As I’ve suggested before, in these most testing of times for top flight football clubs, Tottenham fans can for once can count themselves fortunate that Daniel Levy is at the helm. Sure, I’ve been a colossal critic of ENIC’s representative on Earth, but now is the time to unleash the kind of negotiating that lacks both foresight or intellectual insight. Every penny counts right now.
Football Insider believe that José Mourinho has reached out personally to the Bournemouth player, which is the Portuguese’s modus operandi, once Levy has thrashed out a preliminary deal with the club and obtained permission to talk with the player.
Unless I missed it, we were the first to break the news that Wilson had agreed terms, and hope that this deal is one that gets done, if this is a player that Mourinho is happy to take.
Bournemouth will undoubtedly be in a world of pain right now, with a whole host of players that are currently earning too much money, given the club’s new Championship status. Levy will be aware of this and Bournemouth are in a tight spot.
His injury was fine this season he played 35 out of 38 pl games. Kane will give us more worries on that front.Wilson will have plenty of time between games and should be fine.
Southgate won’t have been impressed with him ,back on the front pages during government lockdown.When playing for your club he only has to keep the Villa fans happy,it’s so much different when representing the country he will only play if he can win over the manager as he has to portray an example to kids all over England.If it was just down to his ability he would have played so many more times,but he is still immature and he is not nailed on to play.Southgate is strict on all his players and won’t pick him while his offfield behaviour is letting him down,he needs to know he can trust him. Great player but needs to grow up.
Of course our owners enic have money. Lewis is worth over 4billion and owns 70 per cent…. I’m not sure how financial fair play works, but our owner can surely afford a quality player or two..
Yeah we are 8th richest all down to revenue. Levy has turned a profit every year since 2012….. But at the expense of our team…
He will be in the next england squad. He’s a beast of a player now.
Wilson is a gamble.. He ruptured his cruciate ligament 3 seasons back. Then the next year he ruptured it again… Then last year he injured knee again? Same knee every time?
Perhaps thats why he keeps getting injured? Unlucky number.
20 years ago when we were buying from relegated like spam and leeds, they tended to be good players… I’m not sure I would take anyone from the cherries… Josh King if anyone at all, he seemed to be more dangerous than Wilson.
Tappa probably gets his ticket for zilch and will have it as long as he wants it. No wonder he’s not bothered with the club taking his money and broken football dreams, cos he don’t give em none…
Because the penny still hasn’t dropped for the thickos…
Badabing badaboom
The language you use you would be better suited supporting The Woolwich….I have done something about it, I’m no longer a ST holder, cancelling subscriptions maybe more of a challenge in my house hold (yes, I pay for mine)…I agree we needed a new stadium, as I know that means a lot to you and rightly so, just don’t agree how they have gone about it (20 years and never a penny spent of their own money) and we never needed to spend over 1b. We now need football people in charge, the problem is how that happens..
Nobody seems to have picked up that Joe Hart took the #12 shirt despite #13 being available (and obviously the more traditional No2 GK shirt number).
Callum Wilson wears #13. Just saying.
Grealish had agreed to sign for Spurs but when the new owners took over they refused to sell at any price.
Listen to this fool. Dumb “trick. What you gonna do, Scream and scream and scream till he leaves? Your constant relentless levy moaning/whinging hasn’t helped one bit has it? He’s still here and won’t be leaving anytime soon. Own it and move on. (Or do something about it other than what you do now which obviously ain’t working
I find it fascinating to watch the dynamics now.
I am a Levy hater (want the little runt out and to take all his little clappers with him) but I have no doubt at all that him & JM are actually working well together atm. Look how quickly he signed PEH and other deals are much closer than his last minute bargain basement deals. For his part JM seems to be accepting of his lot as well. Long may it continue.
If we finish 3rd and grab an FA pot I will be one happy bunny.
It emerged villa would have accepted £6m for Grealish that summer, but levy tried for weeks to make them blink with a bid of £3m plus onomah. Then villa’s new money arrived and the master negotiator became a national figure of fun.
