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Modric - No Longer A Spurs Player

i'm going with whatever levy wants.

this situation isnt even a headache for me, i can honestly say it doesnt upset me nearly that much.

if he wants to leave fine. RM should pay..or he should pay what the club is asking for.

if levy wants to sell at cut price then he can, if he doesnt then he shouldnt

my take? strong arm tactics like this can affect our moves in the offseason...after a certain point in this summers activity RM dont stump up the cash? modric is NOT going...unless RM actively tries to help us get our targets. Modric stays

if he goes on strike...we fine him. unless someone is financing this thing for modric then getting fined after 3 to 4 weeks at 80,000 pounds or so a week.....PLUS the tax you pay on your earnings.....that'll hit home pretty good and you'll soon buck up your ideas
 
For the attention of our Little Luka who requests quotes...have a butchers

NaijaSpurs said:
Tottenham midfielder Luka Modric's representatives to meet with Real Madrid after he fails to arrive in New York
Luka Modric’s future could become clearer on Monday with a meeting scheduled between his representatives and Real Madrid after the midfielder refused to take part in Tottenham Hotspur’s pre-season tour to the United States.

Spurs are adamant that Real have to offer close to £40 million for Modric and have again reminded the player that although they are finally prepared to sell he has four years left on his contract and will only go if the asking price is met.
The Premier League club are hugely disappointed with Modric over his decision not to board the team flight to Los Angeles on Saturday.
He will already be fined for refusing to train on Friday - two weeks’ wages amounting to around £80,000 - with further disciplinary action now planned.
Modric’s whereabouts were unknown by Spurs on Sunday although it is understood he may have returned home to Croatia as he contemplates finally handing in a transfer request.

Much may depend on the outcome of Monday’s meeting with Real so far refusing to go beyond the £27 million - including add-ons - that they have already bid for Modric who is also wanted by Paris St-Germain and Chelsea although Spurs chairman Daniel Levy will not sell to another Premier League club.

On Sunday, Tottenham head coach Andre Villas-Boas criticised Modric for his disruptive behaviour.
“I think Modric is wrong,” he said. “This (refusal to fly) will go against him. He has worsened the situation with what he is doing and now the chairman is very angry.”
Villas-Boas admitted selling Modric would be a “big loss” and has already warned the 26 year-old of Spurs’ determination to achieve the right price for him and the club is braced for a transfer saga that could run until the window closes.
Modric’s advisers, however, hope to move things along on Monday and are trying to persuade Real to raise their bid.
Levy has consistently proved to be not only a stubborn negotiator but a man who will dig in his heels if needs to be - as he proved when stating that Modric was not for sale at any price last year and had to stay despite a series of offers from Chelsea culminating in a bid of £40 million. In return, Modric refused to sign a new contract.

Spurs’ failure to qualify for the Champions League and the player’s continued determination to leave have changed matters with the club keen to raise funds to continue their rebuilding under Villas-Boas, who succeeded Harry Redknapp earlier this month.
Spurs have been interested in signing Joao Moutinho as Modric’s replacement but are prepared to walk away from the deal because of Porto’s insistence that the midfielder is worth £24 million. Porto have a dilemma, however, because interest in their striker Hulk, who they want to sell, has waned over the summer.

Villas-Boas has already acquired midfielder Gylfi Sigurdsson, from Hoffenheim, and Ajax defender Jan Vertonghen while negotiations continue to agree a permanent deal to sign the Emirates Marketing Project striker Emmanuel Adebayor. If Modric is sold, a replacement will be sought.
Spurs face LA Galaxy on Tuesday and then travel to the East Coast to play Liverpool and New York Red Bulls before returning to London a week on Tuesday.
Modric has told his advisers that he wants to join Real, rather than Chelsea or Paris St-Germain, who are the third club who have expressed an interest in acquiring him.
Coincidentally, Chelsea faced PSG on Sunday night in a friendly in New York - the first ever football match to be played at the Yankees Stadium - with their former manager Carlo Ancelotti in charge of the French club.

