http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20974154
In 2011, Tottenham and Wigan were alerted to the possibility of signing a Celta Vigo midfielder called Michu, who was available on a free transfer. Both decided not to take things any further.
Last summer they got another bite at the cherry. The elegant Spaniard, now playing for Rayo Vallecano, had just finished the season as La Liga's top-scoring midfielder and had a buy-out clause of just £2.2m in his contract.
Again they erred, leaving Swansea City unopposed as they signed the 26-year-old.
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Why weren't we interested in Michu?
Not Interested in Michu
posted on 12/1/13
wer not the scouts tho are we
posted on 12/1/13
yes but this is a pointless article. having a go at the club for not signing him lol.
its like saying why didn't we have our scouts in argentina when messi was coming through is a kid.. we would have had messi in our youth system.
swansea took the gamble and good luck to them.. he has been great for them.
posted on 12/1/13
yh fair enough about the messi point. he didn't write the article tho, was the bbc
posted on 12/1/13
oh ok. apologies.
posted on 12/1/13
Being offered Michu for 2.2 million when he was the highest scoring midfielder in Spanish football was stupid to turn down.
posted on 12/1/13
I hate seeing articles like this. Ok no one would anticipated how he'd have turned out in the PL, but the fact that he was La Liga's top midfield scorer and we could have signed him for £2.2M is the annoying thing
posted on 12/1/13
"write the article again and insert any other side in europe in there apart from swansea."
You're missing the point. If you read the whole article on the BBC you'll see that Gerry Armstrong said he specifically told Spurs about Michu, giving us an advantage over any other team in Europe (except apparently Swansea and Wigan, maybe because of their Spanish connections). Armstrong saw the potential there with his in depth knowledge of Spanish football, but Spurs for some reason weren't interested.
posted on 12/1/13
"its like saying why didn't we have our scouts in argentina when messi was coming through as a kid"
Wrong. It's actually like saying 'why did we turn down Messi when he was coming through as a kid after our scouts/contacts pointed him out to us?'.
posted on 12/1/13
we don't have any scouts though.
posted on 12/1/13
Bit of a pointless article really....
That's like saying why doesn't someone in the spurs hierarchy play football manager and realise that kompany, kaka, aguero, falcao, ramires and thiago silva amongst others were destined to be quality and sign them all when they were unknown for peanuts...