He’s somehow emerged from the poch/stadium era with his reputation unscathed or even enhanced. Cannot for the life of me understand how.
im sure they scrapped ffp this year..
He could be our new Gazza,and would get back in the England fold,we could give them Dele in part exchange.
It was in 2015 when the nitrous oxide and drunkenness happened. Sadly in April under lockdown he crashed his £80,000 Range Rover after a party that finished at 4 a.m. He hasn’t learned which is a great shame as you say considering his skill and ability.
How do they make us the 8th richest if we owe near £1 billion on the stadium & loans.Is it worked out on revenue,cause that tap is on a drip since covid-19 or is it what the club would fetch if put up for sale.
The difference is we don’t have the kind of on-tap money that the Saudis have for City to make those kind of purchases. Ironically,because of Covid deflating the market, City will be able to pick up good quality players for chump change and staying within FFP, while everyone else is scouring the back of the sofa for loose change.
Therein lies the challenge. I’m sure Danny boy’s up for it. He is predatory in that regard. The natural instinct is to seek out the weakest, isolate them from the rest and then go for the jugular. Can’t be pretty to watch. His favourite negotiating position seems to be where the other party is over a barrel, about to get their pants pulled down.
For the so called master negotiator, how did he manage to go 100% over budget with the new stadium and to deliver it one year late. For somebody with his reported negotiating skills, he didn’t do a very good job with his project manager, builders and sub contractors.
Correctamundo.
This idea that he’s some kind of master negotiator is quite obviously complete garbage. At the end of the day he has a PR dept behind him remember, and public perception is always being worked on.
However, what he is always good at is approaching the weakest person with nowhere else to go in the room and no realistic rival around and putting his boot on their throat and suffocating them until they give in.
That’s called bullying coupled with opportunism and not really ‘master negotiator’ stuff is it? Fair enough, we live in a capitalist world why not take advantage. It’s against the backdrop of the net spend and wage bill that makes the whole situation so tedious and predictable.
HH is spot on though, this is the kind of environment Levy will thrive in. Predictably the PR spin will work to make him look ‘shrewd’ while our net spend and wage bill remains rock bottom.
In a nutshell, it’s easy to do deals nobody else wants to do, and it’s easy to look careful when you don’t spend any real money…
The reason there was zero competition for Grealish was the bigger clubs knew he was a loose cannon. From lying drunk in the streets in Tenerife unconscious and photographed taking nitrous oxide this is not acceptable behaviour of a first team player representing their clubs.Its Jacks fault that Leicester decided to go for Maddison as a less risk signing.Villa managers Remi Garde & Tim Sherwood warned him he was throwing his career away after being dropped for his offfield antic’s.England managers have overlooked him yet he has more skill and talent than some of the players picked.
B- baller.
Look after the hundreds of thousands and the millions will look after themselves
The key in this is Mourinho believing and trusting the player who comes in,to either start ahead of or replace Kane in games, and Brooks is looking Man U bound atm.
Milner is probably the best player on a free, there will ever be, another humongous mistake by Levy.
Levy gets a rise out of it, probably in more ways than you would like to imagine. The fans have become numb to his poundland antics, so he continues in the same vein unapposed every f#€king window.
Just live in the hope that Maureen can outsmart him at his own game.Bit like distracting a screaming toddler.
Deal with them sprats Daniel. Mercyless
If Jose gets Wilson in I think you will see Kane rested to suit the fixtures.If he doesn’t like it he has a choice to make.Even Pep would rotate him if he did go to City.
That’s the difference,Bournmouth wanted 40M City paid up.We spend weeks haggling in the hope they blink first.It’s not what the 8th. richest club in the world should be doing.
I am not sure he is dreadful – much like strikers before him, sometimes the team he played in didnt suit his style. I am willing to give him chance…as you say, if the deal is good.
