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Well done Daniel Levy – Modric not for sale at any price
News | admin | June 18, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has come out fighting and insisted that Luka Modric will not be sold for any price.
Levy’s comments come after Modric admitted that he would like to move to Chelsea following a derisory £22million bid for the Croatian.
Let’s hope that Levy can now stick to his word and keep our key players at the club this summer.
In a statement on the official Spurs site, he said: “I wish to make it absolutely clear, as I have said previously, that none of our key players will be sold this summer. We are building a team for the future to consistently play at the highest level and retaining quality players is crucial to that.
“In respect of Luka Modric, we are not prepared to sell, at any price, to Chelsea Football Club or any other club.
“We made our stance on this issue abundantly clear in writing to Chelsea. They chose to ignore it and then subsequently made the offer public.
“For the avoidance of any doubt, let me reiterate that we shall not enter into any negotiations whatsoever, with any Club, regarding Luka.
“We now consider this matter closed.”
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We need to put a stop to this nonsense
Chelsea should be find
if they were told no and then go ahead to turn the players head and it sends a false message to other clubs and us the fans, its a disgrace
shame on them
Hope we stick it to them next time we meet !
In fact i would quote a minimum to Chavs of £60mil + Drogba & lets see how what they think about that. Lets play them at their own games.
This is merely Levy trying to save face.
Modric will go, for around £30m. Fact.
I don’t care if he’s now gonna be a benchwarmer.. He ain’t going to Chelsea – end of.. He can go to Watford or Brentford if wants – but not them.
Go on Levy.
I think arsenal have led the way in the way they’ve dealt with the Fabregas situation, glad we have taken the same approach, ballsy thing to do.
Would still like us to go and buy another midfielder like Parker or another creative midfielder, his young compatriot who is said to be ‘the new Modric’ Milan Badelj to make him worry for his place and have someone training really hard week in week out to take that spot from him. Might make him feel differently about us as a club.
We signed him for £16.5 million when unproven in the prem! He has ptoved himself now and signed a 6 year contract last season.
If you do sign him it will be over £35 million.
That is right it was just before Carrick and Berbatov were sold.
How long before we hear the phrase “we wanted to keep him but once a players head is turned…”
If we really want to keep Luka the club needs to seriously invest in the team and especially get some strikers in – then he will not want to go.
If we have ambitions to be the best then we need to play in the best.
All fans need to realize this or every pre season will be exactly like this one.
I love White Hart Lane as much as anyone, but this proves we cannot afford to let sentiment get in the way of progress.
Cant help thinking that if we were moving to the Olympic stadium next year players would be looking to join us not leave us.
As spurs fans we have to wake up to the fact that our stadium cannot generate enough cash pay top wages.
If we are to be taken seriously then a move would be of benefit to Spurs as a football team.
If supporters do not wish to go to the Olympic stadium then how about Wembley, they are in need of finance.
Remember, if we dont want to go through all this next season with Bale, VDV or any other star players we must not let sentiment get in the way of progress.
Let the prick go if he wants out. Thats why we shouldn't get slags who know nothing about the shirt.
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QPR playing in the huge White City in the 60's, that looked crap didn't it and us playing in the olympic stadium would be the same. Levy says he is a SDpurs supporter but hes not really, hes just someone who thinks he is.Alan Sugar was better than him but the trouble with Sugar was that he couldn't take the rough stuff and wanted to be seen as a God all the time. I'll give Levy his due he is different to that but hes not a real Spurs man simply from the fact that hes willing to go to East London.Toittenham may have become a backwater from Suanders of the River population wise but its still WHL. Its not Tottenham anymore granted but it is the spiritual home of all our past greats.
We need to get players in who really want to play for us. I'm glad we got rid of Berbetov and fink Carrick and I'm specially glad that Carrick looked like Glenn Hoddle's wet jock strap against Barcelona at Wembley.
COYS
What made me laugh bout Chelsea supporters was the fact that they are supposed to be hard but everytime Cass Pennant took the Shed every fuckin year with a handful of west Ham=well what about that wanker?