Saturday
Jul162011
Sky Sports understand that they understand something about understanding
Saturday, July 16, 2011 at 7:45AM "Modric is currently with Spurs on their pre-season tour of South Africa, but we at Sky Sports News are desperate for him to make the move to West London"
Read the breaking news here. It's yesterday's news today. Tomorrow, Sky confirm Luka is human and lives on planet earth with other humans.
£30M Chelsea bid expected. Like adding £3M onto the last bid is going to make a blind bit of a difference to anything. The ankle injury is also part of the deception. Right? Waiting for Sky to confirm. Exciting times.
Dig in, Levy. We shall not be moved.
Reader Comments (41)
Anyone think the paltry offers are related to FFPR?
Can we make a official compliant against Chlesea for harassing the club after we had officially stated that Modric is not for sale ? That is unless there is something under the water between the 2 clubs that we don't know . Such as the rumored negotiation tactics by Levy ? I certainly hope not . The credibility of the club is at stake . Our stance is uncomfortably similar to the Downing transfer; Villa categorically mentioned that do not want to sell Downing but agreed when it reached £20mil
Maybe someone could clarify what the rules are. As Levy has said he's not for sale and the matter is closed are Chelsea not breaking some sort of rule by continuing to bid, let alone leaking the fact which they obviously are?
I think it's interesting that no other clubs have made a move for him. Is this because of his stated desire to go Chav, or the determination of Spurs to keep him? Or, perhaps they just don't rate him at that price? What is clear now is that all this uncertainty and apparent, very public disagreement is going to become a very disruptive and de-stabling influence within the squad. Surely Levy can see this and will soon either sell, telling the chavs what they will need to pay, or report them for their continued unsettling of the player. For the sake of our upcoming season, I really hope the end of this saga arrives very soon.
Unless player and agent know that in all probability he will stay for another season but they are still trying to apologetically engineer a move away. I get Luka is meant to be a 'top bloke' and 'model professional (lol) but if he wanted to truly fuck us over he'd not have travelled to SA. It's all very slow and plod like at the moment. Unless that's the instruction: Build up towards the end of the window, then throw an almighty disruptive strop.
Don't care about the potential money we could earn off him (unlikely to spend it anyway, are we?). Also don't believe in this 'he'll disrupt the team' theory. We need to stick to our guns and see this through - then it's up to the player.
Not been done before (well it has with Gerrard and Cesc - though not to this extent in terms of wanting away so vocally).
Luka is not yet at 'Berba' level.
I'm getting pissed off with these fucking chavs thinking they do what fuck they like,time for the premier league an fa to intervine,how many times are they going to get away with it,Kakuta comes to mind,throw the fucking book at em!
Spooky, 2 points from 8 games suggests otherwise.
Seems to me that Abramovich's influence at Sky Sports is b ecoming more apparent by the day. Todays gem on SSN, just AFTER briefly mentioning that Modric had an ankle injury.
'Modric will play no part in todays game against Kaiser Chiefs, a sign that Tottenhams resolve to hold onto him is weakening '
Lazy journalism at best, being told what to say by Abramovich's puppets at worst.
The Chavs will continue to flaunt the rules until someone takes them on.
Stick to your guns, Daniel Levy
Is it nessasary for idiots to use such bad language on a site that kids can view.
It sfows the low mental position of some of our so called fans.
Chelsea filth. They're scum that won the lottery. Plenty of money, no class
The last thing Daniel wants is Harry banging on his door demanding to fritter away the thick end of £30m on Scott Parker (£7m fee, £3m a year which is £19m right there) and the likes. Leave it a year, then have an auction and give the cash to a new manager. Hold the line Levy and make the little Croat wait. Be surprised if Luka could disrupt the skin on a rice pudding. What's he going to do, quiver his bottom lip? Oh by the way, buy a freakin striker
With sandro out for 3 months and luka wanting to leave we could be looking at jenas and hudd against everton...f*cksake!!!
OPTION ONE : Sell Modric abroad ASAP. If Chelsea get him the goading will be unbearable.
I think the ugly c#nt is over rated anyway.
