For those believing that recent events might have shaken up our beloved chairman, a report in this morning’s Mail Online suggests otherwise. According to Simon Jones, Levy has had a £12.9million offer rejected by Serie A stars Bologna, for defender Takehiro Tomiyasu. The Italians are said to be looking for as much as £17million.
As I’ve mentioned previously, this 22-year-old strikes me as a sound player. Ordinarily, the word ‘versatile’ sets off an alarm bell, but in on this occasion the boy looks to be a particularly effective, and well drilled footballer.
According to Bologna Sport News, the deal is thought to be close to completion once the rough edges have been smoothed out, with the Italian outlet understanding that Spurs are closer to seeing ‘white smoke’ than rivals for the Japanese defender, Atalanta.
Fingers crossed this is a deal that can get over the line sooner rather than later, as it would be helpful to have new players in for the preseason games.
Looks like this boy will be very comfortable on the right side of a three, Nuno likes a back three.
good one
Wonderful use of the word minge, so rarely seen in this context. Bravo!
We will win the euros and Kane will be staying🌚. I’m double good mate, nothing at all to complain about. Life’s brilliant. Grandsons smashing it at the London elite football academy. 8 goals in 3 games. Two hatricks and a brace🌚
I was only replying to what you said, mate!
Trouble is whilst Levy facks about offering lowball bids somebody else comes in and bags the player – it’s happened before. Nothing smart or normal about that. Nothing smart about not getting the player onboard early preseason to integrate into the team either. Levy doesn’t seem able to comprehend this.
“Levy’s not a fool”, so how did his Grealish negotiation go?
Sound mate, hope all’s well with you.. I’ll be buzzing if England can win the Euros.. And we can persuade Kane to stay.. Lol
not against the cost of Sanchez it’s not
Happy to contribute 🙂
DNA…I thought it stood for “Do Nothing Achieveable”. 🙂
Never heard Levy called a minge before, but I like it 👌
Maybe, but IF this is all true, would it be worth it or acceptable to miss out on a 1st choice(?) player over £3m?
Sorry but I don’t think it is, especially when Mr.Levy would know how much revenue will be earnt in Japan off the back of it.
In the purchase of Premier League football players’ terms, £4.1m really is not a lot of money. Yes it sure would be to me, but it’s about Mr.Levy not being a minge & potentially losing THFC a signing – remember the Jack Grealish ‘£5m near miss?’ Bet Mr.Tightwad wished he’d paid it now, if only to sell him on for £75/80m profit!
THFC do have a large fan base in far East & the shirt, etc sales there in 1st year would be astronomical (as has been for Kagawa, Yoshida, Okazaki, etc & for Son in S.Korea)
Jack Grealish bid was a massive under his value, this isn’t. If we came in with a bid of 17 million, the club would demand 20 million. The fact that Daniel Levy has made poor bids in the past doesn’t make this one a poor bid.
Thank You – you have opened my eyes to a whole new way of thinking about time and space.
Can tell what your ‘pornhub’ search history reveals.
I agree which is why we offered 5 mil and a mars bar for grealish ,levy is known to take the piisss
And half of those are dinky hotties with hairy vag…
Oh sorry wrong group.
Agree at age 22 always get something back.
The answer is obvious – we’re going to strictly attack on the left side, and defend only on the right side, so that we can help the newly hired defensively minded coach employ a gameplan that he is completely unfamiliar with. This is known as DNA – Do Nothing Appropriate.
I think Toby is making a wise decision. He knows he needs to move into a quieter footballing backwater like Jan did.
Apart from being 2 footed the Japanese guy looks really mobile for his height. At under 20m it’s not a major disaster if it doesn’t work out
I’m a rugby union man and therefore straight forward in my approach to the problems of selection of football players so can someone please explain – if we have at least 5 players who can play as right-sided central defence and only one who is passable on the left (but we prefer to play as left-back in a 4) why are we lookign to sign two more defenders who only play on the right side. P.S. I miss Super Jan Vertongan mightily.
I was out in Tokyo back in the late 80s and decided to step out into the square during rush hour to get a feel of the place.
