Unless you want to talk about Gareth Bale or the new sensation that is Tottenham Turfies, there is little else to discuss at the moment although the press are taking up some column space with a link to the Real Betis winger Alvaro Vadillo.
Even with that story you can’t move away from Bale with the Express even going so far as to say Real’s pursuit of the Welshman hinges on whether Tottenham can prize Vadillo away from his current club.
It’s said that the Spanish Under 20 international has a release clause of £17.3m and at 18, that’s pretty alarming and the player’s stats don’t go on to give too much encouragement. Vadillo became the second youngest to appear in a La Liga match when he made his debut at 16 in August 2011 but two months later he was sidelined for some considerable time with a torn cruciate ligament.
Overall, Vadillo has yet to score in 18 league appearances for Betis and while that isn’t his main job, does a lack of goals make him a non starter as a Bale replacement?
However, the player is highly thought of – not least by his current club.
“Vadillo has a great future in front of him, and we are very excited thinking about what he is going to bring to us during this coming season,” said Betis President Miguel Guillen.
“The club’s intention is that Vadillo shall stay at Betis. For us to allow our young prodigy to depart, there would have to be a very strong financial benefit for the club.”
Which could translate into holding Spurs to ransom after cleaning up on their star player. Hopefully, the need for a replacement won’t arise but Alvaro Vadillo may not be the man the club needs to fill any potential void.
SPURE WILL ADD 3 MADRID PLAYER IN BALE DEAL PLUS CASH PEPE + CONTRAO + DI MARIA + 50 MILLION–+ SELL(DEMPSEY ADABAYER DEFOE HUDD PARKER BAE ROSE )-TO SPEND CASH ON REMAINING–HULK / PJANIC / JAKSON MARTINEZ
If BALE GO SPURE WILL BE 4-3-3 / 4-2-3-1—LINE UP——-LLORIS–WALKER–PEPE–VER (DAWSON)–FABIO CONTRAO—-SANDRO(DEMBLELE)–PAULINHO–PJANIC (HOLTBY)—–DI MARIA–HULK–SOLDADO—-SUB–FRIEDEL–DAWSON–NAUGHTON–HOLTBY–CHANDLI–JAKSON MARTINEZ–DEMBLELE
my goodness – hulk and di maria. no thank you. i’d like contrao and morata and no one else from madrid. we should go for willian, ljajic, capoue and a striker like rondon. that’s all.
6 of the above don’t play for Spurs! Most of them won’t ever play for Spurs! Stop dreaming and put out a team sheet that actually includes players that are in the squad!
Lloris
Walker, Kaboul, Vertonghen, BAE/Rose
Paulinho, Dembele, Sandro
Bale, Soldado, Lennon
Subs: Sigurdsson, Holtby, Chadli, Friedel, Dawson, BAE/Rose, Naughton
Throw in Defoe for one of them…