Tottenham plot transfers of Adebayor and Soldado and eye Lukaku

[mawspurs]

New boss Pochettino wants sales of last season's top scorer and £26m Spanish flop to help fund a move for Chelsea's young Belgian striker

Read the full article at Daily Mirror

 

[Jamturk]

It doesn't add up for me.

Both Ade and Soldado are better players than Lukaku by a mile.

 

[UbeAstard]

Paper filling again, after the other week when they said Pochettino wants to build around Adebayor. Ignore it all untill quotes are seen.

 

[RogerTCB]

Paper filling again, after the other week when they said Pochettino wants to build around Adebayor. Ignore it all untill quotes are seen.

...and isn't 'Paper filling' such a nice euphamism for lying to us in order to get paid?

 

[noiseboy55]

It doesn't add up for me.

Both Ade and Soldado are better players than Lukaku by a mile.

 

[Jenko]

Ade won't get better wages anywhere else, which is why it would be impossible to shift him if Poch wanted to.

 

[DreadySpur]

Ade won't get better wages anywhere else, which is why it would be impossible to shift him if Poch wanted to.

Doesn't Ade lose the 50% of his weekly wage that Man City had been contributing this summer?

Anyway I would be surprised if we were to shift on 2 strikers and only replace them with one.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Doesn't Ade lose the 50% of his weekly wage that Man City had been contributing this summer?

Anyway I would be surprised if we were to shift on 2 strikers and only replace them with one.

Yes, he does lose it, his wages are about to be cut in half, I'm not sure how people continue to ignore this.

The biggest indicator that this story is bullshit is that they say we'll be going after Lukaku. There hasn't been a player transfered between Chelsea and Spurs in either direction since they tapped up Arnesen, Levy and Abramovich don't deal together and I'd suggest that there won't be any transfer between the clubs until one or both of the chairmen moves on..

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Both Ade and Soldado are better players than Lukaku by a mile.

At the very least, that's hyperbole. Adebayor and Lukaku at least perform similar roles - Soldado is a different kind of striker entirely. The only thing all three have in common is the ability to hold the ball up.

You don't see Lukaku dropping back to help in midfield or on the wing, the way Adebayor does as an intrinsic part of his game. You don't see Soldado using his size and strength to occupy defenders in the box to make space for a strike-partner or a runner from midfield, which Adebayor and Lukaku both do well.

They're all very good established international strikers and none of them is 'a mile' better than the others. They just do different things well. What we need Soldado to do better is to score goals. What we need from Adebayor is consistency and confidence. What we would need from Lukaku is continuing improvement, because he's at the beginning of his career and the other two are probably just about to start their respective declines.

The especially-unlikely aspect to this [probably invented] story is that, if we were to sell two first-team strikers to buy one, we'd have to find a third of a similar calibre (and I'm assuming that Kane will be in next season's first team) and I doubt that we're planning that magnitude of major expenditure on the strike force this summer - if we prioritise any positions, they're more likely to be a left back and/or central defender.

 

[millsey]

Bony Adebayor and Kane will do for me, sure we can sell Soldado for the 19 mill Swansea want for Bony Is a no brainer

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

I have watched him closely over the past two seasons at WBA and Everton. There are few better outside of what Man Citeh and Liverpool have at the moment and Lukaku is better by far than anything Chel$ea had last season. I'd break the bank to get him or Bony.

Lukaku is stronger in my opinion and better suited to the PL. He has scored something like thirty five goals over the past two seasons, something we could really do with from a single striker next season.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Bony Adebayor and Kane will do for me, sure we can sell Soldado for the 19 mill Swansea want for Bony Is a no brainer

Not for me. We'll be screwed when the ACN comes around. We need to be smart about these things and can't leave ourselves in a situation where we are left with just Kane for a month.

I would condone Soldado and Adebayor out for Bony + a.n.other of European descent, but I'd be just as happy for us to remain as we are, buy nobody and sell nobody.

 

[CrazyHeart]

Soldado's gotta stay - if he was in the Spain squad, they would've advanced - no question!

 

[only1waddle]

Soldado's gotta stay - if he was in the Spain squad, they would've advanced - no question!

I very much doubt Soldado would have changed Spain's fortunes.

 

[Riandor]

I very much doubt Soldado would have changed Spain's fortunes.

But I think that's more to do with Spain having no idea how to play with a striker, rather than who the striker is.

Anyway, I would not sell both to fund Lukaku, who hasn't the best first touch and disappears in games quite frequently. Most Everton fans I know were not majorly enthusiastic about him. Good, but not 32m good!

 

[CrazyHeart]

I very much doubt Soldado would have changed Spain's fortunes.

I know, I was just being optimistic...

 

[SpurSince57]

Suffering fantasy withdrawal symptoms now Game of Thrones has finished? Chill out! Gary Jacobs is still here!

And according to this Telegraph report from 2012, the subsidised wages story is just that:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...or-from-Manchester-City-in-deal-worth-9m.html

 

[chinaman]

No chance of off-loading Ade and Solly. No one will pay the wages of Ade and Solly is worth maybe only half of what we paid , and Levy won't take such a loss. Look what happened with Bentley.