Sandro Tonali

[Kimbo]

1 minute ago, TK-421 said:

Once again, I guess 'tapping up' isn't a thing anymore, then? 

 

Talks with a player ahead of speaking to his club??

Literally everyone does it, so no one can complain, and it can’t be policed.

[TheBrownBottle]

8 minutes ago, Paully said:

Whatever happened to illegally tapping up players? I know it happens loads now but there should be no talks until a fee has been agreed

We’re doing it right now with Muñoz.  I agree though. 

[Kid Icarus]

Speaking through an agent isn't tapping up.

 

Even then the Ashley Cole thing was presented as something really unusual when it was apparently common practice. 

[Teasy]

Was pretty poor overall last season.  But instead of putting his head down and aiming to push us forward (like Bruno), he started talking to his agent about leaving.  Would be fine with him going for somewhere around £80-100m.  I think we could bring someone in who would give us a better midfield for less than that amount.

[TheBrownBottle]

5 minutes ago, Mattoon said:

 

I don't think its a slap in the face, I doubt he would go because he thought Spurs were a step up, if he goes there it's for London and a much better weekly wage.

We weren’t a step up from Milan.  Obvious mercenary is obvious. 

[Nobody]

Do we really have to go through the 'what happened to tapping up?' every time we reports like this? It's not really been a thing for ages. 

[Kanj]

Slightly comical any player with big pedigree would move to Spurs to play under a manager who is a flight risk to quit the job or get sacked in 12 months 

[TRon]

4 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

We weren’t a step up from Milan.  Obvious mercenary is obvious. 

 

90% of players are mercenaries if moving for more money makes them mercenary. 

[Sima]

15 minutes ago, jack j said:

Not gonna lie, another summer of selling one of our best player/s is quite depressing. 

 

We've already sold one of our best players, losing two would send out an even worse message.

[Maggies]

We proved last summer with Isak that we’re a selling club. Worst thing we did was backing down.

 

On Tonali, I was really disappointed that he didn’t step up and lead the team when Bruno was injured last year.

 

Like Isak, and recently with Gordon, we’re a club that sells their best players so let’s just make sure we get top price.

[bowlingcrofty]

1 minute ago, Sima said:

 

We've already sold one of our best players, losing two would send out an even worse message.

I think it sends out a proper message of 'if you don't wanna be here, you can fuck off, but on our terms'. Which is exactly the message we need to send if we're gonna be ruthless enough to constantly iteratively improve on our squad. No more going stale, sell them for a big profit and move on.

[Coffee_Johnny]

4 hours ago, Decky said:

The thought of City lining out next season with Tonali and Anderson in their midfield is utterly sickening. Something has gone wrong big time in our project for that to happen. 

Gutting isn’t it. Had similar thoughts seeing two ex NUFC players (Anderson and Gordon) line up for England recently, thought ‘oh this is where we are at again.’ 

[Mole]

I find it amusing when people still are shocked by "tapping up" when it's been common practice for 2 decades plus by literally everyone.

 

Including us.

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by Mole

[TheBrownBottle]

1 minute ago, TRon said:

 

90% of players are mercenaries if moving for more money makes them mercenary. 

Yep - though in Tonali’s case, given his ban and subsequent ‘loyalty’ in his agent touting him about less than a year and a half after he returned I’d say he really is one.

[TheBrownBottle]

1 minute ago, Maggies said:

We proved last summer with Isak that we’re a selling club. Worst thing we did was backing down.

 

On Tonali, I was really disappointed that he didn’t step up and lead the team when Bruno was injured last year.

 

Like Isak, and recently with Gordon, we’re a club that sells their best players so let’s just make sure we get top price.

Worst thing we did was fanny about and not sell Isak on 1st July.  We’re not in a position to have our record signing rot in the reserves. 

[gdm]

Spurs fans are buzzing 

[TRon]

1 minute ago, bowlingcrofty said:

I think it sends out a proper message of 'if you don't wanna be here, you can fuck off, but on our terms'. Which is exactly the message we need to send if we're gonna be ruthless enough to constantly iteratively improve on our squad. No more going stale, sell them for a big profit and move on.

 

 

I said basically this months ago when his agent first started holding talks with other clubs. I have come to terms with losing players and I really don't give that much of a shit any more as long as we get top price. 

 

Truth is, until we can pay top wages, we can't keep top players. That's all there is to it. 

[JT24]

Not feeling very sportswashed right now. 

[TheBrownBottle]

Just now, gdm said:

Spurs fans are buzzing 

They will be, they haven’t watched him give the ball away ten times a game yet

[jack j]

6 minutes ago, Sima said:

 

We've already sold one of our best players, losing two would send out an even worse message.

Aye. I'm all for a reset but when the likes of Murphy and Willock have more chance of being in our squad next season still it's all abit bleak.

 

Anyway the rumour mill will no doubt start for an incoming centre mid now..I reckon they'll start floating Camaras name round again

 

 

Edited 9 hours ago by jack j

[r0cafella]

I don't see Spurs paying What's needed tbh. Unless we are going to hand out discounts like we did last summer. 

[Kanj]

Wil say it hits the heart a bit what the financial constraints have done to us like.  
 

We should absolutley be competing for a league title with what we should have been able to retain and pay and recruit. 

[TRon]

Just now, TheBrownBottle said:

They will be, they haven’t watched him give the ball away ten times a game yet

 

 

That's the other thing. There's no doubting he can be a hell of a player when it comes to closing down and moving the ball quickly, but he's what you would have called a water carrier back in the day. Not that their role should be under-estimated, but we should be able to replace him with a younger version without that much issue if we have good scouts and a competent DOF. 

[gbandit]

What would be a total we’d accept for him? I can’t see anything below £75m being accepted 

[r0cafella]

I imagine the club is fuming with this btw.