OPTION TWO : My son's end of term play is 'The Wizard of Oz'. Modric looks like a witch and is only the size of a child, so I think we could get him a part in the play. Dress him up as 'The Wicked Witch of the West', then drop a f#cking big house on his head. End of.
For the sake of our upcoming season, I hope we'll sell him and replace him (this is the most important aspect) by a more affective, regularly scoring, creative midfielder who eventually will have also a leader's qualities.
Besides it has no meaning to keep a player who for any reason wants to leave a club.
The best message a club can send is that it can sell any player at the right price and replace him spending even less money by a more effective one!
I agree loanX, keeping Modric against his will achieves nothing. When the price is over £30m, kick him out. Gerrard and Fabregas are incomparable. Gerrard decided that he wanted to stay, not the club. Fabregas earns double what Modric is on and plays for a team that is in the CL season in, season out. This will drag out till late August when Levy will sell. Levy gets the lolly, Modric gets his move, Chelsea get their player, Redknapp will have a ready made excuse for not making the top 4, the media get their wish; everyone will be happy except the fans.
Although I do like Graham's idea: "Leave it a year, then have an auction and give the cash to a new manager."
It would disrupt this season, but I think we're going downhill with Redknapp in charge anyhow, but does anyone want to hear about Modric every day for another year though?
East End spur,
I think i'll go for option 2
Why are we not reporting Chelsea here for their tactics. This is worth a 6 point deduction. It's the only way these richer clubs are going to get any manners. Please, please Daniel Levy, hold out and report them to the bodies who have the power to deduct points. SSN are a joke. Their owner (Murdoch) is running around crying about the disgrace of 'phone tapping' with his elephant tears whilst at the same time he is running football by planting stories. SSN understands, My Ass.
Weve tried selling our best players, it doesnt work.
Lets try keeping them against there will, and see what happens..
At least then we keep our dignity.
Its like Piers Morgan admitting in his book that he shamelessly showed favouritism to Ar5ena1 when editor of the Mirror.
I gaurentee one of the top producers at sky sports news is a massive chelsea fan. Maybe he has a box there...
a bit like the drunk whos better judgement abandoned him years ago, conveniently forgetting what happened after the last bottle, i find myself returning to this ' topical debate '. albeit sadly understanding the pointlessness behind the habbit, that set against the agenda of the unscrupolus bottle makers, who just churn them out without any value of human life..there vision, to blind side the consumer, get in his face so much, that eventually he will give in. Between the 'scum' news paper (Harrys pt time job) and chelsea tv (sly sports news), the agenda is a poisonous,subjective and entirely sensationalist journey.. one which has no basis for fact or responsibility to dignity brilliance or anything other than painful voyeurism. this sport is unrecognisable and in a few years will have been reduced to that of another sh*** series of east enders or posibly worse still Emmerdale/corry..all sh** no tissue.. sad!!!!!
This is what Modric had to say in May THIS YEAR: "Tottenham Hotspur gave me my chance in the Premier League and I want to go on to achieve great success here with them.
"Yes, there have been enquiries from other big clubs, but I have no interest in going anywhere".
I wonder what happened to change his mind since then. Could it be he was got at by the Chavs?, why not, they have done it several times before.
We have to address this problem and urge the FA to not only up the penalties for illegal approaches and I don't just mean fining them because that really does not work with billionaires so I would penalize them by docking points before the season starts. If we don't do this then we are giving the richest clubs even more power and will end up creating just a yearly three horse race and taking the real competition out of football with hardly any chance of success for 17 other teams. What good is the FA? the answer is in the initials.
The other point is what are Tottenham doing to show we mean business by getting new players....nothing. When you see the way Levy is behaving, yet again, in the transfer market then you can't really blame players for thinking this club has no ambition and fucked up big time once we made Champions League by not buying anybody to strengthen our team.
