Not a signing. Not 2020, but Toby has put pen to paper extending his contract until 2023 https://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-...ms-toby-alderweireld-signs-contract-extension
I do wonder if that’s the very reason Toby did re-sign. Not the photo, but perhaps there was a little disconnect between a minority of players and Pochettino. Dele is more the player he was two seasons ago, Toby signing a new contract. It'll be interesting to see what some of the other want away players do or don't do over the next few months.
I think Dele and Kane were on board with Poch as witnessed by their visiting the manager at his home and sending of warm tweets after his sacking. For some reason, Poch stopped playing Dele in his favoured #10 position close to Kane and that led to his inefftectiveness. There is no doubt there was bad blood between Poch and Alderweireld, Verthonghen and Rose. Toby never forgot that Poch benched him for most of the run-in of the 2016-17 season and a good part of this campaign after he didn't sign a contract extension. Vertonghen was left out of the opening day squad after he questioned the manager's tactics in training and saw his contract extension vetoed by Poch and his coaching staff. As for Rose, he has been bitter after Poch made a lesson of him for his ill-fated Google tirade by docking the LB two weeks wages and forcing him to apologise in front of the squad.
Alderweireld is better than CB we could've gotten in today's market. The fact that he has re-signed is, pardon the expression, "just like a new signing."
Irony and sarcasm will get you everywhere! But it is a done deal, Gedson is a Spur: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jan/15/gedson-fernandes-seals-tottenham-loan-benfica
Now, please, please, please, get rid of Eriksen. We can't have him getting booed and waving farewell to the supporters every game. He is like that lingering guest at a dinner party who just doesn't know when to leave.
I think he's agreeable to a deal with Inter, isn't he? If Levy wanting twice what they've offered for him is the holdup, there's the problem. If Eriksen wanted to stay at the party, he'd put a shift in, eh? Seriously, passing on 8.5m bps for someone whose absence will improve the team is madness. But you get the feeling the Levy would rather see him walk on a free than take an offer beneath his evaluation. This is the kind of thing that makes me upset about our chairman.
Eriksen in Italy for medical, but I won't believe it until I see him holding up an Inter jersey. Bergwijn in London for a medical - is he any good?
Yeah, I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if Levy pulls the plug just to be petty, £15m really isn’t going to change much about Spurs financial position.
I remember him in the PSV side that lost to Spurs at Wembley last season - he had a decent game and I can remember Gazza stoning him when he was clean through on goal late in the game.
Eriksen officially out. He was a good player for us, but this was not a good way to leave - lingering like a rancid fart. Looks like Bergwin is probably going to happen, too. Are we still in for a striker or a right back?
while I don’t quite disagree, I believe that the primary blame lies with Levy’s inability to have a price tag that aren’t in the “stupendously silly money” range, but instead priced it compared to what you’d realistically could expect with the already quite inflated rates Eriksen quite frankly tried to keep it as inoffensive as possible that he felt that it was time to move on if he wanted to try something different, and have acted as professionally as you could have hoped on the pitch
Yeah, I don't blame the player for wanting to play somewhere else, and he wasn't a dick about it. Maybe Levy thought this was going to be like Bale and Modric, where there was big interest from another club and they could negotiate. Nobody really came for Eriksen like they did for those two.
Let's not act like it wasn't a coincidence that the Lo Celso move wasn't announced on the same day as the Eriksen move. Seems like there's some underlying bitterness there.
actually in the same minute! and CE news is squeezed down to the bottom of the GLC one, not as a separate feed! but lads, let’s pretend that levy could have sold CE one or two years ago, or in his prime, I’m sure most of of us would have gone bonkers. so as far as levy is concerned, I’m not sure much could’ve been done as the player reportedly declined to re-sign lucrative contract he’s been offered...
He made it clear to Pochettino and Levy in the summer of 2018 that he wasn't going to re-sign. So it was up to Levy to sell him. We sold Carrick, we sold Berbatov, we sold Keane, we sold Modric and we sold Bale so what was the problem with selling Eriksen? Liverpool sold Coutinho for goodness sake. This is what the top clubs do, they sell and refresh. The question is, has Levy learned the lesson?