Tevez To Spurs? Don’t Be Daft..But..
By: Robert Reed | January 12th, 2012
According to Sky Sports, AC Milan have failed in their attempt to bring Carlos Tevez to the club. It is thought that a last try at reaching agreement with Manchester City has failed, and the deal is more or less dead.
Inter Milan were rumoured to be interested a while back, but it’s thought that was just mischief making to cause a bit of aggro for their local rivals.
Although moneybags PSG were reportedly interested at one point, they haven’t followed up on it. One feels that was just newspaper talk anyway.
So there you go then. He’ll be on his way to us! Nobody else wants him, we can afford £200,000 a week wages and Man City will be just aching to gift another world class forward to one of their closest rivals for the title.
OK, so it ain’t gonna happen. But if it did?
Breaking the bank with a huge signing on fee to supplement more reasonable wages for a player of Tezez’s calibre would make Spurs an incredibly tempting bet for the title. It would have to be a very serious offer, the type which only reckless chairmen make often, but as a one off it would be do-able.
Now I certainly don’t envisage Tevez joining Spurs at all, I’m not ten years old. But he’s a prime example of the kind of big, big signing which would be worth the money to deliver a title to the lane for the first time since ‘61. If we qualify for the Champions League next season as we certainly should, don’t expect us to compete on two fronts and have another tilt at the title. This is a golden opportunity which could feasibly not come around for another ten/twenty years.
We should go for it and throw caution to the wind, just this once. To dare is to do!
COYS!
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…well there is no way I would want a guy who a) costs the earth in salary, b) costs the earth in transfer fee, then c) moans about wanting to be in another country, then d) says – one more than one occasion – that he has played his last game for you, then e) plays for you again after you up his salary, then f) refuses to play in a Champions League game for you when you need him the most, and then g) goes AWOL and fails to turn up for training for a few days…. Apart from that, he is a good player….but wouldn’t touch him even if I could afford him.
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It’s all very well to keep bringing in players who are viewed as possible future stars, but paying top dollar wages to star players in their prime is likely to spur (no pun intended) curent squad members to higher levels.
Despite not scoring quite as many as I would have hoped he would, Adebayor proves this in my opinion… He’s added something no Crouch or Keane could, he’s strong, clever on and off the ball and appears to inspire Bale more than any other player.
If that’s what you get by paying more, for or to players, I’m all for it. Tevez however, at £200,000 a week? I’d flipping love it. But the hardworking supremo Mr Levy won’t swallow. No way!
(I’m not knocking the chairman – he’s the best around!)
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Oh no doubt about it Tony, world class footballer and world class bell end. He ALWAYS gives 100% when he plays though which is one thing you can’t throw at him. It’s just getting him on the pitch in the first place! Like I said though it’s a player approaching his calibre we should be going for rather than the man himself. Having said that, I wouldn’t be crying into my beer if he did end up at The Lane. Dick head or not.
Whatever happened to Hulk? He had an amazing strike rate last season did he not?
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Yep. Best Chairman in the league Zab.
Agree that although he trips over his own gangly legs far too often when you are screaming at him to shoot, Adebayor has been fantastic this season. His movement is first class. Quality costs.
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Zab – it is not what you get for paying more. What did we get for paying David Bentley top dollar? Or Chelsea paying Torres? Or Shevchenko? Or Man City and Robinho? Or what they are getting right now by paying Tevez… Great value for money…
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Hulk and scoring record? Well Suarez had a great strike record at Ajax…it is now seeming have to deserted him now. I do not trust good strike records outside England, Spain, Italy, and only slightly trust those in France and Germany.
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Sometimes you don’t get value for money Tony, but buying someone who is very baltently just above average won’t get you anywhere. As for Torres, Schevchenko and Robinho, that’s billionaires throwing money around on the off chance. Would you have bought Torres for £50m?
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True. It was Portugal after all.
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Tony, We hardly paid “top dollar” for or to Bentley! £17m might be our transfer record, but it’s hardly the world record.
I’m talking about world class players of course, not players in the £60-70-80k bracket.
There are exceptions to the rule on both sides – super Scotty Parker has been a revelation despite a low-ish fee and not exorbitant wages… Shevchenko & Robinho were lame ducks I’ll agree, but Tevez is proven in the league.
The few players worldwide that earn £150-200k a week generally are the best players on their respective teams. We’re talking Aguero, Ronaldo, Messi, Tevez (obviously) Eto’o etc
I’m not saying we could sign ‘em. I’m saying that with the squad we have right now, only a real gem would fit – and if that means breaking the wage structure, now’s the time. COYS
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You people seem to be overlooking the fact that it’s against rules to loan two players from another Premier League club at any one time.
Glad to clear this up.
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Thanks Ted, but no clearing up necessary as nobody has mentioned loaning Tevez.
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TedK you seem to be forgetting that Man City want a straight transfer, no loan.
Glad to clear that up.
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City would never sell him to us because they know how good he can be and they know it would mean they lose the league,
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I think leave tevez where he is this is a man who refused to come off the bench when called on never heard of it go get gomez from bayern munich.
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No Tevez, please. He will break the locker room. Imagine Modric, Bale, and Ade not happy…….
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How about Suarez? We give Liverpool Dafoe + Huddlestone. I feel Suarez is not happy there for many reasons.
He’s playing in a team of lesser players. Carroll never picks up the opening as quick as Suarez. In fact most of the times Carroll never saw them.
No CL next year.
The ban & the media gotta hurt.
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TEVEZ IS THAT SPECIAL PLAYER WE ALL WANT TO SEE AT THE LANE FOR SURE WITHOUT DOUBT HARRY AND MR SIR YOUR LORDSHIP LEVY PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE GET THE GUY AND SAMBA AFTER ALL THIS IS THE BEST CHANCE WE WILL EVER GET TO WIN THE LEAGUE NEVER MIND GETTING INTO THE TOP FOUR , DO WHAT IT TAKES THE SPURS FANS WILL TAKE WHATEVER ON THE CHIN AS LONG AS WE CAN SAY YOU REALLY TRIED MR LEVY WITHOUT TRYING TO BLUFF US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Tonya I think Suarez’s problem is he wants out of English football altogether rather than just out of Liverpool, otherwise that would be an interesting proposition.
Love the ‘no Champions League’ comment half way through the season though haha.
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Heard some time back that David Villa is unhappy at Barca. Now that would be a signing. Oh and how about Messi and Inniesta as squad players as well.
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Yes, along with Pele’s more talentad grandson and the ghost of George Best.
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Georgie Best. I saw a rerun years ago a match we tied Manu 2-2 back in 1970. Best jumped up in stride, collected a long ball with his left shoulder just outside the box directly at Mike England & the other prolly Mullery. Both Spurs dared not touched him as he descended into the box & rolled the ball to his feet with only Jennings in front of him. I tried to find a footage of that goal in Youtube but no luck.
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For all the delicious potential that Tevez would bring, I fear that Citeh would be mad to sell him to us even if we could afford. Dream on.
I sense something in the air though. I think we’ll get a substantial present this window (and I don’t mean Samba).
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Why can’t we but Thomas Muller?
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Good player CB, but he won’t leave Bayern Munich for us.
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