Reports today suggest that a deal has been agreed between Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool for Irish striker Robbie Keane. It is believed that he has already undergone the medical and could be flying out to Spain tomorrow to join his new team for a friendly against Villarreal.
The fee is expected to be in the £20 million range with the hope that he can bring success back to Liverpool after a long and painful 18 years without the league title.
Now, whilst we have all been told this summer, as we have been every summer before, that this is Liverpool’s year, Robbie Keane’s move doesn’t fill me with fear. He is a handy player and could bag 20 goals for the dippers next season, but our hateful neighbours need much more than a goalscorer (after Kuyt’s embarrassing 3 goals from 29 appearances last season) to bring about the glory days.
So whilst confident Liverpool will be lingering around 3rd or 4th place again this season (Arsenal’s imminent decline meaning it is more likely that the dippers will see an improved finishing spot), I am surprised that this deal for Robbie Keane is so far along, for a couple of reasons. Namely his pledge to stay at the club, along with Spurs’ decision to report Liverpool to the Premier League for supposedly tapping the player up.
“There’s always speculation that I’m going here, there and everywhere but I’m very content with my life and with my time at Spurs,” Keane said less than two months ago. “I will continue to play there for as long as I am happy and for as long as I am wanted. It’s good to have a summer off but then I look forward to going back to Spurs next season.”
It’s strange then, considering Spurs’ chairman, Daniel Levy, claimed the player wasn’t for sale and they didn’t want him to leave just a fortnight ago, that Keane is on the move. Nothing beats a statement of loyalty to your club, only to be packing your bags a few weeks later!
“Today’s public comments by Manchester United’s manager, announcing that he has made an offer for Dimitar and is confident that the deal will go through with time working in their favour, is a blatant example of sheer arrogance and interference with one of our players,” Levy claimed. Unfortunately, he’d just picked up that day’s copy of The Sun, reading an article with comments supposedly originally coming from a Scandinavian Supporters site, attributed to Ferguson. This website later claimed they had misquoted our manager, with Berbatov not actually being mentioned by name. The interview was recorded so clearing Fergie is rather simple.
After “different” Levy threw a load of abuse in United’s direction, he then turned on Liverpool.
“Benitez made similar comments in respect of Robbie recently and we made an official complaint to the Premier League about the conduct of Liverpool earlier this week,” he said. “The behaviour of both clubs has been disgraceful. We told both clubs very early on that we had no interest in selling Robbie or Dimitar, respectively, and that they should refrain from pursuing the player. Both clubs arrogantly chose to ignore this request and we now have evidence that both clubs have systematically been working to prise the players away from us, outside of Premier League rules of conduct. Our subsequent position has been severely compromised by both clubs making their intentions widely known and indeed making contact with the players and their agents, without the club’s permission. I have absolutely no wish to sell either player and to date we have not accepted any offer for either.”
So hold on, Spurs are letting off steam about the terrible behaviour of these clubs, but a week later, are more than happy to enter in to a deal with one of them? He has no desire to sell either of the players, but then does exactly that?
So I imagine this bodes well for United signing Berbatov, if Levy is so happy to go back on his word. I do wonder what the Premier League will have to say about this though. Can they really take Spurs’ argument seriously when just a week later the Levy is happy enough to talk with one of these supposed ‘disgraceful’ clubs about a transfer for the player who’s supposedly been tapped up?
I’m sure that when Spurs finish in the top 4 this season (snigger) it’ll all this fuss over nothing will be worthwhile…
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Scott, they probably know that Liverpool don’t have the money to pay anymore, so they are just trying to screw every penny out of both deals, knowing that both players have their hearts set on the move.
I think the ire was really meant for Sir Red Nose and not so much for Rafa. This sale seems to support that idea!
Personally, I would have prefered David Villa to Robbie Keane any day. But then again I never thought Daniel Agger or Martin Skyrtel where that good. So I will let some time pass before judgement. On the other hand we deff have a financial problem with Arbeloa going back to spain and Alonso also heading out I am a bit concerned. We need a world class winger and poss a world class right back Rafhinia anybody!
A week or 2 later, Levy had no option.