It was akin to walking through a corn field looking down upon a sea of blackheads. I felt very tall 🙂
Re shirt sales my Japan mate (alinco) said the same thing. We’ll get him
Loving people say another £4.1M is not worth arguing over. I’d like to live in their world.
DoF on the phone to Nuno saying ‘I thought he said Spurs won’t do that anymore.’ Levy is a joke and makes the club one.
The market for top players is always a sellers market. We just don’t shop there.
Yes, criticism seems to be poor, you don’t start negations by offering what the other team wants. Not to mention that the initial negotiations are handled by Paratici.
As far as fans and the new season goes, along with *the debt™* recovery , they are already making excuses for July 19th, the ‘new’ restrictions end date(straight face…really trying, did anyone really think…?? …Nevermind) so it’s not looking good for the NFL/event arena ticket wise. You can get a jab at ‘The Tottenham Hotspur stadium’ but probably won’t be able to watch a match.
Let’s hope that training gear shifts eh?
Feels like there is a decent deal here (if that ages we’ll who knows), Paratici might be showing things to come in his deals.
We do need to speed up our deal making rather than always dragging so new players can have coaching time under Nunu. I bet we loose more in untapped player potential than the little we save dragging out the deal.
17 mill? Bit rich for Daniel. He’s still on 1992 prices.
HH, that is harsh I am only confirming your news am I not
you state the deal is nearly done and I endorse that
Baller.
I remember back in the day watching an olympic opening ceremony and all the Japanese were about 5ft apart from the guy holding the flag who was 6ft plus and surprise surprise he was their high jumper!!
From what I have seen he is very two footed, which is an added bonus, him and +anderson/demiral would be a massive improvement at the back. If news Toby wants out (and Levy’s asking price) the net spend would be affordable.
In fab rom I trust. Hope you’re well bruva cush
Nuno Santos blue&white army. YIDZ
He appears to have a decent all round game and at 6’2″ must be the tallest man in Japan.
The big question is can he reproduce what I’ve seen on YouTube in the Prem where the game is faster.
Sport is all about levels and one of the major differences between them is can you cope with the higher pace.
From the French bargain bin to the Italian… There are free agents like Donnarumma, Sergio Ramos, Messi and we are linked to budget that we have to ‘google’.
We comment on the news snitz, so either we don’t or you wish to police what is said on here – guess how that’s going to pan out?
Different day, different manager, different Director of Football, same old bald vermin.
According to the report the deal is nearly done so why all the criticism
I think this is a buyers market is it not, so are we suggesting Levy just goes and pays any asking price of any player please Levy might be many things but a fool is not one of them
Is it just Spurs who try to get a deal mmmmmmm don`t think so
And before the crap flies in yes I want both Levy and Enic out but keep the criticism in prospective
Surely even Mr.Levy realises, the extra £4.1m would be negligible as they’d make twice, thrice even, his whole fee back in Japanese shirt sales alone over the course of any contract?
Come on ‘Ebenezer,’ stop with the financial procrastination & pay up if he’s wanted!
Yes Nuno seems a decent man who will pocket a few million till Levy gets bored with his latest bauble. Reminds me of Liberace’s latest biopic played by Michael Douglas where his old lover is being made to feel uncomfortable until he can find another, newer model played by Matt Dawson, then kicks him out and moves Matt in but still holds onto the empire. Levy change? Just fill the press with rumours and carry on regardless.
No chance, engine off as he’d be wasting fuel/money
Bologna: “Hey Daniel, there is a market out there and what we want and what you want is not always possible to achieve. You know how it is right?”
A leopard will never change it’s spots. Or perhaps a snake would be a better comparison in this case? I expect this will drag on for the entirety of the transfer window with Levy increasing his offer by increments of a euro at a time until the Bolognese chairman gets sick and tired of the whole charade and either relents or tells Levy to go and drown in a vat of pasta.
Levy lowballing again, I’m shocked!!🤣🤣🤣
Levy is staying true to his DNA then.
Hope he has plenty of fuel and the windows down he will be there a while.
With the engine running….
So Levy is still handling transfer negotiations while Paratici waits in the car.