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Spurs target Caulker transfer as Cardiff look to reduce growing debts

mawspurs

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Caulker was sold to the Welsh club for £9million last summer but the Welsh club are reported to be in debt after Premier League relegation

Read the full article at Daily Mirror
 

slartibartfast

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No brainer for me if they have only paid 2/3rds. Depends what's involved though.
Cardiff are proper in the shit then.
 

Jenko

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Not sure SC would be happy with a squad place though. That's why he left....
 

bat-chain

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I would absolutely hate it if he went to Liverpool and became amazing having been in our youth system, for that reason alone we should sign him.

We hold all the cards if we are still owed money and even if we buy him back and it doesn't work out I'm sure Levy would sell him for a profit again.
 

Gbspurs

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Bring him back. Name some better English defenders his age and it's a short list.
 

spursintheblood

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Never wanted to sell him in the first place. Should have been a loan as he has good potential. True he wanted first team football, but a loan would have made more sense. English, strong classical defender, but will he be fast enough/right for a high defensive line? If it is true that we are going to re-sign him I hope it is not only from a business POV and that he gets a chance to prove himself to Poch.
 

Snuzzy

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Exploit the fact that 50% of anything on top of £8.5m they get for him goes to us.
£10.5m is a fair price - the potential full value of his sale had they stayed up, and would cost any other club £12.5m to match the value to Cardiff.
 

wakefieldyid

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Not sure SC would be happy with a squad place though. That's why he left....
Caulker left because he perceived that AVB didn't rate him highly enough to play him ahead of Vertonghen, Kaboul, and Dawson and that, after one highly successful PL season with Swansea, his career was stalling.
Given our injury problems last season, he'd probably have got 20 PL appearances, even as fourth choice and still have been in contention for a World Cup place!
 

parklane1

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He left because he was not prepered to fight for his place, he has been poor at Cardiff and we should go for better.
 
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Gaz_Gammon

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Hell fucking no.

Slow ponderous and a Dawson Mk2 in the making. Not a high line defender under any circumstances. He was in fact quite shocking in a lot of his games last season.


We mugged Cardiff when we sold him.
 

Gaz_Gammon

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Bring him back. Name some better English defenders his age and it's a short list.


So we should buy the what you consider to be the best English defender rather than the best player available?

Caulker was sold by AVB for all the right reasons. He's slow, poor in position (as seen at Spurs and Cardiff) cannot read the game and is nowhere as good as what we already have.

Never an upgrade and will always be exposed playing the high line which was one of the very reasons AVB got rid.
 

Gbspurs

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So we should buy the what you consider to be the best English defender rather than the best player available?

Caulker was sold by AVB for all the right reasons. He's slow, poor in position (as seen at Spurs and Cardiff) cannot read the game and is nowhere as good as what we already have.

Never an upgrade and will always be exposed playing the high line which was one of the very reasons AVB got rid.

He is incredibly young to be judged so harshly. Got at least 6 years till his peak. The English part was more based around at his value assuming he improves aswell as the importance to have decent squad players that are homegrown.

I can't see any downside to resigning him, even if it's just to loan him back out, although I think he can be decent with the right coaching.
 

vigospur

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We sell him. He plays for a side which concedes 74 goals. He drops out of the England picture. We re-sign him. Probably not.
If we want a wholehearted trier just short of the top level we could keep Dawson.
 

Gaz_Gammon

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He is incredibly young to be judged so harshly. Got at least 6 years till his peak. The English part was more based around at his value assuming he improves aswell as the importance to have decent squad players that are homegrown.

I can't see any downside to resigning him, even if it's just to loan him back out, although I think he can be decent with the right coaching.


He's peaked already, into a slow, lethargic, poor footballer. The nine million transfer was as good as winning the lottery for Levy.

And to suggest that to buy him then loan him is as absurd as the thought of buying him in the first place.
 

Jenko

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Caulker left because he perceived that AVB didn't rate him highly enough to play him ahead of Vertonghen, Kaboul, and Dawson and that, after one highly successful PL season with Swansea, his career was stalling.
Given our injury problems last season, he'd probably have got 20 PL appearances, even as fourth choice and still have been in contention for a World Cup place!

I don't remember him saying that so either you do you're that's your opinion. He didn't rate Dawson as I remember which would have been good for SC.
 

falzo

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His knack for scoring from set pieces is very good and this would give us a new option as we were pretty poor all round on this this season. Very suprised AVB got rid of him in the first place
 
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