If Keane has had his head turned, why would Spurs hold onto him? Are you suggesting they retain the services of two clearly unsettled players? Spurs are making sure they get the most for two players who probably won’t be giving it their all anymore – and can you really blame them?
I believe you have been tapping up Berbatov for months and thats why we are gonna sell him to anyone but you. Do you have the money anyway given you have to buy Tevez for 35M…..Maybe Ronaldo is off after all
$40m from Liverpool Yankees is good business. No doubt we’d take Manchester Dodgers money too, if a bid is made that reflects Berbatov’s value – which is greater than Keane’s.
The problem is that once heads are turned, having the palyers hanging around is bad morale for the team.
I’m looking forward to seeing Liverpool beat United and Chelsea to top spot. Without Keane and Berbatov, Spurs will be lucky to finish top 10. If either player is replaced by Villa or Arshavin they could be looking at displacing Arsenal, but are these signings genuinely likely or just a rumour? Would be great to see if it did come to fruition!
The problem here was that it was an offical supporters club publication. If the same thing had happened on a Madrid supporters club website, with Schuster or Calderon stating that they had bid XYZ then utd wouldnt be happy and would look for censure….oh wait, thats happened already. Moaning about the rights and wrongs after the fact is neither here nor there and Levy is trying to get the best possible price now that the players head has been turned. Somewhat similar to what Gill will have to do if Ronaldo decides he no longer wants to pull on a Utd jersey.
The difference is rafa paid the asking price, 18mill for Keane is good business, ManUSA on the other hand are trying to unsettle the player and get him on the cheap, if Fergie wants our best player he can ruddy well pay for it…or shut his mouth.
Clearing Fergie won’t be that simple.
The Red’s went very quiet after hearing that the quotations had actually been repeated on the official ManU site and Levy’s complaint related to 12 months of alleged “tapping up”, not just a single newspaper interview.
Nevertheless, the Berbatov deal will go through, but not at the price United offered.
If Tevez is worth over £30m, it’s impossible to argue that Berbatov is only worth £20m.
@ Red didn’t know this was a Liverpool site!!
@ Sean, Tevez will be bought as a next season purchase in Jan, its only £35m as we had to £5m a season as part of the loan agreement, the second instalment just been paid, lets hope he does go!
Strange how you left out the last paet of the comments made by Levy. You need to read fully- they have no intention to sell but as indicated in that same article
“However, when a player’s head is turned and their commitment is absent, particularly when they occupy key positions such as that of striker, they become a negative influence in a team dressing room in which they were once a positive addition and influence. This is the situation we now have on our hands, with both Dimitar and Robbie having made it clear that they wish to leave for Manchester Utd and Liverpool respectively.
“Irrespective of the outcome and futures of Robbie and Dimitar, we are continuing to seek to bring in quality, talented players for the future, who want to play in a Spurs shirt.”
So the options are – Spurs got what they wanted from Liverpool for Keane and Spurs were happy to let him go. For Berba either Utd have not come up with the figure Spurs want or they refuse to sell him. Remember that Keane was captain for awhile and his influence can be very negative while the Berba issue is ongoing and bound to have less of an problem in the squad
It is a shame that the author of the article has not read properly the Daniel Levy quote’s in his own article. Levy states that Tottenham’s position was compromised and that he didn’t wish to sell either Berbatov or Keane. I’m sure that this was the case and remains the same. To the best of my knowledge Spurs had no desire to sell Keane and have no desire to sell Berbatov, however the facts of the situation are that once Man Utd and Liverpool had expressed their intentions about buying the players, Spurs hand was forced, this is not the same as Spurs being ‘happy’ (your term) to sell the players.
Most of us Spurs fans realise that both Berba and keane will be sold, partly this is due to the fact that we have failed to ‘crack’ the big 4, and partly due players attitudes in the modern game. However the arrogance of Man U. in particular, regarding the purchase of Berba does stick in throat, particularly with all the bleating that has come out of Old Trafford regarding Ronaldo’s ‘links with Real Madrid.
@ sbman, There is a difference at least we have made a bid for Berbatov, Real have been conducting their courting via the media and probably direct to the player with no bid. They are trying to get us to offer Ronaldo to them or for the player to hand in a transfer offer, to get the price down.
