Quiet rumours about a Tottenham move for Manchester City’s Carlos Tevez have been appearing in the press since the start of the season and while there was a brief acceleration in the stories after the Argentinean’s alleged refusal to come on as sub in Munich, most Spurs fans have rightly ignored them.
However it’s difficult to ignore the reports this morning that are splashed over the Daily Mail that suggest a £20m offer is imminent.
The story quotes a ‘source’ at Tottenham who says,
‘People at Tottenham reckon a deal like this could be bigger than anything since they signed Jurgen Klinsmann.
‘There’s definite interest. The big stumbling block could be whether or not City are prepared to do business with a team now regarded as one of their rivals for the title.’
All of these stories seem to gloss over the small matter of Tevez’ £200,000 a week wages and as such, can this just be filed as a non-starter?
In the last week there have been stories connecting the club with Kaka, a permanent move for Adebayor and now the Tevez link. Are Spurs really about to move to the next level with wages of this kind?
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The wages are not a problem because you can make wages up by bonuses and Marketing rights executive boxes at the new stadium, and so on.
I’ts never going to happen,Tottenham are owned by Jews and Man City are owned by Arabs,remember they prefered to let Bellamy drop a league and play for Cardiff than sign for us.You will never see any buisiness between these two clubs and it’s not because they are rivals for the league
what about adebeyour sherlock??
Fool.
Yeah
nonsense
Levy vs. bin Zayed Al Nahyan?
That sounds about right John – but you forget, both LOVE money, so if there’s a deal to be made, you can guarantee these two will find a way, regardless of the situation…!
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Are you forgetting something Ady and they have to get there wage bill down or they will be out of Champs nest season.
john why did city loan us adebayor then?
Spurs are not owned by jews you moron
Think you’ll find Joe Lewis is Jewish not that it makes any difference.
This is a load of rubbish, we will not be paying those kind of wages while trying to fund a new stadium. Someone is trying to bump up his price.
We will be renting the Olympic Stadium when we get back into the top four.
Baaaaaahahahahahahahahahaha….. oh God lemme get my breathe, sorry….. couldn’t help myself…. just….. thought for a second it said Tevez to Spuds….. oh wait, it di…….. BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
Mike I didn’t know sheep could type!
And as for Tevez coming to Spurs sounds like your pooper could be going! COYS!
I think man city would rather see us up there with them than Man U, Chelsea or Arsenal as they see us less of a financial threat to them in the long run.
sign adebeyour perm for 10m (as quoted in press) give him a signing on fee to make up the wages.
sell dos santos 8m
same with Tevez 20m with a signing on fee to make up the wages (might be an idea to put a default clause in if he decides to go walkabout)!
buy moussa sow 15m
sell pavlyuchenko 10m
get kaka in on loan
sell pieanaar 7m
buy marko marin 15m
sell jenas to villa 5m
buy Vertonghen 10m
sell corluka 8m
buy krull 8m
sell bassong 5m
sell bentley 3m
sell khumalo 3m
sell gomes 6m
-22m net
Haha. Pav 10m? – £8m max. GDS – £5m max. Pienaar – £5m max. Charlie – £5m. Bassong is of to QPR – £3m. Gomes with 6 months left on his contract – £500,000 max. Get real.
you seem to be forgetting this is Daniel Levy!
Pav has a great reputation amongst the Russian Clubs, from his high scoring in their league and international striker status and lets face it they are not short of money! just look at what they have been splashing out recently! 10m is definately gettable from a russian side.
Dos Santos has been outstanding for Mexico recently and had a brilliant World Cup. He’s also scored the Goal of the year not long ago and is only 22!! He is definately worth 8m im just bemused we cant seem to accomodate him!
Levy bought Bassong for 8m he will not let him go for 3m as a matter of principle, 5m is not too much for an international defender who had a good couple of seasons for us till his form has understandably dipped since a serious lack of playing time!
Corluka was linked with an 8m switch to liverpool , they love to pay over inflated prices !
Also i think the Tevez thing could happen with the help of a certain Mr Ardiles to make things run smoothly! Show him the tape of Maradonna playing for spurs and Ricky and Ossie winning rthe FA cup to get the juices flowing!
Sorry to shoot this one down but players values can also correspond with the amount of time left on their contracts. If you yourself could get any of these amounts for the players mentioned then I’m sure Daniel would happily give you a job.
Seville wanted to pay us £3m for Gio last summer which we turned down (reluctantly).
Well that’s that sorted then. Premier League title here we come
I’m off today to get my Tevez tattoo on one arm and my Torres matching one on the other arm. I’ll look class and will really show everyone when these deals come off ; )
Toby
get that tatooed on your forehead!
Brilliant and so full of humour Mattyboy.
never going to happen. we’re not financially stupid. levy is a smart businessman-very shrewd and he tends to stay away from the ‘big’ players, opting for lesser known big talents. he would be great but could also do a lot of damage in the dressing room. we have a great manager in getting along with the players but if and when harry leaves for england job the next candidate may not be able to handle the argentinians attitude. why did fergie get shot of him?……after all he’s better than what man u already have apart from rooney
Its Qatar Money our new Stadium Sponsors they are our pimps.
