My name is Luka
Saturday, June 18, 2011 at 12:22AM I'm probably being fuelled by delusion and denial (and large quantities of rum), but something stinks. Something other than the perspiration soaking my t-shirt.
Either I'm not quite grasping the tactics at hand between the interested parties for Luka Modric aided by the media's onslaught to continuously link him away from White Hart Lane and his football agent or we're knee-jerking because of the completely transparent and hardly ambiguous direct quotes the Daily Mail have shared with us. Which doesn't actually make it a knee-jerk. Just a nightmare.
This (Daily Mail) is a publication that is usually avoided by most of us because of their lack of substance on any given day. But behold, a day after Modric's agent tells the Guardian that there is no attempt to engineer a move and that the player is happy and would not seek to leave unless the club accepted an offer - we are to believe that someone phoned Luka on his boat, and pretty much got the perfect response that the likes of Chelsea and probably Man Utd have been waiting for. That's a massive turnaround of direction from one newspaper to another that is just about passable as a 'newspaper'. Not that I trust football agents.
I guess if you're going to engineer a move, you don't select the more esteemed outlet. If this is playing out as a genuine ploy of forced departure, then someone (guess who) is holding the hand of Luka's agent allowing for a damaging response to the initial rejection of the ridiculous £22M bid.
I can see a hefty penalty payment transferred to the Tottenham Foundation coming up in the near future.
I'm basically conflicted because Luka and his agent have been pretty straight up thus far. We've all been saying how a Berbatov scenario would not be birthed because our little Croatian is simply not of that ilk. But here we are. Naivety on my part?
He wants out. We're not ambitious. We're a stepping stone. He's not asking for a transfer but has made his position unattainable and as a result will push us back into that re-building transitional period that allows the survivors of Sky Sports monopoly to continue to stay that one step ahead. The suggestion from the narrative of the Mail's article is, go and agree a deal and let me go. On paper, it's pretty clear cut because you fancy even the Mail wouldn't print and then credit the person without them not believing it to be true. Would they? Bit naughty if they have.
Although if you re-read the article, it's nothing new - he's said most of it before - until the last couple of quotes. Reading it within the context of how the article is shaped up, it sounds fairly final. But it might not be.
Man, I'm hanging on for dear life.
Regardless of any of the above, it's what happens next. A Harry sound-bite, a Levy statement and a show of strength or perhaps a follow-up from either agent or Luka himself.
He has a lengthy contract and we can only pull a 'Cesc' and keep him hostage here if we remain strong to our word. If the player's heart is not in our Hart then it's a case of tagging him with a price (say £45M) and then it's up to Chelsea to prove how ambitious they are. Although if you're going to leave Spurs, you'd think you'd just wait for our parent club to make a bid first.
For now, I'm embracing my delusions (and polishing off the rum), and will blindly hold the hand of hope as I fall asleep and dream that come September 1st, Luka Modric will still be a Spurs player.
Reader Comments (74)
We shouldnt sell to chelsea end of. they are absolute bastards like west ham - two shit clubs who we couldnt give a fuck about but despite that they are both obsessed by spurs due to their largely racist support.
And this stretches to the cunts in their boardroom who have adopted a policy of never doing business with tottenham - wouldnt sell us bridge, duff or robben and even made things very very difficult to get cudicini on a free.
They also raped us over the frank arnesen affair - chelsea are f*cking scum and these past actions will not go unnoticed by levy and as a result their past actions will cost them any chance of ever getting their scummy hands on luka modric.
He wants to keep living in london? who gives a fuck?? Do not sell to that scum UNLESS drogba is in the deal. otherwise sell this disloyal b'stard anywhere else for 45m.
The only possible way i see it as remotely acceptable to sell to those smug, arrogant, racist cunts is by taking 30m of the russian scum who keeps that virus of a football club afloat and taking drogba n' all.
F*cking chelsea? Really Luka??
we dream, don't we, that players will say i want to stay, this club can achieve everything. we get sucked in every time, and this little lion man modders had me believing, again.
we want to sit him down and tell him chelsea are a souless piss-ant club, but we can't. we have to take it, like we took all the hurt from Waddle to Sol to Berba. take it and move on.
Harry has made it clear to his chairman, sell modric and we may as well all pack up and go home.