Yeah I think Levy has just lost it really and wanted an excuse to sell the players, I don’t really care if he wouldn’t sell to us, he’d rather sell for 20 million to one club and no sell to us for 25 million, boo hoo, maybe he should think about it, is it worth 5 million to hold a grudge? What an idiot.
Stephen – no one said the situation is 100% the same. The tactics might be a bit different but the ultimate aim the same – viz not doing things properly and unsettling the player.
Sean, what an ignoramus lol. Utd already had a deal set up with Spurs. Everyone knows that, including lying bastard Levy!. Trouble is, you already spent so much money on signings, and more coming in, that you thought ok with, because you would get us to pay ridiculous sums for Berba. 38 million, what a joke. Well let Spurs go ahead, and you’ll get about 15 million for Berba from another club, and obviously you will be left with all your debt. Plenty more options for us to buy?.
Couldnt agree with you more Stephen. Utd made him as a player and now he thinks he needs to move onto a bigger stage! He is a gobshite if you ask me!
Send me the link that shows you have a deal set up with us for Berbatov. Seems like you know it all eh?
And you wonder why people think your supporters are wankers……You are one of the few that are I am sure. As for getting only 15M for Berba you must be on drugs son
The meat of Spurs complaint was not in the Sun quotes (which were real btw; funny how the fan site which published them suddenly decides they made them up when it looks like the club they support might get in trouble, lol), but in a season long attempt to tap Berbatov up. The report presented to the FA contains evidence of Utd making a deal with the player without the permission of the club for them to so much as flutter their eyelashes at him. SAF has form with this, as you well know. The outrage however, whilst probably geniuine served another purpose and that is to screw the clubs concerned for every penny our players are worth. Looks like Liverpool have coughed up the required dough and I now expect the matter of their tapping up to be quietly dropped. The ball’s in Utd’s court now, i know i speak for every Spurs fan when I say i hope you take your money and stick it where the sun don’t shine, but if you are going to get Berbatov it’ll be for the market value and not the derisory amount offered thus far and if that’s what happens it’ll happen because Levy’s done a number on Gill (again) and not the other way around
i think you’ll find its £35m and not £25m that we were after. your lot were bidding £20m, which is a £15m shortfall.
i’ll be honest, id sell to barca for £10m just to laugh in your faces!
Helloooooooo…. 20mil for Keane….It don’t matter what way you slice it Tottenham have done very well here……….20million …..I think the correct term is ‘ laughing all the way to the bank’
I agree Sean, the guy is an arrogant ponce.
“Tapping up” is now part and parcel of football, we all have to accept it and to agree I can understand why clubs do it. What is the point of a long drawn out transfer sarga, which can go on for weeks or in our case months!! if the player is not interested in the 1st place!!
he certainly is a gobshite,that’s for sure.However real are a bigger stage and a much better club for him to roll around and dive on..
Oi to all you mancs.You’ve been tapping up Berbatov for over a year but as soon as Real com sniffing for that show pony you start crying and moaning.Levy has been a total twat during his time with us and the way he got rid of Martin Jol made me sick…but..you cant just ride roughshot over the rules of the game.Not once have you or those scouse ponces contacted us and asked to speak to Keane or Berbatov.Levy’s gonna dig his heels in and even if it means dropping the for someone else to buy him.Levy might be a cnut but I’m with him on this one.And dont get me started on Liverponce.
To say tapping up is part and parcel of football and we have to accept it is codswallop. Crime is part and parcel of life so should we just accept it and open up all the prisons? It’s either right or it isn’t.
