Daniel Levy misses conference call in bid to derail Modric Madrid move
Saturday, July 21, 2012 at 8:52AM Spurs chairman AWOL
Daniel Levy has thrown Tottenham’s summer transfer dealings into disarray after failing to dial into a conference call to decide on the latest bid from Spanish giants Real Madrid in their pursuit to sign Luka Modric. With the player’s heart set on a move to La Liga, the hope was that the Spurs board would agree on the latest offer of £24.9M (with further add-ons) or simply wait a week for Madrid to bid less before accepting it.
The suggestion is that Levy plans to agitate for stagnation and avoid any deal from concluding so that it’s dragged on across the summer with the possibility of the player, deep in contract, unable to move on for the second year running. According to club insiders Levy submitted a memo saying that he won’t consider taking any calls from abroad unless they are from clubs responding to offers made for their players or bids for our players that are not called Luka Modric.
Modric did not train on Thursday, the first scheduled day of his pre-season, although he did turn up at Spurs Lodge. He did not stay for long having been chased out of the training complex by club mascot, Chirpy, who (with cigar in mouth and a bottle of whisky in hand) screamed obscenities at the Croatian play-maker who managed to escape by car without injury. Modric later met representatives from Claims Direct at a restaurant suggesting that perhaps one of the squirrels thrown at him left a scratch or two.
Madrid president, Florentino Perez, is confident that Modric will move to his club and has instructed the player not to travel to the United States with Spurs for their tour. The plan is to have the player stay behind and if he remains detached long enough everybody will forget what he looks like so when Ricardo Carvalho turns up with a mullet speaking broken Croatian nobody will notice. Levy’s stance has also softened. Last summer he was abundantly clear the player was not for sale. This year he accepts the player does have a price. A price that sits written on a post-it note stuck to Modric’s current long standing contract with the club placed in an envelope hidden within Levy's boxer shorts which can only be revealed if he is caught.
Some one close to the board who isn’t on the board but knows someone who knows someone who shared it with someone who posted it on a forum which then proceeded to spread via social media said, “If Luka’s agent wants to orchestrate a move to Madrid, they’ll have to find Levy and get hold of the envelope. They will have to place their hand down the front of Levy’s trousers to get it. It’s that simple”.
According to the Daily Mail, Levy was last sighted boarding a yacht, sticking up his middle finger and screaming 'haters gonna hate'.
Reader Comments (55)
Luka Modric has no heart for Spurs anymore. Do not drag this transfer out, but sell him now to Real Madrid. They cannot,however expect to get him for 25M. Lets settle on 32M and be done with it.
Let him leave, he's been great for us. Not impressed with the Chelsea talk last summer and that will no doubt sour our memory of him but he's rarely let us down on the pitch. Happy for him to go abroad but think Levy should hold out for near 30 million. He has a while left on his deal and all this returning a favour for VDV is rubbish, Rafa has been great but he comes with injury problems, that affects a player's value every time. I think 8m was about right for VDV, given that he has frozen out at Real too. 28m minimum for Luka if it was my call...
Don't see the problem. We're looking for a striker.
"Likey or no likey chicken badge, chicken owns him 'till the contract runs out."
That quote is brilliant.
@spooky....
Article 17 of the FIFA Transfer Regulations states that players can unilaterally cancel their contract with their club after a certain protected period has expired if an amount of compensation is paid to their original club.
protected period - 2years for above 28 years old, 3 years for under 28years old.
I am not sure on the compensation part but I think He has to buy out his contract.... so i think next september he could be off for 15-20million in compensation?(correct me if i am wrong about the comepnsation)