Totally agree. We were in amongst the top teams for a fair few years, but never showed any intent. We were waiting for the stadium revenue to kick us on and then CV19 hit. You just know something else will happen? Boris Johnson will ban football, but just in N17!
Kane needs to naff off and let JM call the tunes.
Wilson is poor. But, if the deal is good, then we’re better off than we were
Yup. Milner is as dull as magnolia paint, but he gets the job done.
…do you think that’s terribly wise, sir?
In fairness lads, Villa were negotiating like crazy for a refinancing deal at the time.
First a bloke most Southampton fans were glad to get shot of. Then Joe Hart, who was shit long before he became a has-been. Now we’re talking of Wilson, who is so bang average it hurts. We really are becoming a joke. It’s criminal how we’ve gone from a team that got 86 points and finished second to this. Our relative success under Poch should obviously have been built on at the time, but the only thing Enic want to build is an events arena and some houses and hotels. It’s so transparent that real success on the pitch – or at least having a real go – isn’t the priority. Being as good at football as you possibly can should be every club’s priority, their very reason for being. How good that is depends, of course, on many factors. I honestly feel THFC is in a position to aim at being very good indeed. Enic are just not interested.
You’ve absolutely nailed it!
No one better to exploit clubs in weak positions. Who else could have snagged Grealish from villa when there was zero competition and they were a club on their knees? It’s why so many still insist on representing him as the master negotiator.
I think Brooks could be very good, and I am very impressed by Sarr of Watford, another Mane in the making. To really improve, you should constantly upgrade your squad and not stand still for two windows as Levy did. When you get behind the curve as other teams recruit, it makes it harder to get back into contention as you are always playing catch up. I am unenthused by Hjojberg but I accept that Mourinho knows more about football than me, so I will give him the benefit of the doubt. When I see Chelsea sign the likes of Ziyech and Werner with the possibility of Chilwell and Havertz to come, I can’t help feeling envious.
The spin is tremendous. We are in a difficult position with no money so we have to get creative, getting English ‘meh’ players in. Ignoring City and Liverpool, our direct rivals for 4th (Chelsea and Utd) are buying and being linked with top European and English talent. We used to buy young and exciting players, so raiding Bournemouth has Brooks written all over it. I get we have 3 wide players already, but strong competition for places drives a team forward. I am amazed we can’t find a young and exciting striker that could pick up the mantle if/when Kane leaves. I just feel that as a Spurs fan I am being forced into accepting second best…..again.
Wilson couldn’t even get into Capt. Manwaring’s army
I’m not sure the bargains will be that easy to extract from Bournmouth after City spanked £40m on Ake.
It won’t be easy to pull their pants down following that bit of business.
Ask Liverpool fans their view on James Milner – absolute proof that buying glitz and glam is not always the best choice.
The key here is that by addressing our weak spots we can’t help but be stronger than last season.
Sometimes the less exciting moves are the ones you need to make the most. I’d welcome him. Solid back up.
I have no issue mining relegated teams for gold. Not sure Wilson is “gold” but trying to find a player willing to be 2nd fiddle to an un-droppable player is going to be hard.
I like that he has PL experience, his locality to London is good, so less bedding in needed. I am looking forward to seeing what positions we fill. I must admit, when the long list of “required” players was drawn up by most fans, back up for Kane, and a defensive midfielder were high on the list, so although calibre is not where I would have liked it, we are at least focusing on what we need now. My only gripe is 3rd choice keeper, but I have a feeling he was not brought in to simply be a 3rd choice keeper.
Wilson is Premier League accustomed and ready – we can’t risk another Soldado.
I have no doubt there are likely players out there on the continent and beyond available for similar money who’d potentially do a better job/make more of an impact – but they would all be a risk. We don’t need to take a risk here. The team/squad isn’t purring enough that we can take a punt on a potential outright flop who can’t adapt to the PL straight away.
Wilson will primarily be a backup unless his form is incredible and then there is a possibility you could get him and Kane in the same 11 – at least in certain games.