If the club are taking UEFA's financial fair play regulations seriously, we might have to spend the Torres money this window.
As of the summer coming, over the next 3 years UEFA say clubs can only spend a combined total of €45m more than their profit on transfers.
So for example, if our owners were willing to give the club that €15m per season anyway, we then wouldn't be able to spend the Torres money as well as that. In which case, we might be more willing to pay slightly ott this window.
It's pretty certain that we bid for Carroll but like you say, the size of the bid appears to have been talked up by Newcastle.
I was wondering why this window was so slow, you've got a few people saying guys like City would find a way to get around the rules and that not being included in the champs league was a last resort, but as far as I can tell from the rules its a simple "heres the cut off line, lose more than this amount, you can't qualify".
But then thats from articles, I haven't seen any official "these are the official rules and possible punishment" rule book anywhere.
I figured that this window would be massive, that all the money clubs, and some without would go out of their way to make sure they got the people they wanted this window, with a view to paying a lot less in transfer fee's in the next few windows.
As for Spurs, we should really look up a list of EVERYONE who played in that Athletic/real game, then we'd probably have a list of every bid Spurs will be making today
Seriously, to a degree Spurs are just making themselves look desparate, and are making anyone they actually get seem like a 58th choice. Make Forlan your only target, bid huge and tell him you want to build a team around him till he retires, maybe, just maybe. Bid for 16 people, then Forlan, then try that speech and he'll laugh at Spurs while staying at Athletico.
All this because Redknapp won't start Pav and see how he does over 10 games. Why is it managers drop a striker for a midfielder/free role type and are surprised goal scoring becomes harder? Thats why VDV isn't as good as people think, you could almost never play him in a midfield 4, he's a bad tackler, makes rash challenges, often gets into trouble and doesn't have any of the workrate required to defend when needed, but as a striker, he isn't going to replace a 15-20goal a season player. Like Rooney for me, he's not good enough at the things you need to be a midfielder and he's not good enough to be an out and out striker(ignoring all but one season Rooney is no 30mil striker or winger), he's something inbetween.
Though it kind of feels like Spurs are going for a massive name to make them seem that much further ahead of West Ham in the stadium bid , ie "we can attact a 40mil rated player, how can we give West Ham the stadium".
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