Transfer Rumours transfer thread fact and fiction

IN

Forster
Bastoni
Peresic
Spence / Kostic
Bissuma
Eriksen
Jesus ( not sure if he'd leave City's bench for ours though)

OUT

Gollini
Rodon / Tanganga / Sanchez
Emerson
Reguilon
Winks
Bergwijn

Sarr and possibly Gil returning to squad.

If we could do this business in the summer we will be right in the mix next season.

 

Say the line, transfer monkey.

 

80K/week seems a bit low, even considering his age.
That bonus (which I assume is played N games in PL or CL
victory etc) I heartily approve.

 

Can’t really go wrong with him as a freebie. Definitely worth signing him even at his age.

 

There are other reports that say €6m a year which is roughly £100k a week I think but even so it’s still a very modest wage in footballing terms for a high quality free transfer.

I’m also not sure what the £700k bonus is for. Could be a signing on bonus (which is again moderate for a free transfer) or could be performance related. Either way, it feels like a no brainer of a deal for the money we’re supposedly having to pay. £10.7m give or take for two years of Ivan Perisic? Thank you very much.

 

Romano’s apparently given a HERE WE GO on his YouTube for Forster.

So that means our OS will announce it in about a week

 

At the minimum it would be a statement of intent
(strengthening the squad, a Davids type in the fold) .

 

Looking at the haircut, I assume Perisic has passed his < Spurcat > .

 

WHAT. A. SIGNING.

Well happy with this, as I said yesterday probably the first player we’ve signed since Eriksen where I’ve really liked the player prior to any Spurs interest.

 

Bastoni Watch
Apparently we're counting random Twitter ITKs as sources now...

 

Nice to see business being done before the last few days of the window, shows good intent and decisiveness.

Already looking forward to next season

 

Everything is uncertain, including Conte managing Spurs next season, Spurs making the CL next year, etcetera. One thing which can be relied on is that Spurs can't close the gap to Liverpool and Man City in one year. They will need everything to go well to catch Chelsea, with one prerequisite being a rocky transition to the new ownership. Unfortunately, the new owners are all too likely to keep Chelsea there or thereabouts, and may even be able to improve them. The Dodgers are very comparable to the Red Sox in being one of the most popular baseball teams. Unlike them, they have a long history of winning.

Given that Conte has said he wants to compete for big trophies, that leaves one possibility, however faint: the Champions League. He's not a cup coach, but given that Spurs went 2-2-0 against the two best teams in the world this year, you'd have to say it's theoretically possible for them to win any tie. I'd like to see Spurs go all out for it, by bringing in some well-chosen veterans, including Bale, to transform the culture.

 

It's bizarre, isn't it?

 

Given that Forster and Perisic are free transfers, realistically it's no surprise that we'd be getting those done first so they'll be guaranteed to be in training on July 1st

The real question is what we do when it comes to player who aren't free agents at the end of June as there's two variables in play: thrashing out an agreement with the other club (especially if they play silly buggers, which I'm still dreading Inter would do with Bastoni) and Paratici spinning various plates so that we'd be negotiating with more than the one club like when we were discussing terms with Tomiyasu last summer only to sign Emerson

 

That was our choice though, wasn't it?
It's not like he picked Arsenal because we were ****ing about.

 

He picked Arsenal after we signed Emerson, IIRC

 

Looks like we haven't finished stockpiling youth keepers...

 

Well that'll stop the belief that we'll have the FIFA14 overkill front three of Neymar, Bale and Lewandowski...