You do not understand the real picture here do you? We have no choice but to sell Keane to Liverpool, because they have tapped him up and he has said he doesnt want to play for Spurs anymore. The same that happened with Sheringham, Campbell and Carrick. And , despite tapping him up to be fair Liverpool are prepared to pay a fair price. Not like Man Utd who lets face it, might as well now be called Sky 4. Sky 4 have been tapping Berbatov up for 1 and a half years, and no we didnt recieve a bid for him before you started tapping him up. From my understanding of the situation you were pretty much tapping him up as soon as he moved over here from Leverkeusen. And if Bentley is worth 17million and Robinho 35 million, R Keane £ 20 million and Ronaldo £70 million then having watched him play every game for 2 years,I would say that mid 30′s is about right for Berba. Especially when we dont even want to sell him to you. It is getting crazy as I can see you coming back to us next year for the likes of Bale, Hutton, Dos Santos etc once youve had a few months to play sneaky games with their agents. It will get to the stage where all football fans will give up on their teams outside the top 4 as the only clubs with decent players will be the top 4. I think its causing the death of English football as we no longer have a competitive league bar 4 clubs.
Just because a deal for Keane has been agreed, does not in any way mean that spurs are being Hypocrites. I totally agree with sbman when he says that spurs’ hand has been forced! Once utd and liverpool made their intentions clear, they would have had no choice but to sell as the players would have brought a negativity to the locker room. eg. Berbs’ fine a few weeks back for a bad attitude. Spurs have enough problems with 1 sulky forward at the moment and didnt need to have 2 of them. Hence the sale of keane. Im sure if dimi’s attitude doesnt improve soon then spurs will soon see the departue of him as i dont believe ramos is the sort of person who will baby sit players and beg for them to play for a team they dont want to be at! Maybe analyse the situation a little more before writing another article like this?
Craig Mc
Where did you get this nonsense from? Are you on some substance? Who says you had a deal? If so why will Spurs report you to the PL? And what debt are you talking about? We are one of the best run self financing clubs in the EPL and we are also backed by a billionaire. We were the 12th richest club in Europe last year and we were the only one in the top 20 not to have played in the Champions League, so does that smack of a club in debt? Your club is mortgaged, pure and simple and your debt is almost a billion dollars. Ask your owners. I thought people in glass houses don’t throw stones.
Lol @ Craig Mc – what are you on about “you will be left with all your debt” – we don’t have any debt! Spurs are the richest club not to have played CL football in Europe, and pretty much the most profitable outside the Top 4… I would hazard a guess that United are actually in more debt than we are!! as much as Levy can be a prick at times he is a fairly good businessman and runs our club as such. You won’t catch us doig a Leeds United any time soon.
Your argument has no logic – if we expected the money we have spent thus far to be funded by Keane and Berba’s transfers, then surely that expenditure would have included at least one striker to replace them???
The fact is that Tottenham did not see the Keane situation coming (why should they with all his professions of love for the club over the summer) and have clearly stated on a number of occassions that we do NOT want to sell Berbatov – however, despite the hold of a contract, you can;t force a player to stay if you want to get the best out of them and your team, . The time comes when you are better off letting them go and trying to get the best deal you can – I think we are fully entitled to do this. Pretty sure you’d do the same with Ronaldo.
I guess that it was just an oversight that you have missed the crucial part of Mr Levy’s speech from your piece??!!
Namely, that as a result of the ongoing attentions of Liverpool and Utd, the players heads have been turned and that they have become a negative influence in the dressing room.
The result is that although the club had no desire to sell either player, they may be (have done in the case of Keane it seems) forced to let them go.
Sean, remind me again how much spurs bought Berbatov for?. Suddenly you think his value has trebled – your thick as a plank Sean. We have asked about Berbatov for the last two years. We asked last summer and in January. Tottenham said NO, and although the mafiosa London press were on heat with their reporting about this, NO quotes came directly out of the mouths of United management. So why in this instance would we suddenly change the way we do things?. We never mentioned and spoke out about Carrick, even tho once again the press were on heat about it. So think about these things. because like most spurs fans, you are so gullible. Levy’s spurs don’t want to sell, HE SAID THE SAME THINGS ABOUT CARRICK, but he knew he was gonna sell. Levy is a guy who see the ££££££’s sign, and stretches out his greedy paws FASTER the our SAS top markmen can shoot, and that’s helluva fast. But he had to pacify all you little sad spurs fans, by sugarcoating his intended actions. He is a LIAR big time.
The amazing thing was not that Fergie did what he did, but that Tottenham had just done the same thing to QPR.
