Staaaaandard !!! Get your 45m standard !!!

DDD :

Of course it is.

Just like the Sun put some rubbish like "Spurs stunned by 22m bid by Chelsea (which we predicted)" today.


The reality is this :

To align the cost of buying Modric, in this over-hyped over-inflated market, together with the form Darth Levy has on selling our class players, you are going to have to get much closer to 45m than 25 to seal the deal.

I thought Modric signed a 6 year contract??

It stoopid to start selling players, even at funny money, because you have to go buy equivalent players elsewhere. And they usually dont exist .... when it comes to Luka Modric.
Who would you buy ... if you were levy and sold Modric for 50 mil pounds.

Age and skill wise : Niko Marin looks a prospect.

Need decent strikers (preferrably younger than 27) . And at least one decent CB (similar age constraint) .

Many names touted on the striker front, but I'm not ITK regarding their ability. Who is actually any good bar Eto'o ??

Marin plays on the left though. I suppose he could be cultured enough to operate as a CM.

Marin is 22 too.
N yrs of confidence, cultivation etc could see him grow into such a role (IMHO) .

hasnt he and his agent committed his future to bremen?

we could probably have got him if we were 4th like we should have been if we didnt completely balls up the second half of last season. oh well.

1. Marin : yes he has. Just like Modric has to us (for now) .


2. If we had got top 4 again :

- we wouldn't by definition be needing to talk about every striker on Gods' earth

- I suspect we would be fending off interest from people wanting to come to be a part of a new adventure

I would like to think that Levy has a contingency plan and target in place just incase we do lose Modric.

Problem is who could we get that is as good as him that would come to us!

The current lack of activity in the transfer market combined with no football means there are plenty of column inches to fill and nothing to fill them with.

So, 2nd rate journalists latch onto any tiny scrap of a story and turn it into a world exclusive (whether true or not) to fill their newspapers.

They have to write about something, what we need is a flurry of transfer news then they will all forget about making up stories about Modric.

comment by The RDBD (not a THudd wannabe - he aspires to be me) (U1062)


posted 2 hours, 31 minutes ago

DDD :

Of course it is.
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My comment was directed at wookieswasher's bollox not the subject at hand