen has chosen to not extend his contract meaning that he's still on around £75k a week, if he had signed up then he'd probably be earning what Kane earns now so I don't think it's all about money with him, that's not being greedy , that's being sensible. I'd rather he do that then sign a contract worth big money then throw his toys out the pram a year later and demand a move like Zaha, Mahrez or Arnautovic. He's actually saved us millions in not signing up, obviously we would have got more if he left this summer but nonetheless this situation doesn't reflect badly of him IMO.

There's also the possibility that once he becomes a free agent, we might actually offer him the best deal available to him. It's sensible for him to wait, see if RM really do have any interest in him, check out any other deals that may be available, and then make his choice. That choice could easily be us, whereas by signing a new deal now, all of those choices disappear in a puff of smoke. In the meantime, he's not drawing anywhere near the wages he'd get elsewhere so he's not having us over at all. He's been incredible value for 11m or whatever we paid.
 
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