Complete non starter for reasons too numerous to mention. And it was in The Sun, not The Mail.
Why was BAE so offpace at Stoke? Possibly because he had a clash with Andros Townsend earlier in the week ?
Goes to show how fragile team spirit can be, even after a record run of wins.
Signing Tevez would be fantastic on one hand (goal scoring ability) but disasterous on the other hand – the blighter would sew discord in the dressing room.
Another example of a tools reporting i think.
Ekotto was not slow it was Stoke who where faster out of the blocks with TuT short for Top up Tempo. All the rage in my area The North West Davspurs warned you Stoke would be mad bad and in 6th gear,?
Has April fools moved to dec. What’s next – Messi to join us too?
Sign Messi outright? Don’t be silly!
We’re going to take him on loan for January and then snap him up at a reduced price in the summer, with a signing-on fee to compensate for the £60,000/week we’ll be paying him.
If Tevez signs for us I will get a tattoo of his face on the end of my pipe, like that stalker in Partridge. Except on my pipe.
what happened with bae and townesend
Not ever going to happen!!!!!
Its never gonna happen, shame, but the comments have mabe me smile……………..Thanks
Dont want the trouble maker. We will struggle when he throws his toys out, which he will just at the wrong time for Spurs.
The biggest problem is ManC’s willingness to sell him to another premier league club. If there are short of takers then it might happen but there are already 3 interested clubs in PSG, Juve and AC Milan. If they do decide to sell him to us then you have to convince the player to stay in England but this is much lesser issue than his hugh wages as i don’t think he will have any problem getting his family settled over here.
Apparently Fernando Torres, could be sold for £20million! That could be an amazing deal for us! I know it means communicating with Chelsea which is the last thing Daniel Levy wants to do but Torres would be amazing at the lane! I know hes well crap now but to be honest no one really wants him at Chelsea. Anchollotti didnt want him and even if he did hes not there any more, AVB would rather play Drogba and Sturridge and based on form rightly so. I think Harry is the man to resurrect his career. Having, Defoe, Torres and Adebayor would surely help us win the league. I think the reason Chelsea want Modric is to unlock Torres potencial, When he was at his best he was playing with the likes of Alonso and Gerrard- Modric, van der Vaart, Parker and Huddlestone are not bad in comparison. I think Spurs are the team to get back the old Fernando Torres, saying that its probably not going to happen! Oh well! COYS!
Not questioning his talent, but do we really want players like that?
Maybe it’s enough for teams like Chelsea and City to guy whatever players are currently making news, but should Spurs do that as well?
Spurs have good teamwork and apparently good chemistry. I like that our star players are humble (generally) and not as mercenary as on other teams (sure Modric thought about leaving it who would not be flustered by the ridiculous money being discussed for him?) At the end of the day I’m glad that we don’t have any Nani’s, Tevez’s, Balotelli’s, etc.
I’d be much happier developing young talent rather than buying older, arrogant players. That’s just me, though.
Who r u Daniel levy? Lol
Be nice if I were — I might be able to make a dent on my student loans…
daniel u mean players like dear arry wanted but was NOT allowed to buy because d levy is no fool, especially when the tax man is around the corner
just think if harry would have had his way IT would have been “THE TEAM OF OLD MEN” THANK GOD FOR DAN LEVY
i wish it was true, possible? yes
wed have to sell vdv tho as he causes a problem and an imbalance, id rather have defoe start all day long, you cant fit vdv anywhere unless defoe is injured or suspended.
Levy will be crazy to throw 20mil at a player who could threaten to retired in a week, homesick the next, refused to be a sub, and a million other reasons.
We are getting Tevez: and offering £12m + Jenas
Arabs v jews??? What in gods name are you talking about????
utter dick.
On the tevez debate, would really want the player but really don’t want the person. to but him seems to almost condone his behaviour. would rather see him rot int he reserves for city while he thinks how he has cocked up a a career that most of us can only dream about.
We don’t need that much in jan: Moussa sow and a central Defender as back up as bass should be gone. poss experienced cover for BAE if, god forbid, he ever got injured. Too many changes in Jan aren’t needed and expensive
Hahahahahahahahaha !
Yes seville did offer 3 millionbut real zaragoza offered 8 for dos santos. Spurs accepted zaragozas bid but dos santos wanted to go to seville who wouldnt budge from3 hense no deal.
Moussa Sow / Leandro damiao + Gary Cahill + Adebayor outright would be ideal at the moment. Tevez would just cause problems.
if the spurs got Tevez up front with van and mod in behind him ooh how does this sound people??
Brad friedel
(Heurelho Gomes)
kaboul dawson King
(Charlie) (Gallas) (Essou Ekotto)
walkker paker bale
(lennon) (sandro) (Pienaar)
van der modric
(Dos Santos ) (Defoe )
trevez
(Adebayor)
subs….. Pavlyuchenko, Kranjcar, Huddlestone, Bassong , Cudicini
with young carrol coming through ( he could pass the life out of a game) Townsend ( reminds me of a young ryan giggs) Harry Kane ( gona be the alround striker like Rooney) the spurs ranks are full of good talent, …
the future is white!!!