However, I can understand anyone not wanting to sell their best players to ManU. There is also the point that with most other clubs (Villa accepted) when a player wants to leave, the club lets him leave: examples of Crouch and now Arbeloa come to mind… but ManU wants to have it both ways. People can come, but none can leave unless they are not wanted.
Welcome to the hotel Manunited… such a lovely place…
I am soooooooooooo bored with the Berbatov saga. I don’t want him at Spurs anymore. Sell him asap so we can get looking for a replacement.
reckon it was just his way of bracing the fans for selling their two best players. pretending that it was the work of arrogant bullying clubs as opposed to the players themselves moving on to better things.
fact ….man u and liverpool compromised thfc by making loud noises to both players behind and beyond the media……..fact .. levy says on the spurs website that both players want to join your clubs as a result…….of this
fact ….keane has joined liverpool…….
now where is berba in fergies mind?
is it score a childish point against THFC for standing up to sir Alex he leaves berba out without offering his true value price…….and berba is treated by man u as a pawn because Fergie has to save face…..
anything than thfc being seen as astute…..
i for one dont want to see berba not happy at spurs so …..where is man u now?
this is all wrong however you look at it as berba is by far one of the best strikers in the world!
and alyhough i dont want him to leave spurs he deserves to be treated in the best possible way
and im sure levy would not want this situation
in the current transition so…..
fergie needs to change his attitude in a way that doesnt play mind games etc……
£38m a ridiculous sum? As ridiculous as £20m?
£28-30m is the number and Fergie thinking all the press will unsettle Berba so he can get him on the cheap is ridiculous. Levy wrung £18m out of yous for Carrick and even then there was a lot of unhappiness at WHL. Fergie offers £20m for Berba and Levy is saying, fair enough I’ll make our valuation the mid-point by upping his asking price.
If, for the moment, we are still going to have our players heads turned by the top 4 cartel then you’re going to have to pay top dollar. It’s fair enough, isn’t it? And believe me, if you lot are actually fans who go to games, he’ll be worth every penny; the man’s a genius
Messiah – you’re just making stuff up or believing whatever you read in the tabloid press…Where does levy say “i’ll accept £25m from Man Utd or £20m from anyone else”.
Levy hasn’t lost the plot, he told Man Utd & LFC we are not selling yet the players end up asking for transfers when supposedly no contact is allowed unless Spurs say so. This is fairly normal it has to be said but then for both managers to talk about these players in the press is stupid……especially fergie whose arrorgance on this occassion (mis-quoted?? yeah right!!) was beyond belief.
Craig MC “Man Utd already had a deal set up, everyone knows that” what a load of rubbish. If we were selling he’d have gone, new striker bought, move on. Ramos would accept a situation like this. As for our spending, we have spent as much as we have sold (Inc. Keane) so stop talking rubbish. We have £20m of squad players to ship out and a war chest of about £30m-40m. there will be plently more signings at WHL this season.
Where did you read spurs want £38m for berba? The Sundlay tabloids…belive them do you?? fooll!
As for Spurs’ debt, we have none unlike Man Utd who are bought entirely by debt by Yanks.
Craig Mc,
you must be on something, surely. One moment you say you had a deal, the next moment you say you only enquired. Since when did an enquiry become a deal?
You ask, why his value has trebled since we bought him. I can’t belive you are saying that and calling someone a plank. This is sheer arrogance. How much did you sell Beckham for and how much did you pay for him? A player’s value cannot treble in 2 years if he is going to Old Trafford. If that’s the case, why did you buy Carrick. After all, we bought him for 2.5 and sold him for 18.5m. Why did you buy Hargreaves from Bayern? He cost them nothing.
Theo the Yid, grow up mate. I was talking about all the players you have brought in lately, and are still out their seeking to bring in. If your club as you say are billionaire supported, then why do so many spurs fans RIP Chelski over buying the league etc – that again is double standards isn’t it Theo?. I can tell you this, Theo, the Glazers have enough finance to pay off our debt whenever they have too. Yet they know that is not the way top businesses are run. With the money they have to pay off the debts, they invest, so still have their money, and the money they make on their money still in the bank covers all the interest accrued on the loan. The Telegraph did a massive article on this mate. Anyway, I am not really aggrieved with your post Theo, it’s that Sean guy, who always seems to be the first onto our blogs with his mouthy quotes.