Hey Spooky and everyone else, long time no lock horns
I'm getting thoroughly sick of this. Every summer we sell our best players. How are we going to progress if we keep doing this? My point is that if you want to be a big club, you have to act like one. Liverpool have finished outside of the champions league places these last couple of seasons but you don't see their players getting poached or demanding transfers. Man City finished outside the top 4 but they get players off bigger clubs not the other way around! Why? It's not just the wages. It's the swagger. And once the rot starts, it's hard to get it back. What sort of message does it send to the rest of the squad if we let their best team mates leave? It says, that we don't have the heart for the project and that they can do the same if they push hard enough. If the players see us a stepping stone in their careers what chance do we have to be their end destination - their dream club (not to mention the question if how hard they work for the cause)? It started, as far as I can see, when we sold Carrick and we have to stop the rot now. I find it sickening, frankly
I agree with Mike above, a little class please. We are Tottenham after all!
I would think that if we took the Chelsea bigwigs to court in about a years time, under oath, we would learn all about their underhand tactics on a yacht off of Croatia.
Time to make a 12million bid for Torres lets see what them $%#@ers make of that
i don't want him at spurs but then again if he signed a new long term contract last year he shouldn't be trying to leave.
chelsea also have to take some blame for deliberately trying to turn a contracted players head, especially after that players club have insisted he's not for sale.
it's out of order that chelsea are keep persisting with this & so should be punished accordingly by the FA. abramovic needs to realise that even though he managed to buy the world cup for russia from FIFA, he might not be able to buy modric from spurs
We are Tottenham after all. Yeah right. Abramovich is shaking in his boots. Not likely.
Levy seems to have shut Harry up. When is his hearing, does anyone out there know.
I don't think he'll be here after his trial. I think that's why Levy has gone quiet.
to the morons asking people to stop using bad language - its up to u to monitor what your kids view online, not us to change our messages just for u - so politely, fcuk off, thanks.
What a pity YEP, that your lack of vocabulary, only allows you to talk in expletives. (that's swearing by the way)
spurt, u are a nerd, do u ask football fans at matches not to curse too?
hey spurt, you're also a fcuking cnut, u know that dickhead?
Exactly!
@spurt:
I am sure that if you have kids, seeing bad language on here is unlikely to do them any real harm. You can always tell them that this is what morons do.
LOL SpurredoninDublin
The problem is that in keeping Modric, every time he is injured (todsy!), plays badly, gets subbed etc there will be a lingering doubt as to his state of mind.
Having said this, Levy (via Harry) has much more information than we do about how he is in training, work effort, getting on with everyone, etc so they are better placed to judge than we are about what is the right thing to do.
If he/they feel that Moric will never be the same player again in a Spurs shirt, can get a realistic/appropriate fee and can spend it on decent replacements (the two from Madrid, Shaquiri, Vidal, Pranjic or whoever) then we have to trust them.
The situation is now complicated by Sandro's lengthy absence - if Modric is to go and be replaced it would be much better if that happens now, to give new arrivals time to arrive/settle in before the big early season games.
Would not fancy facing the Manc clubs with only Hud/Palacios (bearing in mind that Wilson may be 'for sale' anyway, or JJ. We can use VDV or Krank but combined with Hudd that wouldnt be the most solid defensive combination.
There are three facts:
1) A really big club doesn't need to appeal to the courts or reports to the competent bodies. It uses rather its glory, its fame and its money in order to do business.
2) You can't compete with those who have more money to spend than you (except if you can put into effect an appropriate transfer policy together with an effective scouting system like, for example, Porto does).
3) You can't keep a player against his will. No player is irreplaceable and if you are a well organized club staffed by the appropriate persons you can always find an equal or better replacement.
Levy let him rot! levy, levy let him rot!!
He's Greedy, He's sly, Levy made him cry, he's Luka Noooodick, He's Luka NoooDick
@loanx how come Chelski can't fulfill that 3rd requirement of improving their team without trying to weaken ours?! Maybe cos they aren't a so called 'big' team just deep dodgy pockets as seen on a drunk clown magician
loanx, are you on crack?
Do SKY have any integrity
They reported 3 days ago that Modric has made a written transfer request. They then proceeded to interview all our coaching staff about it, who gave no real sounds bites.
3 days on and they are report that they understand Modric has made a written transfer request.
If there is no news, just make it up seems to be their approach...but you are also right that it seems SKY are desperate for CFC to sign Modric!