Lamela red herrings
As usual the whingers and moaners have been venting their fury without understanding business or how football clubs operate.
Take the players who have no future at Spurs, who have no squad number, who are not training with the first team, who will not be a part of the first team, they are still at the club. The moaners will tell you we are charging too much so it is out fault, but employing double standards they then also tell you it's our fault that we won't pay whatever any other club asks for a player.
For these people not only does money not matter, but they want to pay over the top for goods while at the same tell sell goods at a low price, the opposite in fact of how any successful business should operate. Lamela and Soldado show you don't just throw money where your head coach tells you to, securing the right payment structure with the a level of risk element included as performance-related add-ons, is vital in case the player fails.
The Saido Berahino deal is no different in that regard. Ther is no guarantee he will fulfill his potential, WBA want a fee that says he already has, we want a fee that says he hasn't, but might, the might element being add-ons. The WBA chairman publicly admitted it was the structure of the payment that was causing the problem, he wants as few add-ons as possible.
Lamela has not gone to France and their window has shut. He agreed personal terms, but no deal could be arranged and PR had been put out that Pochettino blocked the move, PR that is probably nonsense. The fact is Marseille could not sign Lamela on loan as they already have the maximum permitted 5 loan signings. The only way they could sign him is to buy him outright.
Are we seriously led to believe that Pochettino was fine with Marseille, Lamela and Spurs negotiating his departure then at the last minute piped up and said he won't allow him to leave? I don't believe a word of it, it isn't credible, it lacks any common sense. These things usually hinge on a replacement falling through, but we have already signed replacements with both Clinton Njié and Son Heung-min able to play there.
There would, therefore, be no reason to block a move for Lamela. This sounds like the French throwing a red herring at the story to appease their own fans and suggest it wasn't down to Marseille that the Argentinian wasn't signed, it wouldn't be the first time a French club have got the laws wrong. A remember a French club signing a player only to find out he couldn't actually play for them for a year so they had to come to an arrangement to terminate his contract and that isn't the only incident.
If Lamela was not allowed to leave then he and his agent would know about that, they wouldn't be negotiating with Italian and French clubs to try and find him somewhere to play, but they are so clearly he is allowed to leave, contrary to the Pochettino has blocked the move stories. They don't work on many levels.
Transfer deals can take many forms and a payment structure would have had to be found that was acceptable to us. As I have mentioned before the only loan options we will entertain is one where there is a guaranteed buy clause at the end of it, not an option to buy which simply leaves us all the risk. Suffice to say Lamela is still a Spurs player and if Pochettino as claimed has blocked his leaving then there will be no stories of the Italians trying to sign him as obviously they would get a flat no, as they would have received earlier had that actually been the case.
Instead, I have no doubt that we will see stories today of Italian clubs trying to take him on loan.
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Take the players who have no future at Spurs, who have no squad number, who are not training with the first team, who will not be a part of the first team, they are still at the club. The moaners will tell you we are charging too much so it is out fault, but employing double standards they then also tell you it's our fault that we won't pay whatever any other club asks for a player.
For these people not only does money not matter, but they want to pay over the top for goods while at the same tell sell goods at a low price, the opposite in fact of how any successful business should operate. Lamela and Soldado show you don't just throw money where your head coach tells you to, securing the right payment structure with the a level of risk element included as performance-related add-ons, is vital in case the player fails.
The Saido Berahino deal is no different in that regard. Ther is no guarantee he will fulfill his potential, WBA want a fee that says he already has, we want a fee that says he hasn't, but might, the might element being add-ons. The WBA chairman publicly admitted it was the structure of the payment that was causing the problem, he wants as few add-ons as possible.
Lamela has not gone to France and their window has shut. He agreed personal terms, but no deal could be arranged and PR had been put out that Pochettino blocked the move, PR that is probably nonsense. The fact is Marseille could not sign Lamela on loan as they already have the maximum permitted 5 loan signings. The only way they could sign him is to buy him outright.
Are we seriously led to believe that Pochettino was fine with Marseille, Lamela and Spurs negotiating his departure then at the last minute piped up and said he won't allow him to leave? I don't believe a word of it, it isn't credible, it lacks any common sense. These things usually hinge on a replacement falling through, but we have already signed replacements with both Clinton Njié and Son Heung-min able to play there.
There would, therefore, be no reason to block a move for Lamela. This sounds like the French throwing a red herring at the story to appease their own fans and suggest it wasn't down to Marseille that the Argentinian wasn't signed, it wouldn't be the first time a French club have got the laws wrong. A remember a French club signing a player only to find out he couldn't actually play for them for a year so they had to come to an arrangement to terminate his contract and that isn't the only incident.
If Lamela was not allowed to leave then he and his agent would know about that, they wouldn't be negotiating with Italian and French clubs to try and find him somewhere to play, but they are so clearly he is allowed to leave, contrary to the Pochettino has blocked the move stories. They don't work on many levels.
Transfer deals can take many forms and a payment structure would have had to be found that was acceptable to us. As I have mentioned before the only loan options we will entertain is one where there is a guaranteed buy clause at the end of it, not an option to buy which simply leaves us all the risk. Suffice to say Lamela is still a Spurs player and if Pochettino as claimed has blocked his leaving then there will be no stories of the Italians trying to sign him as obviously they would get a flat no, as they would have received earlier had that actually been the case.
Instead, I have no doubt that we will see stories today of Italian clubs trying to take him on loan.
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