Craig Mc,
I didn’t see any relevance you made to anyother players in your last two articles here, mate. It’s all Berba, Berba, Berba.
Being owned by a billionaire doesn’t mean we throw money about, if we are asking why people have a go at Chelsea. Not becuase they are owned by a billionaire, but because of the way they throw money at anything. So, yes, we are owned by a billionaire, but our house is in order.
What I was saying about the billionaire issue is my earlier post is, first of all our house is in order, and secondly we have a billionaire backer should we need to tap in some resources. The difference with Chelsea is , they are still in debt and being financed by personal wealth for the last 5 years or so.
Theo the yid.
The difference between your Manu and Chelsea is…. half a million years!!!! Grow up sonny! You’re a much larger club, with far more supporters all over the world, thy’e the new guys on the block. You used to be alone – making crazy records bids for the likes of Frdinand, Rooney, Veron, and now Tevez, and it bugs the hell out of you to know that there’s now anothe club that can spend like you have been doing for so many years. Not that I support Chelsea – I’m a Spurs fan, but we just don’t have the dosh to pay 130,000 – 125,000 – 110,000 – 95,000 – etc etc every week to our soldiers.
Theo the yid, DO not make accusations about substances to people you do not know!. I have seen people when I was at Uni totally messed up by drugs etc. Substances are NOT COOL, so lay off that line of accusation.
I said if you read my words carefully, that our practice when we enquire about players availabilty for transfer, is not to comment at all to the media, as was the case with Carrick and others. In this case with Berbatov, Fergie making mention that we had made an offer for a player (no name or club mentioned), would have been a departure from our usual practice in not commenting to the media until we were sure. This makes me believe that Fergie must have felt he had some certainty of a deal. Anyway, its all if’s and buts Theo.
With regards to Berba and Beckham – are you serious?. 25 million for Beckham, was really cheap, because as opposed to Berba, Beckham was a colossal marketing asset. Commercially Beckham was a goldmine to Real Madrid, and you surely cannot deny that. That is not the case with Berba, where it is with Ronaldo. I think you get my meaning.
Theo the Yid, OK fair enough, I get yor point about Chelski.
Theo, one last comment, what articles, I don’t write the articles lol, that honour is down to the very valuable Man Utd Red, Scott. See you, nice talking to you.
Craig Mc,
Apologies for the substance stuff. Not saying you are on, but saying that those eerlier posts were so contradictory and arrogance, that it makes one feel you must be hi on something. Apologies again.
I don’t know about your club’s practise, but what I do know is Stam was tapped up. He admitted it in his book. Hargreaves was shown round OT without Bayern’s knowledge. Robben was also shown round OT and PSV went crazy, and Kenyon stepped in. Our clubs says you spoke to Berba’s agent.
Now with transfer values. I presume clubs put a value on the player for his footballing skills, not his commercial ability. We have done so with Berba because he is a footballer, not a advertising guru. If you conduct your business in this way (by valuing a player’s commercial improtance), then you will find out that you can only do business with Real.
So again, it brings me to the arrogance. You think Beckham should have sold for more than Berba for being a marketing asset. I thought we were talking about footballers here, and not transfering one of Sachi and Sacchi employees to a rival. nor were we talking about Max Clifford.
Please let me know if we are talking about footballers or advertisng gurus.
nice one Craig
@ Theo the Yid, you always talk about our arrogance, what about Levy poor dealings with regards to Jol, surely that was arrogant? and he even said:
We bring to an end an unsettled two months,” Levy said. “We have endured much criticism without responding or retaliating. I am the first to admit that things could have been handled differently and better.”
