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Comment | Spurs Too Mean To Pay What A Player Is Worth (Again)
at 16:08:33
@Saint Brock.
Fees can still be set by a tribunal provided both clubs agree. Usually though, they rarely agree with the value placed on the player by the selling club. The Danny Ings transfer is to be determined by tribunal. |
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Comment | Spurs Too Mean To Pay What A Player Is Worth (Again)
at 15:12:41
@Dpeps
I am sure that nobody is going to sue Dpeps or the site over this, but as you so decently conceded, it was the site contradiction that caught my eye.
Now that we are reading that Wanayama is on route to Nairobi, and as 1970 points out, the story originated from a Sky journo who is a Spurs fan, I am very inclined to doubt if there was any real substance to this story to begin with. That cuts right across your comment about whether we should treat these stories as fact or entertainment. Spurs have four (what I would call) "Crown Jewels" players: LLoris, Vertonghen, Kane and Eriksen. All four of them said they were happy at Spurs at the end of last season, even though two of them were heavily linked with moves to Manure before they spoke. That did not stop stop the "meeja" inventing multiple offers for three of these. Remember the first of these: The £67 mill offer for Kane? None of the bloggers who posted this story ever referred to it in the later stories about offers for Kane.
i suspect that the Angry Brigade at Saint Mary's might well have based their hatred on a totally fictitious story. Anyway, good luck in the this season.
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Comment | Spurs Too Mean To Pay What A Player Is Worth (Again)
at 12:37:46
@Dpeps.
Thanks for your reply. Just a couple of contradictions to your post. Libel is Libel even if it's on a blog like this. My original point was really about the fact that this site quite rightly does not want libellous comments, but unless the OP can prove what he says, the post is clearly libellous.
The other point regards complaints to the PL. I am not saying that tapping up doesn't happen, but when it can be proved, clubs will either complain to the PL because if found guilty the offending club can face a transfer embago. Spurs caught both Manure and Cheatski, and were given £1 mill payoffs not to raise a complaint.
But your comments about Celtic have really identified the problem. As for Scummer, if Saints followed his suggestion, there would be nobody left to do business with because the problem stems from greedy players and agents.
There is only one way that this will be ended, and that is if FIFA intervene and tell players, "You have signed a contract and your club insists that you honour it. You may decide that you are effectively going to go on strike but now that your club has complained, we are not going to sanction your move, and unless the proposed buyer withdraws the interest straight away, we will order a worldwide embargo on all purchases by them for the next 12 months".
Once a player realises that there is nothing he can do other than to honour the contract, it will effectively emasculate the agents which is where the real problem lies. |
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Comment | Spurs Too Mean To Pay What A Player Is Worth (Again)
at 10:39:34
It's interesting that you ask people to report libellous posts. Do you have any proof that Spurs set out to unsettle the player through his agent? If not, your comments are libellous. Of course we can wait for the PL to investigate the claim, but wait a minute, Soton haven't made one! I wonder why not? Perhaps they are waiting to amalgmate it with a complaint that Spurs Belgian players tapped up Alderweireld?
Notwithstanding that, we are currently in the maddest transfer market of all time. Depending on what paper you read Spurs are alleged to have offered £12-15 mill for MS last year. Did anybody offer any more than that? If the answer is "no", then any business man (I assume you are not one) will tell you that the value of anything is what someone is prepared to pay for it now. The fact that Manure are prepared to pay £25 mill in this grossly over inflated market this year, does not mean that this player was worth more than £12-15 mill last year.
I can understand your anger at Spurs, but the truth is that players and agents have no loyalty to the clubs. So far there has been nothing mentioned at WHL that they are even interested in the player, and you might want to think about the idea that maybe the agent leaked the story. It would not be the first time. I recall Chamakh telling the whole world that Spurs were interested in him, though this was untrue. Then there was Adel Taraabt who was telling the whole world that Manure was interested in him, which was also untrue. It's what players and agents do in order to screw their current clubs for more money or to get other clubs interested in buying them. Players like Le Tissier and Payne are an almost extinct species.
It's interesting that Wanyama was not really on anybody's radar until Alderweireld made the comment about him following his error against Stoke. Unlike Berahino, I haven't seen anything in the media from Soton to the effect of "He is not for sale and we feel Spurs interest is unwelcome", though the Berahino story put out by WBA is full of mixed messages to begin with and should not be taken at face value. |
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