The January 2015 Transfer Rumour Thread

[olaftab]

French papers reporting we are after  Bordeaux's Algerian  attacking midfielder Terrib Leshit.

[Damo70]

Nah, it's 沒有人 that we're after/

Its Nikto from Russia

That is the mark Russia will give us in every Eurovision from now on.

[Phil from the upper holte]

According to the Mirror Spuds going to offer £3m for Delph, If he has no interest in signing a new deal i'd take the money

[RussellC]

According to the Mirror Spuds going to offer £3m for Delph, If he has no interest in signing a new deal i'd take the money

If they offer us Aaron Lennon and £3million I'd take it.

[Phil from the upper holte]

According to the Mirror Spuds going to offer £3m for Delph, If he has no interest in signing a new deal i'd take the money

If they offer us Aaron Lennon and £3million I'd take it.

Is he still even playing?

[Monty]

£3million? Not a hope. The price of relegation is a bit more than £3-twatting-million.

[Richard E]

According to the Mirror Spuds going to offer £3m for Delph, If he has no interest in signing a new deal i'd take the money

This is going to be like when they were going to make that cunningly low bid for Benteke and brilliantly scam us into accepting it, with the brilliantly underhand device of openly publicising it in one of the papers.

[Phil from the upper holte]

£3million? Not a hope. The price of relegation is a bit more than £3-twatting-million.

he hasn't played that much this season, with injury and suspension

[Monty]

True, but he's by some distance our best midfielder when fit, and we don't know yet how much we may need him. £3m won't replace him any better than £0 would, in my view, so we might as well just keep him for as long as we can.

[not3bad]

£3million? Not a hope. The price of relegation is a bit more than £3-twatting-million.

he hasn't played that much this season, with injury and suspension

He might make the difference later in the season though.

[SteveN]

True, but he's by some distance our best midfielder when fit, and we don't know yet how much we may need him. £3m won't replace him any better than £0 would, in my view, so we might as well just keep him for as long as we can.

Agreed.  Why would Spurs want another midfielder to the countless number they already have?  It's not as if Levy will be able to offload that many due to the price they ask for players.

[ozzjim]

Dembele straight swap is the only deal I would take from Spurs.

[hilts_coolerking]

True, but he's by some distance our best midfielder when fit, and we don't know yet how much we may need him. £3m won't replace him any better than £0 would, in my view, so we might as well just keep him for as long as we can.

I take your point but on the other hand how much use will he be if he genuinely doesn't want to be here?  It's a difficult problem.  Particularly as £3M could be the difference between mediocre and half decent.

[Monty]

I'm not convinced £3m would really make that difference though. If we wanted a really good player for £12m, but the club wanted £15m, I really doubt the chairman would be shaking is head until suddenly brightening up and saying 'Of course! We sold Fabian Delph!'. Cheap sarcasm aside, I'm just not sure that's how the transfer funds would work.

As to his motivation, Delph never really struck me as some moping Anelka, whinging and sulking until he gets his way. He's a very good professional, and if he's leaving anyway then there's nothing to sulk against. In fact, he's played perfectly well - when fit - since it became apparent that he'd probably leave come May. All in all, I think it would be better to have him for four and a half months than to have £3m.

[paul_e]

True, but he's by some distance our best midfielder when fit, and we don't know yet how much we may need him. £3m won't replace him any better than £0 would, in my view, so we might as well just keep him for as long as we can.

I take your point but on the other hand how much use will he be if he genuinely doesn't want to be here?  It's a difficult problem.  Particularly as £3M could be the difference between mediocre and half decent.

The rebuttal of that is that nothing is officially agreed yet (even if agents have been talking) so fucking about and not putting in the effort could put a summer move at risk and he's not yet established enough with England to be guaranteed a place regardless of form so if he has international ambitions he can't really afford to risk those by playing like a chump for 6 months.  I genuinely can't see a situation where we'd be better letting him go that doesn't involve a player coming the other way.  Without that (and it being a player who wants to come and who will improve us) we're better off keeping him on the grounds that the summer will be 6months closer to a takeover and new manager and we just need to keep the side as strong as possible until those events occur.