Problem is Theo, Becks wasn’t just bought for his footballing skills, he was bought for massive commecria gain too. The BIG clubs get the best players, and the very best of them are Huge assets comercially. It brings massive revenue into clubs, who get a good proportion of a players markting assets. That is life Theo, and it’s not just Real Madrid, but Barca, Bayern, and others. Footballing wise, Berba had no more than an average season for you last year, so no real improvement. Don’t believe what you read about 35 mill for Tev, I think that’s paper talk. I think you’ll never get 35 mill for Berba from us, but I do agree that he is a spurs asset, and you can name whatever price you like. I think you will never get anywhere near that amount though.l
Iam sure if you poll Spurs fans, 99% if not 100% will say how the Jol situation was handled was not right. Did you see the way Jol’s name was chanted during the entire sedond half of his last game in charge? We know it was wrong and even Levy had said so and said it should have been done differently. Spot the difference?
You guys think it is a God given right. Your fans, manager etc think, you click your fingers and everything should be in place. I am being asked here why Berba’s value has trebled, but Beckham was sold for 25m, so why is Berba going to 30 when he has no commercial value. He is a footballer, not a star of Cirque de soleil.
Carig Mc,
come on son. Average season at Spurs for Berba, when he scored 23 and had so many assist and thrilled the crowd with his skill? Why has your lot being chasing him for a while then?
He scored more than Rooney, and Tevez. Am not sure alot of clubs buy players for their commercial aspects, except Real. If it comes as a bonus, then fine. Beckham will sell more than Ronaldihno or Kaka, or Zidane, but how many clubs would have bought Beckham ahead of these players assuming they could afford any of them.
I think you are being paranoid mate, you guys are trying to screw every last penny out of the deal, fair enough.
Berbatov wants to go, Levy knows that, we want to buy its between the parties to thrash out a deal. We want to pay as little as posible and Spurs want as much as posible. It is a pantomine, and who I suppose blinks 1st looses. I
His value as aplayer to be honest is irrelevant, we always pay over the odds, eg Carrick, and if you set your hearts on one player and one player alone then that is always going to be the case.
The Tevez deal…£35m if that is to be believed has probably been brought forward 12 months since the Argentine showed a desire to be at Madrid next season. Would United also splash the cash on Berbatov if they push through on Tevez… I don’t so. Some players are so overrated that it’s best to miss out.. Berbatov is one and Barry another.
Spot on Stephen except we are not being paranoid. Everyone has his price. As they say, you either put up or shut up. If you think it’s too high, bargain, and if not suceessful go somewhere else. It shouldn’t be a drawn out matter.
The player wants to go, you say. Why don’t you let Ronaldo go to Madrid? I know they haven’t officially put in a bid but you know how much they are prepared to pay and the player says he wants to go (not in Black and white, but he said everyone knows what I want but I haven’t got an agreement with Madrid yet). If you do the same, then we might follow your example.
Levy is just different, and I don’t mean that in a good way!! The guy comes out and throws a fake tantrum based on false allegations at Fergie and Benitez. The reason, obviously to disguise from their gullible fans, the fact that he and tottenham indeed had every intention of selling both players.
The funny part is that he didn’t even have the patience to at least lengthen the saga (so as to make it more believable), but sold Keane as soon as the first bid landed on his desk. At least that shows there’s hope for united and this £38mil being touted around is just nonsense; United will get berba for no more than £25mil.
£38 million
Not a penny less.
We don’t know how much they will pay as nop bid has been made. They talk about £70-£80m but I am not sure if they have the money as they are trying to create a fraction between the player and club, to get the player to request a transfer or the club to open negots with Real.
Fergie is hard nosed and would not sell the player through pricipal, your situation is different as I believe, and correct me if I am wrong the club have agreed the player can go, even as early as this time last season.
We are probably doing the same with Ronaldo, you can go next summer but not this one. To be honest if the offered £70-£80m I would pay for his flight to Madrid!!
I agree with your sentiments Stephen. I also heard that the player was told last season that he can go if a big came in etc. But that amount was 30M. Apparently, he was prepared to extend his contract so he can leave next season but he wouldn’t sign cos of the clause. So we are doing exactly what Fergie is doing to Real.
steve o, there’s no way united would stump up £38mil for berba. Would rather buy henry and menez and still have some left. Levy’s a clown, no-one other than uited would offer more than £20mil for berbatov and u know it!!
Gabriel, but all the spurs fans are in favour of Berbatov going to any other club for 20 million lol. Yet they come on our blog to argue the toss about how he is worth so much more. And they say we contradict ourselves. Amusing though isn’t it Gabriel.
