Donyell Malen

[Toronto Villa]

This is what happens when kids play FIFA or Football Manager. Deals are done in seconds. That’s not how employee contracts work. Especially in sport where there are multiple parties involved in coming to an agreement on a deal. And in football every club, especially in January is now looking to balance decisions for their squad with the financial complexities of FFP. One mistake or oversight and they could be fucked with their own domestic football association or UEFA.

[Rigadon]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

Depends on the motivation of the player I suppose.  London is a draw for some of them.  But stability and manager count.

[Dave]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

And arguably the one bit of their squad that isn't a complete bin-fire is the "wide-attacker who can also fill in up front" part.

[Demitri_C]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

[LeeB]

Malen is from quite a small, quiet place in the Netherlands. Maybe he's not that arsed about living somewhere like London, for all we know he's like some Dutch Vinnie Jones with a thirst for fishing and the great outdoors.

[jwarry]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

Especially if they are trading in lire

[Dave]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

I imagine that for a guy in your mid-20s earning several million pounds a year it's probably a lot more tolerable.

[john e]

Remember when we were linked/interested in Joa Felix last window, seemed to drag on for weeks then nothing at the end
Hope this isn’t another one of those

[Rigadon]

Remember when we were linked/interested in Joa Felix last window, seemed to drag on for weeks then nothing at the end
Hope this isn’t another one of those

He'd be in the 'wants to be in London' category.

[Demitri_C]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

I imagine that for a guy in your mid-20s earning several million pounds a year it's probably a lot more tolerable.

Yep very true sadly

[cannock villa]

Remember when we were linked/interested in Joa Felix last window, seemed to drag on for weeks then nothing at the end
Hope this isn’t another one of those

If we end up with another Morgan Rogers at the end of the window though i wouldn't mind

[ASHTONVILLA]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

I imagine that for a guy in your mid-20s earning several million pounds a year it's probably a lot more tolerable.

Yep very true sadly

It's not so much London is glamorous as Birmingham is perceived as less glamorous than most places.

I was in rural Egypt in the runup to Christmas visiting farms near Sadat City, and got talking to a farmers son who had done his masters degree at Aston University. When I told him I was from Birmingham he spent 10 minutes complaining about what a horrible place it was. He moved to London to do his medical training and loved it there.

That is what we are up against. Even people from rural Egypt think Birmingham is a dump. It wont be that he was in a poor area either, his father has a 200Ha strawberry farm and will be worth a few million.

Anyway, I am sure we will sign a couple of players soon.

[Brazilian Villain]

I was in rural Egypt in the runup to Christmas visiting farms near Sadat City, and got talking to a farmers son who had done his masters degree at Aston University. When I told him I was from Birmingham he spent 10 minutes complaining about what a horrible place it was. He moved to London to do his medical training and loved it there.

That is what we are up against. Even people from rural Egypt think Birmingham is a dump.

When you disagreed, did he add that you were in denial?

*Sorry.

[markeeeebeeee2005]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

Always a laugh when people are dying to tell everybody how awful a place London is to live. It’s fine mate. Lived here for 20 years. Loads to do, eat and see, some decent housing stock and lots of options for work.

Even better when somebody from Bloxwich or Scunthorpe or wherever is all too ready to ask ‘how on earth do you live in London?’ To which the stock response is a standard ‘right back at you and also nobody was asking.’

Some sort of reverse snobbery.

[Chris Smith]

Spurs considering a bid.

If they do I imagine the lure of London could mean he goes there.

Do you think so? They’re in the bottom half of the table, can’t offer European football and are likely to be sacking their manager in the not too distant future.

They still are a big club as much as it pains me to say it.  The lire of london is real but dont know why its a horrible place to live

I imagine that for a guy in your mid-20s earning several million pounds a year it's probably a lot more tolerable.

Although if being in London was his motivation I wouldn’t want him anyway and more importantly I don’t think Unai would either.