Luka Modric eventual transfer fee poll

Gotta add that one to my RSS, thanks for the heads-up.

he'll not be happy at being outed

ya never set me wrong yet iirc

Saw a copy of the Daily Star on Sunday on the Tube earlier, the back page had Chelsea bidding £27mn for Modric with Sturridge going to Spurs as part of the deal iirc.

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i would take that?

yeah, i would take that

Sturridge and 'arry at Spurs would be a lethally funny combo for ILF lols.

daniel sturridge has had a right gone to spurs

Apparently he's been okay in pre-season, attitude-wise? Sort of hoping Chelsea just get bored and look elsewhere.

"They're your options: get the money and get four players and, in all honesty, have a better team, or keep Luka, who is a fantastic player."

His comments on Ade in that piece are otm.

What a thing to say in public about Modric though. How's Levy going to react when he sees that?!

'arry has most likely convinced his 'airman that he's sufficiently adept at reverse psychology to keep Luka out of 'elsea's 'hands.

typo there at the end, distracted from re-reading above. I'll be sad if he goes somewhere and is a reserve but great thread regardless.

That looks like Redknapp and Levy are at loggerheads to me. Redknapp presumably frustrated at Levy's refusal to part without any cash without having first sold the deadwood he's put a prohibitive price tag on, when one player at a stroke could make £35m-£40m.

But at the same time we don't know who he's targeting, whether they'll come to Spurs, whether they'll actually improve the team (as opposed to replacing Kranjcars with Pienaars and making no net improvement whatsoever), and whether we'll end up with a hole in the squad and a load of unspent or wasted money at the end.

Personally I think he's trying to con Levy into getting his chequebook out. Doubt Harry likes spending an entire summer sitting around not being able to make signings.

It's the sort of thing that could end 'redknapp out' to me - not only undermining the public line, but shifting blame for underperformance onto Levy. The only benefit (assuming as I do that you can't possibly be better off shorn of Modric) is in getting Modric onside personally if he needs it, but even that's got a huge backhanded insult in there.

said for a while now that 35m spent well leaves us a better team if modric goes.

That was on condition of keeping niko, tho

There's also the possibility that Redknapp is trying to rush Chelsea into a bid they can then reject.

Redknapp has not really spent particularly well over his time at Spurs actually. Dunno if successful moves for Samba, Benayoun and Kalou and a failed bid for Eden Hazard will make much net improvement really.

that's true, though i'd want to see a list to judge tbh

rejected £40m

See you in January.

Blimey I got something right for once.

missed a trick with poll closing date huh

Will remember that for jan

levy otm he's worth 50m now

levy still otm

who next for a thread in this vein

is there even anyone any good left at a club likely to sell?

could have had a whole board on Southampton last month obv

Ross Barkley, but not this summer.

fans of the board don't want to hear about next summer klata

Gotta say my love for Luka hasn't really survived his haircut

herself is the same

we have so much in common

get out of it

she's still got William fichtner I suppose

Jaysus

Fucking hell imagine if Luka had gone to Chelsea. He'd be at Palace now.

the twitter reaction to my boy winning is .... negative

Lynchpin of the midfield that won three CL titles in a row, World Cup final, voted best player at the World Cup, what more does a lad have to do?

fine choice with me

but can he twerk?

"the one i may have offended"

Sincere apologies to the one I may have offended. My point was : I don’t invite women to twerk but dance on a Sinatra song. Watch the full sequence People who have followed me for 20 years know how respectful I am especially with women pic.twitter.com/pnZX8qvl4R

— Martin Solveig (@martinsolveig) December 3, 2018

think the chasing pack caught up with messi + ronaldo this year, obvs gonna happen eventually, happy to see a new winner

For as long as this guy can walk, he can have a spot in my midfield.

Up there with Berbatov and VdV as the most persistently joyous players to give the ball to in my footballing memory (Spurs edition) and it seems impossible that he's still somehow putting in performances like he did tonight