Over to you Levy.
Sadly, I think he will go (who knows where at the moment). This whole thing stinks, I agree, but it's like somebody else mentioned - the big players command big pay. How long was Modric going to go on being paid £40,000 a week, when the biggest clubs are offering three times that? I know the romantic in us all would like to believe that footballers aren't in it for the money, but the sad truth here is that they are. Until we can match tthat sort of salary, we're going to have to settle for selling our biggest players every so often. One thing you can be sure of though, is that Levy will get the best deal.
The reports are true. He has spoken to the 'Daily Telegraph' and said 'I WANT TO JOIN CHELSEA'. So that's it, he has said he wants to leave. Therefore it is now up to Levy to ensure he doesn't go to a direct rival. We'll see now what Levy is made of. He made a statement to the fans two weeks ago saying NONE of our top players are leaving this close season as we try and get CL football for the following season and if we are to believe another word out of his mouth, then he will not allow Modric to leave this season. End of. On the other hand, if he sells to Chelski under any circumstances, I won't believe anything he says in the future. This is Levy's big test. Let's see now what his ambitions are for our Football Club.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/statement-by-club-chairman-daniel-levy-180611.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=statement-by-club-chairman-daniel-levy-180611
Love it.
Would take a world record bid for Levy to even look their way.
great work Levy, just what needed to be said.
Just seen Levy's statement on Luka lol.
All is forgiven Daniel over the stratford attempt - i now love levy again lol
'For the avoidance of any doubt....FUCK OF little tiny chelsea'
:)
Hope that statement is also a statement of intent on bringing in some real serious players in summer. If we can't pay the wages though, is it going to happen?
Remind me - was the same said about Berba in June, only to sell start of season?
Mr Levy. I believe you. Good man. Had to be said. Yes Yes Yes Yes.
For my own sanity I am going to ignore all papers etc until the transfer window ends. This all has far too much deja vu as far as I am concerned.
Enjoy your summer, look forward to being back at the Lane in august.
Get in there Levy! F*ck' em! but now go and show how much ambition we really have...and if he still goes at least we'll have what we should have had in the past 2 windows...
F*ck me Luka, whose bullshit about Chelsea have you been listening too? fucking fairytale he's come out with...
Chelsea scum..............words fail me on that god awful club...
I would rather sell Bale. But I guess other people have figured out he is overrated.
The bottom line is that unless Tottenham are playing CL football season in, season out, then there best players will always be linked with other clubs.
If Daniel Levy has put it as unambiguously as this, we've got to believe him. I have never met Modric; is he likely to pull a Berbatov-stunt?
Eruga; Harry has always said Modric is low maintainence, so he should just put his head down and accept that it's not going to happen this season.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/statement-by-club-chairman-daniel-levy-180611.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=statement-by-club-chairman-daniel-levy-180611
Following Levys statement, please HARRY can you keep that big fat Fing mouth of yours closed and do not talk about his worth or anything related to player value, just shut the F### up!!
To this day I cannot believe we are talking about bringing Parker here. He was lamentable against Switzerland and is 30 years old. Surely we have youngsters--clearly less experienced--but who deserve a chance.
As to the Modric saga. I think Levy should request the FA to conduct an inquiry into this. I firmly believe this has been deliberately orchestrated by one or two totally unprincipled clubs. Maybe the FA could work with Sepp Blather to look into it (sic).
hotspurs to put it blunt with regards your request......
Do you think you can stop yourself slipping cock in cunt again :)
Just avoid harry's column in mondays Sun!
:-) suggest you stop making assumptions........i don't read the sun, clearly you do!!
:)
Parker's coming our way for £4m.
(Arry's taking over as presenter of Antiques Roadshow).
Sell Huddlestone (too slow), Palacios (too inaccurate), Jenas (of course), and Bentley (mouth / trousers dichotomy). We'll get two years out of Parker (better than a used Bentley) going up and down, leaving Luka doing the sideways shuffle. It could work. My word is my bond.
Redknapp...........what a shambles of an interview, what a mess, what a joke this has all become!!!!
Its looking good guys.............
Sandro has joined Luka Modric in attempting to secure a move to a club that will play in next season's competition and is under active consideration by Real Madrid.