Ancelotti has been given significant funds to turn PSG into a force in European football and although his two big summer signings - Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, both signed from AC Milan - were not available to face Chelsea, the former will join up with his new team on Tuesday while the latter prepares to play for Brazil in the Olympics.

PSG, who signed Alex from Chelsea in January, also showed a tentative interest in signing John Terry but accept that it will be impossible, at present, to acquire the Chelsea captain who flew into New York on Friday after being given time off following his recent trial for allegedly racially abusing Anton Ferdinand. Terry was acquitted.
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if Levy wants 40 mill for Modric, then he will have to offer him to Emirates Marketing Project or PSG and hope for the best

Madrid will not pay that much imo, 30m rising to 35 mill in add ons is probably the best we can hope for from them, and actually its a terrific deal.
 
indianspur said:
if Levy wants 40 mill for Modric, then he will have to offer him to Emirates Marketing Project or PSG and hope for the best

Madrid will not pay that much imo, 30m rising to 35 mill in add ons is probably the best we can hope for from them, and actually its a terrific deal.
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14 million profit excluding wages expenditure doesnt equate to a fantastic deal, imo, for arguably our best player who still has four years on his contract.
 
Seems like there must be a pretty large payment at stake re: a written transfer request. It could be written as a loyalty bonus, or signing on fees weighted towards the end of his contract.

Lot's of talk of it happening last summer, but it didn't. Same thing this year.

I wonder if it's money that would be going to the player, or the agent....
 
africanspurs said:
For the attention of our Little Luka who requests quotes...have a butchers
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Where has 'Little Luka' gone??? He couldn't wait to dismiss everything as purely 'british journalism', yet when reality smacks him square in the face...ooo....oh brick, he's fudged off. Dammit!

I honestly love all the excuses dreamed up by the desperate little apologists; all thinking they're smarter and superior than everyone else when - in reality - it just takes them two days longer than everyone else to work things out :ross:
 
Armchair Expert said:
14 million profit excluding wages expenditure doesnt equate to a fantastic deal, imo, for arguably our best player who still has four years on his contract.
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then we offer him to City, Utd and Chelsea and get the most we can.
 
By the way, I'd be pretty damn sure that this 5% to Dynamo would we on any figure over and above the £16.5m which we paid Dinamo for. Thus far, it's been reported that it's against the figure, ie: £40m as a whole, which wouldn't be consistent to how sell-on %'s have been applied in the past.
 
I can live with Modric being relegated to the youth team. I don't think we'd miss him as much as we'd miss Berbatov. Berbs is harder to replace (still haven't in my opinion), whereas we could find an adequate replacement for Modric, whether it be a like-for-like player or restructure our midfield.

We've been able to cope okay without him in the team. I don't think he's that important, and although it's going to sound like a bit of sour grapes, always thought he was a style over substance player.

If worst case scenario is we end up with no extra midfielders and a sulking Modric's career going to ruins due to his own patheticness, so be it.
 
Sheikh Ma Nuggets said:
Where has 'Little Luka' gone??? He couldn't wait to dismiss everything as purely 'british journalism', yet when reality smacks him square in the face...ooo....oh brick, he's fudged off. Dammit!

I honestly love all the excuses dreamed up by the desperate little apologists; all thinking they're smarter and superior than everyone else when - in reality - it just takes them two days longer than everyone else to work things out :ross:
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Yeah because Little Luka is going to be online every day.. ](*,)



As for all the 'excuses', they were perfectly valid given the amount of information we had. Now we have more information, so we know more, and we have get a clearer idea of what is going on.
 
Andre Villas-Boas has blasted Spurs midfielder Luka Modric for his behaviour during his protracted transfer to Real Madrid but Modric’s teammate Rafael van der Vaart has said the possibility of a move to Real is a dream that his friend should be allowed to turn it into reality.