Theo, I don’t think Levy is doing anything like Fergie is doing to Real Madrid. Fergie is saying to Madrid, Ronaldo is not for sale at any price. That obviously is not what Levy is saying or is it?. If he meant what he said, that BOTH your players were not for sale, then heads turned or not, Levy would have stood firm. Ronaldo’s head has supposedly been turned, but United have made a stance. Ronaldo is supposedly said he wants to go to Madrid, but I am not so sure. He just fork tongues to everyone, but if he really wanted out, where is his transfer request. Same with Berba?. Both players are letting everyone else but themselves talk for them. Fair do’s to Robbie Keane, he actually came out and said he wants the transfer to L’Pool.
Craig Mc, all spurs fans know that Berba is goin to leave and that Levy is resigned to selling him but are just frustrated and Levy has given them a channel to vent that frustration. plus defoe left Look how pissed we are about ronnie, imagine if it was ronnie and rooney and tevez? that’s what it must be like for them to loose berba, keane and defoe!!!
It’s hard being a mid-level club, but there’s no need to start blamin the top clubs for being successful.
Gabriel, yeah I agree. No doubt we would be just as pissed as the Spurs fans, if we were losing 3 of our top players. Thing is though Gabriel, nobody is IRREPLACEABLE, not even Ronaldo. No doubt Fergie would just bring in 3 very good replacements. And as the spurs fans have mentioned, they have billionaire support, so they can afford to make really good replacements too!.
Sean, you’re a cock and your chairman is a cunt. We have money for the signing of Tevez due to the rewards of winning the League and European Cup – 83m was generated – so we can easily afford both Tevez and anyone else for that matter. Typical cunts like you believe what is written in that two bob newspaper known as the Sun. Going back to your spineless chairman, he gobs off about not selling his players, yet he is willing to name a price for both Keane and Berbatov, especially the latter – if he’s not for sale, why are Spurs quoting United 38m? Berbatov wants to come to United cos he knows he will not play at the highest level with Spurs, where as he can achieve this at United. And before you think about comparing Ronnie in this argument, he is happy to stay at United if he is denied a move to Madrid, cos he knows he can win more things at United. Top 4? you must be fucking joking! enjoy your battle with Portsmouth for an Intertoto cup finish next season.
Craig, i know what you mean. It’s just that I can’t stand these self-righteous tottenham fans calling us and SAF hypcrites!!! They act like they don’t know what is goin on, and in an attempt to heal their bruised egos, they blame united for stealing their best player.
They claim to have billionaire support, so why is this an issue? They should just grow a pair and realise that what transpires this summer and over the course of the season is their continued destiny as long as they continue supporting tottenham!!!
Funniest part is i was just reading some comments from some brain in arse Spurs fan who were claiming that United was trying to get Jol and Berbatov to stop Spurs from being successful cus Spurs is know the only club that can compete with United money-wise. LMFAO at that, and i thought the scousers were delusional… Fergie will not pay more than £25m max for Berbatov, if hypolevy doesn’t want that, he should go shove Berbatov up his arse. I honestly never wanted him at United, and if this deal doesn’t go through, i hope we explore our options. Barcelona and Milan have withdrawn their interest, good luck to Spurs on finding that foreign club that wants Berbatov…
I just figure David Levy is now furiously thinking of a way out after all that blabbering, mostly to win Spurs fan sympathy. Berbatov will be sold but he wants ManU to give him his face back while doing it. Its a case of the mouth opens whiles the brain is not engaged in gear. I think ManU has to donate to the Spurs fund to placate him while buying Berbatov.
What a funny blog!! Where do you all come from, you funny little people? All pretending you’re somehow as big and important as the club you support, patting each other on the back at how big and important you are and how little and insignifican everyone else is. Shouting loudly how righteous you are and what scoundrels everyone else is. I tell you what it reminds me of my two year old daughter, lol.
they aint our best players, ledley king is our best player.
The irony is that it wouldn’t surprise me if united ended up doing business with the team they have reported to UEFA for tapping up Ronaldo!