Yesterday, Villas-Boas criticised Modric for deciding not to travel with the Spurs squad to the USA for their pre-season tour. The Croatian is desperate for a move to Real Madrid but Tottenham are holding out until they receive £40million from the Spanish champions.

However, Van der Vaart understands the reasons behind Modric’s decision to dig his heels in over a transfer and insists any player courted by Real Madrid would behave in a similar fashion. The Dutchman moved from Hamburg to the Bernabeu in 2008 and says the opportunity to play for Real Madrid is too big to turn down.

"You can't compare Real Madrid with other teams because they are the biggest team in the world," Van der Vaart told Sky Sports News.

"It was really an honour that I played there and I'm still really thankful.

"I think every player wants to play there."

Van der Vaart has said he is one of Modric’s closest friends and hopes the playmaker is allowed to complete his transfer amicably for the sake of both Tottenham and the player.

"I went to Luka's house and spoke to him after training. I told him what happened to me when I wanted to sign for Real [from Hamburg]," Van der Vaart said in AS.

"I've been one of the closest people to Modric in the dressing room and I feel for him. It is a difficult situation.

"The chairman is angry, but Luka is very upset with what is happening. I think everything will be fixed in three or four days."

http://www.sport360.com/article/van-der-vaart-supports-tottenham-teammate-modric
 
How do AS have instant access to our manager and players? They have put out articles claiming interviews with AVB and RvdV. Or do they just invent stuff to do Real's bidding?
 
Sheikh Ma Nuggets said:
Where has 'Little Luka' gone??? He couldn't wait to dismiss everything as purely 'british journalism', yet when reality smacks him square in the face...ooo....oh brick, he's fudged off. Dammit!

I honestly love all the excuses dreamed up by the desperate little apologists; all thinking they're smarter and superior than everyone else when - in reality - it just takes them two days longer than everyone else to work things out :ross:
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I rather enjoy the "dispairing little false-conclusionists" who GENUINELY believe they have it ALL sussed without any more insight than those they use as a self-elevating trampoline! :ross:
 
Spursalot said:
Yeah because Little Luka is going to be online every day.. ](*,)



As for all the 'excuses', they were perfectly valid given the amount of information we had. Now we have more information, so we know more, and we have get a clearer idea of what is going on.
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Mate...I'm not sure why Sheikh doesn't understand the simple human math behind what's going on. It is absolutely obvious what has happened, we all know it, and thus we all know Modric is part of it and not the whole piece of it...still, why let common sense get in the way of a good "hate" session...BTW, probably like yourself, I've always found it interesting to see so much vitriol leveled at other posters simply for having another perspective/opinion. I personally think it's fudging macaronic, but there we go eh?!!!
 
jts1882 said:
How do AS have instant access to our manager and players? They have put out articles claiming interviews with AVB and RvdV. Or do they just invent stuff to do Real's bidding?
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Right now, you can bet that Madrid's Perez has told his media boys to fan the flames, as well as telling Modric's people to sit tight and try to smoke out a cheaper deal...again, I repeat a speculation I made a couple pages back which no-one has picked up on...would it not be possible that Madrid might have said if they can force the move for, say, 27 mill as opposed to 35, then the player/his reps will get some of the difference saved in their pockets? Speculation of course!!!!!
 
thfcsteff said:
Right now, you can bet that Madrid's Perez has told his media boys to fan the flames, as well as telling Modric's people to sit tight and try to smoke out a cheaper deal...again, I repeat a speculation I made a couple pages back which no-one has picked up on...would it not be possible that Madrid might have said if they can force the move for, say, 27 mill as opposed to 35, then the player/his reps will get some of the difference saved in their pockets? Speculation of course!!!!!
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A larger signing on fee? It's completely feasible. It's win win for both Real and Modric.


Unfortunately for them I can't see Levy caving for much less then 40m now. Whereas i think if this america/training issue hadn't come up he might have been willing to go a little lower.
 
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